Phillip Stearns investigates the effects of high voltage and household cleaning products on instant pull apart color film. The results remind me of synapses and blood vessels.
There’s a video at the end of the post to reveal the technique.
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.
Jon Han
Death and Transfiguration
The art of dying, the experience of letting go all that is known is almost forgotten in our culture.
Hamid Sardar
Shamans & Hunters of Mongolia
“We exist in relation to three things: The forest, wild animals, and our ancestor spirits. Once we lose the connection to these things, we invite demons to take hold of our destiny.”
Polynesian Wayfinders
The knowledge of the ancestors
The ancient art of wayfinding is an almost forgotten skill once common throughout the Pacific.
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.
Moebius
Color work
It’s been a long time since the last post on Moebius. Back then I presented a selection of his black and white work…
Gage Taylor
The Holy Grove
His meticulously rendered landscapes suggest a nostalgia for Eden and the availability of peace and joy through an expanded awareness of the beauty inherent in the land.
Symbolika
Made in Trance
Symbolika is a visionary illustrator who explores the fractal, geometrical and spiritual nature of the psychedelic experience.
Yoga
The Art of Transformation
Yoga: The Art of Transformation was the first major exhibition that explores the visual history of yoga.
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.
Marcelo Pinel
Cyber Mystic Garden
A laboratory in constant change, a small museum of desires and dreams that amuse the inner child.
John C. Lilly
Sensory Deprivation
Today I spent my first hour inside a floatation tank. If you never heard of it I recommend this article for a start: Sensory Deprivation Tanks. I just started to read a book by John C. Lilly the inventor of the tank. He also combined the lack of external stimuli with large doses of LSD.
Walter Spies
The Edge of Heaven
The image of Bali as a place of great physical beauty laced with a mysterious spirituality has its origins in the works of a small circle of bohemian expats in the 1930, of whom Spies was the most influential.
Alexis Pichot
Nocturnal Rites of Passage
The long-time exposures Alexis brings back from his solitary immersions into the night reflect a desire for stillness, to retrieve a timeless meaning lost to modern man.
Pedro Friedeberg
Architect of patterns
Pedro Friedeberg and Frida Kahlo were the only two Mexican artists recognized by Andre Breton as part of the Surrealist movement.
Marshall Rosenberg
Nonviolent Communication
This is a simple yet powerful method for clear, empathic communication beneficial for all of us.
Richard Mosse
The Impossible Image
Richard Mosse‘s infrared photography makes you think about the very act of perception.
Terence McKenna
Search For The Original Tree Of Knowledge
This is a 10 hour weekend workshop given by Terence McKenna in Boulder, Colorado May 29-31, 1992.
The Century of the Self
Death by Propaganda
This series is about how those in power have used Freud’s theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy.
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.
