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Metapsychosis

Journal of Consciousness, Literature, and Art

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Category: Longform/Essays

Norman Lewis, title unknown (March in Washington), 1965, oil on canvas

The Self, As Ensemble, The Prose, Like Jazz—On Albert Murray’s South to a Very Old Place

Explicit By
  • Thomas Larson
| 27 May 2022 Filed Under:
Channels, Culture (Transformation), Explicit, Featured, Longform/Essays, Reviews, Society (Multitudes), Topics

A paean to Albert Murray and his hybrid memoir/literary criticism masterpiece of 1971, South to a Very Old Place.

Being Touched by the Beyond

By
  • George Ivanov Vasilev
| 18 Feb 2022 Filed Under:
Featured, Longform/Essays

From my very childhood, I’ve always been curious, interested, in a quest to find out what actually life is. What, in fact, is death? Where do we humans come from, and where do we go after death? Or, why we humans are on earth at all, and then die?

Tempo – A Technology to Slow Time

By
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
| 13 Nov 2021 Filed Under:
Featured, Longform/Essays, Technology (Concrescence)

What if you could slow down time? In a distant, not-so-far-off future, humanity has gained the power to alter the localized flow of time at will, enabling new ways of experiencing the universe and operating in extreme environments. Here is an account of the scientific speculation that went into the concept of tempo control in my upcoming novel Plenum: The First Book of Deo.

Part of the Rosette Nebula, a stellar nursery, image from NASA

Star Gardening

By
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
| 24 May 2021 Filed Under:
Featured, Longform/Essays, Society (Multitudes)

Projecting human capability and knowledge into the far future, provided we learn to manage our own planet, it seems possible that humans might learn how to modify stars in ways suited to their future needs. Why might one modify stars? I can think of a …

The Father Spirit

By
  • James Falconer
| 26 Oct 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…

Consciously Evolving Language, with Lisa Maroski

Organizer:
  • Lisa Maroski
| 27 Aug 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…

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

By
  • Brian George
| 10 Apr 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
| 4 Apr 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
| 30 Mar 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?

Minoan Fresco from Akrotiri, circa 1650-1550 B.C.

The Goddess as Active Listener (Parts 5–10)

By
  • Brian George
| 22 Dec 2018 Filed Under:
Featured, Longform/Essays, Mythos, Story

When I remember Sue Castigliano, I think of almost naked dancers vaulting above the gold-tipped horns of Cretan bulls, to the sound of waves breaking in the distance. Wandering with the ghosts of an exploded island empire, I enter the doors of a library that I first thought was an octopus. When I think of her, I see wheat bound in sheaves…

Victor Brauner, Disintegration of Subjectivity, 1951 (detail)

The Goddess as Active Listener (Part 4)

By
  • Brian George
| 12 Dec 2018 Filed Under:
Featured, Longform/Essays, Mythos, Story

“It is said that when the student is ready the teacher will appear. Luckily, the teacher may also choose to appear when the student is not at all ready. She drags him, if need be kicking and screaming, into a new, more direct, but also more paradoxical relationship with the self…”

The Goddess as Active Listener (Parts 1-3)

By
  • Brian George
| 3 Dec 2018 Filed Under:
Featured, Interviews, Longform/Essays, Mythos, Poetics (Originary Powers), Story

Are we meant to have certain experiences, or to connect with certain people rather than with others? The more romantic among us are used to thinking that there may be one true soul-mate for each person. It is less common to imagine that friends or teachers may also play their parts in this apparent drama of predestination.

Sunlight Through A Broken Leaf — Still from Terrence Malick's "The Thin Red Line" (1998), DP: John Toll

On the World-Disclosing Rifts of Cinema: J. F. Martel and Christopher Yates in Dialogue

By
  • J.F. Martel
  • Christopher Yates
| 29 Apr 2018 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Featured, Film/Music, Interviews, Longform/Essays, Philosophy (Eteolegeme)

What can films tell us about reality? In a deep-ranging dialogue drawing on the philosophical ideas of Martin Heidegger and looking at works by Terrence Malick, Wim Wenders, Stanley Kubrick, and other celebrated auteurs, two contemporary aesthetic thinkers reflect on the ways in which cinema brings us into a deeper, stranger relationship with the world, and our being in it.

