COSM10

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LOVE
Jean Delville, The Angel of Splendours
1894, oil on canvas, 127 x 146 cm
© Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Global Art Blessing 10

Introduction 12
Allyson Grey and Alex Grey
The Language of the Heart 20

Amma Sri Mata Amritanandamayi
Mystical Magnetism 24
Michael Bernard Beckwith
Awakening Life 26
Judith Ansara and Robert Gass
Magical Realism 32
Michael Parkes
Wise Woman Way 40

Susun Weed
Deep Nature Connection 46

Jon Young
Cultural Emergence 52
Looby Macnamara
World Service 56
Rosemary Morrow
Heart Wing 60
David Heskin and Aloria Weaver
Eros and Caritas 64
Erik Davis
Alex Grey, Tantra, 1991

oil on linen, 24 x 30 inch
alexgrey.com
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The Revolution is Love 68 Laws of Vibrational Energy 144
Ian Mackenzie Core Love
Love is all you need 72 Alivening 150
Shady Backflash Layla Love
Empire of Love 76 Dialectic of Love 154
Shrine Martin Ucik
The Great Awakening 86 Mating and Meritocracy 160

Cryptik Michael Phillips
Magic in Motion 96 Levels of Love 164

Louie Schwarzberg Ken Wilber
Eternal Song 104 Hagiography 168

Martina Hoffmann Delvin Solkinson & Sijay James
Beyonder 110 The Journey Continues 176

Robert Venosa & Martina Hoffmann Eli Morgan
Dedication to Love 120 CoSMic Gallery 184

Alex Grey Global Love Tribe
our first love story 122
Allyson Grey & Alex Grey
we love us 124
love rites 126

Ask Allyson 128

Allyson Grey
the Social Artist 134

Jean Houston
Gene Keys 140

Richard Rudd
Allyson Grey, Blue Chaos, 1981
watercolor, 22 x 30 inch
allysongrey.com
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Surrender to Love
Hindi: प्रेम को समर्पन
Nepalese: मायामा आत्मसमर्पण
Farsi: ‫وش میلستقشعهب‬
Quechua: Kuyaywan Kamay
French: S’abandonner a l’amour
Kimuru: Chiejane kiri wendo
Spanish: Entregate al Amor
Russian: Сдаться Любви
Hebrew: ‫הבהאל העינכ‬
Filipino: Sumuko sa pagibig
Maori: Huakina ki te aroha
Japanese: 愛への降伏
German: Ergebe dich der Liebe
Icelandic: Uppgjöf til ástarinnar
Greek: Παραδώσου στην Αγάπη
Portuguese: Renda-se ao amor
Translation Team : Samir Chau,

Govinda Sujan Puri,
Alli Omieone, Gayle Highpine,
Liba Stambollion, Anne Mwiti,
Vacio Cielo, Oleg Korolev,
Hanalisa Omer, Teza Tialcita,
Matiu Te Huki, Satoshi Sakamoto,
Felicitas Feigl, Naia and Abraham,
Alexandros Kostis, Daniella Rebelo
Allyson and Alex Grey, Prayer Wheel, 1983
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Introduction With love alive in us, we can love the world.
Each living being is adopted and sustained by
What burns in us? The coal of desire the sacred intelligence of nature, and when we
What shines in us? The diamond of love. are surrounded by the oxygen rich green of the
— Alex Grey woods, forests and jungles we reconnect to our
source of life in plants and chlorophyll. Wise
Opening to Love is the first spiritual insight of humanity. Woman and author, Susun Weed, prescribes Herbs
The day a child sees loving parents, they feel welcomed for strengthening our health and heart. Jon
and nurtured in the universe. For all the immense Young speaks to us of Love from his perspective
emptiness and violence of the cosmos, it still is a love as a naturalist, wildlife tracker, peacemaker, and
story. As Albert Hofmann said, “Love is the highest storyteller, a leader in the field of nature-based
refinement of starlight.” community building. Permaculture teacher,
designer and author, Looby Macnamara, writes
So in times of darkness when challenges to the about “Cultural Emergence,” environments where
continuation of life itself, eco-catastrophies and war, love and caring can awaken the creative life force.
become front page news, CoSM Journal brings you, According to Rosemary Morrow, an elder and
in the words of Emerson, “Not the Times, but the founder of Permaculture, “World Service” is the
Eternities.” The full spectrum of Love is the focus for way to love.
our special 10th volume. CoSM Journal of Visionary
Culture is privileged to share original gems from many One of the primary innovators of time-lapse
of the leading heart-minds of today, fifty years after the motion pictures, Louie Schwarzberg has lovingly
“Summer of Love.” observed and recorded comments on the
benevolent unseen forces at work in nature. In
We bow in respect and gratitude to our astonishing “The Revolution is Love,” Ian MacKenzie,
contributors, each of them exemplars of Love with media activist, Vancouver filmmaker of Occupy
unique perspectives on this most important and Love (2013), speaks about politics and the
universal subject. One of the most visible contemporary environmental crisis as an opportunity to love.
faces of divine love, Amma, who has literally embraced
over 33 million people all around the world, blesses Author of Integral Relationships: A Manual for
us all with her wisdom in Love, The Language of the Men, Martin Ucik tells us how love is part of our
Heart. Founder and Director of Agape International genes and a driver for our biological purpose.
Spiritual Center, Reverend Michael Bernard Beckwith
points to the root of Love in mysticism and religion. At
the foundation of the Human Potential Movement, Dr.
Jean Houston, speaks about art, activism and loving
leadership. Integral philosopher, Ken Wilber, delivers an
unforgettable lesson on the need to quest for higher levels
of love. Relationship counselors and professional Allyson Grey, Secret Script, 2016
musicians, Judith Ansara and Robert Gass awaken us oil on canvas, 26 x 42 inch
allysongrey.com
to greater joy and aliveness on the path of love.
The statement, “Do what you Love and the money will
come.” was coined by hippie economist and founder
of MasterCard, Michael Phillips, who weighs in on
“Mating & Meritocracy,” and sees love in marriage
choices as a modern development. Renowned Dead
Head and member of the blotterati, Shady Backflash
reflects on his experience of the Summer of Love and
the legacy of the hippies. Mystic, poet, teacher of Gene
Keys, Richard Rudd, articulates 64 names of love and
the art of contemplation to unlock the enormous
potential of your life. Following a brain injury, Core
Love, found that visionary experiences caused by “high
energy states” from seizures, gave him access to a
new healing technology and an operating system for
opening to the higher senses of the body.
Alternative culture scholar, Erik Davis examines the

