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Category: Culture (Transformation)

HyperNormalisation (Review)

By
  • Marco V Morelli
| March 19, 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.

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

By
  • Brigid Burke
| February 7, 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.

Is Myth Dead?

By
  • Jamie Curcio
| November 4, 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
| October 28, 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.

Banishing the World: Conner Habib on Postmodern Philosophy and the Occult

By
  • Jeremy D. Johnson
| October 26, 2016 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Interviews, Microdoses, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Philosophy (Eteolegeme)

I spoke with Conner Habib about his new course, “Banishing the World: Postmodern Philosophy and the Occult,” and learned about the surprising ways in which the most interesting and sophisticated philosophies coming out of humanities converge precisely with occult ideas.

Brian George, Archaic Weapons, 2004 (detail)

Autumnal Fallout

By
  • Brian George
| October 23, 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.”

Is Friendship Limited? An Inquiry into Dunbar’s Number

By
  • Larry Dossey, M.D.
| October 19, 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.

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

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

But the dark truth conveyed in the character of Barb finds its counterbalance in the incredible creative power that Stranger Things attributes to the Cosmic Child, a power which is also present in each of us.

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

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

Beneath the conceptual overlay, reality remains what it is: not an orderly network of humanly comestible ideas, but a turbid, ever-changing, symphonic, indefinable process of becoming that is accountable to neither the predilections of reason nor the strictures of logical grammar.

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

By
  • J.F. Martel
| September 27, 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.

Stranger Things Mixtape

By
Metapsychosis
| September 27, 2016 Filed Under:
Audio, Culture (Transformation), Featured, Longform/Essays, Noetics (Mind/Spirit)

This mix is all about the acclaimed Netflix series Stranger Things, and features J.F. Martel’s essay REALITY IS ANALOG, Phip plus the inaugural episode of Jeremy Johnson’s Electric Symposium podcast. Enjoy!

Romare Bearden, Train Whistle Blues, 1979 (detail)

Antagonistic Cooperation as Mind Jazz: Ralph Ellison vs. Amiri Baraka (as Reimagined by Greg Thomas and Greg Tate)

By
  • Brian George
| September 23, 2016 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Featured, Film/Music, Society (Multitudes)

“In their re-imagination of the Ellison/Baraka opposition, direct challenges alternate with playful taunts. These exchanges have the energy of a competition but the warmth and generosity of a collaboration.”

Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult: Cutting Up a New Conversation

By
  • Claire-Madeline Culkin
| September 19, 2016 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Featured, Longform/Essays, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Philosophy (Eteolegeme), Poetics (Originary Powers)

This notion about our origins is the essential idea with which psychoanalysis grapples. Thought of in this way, psychoanalysis is nothing other than the meta-theorization of occult ideas.

The American Metaphysical Majority

By
  • Ronnie Pontiac
| September 16, 2016 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Microdoses, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Society (Multitudes)

What’s another word for melting pot? Cauldron.

Colin Wilson and “The Robot”

By
  • Gary Lachman
| September 14, 2016 Filed Under:
Books, Culture (Transformation), Featured, Longform/Essays, Philosophy (Eteolegeme)

We are the robots. Or rather, we are like people who allow their servants to do everything for them, and subsequently feel they have lost touch with life, but don’t know exactly why.

Gonjasufi’s “Vinaigrette” & The Dark Night of the Soul

By
  • Michael Richardson-Borne
| September 9, 2016 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Film/Music, Microdoses

I saw the freedom of the open streets in the early morning and the romance of the street lamps curled with the eerie silence of the city’s expanse. What you call “an isolated figure” makes a left turn into a horizon of pillowy clouds and endures some kind of ecstasy while being alone in a motel room. The film feels alive, present.

Lo and Behold - promotional image from YouTube trailer

Alone and Behold: A Review of Werner Herzog’s Latest Film

By
  • Jenn Zahrt
| September 7, 2016 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Featured, Longform/Essays, Society (Multitudes), Technology (Concrescence)

I felt it fitting to choose to stay at home alone and “rent” the movie right away. As the pixels on my laptop flickered with Herzog’s visions, I reveled in the juxtaposition of my solitude while consuming this film whose subtitle espouses connection….

