We continue the story of Jimmie G, who lost his memory after the second World War. Is this not, in some eerie sense, our story too, only on vaster time-scale?
Journal Archive
Freedom: Craving It and Reaching Beyond It
I dream about a dimension beyond this one: a realm that includes none of the limitations I despise. This is what Moshiach—a true messianic age—would mean to me.
The Lost Mariner and the Keys to the Holographic Theatre, Part One
Meet Jimmy G., a man whose consciousness has become stuck in 1945. This essay reflects on the nature of memory, time, and the consequences of historical trauma.
Being At Sea
History is a kind of dream. The dead are always with us. The more our culture melts away, the more we cling to a sense of solidity. Art tells us we are at sea.
The 2024 Jupiter–Uranus Conjunction
Traditional astrology arrives at Metapsychosis in high style. Jupiter is about to conjunct with Uranus and it’s going to really. get. weird.
Cadillac: The Mystic Shield of the Three Ducks
Being the unlikely story of the Duke of Waddlac, Humpty Dumpty, and the ill-fated crusade which brought the “Cataclysmic Egg of Catastrophe” to Detroit.
Surface Tension: the Artwork of Susan Leskin
I create my worlds on wood panels with acrylic and the occasional found object. They are made to explore my inner universe: to discover my relationships with other forms of life.
The AI-Robot Wars: Is Dystopian Science Fiction Becoming a Reality?
We’re in the midst of a Technology Takeover, pointing toward a world of technocratic governance and complete dependency on tech giants and the systems they control.
Teachings from the Spirit of Cannabis
Nostalgia enters the breath, its smell, its long arms of comfort… they stretch beyond those early years to blush across my skin, into my soft centre, and coil silken tendrils at the nape of my neck.
Apocalyptarians—Or: “What the F*%K is Solioonensius??”
The future is here. And it’s weird. Very weird. Are you one of the weird ones—one of the Apocalyptarians—who can consciously assimilate the weirdness and use the meta-crisis as evolutionary fuel?
Songs of Gratitude and Fields of Wonder: A Review of Maía’s Portraits
In Maía’s poems, there are worlds inside of worlds, the metaphysical hidden in the physical, the mythic hidden in the mundane, the political hidden in the personal.
It’s Hard To Compete With Simplistic Spiritual Leaders
I’m both horribly insecure and a huge snob, sometimes at the same moment. So it makes sense that, when I meet wildly successful spiritual leaders and writers, I often feel a combination of envy and disdain.
On the Welcoming of the Unexpected Guest
Reflections on deep time, archaeology, and the origins of civilization, prompted by the accusation of thought-crimes by a reader in an online comment
We are Ghosts. This is Hades.
Has the world already ended? Are we dead? Neither literally nor metaphorically, this essay argues that we have become spectral beings in our image of the world.
Call for Submissions: Writing from the Future
Imagine you have survived the ecological crisis of the next hundred years and you are writing as if you were of that era about the state of things.
Three Books, Three Authors, Three Journeys of Discovery
It was so delightful last Thursday night to meet up with my fellow-authors, Geoffreyjen Edwards and Richard Andrews, whom I am far more used to seeing on video-calls through my flat laptop screen! We were meeting in Quebec City at the bookstore-café Mo …
Ascendit Icarus (AI)
A poem contemplating Icarus’s flight, intertwining ancient themes with modern pathos. This is complemented by images of the sculpture that inspired the poem and an audio performance by the Editor.
Hiraeth (four poems)
I wish I had been a child then // long, slender / circular years / peeled years / sloshing around / in the fluids of my thinking
On the Poems of Lauren Rhiannon Lockhart
What are we to make of a poem that begins “None of this happened:” except to see where the author takes us, what other tricks she has in store, what detours we must take?
FBI Returns Grave-Robbing Missionary’s “Collection”
An FBI raid on a grave-robbing missionary; stolen sacred objects; ancient artifacts; hundreds of human remains; fears of an atomic weapon in a remote farmhouse. And even, perhaps, the wrath of spirits.
The Unseen, by Roy Jacobsen
Despite scenes of peril on the ocean, the book moves slow, full of details about everyday survival in this harsh environment. By the end, the reader has witnessed great changes reflected the microcosm of the characters’ lives.
Paradox—Call for Submissions
We’re inviting submissions of short works—fiction or non-fiction, poetry, prose, or other experimental forms—that explore all the many contradictory faces of paradox.
On Paradox
“And what do you know about paradox?” Grolier asked his younger sister, Mailka. “The harmony of opposites? But I still don’t know what that m… means.”
The Opening of the Records
A virgin will rebuild from ash the burning library at Alexandria. She will not take any prisoners. Her large eyes will be tests that you must pass. For a third time will the Argo sail, outperforming Voyager One. You will learn of how this ship is not different from your body. It will move beyond the speed of light.
How Do We Speak from Wholeness?
Language has served as a way to bridge a perceived gap between consciousnesses who believe themselves to be separate. By another reckoning, language has served as a crutch to help us hobble through the woundedness of feeling separate.
Song of the Sea Snail
My song is simple / Because I am simple. / I need no complex language / To sing my truth / No adjectives or adverbs / No alliteration, / No similes or rhyme / I speak directly to your being / I use the voice God gave me / To sing His praise.
A Somali Mother’s Concerns in a Cradle Song
In this essay, I explore the Somali lullabies from a close reading of their texts. While singing their love to the babies, Somali women also express their sentiments towards social issues that reflect women’s traditional roles in the pastoral society.
Journey to the West (from Key to the Highway)
This chapter from Richard Andrews’ debut novel has a bit of everything: sex, humor, tragedy, adventure… and of course, music. In these pages, we meet young Chris Hunter and his Aussie bandmates, just after a terrible accident has derailed their dreams of making it big and changed their lives forever.
Graphic Novel Review: Utown
Coming from Montréal’s bustling scene of graphic-novel creators, Cab’s main character is a painter struggling with creative block while living semi-legally with his friends in a building on the verge of being condemned.
#AI
“AI, will you write this poem for me? / AI, will you give me a hug? / AI, will you read my daughters a bedtime story?”
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