festival scene and the Arts as a bridge between
universal and personal love. Trailblazing Visionary
artists, Robert Venosa & Martina Hoffmann, lived in
love, sharing a studio and working each in their unique
style to translate realms of the mystic imagination.
Highlighted here are a selection of celestial art angels
of love. Magical Realist, Michael Parkes, shares
his portrayal of physical love and intimacy. Two
remarkable visionary painters, David Heskin & Aloria
Weaver, have blended their lives and art practices
as an expression of loves potential, and share their
reflections in “Heart Wing.” “Alivening” describes the
work of photographer/artist, Layla Love, whose art
aims to illuminate our human consciousness through
Love in Action.
Cryptik creates mandalas of prayer-like glyphs and

shares in “The Great Awakening,” his love of the craft
in a devotional art practice. Self taught artist, Shrine,
exemplifies the expression, “One man’s trash is another
man’s treasure.” Shrine has created countless elaborate
festival altar installations made of tin cans, bottle-caps,
Alex Grey and Allyson Grey and ornamental wood shingle patterns. He has painted
Creative Liberty, 2016 over a hundred murals around the world.
acrylic on canvas, 96 x 48 inch
t
A beloved regular feature in CoSM
Journal, Delvin Solkinson and Sijay
James take on “Hagiography,” stories
of the loving lives of saints. Friend of
CoSM since 2001, Eli Morgan shares
his life on the road with us spreading
the love, in “The Journey Continues.”
To the noble geniuses who responded

to the call and contributed writing
and artwork to CoSM Journal #10,
addressing the inextinguishable
subject of Love, We love You. The
range of perspectives gathered in this
volume broadens our heart’s view,
giving a multidimensional picture of
the scope and richness of the Global
Love Tribe.
Deepest thanks goes to our
community members who love
CoSM Journal and sponsor space,
sharing their work in the Gallery
section. As a community gathered to
create sacred space together, we begin
by loving ourselves, our families, our
partners, our friends, our ancestors
and supporting our community at
work and play. The inevitable
consequence of Love is the
building of temples.
With love,
Alex & Allyson
Alex Grey, Eclipse, 2017

acrylic on wood, 30 x 40 inch, alexgrey.com

Red Rocks 2017
photo by Kayla Mitchell Media
Love, the Language
of the Heart
Amma, Sri Mata
Amritanandamayi Devi
Life and love are not two. They are one and the same. Love is
the substratum of all that we do, feel, hear and see, including
the entire creation. Love is the purest form of energy. And love
alone has the power to transform. We are born to experience
and remain established in that undivided, pure Divine Love.
Our entire life is a search for that. Unfortunately, most people
die without being able to even have a glimpse of it.
Love is like a ladder. Bound by unhealthy attachments, likes

and dislikes and all sorts of negativities, most people dwell at
the lowest rung of love. Though we may call our physical and
emotional attachments “love,” they are not real love. However,
we need not discard or reject them. Simply realize it is the
bottommost rung. Use it as a stepping stone and climb to the
next level. Keep climbing like this and don’t stop until you
reach the highest point of love, which is God-realization.
There are two types of love, binding love and liberating love.
While the former is the language of the intellect, the latter is
the language of the heart. Those who speak the language of the
heart are not propelled by their ego. They have no interest in
proving that they are right or anyone else is wrong. They are
deeply concerned about their fellow beings and wish to help,
support, and uplift others. In their presence, transformation
simply happens. They are the givers of tangible hope and of
light in this world. Those who approach them are reborn.
When such people speak, it is not to lecture, to impress or to
argue—it is a true communion of hearts.
Alex Grey, Namaste, 1994

