This is the first DOP mixtape, my very personal selection of music that stood the test of time. The first track is sort of the DOP manifesto.
Listen carefully and enjoy!
The Door of Perception
Heinz Edelmann‘s illustrations really made a lasting impression on me as a child. His distinct style seemed all-around and I remember one picture book in particular.

The Adventurous Spark aka TAS is an Austrian 3D artist specialized in live visuals and mapping for psytrance festivals.

This message is so utterly beautiful in its implications that I just want to believe it! Love & gratitude materializes in beauty.
Robert Beatty’s artworks are exceptionally peculiar and seem impossible to pin down.

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

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.

Or what being present means to me. And why I practice Ashtanga Yoga.

To me the main characteristics that constitute the human condition are plasticity and the tendency to repeat.

No introduction needed. Here’s Abdul Mati Klarwein. Maybe I feel especially familiar with his style of painting because it was…

Frieder Grindler is one of the big names of German poster design in the second half of the 20th century.

How would I want to breathe my one last breath?

Thorgerson’s metaphorical language to me feels like as if Magritte would have been into photography instead of painting.

I had an experience that still resonates and vibrates deep within me. If I can keep just a mere afterglow alive, I will be a changed man.

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.

In April this year, I went to Peru for a month. The reason for this trip was my recent felt…

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.

Rebel Wisdom uncovers the most rebellious ideas in philosophy, human potential and transcendence to find direction through the chaos of the time.
This post is a reminder to myself: “Do Yoga. It’s good for you!” I was introduced to Ashtanga once and since then I know that I should follow this path.

Isn’t it wonderful that the revelation of the psychedelic experience only confirms buddhist teachings.

The documentary investigates the origins of modern yoga and presents especially Krishnamacharya’s life and teachings.

