Shining a light on the inherently dysfunctional structures of North American suburbia, this National Film Board of Canada docudrama Radiant City is named after French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier’s utopian and unrealized Ville Radieuse concept, which envisioned a new, modern way of living and urban organization, featuring clear and almost “totalitarian” demarcations between living, working and leisure. …
Insanely lovely track. iambic is an electronic music act based in London, UK which was created by Guy Andrews in 2004. The music is based around the ambient genre but fuses elements of many other styles together including Jazz, Soundscape, IDM, Post-Rock and Break Beat to create a new and evocative sound. Since the release …
Infinitessence as I’ve heard it said. Probably one of the best tracks I’ve heard all year.
Plenty of food for thought, written by American Indian Movement (AIM) activist and controversial figure Russell Means in a 1980 cover story for Mother Jones: Distilled to its basic terms, European faith—including the new faith in science—equals a belief that man is God. Europe has always sought a Messiah, whether that be the man Jesus Christ …
Several playthroughs of “Here Comes the Sun” in anticipation of spring got me down this Beatles road again. Yesterday marked the day that John Lennon and Yoko Ono‘s honeymoon began in 1969, a week after their marriage in Gibraltar, near Spain (Lennon’s “Ballad of John and Yoko” gives a pretty concise rundown). Instead of indulging …
Created with wet clay spinning round and round on a potter’s wheel, this video is completely mesmerizing. Via This Is Colossal: As a person who’s spent more than a few hours at the seat of a potter’s wheel I can attest to the strangely soothing act of doodling around with wet clay sludge (called slip) before …
It’s been said that each language encapsulates a whole universe of diverse understandings and perspectives that might not be found in other linguistic systems. To that end, we should strive to cultivate and preserve each language, each serving as a unique and multifaceted window into the human condition. Nowhere is that more important than when …
How do we sacrifice? This is an interesting question to ponder, as I wager many of us don’t do much sacrificing on a daily basis. We are too caught up perhaps in the daily grind, virtual worlds, a “me” mentality. But maybe sacrifice happens more often if you’re a parent, or a community volunteer, or …
A couple of years ago, I came across the ideas and writings of archaeologist and former professor emeritus of archaeology at UCLA Marija Gimbutas in a heavy tome that I chanced upon in one of my used bookstore haunts (The Language of the Goddess). Filled with diagrams of artifacts and patterns found in Neolithic sites all …
These long winter days cooped up inside with the tot has compelled me to look around for some decent homeschooling materials to keep my three-year-old occupied. After trawling around for preschool worksheets, I stumbled on some free Montessori printouts, and onto ever more links of Montessori materials. This all brings me down memory lane, as …
One of my favorite remixes of all time (Androcell remix of Tripswitch’s “Indigo”). A must-love, the layered outer-space vastness of the beginning that touches down to a transmission back home to Earth. “Well, we’re two-thirds of the way to the Galactic center. [..] But we definitely are in outer space.” Whenever I listen to this track, …
A belated Happy New Year’s post! Starting it off with much well-wishing for anyone who reads this, and for their loved ones, and on and on. Interdependencies; as they say in yoga practice, “may all beings everywhere be happy and free” (Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu): May all beings everywhere be happy and free, and may …
The sixth man on the moon, Edgar Dean Mitchell, talks to Ascent magazine’s Sarah E. Truman about looking at spiritual experiences from the point of view of quantum science. SET What aspects of quantum science? EM The quantum attributes that we are concerned with are entanglement, coherence, resonance and non-locality. The important part is that information is understood as a …
Interesting new word of the day: concinnity. Came across it while listening to UK psychedelic dub artist Globular’s new album, Magnitudes of Order (found here on Ektoplazm and Bandcamp, created under a Creative Commons license, partially funded by Kickstarter, yeah!). An excellent one, definitely worth an ear, as are the rest (I remember being distinctly tickled by …
Here follows Part 7 of a research paper that explores the connections between ecology, culture, science and the collective consciousness. Here are Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 and Part 6. We Are The Dreamed Young Girl Playing Paper Game: Dream is destiny. – “Waking Life,” directed by Richard Linklater, 2001 A change of consciousness is the major …
Here follows Part 6 of a research paper that explores the connections between ecology, culture, science and the collective consciousness. Here are Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5. Memetics, Culture Jamming and Waking Up To Our Own Collective Lucid Dream Man on the Train: Hey, are you a dreamer? Wiley: Yeah. Man on the Train: …
Combining jazz and the Chinese zodiac — a novel idea. The Live EP from Montréal-based group Rhythm & Hues — masterminded by musician and composer Parker Mah — does just that. Six tracks are available to listen (and download for free for a limited time) over at Bandcamp. Based on his brief, I worked with Parker …
Here follows Part 5 of a research paper that explores the connections between ecology, culture, science and the collective consciousness. Here are Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 and Part 4. Risk-free Social Mapping: Dreams In Hominid Evolution of Consciousness Jung’s work is not without detractors – for some, his constant search for metaphor in clinical situations and attempting …
After an exhausting but satisfying weekend preparing and showing for the annual YES Art Expo, I am recovered enough to post a few thoughts on my experience. There’s always a bit of je ne sais quoi with exhibit-and-sales events like the YES Art Expo — a bit of bustling and hustling, but it was also …
Collective Psyche will be participating in this year’s YES Montréal Art Expo (my second year)! It’s taking place at Marché Bonsecours, in Montréal’s Old Port, and there will be sixty-five artists, performers and creatives also exhibiting. Admission is free, and will coincide with YES Montréal’s Artists’ Conference as well (happening on Monday, and Canadian singer-songwriter David …
Montréal artist-activist Emily Rose Michaud is launching the second edition of her ‘zine Pouvoir Aux Pousses! / Sprout Out Loud! tomorrow at local comics powerhouse Drawn & Quarterly. Emily established the Roerich Garden* in 2007, as part of the Sprout Out Loud! gardener’s collective. The Roerich Garden is located on a plot of land formerly …
We are our stories, our collective dreamings — nor are we alone, as our modernist, isolationist culture of self-destructive madness would like us to believe. Our imaginings, the thought forms we send out as a species, do matter — on a level that may not be physically perceivable, but it nonetheless exists. Thought is power, …
Here follows Part 4 of a research paper that explores the connections between ecology, culture, science and the collective consciousness. Here are Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. From Jung To an Ecology of The Collective Unconscious The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into …
Image: by Mark Henson It would seem to me that art is a creative doubled-edged sword. Confronted with the symbolic language of image, sound and sensorial effect, the original intention and calling behind any work would be quite important, wielding considerable potential power over anyone who is experiencing it. Says Edward de Bono: One of …
Video: This incredible example of storytelling comes from the 2000 Sydney Olympics opening ceremony showing the unity of Australia’s 250 aboriginal tribes. Here follows Part 3 of a research paper that explores the connections between ecology, culture, science and the collective consciousness. Here are Part 1 and Part 2. The Dreaming, Dream Law and Ecological …