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Brendan Graham Dempsey
Sep 6, 20234 min read
"Please, Be Kind": A Metamodern Plea for Mental Health
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...
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Brendan Graham Dempsey
Feb 15, 20238 min read
Metamodernisms: A Cheat Sheet
A summary of the main formulations of "metamodernism"
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Brendan Graham Dempsey
Oct 19, 202213 min read
The Dark Side of Mythic Traditionalism
Personal Reflections on Re-Integrating Myth and Ritual—But Without the Bullshit Clearly, this is not fine. And by ‘this’ I mean the...
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Brendan Graham Dempsey
Jul 5, 202213 min read
Reflections on Emerge 2022
What, if anything, emerged in Austin? There we all were—an eclectic assembly of thinkers, thought leaders, digital luminaries,...
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Brendan Graham Dempsey
Jun 9, 20224 min read
THE UNIVERSE AWAKENING
A Metamodern Metanarrative Building upon an earlier post, THE WIND: Towards a Metamodern Metanarrative, I'd like to try to fill in a bit...
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Brendan Graham Dempsey
Apr 6, 20229 min read
The Dimensional Model
Towards a Common Nomenclature “Μηδείςἀγεωμέτρητος εἰσίτω μουτὴν στέγην” THE PROBLEM Cultural evolutionaries[1] have a units problem. When...
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Brendan Graham Dempsey
Feb 4, 202226 min read
THE MIDWIFE
LESSONS IN SACRED OBSTETRICS By Anti-Kierkegaard A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they...
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Brendan Graham Dempsey
Feb 3, 20225 min read
A Call (Out) to the Cynics
Your Postmodernism Is Showing “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by [a hermeneutics of suspicion]” “Haters gonna hate” Has...
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Brendan Graham Dempsey
Jan 21, 20222 min read
WHAT IS METAMODERNISM?
A Quick Intro to What Is Emerging After Postmodernism QUICK VERSION In the sequence of cultural paradigms (traditional, modern,...
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Brendan Graham Dempsey
Jan 11, 20223 min read
A MYTH FOR THE LIMINAL WEB
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...
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Brendan Graham Dempsey
Dec 23, 20219 min read
THE WIND
Towards a Metamodern Metanarrative Winding Up Everything in existence is some form of energy, and energy is neither created nor...
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Brendan Graham Dempsey
Dec 5, 202115 min read
Further Reflections on 'The Dawn of Everything'
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....
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Brendan Graham Dempsey
Dec 3, 202115 min read
Reflections on 'The Dawn of Everything'
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...
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Brendan Graham Dempsey
Nov 13, 20216 min read
Towards a New Wisdom Literature
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...
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Brendan Graham Dempsey
Jul 18, 20215 min read
Notes on the Development of Spirit
Regarding the idea of Spirit’s “development,” some may be uncomfortable from the get-go, since many influential traditions posit that...
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Brendan Graham Dempsey
May 22, 20217 min read
Metamodern Spirituality and the Meaning Crisis
We live in a world reeling from multiples crises: ecological, political, economic, social. We call this the “meta-crisis.” But there’s...
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Brendan Graham Dempsey
May 22, 20218 min read
Deconstructing Religion
LOSING OUR (TRADITIONAL) RELIGION The religious world I inhabited as a child and adolescent was, for good and ill, richly enchanted. You...
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Brendan Graham Dempsey
May 22, 20218 min read
Integrating Modernity and Postmodernity
INSIGHTS OF MODERNITY The realizations and insights of modernity are real and powerful. Reason and evidence are formidable tools for...
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Brendan Graham Dempsey
May 22, 20217 min read
Reconstructing Religion
After so much deconstruction of traditional religion, we are finally in a place to start putting things back together. “After...
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