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Category: Featured

The Face

By
  • Ian Cumings
| 2 Oct 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
| 12 Sep 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
| 5 Sep 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
| 12 Aug 2018 Filed Under:
Interpreting Darren Aronofsky’s “mother!”:
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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
| 23 Jul 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
| 22 Jul 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
  • 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.

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

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!

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.

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.

José Gómez, 4 Horsemen

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

By
  • Trevor Malkinson
| 11 Sep 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.

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…

Saturn in Scorpio in the First House

By
  • Selah Grenewood
| 14 Jun 2017 Filed Under:
Featured, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Story

We will build our grave here on earth. Is it grave? Our bodies reduced to the skeleton of gluttony and the like. Or a marker, we build with substance, where our former bondage and body lies? ​The villains, if you will, have their will, they were here b …

Juan Gris; Chessboard, Glass, and Dish [public domain]

At Play: A Personal Odyssey in Chess

By
  • TJ Williams
| 5 Jun 2017 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Featured, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Philosophy (Eteolegeme), Story, Technology (Concrescence)

Chess is two wills locked not only in combat but also in cooperation. Players must together create the conditions allowing one to emerge triumphant—or not.

Brian George, Archetypal Figure with Bow and Lightning Arrow, 2004 (detail)

The Long Curve of Descent

By
  • Brian George
| 25 May 2017 Filed Under:
Featured, Fiction (Intensification), Story

Since the end of the Paleolithic Era, it is possible that we have been riding a long curve of descent, in which all things once transparent have become more and more opaque.

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.

Prose for the Paranoid

By
  • Sue Stevenson
| 19 Mar 2017 Filed Under:
Featured, Fiction (Intensification), Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Story

I am, I am slightly ashamed to admit, a little paranoid at the moment. Some of it is genetic. My family have a history of “nerves.” My lovely cousin, who shares a big batch of genetics with me along with a childhood of school holidays spent together indulging our creative whimsy

Songs of Sodom

Explicit By
  • John Davis
| 1 Mar 2017 Filed Under:
Explicit, Featured, Fiction (Intensification), Longform/Essays

We were lost. Daddy sucked on a fat cigar, leaned across the steering wheel, stared at the dark road up ahead and let out a stream of four letter words, which my mother told me never to repeat. She snapped off the radio, got real quiet. The car filled with smoke, my eyeballs burned. I rolled down the window, gulped the night wind, and squinted at the crescent moon…

The “Other” Globalization and Fear of the Feminine: a Mythological View

By
  • Brigid Burke
| 7 Feb 2017 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Featured, Longform/Essays, Society (Multitudes)

In Western culture what is “feminine” has become associated over time with what is evil or immoral… This frightening view of the collective, akin to the archetype of the Terrible Mother, is what drives a lot of the global political and social narrative.

The Global Abyss

By
  • Jonathan Cobb
| 7 Feb 2017 Filed Under:
Featured, Longform/Essays, Society (Multitudes)

It seemed unthinkable. A narcissistic reality show star with an authoritarian personality and a highly volatile temperament was elected to the highest office in the land on a platform of bigotry, xenophobia, and bullying. He was quite possibly the least qualified man to ever make it to the general election, let alone win the election. Yet against all expectations, here we are.

Is Myth Dead?

By
  • Jamie Curcio
| 4 Nov 2016 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Featured, Fiction (Intensification), Longform/Essays, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Philosophy (Eteolegeme), Society (Multitudes)

If new myths are born, re-tethered to something sacred, they must be brutally immediate, possessing unavoidable gravity, poignant, fragile, they must be anything but contrived, planned, and developed with the intention of bringing us the sacred. (She does not come to us on a platter. More likely, the platter will have your beating heart on it.)

The Fall and the Eschaton

By
  • Jonathan Cobb
| 28 Oct 2016 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Featured, Longform/Essays, Philosophy (Eteolegeme)

Most of us have, in some form or another, if not a philosophy of time, at least a mythos of time.

Brian George, Archaic Weapons, 2004 (detail)

Autumnal Fallout

By
  • Brian George
| 23 Oct 2016 Filed Under:
Audio, Culture (Transformation), Featured, Longform/Essays, Society (Multitudes), Story, Technology (Concrescence)

“It would be hard to communicate to someone growing up today just how widespread was the fallout from the threat of the Atomic Bomb. From July 16th, 1945, when the first bomb was tested over the Jornada del Muerto Desert, its occult light had continued to throw shadows from each object. The danger was not abstract; it was imminent, and it changed our whole way of looking at the world.”

Vis Imaginativa: The Power of Imagination in the Theory of Magic and its Relationship to The Jungian Collective Unconscious

By
  • Brigid Burke
| 20 Oct 2016 Filed Under:
Featured, Longform/Essays, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Philosophy (Eteolegeme)

The power of imagination, “vis imaginativa,” provides the link between a philosophy of magic and psychoanalysis.

Is Friendship Limited? An Inquiry into Dunbar’s Number

By
  • Larry Dossey, M.D.
| 19 Oct 2016 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Featured, Longform/Essays, Society (Multitudes), Technology (Concrescence)

Dunbar proposed the limit of meaningful friendships is “150”—a far cry from our Facebook and Instagram network connections—but maybe it’s more complicated than that.

Letter from the Editor – Intensification

By
  • Jeremy D. Johnson
| 13 Oct 2016 Filed Under:
Featured

Intensification implies a new way of seeing—not at objects but through them.

Reality is Analog: Philosophizing with Stranger ThingsReality is Analog: Philosophizing with Stranger Things / Part One

By
  • J.F. Martel
| 27 Sep 2016 Filed Under:
Reality is Analog: Philosophizing with Stranger Things:
Culture (Transformation), Featured, Longform/Essays, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Philosophy (Eteolegeme)

The show remains open, ambiguous to the end, and it is this quality that raises it above the normal run of generic entertainment to make of it something that defies genre, something genuinely weird.

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