Spanning over fifteen years of work, The Starry Dynamo presents an eclectic evolution of material running the gamut from the erotic to the divine and the erotically divine to the divinely erotic. The work moves from charged and, at times, provocative fiction and prose-poetry to scholarly and thought-provoking essays on spirituality and philosophy. The diverse topics include the history of the commune at Rajneeshpuram, Oregon and the Reagan administration's action to suppress it; William S. Burroughs' gnostic mythology of the Space Age; Michel Foucault and the epistemology of the Self; the androgynous occulture of the fin de siecle and more.

The Starry Dynamo: The Machinery of Night Remixed

Sven Davisson

Literature & Fiction

Rebel Satori Press

Set in a post-apocalyptic America, Tristram Burden s novel tells the story of 17 year old Joshua My Hero. The youth lives out a humdrum existence, struggling to find truth and sense in a Christian-fundamentalist trailer park. But his psychic powers and sexual tastes leave him an outsider of his community, and forced to commit patricide in a final and desperate struggle for self-defence against his father's rage, Joshua escapes into a wasted planet, armed only with an oracular penis, the patronage of an ancient earth spirit sent to rid the planet of all of its ills, and the wisdom of the Tao Teh Ching...

My Hero: A Wild Boy's Tale: A Novel

Tristram Burden

Literary

Dreams, desire, darkened streets and the sudden miracles that appear there, the deep places of the mind. Two groups made these the heart of a radical project of liberation: queers and surrealism. 
Better than many others, queers understand the power of these dark areas. The rich, complicated culture we've created for ourselves is constantly ready to allow us to follow our dreams and fantasies, carried by the surging waves of sexuality into some pretty and magical places. It s just as clear that the surrealists were chasing similar adventures as far back as the Twenties and Thirties. Given the similarity of their motivations, why have the two so often been in violent opposition to each other? 
Madder Love is an anthology of cutting-edge writing that wants to look at that a little closer. It opens up the surreal possibilities of queer literature while simultaneously displacing the historic homophobia of Surrealism. 
From dream states to erotic obsessions, from the muttering of the unconscious to parallel worlds (and the weirder cracks in this one) Madder Love tackles why surrealism can be so queer, and why being queer can be so surreal. 
Contributions from Will Aitken, Stephen Beachy, Jeffery Beam, Stephen Boyer, Tom Cardamone, Sven Davisson, Peter Dube, Craig L. Gidney, Nicholas Alexander Hayes, Trebor Healey, Kevin Killian, Shaun Levin and Rob Stephenson help make the case.

Madder Love: Queer Men and the Precincts of Surrealism

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Zeus is the lowest of the low: a hitman, and muscle for a monster who sells children into sexual slavery. It was only because he learned from the guy who used to do the same job, though, that he made it off the streets. It isn t until he is sent to transport yet another boy that he discovers something that cannot be true, and yet somehow, is: this boy is Zeus child-self, the part he had to let die to stay alive through the horror, somehow made physically real. The discovery leaves him with a monumental choice to make: Does he leave things as they have always been and deliver the boy, letting that part of him die once and for all, or, in order to save himself, does he destroy the men he works for in order to let the boy go free?

Stealing Ganymede

Warren, J.

First published in 1820, Symzonia is the first fictional work to explore the hollow earth theory. The tale tells of Captain Seaborn's expedition to the North Pole to discover the entrance to the hollow earth. A classic early work of utopian fiction (perhaps the first American example), Symzonia is also a great seafaring tale complete with a mutinous crew member. Seaborn discovers the entrance to the Earth and finds inside our planet a technologically advanced civilization. He names the society Symzonia and promptly claims them in the name of the United States.

Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery

Seaborn, Adam

A collection of Buddhist writings from the founder of the Jodo Shinshu (Shin) branch of Pure Land Buddhism. Their teachings focus on devotional practices, especially centering on Amitabha Buddha. This edition of the classic work is annotated to assist the reader in understanding the numerous Buddhist terms and references.

