Gaze into the abyss...
The ground beneath you may appear fixed, but the most constant quality of existence is change itself…
Only a person who can perceive the different weights of strong and weak phrasings in musical form can really feel the distinction between the comma and the semicolon…
Too much weight makes a beam bend…
In Lewis Hyde’s 1979 book The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property, he describes not only the philosophy, historical significance, and various cultural traditions surrounding the exchange of gifts, but the underlying pattern that governs how creative energy behaves...
Each artwork, from a crude drawing to a classic album, a middle school stage production to a haiku, is a gift from creator to receiver…
Watch what you eat, and you’ll see your true mouth…
The danger is not that machines will wake up. It is that we will forget the difference…
Late one night after Joanna put her two kids to bed, she sat down at the kitchen table with a bottle of Rémy Martin, the Bible, an ephemeris, an atlas, a calculator, and seven grams of cocaine…
Don’t eat at home, cross the great river…
The unexpected passing of occult author, scientist, and chaos magic pioneer Peter J. Carroll on April 22 marks the end of an era…
How should a man act in the 21st century?...
If he’s not right, he’s wrong…
There is a tiny space inside our hearts…
To a growing list of “dirty” words that make Americans squirm add the word Nationalism…
Going in and out untroubled, friends come...
Sacred geometry is rooted in the idea that God is the ultimate mathematician and that the mathematical patterns observed in nature are signs of divinity…
By the time Steve Reich released It’s Gonna Rain, splicing and looping strips of audio tape was a technique well known to the champions of the avant garde…
Stripping, don’t go too far…
Scientist, poet and author Dr. John C. Lilly was a controversial figure, best described in a new documentary as a man “determined to get his hands on the steering wheel of consciousness”…
Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial…
Shining is prosperity. Go a little way…
Carl Jung, one of the pioneers of psychoanalysis, tells the story of a patient who dreamt of a golden scarab…
There were two ways that people living a very long time ago would leave handprints on the walls of caves.
Biting is prosperity. Gain by correction...
There’s not a lot to hide behind when it’s 114 degrees and you’re sawing reclaimed wood…
Much of the best work being produced today seems to fall between media. This is no accident…
Purifying but not sacrificing. Have faith in what’s great…
Once the search is in progress, something will be found…
Volumes have been written about how digital and consumerist distractions shorten our attention spans and hamper our cognitive abilities…
Approaching is the origin of a pure and bountiful harvest, but after eight months it’s unfortunate…
On the very first card of the Tarot Major Arcana we find The Fool…
It is very hard to give any general advice about writing. Here’s my attempt…
Decaying is the origin of prosperity…
A roll of belly fat melts into a makeup-caked face; a bag of chips morphs into a family portrait; a butt cheek transforms into a policeman’s bicep…
The chef has requested you not to read that while you eat his food…
Following is the origin of pure bountiful harvests…
When scientist and author Itzhak Bentov passed away in 1979 he was in the midst of finishing up a self-illustrated comic strip, which he called the ‘Co[s]mic S[t]rip…
I’m going to give you an act of psychomagic. It won’t address your consciousness but your unconscious…
Hexagram 16: Excitement — lightning strikes the earth, arousal moves leaders and rallies forces. An I Ching reading by Chris Gabriel.
Francis Picabia had an insatiable appetite for art. A true ‘artist’s artist’, he shapeshifted throughout the 20th century...
Hexagram 15: Modesty — colossal pyramids buried beneath sand, the hidden nature of true wisdom. An I Ching reading by Chris Gabriel.
Linguistic relativity, as described by anthropology Professor Edward Sapir and his student Benjamin Lee Whorf in the early part of the 20th century...
To read part one of Noah Gabriel Martin’s ‘From Cynicism to Sincerity’, click here.
Hexagram 14: Having Enough — the solar center of great wealth and our higher nature. An I Ching reading by Chris Gabriel.
Much has been written, spoken, filmed, and discussed about the making of Francis Ford Coppola’s war epic ‘Apocalypse Now’.
Termite mounds - those brown piles of rigid dirt that protrude from the landscape and hide acreage below them - are as ancient as the land they rise from.
Hexagram 13: Coming Together — fire rising toward heaven, a gathering of kindred spirits. An I Ching reading by Chris Gabriel.
In Biblical terms, the Egyptian concept of ‘shew’ is expressed as a revealing of what’s hidden...
The key feature of what I’ll call the 90s West Coast slacker accent is that the tone dips at the end of a phrase, like an inverse question.
Hexagram 12: No — a den of thieves where the high has gone and the low remains. An I Ching reading by Chris Gabriel.
Marian Zazeela is most known, and her work most often experienced, through her collaborative works with her husband, the composer LaMonte Young.
If you take the raised pedestrian bridge from the Statue of Liberty, over the 8 Lane Freeway, with the Arthurian Castle on your right...
Hexagram 11: Yes — heaven on earth, a fleeting prosperity with the seeds of decay already sown. An I Ching reading by Chris Gabriel.
