Brendan Graham Dempsey1 day ago13 minReflections on Emerge 2022What, if anything, emerged in Austin? There we all were—an eclectic assembly of thinkers, thought leaders, digital luminaries,...
Brendan Graham DempseyJun 94 minTHE UNIVERSE AWAKENINGA Metamodern Metanarrative Building upon an earlier post, THE WIND: Towards a Metamodern Metanarrative, I'd like to try to fill in a bit...
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 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 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 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 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...