A small update
Two things I'd like you to know today
Hi, friends,
I have an essay brewing for you about the use of the word “weird” and the social necessity of weirdos, and how the “irrational” is coming back to bite us (like everything we repress), and lament/keening/the loss of grief culture, and Adam Curtis’s dark view of humanity (which sent me into a tailspin after the 2016 election), and the ways I’ve realized Curtis is mistaken because he doesn’t understand the beauty and humanity of the irrational, and and and so much more.
But. It’s taking time to birth, and meanwhile, I have a few bits of news I’d like to share with you. So I hope you won’t mind a brief update email for now, with something more substantial to come just as soon as I can.
Two little morsels of information for you:
If you’re planning to come to my talk at Kairos in London next Thursday (28th November), I’m told that the venue expects to reach capacity, so do book a ticket in advance, if you haven’t already. Tickets and description here; pic below. Expect talk of all the things I discuss on this Substack: mystical experiences, expanded realities, true imagination and how to live in it, and how modern culture got severed from imagination and the imaginal realm. I so want to meet as many of you as I can. Hope to see you there.
I do have some new writing out on Substack, just not on this Substack. I’m working with St. Martin-in-the-Fields church in London’s Trafalgar Square, writing about giving and gift culture and community, and all the stories and entanglements and beautiful frictions made possible by gifts. The first piece is here.
Expect Prometheus and David Graeber and the sociologist Hartmut Rosa and other things you wouldn’t expect to find on a church’s Substack—and more weirdness and offbeat references as the project unfolds. You can subscribe here. I hope to see you over there.
And! I will be back here with an essay very very soon. I miss chatting with you all about the weirdo idea field we all share. And I’m so grateful to be in that weirdo idea field with you.
Love,
xx Ellie