Metamodernism! Integral Theory! The limits of postmodern pluralism and the teleology that our civilization needs to acknowledge and integrate that is pulling us closer toward an ever-retreating horizon. Brendan provides some comfort for those who are miffed that the Modernist promise of future utopia and the Postmodernist promise of a return to anarcho-primitivism both are unlikely to meet all our needs or even ever truly be actualized.He beautifully articulates the Metamodern vision that arises via reflection on those previous movements: one of forever improving the world, helping everyone as much as we can, and pitching in however possible to just make the world a slightly better place. Connect with Brendan Graham Dempsey! Listen to his podcast, Metamodern Spirituality!Read his Substack!Buy his book, Metamodernism: Or, The Cultural Logic of Cultural Logics And check out your host, Geoffe, at the Creekmasons!
Super proud of this essay on the emergent subculture of Liminal Trickster Mystics that has given me a home and conquered my inability to ever feel like I belong anywhere. In a world where self-promo demands 11/10 excitement at all times, it’s hard to convey your feelings when you write something that you truly believe might make an impact on people’s lives. I feel that this is one of those times. Follow on Substack: The Creekmasons Follow on TikTok: @creekmasons If you like what you’re finding around there, join our community! You can learn more about our Anarcho-Indie Publishing Collective and JOIN THE DISCORD all by heading to Creekmasons.com.
Today I spoke with Deborah Eden Tull, brilliant author of the Buddhist manual on embracing the shadow, Luminous Darkness. We spoke about Endarkenment of course! That's her concept, an alternative to enlightenment that is required if we are to reach the wholeness that our interesting moment of history demands. We dive into all-caps LOVE that creates opportunities to balance the Yin and the Yang of Receptivity and Agency, Feminine and Masculine, Earth and Heaven. We explore concrete tips for listening, achieving stillness, and celebrating every aspect of being human, regardless of how stigmatized or repressed some of those experiences can sometimes be in this Patriarchal, White Supremacist, Colonialist, Capitalist hellscape. Here's Eden's bio! Deborah Eden Tull, founder of the nonprofit Mindful Living Revolution, is Zen meditation/mindfulness teacher, author, and spiritual activist. She spent seven years as a monastic at a silent Zen Monastery, and has been immersed in sustainable communities for 25 years. Eden’s teaching style is grounded in compassionate awareness, non-duality, mindful inquiry, and an unwavering commitment to personal transformation. She teaches dharma intertwined with post-patriarchal thought and practices, resting upon a lived knowledge of our unity with the more than human world. She also facilitates The Work That Reconnects, as created by Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy. Eden has been practicing meditation for the past 30 years and teaching for over 20 years. Her books include Luminous Darkness: An Engaged Buddhist Approach to Embracing the Unknown (Shambhala 2022), Relational Mindfulness: A Handbook for Deepening Our Connection with Our Self, Each Other, and Our Planet (Wisdom 2018), and The Natural Kitchen: Your Guide to the Sustainable Food Revolution (Process Media 2011). She lives in Black Mountain,North Carolina, Cherokee land, and offers retreats, workshops, leadership trainings, and consultations internationally. E-mail | Website | Instagram | Facebook | Youtube As for your host, Geoffe! Follow on Substack: The Creekmasons Follow on TikTok: @creekmasons
The first Essay Week has arrived! Even if you've already read "Yes-And-Ness" Outshines "Radical Acceptance", today's episode is worth main-lining for the medium-length, medium-mania rant I am broadcasting straight into your cortex. Just try to shut me up about the cultural moment we find ourselves in, in which we have unprecedented access to the genius of spiritual traditions from across the globe. We have an opportunity to marry the perspectives of both Radical Responsibility and Radical Acceptance into one integral whole that enables us to transcend the limits of somnambulent samsara, and awaken into a liberated state that also honors the wonder, beauty, and strangeness of our embodied, intuitive, receptive and squishy selves. Join our Digital Sangha by signing up to the mailing list at Creekmasons.com in order to receive email notifications for essays like this one, AND the brilliant work of co-conspirator, collaborator and co-creator of the Creekmasons, Colin Reinagel! If you like what you’re finding around there, join our community! You can learn more about our Anarcho-Indie Publishing Collective and JOIN THE DISCORD all by heading to Creekmasons.com.