oil on linen, 36 x 48 inch, alexgrey.com

Real love has nothing to do with lust or self-centeredness.
In real love, you are not important; the other is important.
In real love, the other is not your instrument to fulfill your
selfish desires; you are an instrument of the Divine with the
intention of doing good in the world. Real love does not
sacrifice others; it gives joyfully of itself. Love is selfless.
In real love, you expand and become one with everything—
all-encompassing, ever blissful. Unfortunately, in today’s
world, it is the language of the intellect that prevails, not the
language of the heart. Selfishness and the eyes of lust—not
love—dominate the world. Narrow-minded people influence
those with weaker minds and use them to fulfill their selfish
goals. The concept of love has been distorted. This is why the
world is filled with conflicts, violence, and war.
Today, what the world needs is to awaken its

feminine qualities—qualities such as love,
compassion, patience and selflessness.
Through these we can awaken to a state of “Universal

Motherhood.” Anyone—woman or man—who has the courage
to overcome the limitations of the mind can attain the state
of Universal Motherhood. The love of awakened motherhood
is a love and compassion felt not only towards one’s own
children, but towards all people, animals and plants, rocks and
rivers—a love extended to all of nature, all beings. Indeed, to a
woman in whom the state of true motherhood has awakened,
all creatures are her children. This love, this motherhood, is
Divine Love—and that is God.
Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (Amma) is a world-

renowned humanitarian and spiritual leader. Amma
is the head of Embracing the World, a multi-national
collective of not-for-profit organizations dedicated to
providing food, clothing and shelter for the poor and
needy. Every day thousands of people come to seek her
solace, spiritual wisdom and blessings, which Amma
gives in the form of a motherly hug.
amma.org
Photos : Amma Media Team

Mystical Magnetism
Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations was written in 1855 and remains
the longest-lived, most widely distributed American reference
book of quotations. Would it surprise you to learn that among
its 1,504 pages, “love” is the most frequently searched topic?
Michael Bernard Beckwith It’s no wonder, really, for Love ceaselessly courts us, drawing
us into its magnetic field, inviting us to merge with its essence
in a state of mystical union. The moment we surrender to its
gravitational pull, we are transfigured. Its radiance pierces our
being and transports us into a state of divine communion where
Love, Loving, and Lover become One.
Like its Source, Love is ineffable. No human tongue can

adequately describe it. Nevertheless, we can taste its nectar
in the words of mystical poets such as Rumi when he writes,
“In the early dawn of happiness you gave me three kisses so that
I would wake up to this moment of love.” Because this rapturous
experience of Divine Love is universal, we find it expressing
through the mystics across all spiritual traditions, evidenced
by these words of the Catholic mystic Hildegard of Bingen:
“The soul is kissed by God in its innermost regions.” The Hindu
mystic Mirabai writes of her devotional union with Lord
Krishna, “Mira’s heart, scorched by the blaze of separation, has
become cool and refreshed; the pain of duality has vanished.”
Love is the ultimate religion. When tasting its flavour,

we enter the realm of mystical lovers. We become Love,
allowing it to flow in, as, and through us.
Michael Bernard Beckwith is the founder of Agape

International Spiritual Center, a multicultural community
of thousands of local members and global live streamers.
He is president of Association for Global New Thought, and a
member of the Transformational Leadership Council. In 2014
he addressed the global TED conference, and in 2012 was a
featured speaker at the United Nations General Assembly.
An award winning author, he has appeared on Dr. Oz, Oprah’s
Super Soul 100, The Oprah Winfrey Show, OWN, Tavis Smiley,
Alex Grey, Holy Grail, 2008 Larry King Live, and his own PBS Special, The Answer Is You.
alexgrey.com
agapelive.com

Awakening
Life
Judith Ansara
& Robert Gass
Love is something we all want to experience,

to enjoy and rest into. Yet it often seems
elusive, disappointing and full of hurt and
confusion.
We tend to think of love as a noun –

something we need, try to get, something
we have or don’t have enough of. We search
outside ourselves for someone to give us the
love we think we’re missing. Most of us have
tried to get others to fill the place inside
us that feels unloved and un-loveable.
This simply doesn’t work.
Here are two ways of contemplating the

mystery that we call Love. Understand love
as a verb rather than a noun. Love is not
something to get or to possess. Instead, think
of love as a verb – an active moving energy.
Love is always here, always available.
We can open and allow it to move freely
in and through us. Or we can contract and
protect, cutting ourselves off from the flow of
love-energy.
Mark Henson, Desert Life, 1990

