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"Oceanic Mask" (painting by Brian George)

Masks of Origin—an attempted Review

By
  • Maía
| 22 Nov 2022 Filed Under:
Books, Featured, Mythos, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Poetics (Originary Powers), Reviews

I opened Brian George’s physically beautiful Masks of Origin—adorned with three-and-a-fraction of his own electric geometric red-green gargoyles, to find myself “reading,” if one might call it that, the whole book nearly straight-through that day, and the next…

To the Cleft of the Mountain We Go

By
  • Shant Alajajian
| 2 Jun 2022 Filed Under:
Microdoses, Mythos, Poetics (Originary Powers), Poetry

Fold up the linen and keep the receipts / Re-bury the boxes in earth. / Tight—shut the windows, hermetically seal / Let nobody see its birth! // Golden-brown bodies with Sun-kissed lips / Don silver-moon garments of old. / Hush— cool silence for raging and violence / Fire’s mouth must be closed to console. // To the cleft of the mountain we go!

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?

Your Box Problem

By
  • Marco V Morelli
| 3 Mar 2022 Filed Under:
Featured, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Philosophy (Eteolegeme), Poetics (Originary Powers), Poetry

“Think outside the box,” they say. What if your box is doing the thinking? Where does your thinking end and your box begin? How many boxes does it take to screw in a light bulb? The answer may surprise you.

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.

Lo fatal by Rubén Darío – performance and translation

By
  • Marco V Morelli
  • Douglas Duff
| 31 Dec 2021 Filed Under:
Microdoses, Poetics (Originary Powers)

Marco V Morelli reads Darío’s classic in original Spanish, with music by Doug Duff. There is a new English translation as well.

Author Interview with Isobel Granby

By
  • Mary Thaler
  • Isobel Granby
| 30 Dec 2021 Filed Under:
Featured, Fiction (Intensification), Interviews, Story

“The Second” was written for a speculative fiction writing workshop and very last-minute in its original form. I did the plotting and world-building on the fly, and basically the original idea was “what if the protagonist were trying to save their friend from a duel?”

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

By
  • Brigid Burke
| 29 Dec 2021 Filed Under:
Blog, Culture (Transformation), Mythos, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Philosophy (Eteolegeme)

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.

The Music of the Spheres, Again Audible

By
  • Brian George
| 28 Dec 2021 Filed Under:
Featured, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Story

There are moments when the world comes suddenly to a stop, when the ground withdraws its support, when a schism opens, into which one may or may not fall. The world then employs its archaic sleight-of-hand to remove whatever faith you may have placed in this event. The structure of projection has barely missed a beat, but the schism in your psyche has not actually been sealed…

18 Notes on Space

By
  • Heather Fester
| 19 Nov 2021 Filed Under:
Featured, Poetics (Originary Powers), Poetry

What does Space mean to you? Do you have enough of it? Too little, too much? How do you make space… for Space? This piece was composed for an evening of Poetic Alchemy held in Boulder, Colorado, in the spring of 2019.

Chthonia Expanded: Living the Dream

By
  • Brigid Burke
| 16 Nov 2021 Filed Under:
Blog, Culture (Transformation)

The struggle is real. Many of us aren’t doing what we really want to be doing. We may or may not hate our day jobs, but sometimes you reach a point where you wonder if you’re not just wasting your time. Income is certainly a consideration; many of us s …

Tempo – A Technology to Slow Time

By
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
| 13 Nov 2021 Filed Under:
Featured, Longform/Essays, Technology (Concrescence)

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.

Jupiter Square Saturn

By
  • Selah Grenewood
| 21 Oct 2021 Filed Under:
Microdoses, Mythos, Poetry

“Jupiter crash landed into Saturn.” As above, so below. What follows is a short and bittersweet astrological allegory about the power struggles that ensue in the heavens.

