Green Hermeticism

At 6:30pm this evening Simina Oprescu presents a binaural composition, inspired by Peter Lamborn Wilson’s Green Hermeticism that intertwines spoken word and psychoacoustic phenomena, guiding listeners through a narrative on consciousness, matter, energy, and spirit.

Drawing on key citations from the text, the work explores unconventional belief systems, where the symbolic becomes real, and nature is seen as a perceptive entity. With references to Ilya Prigogine’s theories and Novalis’ hermetic science, it delves into how consciousness shapes the natural world, unfolding through rhythm and transformation—from mineral to plant, animal, human, and divine. This journey reflects hermetic principles of unity and creation, as consciousness seeks itself through all metamorphoses.

Photo cover: Musaeum Hermeticum, Frankfurt edition, 1749