Mysticism emanates from the cracks in the earth We live in a world where the threat of extinction looms over our heads like the sword of...

Part One Part Two Returning to the concept of horror discussed in previous posts, we cannot ignore the research that shows a link between...

Part One: read As traditional religions disappear from the public sphere, this new, still evolving identification of humanity's quest for...

The expressions of fantasy and desire discussed in this entry, as manifested through societal perceptions of sexuality, spirituality, and...

Part One Part Two Part Three When we talk about the manifestations of demonicism in contemporary Western society, we must inevitably...

Y. Discussion of Lanthimos' film "The Killing of a Sacred Deer" Directors D. Lynch and Y. Lanthimos make surreal, uncanny films, steeped...

On the British Film Institute's (BFI) website, film reviewer Samuel Wigley, in his review of Eggers' The Lighthouse, says in the very...

Forbidden fruit - psychedelic drugs Huxley argues that the experiences induced by psychedelic drugs, deep hypnosis and the like are...

Out of consciousness or towards the unconscious Aldous Huxley, one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century, in his essay...

Definition of normality When we talk about what is hidden, about the occult world, as also depicted in H.C. Agrippa's Occult Philosophy,...

These approaches to demonicity are important to understand, but steeped in history and not always able to encompass today's cultural...

It is easy to imagine the demonic in retrospective religious perspectives, but in today's technologically advanced, scientifically...

Philosopher Eugene Thacker's book In the Dust of this Planet deals with three conceptions of reality that attempt to unravel the mystique...

Juxtapositions An equally important and relevant component of Surrealism is juxtaposition. Salvador Dali, the pioneer of surrealist...

In analysing the fluid anatomy of reality and the exits from the state of consciousness, we inevitably have to turn to one of the most...

Automatism and creative routine Automatic writing or random associations are used by creators to create surreal works. An example is...

The creation of the surrealist object emerged as a new practice in the early 1930s. The shift away from text and image was driven by the...

Horror of phylosophy As far as horror and its influence on modernity is concerned, the first thing to note is that horror can be...

I part. Hauntological reality While the world rushes on and we seem to live in a future that never came, with a tinge of nostalgia and...

While there is much more to say about 20th-century Surrealism and its expression in various art forms, an equally interesting perspective...