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Category: Featured

Seeing Through the World by Jeremy Johnson

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

By
  • TJ Williams
| July 25, 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.

Tales of a Venezuelan ExpatTales of a Venezuelan Expat: Dispatch #2 (Disorder and Progress)

By
  • Eduardo Próspero
| July 23, 2019 Filed Under:
Tales of a Venezuelan Expat:
Featured, Society (Multitudes), Story

Note: The following takes place between October 2018 and January 2019. I’m not in control. I’m trusting the currents to guide my ship to safe ports, trusting the process, letting go. I’m learning along the way. The biggest lesson so far has been how to …

Steady Sleeper

By
  • Richard Sleboe
| June 26, 2019 Filed Under:
Featured, Story

I look for my White Lily, but it’s gone. When I look up again, the girl, too, is gone. I’m on my own again. I wonder if I imagined her. Or maybe she imagined me, and I’m the one who’s gone.

See What You Think About This

By
  • John Fellenor
| June 19, 2019 Filed Under:
Featured, Story

See What You Think About This is not only an invitation to read, but a beckoning. It’s a lure to peek behind the curtain, and dares you to see if you can see what the author intended.

Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, by Murtada Johnny

Reading “The Rain Song” by Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, with Dona Abbadi

By
Metapsychosis
| April 3, 2019 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Featured, Poetics (Originary Powers), Poetry

Metapsychosis #OnlyPoetry channel presents: A guided reading and discussion of Iraqi poet Badr Shakir Al-Sayyab’s poem, “The Rain Song,” with Jordan-based author Dona Abbadi. Dona guides us through a reading of one of the most belov …

Body/Cut: In Conversation with Stephanie Cortazzo

By
  • Monica Zandi
| March 21, 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.

DeeAshley, The Day That The World Didn’t End. [CC BY-NC]

Testimony

By
  • Gurmeet Singh
| March 15, 2019 Filed Under:
Featured, Fiction (Intensification), Philosophy (Eteolegeme), Story

Maybe in the future she’d embody the pure-feminine-ideal or something, but right now Suraj had to explain just who Judy was and why she killed herself…

Kara Walker, “Storm Ryder (You Must Hate Black People as Much as You Hate Yourself)”

Meditations on the Slave Gospels

Explicit By
  • Siben Gerard
| March 3, 2019 Filed Under:
Explicit, Featured, Poetry, Society (Multitudes)

“I wrote the meditations with the intention of translating the trauma of slavery to the page, and it did came out like an eco-graphic card; with no straight lines; no reservations.”

Poems of Annie Blake (Part 2)

By
  • Annie Blake
| February 19, 2019 Filed Under:
Featured, Poetics (Originary Powers), Poetry

“Mothers should explain this to their daughters when they are too young…instead of folding church bulletins to make fans…”

AK Rockefeller, Discoh [via Flickr, CC BY-NC]

Shiny Happy Lizard People

By
  • Bardsley Rosenbridge
| February 12, 2019 Filed Under:
Featured, Poetics (Originary Powers), Poetry, Society (Multitudes)

the biggest secret: REPTILIANS! United States lizard government / help. Bloodlines). people think they know

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

The Goddess as Active Listener (Parts 5–10)

By
  • Brian George
| December 22, 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…

Poems of Annie Blake (Part 1)

By
  • Annie Blake
| December 18, 2018 Filed Under:
Featured, Poetry

blackbirds rise like a word from a hot hovel / satis house and her letter / and her first wedding gown / fires blank and face clocks / my hands / their spell / swelling the mouth of a match / the stone thrown into the sea and circulatio /

Victor Brauner, Disintegration of Subjectivity, 1951 (detail)

The Goddess as Active Listener (Part 4)

By
  • Brian George
| December 12, 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
| December 3, 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.

Tales of a Venezuelan ExpatTales of a Venezuelan Expat: Dispatch #1 (Don’t cry for me, Argentina)

By
  • Eduardo Próspero
| November 3, 2018 Filed Under:
Tales of a Venezuelan Expat:
Featured, Society (Multitudes), Story

I’m lost in space. Lost. As it turns out the poets were right, you can’t go back home again. The Venezuela that raised me doesn’t exist anymore, that much everybody knows, but the situation got so unendurable that I’m finally aware of my limits. As it turns out I’m not an indestructible machine but a leaf floating in the wind, directionless and at the mercy of the gods.

