INVISIBLE COLLEGE — Ariana Reines

Invisible College began as an experiment with close readings of Rilke while ARIANA was a Divinity Student at Harvard.

The project grew to become a community of nearly a thousand poets, visual artists, musicians, actors, astrologers, healers, farmers, journalists, athletes, and more– united by a trust in the sacred, intellectual fearlessness, & a sense of surprise, supported by a core group on Patreon.

We’ve hosted unique conversations with acclaimed writers, artists, psychedelic pioneers, & spiritual leaders including Ottessa Moshfegh, Oscar Tuazon, Cedar Sigo, Mondongo, Johanna Hedva, Tiana Clark, CAConrad, Kat McKenna, Edgar Garcia, Michel André, & more, & have an archive of nearly 400 hours of video & audio sessions on Sumerian poetry, Gnostic texts, the Song of Songs, Alice Notley, Joe Brainard, bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Neil Postman, Phil Spector, & beyond.

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Ariana Reines’ integrative work as a poet and teacher is profoundly transformative for me in her ability to leap into the heart of the meditated upon and directly encountered texts she works through as generative fields for new thought and writing. In real time she invents ways to work with poetry and mythic literature as the medicine we need to route out the many cankerworms of fear within each of us, as we work towards liberation from the many hierarchical diseases that bind us. Her firm hand and brilliant mind subvert old stale ways of ‘teaching writing’ and help guide the group through many difficult questions the chosen texts evoke as she also learns beside us. The group becomes a living entity of community, of felt thought. -Lee Ann Brown

I hardly can muster many words about Invisible. It has changed my life. It has made me better. It has sustained me. Stapled me to the planet. Everything I want to say about it exists in the spaces between these words. Invisible: what beginnings and endings that have all passed through these gateposts, this walled garden that flourishes in the desert. Paradisia. I did not know when I began this where it would lead. A constellation stretched across a sea of darkness. And joy and peace like hole punches allowing light to come streaming in. -Juliana

I want to thank Ariana for tilling a strange and layered soil, for her consistency, for the comfort in her image and voice and the saturation of her voices, all of them weaving. I want to thank her for being a light filled chandelier that attracted all of our moth selves, for the visitors and their lineages. -GINA KELLEY

I joined your incredible and magical zoom community since the Lock down in NYC (even though I kept silent so far; I am neither poet nor writer so I feel self-conscious to speak up) however… Joining your regular online meetings, lectures, gatherings, celebrations, reading groups began to hand me a structure which was lacking in my life and also gives me hope for soul nourishing future communities. We are in so many in-betweens. A year full of awakening. While listening to your inspiring words I began a series of drawings, a medium which I had left behind 20 year ago- To my surprise these drawings became really intimate and meaningful to me, like a clock they were the only reliable entity in my surrounding and they slowly became a source of Healing. It’s hard for me not to connect them also to Inanna, Brainard, Sat morning Demonology, or your many other online offerings. This space for shared experience you are providing holds a potential for cultural healing; To come to a moment of surrender in order to be walking within the space of intrinsic trust in this life, oneself and one another. We are collectively transitioning; a place were real change can take place. -Kerstin Braetsch

Invisible college has changed my life, humbled me, made me submit to mystery, completely melted my heart, and made it something other than a numb husk of misery. - Emily

Joining your regular online meetings, lectures, gatherings, celebrations, reading groups began to hand me a structure which was lacking in my life and also gives me hope for soul nourishing future communities. We are in so many in-betweens. A year full of awakening. -Kerstin Braetsch

Invisible College was and is a school for my soul. I can’t really begin to explain in words how much you and the class have opened up parts of me I stored away or consciously kept to myself. -Rebecca Ruiz

I hardly can muster many words about Invisible. It has changed my life. It has made me better. It has sustained me. Stapled me to the planet. Everything I want to say about it exists in the spaces between these words. Invisible: what beginnings and endings that have all passed through these gateposts, this walled garden that flourishes in the desert. Paradisia. I did not know when I began this where it would lead. A constellation stretched across a sea of darkness. And joy and peace like hole punches allowing light to come streaming in. -Juliana I want to thank Ariana for tilling a strange and layered soil, for her consistency, for the comfort in her image and voice and the saturation of her voices, all of them weaving. I want to thank her for being a light filled chandelier that attracted all of our moth selves, for the visitors and their lineages. -GINA KELLEY I joined your incredible and magical zoom community since the Lock down in NYC (even though I kept silent so far; I am neither poet nor writer so I feel self-conscious to speak up) however… Joining your regular online meetings, lectures, gatherings, celebrations, reading groups began to hand me a structure which was lacking in my life and also gives me hope for soul nourishing future communities. We are in so many in-betweens. A year full of awakening. While listening to your inspiring words I began a series of drawings, a medium which I had left behind 20 year ago- To my surprise these drawings became really intimate and meaningful to me, like a clock they were the only reliable entity in my surrounding and they slowly became a source of Healing. It’s hard for me not to connect them also to Inanna, Brainard, Sat morning Demonology, or your many other online offerings. This space for shared experience you are providing holds a potential for cultural healing; To come to a moment of surrender in order to be walking within the space of intrinsic trust in this life, oneself and one another. We are collectively transitioning; a place were real change can take place. -Kerstin Braetsch Invisible college has changed my life, humbled me, made me submit to mystery, completely melted my heart, and made it something other than a numb husk of misery. - Emily Joining your regular online meetings, lectures, gatherings, celebrations, reading groups began to hand me a structure which was lacking in my life and also gives me hope for soul nourishing future communities. We are in so many in-betweens. A year full of awakening. -Kerstin Braetsch Invisible College was and is a school for my soul. I can’t really begin to explain in words how much you and the class have opened up parts of me I stored away or consciously kept to myself. -Rebecca Ruiz