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The Second

By
  • Isobel Granby
| December 16, 2020 Filed Under:
Featured, Story

Seconds — those appointed to negotiate and if necessary fill in for the principal fighters in duels conducted by pilots of the Polarin Aerial Fleet — were allowed only one kind of interference: to try and talk combatants out of their folly, or to watch as time ran out and they went to their deaths. This was thought to be a way of reducing the number of frivolous challenges. It had had virtually no effect.

A New World (Poems and Photos)

By
  • Andrea van de Loo
| November 25, 2020 Filed Under:
Featured, Poetry

Going inward / I see my grey sleek wolf’s belly / moving forward on long legs striding / free, clear, unassuming / my natural strength carrying me / into the clear space ahead.

Weekend Getaway

By
  • Richard Sleboe
| November 20, 2020 Filed Under:
Featured, Fiction (Intensification), Story

The game gives us a satisfaction that life denies us.—Emanuel Lasker ∞ “Tea or coffee, Sir?” “Coffee. Black. No sugar.” I’m on the phone with a market researcher. I try to picture a pretty girl at the other end of the line, but it isn’t working. All I …

Medb: A Disappearance and Reappearance (excerpt)

By
  • Brigid Burke
| November 13, 2020 Filed Under:
Featured, Fiction (Intensification), Story

I looked at him through the camera. “You have a secret.” His eyes widened. I continued. “It’s not something…bad…but you think it is…. Something about a confrontation with your father. And it has to do with…a female.”

cover image from Medb

Review: Medb, by Brigid Burke

By
  • Mary Thaler
| November 13, 2020 Filed Under:
Books, Featured, Reviews

Medb is a novel that draws the reader incrementally toward the mysteries of the human psyche, on its way touching on gender roles, the power of the occult, and the pathologization of difference. It’s a winding, inward journey that begins, fittingly, at …

Studium Spiritus Sancti

By
  • Annie Blake
| November 2, 2020 Filed Under:
Featured, Poetry

but i often underestimate my husband / for he pointed out that i actually said schizophrigid / i had a kitchen dresser which contained crockery i never used / over- solicitude is display mothering /

Repeaters of the String

By
  • James Geddis
| October 28, 2020 Filed Under:
Featured, Story

Now is when you are alone, when you have nowhere to be, when promises to the world no longer apply. Nobody knows what happens now except you. This is your own personal history.

The Father Spirit

By
  • James Falconer
| October 26, 2020 Filed Under:
Featured, Longform/Essays, Noetics (Mind/Spirit)

I walk casually through the kitchen, preparing a cup of tea, as my gaze is drawn to two photographs placed side by side. I am struck by the resemblance between my young son and deceased father…

Gasp

By
  • Gale Acuff
| October 19, 2020 Filed Under:
Featured, Poetry

What happened, Miss Hooker asked–she meant my shock–so I said, Well, please turn around and take a look at Jesus there and tell me what you see.

Four Poems

By
  • Patrick DeCarlos
| October 12, 2020 Filed Under:
Featured, Poetry

The shrunken fighters, cheeks sunken and eyes Gibbous as praying mantis, like a god kept captive By some sick forest cult That provides sacrifice seasonally…

The Spiritual Barber

By
  • João Cerqueira
| October 7, 2020 Filed Under:
Featured, Story

The Spiritual Barber had opened his salon a year earlier and it had been an instant success. Open Mondays to Saturdays, it attracted an ever-growing number of customers, who thought nothing of waiting several hours until it was their turn to be served. …

Lucy the Nun With the Green Socks

By
  • Susan Evans
| October 5, 2020 Filed Under:
Featured, Poetry

“Lucy the nun with the green socks / saw me hugging the oak tree / that summer I / hibernated in Spartanburg.”

Anatolian Dreams

By
  • Diana Thoresen
| October 5, 2020 Filed Under:
Featured, Poetry

“St Barbara, a poor white gloved icy ingénue, / Has long been a dusty piece of Black Forest wood // That grew out of the ashes of Sibylline books”

Consciously Evolving Language, with Lisa Maroski

Organizer:
  • Lisa Maroski
| August 27, 2020

Starts Sept 8: an exploration of how we can make changes to the structure of our language that reflect and catalyze a planetary paradigm shift towards always-already connectedness…

Maricón (Part 3)

Explicit By
  • John Davis
| May 28, 2020 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Explicit, Featured, Society (Multitudes), Story

“Sex and God or sex and death.” I repeated his phrase, feeling a slight slur in my speech brought on by the beer on an empty stomach. “Is that all there is?”

