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    LILA covers emerging contemporary visionary and sacred art, artists, exhibitions, and related themes such as deep ecology, shamanism, mythology and new global world culture.

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    Satty

    Restoring the Future oil/ canvas 41 x 66 inches 2010

    Mark Henson

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    Odd Nerdrum

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    Agostino Arrivabene

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    Philip Rubinov Jacobson

     

    Featured Artists

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    HR Giger

    H. R. Giger is one of the world’s foremost artists of Fantastic Realism. His airbrush innovations and ‘biomechanical’ aesthetics have been highly influential upon western culture.

    Artists by country:

    • USA
    • Australia
    • United Kingdom
    • France
    • Austria
    • Peru
    • Japan

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  • Interviews & Features

    Latest Interviews & Features

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    Gaian Entelechy – Jake Kobrin

    By Jake Kobrin

    This artwork GAIAN ENTELECHY is a tribute to this emerging visionary culture. It is a representation of the Earth spirit, of a noble consciousness that exists within the natural world. The Earth is alive. And we are a part of it.

    Healing by Autumn Skye Morrison

    Ars Sacrum – The Return of Sacred Schools of Illuminated Craftsmanship

    By Daniel Mirante

    Sacred art connects and integrates wisdom lines and knowledge traditions across space and time. It performs this through a traditionalism, an honoring of its antecedents, its elders, its generational progression, the creative gnostic flame passed from master to apprentice : sometimes directly, sometimes through distant strands of inter-connectivity.

    Lila has charted the contemporary visionary and sacred art movement by talking directly to those involved. Explore the themes, motifs, inspirations and approaches to creativity found in visionary art.

    Recommended

    • Maura Holden : Painting from the Hypersea of Spirit
    • Kuba Fiedorowicz : Visionary Art / Sacred Art
    • The Ayahuasca Visions of Pablo Amaringo
    • A Translator Of Visions – The Art of Martina Hoffmann

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  • News

    Latest news

    Stunning intervention in the TED controversy by 19 leading scientists

    An update on the TED ‘War on Consciousness’ debate…

    Healing by Autumn Skye Morrison

    Ars Sacrum – The Return of Sacred Schools of Illuminated Craftsmanship

    Sacred art connects and integrates wisdom lines and knowledge traditions across space and time. It performs this through a traditionalism, an honoring of its antecedents, its elders, its generational progression, the creative gnostic flame passed from master to apprentice : sometimes directly, sometimes through distant strands of inter-connectivity.

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    Visionary Art and Culture Month

    This is an opportunity and call to action for the exhibition of ideas, visions and leaders who are ahead of their time. Numerous gallery exhibitions and cultural happenings are being scheduled in Colorado during the month of May.

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    Support fund for Yvonne McGillivray

    This invitation to donate is dedicated in support of our beloved sister, artist and wise-woman Yvonne, as she bravely embarks on her healing journey after having a serious car accident in Scotland. Yvonne McGillivray, wise woman, visionary artist, and friend to many, has suffered serious injuries from a car accident — multiple fractures and in(…)

  • Articles

    Recently Added Articles

    Gaian Entelechy – Jake Kobrin by Jake Kobrin

    This artwork GAIAN ENTELECHY is a tribute to this emerging visionary culture. It is a representation of the Earth spirit, of a noble consciousness that exists within the natural world. The Earth is alive. And we are a part of it.

    Ars Sacrum – The Return of Sacred Schools of Illuminated Craftsmanship by Daniel Mirante

    Sacred art connects and integrates wisdom lines and knowledge traditions across space and time. It performs this through a traditionalism, an honoring of its antecedents, its elders, its generational progression, the creative gnostic flame passed from master to apprentice : sometimes directly, sometimes through distant strands of inter-connectivity.

    Psychointegrator Plants: Their Roles in Human Culture, Consciousness and Health by Michael Winkelman

    The “sacred plants”, which are often called hallucinogens and psychedelics, have played important roles in ancient and contemporary societies, evoking powerful spiritual, emotional, social and cognitive reactions. Their importance for humanity is attested to by findings in many areas.

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    Upcoming Exhibitions & Events

    Questing the Sacred

    EnQuête du Sacré – “Questing the Sacred” Visionary Art Paris

    From Russia to Australia to London, Paris and Vienna to the West coast of the United States, these twelve artists (7 men and 5 women) unite on a quest to evoke the sacred.

