Tag: art

Dear Metapsychonauts, Since our last communiqué, something has quickened, it seems to me. The sleeper is stirring, the dream is destabilizing, the fog of time is fizzling, deliquescing, scintillating with the echoes of a forgotten eternity. Heaven and …

From reductive IQ scores to alien bird-brains, this week we explore intelligence in all its multifaceted glory—human, machine, sonic, and otherworldly.

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.

Celebrating nearly a decade of publishing, Metapsychosis returns with illuminating essays on art’s symbolic power and raw poems exploring spiritual practice through struggle and revelation.

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.

How are we controlled through our concept of the animal?

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

History is a kind of dream. The dead are always with us. The more our culture melts away, the more we cling to a sense of solidity. Art tells us we are at sea.

I wish I had been a child then // long, slender / circular years / peeled years / sloshing around / in the fluids of my thinking

We’re inviting submissions of short works—fiction or non-fiction, poetry, prose, or other experimental forms—that explore all the many contradictory faces of paradox.

Metapsychosis is currently accepting essays, poetry, fiction, visual art, film, and music that explores the broad philosophical, existential, and spiritual questions relating to the rapid evolution of current AI technology…

Art for art’s sake is a dead end; art for heart’s sake is the way out.

See Marjorie Kaye’s new series of paintings, “Millionth Wave Futurism,” at the Galataea Fine Art gallery, in Boston MA from May 5-28th, 2023.

Will I ever enjoy listening to Kind of Blue again knowing that Miles Davis abused and beat his wife when he was outside the recording studio?

With his first book recently published, essayist, poet, and artist Brian George reflects on the bizarre and often humorous ways that great works of the past were received by their contemporary critics, and how changes in the cultural landscape over the last few centuries—but especially since his coming of age in the Boston poetry and punk scenes of the late 1970s—have profoundly altered the ways we read, receive, and understand new works.

A never-before-heard interview with David Lynch by Mitch Horowitz, mostly about meditation and creativity.

Music and lyrics by Paul Maylone. Listen free….