Archive - Classic Psypol 🍄 of Psychopolitica

Limits, to Be Found Experientially

Navalny Enters Hyperspace

Feb 23 •

January 2023

Russia's Agents in the Dreamscape

Some years ago, I had a vivid two-punch dream, in which I felt I was being recruited into a Russian intelligence agency. I was lucid—that is, aware I…

Jan 9, 2023 •

November 2022

Russia's Psychotic Break

I have given up on writing a Russia/Ukraine op-ed for the NYT—I’m too close to the topic, my feelings on it too raw and my thoughts too hopeless and…

Nov 21, 2022 •

August 2022

The Psychopolitical Meaning of Marriage

Your subscription fees have reached $2000 in total, and I sent the whole sum to buy aid for the victims of the war in Ukraine. All PsyPol proceedings…

Aug 12, 2022 •

April 2022

Fear and Power in the Russian Dreamscape

In August of 2020, I wrote in Putin Does Not Exist: I’ve been playing with the idea of a “psychopolitical method”—a system of views and practices that…

Apr 20, 2022 •

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Giorgos Terzakis

November 2021

Buddhist Machinery

My first contact with Tibetan Buddhism must have happened in my late teens. I went to the oldest Buddhist temple in Europe—the St. Petersburg datsan—on…

Nov 14, 2021 •

May 2021

To Be Found Experientially

May 18, 2021 •

February 2021

Never abandon the line

Readers’ mail

Feb 27, 2021 •

Towards a Psychopolitical Method

Getting high as civic responsibility

Feb 16, 2021 •

December 2020

The changing of the wheel

The country that issued my birth certificate was 66 years old at the time. It died one year short of its 70th birthday, in 1991. There’s a kindergarten…

Dec 22, 2020 •

I understand the term “fake news” as referring not to a particular story or a set of stories being untrue, but to the uncertain status of truth…

Dec 2, 2020 •

July 2020

Kyshtym's Alien Jesus

A Russian ET parable

Jul 28, 2020 •

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