Cultpunk A recording of Mushroom Church, a touring community art project created by Vancouver musician and biologist Tarun Nayar, who performs as Modern Biology. Its name arose when an audience member described one of his church-based concerts, featuring mushrooms connected to synthesisers, as “mushroom church”. Touring North America by 2024 and subsequently Europe, the events combine … Read moreMushroom Church
Pasaquoyanism was the religion of Eddie Owens Martin, the visionary artist better known as St. EOM. Its chief monument is Pasaquan, the seven-acre sacred environment he constructed near Buena Vista, Georgia from the mid-1950s until his death in 1986. There, brightly painted walls, temples, pagodas and monumental figures announce the presence of an imaginary civilization … Read morePasaquoyanism: Building a Religion into Being
A short philosophical video on the developing folkways – meaningful rituals, customs and mythopoetic traditions – at Sky Meadow, a nature retreat in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom mountains. The Sky Meadow folkways can be considered as the vernacular praxis of a hyper-local, naturalistic spirituality, taking the real world seriously enough to create ceremonies of storytelling, memorial … Read moreThe Sky Meadow Folkways
The two-day gathering in early November will feature presentations by doers and thinkers representing Epicureanism, spiritual naturalism, various artistic ritual practices, etc.
Recommended to anyone with an interest in recent Pagan/countercultural history, this suitably artistic documentary delves into the radical life, art and legacy of Rosaleen Norton, known in her heyday as the Witch of Kings Cross. The extraordinarily conservative climate of 1950s Australia was unable to perceive Norton’s lifeworks, which included the ritual veneration of Pan, … Read more“The Witch of Kings Cross” (2021)
Sad to learn of the recent passing of Steve Aydt, a longtime fixture, mover and shaker in the Texan counterculture scene and founder of the Eulessyinian Hot Tub Mystery Religion. I interviewed Steve on that subject in late 2024, and that interview is part of the second volume of the anthology Poetic Faiths: New Religions … Read moreIn Memoriam: Steve Aydt (1963-2026)
Just returned from our much-anticipated, at-least-annual visit to the Sky Meadow Retreat in Vermont’s Northeastern Kingdom mountains. The Sky Meadow property was first developed as a working farm in the 1850s, later became derelict, was rehabilitated and transformed into a spiritual/nature retreat in the 1980s and sustains a more recent ambition to serve as the … Read moreSky Meadow 2026
Excerpts from John Cowper Powys’ essay: To regard religion as mythology does not make it less important. It gives it a new and lovely glamour. It restores to it the enchantment which it possessed at the beginning when its dogmas had not yet lost their natural poetry in the laboratory of theological speculation. No cultivation … Read more“The Religion of a Sceptic” (John Cowper Powys, 1925)