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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

“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.

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.

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.

Poems that explore the spiritual experience of diverse animal species. They are excerpted from the Third Testament, a text that proposes a unification of all religions, attributed to Ionian Nazari and first published at the end of the Second Exodus of the Humanitat (see The Ido Chronicles , undergoing publication via Untimely Books). These poems grapple with the nature of the divine through the sense organs and perspectives of different animal species.

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

Three formal poems that address a non-traditional (though at the same time archaic) subject of human exploration of non-human (especially animal) patterns of consciousness.

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.

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

In a mysterious library of life’s recordings, a narrator seeks access to his own existential video, navigating the blurred lines between perception, memory, and the afterlife’s strange bureaucracy.

Can a book dream? Desire friendship? 5 years since the start of the pandemic, what have we learned about us and them, now and then, words and things? L.E. Maroski’s book has some untimely questions for us.

Life abounds in unmeasured joy. We are flying things, crawling things, growing things, all breathing together in an unbroken circle. All know this, and it is embedded into our every cell.

How are we controlled through our concept of the animal?

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.