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Category: Community

Collaboration Journal Vol-47 No-3 preview

Receive a Free, One-Year Gift Subscription to Collaboration Journal

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  • Cosmos
| 7 Mar 2023 Signal Boost Community collaboration, offers, partners

Our friends at Collaboration Journal share the following announcement: The Sri Aurobindo Association has received donations for one-year gift subscriptions to Collaboration journal for nonsubscribers, as a means to broaden our reade …

New Reading Group: Soliciting Interest in the Subject of “Consequential Reality”

By
  • Brigid Burke
| 29 Dec 2021 Signal Boost Books, Community Mythos, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), consciousness, culture, hyperstition, ontology, paranormal, theory of mind, weird

Fakes, egregores, and conspiracies are overtaking our perceptions of the world—what’s behind such reality mirrors, and where do the reflections or projections in them come from? Join Brigid and a group of kindred spirits for readings, discussion, and a deep exploration of these intriguing questions at the edges of our knowing.

See You In Our Dreams—A worm’s-eye view from the Readers Underground of a social dreaming experiment in progress

By
  • Douglas Duff
| 19 Nov 2021 Signal Boost Books, Community, Fiction, News blog, dreams, readers underground, reading

Another intimate Readers Underground group has formed around Maia’s See You In Our Dreams, a book described as “a long, complex, slow exploration of the final paroxysms of a dystopic future before something starts to change.”

Sri Aurobindo Reading Circles

By
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
| 11 Oct 2021 Signal Boost Books, Community, News, Philosophy, Spirituality Integral Yoga, savitri, synthesis of yoga

Infinite Conversations has been pursuing an extended reading program for Sri Aurobindo’s writings for several years now. Here is an update on our progress, with information on how you can participate…

See You in Our Dreams

Organizers:
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
  • Maía
  • Marco V Morelli
| 19 Jun 2021 – 18 Jun 2022 Readers Underground Group Books, Community, Fiction Society (Multitudes), cli-fi, culture, readers underground, science fiction

Intimate Reading Performance and Social Dreaming Experiment beginning June 19th The story, set in the 2050s, focuses on an underground community of poets, artists, scientists, and theater geeks (Bard-lovers) who share the weird experience of receiving …

Collaboration Journal Call for Submissions

By
  • Marco V Morelli
| 2 Mar 2021 Signal Boost Community Integral Yoga, Sri Aurobindo, collaboration, submissions

Now in its 46th year of publication, Collaboration explores the evolutionary vision of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the practice of integral yoga, what it means to be human, the workings of consciousness, psychic emergence, and reflective articles on the politics of capital, changing technologies, comparative philosophy, deep ecology, and the arts.

Consciously Evolving Language, with Lisa Maroski

Organizer:
  • Lisa Maroski
| 8 Sep 2020 – 17 Dec 2020 Cosmos Café Group Books, Community, Essays, Philosophy Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Society (Multitudes), conlang, culture, language, play, poetics

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…

Introduction to the Editors: Mary Thaler

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  • Mary Thaler
| 8 Aug 2020 Signal Boost Community about, introductions, submissions

Who am I and what do I write? I spent the early part of my career as a scientist studying oceanography, and some of that science attitude—the attention to detail, the feelings of wonder and humility—have infused my writing practice. Plus I have a nerdy …

Introduction to the Editors: Brigid Burke

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  • Brigid Burke
  • Brigid Burke
| 8 Aug 2020 Signal Boost Community about, introductions, submissions

I have been an Assistant Editor here at Metapsychosis for a few years now, and on this site I have published a couple of essays, offered one class on underworld mythology, and also currently produce the bi-weekly Chthonia podcast, which focuses on dark …

Bernini's Ecstasy of Saint Teresa in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome

The Ecstasy of a Book Club

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Metapsychosis
| 30 Jul 2020 Features Books, Community, Essays community, mysticism, reading, social

“For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” —JC There is the possibility of ecstasy in a book club—this I aver. It’s a religious thing—or should be—the intercourse among “people of the book” (or rather, “ …

Synthesis of Yoga Practicum

Organizers:
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
  • Marco Masi
  • Mattéo Needham
| 22 Apr 2020 – 27 Dec 2023 Readers Underground Group Books, Community, Philosophy Meditation, aurobindo, integral, reading, spirituality, yoga

An open-ended reading and discussion of Sri Aurobindo’s Synthesis of Yoga, with a virtual meeting every 2nd and 4th Wednesday until the book is fully read.

