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Visionary Art, Shamanism and the Transpersonal Vision

Visionary Art Culture

The contemporary emergence of visionary art, depicting in visual symbolism the realms of shamanic transformation and integration.

  • Autumnal Equinox Visionary Media Release

    Published in Art Expose and Interviews, Art News

    From the depths of the fabled flow, comes the combined forces of a crew of visionaries aligned in the grassy hillocks of central Portugal to explore the present and future of the emerging visionary art culture.

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  • Ayahuasca and Kabbalah

    Published in Visionary Plants

    Jay Michaelson discusses his views of the Ayahuasca experience and its relationship to Kabbalah - “…journeys of the soul to other realm and in the sense of a transformation of the self. They yield information, prophecy, revelation, theophany.”

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  • Gaiahuasca : The Mandala Garden of Being

    Published in Deep Ecology, Mythos  |  2 Comments

    Delvin Solkinson and Daniel Mirante
    The creative imagination is vitalized and inspired by a reconnection to the Gaian fertility circuit. Our creativity is our most valuable faculty for regenerating the web of life and moving humanity beyond its current existential and ecological blind alley.

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  • Intentional Sexuality: Possibilities and Perils

    Published in Sexuality and Erotica

    Jay Michaelson
    A facinating exploration of how intentional sexuality operates in contemplative practice today.

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  • The Transpersonal Language : Spirit Art and Collective Healing

    Published in Art Expose and Interviews  |  1 Comment

    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.

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  • Nectarian Art - Deep Ecological Visions

    Published in Deep Ecology, Features

    The hummingbird is the quintessential symbol of the Nectarian form of art. In Brazil the hummingbird is called the ‘beija-flor’ - kisser-of-flowers. This beautiful poetic term describes the deep sensuality of the intimate engagement with Nature.

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  • Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Tantra… but were afraid to ask

    Published in Sexuality and Erotica

    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 Visionary Eroticism of Mark Henson

    Published in Art Expose and Interviews, Features  |  1 Comment

    Mark Henson has proclaimed a lifetime mission to create art that is filled with positive imagery surrounding lovemaking. His imagery combines tantric, taoist, deep ecological and spiritual themes in a gorgeous expression of the harmonious potentials of life in Gaia’s gardens.

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  • Psychology of the Future - Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research

    Published in Healing, Text  |  3 Comments

    By Stan Grof M.D
    A facinating exploration of holotropic states of consciousness in context to healing : “Ancient and pre-industrial cultures have held holotropic states in high esteem, practiced them regularly in socially sanctioned contexts, and spent much time and energy developing safe and effective techniques of inducing them…”

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  • Wise Mind - A Case for the Integration of Subjective Experience with Objective Reality in the Age of Fragmentation

    Published in Healing, Visionary Plants

    By Flore Singer Aaslid
    Fragmentation ultimately leads to pathology both individually and collectively, whereas integration promotes health. Fortunately, there is integrative potential in many fields of experience; art, myth, dreams and ritual all have this effect, as do many Eastern introspective techniques.

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  • San Pedro and the shamanic tradition of Northern Peru, the Mesa Norteña

    Published in Healing, Visionary Plants  |  1 Comment

    An interview with Juan Navarro by Howard Charing
    Juan is a descendant of a long lineage of healers and shamans working with the magical powers and plants of his bio-region.

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  • Ideas and Reflections Associated with Ayahuasca Visions

    Published in Mythos, Visionary Plants

    Benny Shanon, Ph.D.
    AYAHUASCA IS FAMOUS for the visions it generates. Commonalities appear in the visions of individuals from different personal and cultural backgrounds. This essay explores these commonalities from a phenomenological viewpoint.

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  • Ayahuasca, Religion and Nature

    Published in Visionary Plants

    By Morgan Brent
    Plant-inspired religions can be understood as acts of guidance by an elder community of species to a younger one, the human. They are concerned with successful co-creative relations within the community of nature and the organismic and spiritual growth that these bring about.

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  • Oroborous : Cities, Hypercycles and Tantra

    Published in Mythos, Sexuality and Erotica

    Daniel Mirante
    Exploring concepts of hyperdimensional or transpersonal sexuality in a deep ecological culture. Work in progress…

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  • Forest Dweller : A Song of Gaia Sophia

    Published in Mythos

    By Daniel Mirante
    Describing a period of journeying in the wilderness, Flowing Balance describes mythopoetic transformations of consciousness interpreted as a dialog with the wisdom of the earth-Goddess Sophia

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