Consuelos de Cocina

By
  • Maia
| October 10, 2018 Filed Under:
Featured, Microdoses, Poetics (Originary Powers), Poetry

Hands of the dead here in my living hands / as I split stony squash with a crack of the blade, / scoop seeds, oil flesh for the fire—hands / of women and men in my hands, generations / repeating these gestures, the old pleasure…

The Glory of Groove

By
  • Liane Gabora
| October 3, 2018 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Featured, Fiction (Intensification), Philosophy (Eteolegeme), Story

Meet Sidney (aka the Sacred Scribe)—a PhD candidate in Physics with a problem in the paradoxical human realm of love. What does a love triangle look like in the fourth dimension? Quantum indeterminacy rules, as Sidney and her friends explore a bold new cosmology uniting Science and Spirituality, and Sidney’s “wave function” must decide between the primal magnetism of Bruno, her friendship with Alyzia, and the life of her mind and creative soul.

The Face

By
  • Ian Cumings
| October 2, 2018 Filed Under:
Featured, Microdoses

He was but a breath, a simple creation of some greater existence. Nothing implied, nothing necessary, nothing required. Just a breath. As was the face. And is the face. And always will be the face.

Candy Countdown

By
  • Richard Sleboe
| September 12, 2018 Filed Under:
Featured, Fiction (Intensification), Story

Did I dream it all? I guess I did. But then I see the card on the table. I pick it up. It feels real. TAKE THE ELEVATOR, it says. Did I?

Come Again

By
  • Joanna Hoyt
| September 5, 2018 Filed Under:
Featured, Fiction (Intensification), Story

These people in the church with him today have heard all those words over and over, they can’t really hear them any more. He remembers other words: If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.

promotional post for darren aronofsky's 'mother!'

Interpreting Darren Aronofsky’s “mother!”Interpreting Darren Aronofsky’s ‘mother!’

By
Metapsychosis
| August 12, 2018 Filed Under:
Interpreting Darren Aronofsky’s “mother!”:
Featured, Hide from home page

A series of writing and conversations exploring the many layers, folds, complexities, and intensities of director Darren Aronofsky’s disturbing tale of home invasion: mother!

Interpreting Darren Aronofsky’s “mother!”The Mythology of Darren Aronofsky’s “mother!”

By
  • Brigid Burke
| July 23, 2018 Filed Under:
Interpreting Darren Aronofsky’s “mother!”:
Culture (Transformation), Featured, Film/Music, Mythos, Society (Multitudes)

Packed with archetypal, mythological, and religious symbolism, Darren Aronofsky’s ‘mother!’ baffled audiences with its disturbing tale of home invasion…and world destruction. This essay unpacks some of the deeper layers of the film from the perspectives of religion and psychology, western esotericism, and comparative mythology.

Kai C. Schwarzer, Mehr Rue [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0]

A Precoded Message of Damage

By
  • Dean Wilcox
| July 22, 2018 Filed Under:
Featured, Fiction (Intensification), Microdoses, Mythos, Poetics (Originary Powers)

The subject was discovered on a routine gravimetric exploration approximately one mile beneath the Earth’s surface in a small cavern rich in copper. Dwelling in complete darkness and surrounded by approximately 3500 urns of various shapes and sizes, the age of the subject remains indeterminate. Subsequent testing revealed the age of the urns to be approximately 500,000 years old.

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
  • Christopher Yates
  • J.F. Martel
| April 29, 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
| April 5, 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.

Black Panther promo art, by markfresch, via hdqwalls.com

The Marvelous Mythos of Black Panther

By
  • Darrell Fester (Mythos Collective)
  • Zachary Feder
| March 9, 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!

Transmuting the Trumpocalypse

By
  • Caroline Savery
| October 9, 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.

Transmuting the TrumpocalypseIntroduction to Transmuting the Trumpocalypse

By
  • Caroline Savery
| October 9, 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
| October 5, 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.

José Gómez, 4 Horsemen

Come Out of Babylon: Heavy Metal Music and the Book of Revelation

By
  • Trevor Malkinson
| September 11, 2017 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Featured, Film/Music, Longform/Essays, Philosophy (Eteolegeme), Society (Multitudes)

The more deeply I’ve looked into heavy metal music and its use of imagery from the Book of Revelation, the more I discovered a very remarkable thing—that heavy metal music is doing the Book of Revelation. In its style, in its values, in its ethos, heavy metal is doing the Book of Revelation in musical form.

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Metapsychosis is a project of Cosmos Cooperative, a creative co-op for people with "visionary tendencies." Learn more at Cosmos.coop »

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