Free to attend. Registration is required.
An evening of conversation, ritual, music, and poetry celebrating the launch of Thunder Perfect Mind (▼), a new print magazine devoted to the Goddess.
By Goddess we do not mean a deity so much as the intelligent, pulsing power of life itself.
Lately, She has been thundering through the collective psyche via dreams, art, and psychedelic trips. Coincidence? We think not. This is a magazine-shaped altar for Her.
Join The Bridge founder Nicole Nyhan in conversation with Thunder Perfect Mind Editor-in-Chief Cassady Rosenblum as they explore the inspiration behind the magazine, the resurging relevance of the feminine divine, and what it means to cultivate a living relationship with this archetypal force today.
The evening will also be held in ritual by Mary Evelyn Pritchard, with live music by Kelli Scarr, and readings from the ancient Coptic poem Thunder, Perfect Mind, the enigmatic text that gave the magazine its name and continues to inspire its vision.
Part dialogue, part ritual, and part communal celebration of the magazine, this special evening invites us to encounter the many voices of the Goddess and the creative power She awakens within us.
This offering is part of the Greater Mysteries fall cycle within the Greater Mysteries project—an ongoing series of seasonal programs, performances, and conversations exploring transformation, myth, and the sacred cycles of life, death, and rebirth.
Copies of Thunder Perfect Mind magazine will be available for purchase.
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
Thunder Perfect Mind is a magazine-shaped altar for the Great Mother. Offered once a year in print, TPM draws inspiration from psychedelics, animacy, Buddhism, and other disciplines of interbeing. Its inaugural issue, themed Matter, launched this summer.
Greater Mysteries is an ongoing cycle of seasonal gatherings in the Hudson Valley stewarded by composer and artist Kelli Scarr. Drawing inspiration from archetypal descent myths and ancient mystery traditions, the project explores transformation through the timeless arts of music, myth, and ritual. Each year, participants are invited into a sequence of communal experiences that echo the initiatory cycles of the natural world. Concerts, workshops, and shared ritual are shaped by a living score that holds space for reflection, connection, and collective meaning-making.
Cassady Rosenblum is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Thunder Perfect Mind, a new print magazine for the Great Mother. When she’s not pondering the Goddess, you can find her writing about psychedelics for Rolling Stone. Her life’s work is to nudge the psychedelic community toward ecological action, and infuse a sense of the sacred into politics. She lives in Taos, New Mexico.
Kelli Scarr is an artist, composer, and the creator of Greater Mysteries. This ongoing series of seasonal programs, conversations, and gatherings weaves together music, myth, and ritual to explore transformation and the sacred cycles of life, death, and rebirth.
Mary Evelyn Pritchard is an artist, ritualist, beauty-maker and community builder who’s work centers on creating sacred spaces and experiences. For the last decade she has worked in the Healing Arts as a Feng Shui practitioner & designer, meanwhile, actively exploring the realms of embodiment, eros, and ritual technology through study and personal practice in deep devotion to the Earth and Sacred Feminine. She has a particular passion for facilitating community ritual and ceremony as a pathway to individual and collective transformation.
Nicole Nyhan is the founder of The Bridge. They are the former Managing Editor of Conjunctions and coordinator of the Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series at Bard College. She has served on the editorial staffs of Grove Atlantic, Atavist Books, and Other Press.