This 3D printing project is so extraordinary because of it’s self-sufficiency. It creates objects out of sun and sand. Of course it’s still in the early stages of development. But imagine what this could do in the future.
Terence McKenna
An Ocean of Ideas
In this lecture Terence unfolds an ocean of ideas, a metaphor for the psychedelic dimension you are sailing out onto to cast the net of the human imagination to retrieve novel ideas out of the chaos.
Philip Kirkland
The Psychedelic Textbook Solution
Back in the early 1970s, Phil Kirkland created surreal textbook illustrations, mostly for psychology and health books.
Étienne-Louis Boullée
The Temple of Death
Étienne-Louis Boullée is the master of monumental cenotaphs. His most emblematic project is his cenotaph designed for Isaac Newton.
Alexis R.
Embroidery of Autonomy
A few hours ago I found this woman sitting on the floor near the marketplace of a small town in Southern France.
Cymatics
Bringing Matter to Life with Sound
Cymatics is the study of visible sound and vibration. The phenomenon is visualized with various materials…
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.
Storm Thorgerson
Taken by Storm
Thorgerson’s metaphorical language to me feels like as if Magritte would have been into photography instead of painting.
Anna Halprin
Breath Made Visible
Dance is not something you do for an audience to entertain, it’s a very real experience. It can heal you.
Jill Bolte Taylor
My Stroke of Insight
This account from lalaland is beautifully bridging the gap between science and spirituality to open up our perception of the world.
On Yoga
The Architecture of Peace
Michael O’Neill’s quest to capture the essence of yoga spans time, space, and peoples.
Robert Venosa
Timeless Vistas of Inner Realities
New York City born, Robert Venosa was transported into the world of fine art in the late 60’s after having…
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.
Andy Goldsworthy
Working With Time
Goldsworthy is at play with the relentless flow of the elements, forming fragile and temporary moments in time.
Anna Paola Guerra
Brazilian Light
Anna Paola Guerra is living and working in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. And since I discovered her photos I feel the…
Dain L. Tasker
The Love Life of Plants
Dr. Dain L. Tasker (1872-1964), began producing X-ray images of flowers while working as chief radiologist at Wilshire Hospital in…
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.
Alexey Kashpersky
The uncanny body
Why is it that looking at an open body causes such revulsion?
Art meets Science and Spirituality in a changing Economy
Artists, scientists, spiritual leaders and economists gathered in Amsterdam in 1990 to explore the emerging paradigm of a holistic world view and the implications for a global economy.
Dan McPharlin
Future past or past future
Dan McPharlin is deeply interested in exploring distant worlds.
Judy Chicago
Visualizing Birth
Judy Chicago has continued to make art a vehicle for intellectual transformation and social change and to women’s right to engage in the highest level of art production.
