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Renaissance, pt. 1

Eleven pieces of quality creative writing on the theme of societal Renaissance, accompanied by original AI artwork.

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Shadow Psychedelia: Interview with Antero Alli

Conversation on consciousness and film Noir with Antero Alli, OG consciousness explorer, and pioneer of the 8-circuit model of consciousness.

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Into the Crystal

A man smokes some toad and launches through music and memory.

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What Happened to Art?

Seeking the cutting-edge of creative expression today.

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Graveyard Shift

A graveyard path twists into an exploration of childhood alienation.

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Whose Renaissance?

New York City Renaissance, as art and archetype.

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No Piano for Left Hand

A grocery store jaunt turns musical mystery.

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Irons in the Fire

A Renaissance woman at a Renaissance fair turns her eye to the past.

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And it occurred to her

Sin, the church, and a surprise spiritual awakening.

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Tracer: Welcome to Psychedelia Noir

A review of Antero Alli's new psychedelic thriller.

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Doodling

Does digital media mean the death of doodling, or is marginalia art seeing a Renaissance?

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Eighth Moon

A dark forest, an unexpected connection.

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October issue: The Underworld

Days of the dead tend to cluster around this time of year, whether they be Aztec, Greek, Celtic or Christian. Maybe the harvest season, full of life as it is, prompts a shadowy reflection of its opposite. Maybe the death of summer inspired ancient people to reflect on their  mortality.

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Death in Time

The timing of things. You are here at the perfect, right time. All in due time. Your time will come. It’s not your time. We’re living in the wrong time. In the nick of time. Your timing is off.  We weren’t here on time. We escaped death,

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Through the Door

Eight of us sat in circle as the Crone laid out the story. We were there to contact the dead. We were in a new age shop run by the gray-haired witch-crone now leading us. Mellow instrumental music drifted among the smell of sage, incense, and stale cigarette smoke. Eau

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The Grasshopper

She didn't know her inside world was connected to her underworld. Until a hot wet stinky breath wakened her nose, a grunt landed in her weary ears, the railing rattled, and the underworld of her pleated skin was parted, exposing a tunnel. She didn't know her

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Chain Link Fishing Net

In the grocery store a mother pushes a stroller stuffed with her screaming infant. All at once I feel an aching yearning in my chest to be the baby in the stroller. To cry and shit and scream and snot, to have my mother close by, to be held. Now

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Jaundice of the Soul

There was a time my head moved—it shifted like the cracking of a concrete foundation. Neurotransmitters fried into dead chemical compounds, wireless detritus bouncing to and fro. Cranium bleeds common, not an aneurysm more like the bloody soul destroyed by too many ignored pleas for help. In the end

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Spell for the Immaculate Dead

When I was 14 years old, I almost died in a house fire on Mischief Night, the rough and tumble night that precedes Halloween. I had moved into the squat house the day before. A wild imagination awakened in me as my brother introduced me to the house full of

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Circuit 6

I think I could be a Christian. For the first time, I see a way. There is a path that I could walk to shed my spiritual baggage, to approach God with the eyes of a child, to allow all the stories to become meaningful again. I think I could

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Halloween: Past, Present, Future

When I was a child, Halloween was a happy time. The day itself was a bounty of excitements, ending with me and my brother watching cartoons and gorging on the best candies (the chewy ones, the crunchy ones coated in chocolate). As we got older, we realized that if we

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Young Zeus

There was a time you let me know
 What’s really going on below
 But now you never show it to me, do you?
 —Leonard Cohen, “Hallelujah” When my children were little I read them a book called Young Zeus, an illustrated recapitulation of the early life of the mythical

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Love in Mictlán

Preface: The ancient Mexica or Aztec people had different stories for the way a soul travels into the underworld [Mictlán] to be laid to eternal rest. There are myths of 9 levels through which the soul must traverse to meet the King and Queen of Mictlán, Mictlantecuhtli and Mictecacihuatl, the

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The Psychic, the Trickster, and the Afterlife

Investigation of psychic phenomena, including those areas related to the continuity of consciousness after death, continues to be shunned by the mainstream. It is not a subject taken seriously at most universities. The New York Times and The New Yorker don’t investigate it. Yet many kinds of psychic, paranormal

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Welcome to Meta-Hell: Underworlds for Bad Guys

What would an effective virtual "hell" be like? Let's explore this question.