Grateful as always for a scintillating conversation with Colin, our newest Adeptus Maker. We chat about everything from the numerology behind ancient megalithic structures as endorsed by the Knights Templar to the truly radical acts of healing trauma and embracing vulnerability. You may already know Colin from recent contributions to the now collaborative Creekmason blog like Christ-like Suffering and Toxic Positivity in Healing. If you don't, what are you doing? Missing Newsletters?? Sign up already! Check out Colin Reinagel's website Weird Life Studios, to checkout out and purchase his art and make sure to follow him on Instagram! Check out Geoff and Colin BOTH at Creekmasons.com!
I had a truly enlivening conversation with the newest Node, Dr. Cynthia Miller, brilliant, awakened author of both books and blogs! We discuss the doctor's 12 Dimensional model of consciousness' progress into actualization, the toxic sides of both masculinity AND femininity, and the power of our ever evolving community of seekers in fostering faster and faster spiritual growth! Read something from Dr. Miller! The Inner (R)Evolution (Book) Reality Builders (Substack) Dr Cynthia Miller's Website! And as for your host... Follow on Substack: The Creekmasons Follow on TikTok: @creekmasons
Layman Pascal becomes a Node twice over with this wonderful episode about the pursuit of self-actualization. We discuss practices for deepening the connection with the divine, embracing liminal spaces in a revolution that includes dancing, and the importance of discernment in embodied sensemaking. Not to selfishly claim him as a part of our tribe, but Layman is one of the most Liminal Trickster Mystic thinkers that I've never encountered in the wild. Like a true New Thought-esque manifestation of the idealogy I've held near and dear for all these years. You're going to love this conversation. Read some of Layman's writing on Substack! Layman Pascal Xagick Or listen to the Integral Stage podcast!! And learn more about the Creekmasons too! Follow on Substack: The Creekmasons Content Collective Follow on TikTok: @creekmasons
The brilliant Alexander Beiner—author, podcaster, thought-leader and essayist—becomes a Node in the Net today to celebrate the Psychedelic Renaissance and chat about yes-and-ness, discernment, and navigating holding nuanced perspectives in a world brimming with binary thinkers among many other vibey topics. Check out Alexander's substack, The Bigger Picture and learn more about the book by the same name on his glorious website! Sincere gratitude for the editing done by Colin Reinagel! Follow on Substack: The Creekmasons Follow on TikTok: @creekmasons Writing and contact info at: https://creekmasons.com
Come and celebrate the magnificent Colin Reinegal diving in to the deepest mysteries of the Creek by becoming the Creekmasons' newest Adeptus Maker! We'll soon be publishing his thoughts on the Creekmason blog and what brilliant and boldly woo thoughts they are! We chat about Sliva Mind control, the Tao Te Ching, and the general societal shift toward decentralization among many more topics in this wonderful episode. Check out Colin Reinagel's website Weird Life Studios, to checkout out and purchase his art and make sure to follow him on Instagram! Follow on Substack: The Creekmasons Follow on TikTok: @creekmasons Writing and contact info at: https://creekmasons.com
Meredith White is a queer, nonbinary, and neurodivergent artist and facilitator based in Atlanta, GA. They work at the intersection of art, spirituality, and embodiment using textiles, tarot, and design to tell stories. And what an absolute joy and privilege it was to talk with them! In this banger, we talk Mutual aid, Cop City, Returning to Nature, and a TON more. Enjoy! Find Meredith on Substack, under Root Inward! Sincere gratitude for the editing done by Colin Reinagel! Follow on Substack: The Creekmasons Follow on TikTok: @creekmasons Writing and contact info at: https://creekmasons.com
You're in for a treat with this delightful episode with Amos J Hunt, the author behind the Grub Street Grackle literary magazine and one of my current favorite living poets! Amos explores the depths of his psyche's various Parts in these chatsies where we really picked apart some of the contradictory forces that we're ALL beset with. I had a lot of fun exploring the conflict between the internalized archetype we all seem to have of a Scientific Materialist annoying Redditor debatelord and the overly stilted Theologian archetype that seems to oppose it. Amos can be found at https://grubstreetgrackle.com/ And by the way, sincere gratitude for the editing done by Colin Reinagel, without whom, this episode would not be possible. Hoping to make that a more regular thing! Finally, here's how you'll find Geoffe, the host of Nodes in the Net: Follow on Substack: The Creekmasons Follow on TikTok: @creekmasons Writing and contact info at: https://creekmasons.com
