Casey Rae’s Apocrypha

contemplative practice

Fire on the Mountain

An unexpected lesson in body memory—and a long-awaited update on Dead Dharma.

anger

Leaving Space for Big Emotions

When there is no action to take, the feeling itself is what needs tending.

film

Looking Back at Looking Forward

When everything competes for our attention, what is worth anticipating?

AI

Selling the Singularity

How a once-precise technical concept became just another marketing narrative.

trauma

The Long Way Home

Sometimes the greatest distance is between surviving and living.

comedy

Welcome to Real Infowars

What began as an Alex Jones send-up is quickly becoming one of the funniest and strangest projects in comedy.

AI

Industrialized Flattery

Artificial intelligence has transformed an ancient mode of manipulation into a personalized service available around the clock.

transformation

Beyond Scale

What matters is not how transformation is measured, but what becomes possible when we awaken to our capacity for connection.

accountability

Fuck Fascists Forever

For more information, please reread.

AI

Alienation Engines

Why the focus on economic displacement misses the deeper crisis of meaning in work.

impermanence

Everybody as a Little Kid

Nobody starts out as Lindsey Graham ended.

grief

Strong Men Also Cry

Forty years after Metallica lost Cliff Burton, metal finally learns to mourn in the open.

AI

The Tyranny of Good Enough

AI is burying us in an avalanche of adequate, and we already sold the shovel.

interdependence

The Adjustment Bureau

We spend our lives fiddling with the thermostat of experience. What if we left it alone?

music

Outrunning the Echo

The hardest part of evolution isn’t finding the formula—it’s letting go of the one that’s working.

AI

Caretakers to the Machine

What disappears first may not be jobs, but the path to becoming qualified for them.

spiritual care

Embracing the Gap

Holding space for a crisis and relaxing into an unhurried weekend aren't separate states. It is the same attunement, aimed outward or inward.

film

Super Adequate

The new Supergirl movie achieves liftoff, but never fully soars.

media

In Defense of the Difficult

Making a case for art that makes you work for it.

AI

Slop or Honeypot?

Behind the endless wave of generative garbage lies a massive engine for predictive profiling. You’ve already opted in.

music

Cosmic Medicine

Questlove’s new documentary on Earth, Wind & Fire explores the band's radical attempt to heal a broken society with universal funk.

music

Rush, Revitalized

German drummer Anika Nilles shows Canadian legends how to rock without a wedgie.

suffering

Presence Over Pattern Matching

Machines only know suffering by concept. Humans know it by condition. The distinction is crucial for care.

compassion

Getting Soft in Hard Times

The antidote to a bruising world isn't a tougher shell, but a softer heart.

Backroom Obsessions

Zoomers are agog over two new horror movies from generational peers that are doing big box office on baby budgets. Is it cinematic vaporware or a changing of the guard?