The subtitle to Jamie Wheal’s Recapture the Rapture is “Rethinking God, Sex and Death in a World That's Lost Its Mind.” To be sure, this...

A summary of the main formulations of "metamodernism"

Personal Reflections on Re-Integrating Myth and Ritual—But Without the Bullshit Clearly, this is not fine. And by ‘this’ I mean the...

What, if anything, emerged in Austin? There we all were—an eclectic assembly of thinkers, thought leaders, digital luminaries,...

A Metamodern Metanarrative Building upon an earlier post, THE WIND: Towards a Metamodern Metanarrative, I'd like to try to fill in a bit...

Towards a Common Nomenclature “Μηδείςἀγεωμέτρητος εἰσίτω μουτὴν στέγην” THE PROBLEM Cultural evolutionaries[1] have a units problem. When...

LESSONS IN SACRED OBSTETRICS By Anti-Kierkegaard A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they...

Your Postmodernism Is Showing “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by [a hermeneutics of suspicion]” “Haters gonna hate” Has...

A Quick Intro to What Is Emerging After Postmodernism QUICK VERSION In the sequence of cultural paradigms (traditional, modern,...

A Metamodern Anthem for the God that's Emerging “Time… was sure, I’m sure, to raise our faction up: the consequence of history which, in...

Towards a Metamodern Metanarrative Winding Up Everything in existence is some form of energy, and energy is neither created nor...

Morpheus: Do you believe in fate, Neo? Neo: No Morpheus: Why not? Neo: Because I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life....

The new book by Davids Graeber and Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, has landed with a big splash, sending “the...

Reflections on the Artful Scaling of the Religion that's Not a Religion A lot of fruitful questions came up for me from my first...

Regarding the idea of Spirit’s “development,” some may be uncomfortable from the get-go, since many influential traditions posit that...

We live in a world reeling from multiples crises: ecological, political, economic, social. We call this the “meta-crisis.” But there’s...

LOSING OUR (TRADITIONAL) RELIGION The religious world I inhabited as a child and adolescent was, for good and ill, richly enchanted. You...

INSIGHTS OF MODERNITY The realizations and insights of modernity are real and powerful. Reason and evidence are formidable tools for...

After so much deconstruction of traditional religion, we are finally in a place to start putting things back together. “After...