oil on canvas, 58 x 64 inch
markhensonart.com

No one, no thing and no condition has the power to
interrupt your access to and experience of the energy
of love. Depending on our conditioning, certain
experiences certainly appear to cause love to disappear.
We feel threatened, sad, angry, hurt, and it feels like
love goes away. But it is we who cut ourselves off.
Our contraction is often so quick, so instinctive and
feels so justified, that we may not even be aware that
we have done anything to stop our own love access.
Love is like a river that flows around the obstacles in its

path. It does not give up or relinquish its true nature.
Love itself does not give up, we do. When we close off
from love, we suffer. Unpleasant emotions and thought
forms recycle and feed on themselves. We may also
direct this negative energy towards others — including
those we most cherish.
No one, no thing and no condition

has the power to interrupt your
access to and experience of the
energy of love.
If we want to walk the Path of Love we choose to
embrace the bumps and challenges of relationship,
and bring awareness and compassion to the places in
us that turn away from love.
We are not saying that this is easy. We are exquisitely

human. We hurt. Anger is a powerful energy. Fear is a
worthy adversary. But with dedication to the Path of
Love, our relationships will offer us every opportunity
we need for living an awakened and love-filled life.
Mark Henson, Clouds and Rain, 2006

markhensonart.com
For 47 years, we have walked a path of conscious relationship. Early on, we each other again and again and again. Our sacred union became the living
dedicated our marriage as a vessel for loving and learning. Our relationship laboratory for our teaching and guidance for thousands of couples. It is our joy
became our Master Teacher as we faced all the many challenges that tend and an expression of our purpose, to offer committed couples principles and
to show up in any lifetime. Having no mentors in the philosophy and arts practices for deepening in love, for evolving greater intimacy, friendship and
of Conscious Relationship, we had to create and learn practices to inform spiritual partnership as they walk the Path of Love.
and steer us as we learned to do our own inner work, and to turn towards
sacredunion.com
Mark Henson, Fountain of Youth, 2016
oil on canvas, 26 x 42 inch, markhensonart.com
Magical
Realism
Michael Parkes
As human beings, we limit our sense

of perception to what is generally
comfortable and present in everyday
life. In limiting our perceptions to suit
our individuality, we miss the vastness
of other perceptions and the doors
they represent. Though we have been
conditioned to perceive nothing except
our own world, this does not mean we
cannot enter other realms.
Michael Parkes, First Embrace

oil on canvas, 13.8 x 13.8 inch
theworldofmichaelparkes.com

Michael Parkes, Savitri
drawing on paper, 25.4 x 40.3 inch
Michael Parkes, Deva's Garden

The art of Michael Parkes joins metaphysical and physical
elements evoking a mysterious atmosphere, decipherable
with the help of ancient mythology and eastern philosophy.
In the fantasy world of Parkes, laws of earthly reality
are abolished, and space and time enter into their own
motionless communion. The dream world of Micheal Parkes
is audacious and intense.
Michael Parkes is a painter, sculptor, and stone lithographer.

He attended art school where he met Maria Sedoff, artist and
musician to whom he’s been married for over thirty years. A
college instructor of Art History, Parkes has been a serious and
lifelong student of spirituality and esoterica. After a pilgrimage
to India and later becoming parents in Spain, Michael and
Maria became business partners, first selling their leather belts
to tourists. Weaver of myth and dreams, we now know
Michael Parkes best through his art.
Michael Parkes, The Secret


The Subject Tonight Is Love
The subject tonight is Love

And for tomorrow night as well,
As a matter of fact
I know of no better topic
For us to discuss
Until we all die.

- Hafiz
Mati Klarwein, Sun-Moon (detail)

late 60’s, oil and tempera on canvas
88.5 cm diameter
matiklarweinart.com
Wise Woman Way
Susun Weed
Let’s look at herbs that encourage us to share love freely, without
regard for consequences or payback. Let’s focus on herbs that help
us radiate unconditional love. Any herb that makes us happier, that
makes us feel better, is going to increase our ability to feel love and
to put love out into the world.
Luis Tamani, Flor de Tabacco, 2015

acrylic on canvas, 100 x 150 cm
luis-tamani.com

Hawthorn, chocolate, nettle, oatstraw, amla, goji berries,
seaweed, and mushrooms are all enjoyable, love-enhancing,
adaptogenic herbs. Adaptogens are herbs used for thousands
of years in India and China by those desiring immortality.
Non-toxic, non-specific, and normalizing, adaptogens pulsate
with love. When adaptogens are part of the daily diet, love is
well-nourished.

Love moves in a spiral like the thorns on the hawthorn.
Hawthorn opens the heart to spiritual love and strengthens
the heart to endure the agonizing joy of life. The muscles of
the heart and the uterus spiral. Hawthorn berry tincture on a
daily basis increases the power, strength, and kindness of
the heart.