    Fantastic Generations, Uncommon Visions, Vienna

    When people tap into “the muse,” they make contact with a higher source of creative inspiration. It is in this spirit that the artists represented in this show offer their work and the life of their art at this groundbreaking exhibition in Vienna.

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    3RD EYE art gallery – Boom Festival

    ON THE VISUAL END OF THE CREATIVE SPECTRUM, THE 3RD EYE GALLERY WILL SHOWCASE A VERY POWERFUL COLLECTION OF ART FROM AROUND THE GLOBE. There is an undeniable quickening occurring in our world today as our human population continues its exponential growth and expansion. The world is connected like we have never before seen and(…)

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Mythos

Caves

Dec 3, 2011 Daniel Mirante in Deep Ecology, Mythos, Visionary Plants 2 Comments Tags: aesthetics, caves, grotesque

Caves

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’.

Maura Holden – Divisions of Neptune

Feb 28, 2009 Daniel Mirante in Interviews, Mythos 1 Comment Tags: maura holden, mische technique, visionary art

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.

EVE by Yvonne Aburrow

Nov 27, 2008 Daniel Mirante in Mythos 2 Comments Tags: Daniel Mirante, sophia

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

Gaiahuasca : The Mandala Garden of Being

Jul 2, 2008 Delvin Solkinson in Deep Ecology, Mythos 3 Comments Tags: Daniel Mirante, Delvin, medicine culture

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.

Ideas and Reflections Associated with Ayahuasca Visions

Dec 12, 2007 admin in Mythos, Visionary Plants No Comments Tags: ayahuasca, benny shanon

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.

Oroborous : Cities, Hypercycles, Deep Ecology and Tantra

Dec 11, 2007 Daniel Mirante in Mythos, Sexuality and Erotica No Comments Tags: city, Daniel Mirante, fractal, Sexuality and Erotica, tantra, taoism

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

Forest Dweller : A Song of Gaia Sophia

Dec 6, 2007 Daniel Mirante in Mythos 1 Comment Tags: Daniel Mirante, deep ecology, entheogens, gaia, gnosis, sophia, wilderness

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

Entheo Art and Spirit Culture

Nov 21, 2007 Delvin Solkinson in Mythos No Comments Tags: Delvin, entheo art, medicine culture, spirit culture

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.

Flowing Light – The Angelic Art of A. Andrew Gonzalez

Oct 30, 2007 Daniel Mirante in Mythos 4 Comments

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.

Latest Content

  • Gaian Entelechy

    Gaian Entelechy – Jake Kobrin

    This artwork GAIAN ENTELECHY is a tribute to this emerging visionary culture. It is a representation of the Earth spirit, of a noble consciousness that exists within the natural world. The Earth is alive. And we are a part of it.

  • Stunning intervention in the TED controversy by 19 leading scientists

    An update on the TED ‘War on Consciousness’ debate…

  • Ars Sacrum

    Ars Sacrum – The Return of Sacred Schools of Illuminated Craftsmanship

    Sacred art connects and integrates wisdom lines and knowledge traditions across space and time. It performs this through a traditionalism, an honoring of its antecedents, its elders, its generational progression, the creative gnostic flame passed from master to apprentice : sometimes directly, sometimes through distant strands of inter-connectivity.

  • Visionary Art and Culture Month

    Visionary Art and Culture Month

    This is an opportunity and call to action for the exhibition of ideas, visions and leaders who are ahead of their time. Numerous gallery exhibitions and cultural happenings are being scheduled in Colorado during the month of May.

  • Support fund for Yvonne McGillivray

    Support fund for Yvonne McGillivray

    This invitation to donate is dedicated in support of our beloved sister, artist and wise-woman Yvonne, as she bravely embarks on her healing journey after having a serious car accident in Scotland. Yvonne McGillivray, wise woman, visionary artist, and friend to many, has suffered serious injuries from a car accident — multiple fractures and in(…)

  • An Academy of Visionary Art Set to Launch in Vienna

    An Academy of Visionary Art Set to Launch in Vienna

    The Vienna Academy of Visionary Art has just launched, offering courses, full academy training, exhibitions, publications and more. It is very significant in that it establishes a permanent center of operation for the re-emergence of sacred and visionary art into Western culture.

  • Psychointegrator Plants: Their Roles in Human Culture, Consciousness and Health

    The “sacred plants”, which are often called hallucinogens and psychedelics, have played important roles in ancient and contemporary societies, evoking powerful spiritual, emotional, social and cognitive reactions. Their importance for humanity is attested to by findings in many areas.

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