Galactic Trading Card set

In the light of Lila, a full gtc deck set has appeared including the long out of print, limited edition of 100, galactik trading card box sets from 2004. The meta-set containing the box and all other cards in
print is available at www.elfintome.com. This is a fundraiser for the project at this crucial time in its development as a global arts initiative.

It all began at the gorgeous Meta Gallery which opened late last year in the beautiful old town Distillery District of Toronto. With great character from ages past, this arts and culture mecca has survived from the late 1800’s and is home to a host of shops, restaurants, galleries and theaters.

The doors opened at 7 pm for a packed reception which would remain full of excitement and energy many hours past the time it was supposed to end. People flocked here to witness some stunning new works, live paintings, artist study’s and little seen older works. The clean, new gallery was an appropriate place for viewing this treasury of visionary paintings.

The packed room lingered as people meditated on the detailed nuances of these brilliant examples of the inspired human imagination.

Throughout the night, Alex and Allyson Grey tirelessly engaged a foray of signatures, stories and engagements by the many people who came to share in this artful glow.

Commemorating the evening was an limited edition of 100 signed and numbered pressings of the ‘Vajra Being’ peace of which a few remain and are being distributed through Meta Gallery

Kudos go to Jody, Meiko and Chris for delivering a professional production with the highest quality media support for this epic showing.

The next day many gathered again at the divine St. Stephen-in-the-Fields Anglican church. Sitting beneath huge stained glass windows in a church architecture designed like a resonance chamber for incredible acoustics, we watched as Alex stood on the pulpit and gave a mesmerizing talk about his art and life. This included readings from his new book : Art Psalms. The collective visionary journey through his work was illustrated by slides on a large screen giving color and depth to his story. The afternoon carried on as he sat signing books and talking to those who stayed around to share.

Later in the evening the Suma crew pulled off a sold out all-night party. After saying a few words, Alex and Allyson work deep into the night pouring themselves into a fantastic live painting performance. I watched as Allyson detailed her work with spiritual accuracy, and Alex painted anatomical layer over layer over layer on a stunning picture of two people connecting together. A crowd stood watching, transfixed, some for hours, at this incredible demonstration of artistic dexterity.

The gorgeous vision and legacy of the CoSM Sanctuary project, a permanent gallery and institute being set up by the Grey’s in New York, is in the process of its first phase of development. Any financial or volunteer support is being sought to help build the foundation for this dream creation. You can find more about this project at www.cosm.org.

Anyone interested in an artful adventure, the Greys are making another appearance in Canada in late July. At the famous Hollyhock retreat center on Cortez Island you can journey to this secluded place to have an experience of a lifetime learning from these masters of the art. See more details here www.hollyhock.ca (or link direct to www.hollyhock.ca/cms/index.cfm?group_id=4370)

The visions of Alex and Allyson Grey light up the imagination of those who explore their many dimensions. Witnessing this art on the internet or in books is one thing, but to see the detailed originals directly, or to hear them talk in person is a whole Other experience.

Indeed, the Art and Vision shared this weekend will linger in my fond memories for a long time to come.

lila correspondent : delvin solkinson

top three photos : Kevin Hedley

church photo : Chris Dyer

party photo : Carlos Rey (neuromantix)

- Erik Davis, ‘True Visions’ www.techgnosis.com

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. This is a source link from a number of art culture communities like Pod Collective (USA), Elfintome (Canada), Beinart (Australia), Zoetic Art (Galactik), Light Science (Canada), Lila (UK), Spectraleyes (Bali), Nectar Temple (USA), and Visionary Revue (France).

Our intention for this media stream is to to create a mosaic message which can open up dialogues on many levels to help give momentum and generate inspiration for visionary art and culture. We wish to send this video out as far and wide as we can. Attached are two sizes of banner that could be used when appropriate. Consider this like Dungeons and Dragons, a gaming system. This gaming system is called ‘Global Media Release’ and our goal is to send it as far and wide as we can. If you can help by posting this media release and video link that would be great. Hoping for front page links, we are also happy to have back end tags in links sections, every portal is a key helping to unlock the network and build visionary art culture community.

“What authenticates the visionary today is the meanings that emerge through them, as they circulate through overlapping communities of perception. The solo artist as modern shaman is an old story. Today the visionary artist is less important than the visionary culture they seed, an expanding planetary network with art as one of its many nodes”

- Erik Davis, ‘True Visions’ www.techgnosis.com

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE LIMINAL MEDIA STREAM :

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-8823655682267212413

VISIONARY ART CULTURE CREATORS PANEL
Boom Festival 2008, Portugal
Liminal Media Stream

“Fantastic and Visionary is a journey of self discovery. Along with discovering ourselves, we are discovering, that we are not alone. Fantastic Visionary artists show us that there other possibilities, limitless ones, if we allow ourselves to dream. We are the community that is unafraid to dream.”

