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The amphibian drone of another future spring echoes back at me, the certainty of sun and thaw, a certainty of his wing’s blue flash, and a quick glimpse of his eye, alive and black and wild with potential.

“This week, Doraine Poretz’s poems evoke a haunting intimacy with nature, while a spirited interview with Brazilian writer Kelvin Matheus Rosa explores the need for ‘fervor’ over irony in art, politics, and life.”

“Art can show a lot about a person that they weren’t even thinking about. I don’t think it’s more politically motivated than any other act in the world when you analyze it.”

I have loved you since the beginning, / waiting all your life to love you more / and saying such, Death offers himself up— / his tarnished odor, silver gaze, immense.

“This week, Metapsychosis explores entire universes in small things—from Deniz Ozan-George’s moonlit creatures in paint to Shai Newman’s richly imagined mythologies. Dive deep into art, story, and the worlds they reveal.”

We are culturally adrift absent a unifying and guiding mythos. Archetypal story and art, meanwhile, given their inherent cross-cultural, cross-temporal, and self-authenticating nature, can generate unifying and guiding mythoi.

We say that the moon waxes and wanes on a monthly cycle and that the ocean tides ebb and flow two times each day, but nothing on the earth, whether geological or biological, is exempt from the forces of expansion and contraction, the waxing and waning of gravitational forces, and the constant ebbing and flowing of erosive water. This exhibition was inspired by the cycles that rule change in the natural world, and our perceptions of time and impermanence.

“This week’s issue journeys from the visceral world of vultures in Mary Thaler’s haunting new story to the Taoist-inspired poetry of Tom Valovic, and ends with a plunge into metaphysical mystery in John Davis’s unforgettable tale from the archives.”

The Collaboration Journal team is delighted to share our 12th special feature, published in the Summer 2024 edition of the Journal, which is a narrative by Lynda Lester called “Interstates of Consciousness, Integral Yoga, and the Grateful Dead.”

But I am a minimalist. I would like to compare the Mind of God / to a friend who frequents outdoor cafes and loves to watch / humanity’s comings and goings and the sweet minutia of lives.

A drama of sex, death and vengeance unfolds between three Bearded Vultures (Gypaetus barbatus) and the parliament of ravens occupying the same isolated mountain valley.

“A secret symphony resounds in the forest…” Kaleiheana Stormcrow opens our Creature Consciousness series with an elegiac essay on Hawaii’s winged beings, followed by Maía’s haunting poem “Last Guitar,” and a new memoir release from Andrea van de Loo.

The forest is maintained through a web of resonant relationships, to which Hawaiian ancestors imbued consciousness.

“In The Pressing Stones: The Healing Journey of a Nazi’s Daughter, Andrea van de Loo charts eight decades of trauma, spirituality, psychedelics, and resilience—offering a powerful, intimate memoir of healing, global searching, and inner transformation.”

A memoir by Andrea van de Loo, exploring family, relationships, sexuality, motherhood, psychedelics, addiction recovery, and the generational impacts of war.

My first, Amarilla—cost me a hundred bucks, / I went hungry at that price, but she and I would pass / whole weeks without speaking to a soul… /

“This week at Metapsychosis: a deep dive into the magic of sound with acousmatic music, an inspiring interview on indie publishing with Joshua Bohnsack, and a preview of the imaginative works from our Creature Consciousness series.”

It’s easy to start a press, but it’s much harder to keep one going. For Joshua Bohnsack, running Long Day Press has been wonderful, stressful, frustrating and heartbreaking, and rewarding, all at once.

An expansive essay probing Henry Corbin’s concepts of the “imaginal” and “imaginary” in relation to Acousmatic music, using Denis Dufour’s works as examples of imaginative consciousness in sound exploration.

“We’re back with new work! Read Stephanie Wellen-Levine’s moving essay on pandemic isolation, explore Robin MacDonald-Foley’s outdoor art, and revisit a metaphysical poem by William Irwin Thompson. Comments are open—come join the conversation!”

Unearthing stories are part of the mysteries and folklore that feed my spirit to recreate what is and what remains—a journey of unknowns that motivate me to further explore my art forms.

A woman struggles with her ongoing isolation, nearly 5 years since the Covid pandemic started, when it seems much of the rest of the world has moved on.

“As we wrap a vibrant five-month publishing cycle, we invite you to explore our final two pieces of the season—and reflect on the journey with us before we pause in August. Submissions for “Creature Consciousness” are open until Aug 31!”

The question of whether individuals controlled their own destiny was a big deal during the Viking Age. If men were at the mercy of forces beyond their control, how did women fare?

With more corporate control in more areas of life than ever before, and governments in thrall, is it time to bring back the critique of “the system”?

“From Viking heroines to cosmic poetry, Metapsychosis journeys across myth and future. Submissions for “Creature Consciousness” are open until Aug 31. Join our Cosmos Co-op meet-ups in early August to connect and co-create!”

I sketched out the constellations in my notebooks and knew the name of every star / and when mom was home / and wasn’t busy / we’d lay on the driveway and look at the sky at night until the / light pollution wrapped it up and hid it away.

In the dim corridors of the National Library of Argentina, my search for documents on Cold War espionage led me to an obscure and forgotten manuscript of Borges.

Stage the end of the world in your mind, any old apocalypse will do, and this is probably what you see. You have just created “the Bunker,” laid its first brick.

“Friendship, freedom, and fearless creativity guide this week’s Metapsychosis. New essays, calls for submissions, a live music show, and a psychedelic retreat invite your presence, participation, and support. Let’s weave the thread—together.”