Love is heart-shaped. Chocolate comes in heart-shaped
boxes. The heart itself is not the shape of the chocolate box.
The vaginal labia are. Try it out ladies. Pull the outer labia up
and reveal the red/pink/purple heart hiding there. Chocolate
is all about love and feeling good as it contains a special
substance called anandamide. ‘Ananda’ means bliss.
Anandamide is the substance of bliss. Chocolate literally
blisses you out. In the ultimate loving gesture, chocolate
contains substances that prevent the destruction of
anandamide and other feel-good chemicals in your brain.
While increasing loving good will, chocolate helps you feel
that way longer.
Love is spring green. Stinging nettle and oatstraw are green

plants that I use as nourishing herbal infusions to increase
good health and a zest for life and love. These herbs enhance
our deep feelings, the taste of food, our appreciation of smell,
body comfort, and our ability to connect lovingly with
others. Nettle and oatstraw are Earth’s green love.

Luis Tamani, Mensageros, 2015

luis-tamani.com
Love is a bowl of berries. All dark-colored berries
nourish love and great health, including cherries, amla,
blueberries, goji berries, blackberries, black currants,
and schisandra berries. Enjoy them frozen or tinctured,
in infusion or tea, cooked or dried. Juicing berries or
eating them raw deprives us of their full benefit.
Love is oceanic. Seaweeds like wakame, kombu, and

kelp power love in every cell of your body. I cook
seaweed with beans in nettle soup and chicken soup,
tomato sauce and barbeque sauce. I love seaweed.

Love is deep down. Mushrooms, with their phallic
shape, bring us back to the body, back to the Earth,
full circle in our journey of love and herbs. Wild
mushrooms supply unusual minerals that feed
hormones and help us fall in love with All. Reishi and
shitake are easily found, as are tinctures, tablets and
pills of various impossible-to-eat mushrooms.
Medicinally, all forms are effective. For love, I believe
you must find and harvest the wild mushroom yourself.

Herbal medicine is people’s medicine. It is the love of
the Earth. Green blessings are everywhere.
Susun S. Weed is a joyous being with an encyclopedic

knowledge of herbs and health. She has no official
diplomas of any kind, having left high school in her junior
year to pursue mathematics at UCLA where she was the
on-campus correspondent for national television. She left
the university in her junior year to pursue LSD and life
in Manhattan. She has lived in the Catskill Mountains/
Hudson River Valley since the early 1970’s. Ms. Weed
teaches internationally, hosts three radio shows, including
a weekly blog-talk show. Her areas of expertise include
herbal medicine, ethnobotany, pharmacognosy,
psychology of healing, ecoherbalism, story-telling,
nutrition, and women’s health issues.
susunweed.com
Luis Tamani, Tita, 2017
luis-tamani.com
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Deep Nature
Connection
Jon Young
Love is present in all forms of life around us. Nature is beautiful
and deserves our attention, gratitude and caring commitment.
My mission is to help people cultivate love for nature. The 8 Shields
model of development shares 8 attributes toward a loving connection.
The keystone attribute is the Quiet Mind of inner peace. Sitting
mindfully at a “sit spot” in nature with all senses engaged,
can cultivate inner peace. Here you begin to build a bond and a
relationship with the plants, animals and birds that visit regularly.
Soon, you start to feel at home there. Children are innocently in love
with nature just because they’re alive. Inside us is the memory of our
childhood. When we quiet the mind and reconnect to that part of
ourselves, that innocent Happiness of the Child emerges. From this
inner happiness comes a feeling of Aliveness, an energy and alertness
that allows us to focus, listen and be wonderfully effective Mentoring
others. With this deep listening we can cultivate Empathy and respect
which will naturally lead us into a desire to be helpful, caring for
others and in Service to the Community. From this deeper connection
with nature and each other comes the sense of Awe and Reverence
for being alive that inspires our life and cultivates a great capacity for
Forgiveness, Compassion and Love.
Li Lian Kolster, Oran, 2016

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The culture of the San Bushman of Kalahari focuses
on love. When a bushman wakes up in the
morning and sees a little bird, they look into each
other’s eyes with a moment of recognition forming a
thread between them. Over time the Bushman gets
to know the bird’s ways of life. He observes that the
bird is male, has a beautiful song and is feeding and
tending a female bird while building a nest for
babies. One day the birds are very upset because
there is Mongoose nearby. This reminds the
bushman of hyenas that come around the camp and
the people in the camp shout. We all worry about
our children. Over time the thread of connection
becomes a string, then a cord, then a rope. What
it means to be a Bushman is to make ropes with
everything; the animals, the birds, the insects, the
wind, the stars, the sun, the moon, the ancestors,
the unborn and one another as human beings. The
Bushman say that these ropes are made of love.
One Kalahari hunter-gatherer nomad, an elder,

wisdom keeper and healer for the tribe, asked me,
“Why do you track animals? That poor bear is just
trying to find a quiet place to rest but you follow his
footprints and scare him off. Now maybe he’ll be
chased by a dog or run into a road. When my people
track a creature, they hunt it and kill it.” Hearing this
made me ashamed to be a tracker. Then he answered
his own question. “The reason you track is because
your spirit knows you have something to get from
this bear. By following its tracks, crawling down its
trails and finding its resting place, you absorb energy
that the bear leaves behind. That energy changes you
and you start to love that bear and the bear returns
that love to you. Tracking, you follow the
instructions of the Creator. Paying attention to the
lives of animals and birds, we are better human
beings.” Animals teach us to love nature.
Li Lian Kolster, Heal my Hands, 2014

