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Culture, Digested: The Worst Book I Read This Year
What happens to a society that loses its capacity for awe and wonder at things to come?
New York Times • The Darkness Where the Future Should Be
In a concise note at the beginning of the book, Critchley describes a fabled world “once upon a time” when “hermit-like” sufferers of an unnamed plague became painfully aware of contagion and withdrew from social life. He thankfully refrains from a ham-fisted thesis about how the Covid era was akin to the apocalyptic plagues of yore and turned us a... See more
Elvia Wilk • The Varieties of Mystical Experience
“What profit, I ask, has anyone gained from their profound meditations?”
Meghan O'Gieblyn • God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
To dismiss Spiritualism is to dismiss the uninterrupted thread of western spirit relationships tracing back thirty thousand years.
Gordon White • The Chaos Protocols: Magical Techniques for Navigating the New Economic Reality
Likewise, people who were not poets tried to make exceptions to the materialism which dominated their epoch. They created enclaves of the beyond, of what did not fit into materialist explanations. These enclaves resembled hiding-places; they were often kept private. Visited at night. Thought of with bated breath. Sometimes transformed into theatres
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