Visionary Voices Read Aloud: John Milton’s Paradise Lost

Organizer:
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
| 24 Jul 2019 – 12 Aug 2020 Readers Underground Group Books, Community, Poetry

Since Fall 2019, we have been reading works by “visionary poets.” While what constitutes “visionariness” is an open and dynamic question (with intense contemporary relevance) we began our quest to bring visionary voices to life by alternately reading a …

Savitri Reading Group

Organizer:
  • Mattéo Needham
| 17 Jul 2019 – 15 Feb 2023 Readers Underground Group Books, Community, Poetry

We are performing an intimate reading of Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri – A Legend and a Symbol, with a virtual meeting every 1st and 3rd Wednesday until the poem is fully read.

Gregory Bateson

Bateson Reading Group

Organizer:
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
| 10 Jan 2019 – 30 May 2019 Readers Underground Group Books, Community, Philosophy

We will be reading one of the 20th Century’s seminal works, the collection of essays by Gregory Bateson assembled in the book called Steps to an Ecology of Mind, and, as a counterpoint, essays and poems by his daughter Nora Bateson under the title Small Arcs of Larger Circles.

Parable of the Sower, artwork by John Jude Palencar

Octavia Butler’s Parable Novels

Organizer:
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
| 8 Aug 2018 – 7 Oct 2018 Readers Underground Group Books, Community, Fiction Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents

Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents tell, in the author’s words, a “cautionary tale”—which some have called prophetic, and some attribute to extraordinary powers of extrapolation—about a speculative version of America betwe …

Black Hole, Public Domain image

Journey to Supermind

Organizer: Metapsychosis
| 7 Jun 2018 – 7 Nov 2018 Readers Underground Group Books, Community, Philosophy Sri Aurodindo, The Life Divine

The Life Divine is one of the great spiritual works of the 20th century, if not all time. It presents Indian/Integral philosopher, poet, and yogi Sri Aurobindo’s conception of the origin, structure, and destiny of creation, from the primordia …

Erin Manning, Saffron (COLLECTIVE FABULATIONS - PROPOSITIONS FOR SOCIAL DREAMING)

The Minor Gesture

Organizer:
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
| 25 Apr 2018 – 4 Jul 2018 Readers Underground Group Books, Community, Philosophy Erin Manning, The Minor Gesture

Erin Manning is a friend and colleague who lives in Montreal and heads up the SenseLab at Concordia University. Her book Relationscapes—Movement, Art, Philosophy profoundly influenced my own work at the intersection between the sciences and t …

Soul Mountain

Organizer:
  • Douglas Duff
| 6 Apr 2018 – 1 Jun 2018 Readers Underground Group Books, Community, Fiction Gao Xingjian, Soul Mountain

We are reading Nobel Prize winner Gao Xinjiang’s novel Soul Mountain. Learn more »

fdecomite, Stardust

Spheres Reading Group

Organizer: Metapsychosis
| 15 Apr 2017 – Readers Underground Group Books, Community, Philosophy Bubbles, Foam, Peter Sloterdijk, Spheres

We are reading all three volumes of philosopher Peter Sloterdijk’s Spheres trilogy: Bubbles, Globes, and Foam. The live-recorded conversations for Bubbles took place between April and August, 2017, and the conversations for Globes took place between October 2017 and May 2018. However, the conversation continues in our forum. A reading schedule for Foam is yet to be determined.

