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Collaboration Journal Vol-47 No-3 preview

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  • Cosmos
| 7 Mar 2023 Signal Boost Community collaboration, offers, partners

Our friends at Collaboration Journal share the following announcement: The Sri Aurobindo Association has received donations for one-year gift subscriptions to Collaboration journal for nonsubscribers, as a means to broaden our reade …

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Birth of the Uncool

By
  • Richard Andrews
| 6 Mar 2023 Cultural Consumption Music Miles Davis, art, ethics, jazz, moral dilemmas

Will I ever enjoy listening to Kind of Blue again knowing that Miles Davis abused and beat his wife when he was outside the recording studio?

Mexican Gothic, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia – book cover

Mexican Gothic, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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  • Mary Thaler
| 6 Mar 2023 Cultural Consumption Books, Reviews colonialism, gothic literature, historical fiction, horror, mexico, novel, speculative fiction

Appealing and fast-paced, this novel set in 1950s Mexico is a classic tale of an attractive young woman marrying into family with sinister secrets, who finds her choices taken away, and her life and sanity under threat. True to the gothic genre, the cr …

Party Wall, by Catherine Leroux (trans. from French by Lazer Lederhendler) – book cover

Party Wall, by Catherine Leroux

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  • Mary Thaler
| 6 Mar 2023 Cultural Consumption Reviews Canadian Literature, family, québecois, secrets, short story, translation, writing craft

Insightful stories peel back the secrets within families, but the dazzling moment comes as you pass the midpoint of the book, and the connections between these universes begin to be revealed.

Life Cycle of a Shadow

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  • Daniel Ausema
| 20 Feb 2023 Features Fiction, Story dark, fantasy, horror, liminal, weird

Properly speaking, shadows are not those places where the light is blocked. In the earliest reconstructed languages, those places have no names, though the proto-word for shadow does exist. Shadows were the beings that lived in those places of blocked light. Through the corruption of time, they have lent their name to their native homes, been subsumed by them, been forgotten.

Monsieur Flaubert Is Not a Writer

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  • Brian George
| 17 Feb 2023 Features Essays art, counter-culture, criticism, culture, diy, humor, literature, writing

With his first book recently published, essayist, poet, and artist Brian George reflects on the bizarre and often humorous ways that great works of the past were received by their contemporary critics, and how changes in the cultural landscape over the last few centuries—but especially since his coming of age in the Boston poetry and punk scenes of the late 1970s—have profoundly altered the ways we read, receive, and understand new works.

Featured Image: Salvador Dali, Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man, 1943

Ars Poetica

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  • Brian George
| 14 Feb 2023 Microdoses Poetry CIA, conspiracy, surreal, technology, weird

There is no rest for the search engine. The unquiet dead play games with the subject/ object interface. It appears that our operating system is not a friend to Jesus. Logos flash through the sky of the Sinkiang Autonomous Region. Our wet dreams run through fiberoptic cables.

Masks of Origin: Regression in the Service of Omnipotence – A Review

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  • Marjorie Kaye
| 14 Feb 2023 Signal Boost Books, Reviews essays, perception, synchronicity, visionary, youth

Each chapter of Masks of Origin—a book of what perhaps can only be called “visionary” essays, by Brian George—reads like an individual novel. Divided into personal and universal experiences, each informs the other. Descriptions of events in childhood and adulthood provide a wormhole into the cosmos.

"Oceanic Mask" (painting by Brian George)

Masks of Origin—an attempted Review

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  • Maía
| 22 Nov 2022 Features Books, Reviews Mythos, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), book-review, experimental

I opened Brian George’s physically beautiful Masks of Origin—adorned with three-and-a-fraction of his own electric geometric red-green gargoyles, to find myself “reading,” if one might call it that, the whole book nearly straight-through that day, and the next…

To the Cleft of the Mountain We Go

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  • Shant Alajajian
| 2 Jun 2022 Microdoses Poetry Mystical, Mythos, esoteric, gnostic, hermetic, neo-platonic

Fold up the linen and keep the receipts / Re-bury the boxes in earth. / Tight—shut the windows, hermetically seal / Let nobody see its birth! // Golden-brown bodies with Sun-kissed lips / Don silver-moon garments of old. / Hush— cool silence for raging and violence / Fire’s mouth must be closed to console. // To the cleft of the mountain we go!

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

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  • Thomas Larson
| 27 May 2022 Features Books, Essays, Explicit, Reviews African-American literature, Albert Murray, Society (Multitudes), blues, civil rights, culture, identity, intellectual history, jazz, memoir, modernism, race, white supremacy

A paean to Albert Murray and his hybrid memoir/literary criticism masterpiece of 1971, South to a Very Old Place.

Cultural Consumption – February / March 2022

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  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
  • Douglas Duff
| 4 Mar 2022 Cultural Consumption Cinema, Reviews books, culture, movies, music, videos

Fiction, films and search engines meet indigenous names and the chatter of jays; where does our attention wander when it strays on the dappled path?

Your Box Problem

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  • Marco V Morelli
| 3 Mar 2022 Features Poetry AI, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), humor, meta, singularity, tech

“Think outside the box,” they say. What if your box is doing the thinking? Where does your thinking end and your box begin? How many boxes does it take to screw in a light bulb? The answer may surprise you.

