Brendan Graham DempseyApr 79 minThe Dimensional ModelTowards a Common Nomenclature “Μηδείςἀγεωμέτρητος εἰσίτω μουτὴν στέγην” THE PROBLEM Cultural evolutionaries[1] have a units problem. When...
Brendan Graham DempseyMar 158 minThe 'Omega' Manuscript: Its Discovery and Planned PublicationRecently, a most curious and remarkable manuscript has come into my possession—one which, perhaps, is of more than a little historical...
Brendan Graham DempseyFeb 426 minTHE MIDWIFELESSONS IN SACRED OBSTETRICS By Anti-Kierkegaard A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they...
Brendan Graham DempseyFeb 35 minA Call (Out) to the CynicsYour Postmodernism Is Showing “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by [a hermeneutics of suspicion]” “Haters gonna hate” Has...
Brendan Graham DempseyJan 234 min2. A Child of Heaven(Recalling his youth as a believer in Heaven, where God gave Meaning and Purpose, Joel paints a picture of the way things were just...
Brendan Graham DempseyJan 233 min1. Prologue(The book’s protagonist, Joel, an ex-believer and the speaker of the poem, begins his story in a forest. Having run away from a...
Brendan Graham DempseyJan 212 minWHAT IS METAMODERNISM?A Quick Intro to What Is Emerging After Postmodernism QUICK VERSION In the sequence of cultural paradigms (traditional, modern,...
Brendan Graham DempseyJan 113 minA MYTH FOR THE LIMINAL WEBA 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...
Brendan Graham DempseyDec 31, 202116 minThe New Year and the Origins of ApocalypseHow the 'End of the World' Came from the End of the Year, Why Satan is a Dragon, and Other Curious Transformations In Genesis 1, Creation...
Brendan Graham DempseyDec 23, 20219 minTHE WINDTowards a Metamodern Metanarrative Winding Up Everything in existence is some form of energy, and energy is neither created nor...
Brendan Graham DempseyDec 6, 202115 minFurther 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....
Brendan Graham DempseyDec 3, 202115 minReflections 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...
Brendan Graham DempseyNov 13, 20216 minTowards a New Wisdom LiteratureReflections on the Artful Scaling of the Religion that's Not a Religion A lot of fruitful questions came up for me from my first...
Brendan Graham DempseyNov 10, 20218 minIntegral Theory: The Missing Piece of the PuzzleSome Autobiographical Reflections on Discovering Developmental Stage Theory From Egocentrist to Sociocentrist I grew up in an Evangelical...
Brendan Graham DempseyJul 18, 20215 minNotes on the Development of SpiritRegarding the idea of Spirit’s “development,” some may be uncomfortable from the get-go, since many influential traditions posit that...
Brendan Graham DempseyMay 22, 20217 minMetamodern Spirituality and the Meaning CrisisWe live in a world reeling from multiples crises: ecological, political, economic, social. We call this the “meta-crisis.” But there’s...
Brendan Graham DempseyMay 22, 20218 minDeconstructing ReligionLOSING OUR (TRADITIONAL) RELIGION The religious world I inhabited as a child and adolescent was, for good and ill, richly enchanted. You...
Brendan Graham DempseyMay 22, 20218 minIntegrating Modernity and PostmodernityINSIGHTS OF MODERNITY The realizations and insights of modernity are real and powerful. Reason and evidence are formidable tools for...
Brendan Graham DempseyMay 22, 20217 minReconstructing ReligionAfter so much deconstruction of traditional religion, we are finally in a place to start putting things back together. “After...
Brendan Graham DempseyMay 12, 20215 minMetamodern Mythopoetics: Manifestoby Alesky Varian A. DEFINITION Exemplary of the metamodern sentiment (as first articulated by Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den...