Maricón (Part 2)

Explicit By
  • John Davis
| May 20, 2020 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Explicit, Featured, Society (Multitudes), Story

​I was jealous of Pedro’s imaginary lovers and of his vaster sexual experience. Short poems, long poems, quirky poems, I read them in secret when he was out. I didn’t understand them. Poem after poem, sounding much alike, revealed the charms of some new image of his desire, even as he prayed for some kind of deliverance from his too, too solid flesh…

Maricón (Part 1)

Explicit By
  • John Davis
| May 14, 2020 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Explicit, Featured, Society (Multitudes), Story

I felt that many kinds of patterns, of ancient origins, had been stamped onto our writhing, wrestling, male flesh, and that we had entered this forbidden zone many times before…

Soul Retrieval: Poems

By
  • Paige Frisone
| May 4, 2020 Filed Under:
Featured, Poetry

they call it soul retrieval | when your essence | core | beingness | the skeletal|hole|body|brain that lives in your gut|liver|kidney|body| self|shatters | breaks its own skull|heart|body in its crumpled raisin|brain as the result of small t | BIG T | sOmE TyPe of tRaUmA

Synthesis of Yoga Practicum

Organizers:
  • Geoffrey Edwards
  • Marco Masi
  • Mattéo Needham
| April 22, 2020 Readers Underground Group

We are performing an intimate reading of Sri Aurobindo’s Synthesis of Yoga, with a virtual meeting every 2nd and 4th Wednesday until the book is fully read.

A Demon’s Escape (Based on a True Story)

By
  • Stephanie Williams
| April 20, 2020 Filed Under:
Featured, Fiction (Intensification), Story

Whether I chose to feel my emotions fully, or experience the depth of them — that wasn’t up to me. That was up to God, or Satan, or whatever it was that controlled me.

Transparency is the Only Shield against Disaster (Parts 6–7)

By
  • Brian George
| April 10, 2020 Filed Under:
Featured, Longform/Essays, Mythos, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Story

Has the Shadow become more user-friendly? No. Whether now or 2,000 or 10,000 years ago, the shared identity of the Shadow and the Guide has always presented itself in the form of an ultimatum, which we must torture our minds and bodies to interpret.

Transparency is the Only Shield against Disaster (Parts 3–5)

By
  • Brian George
| April 4, 2020 Filed Under:
Featured, Longform/Essays, Mythos, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Story

That our world has already ended, of this we may be certain. But is it the end of “a world” or of “the world”? It is reassuring that the prophets of world destruction have proven almost 100% wrong—and yet…

Eugene Berman, View in Perspective of a Perfect Sunset, 1941

Transparency is the Only Shield against Disaster (Parts 1–2)

By
  • Brian George
| March 30, 2020 Filed Under:
Featured, Longform/Essays, Mythos, Society (Multitudes)

So, what does it mean for the Apocalypse to take place in the present moment, and, somewhat paradoxically, to be always just about to occur?

Sutra of the Computer Body: Questions for Karina Bush

By
  • Karina Bush
  • Marco V Morelli
| January 26, 2020 Filed Under:
Featured, Film/Music, Interviews, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Poetics (Originary Powers), Poetry, Technology (Concrescence)

“I’ve found a techno relationship cuts right into the core, the soul, brings out an almost more real version of yourself, makes you see yourself differently, your own potential to be better. It can achieve a level of emotional perfection. That’s also the problem…”

Daniel’s Dream

By
  • Richard Sleboe
| December 4, 2019 Filed Under:
Featured, Fiction (Intensification), Story

That room is gone. Or rather, the room is still there, but what’s in it now is so different from what was in it before that the room itself seems transformed. It holds a vast model of the world we live in, built to scale and rendered in exquisite detail…

Animal Encounters

By
  • Milton P. Ehrlich Ph.D.
| November 26, 2019 Filed Under:
Featured, Poetics (Originary Powers), Poetry

Following him into the darkest places taught me to never be afraid of the dark. / It’s full of unimaginable euphoric surprises…

Out of the Furnace: A Film Review and Analysis

By
  • Annie Blake
| November 11, 2019 Filed Under:
Featured, Film/Music, Reviews, Society (Multitudes)

The movie proves to be, rather than glitchy and fragmentary, a deliberate and careful unfolding of the more perplexing and realistic struggle ensnaring us in the contemporary world.

Harold Bloom, Heart-Reader Extraordinaire

By
  • Andrew Field
| October 21, 2019 Filed Under:
Books, Culture (Transformation), Featured, Poetics (Originary Powers)

What was Harold Bloom? I don’t know, but here is my answer for now.

An introduction to Jodo’s movies: “Who Is Alejandro Jodorowsky?”

By
  • Eduardo Próspero
| October 7, 2019 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Film/Music, Microdoses, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Reviews

How to decipher Alejandro Jodorowsky’s symbolic film world? Here’s an introduction.

Testaments of a Seed: Poems by Siben Gerard

By
  • Siben Gerard
| September 17, 2019 Filed Under:
Featured, Poetics (Originary Powers), Poetry

“I must return love and life to those who offered me death / Gestating with hundreds and thousands of babies in me: / Progeny of my intercourse with the rock.”

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