Snu Voogelbreinder
Garden of Eden
Garden of Eden explores the vast world of psychoactive plants, animals and other organisms, and their uses in shamanism, spiritual exploration and healing.
Snu Voogelbreinder
Henri Michaux
Vibrations of Infinity
Painter of poems, writer of spots, dancer of words… Michaux’s work blurs the boundaries between literature, art, and philosophy as self-experiment.
Julius Horsthuis
All These Unseen Worlds
My kind of art is showing something that exists. The fractal exists. I didn’t create it, I didn’t come up with it, I found it.
Kogi Wisdom
A Book of Balance
The Kogi hold a unique position; on a bloodstained continent they alone have never been conquered, and have succeeded in preserving their four thousand year old understanding of the world.
Terence McKenna
The Age of Confusion
I haven’t shared anything from Terence McKenna in almost seven years, and yet few thinkers had a stronger influence on…
Friedrich W. Stumpfi
Cosmic Fertilization of the Spirit
He calls himself a cosmic illustrator, visual alchemist and psychonaut. All images are from his left hand.
Utopian Visionaries
Dostoevsky & Le Guin
These two visionary tales are written hundred years apart, under very different conditions by very different authors yet they make a great match.
The Whole Earth Catalog
Access to Tools
The Whole Earth Catalog, first published in 1968, can be considered the bible of counterculture in the 60s and 70s. It compiles tools that can empower the individual within the global community.
Micah Ofstedahl
The Invisible Force
Realistic representations of observable reality altered by invisible mysteries of life made visible.
Female Pentimento
The Permeability of Reality
Apocalyptic landscapes imbued with an ominous presence, that reminds me of the frailty of everything we deem safe and irrefutable.
Lloyd Kahn
Shelter not Cabinporn
Lloyd Kahn is arguably the most influential pioneer of the DIY building movement that emerged in the 1960s.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
The Beautiful Brain
Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934) was a Spanish neuroscientist and pathologist who is considered the father of modern neuroscience.
Planetary Healers Manual
Survival into the 21st Century
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.
Julia Turk
Navigators Tarot of the Mystic Sea
I have always been drawn to things I found suggestive but couldn’t understand. The tarot is such a theme that speaks to my imagination but I can’t explain what it really is.
Loie Hollowell
Maternal Embodiment
Her body of work is an expression of her sensuality as a woman going through the different stages of pregnancy from conception to birth to motherhood.
William Blake
The Book of Job as an Encounter with the Self
A numinous, archetypal event that can lead to enhanced consciousness and is therefore crucial to the psyche of modern man.
Dying to Know
The Mystical World
This book is leading you on travels in a mysterious and visionary world.
Philip Kirkland
Energy Ecstasy and your Seven Vital Chakras
There is already another post about Philip Kirkland but these images I’ve just found deserve to stand alone.
Agnes Pelton
Desert Visionary
Agnes Lawrence Pelton (1881–1961) was a member of the Transcendental Painting Group, dedicated to the principles of creating and promoting a pure abstract painting style imbued with spiritual intent.
Charles Burchfield
The Shimmer of Nature
Burchfield’s nature scenes strike me as among the most experiential art I know, as he’s able to put you right into his synesthetic experience of nature.
The Last Honey Hunter
of Nepal
Deep and dark, this film glides through a misty world of forest spirits, dreams, and psychotropic honey.
Christopher Alexander
The Timeless Way of Building
To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness.
Stanley Keleman
Emotional Anatomy
This seminal book by Stanley Keleman explores the notion that physical human shape is interrelated with one’s emotional and psychological reality — mapping the geometry of somatic consciousness.
Orgyan Chopel
New Visions in Thangkas
Orgyan Chopel translates cryptic Buddhism into a simplified language of symbols, easier to understand and accept.
The Media-Shaman Manifesto
The following manifesto is a testimony of an awakened youth movement realizing its power. Born from the European rave culture…
Tim Flach
More Than Human
We can begin to sense that we are animals too, just one experiment among countless others, shaped in reciprocity with a living world. At first, we might see otherness, but eventually, we can recognize another person staring back at us.
Walter Russell
In the Wave lies the Secret of Creation
Russell was a visionary — painter, sculptor, architect, musician, and author. But he had no background in science. His cosmogony is based on a revelatory event he experienced at the age of fifty.
Rebel Wisdom
Sensemaking in the Time of Chaos
Rebel Wisdom uncovers the most rebellious ideas in philosophy, human potential and transcendence to find direction through the chaos of the time.
Enchanted Embodiment
and Ashtanga Yoga
Or what being present means to me. And why I practice Ashtanga Yoga.
Tintin
Coming of Age
I grew up with Tintin and I just realized how formative Hergé’s ‘ligne claire’ was for me. His distinct visual…
Metamorphosis
Chaos, Creativity and Imagination
A trialogue on chaos and the world soul, featuring Terence McKenna, Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham – three brilliant minds sharing their views on life and the structure of reality.
Emil Bisttram
And the Transcendental Painting Group
These seekers of the inner spirit in outer things, wanted to carry painting beyond the appearance of the physical world.
