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
- 13 min
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
- 4 min
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
- 9 min
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
- 26 min
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
- 5 min
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
- 2 min
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
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 9 min
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, 2021
- 15 min
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, 2021
- 15 min
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, 2021
- 6 min
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, 2021
- 5 min
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, 2021
- 7 min
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, 2021
- 8 min
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, 2021
- 8 min
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, 2021
- 7 min
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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