Transcendental Art : Entoptic forms

Conventional art is based on perception of outside world (material objects), whereas entoptic (or transcendental) art is generated by inner world (nervous system) and represents different types of subjective visual phenomena.

Entoptic art is psychosomatic in nature and comes out of oneself - namely from the psyche of participating observer.

Interestingly enough, the very first art form on the planet was ‘kick started’ by taking psychoactive ingredients in the diet of the first artists.

“Lewis-Williams and Dowson brought forward the original thesis that Paleolithic art is inspired by subjective visual phenomena, seen and depicted by shamans or spiritual men and women during altered states of consciousness.”

T. McKenna’s “Stoned Ape Theory” is also closely related to this entopic phenomena.

Entoptic forms are created (and perceived) by means of altering a state of consciousness of the observer. A good analogy would be a psychedelic drug. Another good example – a stroboscopic flicker device that produces visual stimuli in the mind of the observer. In other words, these art forms are created out of neurological makeup of the observer, inside the head, responding to external stimuli.

Since entoptic art is a self made, self generated type of art, it is relevant to mention: the better is the observer’s imagination; the richer is the art experience.

Entoptic phenomena is related to the ‘Observer’s Paradox’ principle from quantum physics. (It has been proven that conscious act of observation changes behavior of the observed object.) So, I assert that in entoptic trance observation equals creation.

As more people become interested in exploring personal psyche, ‘right brain’ technologies and gather more accurate understanding of how a human mind works – the creation of new diverse psychoactive stimuli will follow.

Just as with all thoughts and feelings of humankind, the original entoptic creations are stored in the planet’s noosphere (collective consciousness layer) and can be easily accessed through an appropriate stimuli. Note: stimuli dont have to be only psychoactive drugs, they can be physical devises like the dream machine lamp (mentioned above), sense deprivation tanks (Dr. Lilly's), holotropic breathwork, and other techniques to achieve alternative state of consciousness.
For example, famous shamanic paintings of Pablo Amaringo for me are just physical 3D ‘copies’ of the non-physical entopic art forms he mentally created/experienced with the help of ayahuasca stimuli.

Eventually, when the mainstream culture finally moves on from the current ‘material’ worldview paradigm to a more spiritual perception of reality (2012?), the notion of ‘art’ will also acquire a spiritually deeper meaning.

The new entoptic art paradigm will be mankind's rediscovery of the original psychedelic roots of art itself.

Another good reason to have a dog

What I expect to see in 2012

Magick Alphabet of the Ancients

experiment with light glyphs superimposed on the skull of Anunaki

Shamanizing en casa

Aliens from 9 different planets

3.33 min of peace

morning meditation on the beach

I was a bit bored

Advertising and magick (concept)

Retouching silly quotes

The original quote sounds like it came from a planner (or a production manager) and could have made more sense to me if it didn't have the word 'great' in it...or used the word 'efficiency' instead of 'ideas'....... bla bla...blaaaaaaaaaa

My kinda Yoga

sunset on the rocks in Goa

Magick Alphabet

Messages to 4 spiritual beings composed in magick alphabet:

Idea: Mushroom houses for safer living

As the planet earth is facing an increase of extreme global weather and seismological activity the style and principle of conventional architecture will have to change too. Here's a concept for a future building designed to withstand extreme weather conditions - Collapsible mushroom style houses:

In the event of a dangerous event (tornadoes, earthquakes, tsunami, meteorite showers, etc.) the houses would be able to slide down into underground shaft protected by hermetically sealed cap on the top. The cap would contain solar powered batteries protected by a transparent thick layer of the strongest material available.

Angelic Mandalas design

Order of appearance on each set:

1. Archangel
2. Angel
3. Ruler
4. King

Direction: from East to South to West to North

Competition in The Golden Age

I think when it comes to human consciousness, competition, as a prime principle of human evolution, is hugely overrated. This mantra might be true for semi-conscious forms of life like animals for example, but could be quite detrimental for a more advanced beings like humans.
According to this paradigm mantra - if you don't compete, you don't survive. And to survive one needs power and money. So, most people go to work to survive.

As we evolve towards a more enlightened paradigm of being (The Golden Age) this 'compete-or-no-respect' ideology  is steadily crumbling away.  I believe that in the near future the prime motivation to go to work will not be money or power over other human beings, but opportunity for self-realization and earned respect from others.

I believe that people don't have to compete in order to better themselves or come up with great ideas. In fact, it has been proven already that competition doesn't automatically facilitate more creativity or lead to better ideas.

