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Metapsychosis

Journal of Consciousness, Literature, and Art

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Category: Society (Multitudes)

new 1lluminati, Tasty World (crop)

Transmuting the TrumpocalypseThat which corrupts, that which creates (Power)

By
  • Caroline Savery
| 23 Oct 2017 Filed Under:
Transmuting the Trumpocalypse:
Culture (Transformation), Hide from home page, Longform/Essays, Society (Multitudes)

Perhaps there is a common ground for humankind that runs deeper than the machinations of a “power-over” mythology. Let us envision a more optimal design that meets more needs through respecting life’s innate capacity for intelligence and beauty.

new_1lluminati, religion is a region with a li(e) in it

Transmuting the TrumpocalypseWanting to believe (Seduction)

By
  • Caroline Savery
| 16 Oct 2017 Filed Under:
Transmuting the Trumpocalypse:
Culture (Transformation), Hide from home page, Longform/Essays, Society (Multitudes)

Our human desires and emotions are oftentimes the “hooks” that memes use to attach to us. Once a meme has colonized us, it can profoundly guide our actions in the world. Therefore, we need to develop discernment to parse the beneficial memes from the malicious ones.

new 1lluminati, akashic record (crop)

Transmuting the TrumpocalypseYou have the power I give you (Talisman)

By
  • Caroline Savery
| 16 Oct 2017 Filed Under:
Transmuting the Trumpocalypse:
Culture (Transformation), Hide from home page, Longform/Essays, Society (Multitudes)

The power Trump commands is given by us—our attention, our deference, our minds, hearts, lives. In little ways, we can retake control of how and to what purposes we deploy our minds and spirits.

AK Rockefeller, Confederate

Transmuting the TrumpocalypseMemetic engineering and social control (Myth)

By
  • Caroline Savery
| 15 Oct 2017 Filed Under:
Transmuting the Trumpocalypse:
Culture (Transformation), Hide from home page, Longform/Essays, Society (Multitudes)

The common myths and meaning on which the U.S. was founded are breaking down, strained by the gnashing confrontation of incompatible, co-occurring narratives. This is long overdue and much needed. Yet powerful interests are trying to seize this shaky moment by trumpeting archaic, toxic narratives that reinforce and advance oppressive agendas in society.

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.

new 1lluminati, dog god of war

Transmuting the TrumpocalypseCan’t retreat no more (Prologue)

By
  • Caroline Savery
| 9 Oct 2017 Filed Under:
Transmuting the Trumpocalypse:
Culture (Transformation), Hide from home page, Longform/Essays, Society (Multitudes)

To continue a policy of escape, retreat and regression is mutually assured destruction. We need to face, and learn from, our difficulties.

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.

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.

Frédéric Glorieux, Selfie on emergency shroud — Avatar en suaire de survie

Streets of Paris

By
  • Paul Maylone
| 6 Aug 2017 Filed Under:
Audio, Film/Music, Microdoses, Society (Multitudes)

Music and lyrics by Paul Maylone. “You will turn me into fire, / You will turn me into war, / I will give my life as openly as so many before….”

Deliver Us From Evil

By
  • Jonathan Cobb
| 20 Apr 2017 Filed Under:
Longform/Essays, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Society (Multitudes)

The global political landscape today reads like something straight out of Revelations. On a daily basis, we read shocking stories of the cruelties imposed by those in power. Education and healthcare are being gutted, families are being broken apart, minorities are being senselessly attacked, discrimination is being legalized, dissent criminalized, and corruption institutionalized. The very fabric of society is becoming undone before our eyes, and tyranny is rearing its ugly head.

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.

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.)

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.”

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.

The Loneliest Road (Intensification)

Explicit By
  • Marco V Morelli
| 13 Oct 2016 Filed Under:
Audio, Explicit, Hide from home page, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Poetics (Originary Powers), Society (Multitudes)

A 20-minute “unguided meditation,” this audio journey combines music, conversational fragments, and field phenomena to produce a contemplative response to current events, specifically the United States presidential election of 2016. As an immersive mindscape, the sound collage invites you to engage the world as meditation, and meditation as art.

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
| 23 Sep 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.”

The American Metaphysical Majority

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

What’s another word for melting pot? Cauldron.

Lo and Behold - promotional image from YouTube trailer

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

By
  • Jenn Zahrt
| 7 Sep 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….

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

After Facebook

By
  • Marco V Morelli
| 30 Aug 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
| 4 Aug 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.)

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

By
  • Jeremy D. Johnson
| 27 Jul 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.”

“To Thee Homage”: Planetary Intensification

By
  • Jeremy D. Johnson
| 21 Jul 2016 Filed Under:
Film/Music, Microdoses, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Society (Multitudes)

The video, “To Thee Homage”, offers us a moment of planetary contemplation.

Benjamin, Literacy and the Stars

By
  • Jenn Zahrt
| 21 Jul 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
| 20 Jul 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 …

The Metapolitics of the Noosphere

By
  • William Irwin Thompson
| 12 Jul 2016 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Featured, Society (Multitudes)

For me, the cultural shift from an identity that is based upon a nation or a territory to one based upon a state of consciousness—indeed even a seizure of consciousness—expresses the transition from politics to metapolitics.

Neon Tribes: Ecstatic Highs, Techno-Trance & Digital Gnostics

By
  • Kingsley Dennis
| 27 Jun 2016 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Longform/Essays, Society (Multitudes), Technology (Concrescence)

The neon tribes of the digital age are seeking alternative spiritual streams, and yet the search for ecstatic highs within the inner landscape are fraught with frauds and superficial vendors. The marketplace has never been as full as it is now, nor as diverse and tantalizing.

Stripped: A Look Inside the Life & History of Exotic Dancing

By
  • D. Fisher
| 27 Jun 2016 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Featured, Longform/Essays, Society (Multitudes)

It was a sunny Saturday afternoon when I found myself walking through the main street of a busy business district and noticed a large billboard ahead of me featuring a woman in a glittering black bikini and a sign that read: Non-stop adult entertainmen …

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    • Masks of Origin
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    • See You in Our Dreams – Reading Performance Group and Social Dreaming Experiment
    • Visionary Voices: Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri
    • Synthesis of Yoga Practicum
  • Podcasts
    • Chthonia – Worlds of the Dark Feminine
    • Writing Off the Deep End
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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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