Geoffreyjen Edwards

Dear Companion, I am sitting in my “writing spot”, a LazyBoy reclining chair next to the French doors that lead onto my deck, when, as happens every morning, my neighbour Squirrel drops down into the deck space. This busy animal seems to be constantly …

Dear Readers, We try to frame our news in a message for our times and this always poses a challenge. For this week’s newsletter, I wanted to focus on the perception that we are living in a time where decisions we make matter, but I worried that the mes …

As Cosmos Co-op formally launches and Metapsychosis expands its creative scope, we stand at a threshold between the old and the new. This week, explore haunting music, poetic memory, and vital stories that probe the edges of feeling and time—plus an open invitation to join our growing creative community.

In response to global darkness, Metapsychosis champions creative expression across essays, art, and poetry as imagination lights the path forward.

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.

“As the days shorten and new challenges loom, our Creature Consciousness series brings poetry, art, and stories that spark ‘throbbing astonishment,’ while we prepare to launch Cosmos Co-op and celebrate the healing journey told in The Pressing Stones.”

“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!”

“This week in Metapsychosis: cosmic texts from the future, AI critique by Tom Valovic, and a call to explore “creature consciousness” (submit by Aug 31). Join us Thursday at Cosmos Café to reflect on nature and creativity. Community is calling.”

Imagine you have survived the ecological crisis of the next hundred years and you are writing as if you were of that era about the state of things.

“And what do you know about paradox?” Grolier asked his younger sister, Mailka. “The harmony of opposites? But I still don’t know what that m… means.”

Jordan Kurella’s novella is a modern fable that bounces back and forth between a modern day university, a music department, and the nether world of Hades, the Greek version of Hell.

From poetic aphorisms to a bold call for submissions on AI, this issue invites you to create, converse, and collaborate as we navigate the edge between imagination and transformation.

Fiction, films and search engines meet indigenous names and the chatter of jays; where does our attention wander when it strays on the dappled path?

What if you could slow down time? In a distant, not-so-far-off future, humanity has gained the power to alter the localized flow of time at will, enabling new ways of experiencing the universe and operating in extreme environments. Here is an account of the scientific speculation that went into the concept of tempo control in my upcoming novel Plenum: The First Book of Deo.

Infinite Conversations has been pursuing an extended reading program for Sri Aurobindo’s writings for several years now. Here is an update on our progress, with information on how you can participate…

Projecting human capability and knowledge into the far future, provided we learn to manage our own planet, it seems possible that humans might learn how to modify stars in ways suited to their future needs. Why might one modify stars? I can think of a …

Ingredients: 2 eggs (poached), hollandaise sauce (egg yolk, butter, lemons), English muffin, bacon slices, and something extra to enlarge the whole. Eggs, when you really think about them, are bizarro. Little pockets of pre-embryonic fluid. If you were …

As a fledgeling writer and editor, as well as an (almost-retired) scientist, I am feeling my way into the business of editing, critiquing, choosing. I have eclectic tastes. I read just about anything, and voraciously. I review everything I read—you can …