We are Cultpunks. We affirm that belief systems, rituals, symbols, pilgrimages, tenets, holy days, shrines, festivals, taboos, mythologies and pantheons can and should be created as works of art. If so, then surely any sufficiently advanced magic is likewise indistinguishable from technology, and religions may usefully be considered as psychological technologies. Just like any other tech, … Read moreRead this first: “A Cultpunk Manifesto”
Thai/Australian ceramic artist Vipoo Srivilasa talks about his Shrine of Life exhibition housing five imaginary, secular deities representing the attributes of Love Equality, Spirituality, Security, Identity and Creativity.
A gallery of images from El Paso artist Ho Baron’s 2022-23 exhibition, Gods for Future Religions. According to Baron’s 2012 book on the same theme: The existing religions of the world will one day evolve into others or possibly disappear as people grow disillusioned, bored and tired of their same old myths. Lacking imagination, the … Read more“Gods for Future Religions”
The popular Andrewism solarpunk/anarchist YouTube channel offers an overview of religious history back to Animism, traveling through monotheism and arriving at Atheopaganism as an example of post-theistic, ecological religion.
Colin Campbell, the founder of Aretéanism, explains his secular religion inspired by the ancient Greek philosophical notion of areté (excellence).
A short indie documentary on the ecumenical Pagan Temple of Sekhmet, established adjacent to military testing sites in the Nevada Desert.
Elder Brett Larsen of the Church of Gnome offers positive commentary on Dudeism.
Children in this Texas classroom have a wonderful opportunity to learn something of the First Amendment, Islam, the Satanic Temple, Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism thanks to this nifty display comparing various systems of religious and secular ethics.
Justified and Ancient was written and produced by the British music/performance art/culture-jamming group The KLF, who were inspired by the mock-conspiracy-theory, quasi-occult, “high weirdness” movement more-or-less started by the underground classic novel The Illuminatus Trilogy. Basically, they thought it would be hilarious to have country legend Tammy Wynette star in a pop-music video based on … Read more“Justified and Ancient” – the KLF and Tammy Wynette (1991)
Nina Montagne offers a sophisticated analysis of the benefits of ritual inspired by the writings of Byung-Chul Han.