In visions and visionary art we often witness a sensibility that is not really a conventional beauty. It may be elegant, enchanting, intricate, but it challenges rather than succours us, it does not key into sentimentalised or strictly culture bound notions of beauty, but touches upon the ‘full cycle’.
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.
Cast forth from the garden by the jealous archon, she wanders the earth, trying to find another garden.
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.
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.
Daniel Mirante
Exploring concepts of hyperdimensional or transpersonal sexuality in a deep ecological culture. Work in progress…
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
Delvin Solkinson
Since deep in the mists of time, the human creative imagination has been filled with reflections of spirit. Sometimes these came as dreams or visions, in art and song or through the very fabric of ordinary life. Splendored landscapes, mystical beings, sacred forms and heavenly architectures, all shards in a mythology rich with an intelligence of design.
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.