Journal Archive

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.

Pandora’s Apocalyptarium: A Guided Tour And so it begins, the apocalyptic unraveling, Orwellian sleights of hand, the Pandora-like normalization of the surreal.  Hollywood burning as predicted in the day of the locust. Police in Howard, Colorado, …

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

Beloved Thou, As I contemplate these words, the temptation to use AI to write this newsletter beckons like a drug, which I will resist. In a few hours, I am scheduled to board an international flight. I stayed up until 2 a.m., packing my bags. I slept …

Dear Metapsychonauts, The veil between the audible and the imaginal grows thin. On June 4th, 2025 at 1pm MDT, Acousmatic Crossings will bridge the realms with our first live listening session via Zoom. This event will feature works by ar …

From Ali Balighi’s microtonal metapsychosis to Unearth Noise’s visionary Earth engines, these sonic works traverse thresholds—fractal, fluid, and imaginal. Music here is not heard but inhabited: a choreography of becoming, where meaning stirs in silence and sound reveals hidden worlds.

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.

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 …

Jenny Gillespie Mason’s poems traverse the thin veil between mundane medical procedures and divine revelation, finding God’s blue presence in unexpected places.

When audiophile George takes a joyride after quitting his job, his neural indulgence on the Skyway proves disconnecting from reality has fatal consequences.

Cyberspace Paradox is an immersive sonic exploration of our evolving relationship with technology, blurring the lines between organic and synthetic sound

Dear Readers, All the pieces this week are great examples of works that do what Metapsychosis does best: invite us to experience both the world and artistic creation in ways we haven’t thought of before. Our first publication this week is a thought-pro …

Imaginal Horizons in Sound: Valentin Sismann & Enrico Dorigatti Weave Acousmatic Alchemy & Symbolic Sonic Journeys.

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.

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

I started thinking about how I spend so much of my days treating my art like a product and my personality as a brand. The thought that my small ideas would someday become commitments never occured to me when I was younger.

Dear Metapsychonauts, Is it possible that our very language—the scaffolding of thought itself—may be due for a revolution? That the limits of our words might be restraining the evolution of our consciousness? This week, our publishing imprint Untimely …

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

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 …

On June 4th, we gather—not just to listen, but to cross over. Acousmatic Crossings presents a live diffusion with Paul Dolden & Leonie Roessler. Sounds unmoor. Shapes emerge. Imagination takes flight. Zoom. 2pm CST. Free & open to all.

Step into a sonic realm where resonance shapes reality, sculpting gleaming architectures from shadow. Sound becomes creation—walk the path.

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

This week on Metapsychosis, we invite you to slow down and listen. In “Dancing Bear Men’s Retreat,” Morgan Dix blends sound and story to explore ritual, healing, and myth. Meanwhile, Jennifer Lothrigel’s “Ode to Mugwort” captures the fleeting beauty of transformation in a few luminous lines. Join us for these sensory journeys—and consider stepping deeper into the conversation through our live Acousmatic Music event and Writers’ Circle.

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: …

The first time I slept with you / in a Colorado Commune / you showed me how I had been sneaking around / neighborhoods in broad daylight / stealing light bulbs from people’s houses.

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

This week at Metapsychosis, we invite you to linger at the thresholds—those potent spaces between memory and imagination, sound and silence. Dean Wilcox explores the liminality of reality in Threshold Mapping, while our Acousmatic Crossings series returns with haunting works by Martin Rodriguez and Leonie Roessler. And mark your calendar: on May 22, composer Paul Dolden joins us live for a deep dive into sonic transformation. Step into the unknown with us.

Echoes of Sound and Silence: Exploring Symbol, Childhood, and the Power of Active Listening Through Acousmatic Composition

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.

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.