Cultpunk
“Xenotheology and Personal Myth with [M] Dudeck and Javi Acevedo”
Coincident with the recent Metamodern Meaning Lab at Sky Meadow, Brendan Graham Dempsey interviewed [M] Dudeck and Javi Acevedo on their upcoming book Xenotheology: The Transmedial Scriptures and on the practice of creating one’s own religion as a work of art.
“Why raves are such a reliable source of spiritual experience”
Alexander Dillabaugh writes on the spiritual neuroscience of the rave scene: For these adherents, underground dance culture functions as a kind of spiritual technology. That is, a set of environmental and social conditions that reliably produce the kinds of experiences that humans have long called sacred. Viewed through this lens, rave culture appears less like a … Read more“Why raves are such a reliable source of spiritual experience”
“How to Imagine the Future”
The inimitable M. Dudeck on This Podcast is a Ritual, discussing Xenotheology and the intimate relationships between imagination and spirituality.
“Playful Rites: Revisiting The Egypt Game”
Nyx Shadowhawk writes on the deeply playful “religion” of Zilpha Keatley Snyder’s award-winning children’s novel, The Egypt Game: Part of what’s appealing about The Egypt Game is that its characters have a fantastical secret double life, but the story doesn’t involve any actual magic. The gods don’t start actually talking to them, there’s no Egyptian … Read more“Playful Rites: Revisiting The Egypt Game”
“The Cult of Natureboy”
“First three months were great. Waking up in Paradise.”
“It’s Going to Get Weirder: The Terence McKenna Story”
Trailer for this upcoming documentary on one of the High Priests of psychedelic counterculture. The producers are aiming for a late 2028 release and are crowdfunding to cover their completion costs.
The Church of Ambrosia
According to The Church of Ambrosia: We are not a church built around a set of rules you must accept or a God you must name. We are a church built around direct experience. The Church of Ambrosia exists for people who believe that the most direct path to spiritual understanding runs through the body, … Read moreThe Church of Ambrosia
“Embrace the edge!”
Charles Foster writes for Aeon on the subject of edginess: The cosmos is an edgy place. We are on the far edge of a rapidly expanding Universe, hurtling into nothing. Earth is now further away than it was when you began to read this sentence, from the place where, at the time of the Big … Read more“Embrace the edge!”