A Grammy-nominated vocalist, Krishna Das is famous for his practice of kirtan, an Indian tradition of devotional chanting. As he puts it—echoing the words of those like Lama Surya Das and Ram Dass, also Jewish-born devotees of Indian spirituality—he’s “Jewish on [his] parents’ side.”
Author: Carly Lewis
The Mechanism of Prophecy: A Conversation on DMT & the Jewish Tradition with Rick Strassman
Why do our brains naturally make DMT? Does psychedelic science prove the existence of God? Where do psychedelic experiences and stories of the Torah intersect? In this interview, we cover these questions and more with renowned psychedelic researcher Rick Strassman.
Intro
So much still remains unwritten, unspoken, hidden from view.
The Return of the Repressed: Women Poets & the Sacred
I am sketching a tradition of gynocentric spirituality that is ripe with poets.
Ars Poetica & New Moon Practice
We have to imagine everyone is contagious now / An odd kind of love but love all the same
Notes on Female Visionary Poetry: Trans Women Poets Writing Themselves into Existence
I wanted to be initiated into femininity as into a mystery cult.
Prophets of the Underworld
Prophecy has always struck me as a profoundly male genre.
Tumbletumbledown
Tumble down into the magma, tumble tumble down / uprooted walls will be your cortège, tumble tumble down
Feels Blind
What matter floods into the future void?
A Few Short Talks on Women & Prophecy
Pay attention to the language—the magic of paronomasia, the resemblance of sounds.