GLAS-8, Artificial-Intelligence

Why the Human Singularity is Nearer

By
  • Zachary Feder
| 5 Apr 2018 Filed Under:
Featured, Longform/Essays, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Society (Multitudes), Technology (Concrescence)

Global transparency offers an unspoken invitation for us all to forge a new paradigm of personal integrity. The Internet, our own collective mirror, stands as a challenge for us to face ourselves for the first time fully in all our humanness.

Hospice In a Fascist Time

By
  • John Hughes
| 29 Jan 2018 Filed Under:
Hide from home page, Longform/Essays, Noetics (Mind/Spirit)

I am a spiritual care provider in a hospice setting, and just as everything in life seems to be upended these days, given new urgency compelled by nausea, so is my thinking and feeling about my role…

Atropos O Las Parcas by Francisco de Goya

The Case Against Liberation: Mystic Pessimism

By
  • Alexander Blum
| 7 Nov 2017 Filed Under:
Hide from home page, Longform/Essays, Society (Multitudes)

It is time to face facts. Capitalism is the root of all our problems, and yet the path out of capital is more uncertain than it has ever been. The dream of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, of a globalized online consciousness unifying the mental sphere into a higher state of being, has been rendered excessively naive….

mammovies, Meditation

Transmuting the TrumpocalypseInvolving us, evolving us (Epilogue)

By
  • Caroline Savery
| 23 Oct 2017 Filed Under:
Transmuting the Trumpocalypse:
Culture (Transformation), Hide from home page, Longform/Essays, Society (Multitudes)

We are powerful enough to burst through the artificial narrative-bubble of projections of power-over, and step together into the brisk air of the real world in all its complexity—painful, wonderful, multiplicitous. If, in that fine first inhalation of fresh air, we take in a deep moment of peace, we may hear the aspirations of all living things…

AK Rockefeller, Heavenly Hands

Transmuting the TrumpocalypseReclaiming power and refining purpose (Redemption)

By
  • Caroline Savery
| 23 Oct 2017 Filed Under:
Transmuting the Trumpocalypse:
Hide from home page, Longform/Essays, Society (Multitudes)

We need mass subversion—simple non-cooperation and defection to favorable alternatives. This can look like “opting in” to visions of humanity that you do prefer, the futures you would like to inhabit, by investing your diverse capital in alternative ways.

new 1lluminati, Tasty World (crop)

Transmuting the TrumpocalypseThat which corrupts, that which creates (Power)

By
  • Caroline Savery
| 23 Oct 2017 Filed Under:
Transmuting the Trumpocalypse:
Culture (Transformation), Hide from home page, Longform/Essays, Society (Multitudes)

Perhaps there is a common ground for humankind that runs deeper than the machinations of a “power-over” mythology. Let us envision a more optimal design that meets more needs through respecting life’s innate capacity for intelligence and beauty.

new_1lluminati, religion is a region with a li(e) in it

Transmuting the TrumpocalypseWanting to believe (Seduction)

By
  • Caroline Savery
| 16 Oct 2017 Filed Under:
Transmuting the Trumpocalypse:
Culture (Transformation), Hide from home page, Longform/Essays, Society (Multitudes)

Our human desires and emotions are oftentimes the “hooks” that memes use to attach to us. Once a meme has colonized us, it can profoundly guide our actions in the world. Therefore, we need to develop discernment to parse the beneficial memes from the malicious ones.

new 1lluminati, akashic record (crop)

Transmuting the TrumpocalypseYou have the power I give you (Talisman)

By
  • Caroline Savery
| 16 Oct 2017 Filed Under:
Transmuting the Trumpocalypse:
Culture (Transformation), Hide from home page, Longform/Essays, Society (Multitudes)

The power Trump commands is given by us—our attention, our deference, our minds, hearts, lives. In little ways, we can retake control of how and to what purposes we deploy our minds and spirits.

AK Rockefeller, Confederate

Transmuting the TrumpocalypseMemetic engineering and social control (Myth)

By
  • Caroline Savery
| 15 Oct 2017 Filed Under:
Transmuting the Trumpocalypse:
Culture (Transformation), Hide from home page, Longform/Essays, Society (Multitudes)

The common myths and meaning on which the U.S. was founded are breaking down, strained by the gnashing confrontation of incompatible, co-occurring narratives. This is long overdue and much needed. Yet powerful interests are trying to seize this shaky moment by trumpeting archaic, toxic narratives that reinforce and advance oppressive agendas in society.

