Cosm : Cosmic Creativity review
Cosm, Journal of Visionary Culture, is an emanation of the ritual intention of the Cosm community, established by Alex and Allyson Grey and their mandala of allies. Providing a forum for the emergence of visionary culture, the seventh full color volume delivers a potent drop of ‘cosmic creativity’, a celebration -arrayed over 270 pages- of the universal creative force. Word and image reach an exquisite consilence in the dozens of articles, dialogues, galleries and prayers included in this production thanks to the care and detail given to curatorships and editorial.
The opening pages feature ‘The Starry Night’ by Vincent Van Gogh, a beautiful affirmation of creative lineage, from which the unfolding arrays of luminous contemporary art visions find their historical antecedents. Ernst Fuchs relays visionary and mythic concepts of creative time. His presence in the opening article underlines that visionary culture – unlike the hubris of modernism- is honouring of its ancestors, its elders, its generational progression, the creative gnostic flame passed from master to apprentice; sometimes directly, sometimes through distant strands of time and space. A detail of Fuchs flaming and holy ‘Mary with the Child Jesus’, includes yet goes beyond its culture bound associations, moving into transcendent and inclusive levels.
This theme of the great chain of being, of evolutionary progression not only occurring on the level of our concept of ‘matter’ but elaborating itself through consciousness and its artefacts is interleaved throughout the entire production. The insights imparted through this issue of Cosm assists in an empowering understanding of humanity being ‘at home in the Universe’, involved in an evolutionary process of transcendent proportions. This evolutionary process is not an impersonal process happening to us, it is an inscrutably intimate dance involving each one of us as co-creators. From the photon epoch following the initial bountiful explosion of elan vital, energy has danced itself into star ecologies, spinning galaxies, oceans and forests, producing bountiful vessels of divine consciousness.
As the European painter Peter Gric writes “Imagine that we as humans are little children in a cosmic kindergarten, making our first steps trying to create new worlds, new realities, new dimensions…. things do this in order to grow and actually ‘to become’ other new universes that are the size and complexity of the one we live in”. This idea, of our lives in the cosmos as ‘generating angels’, that this world is a ‘vale of soul-making’, empowers each of us to see our creativity as as a vital expression of our spiritual life in alignment with the creative evolutionary power of the cosmos.
Work by grandmasters Mati Klairwein, Robert Venosa and prophets Terence McKenna and Jose Arguelles – masters who have made their passage over to the next world – provide the strong boughs under which a proliferation of new artists find support in recognising the profound significance of creativity when synchronised mindfully within global and cosmic rhythms and patterns.
Arguelles writes : “As long as we are in the cosmic remembrance we are participating in the whole cosmic process… now we are realising at a planetary level we are one planetary tribe, one planetary organism… We will be making our dream-time circles, growing our veggies and creating our art that will make us feel more connected to the whole cosmic order and the cosmic pattern. That is where we are evolving to and going back to.”
A vital part of this journey is land stewardship. Lila Correspondent Delvin Solkinson’s representation of bio-dynamic gardening and Steiner’s theories of land stewardship are a beautifully grounded compliment to the discussions of art, evolution and cosmic consciousness. Amidst a morass of distracting, aimless media, COSM shines with uniqueness and significance in its celebration of the multi-faceted ‘world jewel’.
Featured articles by Ernst Fuchs, Hermal Smorenburg, Alex Grey, Anderson Debernardi, Amanda Sage, Mati Kalrwein, Terence McKenna, Deepak Chopra, Peter Gric, Andrew Cohen, Matthew Fox, De Es, Gil Bruvel, Hanalisa Omer, Floredmayo, Jose Arguelles, Ingo Swann, Graham Hancock, James Oroc, Paul Laffoley, Lowry Burgess, Leyolah Antara, Nassim Haramein, Vusamazulu Credu Mutwa, Allyson Grey, David Rothenberg, Delvin Solkinson, Rudolph Steiner, Robert Beer, John Miles, Eli Morgan, Brian
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