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Metapsychosis

Journal of Consciousness, Literature, and Art

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Category: Reviews

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.

Cultural Consumption – February / March 2022

By
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
  • Douglas Duff
| 4 Mar 2022 Filed Under:
Blog, Culture (Transformation), Film/Music, Reviews

Fiction, films and search engines meet indigenous names and the chatter of jays; where does our attention wander when it strays on the dappled path?

CULTURAL CONSUMPTION: What We’re Reading, Watching, Listening to, and Thinking About – Dec 2021 / Jan 2022

By
  • Brigid Burke
  • Marco V Morelli
| 31 Dec 2021 Filed Under:
Blog, Culture (Transformation), Film/Music, Reviews

Our bodies transform what we eat, and with our minds we re-create and transform culture. Here are some of the works that have gotten our attention recently and feel worth sharing.

A Few Notes on “Making Mystery: An Interview with Andrew Antoniou”

By
  • Brian George
| 30 Apr 2021 Filed Under:
Blog, Reviews, Visual Art

Above all, Antoniou’s compressed, theatrical space could perhaps be read as a kind of ritual confrontation, in which the known and unknown, the diurnal and nocturnal, are forced to meet and mix on a stage that allows for no casual avoidance or escape.

cover image from Medb

Review: Medb, by Brigid Burke

By
  • Mary Thaler
| 13 Nov 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 …

Out of the Furnace: A Film Review and Analysis

By
  • Annie Blake
| 11 Nov 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.

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

By
  • Eduardo Próspero
| 7 Oct 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.

Seeing Through the World by Jeremy Johnson

Seeing Through the World: Jean Gebser and Integral Consciousness (Book Review)

By
  • TJ Williams
| 25 Jul 2019 Filed Under:
Featured, Philosophy (Eteolegeme), Reviews

Jeremy Johnson, current president of the International Jean Gebser Society, long-time Gebser student, and accomplished expositor, presents a thoughtful look at a key – and difficult – idea, the nature of the integral structure of consciousness.

Body/Cut: In Conversation with Stephanie Cortazzo

By
  • Monica Zandi
| 21 Mar 2019 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Featured, Interviews, Reviews, Society (Multitudes)

It is about the trials and tribulations of lovers who are set in a dismal, bleak universe—much like our current reality in NYC one could even argue. They are challenged to come to terms with each other and deal with various issues such as ego, conflicting decisions, and insecurities.

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The Marvelous Mythos of Black Panther

By
  • Darrell Fester (Mythos Collective)
  • Zachary Feder
| 9 Mar 2018 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Featured, Film/Music, Mythos, Reviews, Society (Multitudes), Video

We warmly welcome Darrell Hester (Mythos Collective) and Zachary Feder to Metapsychosis. Zachary, a writer and interlocutor on our forum at Infinite Conversations, contacted Darrell after seeing one of YouTube videos. In this talk, they cover everything from the cultural and psychological significance of the film to the esoteric meaning of vibranium. This is their first talk—with more to come, we hope!

Sustain/Decay: A Philosophical Investigation of Drone Music and Mysticism (Review)

By
  • Dean Wilcox
| 31 Jul 2017 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Featured, Philosophy (Eteolegeme), Reviews

Floating from time period to time period amid spiritual and religious observances and contemporary soundscapes the drone remains consistently omnipresent, like the angel of death, hovering just out of reach yet connecting all things living and dead…

Delusions, by Stanisław Kapuściński: A Review

By
  • Philippa Rees
| 11 Jul 2017 Filed Under:
Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Philosophy (Eteolegeme), Reviews

Kapuscinski’s intentions are early implied, to match Dawkins bite for bite and (as honestly) to demonstrate the irreconcilable gulf between intellectual reductionism and emotional religious dogmatism, each flailing towards fundamentalism in trying to flatten one another.

Romare Bearden, Jammin' at the Savoy

Reading Albert Murray in the Age of Trump

By
  • Greg Thomas
| 3 May 2017 Filed Under:
Books, Culture (Transformation), Featured, Reviews

In his near-century of life, Murray confronted race by re-constructing American identity as omni-American—that out of many, we are one.

HyperNormalisation (Review)

By
  • Marco V Morelli
| 19 Mar 2017 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Featured, Film/Music, Reviews, Society (Multitudes), Technology (Concrescence)

“We live in a world where the powerful deceive us. We know they lie. They know we know they lie. They don’t care. We say we care but we do nothing. And nothing ever changes.” BBC documentary by Adam Curtis.

Oh, I’ll Be Free: Bluebird and the Soul in David Bowie’s Lazarus

By
Metapsychosis
| 7 Feb 2016 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Longform/Essays, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Reviews

This is a long title for such a little footnote I’ve made in my re-read of the mid-century book, Ever-Present Origin, a cultural philosophical tome by Jean Gebser. Gebser was a poet, and studied poetry. It was through his careful reading of R …

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