Poetic Faiths: New Religions and Rituals as Works of Living Art is an anthology of illustrated interviews with an emergent counterculture of artists and activists who take secular humanism as a given, then ask, “Now what?” and find their answers in artistic creation. Poetic Faiths embody soulful practice through ritual participation in mythopoetic art; they are ways of taking as profound that which may not be taken literally. Volume I includes: Aretéanism – a ritualistic path toward personal and communal excellence, inspired by ancient Greek philosophy CREATION – a queer, science-fiction-infused religious response to climate change, mourning the Anthropocene The First Church of David Bowie, Phonomancer – a psychedelic blend of role-playing, music and personal development The Orphan Wisdom School – a redemptive practice rooted in knowing history, being claimed by ancestry and working for a time that we won’t live to see The Mysterium – an immersive experience of Deep Play guided by 'memento mori ergo carpe diem'—remember death, therefore seize the day With a foreword by Professor Carole Cusack and the provocative Cultpunk Manifesto , this collection explores the dynamic intersection of ceremony, art and philosophy in the search for metamodern meaning. This first volume of the Poetic Faiths anthology is a rollercoaster read, a fascinating and mind-bending collection of intensely entertaining interviews with creative spiritual innovators. It is a glimpse of the future that draws on the distant past as well as imagined otherworlds. I commend it to all readers; there is something for everybody here, and anyone who reads Poetic Faiths and asserts they did not learn anything new is a liar. New and beautiful immortality systems, artistic communities, ritual experiences, and charismatic visionaries are gathered together to blow readers' minds and revolutionise their lives. May it happen. - From the Foreword by Professor Carole Cusack ( Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith , 2010)