Welcome to the Unveiled
The Unveiled
Issue No. 6
Arbe Bareis-Moyyad, Atonement, Oil on Masonite
Cover art: Arbe Bareis-Moyyad, Medusa, Oil on Masonite
Here at Charge, we believe that meaningful experience is available everywhere. The world, we posit, is wild to interact with us. But it is easy to miss these points of interaction in our daily lives, in places we deem ordinary, or that we relegate to a specific purpose or function. With each issue of CHARGE we hope to be able to ask you to slow down. To look more deeply, to engage more fully and with more awareness.. and then just see what happens.
We’d love for you to think about this issue as though it were a gallery. Walk through the rooms. Allow yourself to spend time, to engage with what you find. Allow yourself to be surprised. To open to the interaction that might wish to occur.
As you wander the gallery, it may be useful to keep in mind our theme for this issue: The Unveiled. It is easy to find ourselves attending to surface matters. We treat the symptom, we change the shirt, we modify the logo, we joke with the coworker, we complete the to-do list. These surface pursuits consume the minutes and the hours of our days, so much so that there is no time left to attend to the underlying cause that gives rise to the symptom, to address the inner changes that need to be made, to discover what prompts the joking, or to ask why we do all that we do. What would we find if we pulled back the veils; if we looked beneath the surface?
In this issue you will find stories about mother-monks and ordinary levitation, and a school that is the scene of a dark miracle… or is it a mass psychosis? You will find a discussion of what lies beyond the capital-V Veil and what resurrection may or may not have to do with it. You will find music to unlock secrets, a cocktail to help you cross the threshold, art that sees beyond itself, and poetry that opens journeys, takes you the edge, and reveals the nature of being-with.
Pull up the playlist, mix yourself a Trial by Fire, pick a room, and start exploring. You’ll notice at the bottom of most pages there is a section titled Inquiry, and that most pages are open for comments. We are delighted to encourage you to consider the lines of inquiry that each piece offers, and, if so moved, to share your thoughts, ideas, questions, and possibilities with us and with each other. Let’s find out what may be uncovered when we dare to disrupt the ways in which we usually interact - with the world and with one another. Let’s open ourselves to the possibilities and transformations that might occur.
Let us pull back the curtain and step into what waits. Welcome to the Unveiled.