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.
Emil Bisttram
Robert Fludd
As above, so below
Fludd was striving for an universal science, combining mysticism, aesthetics and the more rational sciences to an all-embracing system of knowledge.
Johfra Bosschart
The Zodiac Series
Surrealism based on studies of psychology, religion, the Bible, astrology, antiquity, magic, witchcraft, mythology and occultism.
Alexandra Duprez
The eternal metamorphosis
French artist Alexandra Duprez mentions Australian Aboriginal art as her main inspiration to take up painting.
Tuco Amalfi
The source of light is within
I wanted to make a post about the Brazilian visionary artist Tuco Amalfi for some time already. Now I saw…
Guy Debord
The Society of the Spectacle
This film is based on the 1967 book of the same name. It’s a radical critique of mass marketing and its role in the alienation of modern society.
The Psychedelic Experience
A Manual Based On the Tibetan Book of the Dead
The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead is an instruction manual intended for use…
Terence McKenna
An Ocean of Ideas
In this lecture Terence unfolds an ocean of ideas, a metaphor for the psychedelic dimension you are sailing out onto to cast the net of the human imagination to retrieve novel ideas out of the chaos.
Emilie Conrad
Continuum Movement
Continuum Movement is a dynamic inquiry into what it is to be a human being, providing a method to consciously explore ourself as an unfolding biological and planetary process.
Thoughts on
Plasticity & Repetition
To me the main characteristics that constitute the human condition are plasticity and the tendency to repeat.
John C. Lilly
Of Mountains and Molehills
This little chapter from The Center of the Cyclone by John C. Lilly turned out to be a piece of wisdom that stood the test of time.
All watched over by
machines of loving grace
A series of films about how humans have been colonized by the machines we have built. Although we don’t realize it, the way we see everything in the world today is through the eyes of the computers.
Jon Han
Death and Transfiguration
The art of dying, the experience of letting go all that is known is almost forgotten in our culture.
Aldous Huxley
Island
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.
Jacque Fresco
The Venus Project
Today I picked up one of my favorite books, Island by Aldous Huxley, his radical blueprint for a better world.…
On Yoga
The Architecture of Peace
Michael O’Neill’s quest to capture the essence of yoga spans time, space, and peoples.
Phil Kirkland
The psychedelic textbook solution
Back in the early 1970s, Phil Kirkland created surreal textbook illustrations, mostly for psychology and health books.
Art meets Science and Spirituality
in a changing Economy
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 Century of the Self
Death by Propaganda
This series is about how those in power have used Freud’s theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy.
Judy Chicago
Visualizing Birth
Judy Chicago has continued to make art a vehicle for intellectual transformation and social change and to women’s right to engage in the highest level of art production.
Terence McKenna
The Transcendental Object At The End Of Time
This is a three and a half hour documentary for every McKenna lover.
Henry David Thoreau
Walden, or Life in the Woods
“The American literature doesn’t have a more beautiful and more profound book than Walden” commented Hermann Hesse. And I knew…
Aldous Huxley
The Gravity of Light
This film from 1997 pays homage to Aldous Huxley, the seer who was nearly blind. His cultural criticism and social prophecy still remind us of great dangers and infinite potentials.
Pavel Tchelitchew
Bodies seen and unseen
Pavel Tchelitchew clearly was a seer of the unseen, a true visionary artist.
Wim Hof
The Inner fire beyond the cold
Wim Hof is a modern-day yogi, a teacher of self-empowerment — not a stuntman.
Erich Fromm
The Art Of Loving
The presentation of love as as a skill that can be taught and developed is all the more important for modern humans alienated from each other and from nature.
Icaros
One who set forth
to learn what being alive was
This film is about people who set forth to fully experience life. To shed the false shell and to return home.
The Net
The Unabomber, LSD and the Internet
Critical thinking in regard to technology isn’t overworked these days and it can’t hurt to reconsider our current course and if it is leading us towards a prosperous future.
DeepDream
Algorithmic pareidolia
And the hallucinatory code of perception
In June 2015 Google engineers released a couple of images that caused a stir for everyone who’s able to grasp…
Symbolika
Made in Trance
Symbolika is a visionary illustrator who explores the fractal, geometrical and spiritual nature of the psychedelic experience.
Aluna
The Elder Brother’s Warning
In 1990, a BBC1 documentary film brought global attention to a remote South American people, the Kogi of Colombia, who…
Renzo Martens
Enjoy Poverty
Renzo Martens’ Enjoy Poverty is one of the most provocative films that have been circulating the art world since its release in 2009.
