I featured this documentary before but I feel it deserves to stand alone.
Watch it right after this post. These two films complement each other:
Inner Worlds — Outer Worlds.
Symbolika
Made in Trance
Symbolika is a visionary illustrator who explores the fractal, geometrical and spiritual nature of the psychedelic experience.
Biosphere 2
A holistic mini-world
Biosphere 2 was one of the most lauded experiments of the 1990s, then one of the most ridiculed. Now it is back, offering a unique way to put theories about climate and environment to the test.
Emil Bisttram
And the Transcendental Painting Group
These seekers of the inner spirit in outer things, wanted to carry painting beyond the appearance of the physical world.
Roger Caillois
The Writing of Stones
Roger Caillois’ involvement with stones isn’t so much on a scientific level, he more created a philosophy around the inner worlds of the stones.
Moebius
Black & White work
When it comes to Moebius aka Jean Giraud (* 1938 — † 2012) it’s hard to make a choice what to present. His body of work is huge and versatile. My selection focuses on his early black & white work.
In a mother’s womb
Or the cycle of life
This text is immensely powerful to illuminate death or any transition into the unknown. Remember that you already went through a fantastic metamorphosis before.
Dennis McKenna
Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss
Dennis McKenna shared a life’s devotion to psychedelics with his better known brother. And he wrote a book about it.
Keith Rankin
Half child Half ancient
Keith Rankin is responsible for the sublime artwork of Orange Milk Records.
Carl Gustav Jung
The Wisdom of the Dream
I’m reading the autobiography of Carl Gustav Jung. It was a name I’ve come across constantly and I knew there’s…
Brenna Murphy
Resonant hyper objects
The ancient and the yet unseen echoes through these arabesque hyper realms, with an almost hallucinatory effect.
Las Pozas
de Edward James
Edward James — described by Salvador Dalí as “crazier than all the Surrealists together” — designed a sculptural dream garden that defies any architectural label.
Ashtanga Yoga
Mysore Style
The term Mysore Style means you practice a memorized yoga sequence without being led by a teacher. The role of the teacher is to guide as well as provide adjustments or assists in postures.
Simon G. Powell
The Psilocybin Solution
Simon G. Powell had no real budget or crew, but he did have a Hi-8 video camera, some music equipment, a computer and lots of inspiration.
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.
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.
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.
Rick Doblin
Myths About Psychedelic Drugs
Rick Doblin is the the founder of MAPS and one of the most prominent fighters for opening our culture to the healing power of psychedelics.
Stepping into the fire
Part III
I will step into the fire. The fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn me, it will only burn what I am not.
Buckminster Fuller
Everything I Know
R. Buckminster Fuller gave an extraordinary series of lectures concerning his entire life’s work. These thinking out loud lectures span 42 hours and examine in depth all of his major inventions and discoveries.
Steve Axford
Fungi, the recyclers
Steve Axford does what he likes most. It’s taking pictures and exploring the living world that unfolds evermore interconnectedness to him.