Buddhist Psalms of Shinran Shōnin

Religion & Spirituality

Shōnin, Shinran

Buddhism

This book answers the puzzling question What kind of a God could have created a world such as this? A very ancient and simple teaching, going back to our origins, to our essence, reveals how spiritual beings of light became so lost, so disconnected from themselves and the world around them. Awakening is a guidebook for those beings not content with the meaningless ego world of consumption, corruption, and suffering. It is a road map for those beings of light with a deep yearning to return home. To return to love, to trust, and to truth. Awakening helps to identify the ego, the source of the madness and mayhem, for if one seeks to defeat an enemy it is helpful to be able to identify it, to understand it's strengths and weaknesses, and to know it's Achilles heel. The place where it cannot hide, the place where a simple meditation can administer a mortal blow. This is a book about God, his beginning, his fall, and his ultimate redemption. This is a book about you.

Awakening

Shantam, Anurag

New Age & Spirituality

In 1813 after his defeat at Leipzig, Napoleon is said to have left behind him a "Cabinet of Curiosities." Within this, the story goes, a Prussian soldier discovered an Oraculum. The book was said to have been discovered by the Emperor in an Egyptian tomb during the French military expedition of 1801. Napoleon had the manuscript translated and from then on carried it with him and consulted it often. Napoleon's Oraculum is an interesting artifact of the time-an oracular, or divination, system reminiscent of Agrippa's 17th century Ladies' Oracle. This text includes complete instructions and meanings for its use. In addition to the Oraculum the book also covers numerous other diverse divinatory technologies: Dreams and their Interpretation, Weather Omens, Astrological Miscellany and Important Advice, Chiromancy or Fortune Telling by the Hand, Celestial Palmistry, Observations on Moles in Men and Women, Temper and Disposition of any Person, The Art of Face Reading, and Lucky Days. This edition provides a new original scan of an early English edition. As a facsimile, it does carry forward the quirks and economic printing of this wartime edition. Included is new foreword by Sven Davisson.

Napoleon's Oraculum: And Book of Fate

ANONYMOUS

Bub Dolliver was home to stay. He had fled five years before, a hot-headed rebellious youth, a town terror who had won the cold hatred of the townspeople, a bitter lad who did not care if he ever saw Minot Harbor again. He returned, stubbornly determined to erase his past from the long memory of the villagers and make them accept him as a responsible, honest, hard-working member of the community. His reception was as cold as his worst fears-with one exception. The moment that Lou Jellison first saw him her faith and loyalty kindled then burst into steady flame. Her family, however, had quite another reaction, and eligible, respectable Joe Pettigrew has always taken it for granted that Lou was his. Besides, the people of Minot Harbor had rarely found it to their advantage to change their minds about anything, and were as unyielding as the coast from which they made their meager living. And then Bub's trifling younger brother took advantage of his return, shrewdly aware of where the blame for his actions would fall... Source for the film noir Tarnished (Republic Pictures, 1950) directed by Harry Keller, starring Dorothy Patrick and Arthur Franz.

Turn Home

Mayo, Eleanor R.

The central cycle of macabre stories, set in a then-future 1920's Paris and America, center on a fictitious play "The King in Yellow" the reading of which drives one mad. The color yellow was an evocative element of the decadent movement-typified by the notorious literary journal The Yellow Book and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story "The Yellow Wallpaper." Chambers work bridges the gap between the decadent literature of the 19th century and the fantastic pulp fiction of the twentieth. Chambers can be viewed as a direct pre-cursor to H.P. Lovecraft and his particular style of fantastic horror. Lovecraft first read The King in Yellow in the late 1920's. The stories were highly influential on the younger writer-later incorporating references to them in his own works such as "The Call of Cthulhu" and his "History of the Necronomicon."

The King in Yellow

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Chambers, Robert W.

Fantasy

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