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Essay · Carita Hännikäinen
Nature’s Otherness: Henry David Thoreau and the Crumbling Consensus Reality
Walden read through an esoteric lens: a ritual withdrawal into a liminal state and a deliberate step outside consensus reality.
Esoteric webzine · Artist collective · Podcast
Only the extreme is real.
Tuonen Portti is an esoteric-visionary artist collective, founded in 2020, and the creator of The Mycelium Signal Podcast. Our site also functions as an online magazine, featuring writings, reviews, interviews and art.
I · Latest publications
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Writings and reviews
Essays, manifestos and reviews, plus selected Finnish articles awaiting translation.
Film review · Backrooms (2026)
Backrooms
Kane Parsons’ feature debut strips away the comforting fiction of an explicable world and casts the viewer into an architectural purgatory.
Manifesto · Kalmism
The Kalmism Manifesto
We live in a society suffering from chronic daytime consciousness. Modern life leans on performance, compulsive optimism, and a sterile illusion of happiness.
Essay · Carita Hännikäinen · In Finnish
The Horns of Light
When Michelangelo carved two small horns onto the head of Moses, behind it lay a famous mistranslation.
Portrait · Carita Hännikäinen · In Finnish
Oscar Wilde: An Aesthete in the Shadow of the Occult and Suffering
Behind the sparkling surface of the age’s most famous dandy lay a worldview drawn from the occult sciences and mysticism.
Guest column · Tomi Antila · In Finnish
On the Cosmology of the Screw
A dream about the fundamental structure of existence: comically simple, disturbingly clear and suspiciously complete.
Article · In Finnish
Albert Pierrepoint
Pierrepoint (2005) and 10 Rillington Place (1971): a chilling double portrait of twentieth-century British legal history and real-life crime.
Listen
The Mycelium Forum: panel discussions recorded in English.
II · Sections of the site
Explore the Gate
Art
Visual art and photography by the founders, and the collective’s publications.
Earth · Fire · Stone · Wood · Smoke
The Pit
A project begun by Konstantin Tuonihovi in 2015: sanctuaries, altars and an initiatory path, built from the site’s own earth, stone and wood.
Podcast
The Mycelium Signal
Born in early 2023, the podcast dredges the darkest undercurrents of culture, religion and philosophy with expert guests. Sub-series include The Mycelium Forum, Liminalis and Kenttäsignaali.
Collective
Tuonen Portti
An esoteric-visionary artist collective founded in 2020.
The Kalmism Manifesto
”We live in a society suffering from chronic daytime consciousness…”
Webzine · In Finnish
Kirjasto
Most of the archive is in Finnish: the collective’s writings, guest columns, reviews, exhibition reports and interviews, plus the monthly Vox Mycelii blog.