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Jon Young is a nature connection mentor,
naturalist, wildlife tracker, peacemaker,
author, workshop leader, consultant, speaker
and storyteller. As a leader in the field of
nature-based community building, Jon has
researched into the impact and significance
of nature on human intelligence and
development. Trained from an early age by
renowned animal tracker Tom Brown Jr.,
Lakota elder Gilbert Walking Bull, African
Akamba elder M. Norman Powell (Ingwe)
and many other indigenous leaders from
around the world, Jon has delved deeply
into the arts of nature awareness, holistic
tracking, bird language and ancestral living
skills – fundamental knowledge that shaped
the formation of human neurobiology and
the way our species connects and learns. Jon
has established an international network of
consultants and trainers working to cultivate
effective nature connection mentoring
programs in communities and organizations.
As the originator of the 8 Shields model, a
best-practices process for nature connection
mentoring, Jon has implemented vital
advancements in the regeneration of nature-
based cultural knowledge for the benefit of
current and future generations.
8shields.org
Li Lian Kolster, Found You, 2015

liliankolster.com
Cultural
Emergence
Looby Macnamara
What is your culture of love?
Each of us is part of many different systems – our home,

intimate relationship, extended family, work place and
groups as well as the bigger systems of our towns and
countries. Each system has its own culture – its own
standards, priorities, beliefs, ways of thinking and ideas
about what is acceptable or not. We carry our own personal
culture, which is permeable to the cultures of the other
systems we are a part of. We all have a culture of love –
parameters for how much love we allow ourselves to feel,
the language and actions of how we express our love, the
circumstances in which we open ourselves to love.
There is a cultural emergency on the planet, manifesting in

all manner of ills. Perhaps this is an emergency created by
lack of love. Culture is not static or fixed, it is dynamic and
we can actively engage in molding, shifting and creating
the cultures we are a part of. We have the capacity to
turn this emergency into a cultural emergence, where we
intentionally and proactively emerge a culture based on
care, gratitude, connection and love.
Autumn Skye Morrison, My Body, My Temple, 2015

acrylic on linen, 51 x 67 inch
autumnskyemorrison.com

Permaculture has the ethics of care at its core. Care and
love are intertwined, from one comes the other. Donella
Meadows guides us to expand our boundaries of care. Do
we dare to transform our own personal culture and extend
our parameters of love? Can we use the force of love to
transform our culture in many other ways?
My work with permaculture is about finding solutions, but

Love is an unsolvable riddle. Could it actually be the magic
ingredient in emerging a new culture?
Looby Macnamara is a pioneering permaculture author and

teacher specializing in personal and social permaculture.
She has written three books People and Permaculture,
7 Ways to Think Differently and Strands of Infinity. Looby’s
current project, Cultural Emergence, is bringing forth tools
and principles to assist the emergence of a culture of care,
connection and love into the world. She is committed to
empowering people to take collective responsibility for our
beautiful planet.
loobymacnamara.com
Autumn Skye Morrison, Liberty, 2016

Autumn Skye Morrison, Light Work, 2016, acrylic/canvas, 61x38 in., autumnskyemorrison.com
World Service Love is a spreading warmth in the heart and deep appreciation of the other.
It provokes a need to show itself and often requires no return, no reciprocity.
Love is not demanding. It is accompanied by a wish to enjoy the qualities of
Rosemary Morrow the other that we see hear or touch, and an inner gratitude. Love becomes a
way of being. It is lit by moments of insight and awareness. Often, love
provokes a response.
Rosemary Morrow trained in
agricultural science at Sydney
University, rural sociology at the
Letting go is a lesson. I learned this from
Sorbonne in Paris, development at
working in developing countries for so
Reading UK and horticulture at
many years and hanging on to my own
TAFE but, after spending time in
beliefs or way of doing things. I learned
Africa, she realized there needed to be
to let go and let it happen, not holding
a better alternative to conventional
onto my own stuff too strongly or
agricultural practices. She found this
seriously.
in the ethics and integrated applied
science of permaculture, and has
Permaculture restores remnant
been teaching permaculture
woodlands, conserves forests,
ever since. She is the author
and places all human
of numerous publications
and animal needs with
including The Earth User’s
attentiveness to permanence.
Guide to Permaculture,
It repairs marginal land,
which has been translated
values waterways, and
into 7 languages, and The
cares for all the elements
Earth User’s Guide to
in the environment that
Teaching Permaculture
Life needs, such as water,
has been translated into 2
food and shelter. Care of
languages. For almost 40
people entails the Care of
years Rosemary has worked
the Earth. Care for Earth is
extensively with farmers and
about putting back more than
villagers in Africa, Central and
we take out. When I watch the
South East Asia and Eastern
hay coming off a field, I think
Europe. Rosemary has especially
about how we are going to replace
dedicated much of her efforts to
it. Otherwise, it’s still mining. The
the people of war-torn nations such
road to restoration is putting back
as Vietnam, Cambodia, Uganda,
more than we take. The restorative
Ethiopia, Afghanistan and East Timor,
ethic is inherent in permaculture and is
and to communities experiencing the
basic to all natural and designed systems.
serious effects of climate change like the
This is the way forward.
Solomon Islands, and the effects of the
Global Financial Crisis, like Spain and
Portugal.
Autumn Skye Morrison, Healing, 2013
bluemountainspermacultureinstitute.com.au

