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...

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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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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...

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