Marco V Morelli

Novelist Rick Harsch talks fascism, Gaza, and publishing from Slovenia—a candid dive into art, activism, and resisting global injustice.

George Floyd’s final words are transformed into a haunting four-track composition, using rhythmic patterns and raw piano to channel collective rage and grief.

Sometimes a class exercise changes lives and here I credit Hemingway’s creation of the Six Word Story. His World’s Saddest Story (For sale: baby shoes, never worn) reputedly won him a bar bet and has spawned dozens of websites devoted to flash fiction.

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.

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 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… /

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.

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.

Naming is an amateur verbal art form, poised between the free-flowing inclusivity of an improv class and a tragic neurotic obsession with every unuttered sentiment.

Media theorist Roy Christopher discusses what it takes to make indie art and build authentic community in a digital landscape dominated by corporate interests.

If AI is allowed to begin making decisions that affect our everyday lives in the realms of work, play and business, it’s important to be aware of whom this technology serves…

I care about touch. I want evidence of the human. My paintings can be slow to see and slow to make. I look for consonance between what I feel and what I see.

Metapsychosis is now accepting submissions of essays, poetry, literature, visual art, and photography about animal consciousness. 

Modern day psychonaut, Dr. Erik Davis, is the author of Techgnosis, High Weirdness, Nomad Codes, and Blotter: The Untold Story of an Acid Medium.

Thanks to Matt Baker of Entheos.com for this amazing reading of an essay we recently published by J.F. Martel, “Being at Sea.” Not only the voice work, but the sound design is top notch. This brings the essay to life in a whole new way. https://soundcl …

I give unto you the failure of the oracles I cast in the palm of spilling dust / I give you the failure to abrogate our dropping of possibility / in how even dust climbs into the wind…

Both/and, neither/nor, all & none of the above—in a mediascape designed to hack our dopamine reward systems, how do we practice the complexity of keeping cool?

“Out beyond ideas of right and wrong, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” While there’s nothing of Rumi in this essay, this poem may be an apt introduction.

Each salon was a zone of concentration, an improvised omphalos, and each had a life of its own. Each participant contributed their breath and presence to the spontaneous generation of its body.