Before “Brave New World”, Huxley’s seminal and prescient novel about a dystopian future where citizens willingly blind themselves to injustice in...
As we begin our co-evolution with AI, questions are being raised from all sectors about the existential implications of this technological quantum leap.
Hexagram 10: Walking — treading on a tiger's tail with care along the straight and narrow. An I Ching reading by Chris Gabriel.
Fibonacci sequences may not hold a prominent place in traditional magic or witchcraft...
At the turn of the 19th century, Neo-Classicism was at its zenith. Paintings and sculptures paid homage the newly re-discovered ancient worlds of Rome...
Hexagram 9: The Small — dark clouds without rain, small forces restrain the great. An I Ching reading by Chris Gabriel.
As we cross the threshold from a numerological year 9 of the wood snake in 2025 into a year 1 of the fire horse...
Four years after the formation of the Bauhaus, its founder Walter Gropius wrote a text entitled ‘The Theory and Organization of the Bauhaus’ as a...
Hexagram 8: Union — like raindrops gathering on a window, the alike unify. An I Ching reading by Chris Gabriel.
Capturing, with her inimitable wit and poignancy, the grand ambitions and subsequent disappointments of the Christmas period...
A Hindu temple does not serve just as a place of worship but as a three-dimensional map of the universe, rendered in stone.
Hexagram 7: Army — discipline, leadership, and the wisdom required to command forces. An I Ching reading by Chris Gabriel.
Ancient Secrets of the Flower of Life author and spiritual teacher Drunvalo Melchizedek began speaking publicly again this year after suffering a...
For most of human existence, our wounds signified that we were part of the natural world.
Hexagram 6: Divorce — on splits, arguments, and knowing when to settle or let go. An I Ching reading by Chris Gabriel.
Heather Barnett, an artist who works with slime mold, recently told me she viewed herself not simply as a practitioner of art but as a mediator.
“Between you and me, the thing is dreadfully funny'“, said Mark Twain in regards to ‘1601’, his strangest, most misunderstood...
Hexagram 5: Waiting — patience and faith before crossing the great river. An I Ching reading by Chris Gabriel.
As more and more mainstream scientific breakthroughs sit at the intersection of quantum physics, human consciousness and mathematics...
Each year, my husband and I set aside time for a spiritual retreat, just the two of us.
Hexagram 4: Youth — seeing through a glass darkly, the foolish seek the sage. An I Ching reading by Chris Gabriel.
Frank Zappa stands all but alone in the pantheon of American popular music.
Hexagram 3: Difficult Beginning — the rough start where perseverance matters more than action. An I Ching reading by Chris Gabriel.
The term Askashic Records was coined by author and Theosophical Society co-founder Helena Blavatsky to describe a universal record of everything that’s...
The above artifact never existed. It is a fable written in 1868 by Augustus Schleicher, composed in Proto-Indo-European (PIE)...
Hexagram 2: Earth — the receptive origin of prosperity, guided by the virtues of the mare. An I Ching reading by Chris Gabriel.
Filled with a sense of glory for the modern, the Italian Futurist movement saw beauty in speed, dynamism, and automation.
“I walk on the ground and the ground’s walked on by me…” — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven1A figure draws forth and away (fig. 1).
Hexagram 1: Heaven — the origin of pure will and cosmic order, the dragon rising through six stages. An I Ching reading by Chris Gabriel.
Welcome to the first Lost Songs Project, a new series telling the stories behind songs lost to the world.
Bird’s songs are swallowed by human cacophony. The low hum of industrial noise, the pulse of traffic, the ongoing percussion of construction...
The Trigrams are the eight base elements which make up all of the hexagrams of the I Ching, they are made of three solid or broken lines...
Written in a moment of existential change for Cinema, the great theorist of his time, Rudolf Arnheim...
“It means that this ability to improve, to be healthy and happy, is always within us.
An introduction to the I Ching — the oldest book in the world, explored beyond divination into its true depth and purpose. By Chris Gabriel.
Hermetic teachings tell us that to be in the creative process is to engage with the very same energy which creates and sustains all of life.
One of the leading figures of the late 1970s and early 80s literary Punk movement, Kathy Acker was a radical in every sense.
“To study rivers is to adopt another life.”A white orb glistens. A sky swells forth.
The ancient Egyptian deity known as Ptah embodies the concept of a primary creator as the source of all there is.
For all of the complicated politics around water in the American West, Didion focuses more on its physical movement — through aqueducts, dams, pumps...
A mirror, a polaroid selfie, the surface of a cool mountain lake pre-immersion… we see ourselves in these reflections...
Leonard Cohen was always a reluctant songwriter. As a young man in Montreal...
The ancient Hawaiian Ho’oponopono forgiveness prayer was brought to modern attention by Dr.
When James Baldwin first published ‘If Black English…’ in 1979, he was already one of the most celebrated literary figures of the century...
If we listen to Antonio Lucio Vivaldi today, we may think of him as a classicist.
In 1967, Bob Dylan was a prophet speaking truth to power with his guitar and voice...
