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Art is how we reintegrate our deep weirdness with our intellectual rigour.

Art is how we safely expand and rebalance the consciousness contract.

Art is how we honour the ineffable and unquantifiable dimensions of reality—bring them into the fleshy realm—without sliding into relativism or superstition or the dangerous predations of conspirituality.

I am praying for us all to remember that we are not consumers but co-creators of reality, and we don’t have to spend a single second or penny more resigning ourselves to the bullshit baubles thrust at us as the pinnacle of choice under consumerist capitalism, when in truth they’re nothing but a knife to imagination, to the energy and courage to... See more

We discern that the urge of the times is not to fix a broken system, but to acknowledge our inherent power to summon other worlds.

The time is very urgent – we must slow down.

Shakespeare, lived at the border between the seen and unseen, and spent his life giving voice to the relationship between them. Time and again, his plays—I’m thinking especially of The Winter’s Tale , The Tempest, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream —tell us that art is the mediating link between the realms, and thus in some way more real, because more... See more

We know that the mystical and expansive experiences we’ve read about or had ourselves are in some deep way true—truer than parking tickets and emails and ready meals. But the core wisdom of modernity—the whole drive behind the Enlightenment and the scientific revolution’s insistence on empirical evidence—is that once you open that door to the... See more