Arts Magazine - The Secular Heretic

The Mask of the Blue Death

Published by Marko Sijan

These horrifying mutations brought about the Age of Permanent Safety, when the Blue Death was, the health experts informed us, still very little understood. They arranged their data to...

December 24, 2020

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Covid-19, Fiction, Heresies

Hashtag Suicide is the Best Vaccine

Published by Anonymous

It all begins here with an utterance, a scrambled item of speech requiring brain time to reconstruct: “Two metres.” Grumbled and garbled, the words issue from a mask. A...

December 24, 2020

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Anthropology, Covid-19, Fiction, Heresies, mental health, Non-Fiction, Prose

It’s Time to Stop Wearing Masks

Published by David Solway

COVID Rage is all the rage. And I am always astounded by the level of ignorance wedded to self-righteousness among the unvisaged, the tendency to follow the diktats of...

December 24, 2020

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Covid-19, Heresies, Medicine, Science

A Metaphysics of Social Collapse

Published by Asa Boxer

A culture unravels inevitably because it takes its paradigm, worldview, metaphysic, first principles to their logical conclusion through a deductive process, a reductio ad absurdum, at which point the...

December 24, 2020

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Covid-19, Education, Heresies, mental health, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Religion, Spirituality

Rede-phi-ning π: On Measuring a Circle

Published by J.F. Meyer

The following investigation is a product of the ongoing scientific inquiry ‘whence human suffering?‘, the same encountering a critical need to call into serious question the long-standing pi (π) “approximation”...

December 24, 2020

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History, Mathematics, Metaphysics, Philosophy

“Following Hanshan” by Fenyang Shanzhao

Published by Chris Byrne

Gary Snyder’s lively translations of Hanshan (Cold Mountain), along with their fictional account in Jack Kerouac’s Dharma Bums, have since inspired numerous poets and translators to mimic Hanshan’s raw...

December 24, 2020

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Poetry, Religion, Spirituality

Two Poems by Eugenio Montale

Published by Donald McGrath

Bring me the sunflower so I can plant / it in my salt-scorched patch of earth, so it can throw / back to the day’s reflecting blue / the...

December 24, 2020

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Poetry

Skating (after Verlaine)

Published by Donald McGrath

We were seduced, Madame, by / mutual machinations, duped, / you and I, by summer’s mayhem / pounding on our overheated craniums.

December 24, 2020

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Poetry

Seeing Autumn

Published by Karen Warinsky

Incandescent, gold and red, / the world vibrates and hums / with the last of the autumn. / Carmel and rust, / sable, tan and chocolate leaves ornament the...

December 24, 2020

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Poetry

Memoirs of a Captive Shaman

Published by Max Lewy

The systematic suppression and oppression of society’s shamans and prophets by the priestcraft of psychiatry, has not only been a catastrophe for these gifted individuals—

September 16, 2020

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Heresies, Memoir, mental health, Philosophy, Prose, Spirituality, Uncategorized

Symphony in Space: Max Planck, Birkeland Currents & The Plasma Universe

Published by Matthew Ehret

Many breakthroughs in fusion research, however, have been held back for decades due to the pervasiveness of certain false concepts of “forces,” “vacuums,” “black holes” and “dark matter” prevalent...

September 16, 2020

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Astronomy, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Physics, Science

Joachim Du Bellay: Antiquités III: Translation and Commentary

Published by David Solway

Approaching a poem written in another time and/or place, the translator faces a literal dilemma, a double problem of conflicting loyalties. . .

September 16, 2020

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Literary Essay, Poetry

Poem in April (Walking My Name Back Home)

Published by Mark Tredinnick

I set off walking south on the shoulder / Of these high cliffs, through kissing gates and over stiles, when summer / Was a crude suggestion yet among the...

September 16, 2020

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Poetry

Dr. Luc Montagnier & The Optical Biophysics Heresy

Published by Matthew Ehret

Optical biophysics is the study of the electromagnetic properties of the physics of life. This school of science studies the light emissions and absorption frequencies from cells, DNA, and...

June 16, 2020

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Biology, Chemistry, Heresies, Medicine, Science

Mother of Invention: Decoding Göbekli Tepe

Published by Martin Sweatman

The comet impact scenario circa 10,800 BC makes perfect sense according to all the scientific evidence we have. And it doesn’t just make scientific sense, we can now understand...

April 20, 2020

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Agriculture, Anthropology, Archaeology, Art, Astronomy, Heresies, History, Religion, Science