Science journalist Jonah Lehrer, referencing a landmark neuroscience study on brain activity during innovation, writes:

“The relaxation phase is crucial. That’s why so many insights happen during warm showers. … One of the surprising lessons of this research is that trying to force an insight can actually prevent the insight.”

In fact the greatest discoveries in human history were not motivated by monetary rewards, but for the love of doing the 'job'. (Gutenberg, Einstein, Eddison, young Bill Gates, founders of Youtube,....... On the other hand Mark Zuckerberg, who apparently stole the great idea , had different motivations ( read here )

So, it's not the competition that drives people to have great ideas, but loving what you do and self-respect. These are the real value currencies, not money and power. (In the Golden Age the idea of having power over other human being would seem as abhorring as cannibalism in today's society.)

To sum up, the nature of competition is to produce quantity, but not necessarily quality. In The Golden age quality is everything.

How to pay for magick

A magickally charged object ( i.e. a talisman) to be fully efficacious should never be sold, lent, coveted, obtained by fraud or force. To be fully effective a magickal object has to be given as a gift from a maker to the client. It is a symbolic operation and conventional fixed pricing is not involved here. A person who receives the 'gift'  must then offer a reciprocal gesture, as a payment for the service. Usually it is the 10th of the efficacy value (EV) of the talisman. Here's an example, say a client needs a talisman with the value outcome of 10. 000 $ (i.e. a start-up of small business venture), in this case his/her reciprocal gift to the magician should be 1000 $, which is the 10th of the 10.000 $)

Another important point to understand when personally determining the value of the service: The price for the efficacy of the object is symbolically addressed to the spiritual entities that partake in the creation of the talisman. Technically speaking, they feed off the energy of the client's offering.  When we make deals on spiritual levels, any attempt to covet or cheat the real value of the service will be immediately registered (not necessarily by the magician, but by the spirits involved) and subsequently annul the magical potency of the object. In other words, you can't cheat spiritual forces. A spiritually dishonest client would end up paying for a spiritually useless object.

21 random pages from my book

Codexgeronimus:

Grant Morrison explains magick

The De-personalization Revolution

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I believe that hunger for personalization has already passed the top of the bell curve (around 2006) and soon will reach its fatigue point.   In times of social change idealistic values (that unite) are becoming more attractive than materialistic ones (that separate).

So here's my version for the headline on the cover:

Future of marketing 3: The De-personalization Revolution!

Idea: Personal development with magick

Welcome to God-Form Personality workshop.

We help our clients to improve their existing personality or develop an additional one through the use of ritual magick.

This is how it works:

In magick, the common way of utilizing the power of the gods is by putting them on, like a cloak or mantle, over the perceived self. This is called assuming the god-form and is a form of invocation.

If our client wishes to become more attractive, through this method he or she would partake in a ritual to take on the god-form of Apollo or Aphrodite, and view the world through the eyes of that lesser deity for a time. If done correctly and repeatedly, this would give our client great personal charm and beauty of a combined physical and psychic character. The hidden forces of beauty channeled through our client by the focusing lens of the god-form would transform the personality of that person by reaction and alter the physical body as well.

Beauty is inevitable. Its exact quality would depend on the assets and defects of our client, both physical and mental, for magic always seeks the easiest course to its objective. If our client were crippled or deformed, the beauty would take on a predominantly mental and emotional character. The physical handicap might become lessened through surgery or other treatment. Magick uses mundane means to reach its ends as readily as the more esoteric means. Magick makes no distinction between the physical and the psychic - these are human distinctions.

Another function of assuming a god-form is that it better enables our client to issue commands to the spirits and forces that fall under the rule of that god. In becoming Thor, for example, our client will command the storms; becoming Pan, he or she will rule the woodlands; becoming Neptune, the sea.

It is quite possible to assume a god-form of the opposite sex. Every human being has both masculine and feminine qualities, with one or the other in a dominant or active position. By assuming the god-form of the opposite sex, our client may learn a great deal of useful information about the other side of his or her nature, which is usually suppressed during ordinary consciousness.

Before undergoing the magick ritual, our client will be given a special knowledge of the basics of ritual working, the ability to compose a personal rite of invocation that is viable and a complete knowledge of the gods of mythology (their strengths and weaknesses, associated materials and colors, familiar animals, symbols, scents, etc.).

It is our strict policy to work only with the benevolent god-forms.

If you have any further questions with regard to personal development through magick, please feel free to call as any time.

Disclaimer:

Requests regarding using magick powers of ‘ungodly’ nature will be declined.