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Tag: culture

Gao Xingjian, Inner World, 2007

Soul MountainThe Case for Literature, by Gao Xingjian

By
  • Cosmos Co-op
| 7 Apr 2018 Books, Video Society (Multitudes), culture

Our reading group on Gao Xingjian’s novel Soul Mountain begins a with a preliminary talk about his Nobel Prize acceptance essay, “The Case for Literature.”

Black Panther promo art, by markfresch, via hdqwalls.com

The Marvelous Mythos of Black Panther

By
  • Darrell Fester (Mythos Collective)
  • Zachary Feder
| 9 Mar 2018 Features Cinema, Reviews, Video Mythos, Society (Multitudes), culture

We warmly welcome Darrell Hester (Mythos Collective) and Zachary Feder to Metapsychosis. Zachary, a writer and interlocutor on our forum at Infinite Conversations, contacted Darrell after seeing one of YouTube videos. In this talk, they cover everything from the cultural and psychological significance of the film to the esoteric meaning of vibranium. This is their first talk—with more to come, we hope!

mammovies, Meditation

Transmuting the TrumpocalypseInvolving us, evolving us (Epilogue)

By
  • Caroline Savery
| 23 Oct 2017 Essays Society (Multitudes), culture

We are powerful enough to burst through the artificial narrative-bubble of projections of power-over, and step together into the brisk air of the real world in all its complexity—painful, wonderful, multiplicitous. If, in that fine first inhalation of fresh air, we take in a deep moment of peace, we may hear the aspirations of all living things…

new 1lluminati, Tasty World (crop)

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

By
  • Caroline Savery
| 23 Oct 2017 Essays Society (Multitudes), culture

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 Essays Society (Multitudes), culture

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 Essays Society (Multitudes), culture

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 Essays Society (Multitudes), culture

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.

Kevin Dooley, The-inquisition

Transmuting the TrumpocalypseI say a little prayer for you (Aspiration)

By
  • Caroline Savery
| 9 Oct 2017 Essays Noetics (Mind/Spirit), culture

“May Donald Trump enjoy happiness and the root of happiness.” I was immediately struck by the potency of this aspiration. If Trump were to know unconditional love and happiness, he would be less harmful and less hungry for power over others.

new 1lluminati, dog god of war

Transmuting the TrumpocalypseCan’t retreat no more (Prologue)

By
  • Caroline Savery
| 9 Oct 2017 Essays Society (Multitudes), culture

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 Features Essays Society (Multitudes), culture

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.

Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire: Destruction

The Mythopoetic Mind of PlatoThe Mythopoetic Mind of Plato

By
  • Luke Kernan
| 5 Oct 2017 Features Essays, Poetry, Story culture

We are always living in a story, always present in a myth. The key is to possess mindfulness towards worldviews and their presence in the awakened self—they are analytical frameworks of the mind that first allow the universe to be experienced in a specific manner and then formulated into pure, specific “understandings” about the nature of that universe.

José Gómez, 4 Horsemen

Come Out of Babylon: Heavy Metal Music and the Book of Revelation

By
  • Trevor Malkinson
| 11 Sep 2017 Features Cinema, Essays Society (Multitudes), culture

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.

Sustain/Decay: A Philosophical Investigation of Drone Music and Mysticism (Review)

By
  • Dean Wilcox
| 31 Jul 2017 Features Reviews culture

Floating from time period to time period amid spiritual and religious observances and contemporary soundscapes the drone remains consistently omnipresent, like the angel of death, hovering just out of reach yet connecting all things living and dead…

Juan Gris; Chessboard, Glass, and Dish [public domain]

At Play: A Personal Odyssey in Chess

By
  • TJ Williams
| 5 Jun 2017 Features Story Noetics (Mind/Spirit), culture, tech

Chess is two wills locked not only in combat but also in cooperation. Players must together create the conditions allowing one to emerge triumphant—or not.

Romare Bearden, Jammin' at the Savoy

Reading Albert Murray in the Age of Trump

By
  • Greg Thomas
| 3 May 2017 Features Books, Reviews culture

In his near-century of life, Murray confronted race by re-constructing American identity as omni-American—that out of many, we are one.

