The photo is from last summer's Burning Man festival, taken by Zipporah on Sunday morning while I sat in the Temple of Grace contemplating my life's loves and losses. Later that night, the Temple collapsed in upon itself like a curtsying ballerina after burning for fifteen short minutes. ....... I read the following prayer at the opening of a small medicine ceremony I …
Soul-Making with Iain McGilchrist
Iain McGilchrist is the author of several books, most recently The Master and His Emissary. What if we are not born with fully formed eternal souls, but must each grow our own in time? What if psyche, like physis, is a relational process, and not an independent substance? McGilchrist quotes James Hillman: "The soul is …
Soul-Making vs the Blind Brain Theory
Steven Craig Hickman recently posted a fascinating commentary on the fantasy writer R. Scott Bakker's "Blind Brain Theory." I've offered several of my own commentaries in the past (see HERE). My general sense of unease seems to be shared by Hickman, who ponders towards the end of his post whether Bakker's BBT might be more …
“Spark” – A Documentary about Burning Man
Spark, a new documentary on Burning Man, premires in Austin, Texas on March 10. Some psychonautical friends and I from CIIS will be traveling to Black Rock City this August to (re)create our archetypal-astrological theme camp called Cosmicopia (maybe you visited us in 2011?). Related articles Spark: A Burning Man Story, Documentary Feature Film …
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The Gossip Gospel – An Informal Talk on the Role of Gossip in Community
I gave this talk on New Year's Eve to a group of my friends.
Experiments in Political Theology and Dialogical Blogging
The first clause in the title of this post is the subtitle of Simon Critchley's newest book, The Faith of the Faithless (2012). Critchley is a deep ethical thinker who had until a week ago managed to fly under my radar. This isn't all that surprising, since the admittedly still diffuse research methodology of my …
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Responses to Archive Fire and Immanent Transcendence: Egos, Ideas, and Eternal Events
Jason/Immanent Transcendence and Michael/Archive Fire have been continuing the discussion that began almost two weeks ago HERE and HERE. In his latest response to me, Michael writes: Matt wants to think the Absolute (unity), with an eye towards cultivating the existential implications which flow from an acquaintance therein, while I want to think the Possible (multiplicity), with a wonky fish …
