“The God of Arepo”
Click here for Remeina Ashel Yee’s webcomic of the modern folktale The God of Arepo, in which a farmer’s humble shrine becomes home to a humble god.
Zeitgeist
What festivals of atonement, what sacred games …
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to … Read moreWhat festivals of atonement, what sacred games …
Mushroom Church
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
The Sky Meadow Folkways
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
“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”
“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.
“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!”
“The Runaway Child”
I first came across this poetic essay by the controversial anarchist philosopher Peter Lamborn Wilson – more widely known as Hakim Bey, author of the TAZ theory among many other provocative ideas – sometime in the early ’90s. I lost track of it over the years and only recently rediscovered the text, which (faint bell) … Read more“The Runaway Child”
“13 Artworks by Deborah Kelly”
The Cordite Poetry Review offers 13 collage artworks by Australian artist Deborah Kelly, in connection with her queer insurrectionary science fiction climate change religion known as CREATION: “The religion proceeds from a text I commissioned from artist SJ Norman called the Liturgy of the Saprophyte, and some of these artworks were made as part of calling-into-being … Read more“13 Artworks by Deborah Kelly”