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.
Indulging in the aimless activity of watching the ephemeral beauty of clouds can enrich your life. Realize we don’t live beneath the sky, we live within it.
The western culture is devoid of meaningful rituals that help you grow through the stages of life. I think that’s the reason why I’m so fascinated when I find it in other cultures.
My appreciation for this lecture is beyond words. Grof’s thoughts basically touch all the areas that I want to explore right now.
Her paintings speak to us with such a refreshing immediacy, reminding us how wild it is to be alive.
The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead is an instruction manual intended for use…
In 1912, the pitface miner Augustin Lesage heard a voice telling him that he was going to become a painter…
End Time City is Michael Ackerman’s radical portrayal of the Indian city of Benares, the holy City of Light on the shore of the Ganges.
I featured this documentary before but I feel it deserves to stand alone.
This text is immensely powerful to illuminate death or any transition into the unknown. Remember that you already went through a fantastic metamorphosis before.
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.
Jean Delville was a Belgian painter who painted heavily symbolic scenes with a occult oriented spiritual perspective.
This book is a must for all future parents. Besides that they don’t need to learn much.
This documentary from 1996 is a celebration of life.
Berndnaut Smilde performs magic. I don’t need to know how he’s creating his indoor clouds but I love it. I totally share his fascination with clouds.
Surrealism based on studies of psychology, religion, the Bible, astrology, antiquity, magic, witchcraft, mythology and occultism.
Primitive Technology is a hobby where you make things in the wild completely from scratch using no modern tools or materials. This is the strict rule.
Rimantas Dichavičius is a photographer and illustrator from Lithuania. In this book he confronts the female nude with pictures of nature.
The person behind the name Selvesportrait is a nomadic seeker, a nature worshipper and a naked mirror to the infinite beauty.
On these grounds, all perception is a gamble. A meta-level is always just around the corner, and Zawada’s hyperreal imagery is a vivid glimpse into an expanded perceptual bandwidth.
Amy Woodward’s tender photographic eye focuses on portraying the experience of early parenthood. A pivotal moment for everybody living through…
