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cover image from Medb

Review: Medb, by Brigid Burke

By
  • Mary Thaler
| 13 Nov 2020 Features Books, Reviews

Medb is a novel that draws the reader incrementally toward the mysteries of the human psyche, on its way touching on gender roles, the power of the occult, and the pathologization of difference. It’s a winding, inward journey that begins, fittingly, at …

Studium Spiritus Sancti

By
  • Annie Blake
| 2 Nov 2020 Features Poetry

but i often underestimate my husband / for he pointed out that i actually said schizophrigid / i had a kitchen dresser which contained crockery i never used / over- solicitude is display mothering /

Repeaters of the String

By
  • James Geddis
| 28 Oct 2020 Features Story

Now is when you are alone, when you have nowhere to be, when promises to the world no longer apply. Nobody knows what happens now except you. This is your own personal history.

The Father Spirit

By
  • James Falconer
| 26 Oct 2020 Features Essays Noetics (Mind/Spirit), family, fatherhood, identity, time

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…

Gasp

By
  • Gale Acuff
| 19 Oct 2020 Features Poetry

What happened, Miss Hooker asked–she meant my shock–so I said, Well, please turn around and take a look at Jesus there and tell me what you see.

Synaptic Tides

By
  • Marjorie Kaye
| 14 Oct 2020 Features Visual Art Organic, abstract, color, paintings

Forms point upward or sideways from a centrifugal base, hunting and seeking. Tides of observation and transmission approach and recede, leaving visual patterns in their wake. Ancient symbols make their way across pathways of energy, co-existing with forms of nature; earth, sky and all types of elemental forms are born of essential vibration.

Four Poems

By
  • Patrick DeCarlos
| 12 Oct 2020 Features Poetry

The shrunken fighters, cheeks sunken and eyes Gibbous as praying mantis, like a god kept captive By some sick forest cult That provides sacrifice seasonally…

The Spiritual Barber

By
  • João Cerqueira
| 7 Oct 2020 Features Story

The Spiritual Barber had opened his salon a year earlier and it had been an instant success. Open Mondays to Saturdays, it attracted an ever-growing number of customers, who thought nothing of waiting several hours until it was their turn to be served. …

Lucy the Nun With the Green Socks

By
  • Susan Evans
| 5 Oct 2020 Features Poetry

“Lucy the nun with the green socks / saw me hugging the oak tree / that summer I / hibernated in Spartanburg.”

Anatolian Dreams

By
  • Diana Thoresen
| 5 Oct 2020 Features Poetry

“St Barbara, a poor white gloved icy ingénue, / Has long been a dusty piece of Black Forest wood // That grew out of the ashes of Sibylline books”

MaricónMaricón (Part 3)

Explicit By
  • John Davis
| 28 May 2020 Features Explicit, Story 1980s, AIDS, HIV, Society (Multitudes), culture, gay, memoir, mysticism, new york city, sex

“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?”

MaricónMaricón (Part 2)

Explicit By
  • John Davis
| 20 May 2020 Features Explicit, Story 1980s, AIDS, HIV, Society (Multitudes), culture, gay, memoir, mysticism, new york city, sex

​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…

MaricónMaricón (Part 1)

Explicit By
  • John Davis
| 14 May 2020 Features Explicit, Story 1980s, Society (Multitudes), culture, gay, memoir, mysticism, new york city, sex

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…

Soul Retrieval: Poems

By
  • Paige Frisone
| 4 May 2020 Features Poetry initiation, memory, soma, soulwork, survival, trauma

they call it soul retrieval | when your essence | core | beingness | the skeletal|hole|body|brain that lives in your gut|liver|kidney|body| self|shatters | breaks its own skull|heart|body in its crumpled raisin|brain as the result of small t | BIG T | sOmE TyPe of tRaUmA

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

By
  • Stephanie Williams
| 20 Apr 2020 Features Fiction, Story Fiction, God, Lucifer, demon, demons, escape, evil, gnosticism, good, stephanie, williams

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 Features Essays, Story Henry Corbin, Kabbalah, Mythos, Nag Hammadi, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), gnosticism, initiation, spiritual guide, the Shadow

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 Features Essays, Story Mythos, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), apocalypse, carl jung, end of the world, the Double, the Shadow

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 Features Essays Bible, Book of Revelation, Early Christianity, Gnostic Voices, Greek Mythology, Maya, Mythos, Nordic mythology, Society (Multitudes), apocalypse, cosmogenesis, end times, extinction, initiation, the Double, the Shadow

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?

