The Door of Perception
There is already a post about Philip Kirkland on DOP but these images I’ve just found deserve to stand alone.
The scans are from a book titled ‘Energy Ecstasy and Your Seven Vital Chakras’, published in 1983 by Bernard Gunther.
See the previous post about Kirkland’s art here:
The Psychedelic Textbook Solution
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Altered Statuses, a large archive of the visual culture of global New Ages, esotericism and fringe religions.
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.
Bryan Haynes’ ability to portray trees in an otherworldly light speaks to me in the most visceral way. It awakens a memory I carry within, of another kind of seeing.
The woodcut prints of Tom Killion speak of a deep love for the landscape, a passion for the poetics of…
Thomas Shearer’s main focus is on agate and I spent hours browsing his vast collection. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
Klaudia B. Lewandowski is a photographer and creator of visual poetry, based in Berlin. She looks at the world through the eyes of a curious child, collecting sticks and stones and flowers along the way.
A practice of self-enquiry like yoga isn’t on the agenda of a system of control and conformity. But even in East Germany people pursued this path, despite the risk of arousing suspicion.
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.
This book isn’t a novel but rather a manifesto. The final work of Huxley is a sociological blueprint, a manual for living, loving and dying.
I just discovered the greatest documentary of all time. I urge you to take the time and watch this carefully. What do you feel?
This book is a New Age classic but just one of many publications in the same spirit springing from the counterculture of the late 1960s.
The ancient and the yet unseen echoes through these arabesque hyper realms, with an almost hallucinatory effect.
Today I woke up with a longing for color and the jungle. So I knew it’s time for Henri Rousseau.…
For more than forty years, Arno Rafael Minkkinen has been photographing his body immersed in nature. What you see happening in the image happened in front of the lens.
Visually arresting and conceptually rigorous, the graphic design of Boris Bućan has recently experienced renewed international interest.
In June 2015 Google engineers released a couple of images that caused a stir for everyone who’s able to grasp…
Rebel Wisdom uncovers the most rebellious ideas in philosophy, human potential and transcendence to find direction through the chaos of the time.
Photojournalist Sebastião Salgado traveled the Brazilian Amazon for six years to document the unfathomable wonder of this last frontier. The forest, the rivers, the mountains, and the people who live there.
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.
Drawings from Philippe Caza‘s Hydrogenesis.
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.
