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Attn: upcoming Berkeley workshop
Cultivating Creativity launches at the Alembic September 21!
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Kayla Krut
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August 2023
Housing the "Homeless Heart"
on the Via Negativa in menstrual magic, theology, and poetry, and on loving "the nothing that is"
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Kayla Krut
July 2023
Everybody Wants to Be a Cat!
the constellation Leo shines like sunlight off the ocean.
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Kayla Krut
June 2023
April 2023
Tallying Surrender: John Ashbery's "The System," Meister Eckhart, and the MEQ
Adapted from a talk I gave last weekend at UC Berkeley for the Forms of Psychedelic Life: An Interdisciplinary Conference Exploring the Intersections of…
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Kayla Krut
"And so you chose poetry."
Beginning a new academic term teaching a college poetry workshop, a formative anecdote from my time at Berkeley recurs and is amplified
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Kayla Krut
January 2023
Un-hacking Intellectual Industry: Academia, Tech, & the Myth of Detoxification
Radar is the capacity to pick up signals. Reality Selection is the skill for recognizing distinctions between different types of signals. Healing is the…
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Kayla Krut
"First of all, people should renounce themselves:"
On Radical Choice & Choicelessness in Spiritual Systems
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Kayla Krut
December 2022
If you are at home, you do not feel lonely: on breathwork, birth trauma, LSD, labor strikes, & spiders in the desert
If you are at home, you do not feel lonely. —Thich Nhat Hanh * Greetings—as promised, a longer piece on a matrix of ideas (dig the goofily-long title…
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Kayla Krut
Announcement, 2/2
(Continued from yesterday’s post.) n.b. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Human Design, feel free to skim this, as it presumes some knowledge, or…
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Kayla Krut
End-of-Year Change, pt1/2
Greetings all – a few announcements / notifications of coming changes. This writing project began about six weeks ago when a friend of mine suggested…
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The Great Mother
(day 33; continuation of yesterday’s post) Saturn would have me number these entries and self-flagellate each day I skip. When I stopped eating after a…
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