Sutra of the Computer Body: Questions for Karina Bush

By
  • Karina Bush
  • Marco V Morelli
| 26 Jan 2020 Features Cinema, Interviews, Poetry AI, Meditation, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), communication, death, language, sex, tech, techgnosis

“I’ve found a techno relationship cuts right into the core, the soul, brings out an almost more real version of yourself, makes you see yourself differently, your own potential to be better. It can achieve a level of emotional perfection. That’s also the problem…”

Daniel’s Dream

By
  • Richard Sleboe
| 4 Dec 2019 Features Fiction, Story Dream

That room is gone. Or rather, the room is still there, but what’s in it now is so different from what was in it before that the room itself seems transformed. It holds a vast model of the world we live in, built to scale and rendered in exquisite detail…

Animal Encounters

By
  • Milton P. Ehrlich Ph.D.
| 26 Nov 2019 Features Poetry

Following him into the darkest places taught me to never be afraid of the dark. / It’s full of unimaginable euphoric surprises…

Out of the Furnace: A Film Review and Analysis

By
  • Annie Blake
| 11 Nov 2019 Features Cinema, 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.

Harold Bloom, Heart-Reader Extraordinaire

By
  • Andrew Field
| 21 Oct 2019 Features Books Daemon, Harold Bloom, Heart Reading, culture, tribute

What was Harold Bloom? I don’t know, but here is my answer for now.

Testaments of a Seed: Poems by Siben Gerard

By
  • Siben Gerard
| 17 Sep 2019 Features Poetry

“I must return love and life to those who offered me death / Gestating with hundreds and thousands of babies in me: / Progeny of my intercourse with the rock.”

Exploring Worlds of the Dark Feminine with Brigid Burke

By
  • Brigid Burke
  • Brigid Burke
  • Marco V Morelli
| 4 Sep 2019 Features Interviews Mythos, Society (Multitudes), feminine, masculine, mythology, podcast

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

Seeing Through the World by Jeremy Johnson

Seeing Through the World: Jean Gebser and Integral Consciousness (Book Review)

By
  • TJ Williams
| 25 Jul 2019 Features Reviews consciousness, integral

Jeremy Johnson, current president of the International Jean Gebser Society, long-time Gebser student, and accomplished expositor, presents a thoughtful look at a key – and difficult – idea, the nature of the integral structure of consciousness.

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

By
  • Eduardo Próspero
| 23 Jul 2019 Features Story Amílcar Ortega, Avenida Paulista, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Eduardo Próspero, Gal Costa, Jorge Ben Jor, Juan Guaidó, Jundiai, La Tormenta, New Year, Nomad, Prospero, San Pablo, Sao Paolo, Society (Multitudes), Venezuela, arvejas, chronicle, digital nomad, failure, family, permanent traveler, remote work, travel journal, travelling

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 …

Steady Sleeper

By
  • Richard Sleboe
| 26 Jun 2019 Features Story

I look for my White Lily, but it’s gone. When I look up again, the girl, too, is gone. I’m on my own again. I wonder if I imagined her. Or maybe she imagined me, and I’m the one who’s gone.

Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, by Murtada Johnny

Reading “The Rain Song” by Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, with Dona Abbadi

By
Metapsychosis
| 3 Apr 2019 Features Poetry culture, poetry, translation

Jordan-based author Dona Abbadi guides us through a reading of one of the most beloved poems in 20th-century Arabic literature, helping us translate between languages and across cultural, historical, and religious contexts, to better understand and appreciate the meaning of Al-Sayyab’s work.

Body/Cut: In Conversation with Stephanie Cortazzo

By
  • Monica Zandi
| 21 Mar 2019 Features Interviews, Reviews Society (Multitudes), culture

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.

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