Vaka Valo’s ongoing ‘Dream Diary’ series brilliantly repurposes schematic illustrations scanned from instruction manuals and turns them into unsettling nightmares. He achieves a dreamlike other-worldliness only reached by few artists. Especially Toshio Saeki evokes a similar feeling in me, although using more explicit images.
Jon Rafman
New Age Demanded
Jon Rafman explores the impact of technology on contemporary consciousness, modern social interactions, communities and virtual realities.
Molly Greene
False Vegetation Gods
I hope that I’m starting to play in that space between conventional ideas of what a human should be and what a human could be.
Alphachanneling
Utopian Erotic
Dive into a lush erotic jungle of entangled bodies and divine pleasures.
Ivan Rabuzin
Symbols of the absolute
Rabuzin found the utmost simplicity, concision and perfection in the sphere and the circle, which were to become his symbols of the absolute, symbols of completeness.
Yoga
Made in GDR
A practice of self-enquiry like yoga isn’t on the agenda of a system of control and conformity. But even in East Germany people pursued this path, despite the risk of arousing suspicion.
The Last Honey Hunter
of Nepal
Deep and dark, this film glides through a misty world of forest spirits, dreams, and psychotropic honey.
Jeremy Narby
The Cosmic Serpent
Research indicates that shamans access an intelligence, which they say is nature’s, and which gives them information that has stunning correspondences with molecular biology.
Phillip Stearns
High Voltage Image Making
The series investigates the effects of high voltage and household cleaning products on instant pull apart color film.
Huxley’s Legacy
The art of living, loving and dying
At the time when I picked the name The Door Of Perception I didn’t know much about Aldous Huxley and his teachings — because that’s what his writings are, rather than novels.
Enchanted Embodiment
and Ashtanga Yoga
Or what being present means to me. And why I practice Ashtanga Yoga.
Yoga
The Art of Transformation
Yoga: The Art of Transformation was the first major exhibition that explores the visual history of yoga.
Stanley Keleman
Emotional Anatomy
This seminal book by Stanley Keleman explores the notion that physical human shape is interrelated with one’s emotional and psychological reality — mapping the geometry of somatic consciousness.
Tuco Amalfi
The Source of Light is Within
I wanted to make a post about the Brazilian visionary artist Tuco Amalfi for some time already. Now I saw…
Wenzel Hablik
Crystal Utopias
Wenzel Hablik is a visionary, an utopian architect of the proverbial crystal castles in the clouds.
Karolina Daria Flora
Weaver of umbilical thread
Karolina’s mission is the transmutation of reality, her work far more than mere adornment — she weaves the umbilical thread that reminds us of dimensions we have just forgotten about.
John C. Lilly
Of Mountains and Molehills
This little chapter from The Center of the Cyclone by John C. Lilly turned out to be a piece of wisdom that stood the test of time.
Islamic architecture
Kaleidoscopes of adoration
Gazing up into the kaleidoscopic worlds of these Iranian mosque ceilings invokes a feeling of transcendental glory.
Valdir Cruz
Faces of the Rainforest
The Brazilian-born photographer Valdir Cruz has lived in the United States for more than thirty years, yet much of his…
Aldous Huxley
Island
This book isn’t a novel but rather a manifesto. The final work of Huxley is a sociological blueprint, a manual for living, loving and dying.
Lucyna Kolendo
Corpo Solido
Every day anew I am fascinated by the human form, my body. While looking at my trembling feet in a yoga pose, I wonder what this body is.