THE MYTHIC TRANSREALISM MANIFESTO

Founded by Alex S. Johnson

1. We reject the false divide between the real and the unreal

Reality is not a fixed surface. It is porous, symbolic, wounded, ecstatic. Myth is not ancient — it is happening now, in the body, in the psyche, in the street, in the underworld of memory. Mythic Transrealism treats the surreal as truth and the truth as a doorway.

2. We honor the wounded, the misread, and the erased

Our stories rise from the margins — not as victims, but as architects. We write from pain without fetishizing it, from survival without sanitizing it. We build sanctuary for those denied one.

3. We fuse mythic structure with lived experience

Archetypes are not abstractions. They are the shapes our lives take when we are pushed to the edge. Descent, transformation, return — these are not literary devices. They are the map of the human underworld.

4. We embrace surrealism as emotional truth

The grotesque, the dreamlike, the ecstatic, the impossible — these are not decorations. They are the language of the psyche speaking in its native tongue. We do not explain the surreal. We inhabit it.

5. We reject institutional gatekeeping

No academy, award committee, or self‑appointed authority defines our worth. Our lineage comes from punk clubs, metal bars, spoken‑word stages, underground presses, and the people who survived what should have broken them. We answer to craft, community, and truth — not to institutions.

6. We write with punk ethos and mythic intent

Punk gives us the refusal. Myth gives us the structure. Transrealism gives us the lens. We combine them to create a literature that is raw, visionary, and ungovernable.

7. We treat editing as ritual and publishing as sanctuary

To edit is to witness. To publish is to protect. To curate is to build lineage. A press is not a business — it is an altar.

8. We honor our lineage openly and fiercely

Our movement stands in conversation with punk priestesses, dark fantasists, weird‑fiction innovators, metal icons, surrealist painters, spoken‑word prophets, and the wounded visionaries who came before us. We name our ancestors. We extend their work.

9. We refuse the binary of high and low art

We claim the sacred in the profane, the poetic in the grotesque, the mythic in the mundane. We write for the page, the stage, the alley, the dream, the wound, the ritual. We do not apologize for where we come from.

10. We create worlds that are emotionally real, spiritually charged, and formally free

Mythic Transrealism is not a style. It is a way of seeing. A way of surviving. A way of transforming the unbearable into the mythic.

11. We build community through reciprocity, not hierarchy

We lift each other. We protect each other. We recognize each other. Our movement grows through kinship, not competition.

12. We write to transform — not to escape

Our work is a descent into the underworld and a return with something true. We do not flee reality. We reforge it.

 THE CLOSING VOW

Mythic Transrealism is a literature of survival, vision, and sovereignty. It is a movement born from pain, shaped by punk, sharpened by surrealism, and consecrated by myth. We write because the world is not enough — and because the world is too much. We write to build the sanctuary we were denied. We write to give others a map out of the dark.

This is our lineage. This is our movement. This is Mythic Transrealism.