Heart Wing
David Heskin &
Aloria Weaver
Many outside of our relationship hear from
us two voices when we are truly one being in
two bodies synthesized into one higher being,
ultimately functioning in unison, harmony and
dynamic symmetry in art and in all aspects
of our life. When we are painting, we make
something together that is beyond either of us.
Our single expression is palpable.
Love and art is the product of our blended life.

Art is the visible manifestation of love in the life
we create. Creation is the product of love.
When the feeling and intention behind art is

embedded in the transmission, the alignment is
an opportunity to merge uniquely. We become
one being with two arms holding brushes in
a dance of creation through the collaborative
process.
An artistic partnership practices humanity’s

essential skills for evolution and sur-thrival.
Setting aside our ego, our creations merge with
another in a common intention. Polarities
overlap harmonizing like in music.
Love is the means for Gestalt, a way to create,

greater than the sum of our parts.
David Heskin & Aloria Weaver, Lightweaver, 2017

acrylic on custom built canvas, 86 x 54 inch
luminousfluxgallery.com

David Heskin and Aloria
Weaver are husband and wife
oil painters who collaborate
on all aspects of art and
life. Their fantastic and
visionary compositions depict
metaphysical experiences
and otherworldly vistas in
their own unique expression
of Imaginal Realism. Most
notable is their luminous use of
color and unusual geometrical
and 3-dimensional paintings,
which offers a sanctuary for the
active imagination. Essential
to their creative process, David
& Aloria create their own
handmade oils and mediums,
using techniques that trace their
roots back to the Old Masters.
davidheskin.com
aloriaweaver.com
David Heskin & Aloria Weaver, El Corazón, 2011

mixed media on canvas, 24 x 36 inch

Eros & Caritas The one word “love” covers so many different
facets of experience. St. Paul talked about
Caritas, charitable love for humankind, which
Erik Davis is a very different kind of love than Eros,
romantic love. Caritas is empathetic and
recognizes the full presence of the Other. Eros
is a more personal and selective love that we
It’s been 50 years since the Summer of have for certain beings in our world. Spiritual
Love, which is a well-known marker teachings often emphasize the universal love
of the hippie counterculture. With and loving kindness of Caritas. Saints, we hear,
the return of the Dionysian festivals radiate an all pervading field of great
of the 1960’s, people came together in compassion which is able to take in all of the
ecstatic revelry to party, make love, beings in the world. Perhaps the most beautiful
swap ideas and bend the normal rules mode of love is when you’re linked through
of the everyday. They gathered with the Eros with a particular being, place, or object
intent to see how far they could push the and you are also shot through with a universal
boundaries of what it means to pursue love.
enjoyment collectively. The energy of
Eros manifested collectively, the kind of
love felt in a festival environment, with
all these beautiful bodies smiling and
dancing together – can create a world of
the sacred. People become intoxicated,
not just with psychoactive substances or
the trance of dancing, but with their own
happiness and love. There is a sacred
dimension to this zone of Eros where the
intoxication of enjoyment can become
God intoxication in the most surprising
of ways. Contemporary festival culture
can create a collective sense of love.
The whole dance floor lights up and a
sort of knowing gaze and smile passes
between people, bouncing around the
whole space. People realize that they’re
part of a collective being celebrating in
joy. Festival Culture is fun and sexy, but
it can vibrate on another frequency that
feels like a big open heart.
Android Jones, Refuge
2013, digital
androidjones.com
Art can be universal, but it is also always particular. Out of
that big impersonal field of love, the crafting of an art object
has to be specific and erotic. A particular object made of
particular materials needs to be concretized. That’s why the
Visionary Art experience is both very specific and personal
on one level, and also very open and impersonal on another.
Anyone can tune into that. The art object can thereby
play an important role in mediating between the abstract
universal field of love (Caritas) and the world of embodied
and personal love (Eros). Usually we think about love in
terms of loving a person, an animal or a place, but loving a
piece of art, gives us a different frequency to tune into. Art
can actually open up our hearts to an experience of love.
Erik Davis was born during the Summer of Love within a