Transmuting the Trumpocalypse

By
  • Caroline Savery
| 9 Oct 2017 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Event, Featured, Longform/Essays, Society (Multitudes)

This conversation series is concerned with how the monstrous, epic drama of our present-day reality is animated by subtle winds of power. We will explore creative strategies and discuss critical issues relating to developing our embodied consciousness as individuals/collectives—while cultivating more effectual ways to wield our often invisible yet immanent power.

new 1lluminati, dog god of war

Transmuting the TrumpocalypseCan’t retreat no more (Prologue)

By
  • Caroline Savery
| 9 Oct 2017 Filed Under:
Transmuting the Trumpocalypse:
Culture (Transformation), Hide from home page, Longform/Essays, Society (Multitudes)

To continue a policy of escape, retreat and regression is mutually assured destruction. We need to face, and learn from, our difficulties.

Transmuting the TrumpocalypseIntroduction to Transmuting the Trumpocalypse

By
  • Caroline Savery
| 9 Oct 2017 Filed Under:
Transmuting the Trumpocalypse:
Culture (Transformation), Featured, Longform/Essays, Society (Multitudes)

This essay series aims to penetrate to the roots of power and the shaping of material conditions through memes and through minds. I also discuss what is happening to us on individual and collective psychological levels, as we are forced to confront and grapple with certain popular myths about ourselves, our nation, and our global civilization.

Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire: Destruction

The Mythopoetic Mind of PlatoThe Mythopoetic Mind of Plato

By
  • Luke Kernan
| 5 Oct 2017 Filed Under:
The Mythopoetic Mind of Plato:
Culture (Transformation), Featured, Longform/Essays, Philosophy (Eteolegeme), Poetics (Originary Powers), Poetry, Story

We are always living in a story, always present in a myth. The key is to possess mindfulness towards worldviews and their presence in the awakened self—they are analytical frameworks of the mind that first allow the universe to be experienced in a specific manner and then formulated into pure, specific “understandings” about the nature of that universe.

The Mythopoetic Mind of PlatoThe Mythopoetic Mind of Plato: The Kingdom-Sage’s Muthos in Timaeus, The Republic, and The Symposium (Parts IX & X)

By
  • Luke Kernan
| 5 Oct 2017 Filed Under:
The Mythopoetic Mind of Plato:
Hide from home page, Longform/Essays, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Philosophy (Eteolegeme), Poetics (Originary Powers)

This metanarrative that has been constructed to explore a possible Platonic worldview is enough of the whole to make a holographic, fractal revival of Plato himself inside his mythopoetic mind.

The Mythopoetic Mind of PlatoThe Mythopoetic Mind of Plato: The Kingdom-Sage’s Muthos in Timaeus, The Republic, and The Symposium (Parts VII & VIII)

By
  • Luke Kernan
| 5 Oct 2017 Filed Under:
The Mythopoetic Mind of Plato:
Hide from home page, Longform/Essays, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Philosophy (Eteolegeme), Poetics (Originary Powers)

The strength and sincerity at which each of the Greeks in the Symposium pursues his or her own experiences towards a lived philosophy of love is inspirational for a culture of Self, some of the original self-believers.

The Mythopoetic Mind of PlatoThe Mythopoetic Mind of Plato: The Kingdom-Sage’s Muthos in Timaeus, The Republic, and The Symposium (Parts V & VI)

By
  • Luke Kernan
| 5 Oct 2017 Filed Under:
The Mythopoetic Mind of Plato:
Hide from home page, Longform/Essays, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Philosophy (Eteolegeme), Poetics (Originary Powers), Poetry

From the first creation event of Timaeus that heralds a universe (the one and only) into the perceptible in giving a reality, this perfection persists into Plato’s Republic, a world of its own that deals with society and its paradigms in the social creature called humanity and its just longings.

The Mythopoetic Mind of PlatoThe Mythopoetic Mind of Plato: The Kingdom-Sage’s Muthos in Timaeus, The Republic, and The Symposium (Parts III & IV)

By
  • Luke Kernan
| 5 Oct 2017 Filed Under:
The Mythopoetic Mind of Plato:
Hide from home page, Longform/Essays, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Philosophy (Eteolegeme), Poetics (Originary Powers), Poetry

From [this] indivisible awareness, the mystic sage is fully able to tap into the eternal mind of god, something that would smooth out a translation in terms of human consciousness—and that would give the creative impetus to imagine a text like Timaeus.

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    • Masks of Origin
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    • Synthesis of Yoga Practicum
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    • Writing Off the Deep End
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