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June 11, 2025 113 mins

Howling about poetic faith, religion as art and making meaning through creative practice with Tony Wolf


Hosted by depth counselor, writer and cultural activist Brian James: http://brianjames.ca

Check out my new book Traumadelic: Re-Visioning Psychedelic Therapy http://traumadelicbook.com


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Listen to or watch my first conversation with Tony here:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/cultpunk-death-107564746

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6ap98ZoZBQuo21Z0uePb91?si=5153fa9d81504abb

https://youtu.be/WtJxfM4iJDI


Poetic Faiths: New Religions and Rituals as Works of Living Art is an anthology of illustrated interviews with an emergent counterculture of artists and activists who take secular humanism as a given, then ask, “Now what?” and find their answers in artistic creation. Poetic Faiths embody soulful practice through ritual participation in mythopoetic art; they are ways of taking as profound that which may not be taken literally.


Volume I includes:

Aretéanism – a ritualistic path toward personal and communal excellence, inspired by ancient Greek philosophy

CREATION – a queer, science-fiction-infused religious response to climate change, mourning the Anthropocene

The First Church of David Bowie, Phonomancer – a psychedelic blend of role-playing, music and personal development

The Orphan Wisdom School – a redemptive practice rooted in knowing history, being claimed by ancestry and working for a time that we won’t live to see

The Mysterium – an immersive experience of Deep Play guided by 'memento mori ergo carpe diem'—remember death, therefore seize the day


With a foreword by Professor Carole Cusack and the provocative Cultpunk Manifesto, this collection explores the dynamic intersection of ceremony, art and philosophy in the search for metamodern meaning.


Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DV92J27N

Blog: https://cultpunk.art


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