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Category: Society (Multitudes)

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.

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 …

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…

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?

Out of the Furnace: A Film Review and Analysis

By
  • Annie Blake
| 11 Nov 2019 Filed Under:
Featured, Film/Music, Reviews, Society (Multitudes)

The movie proves to be, rather than glitchy and fragmentary, a deliberate and careful unfolding of the more perplexing and realistic struggle ensnaring us in the contemporary world.

Exploring Worlds of the Dark Feminine with Brigid Burke

By
  • Brigid Burke
  • Brigid Burke
  • Marco V Morelli
| 4 Sep 2019 Filed Under:
Featured, Interviews, Mythos, Society (Multitudes)

An introduction to Brigid’s new podcast CHTHONIA with a discussion of the relevance of dark feminine mythology for modern times.

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

By
  • Eduardo Próspero
| 23 Jul 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 …

Body/Cut: In Conversation with Stephanie Cortazzo

By
  • Monica Zandi
| 21 Mar 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.

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

Meditations on the Slave Gospels

Explicit By
  • Siben Gerard
| 3 Mar 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.”

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

Shiny Happy Lizard People

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

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

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

By
  • Eduardo Próspero
| 3 Nov 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.

Still image from Darren Aronofsky's 'mother!'

Interpreting Darren Aronofsky’s “mother!”interpreting mother! – conversation 2

By
  • Cosmos
| 11 Aug 2018 Filed Under:
Interpreting Darren Aronofsky’s “mother!”:
Culture (Transformation), Film/Music, Hide from home page, Mythos, Society (Multitudes)

disparate minds meet to discuss Darren Aronfsky’s feature film, mother! with: brigid burke, mark jabbour, marco v morelli, natalia anthony

promotional post for darren aronofsky's 'mother!'

Interpreting Darren Aronofsky’s “mother!”interpreting mother! – convo 1

By
  • Cosmos
| 11 Aug 2018 Filed Under:
Interpreting Darren Aronofsky’s “mother!”:
Culture (Transformation), Film/Music, Hide from home page, Mythos, Society (Multitudes)

disparate minds meet to discuss Darren Aronfsky’s feature film, mother! with: jf martel, caroline savery, john davis, geoffrey edwards, and marco v morelli

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.

Gao Xingjian, Inner World, 2007

The Case for Literature, by Gao Xingjian

By
  • Cosmos
| 7 Apr 2018 Filed Under:
Soul Mountain:
Books, Culture (Transformation), Hide from home page, Society (Multitudes), Video

Our reading group on Gao Xingjian’s novel Soul Mountain begins a with a preliminary talk about his Nobel Prize acceptance essay, “The Case for Literature.”

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!

fdecomite, Eclipses

Globes, by Peter Sloterdijk – Conversation 4

By
  • Cosmos
| 9 Feb 2018 Filed Under:
Spheres Reading Group:
Books, Hide from home page, Philosophy (Eteolegeme), Society (Multitudes)

#4 of 6 live conversations on Peter Sloterdijk’s GLOBES: Chs. 5-6 — Readers Underground

fdecomite, Eclipses

Globes, by Peter Sloterdijk – Conversation 3

By
  • Cosmos
| 22 Jan 2018 Filed Under:
Spheres Reading Group:
Books, Hide from home page, Philosophy (Eteolegeme), Society (Multitudes)

#3 of 6 conversations on Peter Sloterdijk’s GLOBES. Chs. 3 – 4

fdecomite, Eclipses

Globes, by Peter Sloterdijk – Conversation 2

By
  • Cosmos
| 19 Dec 2017 Filed Under:
Spheres Reading Group:
Books, Hide from home page, Philosophy (Eteolegeme), Society (Multitudes)

#2 of 6 live conversations on Peter Sloterdijk’s GLOBES: Chs. 1-2

fdecomite, Eclipses

Globes, by Peter Sloterdijk – Conversation 1

By
  • Cosmos
| 17 Nov 2017 Filed Under:
Spheres Reading Group:
Books, Hide from home page, Philosophy (Eteolegeme), Society (Multitudes)

#1 of 6 live conversations on Peter Sloterdijk’s GLOBES: Prologue, Introduction, and other preliminary texts

Atropos O Las Parcas by Francisco de Goya

The Case Against Liberation: Mystic Pessimism

By
  • Alexander Blum
| 7 Nov 2017 Filed Under:
Hide from home page, Longform/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 Filed Under:
Transmuting the Trumpocalypse:
Culture (Transformation), Hide from home page, Longform/Essays, Society (Multitudes)

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 Filed Under:
Transmuting the Trumpocalypse:
Hide from home page, Longform/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.

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