The Door of Perception
Ernst Fuchs was born in 1930 in Vienna and until his passing in 2015 he remained one of the most prolific living elders of the visionary arts movement. Besides painting he recorded music and designed architecture and is a co-founder of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism.
Ernst Fuchs trained many other artists who later made a name for themselves. Two of them were previously featured on DOP: Mati Klarwein & Robert Venosa
Ernst Fuchs, Mati Klarwein and arik Brauer meet in Vienna
I just had an experience that left me totally overwhelmed. I went to my first group session of Holotropic Breathwork…
We all know this masterpiece but the delight is in the detail.
This documentary from 1996 is a celebration of life.
Cameron was an American artist, poet, actress, and occultist who emerged as a key figure in the California counterculture movement in the 1950s and 60s.
The objective of this series was to examine the effect of the elemental forces on the site; and to lift the actual sand off the surface and to fix it in its exact place and shape.
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.
Orgyan Chopel translates cryptic Buddhism into a simplified language of symbols, easier to understand and accept.
Gabor Maté is a Canadian physician who specializes in the study and treatment of addiction. He radiates kindness and a deep understanding of the human condition.
Artists, scientists, spiritual leaders and economists gathered in Amsterdam in 1990 to explore the emerging paradigm of a holistic world view and the implications for a global economy.
The Brazilian-born photographer Valdir Cruz has lived in the United States for more than thirty years, yet much of his…
Capturing the fleeting moments of a wave’s journey to dissipation, Australian photographer Ray Collins feels more at home floating in…
Most probably I will never look down at mother ship earth from space. But some astronauts did when they set out to explore the final frontier.
She describes her work as an ongoing exploration without rules and conventions, inspired by the desire to live.
a documentary about refreshingly open-minded scientists, growing old but staying curious and a beautiful love story. ah wait… and psychoactive substances.
No introduction needed. Here’s Abdul Mati Klarwein. Maybe I feel especially familiar with his style of painting because it was…
Richard Evans Schultes is the father of modern ethnobotany and some of his scholars carry on his heritage.
Edward S. Curtis shows us an ancient way of life that is about to vanish. And after that the wisdom will be forever lost.
The book Kunstformen der Natur (German for Art Forms of Nature) by the biologist Ernst Haeckel is a masterpiece of art and science.
In April this year, I went to Peru for a month. The reason for this trip was my recent felt…
I’m aware of Ana Noble and her life at the navel of the moon (Mexico City) since I discovered her flickr stream many years ago.
