Well, here it is. The last post I will ever publish at The Teeming Brain. As previously announced, after 16 years I’m closing the doors to make way for a new project, which launched today. But before we leave, a trip down teeming memory lane: I started The Teeming Brain in June 2006. One month…
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The End of The Teeming Brain
Dear Teeming Brain friends: After 16 years of maintaining this site, I’m officially shutting things down. This is not a hiatus like the ones in the past. This is a definitive ending. Not to worry, though. As I said here several months ago, the end of TTB means the start of something else. The next…
Should I start a Substack? Or a Patreon?
I’m seeking input from my Teeming Brain readers on a decision about my online future as a writer. On the one hand, I’m thinking of launching a Substack about the daimon muse. It would be a blog-slash-newsletter on the practical and philosophical work of triangulating the inner genius at the nexus of creativity, consciousness, and…
The Blog as Commonplace Book
In the âstill hereâ post that I published last November to announce that I had managed to resurrect The Teeming Brain after a two-month site crash, I mentioned that I didnât know what the future would hold for this blog in terms of new activity. That was not, of course, a particularly novel revelation. Long-time…
Still Here
Welcome (back) to The Teeming Brain! If you’ve stopped by at any time in the past two months, you’ve noticed that there hasn’t been much of anything going on around here. All TTB content — the blog posts, the interviews, the different pages — has been gone. For several weeks there was a stark placeholder…
Teeming Links – March 15, 2019
In light of yesterday’s awful mosque attacks in New Zealand, I feel led to start with this except from a 2003 PBS interview with Thich Nhat Hanh. After an extensive conversation about Buddhism, Christianity, mindfulness, and other such matters, and their relationship to gritty large-scale matters of war and violence, the interaction ends with this:…
The Return of The Teeming Brain
Greetings, Teeming friends. After a break of — what has it been now? four months? — I’ve recently been tracking certain subtle indicators, auguries, and ripplings in the cosmic aether that indicate it’s time to rouse The Teeming Brain from its long winter’s nap. While I’m at it, I would like to broadcast a special…
Teeming Links – July 12, 2013
Image courtesy of Salvatore Vuono / FreeDigitalPhotos.net This week, a change in format: The Teeming Brain’s long-running “Recommended Reading” series will henceforth be titled “Teeming Links.” It will also shift to a streamlined format that does away with the former practice of including extensive excerpts and publication information from the linked items. I want to…
A special note to Teeming Brain email subscribers
Be advised that as of this Sunday our email subscription service will be changing. We’ll be switching to a new service (MailChimp) that will send you a weekly digest of all new Teeming Brain content from the previous week. That’s as opposed to the current system, which sends you a separate notification for each new…
Welcome to the Teem: Dr. Barry Taff
We’re happy to announce the debut of a new column titled “Aliens Above, Ghosts Below” by parapsychology pioneer Dr. Barry Taff. Dr. Taff’s presence here is particularly appropriate and compelling given The Teeming Brain’s intertwined focuses on the cultural, artistic, and philosophical experiences and meanings of horror, consciousness, creativity, and the paranormal. For it was…