HeyJaredGnostic Pulp
Essays in Gnostic Pulp: the grand American tradition of literature in which deep investigations into the nature of reality are mashed up against dime novel tropes.
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Taking Refuge in the Trench Coat (opens the original)
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I took a job in deathcare this summer. One of the first things anyone on the team did was ask me my sign. This is, perhaps, a not uncommon ice breaker in 2026, but it quickly became clear this was more than fashion magazine horoscopes. They went on to ask about my natal chart, saying “Everyone here has something in their chart that attracts them to death.” Now I’m a libra—a triple libra, actually—but I don’t know anything beyond my big three, or much about astrology in general. Still, I was assu
Animal Style (opens the original)
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Uranus, the original sky god in Greek mythology, is disposed of by his son Cronus who castrates him and drops his testicles in the sea. While Cronus does not quite undergo his own patricide, he is taken out by his son Zeus who imprisons him in the abyss of Tartarus where he is left to suffer for eternity.It is not only the Greeks whose gods are undone by their progeny. This pattern can be found across the tri-continental Mediterranean world, as Federico Campagna maps out in the first chapter of
Communitas and Comfort Television (opens the original)
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This one was originally published in the pre-Gnostic Pulp days on PopMatters, but I have liberated it, done some light editing, and am posting it here.“I feel God in this Chili’s tonight,” an absurd line played for laughs by The Office’s Pam Beasely. Absurd, for wherever God may ultimately reside, it surely cannot be the Scranton, PA, Chili’s. However, that is not to say God, or something that might be mistaken for God, could not have been felt in this particular branch of America’s second most
How to Stop Being Hamlet (opens the original)
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This month has brought a small flurry of new subscribers, so please forgive this briefest of introductions: Welcome to the end of the month post! These come, you guessed it, at the end of each month. They tend to be more laid back, most often include a short reflection on the Tarot card I pulled on me and my wife’s usual Full Moon Draw, and then at the end there are some super secret micro reviews of the books I read that month. These are hidden behind a pay wall. It’s mostly a way for me to giv
Alchemical Planet (opens the original)
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Ours is not an optimistic age. Most everyone seems resigned to trudge along, whether dejectedly, in some form of denial, or given over to hedonistic decadence, until a vaguely anticipated EVENT finally occurs and puts us out of our misery. Extreme climate records are being broken daily with none of the structural changes needed to address the causes being put in motion. Predicted timelines are steadily speeding up. Fire is out of control in the western United States, Canada, and now Europe. Ever
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