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Brigid Burke

Brigid Burke is the host of the Chthonia podcast, and the proprietor of Chthonia.net. She writes articles, fiction, and poetry dealing with the darker aspects of human behavior and the esoteric world. Her fiction has been published previously in Writing Raw, Static Movement, Dark Gothic Resurrected, Open Magazine, Danse Macabre, Long Story Short, and Death Head Grin. Her book Death and the Maiden: the Curious Relationship Between the Fear of Death and the Fear of the Feminine is due out from Algora Publishing in late 2019.

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CULTURAL CONSUMPTION: Stuff We’re Reading, Watching, and Listening to—Dec 2021 / Jan 2022

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  • Brigid Burke
  • Marco V Morelli
| 31 Dec 2021 Cultural Consumption Cinema, Reviews books, culture, movies, music, videos

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.

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

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  • Brigid Burke
| 29 Dec 2021 Signal Boost Books, Community Mythos, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), consciousness, culture, hyperstition, ontology, paranormal, theory of mind, weird

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.

Chthonia: 2022

By
  • Brigid Burke
| 29 Dec 2021 Signal Boost News child snatching monsters, dionysus, hinduism, indian gothic, tantra

An update on Metapsy editor Brigid Burke’s project Chthonia, exploring the dark feminine; writing projects in the works and expanded offerings

Chthonia Expanded: Living the Dream

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  • Brigid Burke
| 16 Nov 2021 Signal Boost News borderland, chthonia, culture, jobmarket, liminal, livingthedream, reiki, scholars

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 …

Chthonia Podcast Moving to Spreaker

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  • Brigid Burke
| 21 May 2021 Signal Boost News chthonia, spreaker

Greetings to all Metapsychosis readers and followers of the Chthonia podcast! For those of you who subscribe to the latter, I have decided to move the podcast to Spreaker for a number of practical reasons. If you are subscribed through Google Play, iTu …

Medb: A Disappearance and Reappearance (excerpt)

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  • Brigid Burke
| 13 Nov 2020 Features Fiction, Story divorce, gender roles, magic, marriage, occult, weird

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.”

Introduction to the Editors: Brigid Burke

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  • Brigid Burke
  • Brigid Burke
| 8 Aug 2020 Signal Boost Community about, introductions, submissions

I have been an Assistant Editor here at Metapsychosis for a few years now, and on this site I have published a couple of essays, offered one class on underworld mythology, and also currently produce the bi-weekly Chthonia podcast, which focuses on dark …

Exploring Worlds of the Dark Feminine with Brigid Burke

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  • 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.

Interpreting Darren Aronofsky’s “mother!”The Mythology of Darren Aronofsky’s “mother!”

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  • Brigid Burke
| 23 Jul 2018 Features Cinema Mythos, Society (Multitudes), culture

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.

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

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  • Brigid Burke
| 7 Feb 2017 Features Essays Society (Multitudes), culture

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.

Vis Imaginativa: The Power of Imagination in the Theory of Magic and its Relationship to The Jungian Collective Unconscious

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  • Brigid Burke
| 20 Oct 2016 Features Essays D.P. Walker, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), carl jung, esotericism, occult, psychoanalysis, psychoanalysis and the occult, synchronicity, vis imaginativa

The power of imagination, “vis imaginativa,” provides the link between a philosophy of magic and psychoanalysis.

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