Marco V Morelli

From the imaginal to the material, from dreamtime to daylight—Metapsychosis explores those threshold worlds where creativity emerges

A mind-bending exploration of Jacob’s Ladder, existential terror, and the liminal spaces between life and death that shape both creativity and consciousness.

Explore the uncanny phenomenon of The Backrooms, where liminal spaces trigger our deepest anxieties about technology, transformation, and the increasingly unfamiliar world.

Born of the biggest, brightest stars,A mighty dragon sails our world.She is several miles long, invisible.Her ears—cavernous mountains—Hear everything. All our whispers,Our weepings, and our wants. In her youth she is assaulted by strident repetitions: …

A poetic exploration of brotherhood by the river, where wounds are unveiled, time dissolves, and ancient masculine archetypes emerge through psychedelic ritual and insight.

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.

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.

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

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

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?

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.

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…

Explore the mysterious world of rock electricity, where artists unlock hidden sonic frequencies and cosmic energies through experimental sound technology.

In this deep dive into prehistoric art, discover how ancient cupules reveal humanity’s first expressions of self-awareness and sacred connection to stone.

An old connection leads to a stunning collaboration, in this essay series exploring the mystical intersection of art, energy, and consciousness through radionics, ancient technologies, and the transformative power of creative intention.

Calling writers and multimedia artists working in liminal spaces on multiple levels, Metapsychosis is seeking work that explores these transitional zones. Submit by January 19, 2025.

A profound poetic journey exploring humanity’s connection to nature, consciousness, and spirituality through the mystical lens of an ancient, sentient tree’s perspective.

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