If you're a fully initiated Creekmason, you well know the host of the Passing Through Podcast by his Discord handle, Guru. His undeniably tricksterish energy, liminal insight and mystical prowess are an essential engine powering the Discord's continued High Vibration. Love him! We chat Internal Family Systems, ego death, mystical ketamine experiences and how to milk a sphinx in this delicious episode! Check out Guru's Passing Through Podcast! As for your Host... Follow on Substack: The Creekmasons Follow on TikTok: @creekmasons Writing and contact info at: https://creekmasons.com
The brilliant author of the Vice Averse series, Mathieu Crowley became a Node today. Among other things, we talked a lot about the infinite reincarnation theory of metaphysics, so if you're into Andy Weir's The Egg or the Soul School hypothesis or the idea that the next Buddha will be the Sangha, this is the episode for you! Check out Mathieu's books, Vice Bound and Capital Vice! As for your host... Follow on Substack: The Creekmasons Follow on TikTok: @creekmasons Writing and contact info at: https://creekmasons.com
Kristin Skrydlak-simlai, better known to my fellow Creekmason Initiates as the amazing human behind the Goddess Moon discord handle, was an electrifying joy to speak with. We chatted community organizing, magick, the True Self, and woman-empowering childbirth and it was a BLAST to record! Follow on Substack: The Creekmasons Follow on TikTok: @creekmasons Writing and contact info at: https://creekmasons.com
Isaac Moraga, of WithinTheVacuum (or 8W8) rejoins the podcast to talk a bit about the new album he's just finished recording, a bit about the philosophy of the True Self, and a whole lot about the problems with a civilization that aims to detach us from our innate gifts, interests, and goodness. Enjoy! You can read more about what Isaac is up to and find links to his music on Minds! As for the Creekmasons... Follow on Substack: The Creekmasons Follow on TikTok: @creekmasons Writing and contact info at: https://creekmasons.com
Delightful conversation with the fabulous artist, new to the Creekmason Community, Colin Reinagel (known to the Discord Community as CJ). This is just the kind of deep and wideranging conversation that the medium of podcasts is meant to support. Poignant, engaging, and frequently skull popping! Find out more about (and PURCHASE) Colin's art: https://weirdlifestudios.com And check him out on Instagram, @weirdlifestudios Find out more about the Creekmasons: Follow on Substack: The Creekmasons Follow on TikTok: @creekmasons Writing and contact info at: https://creekmasons.com
The brilliant Professor Heather Freeman becomes an official Node today! Heather is the host of the Magic in the United States podcast where she employs the perfect mix of belief in the esoteric and groundedness in material reality to convey fascinating stories related to real-deal magic’s history, practice, ritual and tradition. A must listen! Listen to Heather’s podcast, Magic in the United States Follow on Substack: The Creekmasons Follow on TikTok: @creekmasons Writing and contact info at: https://creekmasons.com
What can I say about today's guest? Someone out there actually living the van-life meme... a badass Intensive Care Unit Registered Nurse... a literal psychic who heals patients via the publicly verifiable transfer of visualized assistance... MY SISTER?? Christine Wolfer joins the podcast today primarily to share her harrowing story as a nurse who healed her pandemic trauma by camping completely alone in Death Valley. It's an emotional episode folks. Enjoy! Follow on Substack: The Creekmasons Follow on TikTok: @creekmasons Writing and contact info at: https://creekmasons.com
It's a serious joy to get to record with the Hot Alien Summer Camp's very own Paige! After a long discussion of manifestation, energy levels, and the similarities between human and dog psychology, Paige and I dive into the real meat and I get a little of my Human Design Chart read on the air. Paige is a valuable person to know for anyone who wants to better understand their Human Design. Thanks for being a Node! Join her and her Alien friends on the Hot Alien Summer Camp Discord! Learn more about the Creekmasons too! Follow on Substack: The Creekmasons Follow on TikTok: @creekmasons Writing and contact info at: https://creekmasons.com
This intricate linguistic waltz with the wizardly Layman Pascal was truly one of the most engaging conversations Geoff's had the privilege of enjoying, either here on the podcast or in his 34 years of life in meatspace. This is exactly the kind of integrity-leavened concept-genius that we want in the vanguard of our liminal movement. Trust me. Read some of Layman's writing on Substack! Layman Pascal Xagick Or listen to the Integral Stage podcast!! And learn more about the Creekmasons too! Follow on Substack: The Creekmasons Content Collective Follow on TikTok: @creekmasons Writing and contact info at: https://creekmasons.com