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Mom is unhappy that it is just an old administration building, filled with stale air, empty offices, and cobwebby hallways. It’s nothing like the last abandoned mental hospital we got into.

Thomas Larson explores how aurality in Jonathan Glazer’s film forces us to hear what we cannot bear to see, creating a sonic landscape of the unspeakable.

From walls-shaking soundscapes to quiet conversations on creative self-care, Metapsychosis continues to explore the rich spectrum of expression. This week, experience the sonic power of Paul Dolden, reflect with Dominic Loise on the courage to let go, and discover how you can join our Writers’ Circle or the evolving Cosmos Co-op community.

In this interview, Dominic Loise discusses the 90s Chicago improv comedy scene, the mad genius of Del Close and Chris Farley, mental health awareness, and it’s connection to comedy.

Hybrid prose-poetry that imagines a museum exhibit where patrons can view a more verdant past from a time machine. Experimental and fragmented, the piece highlights the alien feeling of a different world along with fragmentation in our current one.

This week, Metapsychosis opens new portals into the imaginal, from the cosmic geometry of Jane Hudson’s paintings to the radical sonic realms of Acousmatic music. With three major new publications—including An Epiphany of Spheres and A Sonic Deluge of Transformation—we invite you to explore art as revelation, imagination, and resistance. Headphones recommended, dragons guaranteed.

Discover our new series on experimental sound art plus Jane Hudson’s mystical geometric paintings

Paul Dolden’s Beyond the Walls of Jericho: A Sonic Incantation, Shattering Boundaries and Collapsing Walls in a Cataclysm of Sound

These elements in tension—the speculative and the intuitive, the leap of vision and the act of making—came together to focus my painting as a spiritual practice as well as an aesthetic one.

A mystical exploration of music’s ability to access the ‘Earth of Light’ through Acousmatic sound, connecting the soul’s yearning with its divine origin beyond time.

Brian George’s visionary essay unravels masks that reveal and conceal reality, inviting readers to reflect on hidden energies in poetic, mind-expanding prose.

Calling all writers—seasoned or just starting out! The Cosmos Co-op Writing Circle, led by Ulfhildr author Mary Thaler, offers a supportive space to share your work, get feedback, and grow your craft. Six spots left for this year’s group—first meeting April 14.

What if masks aren’t merely objects that conceal, to be used by technocrats at Burning Man or by traumatized killers in slasher flicks… but interfaces between different realms of existence—between the visible and invisible worlds?

This week in Metapsychosis, we feature a compelling interview with Lamella Matsangos, author of The Male Lesbian Manifesto. In “We are all born lesbians!,” Matsangos explores how men might radically defect from patriarchal identity—not through physical transition, but via existential and cultural transformation. A timely and challenging perspective in an era of rising authoritarianism.

Are we living in a phallomorphic, heterosexual “matrix”? Is male lesbianism the movement of the future, a future that is both female and trans? With a Ph.D. in Psychology, this author has chosen, she believes, the right “pill,” and here is her manifesto.

Transmission 2025-02-28: Breaking thought patterns through cyberpunk pioneer R.U. Sirius’s insights, boundary-pushing jazz, and a new Writers’ Circle.

Haunting and intense, ‘Dissociations’ expresses the grief, rage, and dissonance of living with social fragmentation and personal loss. Zinman’s free jazz piano compositions & Crane’s drumming are combined here with mordant poetry that dissects surveillance culture and the commodification of healing.

Counterculture icon R.U. Sirius discusses tech dystopia, Timothy Leary, and the collapse of democracy in this candid interview about our chaotic times.

From philosophical reflections on radical hope to a touching cross-cultural encounter in Iowa, this week’s Metapsychosis explores paths to understanding in troubled times.

“Lebanon meet Israel,” he said. And we looked at each other for a long time… We, the granddaughters of the old world, the Arab and the Jew sitting in the basement of the church in the middle of America.

Amid civilizational crisis, philosopher Jonathan Cobb explores how radical hope and collective action can birth a new world from the ruins of failing systems.

In response to global darkness, Metapsychosis champions creative expression across essays, art, and poetry as imagination lights the path forward.

What dark forces lurked in the depths before creation? This meditation inspired by indie band the Soft Hearted Scientists ponders what the biblical Deity meant to conceal.

Cosmos Co-op was a way of combining my philosophy and lit background, my anti-imperial activism, and my “integral vision” specifically, an attempt to build a world-changing organization.

Celebrating nearly a decade of publishing, Metapsychosis returns with illuminating essays on art’s symbolic power and raw poems exploring spiritual practice through struggle and revelation.

Ganesh, that freakish deity, that lovable Barbar childish protector of puppeteers, thieves and fertility with your contradictions and your goad and your swollen belly of treats… who dost thou love?

This essay explores how, in an age marked by the proliferation of signs, the symbolic nature of art retains its power to reveal otherwise incommunicable truths.

Let this be the year. / Yes, the year / The one that has us relaxing into ourselves / And soaring past ourselves / Comfortable with all that lies within / And beyond…

Metapsychosis is opening a call for submissions of works in the style of the Acousmatic. We are looking for works that will incite the imaginal and kindle the daemonic self that exists in all of us. A cinema for the ears.

Metapsychosis concludes the year with a whimsical collection of poems and an exploration of cosmic consciousness, inviting readers to cross thresholds and delve deeper into the mysteries of art, existence, and the divine essence of creatures.