- Leo Plaw (www.leoplaw.com)

Presented by the Elvish Nation, Pod Collective, Elfintome and Crystal and Spore, this historic panel connects key art culture creators from North America, Europe, Oceania and Asia. Exploring the role and place of art in the new culture, this is a tributary in a 120 hr curriculum confluence featuring over 30 presenters and artists from 23 countries. Over the course of a week the liminal village conference and gallery hosted many of the 30,000 festival goers from 80 countries.

For an exploration of boom festival check www.boomfestival.org or see
the 2008 pod drop at http://podcollective.com/fora/viewtopic.php?t=950

Visionary Art Culture Creators Panel

CONCEPT STEWARD AND MC : Delvin Solkinson (www.elvism.net)
DJ : Naasko Wripple (www.interchill.com)
VJ : Sijay James (www.onbeyondmetamedia.com

ART PANEL :
Leo Plaw (www.leoplaw.com)
Luke Brown (www.spectraleyes.com
Carey Thompson (www.galactivation.com
Andrew Jones (www.androidjones.com)
Zariat (www.zariat.com)
Laurence Caruana (www.lcaruana.com)

DEW DROP :
Our cusp culture is borne into an age of deep transformation, ripe with new avenues for expression and artistic evolution. In a world of rapidly dissolving borders and boundaries, the separation between the worlds of the imaginal and the worlds of the material are deepening their weave. With access to the knowledge and history of all cultures of the world, what was once separated by distance and language, is now being melded together. We now have access to the history of art from all different artistic traditions. The modern artist is steeped in influences from all artistic genres and art eras.

Fueled by the worldwideweb and vast evolutions in the quality of communications technologies, artists everywhere are being empowered to share their work with an increasingly global audience. Nodes, collectives, forums and galleries are emerging to represent countries, continents and even newly globalized art culture movements. It is a time potentized with the possibility of a civilization reconnected with its imaginal roots in the dreamy expanses of the limitless human imagination. Art culture represents a return to a resacrelized, respiritualized and revitalized future in which the engines of technoindustrial materialism redirect its energies from plastic toys and thing fetishism to immersive multimedia environments and a reconnection with the natural world.

Advances in communications technology means artists who at one time were
limited to representing in their own country can now share their work globally. In this way living artistic traditions all over the earth are influencing and being influenced by each other simultaneously. A global art culture is getting connected and with it come undreampt of potentials for collaborative artistic evolution. There is a new sheen on the surface of what art means for human culture and what potentials it has to shape the context into which the future culture is being birthed.

NETWORK LINKS :
boomfestival.org
podcollective.com
elfintome.com
visionaryrevue.com
lila.info
elvism.net
higherglyphiks.com
lightscience.ca
r6xx.com
beinart.org

contact for hardcopy media link : delvin@crystalandspore.com

In a moonlit night on a spring day,
the croak of a frog
pierces through the whole cosmos
turning it into
a single family.

Chang Chin-ch’en

In the magic of the heart, in the center that is free, at play in the fields of creation, Shiva and Shakti dance together in creativity and love. This energy is an expression of eternal delight, of pure arts discovering themselves again for the first time.

Matter, life and mind are expressions of One divine Logos that the Primordial Man and Woman create through each other. Shiva and Shakti are Man and Woman, liberated and in love, seting each other free. This universe is an overflowing source of this love, a manifested expression of the exuberance of this love. This lovemaking inspires all creation, enabling art, poetry, music, and dancing as the spiritual origins of human culture.

In this infinite round of being, every being is a crown of clear light, informing and irradiating all things. Everyone inherits the ability to open a channel for helping to shape culture through creative expression and artistic action in the world. Grounded solidly in what we have come here to do, we all share and are connected in a greater movement we are creating together. Our thoughts are each others thoughts, a collective chorus of life, the unified thoughts of the uni-verse, the One Song. We are all part of each other. “Todos unidos !” – All united.

So here we are at the end of everything, a perfect moment to reinvent the future through the present. To rejoin the end with the beginning, connecting end-ways with first ways, in the Oroboric feedback loop of the perpetual present. For that unfathomable moment of conception is endlessly resurrected, and flowers in the Now.

Firmly grounded in the present, we wake up to the magical destiny of our long lineage of light. The spiritual practices of the world help us to dance outside of linear time and into the ahistorical present, into the centre of the labyrinth of mind where the World Tree, ‘Axis Mundi’, can be explored for wisdom and medicine. Gnosis liberates us from our habits and unties us from the restrictions, blockages and inhibitions around our essence which strives for unity by promoting a loving open-system for relating to energy and information. From this well of knowledge comes art, poetry, music and dance, all containing visions of the world within the world. It is from these visions that we may glimpse the potentials through which the present world can transform into the future world. The creative imagination is a guiding sign in worlds manifold journey towards actualization.