HyperNormalisation (Review)

By
  • Marco V Morelli
| 19 Mar 2017 Features Cinema, Reviews Society (Multitudes), culture, tech

“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 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.

Is Myth Dead?

By
  • Jamie Curcio
| 4 Nov 2016 Features Essays, Fiction Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Society (Multitudes), carl jung, culture, eliade, modern mythology, myth, profane, sacred

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.)

The Fall and the Eschaton

By
  • Jonathan Cobb
| 28 Oct 2016 Features Essays culture, eschatology

Most of us have, in some form or another, if not a philosophy of time, at least a mythos of time.

Banishing the World: Conner Habib on Postmodern Philosophy and the Occult

By
  • Jeremy D. Johnson
| 26 Oct 2016 Microdoses Interviews Noetics (Mind/Spirit), courses, culture, occultism, philosophy, postmodernism

I spoke with Conner Habib about his new course, “Banishing the World: Postmodern Philosophy and the Occult,” and learned about the surprising ways in which the most interesting and sophisticated philosophies coming out of humanities converge precisely with occult ideas.

Brian George, Archaic Weapons, 2004 (detail)

Autumnal Fallout

By
  • Brian George
| 23 Oct 2016 Features Audio, Essays, Story Society (Multitudes), culture, tech

“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 Features Essays Society (Multitudes), culture, dunbar's number, internet, larry dossey, social networks, tech, technology

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.

Letter from the Editor—Intensification

By
  • Jeremy D. Johnson
| 13 Oct 2016 Signal Boost News Jean Gebser, consciousness, creativity, culture, editorial, intensification, letter

Intensification implies a new way of seeing—not at objects but through them.

Reality is Analog: Philosophizing with Stranger ThingsReality is Analog: Philosophizing with Stranger Things / Part Three

By
  • J.F. Martel
| 27 Sep 2016 Essays Noetics (Mind/Spirit), culture, stranger things

But the dark truth conveyed in the character of Barb finds its counterbalance in the incredible creative power that Stranger Things attributes to the Cosmic Child, a power which is also present in each of us.

Reality is Analog: Philosophizing with Stranger ThingsReality is Analog: Philosophizing with Stranger Things / Part Two

By
  • J.F. Martel
| 27 Sep 2016 Essays Noetics (Mind/Spirit), culture, stranger things

Beneath the conceptual overlay, reality remains what it is: not an orderly network of humanly comestible ideas, but a turbid, ever-changing, symphonic, indefinable process of becoming that is accountable to neither the predilections of reason nor the strictures of logical grammar.

Reality is Analog: Philosophizing with Stranger ThingsReality is Analog: Philosophizing with Stranger Things / Part One

By
  • J.F. Martel
| 27 Sep 2016 Features Essays Noetics (Mind/Spirit), culture, stranger things

The show remains open, ambiguous to the end, and it is this quality that raises it above the normal run of generic entertainment to make of it something that defies genre, something genuinely weird.

Stranger Things Mixtape

By
Metapsychosis
| 27 Sep 2016 Features Audio, Essays Noetics (Mind/Spirit), culture

This mix is all about the acclaimed Netflix series Stranger Things, and features J.F. Martel’s essay REALITY IS ANALOG, Phip plus the inaugural episode of Jeremy Johnson’s Electric Symposium podcast. Enjoy!

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 Features Cinema Society (Multitudes), culture

“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.”

Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult: Cutting Up a New Conversation

By
  • Claire-Madeline Culkin
| 19 Sep 2016 Features Essays Noetics (Mind/Spirit), culture

This notion about our origins is the essential idea with which psychoanalysis grapples. Thought of in this way, psychoanalysis is nothing other than the meta-theorization of occult ideas.

The American Metaphysical Majority

By
  • Ronnie Pontiac
| 16 Sep 2016 Features Essays New Age, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Society (Multitudes), culture, history

What’s another word for melting pot? Cauldron.

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