“It’s a beautiful and rich theopoetics that really captures the idea of divine creation, as well as the way in which this decreation is covered over by idolatry. Brilliant work.” Dr. Peter Rollins (Fonder of Pyrotheology and author of How (NOT) to Speak of God, The Divine Magician, and many other works)
“This is not a myth of salvation, but a story that knows how to disappear, a theology of nothing, where the mother is what remains when all else becomes. It is extremely rare for a book to be as worth writing as this one.” Dr. Julie Reshe (Director of the Institute of Psychoanalysis, Global Center for Advanced Studies, Visiting Professor at University College Cork, University College Dublin and author of Negative Psychanalysis for the Living Dead, including many other works)
“At once playful and profound, Turilli's multi-dimensional text seeks to open new psychological and philosophical pathways into the beating heart of a religious sensibility.” Dr. Richard Boothby (Professor at Loyola University Maryland and author of Embracing the Void, Death and Desire, and many other works)
"The work sees how the dialectic that constantly interrupts and undermines identity can become the guiding light for creating a structure that avoids ossifying into a reified trap. At once an exploration of the radical insights of Simone Weil and a mining of the most powerful tools of dialectical philosophy and psychoanalysis." Dr. Todd McGowan (Professor at the University of Vermont and author of Capitalism and Desire, Emancipation After Hagel, and many other works)
ABOUT THE BOOK
We live in the shadow of stories—some comforting, some disturbing. Few are more powerful—or more dangerous—than the ones we tell about God and ourselves.
KLOBBERLAND is a reimagined creation myth that challenges the explanations behind many familiar Christian narratives. It is not a rejection, but a reframing—a meditative act of excavation, peeling back the layers to reveal what lies beneath.
This is a journey of unmaking and awakening—of revealing the structures that shape us, especially when we are asleep to their design. It’s a movement toward the question: Who am I, really? Perhaps not an identity to build, or a persona to soothe the fear of not knowing, but an enigma to uncover—one who acts freely only when the stories fall away enough for the mystery of the self to break through.
Whether you’re new to mindfulness or steeped in contemplative practice, KLOBBERLAND speaks to those formed by Christian stories but unable to take them at face value. It offers not a meditative practice, but the terrain beneath it—the mythic structure that self-awareness invites us to approach, unravel, and inhabit. It honors the feminine spirit exiled from many theological traditions—restoring her presence to the center of the sacred narrative.
Author: Richard Turilli
RICHARD TURILLI is an explorer of the unknown—a traveler through the hidden caverns carved by the struggles of this world. He descends into the cracks commonly covered with comfort, certainty, or superficial happiness. He walks where the fractures widen, where truth echoes raw and unrehearsed. In a sense, this book is a record of that journey: a confrontation with what lies beneath the surface, a rejection of false repair, and a devotion to the transformative power of honest exploration.