Mythpoesis, exploration, reviews and textural weavings.
This global arts journal shares a garden of visionary nature art from all continents of the world. This special magazine, full of visionary art and articles has become a collectors item.
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Avatar is real: Pandora exists in our planet and it’s located in South and Central America, and Africa. The Na’vi peoples, the Indigenous peoples in those regions are being displaced and killed right now, in order to extract the natural resources laying underground. The names of places and peoples may be different in the movie, but the facts of reality are almost the same.
Sacred art cannot be delineated as a discreet movement, or genre. Sacred and visionary elements are to be found across the spectrum of art, across all times and places. Visionary art is an expression of profound and mysterious levels of consciousness. And it is ancient, the ‘original art’, whos aim is to continually revive and resurrect a profound respect of mystery within the matrix of culture.
It is with great honor that Lila is able to present Maura Holden’s latest finished work, Divisions of Neptune, accompanied by a work of mytho-prose reflective of some of the originating feelings and meditations contained within this unique painting.
Interview conducted by Lunaya Shekinah of Lightscience with prolific artist / writer / curator, Daniel Mirante, discussing possible futures, and the nature of the imagination.
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Ernst Fuchs – The Spirit of Mercury, 1954.The art of Fuchs forces an examination of the Western roots of spirituality, affirming revelatory spiritual power within Christianity. In the wake of Darwinism, and the world wars this has not been a popular position. And yet Fuchs himself had to work through the perplexities and obscurities, and the devestation of post-war Europe, to find the shining pearl hidden in the mire of matter.
A facinating theory of evolution which integrates the role of matrifocal socieities and the role of art into the mix. “Culture requires brains, and brains of that immense degree were never necessary in any other animal. The human act that demanded immense brain power was the act of art. This requirement is because in art there are no limits.”
Cast forth from the garden by the jealous archon, she wanders the earth, trying to find another garden.
Outside the Amazon, artists not born into or raised in indigenous or mestizo ayahuasca-using cultures, including such well-known visionary artists as Alex Grey, Robert Venosa, and Martina Hoffmann, have rendered visual experiences attributed to the ingestion of ayahuasca or DMT. For want of a better term, I will call this body of work DMT art…
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.”
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.
Jay Michaelson
A facinating exploration of how intentional sexuality operates in contemplative practice today.
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
Daniel Mirante
Exploring concepts of hyperdimensional or transpersonal sexuality in a deep ecological culture. Work in progress…
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