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The Transpersonal Language : Spirit Art and Collective Healing
Lunaya Shekinah
These symbols are an expression of the what I call the transpersonal language, which in simple terms could be described as the language which anyone can understand. The way that these symbols work as language, is by literally containing the essence of a particular state of transpersonal realization, thus having the ability to spark or facilitate that very state in whoever looks at them.
Visionary Art, Shamanism & The Transpersonal
LILA is Sanskrit for ‘Cosmic Play’, the universe experienced as arising from the joyous love play and creative adventures of the Divine. The website was created by painter and writer Daniel Mirante in 2000 ad as a resource for people exploring ‘medicine culture’ ; shamanic forms of creativity and healing of the whole being, including breathwork, rebirthing and plant-based entheogenic practices. Past contributors have included Professor Michael Winkelman, Dr Stan Grof, Dr Karl Jansen, Flore Singer Aaslid and Dr Benny Shanon.
Exploring Visual Arts
The practice of visionary painting (aka ‘fantastic realism‘) strongly entered the rubric in 2004 ad. Lila participates and assists development of visionary culture through maintaining strong affiliation with related projects such as Elvism.net and The Visionary Revue, and generates a rich current of news and original content including regular interviews and features with artists and authors exploring imagination and visions. The importance of visionary art is seen in its ability to bypass the linguistic mind and directly present the phenomenological realities of the ‘imaginal realm’.
A good place to start is by exploring our featured articles, which include interviews with artists and text by authors exploring the realm of imagination and visions. Entheo Art and Spirit Culture by Delvin Solkinson gives a poetic and inspired glimpse into the themes of this site.
- Features is a summary of the newest articles
- Text is a section containing articles and poetic explorations
- Interviews includes discussions with practicing artists and authors
- Events notifies of interesting happenings globally
Lila is a community-centered hub for those interested in visionary creativity, open to recieving contribution and co-creation with allied projects exploring similar themes. Please do not hesitate to get in touch via dan @ lila.info with your ideas for collaboration.
Daniel Mirante, Dec 2007
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A Translator Of Visions - The Art of Martina Hoffmann»
The transformation toward transpersonal awareness beyond historical constructs is what defines the times and the themes of contemporary visionary art : the emergence of a humanity that experiences its existence through cosmic and gaian relatedness, which exists in the ever renewing cyclical time of cosmic play, beyond the socially constructed dialectic of linear technological progress.
Unravelling the Knotwork : Death and Rebirth in the Art of Scott Cranmer»
The entheogenic outsider art of Scott Cranmer represents extrication from violence and decay toward rebirth into the expansive state depicted as a realm of rich patterned expression of cosmic information and higher powers, where the astral anatomy is depicted as a scintillating vibratory weave of colour, pattern and light.
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Why an Art of the Spirit still Struggles to be seen»Professor Philip Rubinov Jacobson
All in all, deep works of art are not likely to be found in the modern art museums, galleries and Bienniales, which are the contemporary counterpart to the palace in the fairy tale The Emperor’s New Clothes…
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Tantra… but were afraid to ask»
An interview with Miranda Shaw by Craig Hamilton
When Professor Miranda Shaw looks at women in Tibetan paintings, she does not see colorful two-dimensional figures born of an artists mind. She sees “numinous, sky-borne women,” “revelers in freedom,” “enchantresses of passion, ecstasy and ferocious intensity”—radiant reflections of the powerful, enlightened women who helped to shape the world of Buddhist tantra.
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The Transpersonal Language : Spirit Art and Collective Healing»
Lunaya Shekinah
These symbols are an expression of the what I call the transpersonal language, which in simple terms could be described as the language which anyone can understand. The way that these symbols work as language, is by literally containing the essence of a particular state of transpersonal realization, thus having the ability to spark or facilitate that very state in whoever looks at them.
Flowing Light - The Angelic Art of A. Andrew Gonzalez»
Daniel Mirante
The images brought into being by Gonzalez depict both the orientation to and embodiment of the biosophic energies of celestial grace and force. In that light, we are endlessly purified, fresh and new, ever renewing, ever-resurrected and upheld in spirit by the power of the celestial.