Being Touched by the Beyond

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  • George Ivanov Vasilev
| 18 Feb 2022 Features Essays death, dreams, intuition, tribute

From my very childhood, I’ve always been curious, interested, in a quest to find out what actually life is. What, in fact, is death? Where do we humans come from, and where do we go after death? Or, why we humans are on earth at all, and then die?

CULTURAL CONSUMPTION: What We’re Reading, Watching, Listening to, and Thinking About – Dec 2021 / Jan 2022

By
  • 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.

Lo fatal by Rubén Darío – performance and translation

By
  • Marco V Morelli
  • Douglas Duff
| 31 Dec 2021 Microdoses Poetry epsañol, latin america, music, performance, spanish, translation

Marco V Morelli reads Darío’s classic in original Spanish, with music by Doug Duff. There is a new English translation as well.

Author Interview with Isobel Granby

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  • Mary Thaler
  • Isobel Granby
| 30 Dec 2021 Features Fiction, Interviews, Story Fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, inspiration, place, world-building

“The Second” was written for a speculative fiction writing workshop and very last-minute in its original form. I did the plotting and world-building on the fly, and basically the original idea was “what if the protagonist were trying to save their friend from a duel?”

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

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  • 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

The Music of the Spheres, Again Audible

By
  • Brian George
| 28 Dec 2021 Features Story 1st-person, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), cosmic, egypt, insects, metaphysical, paranormal, weird

There are moments when the world comes suddenly to a stop, when the ground withdraws its support, when a schism opens, into which one may or may not fall. The world then employs its archaic sleight-of-hand to remove whatever faith you may have placed in this event. The structure of projection has barely missed a beat, but the schism in your psyche has not actually been sealed…

See You In Our Dreams—A worm’s-eye view from the Readers Underground of a social dreaming experiment in progress

By
  • Douglas Duff
| 19 Nov 2021 Signal Boost Books, Community, Fiction, News blog, dreams, readers underground, reading

Another intimate Readers Underground group has formed around Maia’s See You In Our Dreams, a book described as “a long, complex, slow exploration of the final paroxysms of a dystopic future before something starts to change.”

18 Notes on Space

By
  • Heather Fester
| 19 Nov 2021 Features Poetry poetics, space, trauma

What does Space mean to you? Do you have enough of it? Too little, too much? How do you make space… for Space? This piece was composed for an evening of Poetic Alchemy held in Boulder, Colorado, in the spring of 2019.

Chthonia Expanded: Living the Dream

By
  • 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 …

Tempo – A Technology to Slow Time

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  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
| 13 Nov 2021 Features Essays consequences, science fiction, scifi, slow, technology, tempo, time

What if you could slow down time? In a distant, not-so-far-off future, humanity has gained the power to alter the localized flow of time at will, enabling new ways of experiencing the universe and operating in extreme environments. Here is an account of the scientific speculation that went into the concept of tempo control in my upcoming novel Plenum: The First Book of Deo.

Jupiter Square Saturn

By
  • Selah Grenewood
| 21 Oct 2021 Microdoses Poetry Mythos, jupiter, poetry, saturn

“Jupiter crash landed into Saturn.” As above, so below. What follows is a short and bittersweet astrological allegory about the power struggles that ensue in the heavens.

black and white coffee computer cup

Cosmic Classifieds

By
  • Marco V Morelli
| 17 Oct 2021 Signal Boost News gigs, promotion, volunteering, work

Want to get involved in an elegantly anarchic, unusually high-reward, though, at present, exceedingly low-paying, creatively oriented cooperative venture? OR… do you have your own opportunity for productive entanglement / ecstatic emergence you wish …

Sri Aurobindo Reading Circles

By
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
| 11 Oct 2021 Signal Boost Books, Community, News, Philosophy, Spirituality Integral Yoga, savitri, synthesis of yoga

Infinite Conversations has been pursuing an extended reading program for Sri Aurobindo’s writings for several years now. Here is an update on our progress, with information on how you can participate…

Artist Interview with Deniz Ozan-George

By
  • Mary Thaler
  • Deniz Ozan-George
| 25 Aug 2021 Features Audio, Interviews, Visual Art abstract, experimental, gallery

Metapsychosis editor Mary Thaler interviewed Deniz Ozan-George, an artist based in Boston, Massachussetts. Though she’s recently completed one portrait, Deniz considers herself first and foremost an abstract painter, lyrical, and expressionist.

Author Interview with Susan Evans

By
  • Mary Thaler
| 15 Jun 2021 Features Interviews, Poetry poetry

Susan Evans’s poem “Lucy” appeared on Metapsychosis website in Autumn 2020. During the following winter, we exchanged emails in which Susan told me about her creative process, her sources of inspiration, and what her hopes for the coming year.

Part of the Rosette Nebula, a stellar nursery, image from NASA

Star Gardening

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  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
| 24 May 2021 Features Essays Society (Multitudes), compost, cosmos, gardening, manipulating star structures, science fiction, star formation, stellar nurseries

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 …

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