See You in Our Dreams

Organizers:
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
  • Maía
  • Marco V Morelli
| 19 Jun 2021 – 18 Jun 2022 Readers Underground Group

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 …

Part of the Rosette Nebula, a stellar nursery, image from NASA

Star Gardening

By
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
| 24 May 2021 Filed Under:
Featured, Longform/Essays, Society (Multitudes)

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 …

Making Mystery: An Interview with Andrew Antoniou

By
  • J.F. Martel
| 27 Apr 2021 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Featured, Interviews, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Visual Art

Reminiscent of the work William Blake, Max Beckmann, and Hieronymus Bosch—to say nothing of the latter’s medieval predecessors, Antoniou’s images find their singularity in the exploration of the imaginal encounter, the sacred drama.

Weekend Getaway

By
  • Richard Sleboe
| 20 Nov 2020 Filed Under:
Featured, Fiction (Intensification), Story

The game gives us a satisfaction that life denies us.—Emanuel Lasker ∞ “Tea or coffee, Sir?” “Coffee. Black. No sugar.” I’m on the phone with a market researcher. I try to picture a pretty girl at the other end of the line, but it isn’t working. All I …

Medb: A Disappearance and Reappearance (excerpt)

By
  • Brigid Burke
| 13 Nov 2020 Filed Under:
Featured, Fiction (Intensification), Story

I looked at him through the camera. “You have a secret.” His eyes widened. I continued. “It’s not something…bad…but you think it is…. Something about a confrontation with your father. And it has to do with…a female.”

The Father Spirit

By
  • James Falconer
| 26 Oct 2020 Filed Under:
Featured, Longform/Essays, Noetics (Mind/Spirit)

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…

Consciously Evolving Language, with Lisa Maroski

Organizer:
  • Lisa Maroski
| 8 Sep 2020 – 17 Dec 2020 Cosmos Café Group

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: Geoffrey Edwards – Writing that Transgresses

By
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
| 8 Aug 2020 Filed Under:
Blog, Culture (Transformation), Fiction (Intensification), Mythos, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Philosophy (Eteolegeme), Poetics (Originary Powers), Society (Multitudes), Technology (Concrescence)

As a fledgeling writer and editor, as well as an (almost-retired) scientist, I am feeling my way into the business of editing, critiquing, choosing. I have eclectic tastes. I read just about anything, and voraciously. I review everything I read—you can …

Metapsychosis WANTS YOU (to Bring Forth What Is Within You)

By
  • Marco V Morelli
| 18 Jul 2020 Filed Under:
Blog, Culture (Transformation), Poetics (Originary Powers), Society (Multitudes)

A Call for Submissions & Invitation to Collaborate. Until August 25th, 2020, the editors of Metapsychosis are accepting submissions towards our next publishing cycle. Share your creative work and get involved…

Maricón (Part 3)

Explicit By
  • John Davis
| 28 May 2020 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Explicit, Featured, Society (Multitudes), Story

“Sex and God or sex and death.” I repeated his phrase, feeling a slight slur in my speech brought on by the beer on an empty stomach. “Is that all there is?”

Maricón (Part 2)

Explicit By
  • John Davis
| 20 May 2020 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Explicit, Featured, Society (Multitudes), Story

​I was jealous of Pedro’s imaginary lovers and of his vaster sexual experience. Short poems, long poems, quirky poems, I read them in secret when he was out. I didn’t understand them. Poem after poem, sounding much alike, revealed the charms of some new image of his desire, even as he prayed for some kind of deliverance from his too, too solid flesh…

Maricón (Part 1)

Explicit By
  • John Davis
| 14 May 2020 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Explicit, Featured, Society (Multitudes), Story

I felt that many kinds of patterns, of ancient origins, had been stamped onto our writhing, wrestling, male flesh, and that we had entered this forbidden zone many times before…

A Demon’s Escape (Based on a True Story)

By
  • Stephanie Williams
| 20 Apr 2020 Filed Under:
Featured, Fiction (Intensification), Story

Whether I chose to feel my emotions fully, or experience the depth of them — that wasn’t up to me. That was up to God, or Satan, or whatever it was that controlled me.

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

By
  • Brian George
| 10 Apr 2020 Filed Under:
Featured, Longform/Essays, Mythos, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Story

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 Filed Under:
Featured, Longform/Essays, Mythos, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Story

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 Filed Under:
Featured, Longform/Essays, Mythos, Society (Multitudes)

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?

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