There is a deep ecology of spirit immanent within the endless flow of physical, chemical, electrical energies of our universe. We are being called out of the historical present to rediscover our kinship with a more-than-human world, interlinking with the individual and collective minds of kindred animal, mineral and plant species. Co-creating a unified communication of health and harmony, understanding that our actions have implications at every level of life on the planet, we are coming together with other living things to collectively steward the present in order to build a sustainable future. Using art as a starting point for mapping the possible and linking archaic and modern technology, visionary culture is able to apply creativity and integrate wisdom more than ever before.

By nurturing a supple awareness of how the natural ecologies of the earth work in relation to climatic and galactic patterns, we can come to understand the long term consequences of our actions on many levels at once. In this way, plant paradigms like permaculture promote the refinement of our perspective and the conscious shift of our behavioral approaches to growth and development in the world. Understanding the forest as a metaphor for a stable and healthy relationship ecology, the emerging art movements model designs in nature in order to integrate concepts like energy cycling, no-waste consumption, co-dependent relationships, and biodiversity. Plant paradigms bring us a set of malleable techniques and technologies for healing our relationship with ourselves, each other, plants and the planet.

The standing wave of our collective artistic intention crystalises through time via innumerable iterations, into the ornate and baroque structures of civilization. Humanity has walled ourselves up in ego – in mental constructs – which crystalize around us as artificial and dislocated environments like urban sprawls, credit debt and government control. Smoke stacks, fumes from an ineffable petrochemical metabolism confuse the planet and toxify our collective ecology at every level of organism. This world is only the outcome of a certain view. First we make our buildings, then our buildings make us.

In gratitude

Breathe

Starseed Transmission

Paintings by David Heskin

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. Art, music, poetry and dance are universal languages creating foundations for an authentic planetary culture. With these skillsets we are able to address and navigate the intricate problems of our time.

Visionary culture is one of the spirit seeds for the emerging civilization, a set of pathways into the collective creation of a sustainable world. The development of art, poetry, music and dance is at the cusp of a long lineage of transformational growth that can be traced back long before the humble origins of our current world. At this time of turmoil our spiritual destiny is awakening again, a vessel to transport us across the rift of impending ecological collapse. Redefining our roles as planetary stewards and redesigning our collective approach to saving the biosphere, we are presented with a toolset for activating our potential to play an active role in the unfolding. Utilizing the unlimited potentials of the empowered creative imagination provides human culture with the evolutionary option of harmonizing with the more than human world.

Magical awareness
Gaian tapestry
pure elemental frequencies
mapping the landscapes
(like falling water
life streaming from void)

within seed chambers
and honeycombed lattices of light:
an infinite empire of beauty

worlds within worlds
ecologies within ecologies
planting futures
through supple exchanges
between seen and unseen

here we are in this place
of shining stones forever
experiencing the presence

Delvin Solkinson – www.elfintome.com
Daniel Mirante – www.lila.info
David Heskin – www.newskinstudio.com

In a world of rapidly dissolving borders and boundaries, the separation between the worlds of the imaginal and the worlds of the material are deepening their weave. With access to the knowledge and history of all cultures of the world, what was once separated by distance and language, is now being melded together. We now have access to the history of art from all different artistic traditions. The modern artist is steeped in influences from all artistic genres and art eras. Advances in communications technology means artists who at one time were limited to representing in their own country can now share their work globally. In this way living artistic traditions all over the earth are influencing and being influenced by each other simultaneously. A global art culture is emerging and with it come undreamed of potentials for collaborative artistic evolution. There is a new sheen on the surface of what art means for human culture and what potentials it has to shape the context into which the future culture is being birthed.

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. All cultural traditions reflect this spirit of the divine imagination, it is at the heart of the human. In our modern media miasma we find a poly-pantheon of entities and blessed realms rich with nuance and meaning. Today such art comes by many names and has many manifestations, some of these art culture movements are ; visionary art, fantastic realism, surrealism, magical realism, psychedelic art, fantasy art, fairy art, religious art, and new age art. Like crystals, the different movements grow out of each other creating an interconnected mass of points and facets. Some see many of these different art culture genres unified by a common exploration into the divine spirit of the creative imagination. Entheo art is a cross-platform description of a non-localized, modern manifestation of this spirited art culture.

It is a time of great transition for our civilization. The planetary art cultures are a celebration of what is past and what is possible, a shamanic bridge between presence and futures. Entheo art is both a vision and a vehicle for spirit, let it invoke a return to a deeper connectedness between the inspired spiritual life of creative production and the textured material life of the approaching technofuturism. Art is a form of life and its working with us to shape the very fabric of what’s to come.

www.elvism.net