Hans Cousto The Cosmic Octave and the culture of ecstasy — DOP

Hans Cousto
The Cosmic Octave
and the culture of ecstasy

January 22 2015

A few days ago I ran across Hans Cousto in the metro, so I take that as a sign to finally make this post about him. Cousto is a mathematician, musicologist and astrologer best known for his work on the Cosmic Octave (get the book), the universal connecting link between the microcosm and the macrocosm. It’s the key to translate all natural rhythms and cycles into audible music. I really want to learn more about it.

For a start you can also listen to his views on psychonautics in general and the psychedelic revival of the nineties. In this first talk I especially liked his notion, that for some their soberness is nothing but an escape from reality.

Weltanschauung kommt vom Welt anschauen.
Hans Cousto

Das Psychedelische Revival der 90er Jahre, 2006

Musikalische Stimmungen und die Psychonautik, Klangwirkstoff Berlin 2013

Kosmische Oktaven, Klangtage München 2014

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.

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.

All Watched Over by
Machines of Loving Grace

A series of films about how humans have been colonized by the machines we have built. Although we don’t realize it, the way we see everything in the world today is through the eyes of the computers.

Moebius
The World of Edena

A cosmic drama featuring the two interstellar repairmen Stel and Atan who rediscover humanity’s true state of being.

Pete Mauney
A Slice of Eternity

I think it is fair to say that Pete Mauney is obsessed with photographing fireflies. For more than twenty years he finds solace in his nocturnal wanderings and an inexhaustible challenge for the next interesting composition.

DOP Mixtape 1
The Ideal is Unreal

This is the first DOP mixtape, my very personal selection of music that stood the test of time.

Terence McKenna
Dream Awake

I never resonated with someones’s ideas so instantly on such a deep level. Terence truly opened up a worm hole into many new things for me. Such as this blog if you look at it from a broader point of view.

Augustin Lesage
The voices you heard were real

In 1912, the pitface miner Augustin Lesage heard a voice telling him that he was going to become a painter…

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…

Erich Fromm
The Art Of Loving

The presentation of love as as a skill that can be taught and developed is all the more important for modern humans alienated from each other and from nature.

Sayat Nova
The Color of Pomegranates

The film does not attempt to tell the life story of a poet. Rather, the filmmaker had tried to recreate the poet’s inner world.

Jonathan Zawada
Over Time

Landscape topographies derived from graph data were modeled in 3D and then oil paintings created from those 3D renders.

Irene Hardwicke Olivieri
Rewilding the Heart

Her paintings speak to us with such a refreshing immediacy, reminding us how wild it is to be alive.

DOP Mixtape II
Nothing Lasts but
Nothing is Lost

This is a little gift in remembrance of an unsanitized rave culture, that is so much more than mere escapism.

Sasha Shulgin’s
Notebooks and lab records

Alexander Shulgin’s lab books were scanned in 2007 and made available online.

Matthew David Segall
Footnotes 2 Plato

My own infrequent writings are purely experientially and I’m not well-read enough to refer to the spiritual heritage of millenia. However others can.

Robert Steven Connett
Miracles of life on display

The feelings provoked by Robert Steven Connett’s paintings vary widely. Some will see mostly the beautiful and the interesting, and others will see only the unsettling.

Symbolika
Made in Trance

Symbolika is a visionary illustrator who explores the fractal, geometrical and spiritual nature of the psychedelic experience.

Cary Grant
Why didn’t I do this sooner?

I’m a promoter of the psychedelic experience as you might have figured. More people of high reputation need to come out of the closet and speak out about it.

Robert Fludd
As above, so below

Fludd was striving for an universal science, combining mysticism, aesthetics and the more rational sciences to an all-embracing system of knowledge.