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.
Tag: philosophy
Where Reasoning Ends, Awareness Begins
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 …
Art Goes On
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.
Harmonics and Unfolding
The ancients spoke of a “music of the spheres,” by which all of reality vibrated in a vast harmonious frequency. Rhythm and unfolding are fundamental to metaphysical and social reality.
Quarantine Notes
A collection of aphorisms by a contemporary adept of the form, these bite-size poems reflect on the nature of art, wisdom, love, technology, and spirituality through a modern and yet timeless lens.
Alan Moore spills the beans on the Book Shambles podcast
Arguably the most respected comic book writer, Alan Moore, gives you more information that you can chew in one sitting.
Banishing the World: Conner Habib on Postmodern Philosophy and the Occult
I spoke with Conner Habib about his new course, “Banishing the World: Postmodern Philosophy and the Occult,” and learned about the surprising ways in which the most interesting and sophisticated philosophies coming out of humanities converge precisely with occult ideas.
The Stranger Things Episode: Talking Analog Weirdness
In this singular episode of The Electric Symposium Jeremy Johnson is joined by author and Metapsychosis contributor J.F. Martel, as well as Metapsy editors Natalie Bantz and Marco V Morelli. Together we talk about J.F.’s latest essay, “Reality is Analog,” our curious fascination with the “lifeworld” of 80s analog, and the Metapsy team’s various theories behind the pop cultural Netflix sensation, “Stranger Things.” Pop in the tape and press play.
Reality is Analog: Philosophizing with Stranger Things
J.F. Martel takes a deeper look at the hit Netflix series Stranger Things (season 1).
A Mind Altogether Stranger
What if consciousness actually is something akin to the way it is experienced?