Brian George, Seed City, photogram, 2002

The Snare of Distance and the Sunglasses of the Seer / Part One

By
  • Brian George
| September 6, 2016 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Featured, Fiction (Intensification), Story, Technology (Concrescence)

“In a comment on my essay “The Vanguard of a Perpetual Revolution,” Okantomi wrote, “I often feel like I can see what is happening in the world, as well as what is just about to happen, and what will almost certainly happen later on, and it’s like no one else sees what I am seeing. It’s eerie, shocking, and finally depressing.”

On the Borderlands between Philosophy and Esotericism: An Interview with Gary Lachman

By
  • Aaron Cheak
| September 2, 2016 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Featured, Interviews, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Philosophy (Eteolegeme), Poetics (Originary Powers)

When Gary contacted me about my biographical work on the German poet and Kulturphilosoph, Jean Gebser, I naturally took the opportunity to explore his work.

A Mind Altogether Stranger

By
  • Jack Hunter
| September 2, 2016 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Microdoses, Philosophy (Eteolegeme)

What if consciousness actually is something akin to the way it is experienced?

Sam I AM: Green Eggs and Ham as Secret Mystical Revelation

By
  • Chris Dierkes
| September 1, 2016 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Featured, Longform/Essays, Noetics (Mind/Spirit)

I came to see in Green Eggs and Ham a very sophisticated theology of incarnational nondual spirituality.

Survivor! - by Craig Sunter - CC BY-ND 2.0

After Facebook

By
  • Marco V Morelli
| August 30, 2016 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Featured, Longform/Essays, Society (Multitudes), Technology (Concrescence)

What comes after Facebook? How can we reimagine our social networks for a planetary digital democracy of the future?

Electricity

By
Metapsychosis
| August 4, 2016 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Microdoses, Society (Multitudes)

Every day, when I sit alone in my dark room. Staring at nothing except the brightness of the moon I imagine I can hold it and put it as a lamp in my room. I can do whatever I need to do, like reading ,writing and painting. (I don’t need such a few humiliated hours of electricity.)

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

By
Metapsychosis
| August 1, 2016 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Event, Microdoses

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.

August Malmström, Dancing Faeries, 1866.

Keeping Faerie Close: Folk Belief as Collective Memory

By
  • Natalie Bantz
| August 1, 2016 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Featured, Longform/Essays, Noetics (Mind/Spirit)

Understanding the folk beliefs of Faeries can give us insight into how humans understand our own liminal state between the animal and the angel, which, in essence, is what a Faerie is.

Revealing the Culture of the Current: an Interview with Conner Habib

By
  • Jeremy D. Johnson
| July 27, 2016 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Featured, Interviews, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Philosophy (Eteolegeme), Society (Multitudes), Technology (Concrescence)

“Co-creating the world with the symbols laid out in front of us: What could be a better description of what is needed right now? We need to see what’s before us, learn to read it, internalize it, and then create it by combining it with our individuality.”

Benjamin, Literacy and the Stars

By
  • Jenn Zahrt
| July 21, 2016 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Microdoses, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Philosophy (Eteolegeme), Society (Multitudes)

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
| July 20, 2016 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Microdoses, Philosophy (Eteolegeme), Society (Multitudes)

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 interests in the phil …

Introducing Microdoses

By
  • Jeremy D. Johnson
| July 20, 2016 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Featured, Microdoses

“Microdoses” is our latest addition to Metapsychosis, featuring short creative pieces, multimedia art, literary fragments, micro-rants, tiny manifestos, etc.

Integral and Me: A Brief (Partial, but True) History of My Years as a Meta-Revolutionary

By
  • Marco V Morelli
| July 14, 2016 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Featured, Longform/Essays

On the one year anniversary of the Fourth International Integral Theory Conference, I reflect on what “integral” means to me now—and what I think lies beyond integral, meta and otherwise.

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