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Category: Essays

Monsieur Flaubert Is Not a Writer

By
  • Brian George
| 17 Feb 2023 Features Essays art, counter-culture, criticism, culture, diy, humor, literature, writing

With his first book recently published, essayist, poet, and artist Brian George reflects on the bizarre and often humorous ways that great works of the past were received by their contemporary critics, and how changes in the cultural landscape over the last few centuries—but especially since his coming of age in the Boston poetry and punk scenes of the late 1970s—have profoundly altered the ways we read, receive, and understand new works.

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 Features Books, Essays, Explicit, Reviews African-American literature, Albert Murray, Society (Multitudes), blues, civil rights, culture, identity, intellectual history, jazz, memoir, modernism, race, white supremacy

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 Features Essays death, dreams, intuition, tribute

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 Features Essays consequences, science fiction, scifi, slow, technology, tempo, time

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 Features Essays Society (Multitudes), compost, cosmos, gardening, manipulating star structures, science fiction, star formation, stellar nurseries

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 Features Essays Noetics (Mind/Spirit), family, fatherhood, identity, time

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…

geralt

Universal Eggs Benedict

By
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
| 21 Oct 2020 Microdoses Essays, Humor cosmogenesis, eggs, food, funny, recipes

Ingredients: 2 eggs (poached), hollandaise sauce (egg yolk, butter, lemons), English muffin, bacon slices, and something extra to enlarge the whole. Eggs, when you really think about them, are bizarro. Little pockets of pre-embryonic fluid. If you were …

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…

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, “ …

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

By
  • Brian George
| 10 Apr 2020 Features Essays, Story Henry Corbin, Kabbalah, Mythos, Nag Hammadi, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), gnosticism, initiation, spiritual guide, the Shadow

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 Features Essays, Story Mythos, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), apocalypse, carl jung, end of the world, the Double, the Shadow

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 Features Essays Bible, Book of Revelation, Early Christianity, Gnostic Voices, Greek Mythology, Maya, Mythos, Nordic mythology, Society (Multitudes), apocalypse, cosmogenesis, end times, extinction, initiation, the Double, the Shadow

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 Features Essays, Story Mythos, education, goddess, memoir, pedagogy

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 Features Essays, Story Mythos

“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 Features Essays, Interviews, Story Mythos

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 Features Cinema, Essays, Interviews culture

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 Features Essays Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Society (Multitudes), tech

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 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 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 Essays Society (Multitudes), culture

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 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 Essays Society (Multitudes), culture

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 Essays Society (Multitudes), culture

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 Essays Society (Multitudes), culture

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 Essays Society (Multitudes), culture

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.

Kevin Dooley, The-inquisition

Transmuting the TrumpocalypseI say a little prayer for you (Aspiration)

By
  • Caroline Savery
| 9 Oct 2017 Essays Noetics (Mind/Spirit), culture

“May Donald Trump enjoy happiness and the root of happiness.” I was immediately struck by the potency of this aspiration. If Trump were to know unconditional love and happiness, he would be less harmful and less hungry for power over others.

new 1lluminati, dog god of war

Transmuting the TrumpocalypseCan’t retreat no more (Prologue)

By
  • Caroline Savery
| 9 Oct 2017 Essays Society (Multitudes), culture

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 Features Essays Society (Multitudes), culture

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 Features Essays, Poetry, Story culture

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 Essays Noetics (Mind/Spirit)

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.

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