Category: Essays

“I have transformed myself in the Zero.” Brian George assembles quote-poems from visionary artists—de Chirico, Malevich—creating friction between their actual words. Not tribute. Possession. The daimon speaking through creative struggle itself.

Born in the Soviet Union to dissident parents, Alexandra’s life and art are shaped by exile, memory, and reinvention. Her narrative paintings blend autobiography, symbolism, and art history into emotionally charged scenes of belonging, displacement, and quiet transformation.

Through nigredo, albedo, and rubedo, Devon Hansen traces Scottie’s failed alchemical opus—where the death of ideal self-images becomes the necessary mortification individuation demands. The second chapter of the Vertigo series explores transformation without resolution, and why wholeness requires mourning the fantasies of perfection we can never surrender.

The tyrants of our time call upon us to ask “Who is like unto the Beast?” From Silicon Valley’s AI worship to ancient Rome’s imperial machine, Jonathan Cobb traces how the Antichrist is not a future threat but a present reality—the mechanization of society that promises kingdoms while demanding our souls.

In a world obsessed with comfort, Ordeal-ology explores why we crave ordeal and apocalypse. From The Walking Dead to ancient shamanic rites, the essay asks how deliberate difficulty might restore our resilience, creativity, and meaning. Through psychology, philosophy, and myth, it calls for a new “ordealology”—a practical wisdom of constructive distress.

My essay is an examination of Vertigo and a personal account of the unexpected and synchronistic involvement it has had in my life, particularly with regards to my queerness as a trans person and the influence of Jungian ideas on my transition.

This piece explores the metaphysical, epistemological, and biological implications of sound as a formative and ontological force. It draws on modern Cymatics, Islamic metaphysics, critical theory, and contemporary epigenetics.

Free will or fate? This paradox shows how knowing the future reshapes choice, challenging the very idea of absolute prediction.

This is about both the worst and most meaningful day of my life, the day I began to awaken from the intrinsic hypnotic effect that ‘life’ has upon us as endless, and yes immortal beings in a very mortal world—and universe.

We’ve long tried to measure intelligence using a single number, from IQ scores to AI benchmarks. This article explains why that approach fails, and why a multidimensional view is essential for understanding both humans and machines.

What if Jung’s collective unconscious has a biological basis and Darwin missed evolution’s communication network? The DNA Resonance Hypothesis proposes that DNA functions as more than genetic storage—acting as a quantum antenna that enables non-local information exchange between organisms. This interdisciplinary exploration bridges psychology, evolutionary biology, and quantum physics to suggest that communication, not just competition, drives evolution and collective behavior.

AI power is warping elite behavior: The article critiques how certain influential figures in the AI world—rationalists, longtermists, techno-optimists—are using esoteric, hyper-rational ideologies to justify risky, manipulative, or self-serving behavior.

Sirius returns with a vengeance, with a chorus of fellow outlaws bent on turning the ghost of the 1990s into an electro-psychedelic séance for today’s burned-out attention span.

A visionary encounter with death and the spirit realm, weaving Hawaiian ancestral wisdom with personal revelation about life, water, and eternity.

Beyond a mechanical pump: explore the heart’s electromagnetic field, spiral flow dynamics, and sacred role in ancient traditions. Science meets spirituality.

These sculptures call out the absence of stories about women’s autonomy, bodily integrity, and independence from male control while remaining connected in Divine Female-Divine Male-relationship.

A close encounter with a black widow spider triggers a spiritual opening and a points to a possible solution to the existential problem of suffering.

A poetic trace of psychosis as portal—exploring the spiral architecture of reality where madness becomes a window to systems of truth beyond perception.

Power operates by simplification. Our very ability to perceive and interact with the world involves a capacity to tune out portions of it and pick out certain parts of it as relevant. In this way we are tuned into a particular frequency of reality.

A poem, like a language, is an approximation, only a new one, and by virtue of being new and idiosyncratic, suggests and sometimes enables whole new structures of relation, new ways of engaging, dealing with, and navigating life.

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.

As I was reading William Egginton’s The Rigor of Angels, I began to think about thresholds. Or rather, I began to think about that liminal space in-between spaces, that no-space that allows both spaces to exist.

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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