Martín Bollati
This Past Does Not Exist
The publication uses AI to mash up ages, geographies and traditions, creating virtual artifacts indistinguishable from historical records.
Martín Bollati
Terence McKenna
The Age of Confusion
I haven’t shared anything from Terence McKenna in almost seven years, and yet few thinkers had a stronger influence on…
Friedrich W. Stumpfi
Cosmic Fertilization of the Spirit
He calls himself a cosmic illustrator, visual alchemist and psychonaut. All images are from his left hand.
Utopian Visionaries
Dostoevsky & Le Guin
These two visionary tales are written hundred years apart, under very different conditions by very different authors yet they make a great match.
The Whole Earth Catalog
Access to Tools
The Whole Earth Catalog, first published in 1968, can be considered the bible of counterculture in the 60s and 70s. It compiles tools that can empower the individual within the global community.
Sharon Ellis
Tumult in Earth, Calm in Heaven
Her vibrant nature scenes convey a sense of the divine in nature and are reminiscent of the Transcendental Painting Group.
Friedrich
Schröder Sonnenstern
Lunatic or Artist
After a tumultuous life, often in conflict with the law, including periods in psychiatric hospitals, the founding of a sect and practicing as a fortune teller and healer, he began to draw at the age of 57.
Female Pentimento
The Permeability of Reality
Apocalyptic landscapes imbued with an ominous presence, that reminds me of the frailty of everything we deem safe and irrefutable.
Lloyd Kahn
Shelter not Cabinporn
Lloyd Kahn is arguably the most influential pioneer of the DIY building movement that emerged in the 1960s.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
The Beautiful Brain
Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934) was a Spanish neuroscientist and pathologist who is considered the father of modern neuroscience.
Planetary Healers Manual
Survival into the 21st Century
This book is a New Age classic but just one of many publications in the same spirit springing from the counterculture of the late 1960s.
Peter Birkhäuser
Light from the Darkness
Few artists have so powerfully evoked the uncanny otherness of the unconscious like Swiss artist Peter Birkhäuser.
Julia Turk
Navigators Tarot of the Mystic Sea
I have always been drawn to things I found suggestive but couldn’t understand. The tarot is such a theme that speaks to my imagination but I can’t explain what it really is.
Marcelo Pinel
Cyber Mystic Garden
A laboratory in constant change, a small museum of desires and dreams that amuse the inner child.
Loie Hollowell
Maternal Embodiment
Her body of work is an expression of her sensuality as a woman going through the different stages of pregnancy from conception to birth to motherhood.
Híbridos
The Spirits of Brazil
A poetic and cinematic research into spirituality and its music in Brazil by Priscilla Telmon & Vincent Moon.
Hamzeh Carr
The Light of Asia
The Light of Asia is a famous narrative poem that tells the life and time of Prince Gautama Siddhartha, who after attaining enlightenment, became the Buddha.
Ithell Colquhoun
Psychomorphologies
After decades of neglect, the British artist and writer Ithell Colquhoun is finally recognized as one of the most exciting and creative occult thinkers of the 20th century.
Becoming
The Genesis of Life
The first stages of embryonic development are roughly the same for all animals, including humans.
William Blake
The Book of Job as an Encounter with the Self
A numinous, archetypal event that can lead to enhanced consciousness and is therefore crucial to the psyche of modern man.
Dying to Know
The Mystical World
This book is leading you on travels in a mysterious and visionary world.
Philip Kirkland
Energy Ecstasy and your Seven Vital Chakras
There is already another post about Philip Kirkland but these images I’ve just found deserve to stand alone.
Agnes Pelton
Desert Visionary
Agnes Lawrence Pelton (1881–1961) was a member of the Transcendental Painting Group, dedicated to the principles of creating and promoting a pure abstract painting style imbued with spiritual intent.
The Last Honey Hunter
of Nepal
Deep and dark, this film glides through a misty world of forest spirits, dreams, and psychotropic honey.
Johfra Bosschart
Unio Mystica
Surrealism based on studies of psychology, religion, the Bible, astrology, antiquity, magic, witchcraft, mythology and occultism.
Christopher Alexander
The Timeless Way of Building
To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness.
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.
Orgyan Chopel
New Visions in Thangkas
Orgyan Chopel translates cryptic Buddhism into a simplified language of symbols, easier to understand and accept.
Rebel Wisdom
Sensemaking in the Time of Chaos
Rebel Wisdom uncovers the most rebellious ideas in philosophy, human potential and transcendence to find direction through the chaos of the time.
Daniel Stier
Ways Of Knowing
A personal project exploring the real world of scientific research. Not the stainless steel surfaces bathed in purple light, but real people in their basements working on selfbuilt contraptions
Enchanted Embodiment
and Ashtanga Yoga
Or what being present means to me. And why I practice Ashtanga Yoga.
De Es Schwertberger
Heavy Light
Over more than fifty years of creating, Schwertberger’s themes and painting style evolve continuously. The path led from a figurative fantastic realism to an almost abstract, process-like creative flow.
