The Door of Perception
This video from 1998 is one of the last interviews before Terence passed away in April 2000. The filmmaker John Hazard shares some background on his website.
There’s a twenty-minute subsegment of this interview translated into German. Watch the dubbed video here and download the transcription.
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.
I want to tell you about the Lebensreform movement in the early 20th century. The problems back then were the same like today.
In 1912, the pitface miner Augustin Lesage heard a voice telling him that he was going to become a painter…
Edward James — described by Salvador Dalí as “crazier than all the Surrealists together” — designed a sculptural dream garden that defies any architectural label.
The Zen Mind is a fascinating journey across Japan to explore Zen in its natural habitat.
“The American literature doesn’t have a more beautiful and more profound book than Walden” commented Hermann Hesse. And I knew…
Her heartfelt portraits of mothers and children are imbued with an almost utopian serenity. This same raw, earthy beauty flows through all her creations, whether it’s her vibrant cakes or her drawings made with natural pigments.
Robert Beatty’s artworks are exceptionally peculiar and seem impossible to pin down.
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.
I haven’t shared anything from Terence McKenna in almost seven years, and yet few thinkers had a stronger influence on…
The neutral gaze of the machine is becoming an ever-present reality, recording all those moments previously lost in time.
René Magritte developed key strategies and techniques to defamiliarize the familiar, to evoke the mysterious.
Yoga: The Art of Transformation was the first major exhibition that explores the visual history of yoga.
Watching this video, I felt captured by a primal feeling of awe. One of these rare moments when we glimpse how inconceivably vast and powerful this reality is.
Lately I also rediscovered the wholesome experience of being with with a group of strangers who share an intention of love & growth.
Lawren Harris was born into one of Canada’s wealthiest families and was destined for a life in aristocratic circles, yet he always felt more at home in the great outdoors.
He calls himself a cosmic illustrator, visual alchemist and psychonaut. All images are from his left hand.
The book Kunstformen der Natur (German for Art Forms of Nature) by the biologist Ernst Haeckel is a masterpiece of art and science.
Auroville is the dream of a better world. It doesn’t matter on how many levels such projects struggle or fail.…
Noguchi fought for the reintegration of the arts toward some purposeful and social end, and nowhere was this more apparent than in its playground designs.
