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Visionary Art, Shamanism and the Transpersonal Vision

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  • Homage To Ernst Fuchs

    Published in Mythos

    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.

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  • Woman, Neoteny, Art, and Evolution

    Published in Deep Ecology

    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.”

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  • EVE by Yvonne Aburrow

    Published in Mythos  |  2 Comments

    Cast forth from the garden by the jealous archon, she wanders the earth, trying to find another garden.

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  • Some Thoughts on DMT Art

    Published in Visionary Art Culture, Visionary Plants

    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…

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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  |  3 Comments

    Painting by David Heskin

    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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  • Nectarian Art - Deep Ecological Visions

    Published in Deep Ecology

    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  |  1 Comment

    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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  • 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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