Geek Love

Organizers:
  • Carmen Leilani De Jesus
  • Oliver Rabinovitch
| 25 Jul 2016 – 1 Sep 2016 Readers Underground Group Books, Community, Fiction Geek Love, Katherine Dunn

Katherine Dunn, the original Freakmother, makes muses of monstrosity in her 1989 masterpiece, about a bizarrely geek-inspired, traveling circus family, born of the stale kernels of boxing reports and advice columns—a celebration of human adap …

The Saddlebag

Organizer: Metapsychosis
| 9 Apr 2016 – 7 May 2016 Readers Underground Group Books, Community, Fiction Bahiyyih Nakhjavani, The Saddlebag

Bahiyyih Nakhjavani’s poetic prose is a continuation of the Persian tradition of using lush, mystical imagery to awaken the soul. We hope you will join us as we take a journey inward with The Saddlebag.This was the third reading of Readers Underground …

trees in fog, with black bird in foreground

Winter of Origins

Organizers:
  • Jeremy D. Johnson
  • Marco V Morelli
| 11 Jan 2016 – 19 Mar 2016 Readers Underground Group Books, Community, Philosophy #litgeeks, Jean Gebser, The Ever-Present Origin, The International Jean Gebser Society

This was the second reading of Readers Underground (then #litgeeks). The conversation continues in our forum. In a world racked by vast inequality, climate change, and political upheaval, Gebser’s work so aptly points out that these problems are a …

December of the Dispossessed

December of The Dispossed

Organizer: Metapsychosis
| 1 Dec 2015 – 2 Jan 2016 Readers Underground Group Books, Community, Fiction #litgeeks, The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin

This reading took place Dec 1, 2015–Jan 2, 2016, and was the very first Readers Underground (then #litgeeks book club) read together. It served as a beta test of our format, forum software, and other systems. The conversation continues in our forum.

fdecomite, Stardust

Spheres Reading GroupBubbles, by Peter Sloterdijk – Conversation 9

By
  • Cosmos
| 17 Aug 2017 Books, Community, Philosophy Bubbles, Peter Sloterdijk

#9 of 9 live conversations on Peter Sloterdijk’s Bubbles. Topics: Ch. 8, “Closer to Me Than I Am Myself – A Theological Preparation for the Theory of the Shared Inside,” Excursus 10: Matris in gremio – A Mariological Cricket,” and “Transition: On Ecstatic Immanence,” pps. 539–632.

fdecomite, Stardust

Spheres Reading GroupBubbles, by Peter Sloterdijk – Welcome & Overview

By
  • Cosmos
| 15 Apr 2017 Signal Boost Books, Community, Philosophy Bubbles, Peter Sloterdijk, Spheres

Readers Underground group for Bubbles, by Peter Sloterdijk – Welcome & Overview page

ShantaramReading Group for Shantaram, by Gregory David Roberts

By
  • David Gaian
  • Marco V Morelli
| 6 Apr 2017 Signal Boost Books, Community, Fiction

Join the Readers Underground for a group reading of Gregory David Roberts’ novel Shantaram, hosted by David Gaian and Marco V Morelli, starting April 17, 2017.

Chaos, Crisis, and Creativity. A live hangout with the editors of Metapsychosis

By
Metapsychosis
| 1 Aug 2016 Microdoses Community culture

Join us this Thursday, August 4th, at 8 p.m. EDT (time zone conversion) for a live Zoom hangout with the editors of Metapsychosis, as we close out our Inception cycle (0.6)—and look ahead to our next phase.

Geek LoveGeek Love Opening Hangout

By
Metapsychosis
| 29 Jul 2016 Signal Boost Books, Community, Fiction #litgeeks, Geek Love, Katherine Dunn

In this hangout on July 28, 2016, we explore ideas from both the novel and one another’s personal experiences. It’s a LIVE Freak out!

Benjamin, Literacy and the Stars

By
  • Jenn Zahrt
| 21 Jul 2016 Microdoses Community, News Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Society (Multitudes), Walter Benjamin, astrology, critical theory, culture

Jenn Zahrt, fellow Metapsy author and publisher at Rubedo Press, is hosting a new course with Kepler College. “Benjamin, Literacy and the Stars” explores the lesser known role that astrology played in German philosopher Walter Benjamin’s oeuvre.

The Culture of the Current: A Workshop for Facing the World We Live in Now

By
  • Jeremy D. Johnson
| 20 Jul 2016 Microdoses Community, News Society (Multitudes), culture

Conner Habib is a man of many hats, but if there’s one thing he’s been at the forefront of,  it’s been his sharp, philosophical appraisals of the cultural pulse of Western civilization. I first discovered Conner through our mutual i …

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