Another World, March 2023
Upcoming Courses
Land: Loss & Reconnection (with Alley Valkyrie) begins 18 March, 2023
Being Pagan (with Rhyd Wildermuth) begins 9 April, 2023
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In this month’s Another World
Old Haunts
by W. McCrae
& R.G. Miga
A haunting call-and-response essay from W. McCrae and R.G. Miga, on the love and loss of place:
Wintertime frays at both ends while summer gorges herself, now staging opening salvos in May, holding late October in her droughted grasp. Mid-season, you can look the sun right in the eye: the heat is stifling but the glare is baffled by smoke. Blood-red skies and parched Decembers, Himalayan blackberries and brown marmorated stink bugs—at least you can still make a killing in real estate. Inch by inch the forests and the small towns are swallowed and excreted in one long smooth suburb.
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Driving now along the crumbling highways—Binghamton to Utica to Buffalo and back, the triangle of interstates into which my family’s whole history has somehow disappeared—the thing that haunts me the most isn’t some rattling, Gothic vision of death. Instead, it’s the specters of happiness that still linger in the ruins—not whispering one day you will be like me, but you will never be like this again.
In this fourth episode of The Re/al/ign, Rhyd Wildermuth talked with writer, mental health counselor, and spiritual teacher Anthony Rella. They discussed the intersections of mental health and spiritual practice, as well as the problems of alienation and loneliness we confront in our search to satisfy our deep need for belonging.
Two Poems from Alice Fulmer
Faunalia, a collection of stunning poems from Alice Fulmer, will be released 1 May. In this issue of Another World, we have published two poems from it:
From an early draft of an upcoming short booklet by Rhyd Wildermuth’s on Tarot.
“You read Tarot like you read a poem or the clouds. Approaching it with a playful curiosity rather than a demand to know the future will get you very far. And, though you’re probably going to use it often to try to understand situations, relationships, and others around you, think of it more as the mirrored surface of a still lake, rather than a window into the cosmos. Your thoughts will reflect back to you, as will your hopes, fears, biases, and everything else. Some of that stuff will be at the bottom of the lake, some of it will be behind you in the sky, some of it will be on your own face. And sometimes, something else will be in your vision that you couldn’t see looking at it directly.”
