Symbolika is a visionary illustrator who explores the fractal, geometrical and spiritual nature of the psychedelic experience. Portraying the ineffable visions of Ayahuasca alongside beautiful sacred geometry.
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Irving Penn
Worlds in a Small Room
Best known for his fashion photography, Irving Penn’s repertoire also includes portraits of creative greats, still lifes and ethnographic photographs…
James Turrell
Perceive your Perceiving
Turrell is an artist who works with the nature of perception. He uses light to make you perceive your perceiving.
Raffaello Ossola
Vast as the Heavens, Deep as the Sea
The subject of Swiss painter Raffaello Ossola is consistent. He paints gateways into an ethereal realm.
Phil Kirkland
The psychedelic textbook solution
Back in the early 1970s, Phil Kirkland created surreal textbook illustrations, mostly for psychology and health books.
Jerry Uelsmann
Photo Synthesis
Jerry Uelsmann uses the technique of combination printing to create his dreamlike scenes.
Karl Blossfeldt
Urformen der Kunst
Karl Blossfeldt was an attentive observers of nature, a teacher of contemplation.
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.
Microcosmos
Le peuple de l’herbe
This documentary from 1996 is a celebration of life.
On Yoga
The Architecture of Peace
Michael O’Neill’s quest to capture the essence of yoga spans time, space, and peoples.
Toshio Saeki
Nothing is true
everything is permitted
Toshio Saeki is a psychosexual dream weaver, a grand master of mixing myth, that dream quality and pure libido.
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.
Thoughts on
Plasticity & Repetition
To me the main characteristics that constitute the human condition are plasticity and the tendency to repeat.
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.
Karolina Daria Flora
Weaver of umbilical thread
Karolina’s mission is the transmutation of reality, her work far more than mere adornment — she weaves the umbilical thread that reminds us of dimensions we have just forgotten about.
Tyrone Williams
Beauty hidden in plain sight
The photography of Tyrone Williams is a reminder that beauty is to be found everywhere — In trash cans, puddles and rearview mirrors. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Icaros
One who set forth
to learn what being alive was
This film is about people who set forth to fully experience life. To shed the false shell and to return home.
Charles Fréger
Europe’s Wild Men
A primal heart still beats in Europe. Rural people all over the continent kept the connection to nature’s rhythm and celebrate the seasonal cycle. They invoke death but bestow fertile life.
Terence McKenna
Reclaim your mind
The first video is a catchy excerpt of a long lecture by Terence McKenna. To me it seems like it serves as a battle call, the manifesto of the limitless beings we all are.
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.
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.