stone’s throw of San Francisco. He grew up in California, and
spent a decade on the East Coast, where he studied literature
and philosophy at Yale and spent six years in the freelance
trenches of Brooklyn and Manhattan before moving to
San Francisco. He has authored many books and countless
articles on art, music, technoculture, and contemporary
spirituality. A vital speaker and teacher, Erik Davis has
delivered countless seminars, talks, and keynotes at colleges,
universities, conferences and festivals around the world. He
hosts a podcast and recently earned his PhD in Religious
Studies from Rice University.
techgnosis.com
Android Jones, Union, 2013

digital, androidjones.com

The
Revolution
is Love
Ian Mackenzie
In Oct 2011, amidst the throngs of passionate
Occupiers in Liberty Square (formerly Zuccotti Park) I
could feel a palpable sense of engagement. The buzz of
discussion, debate, and open-heartedness permeated
the landscape normally filled with distracted Wall
Street analysts and vacant eyed tourists. Driven by the
fallout of the 2008 economic crash and impending
climate catastrophe, a crack appeared in the formally
impenetrable Empire. In that space, it felt like anything
was possible.
I was in the park capturing interviews and footage

for Occupy Love, the latest film from veteran director
Velcrow Ripper, who had been tracking the global
shift since the dawn of the millennium. His mission
led him here, where seeds of revolution were activated
by the Peoples’ uprising in Tahir Square in Egypt and
the M15 movement in Spain. Now the torch had been
passed to the Occupiers.
Standing before the imposing pillars of the New York

Stock Exchange, we interviewed visionary author,
Charles Eisenstein, who had recently published an
essay, “No Demand Is Big Enough,” where he accurately
named the most genius (and ultimately problematic)
aspect of the movement. Many pundits and critics
derided the Occupiers for not having specific
demands. Yet, making demands in the language of the
current system only legitimized the system’s ability to
grant or deny those demands. “How do you demand a
more beautiful world?” asked Charles.
Android Jones, Love is a Riot, 2014
digital, androidjones.com
The essay revealed our current civilization as built upon a foundational story
of Separation. “We are insignificant beings in an indifferent universe driven
to maximize our own self interest.” All our social institutions, from law, to
property ownership, to debt-based currency, flow from this story. With rising
seas and crumbling economies, this story is (thankfully) coming to an end. In
its place, a new story is set to emerge.
For our film, Occupy Love, we asked the question “How is the global crises a
love story?” Initially, four years earlier, when we asked that question, we had
received mostly blank or confused looks. Now, many, like Charles, seemed
intuitively to grok the question.
Charles told us, “Love is the felt experience of connection to another being,
Love is the expansion of the self to include the Other. That’s a different kind
of revolution. There’s no one to fight. There’s no evil to fight. There’s no Other
in this revolution.”
Our new story of love is the story of Interbeing.

From Jesus to Buddha to countless spiritual activists, enlightenment has
been characterized as the dissolution of self in unity with all existence, the
realization of non-duality. Recognizing this truth was the great work of the
previous generation, but it is not enough. Our challenge today is revealed in
the Bodhisattva Vow: not to escape the wheel of Samsara, but to relinquish
personal salvation in favor of crystallizing enlightenment for all sentient
beings. We are tasked to build new social structures, institutions, and
technologies that embody the story of Interbeing.
We the people are awakening and we will not go back to sleep.

The revolution is love.
Ian MacKenzie is an award-winning filmmaker & media activist from
Vancouver, Canada. His work has appeared in The New York Times, National
Geographic TV, CBC Documentary, The Globe and Mail, Adbusters, and film
festivals around the world. Recent films include Occupy Love (2013), Dear
Guardians (2014), and the forthcoming Amplify Her (2016). His focus covers a
range of diverse topics & subjects, though all fall under his mission of
uncovering and amplifying stories of the emerging paradigm.
Olga Klimova, Reconnected, 2014
acrylic, oil and casein on canvas ianmack.com
24 x 30 inch, olgaklimova.com
Love is
All you Need
Shady Backflash
Bring the color gold... Bring photos of personal
saints and gurus and heroes of the underground...
Bring children... Flowers... Flutes... Drums...
Feathers... Bands... Beads... Banners, flags, incense,
chimes, gongs, cymbals, symbols, costumes, joy.
— Invitation to the Love Pageant Rally, October 6, 1966 in the
Panhandle of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.
The birth of the Love Tribe, what Terence McKenna came to

call America’s Archaic Revival, entirely reinvented cultural
understanding of both Love and Tribalism. In the face of
potential global annihilation, Love has had to go global. Tribal
identification is no longer bound by race, religion or national
borders and “family” extends far beyond the biological nuclear
family. People now come together from all over the world to
create nondenominational ecstatic rituals in mass expressions of
unity.
It all seems quite cliche now — but between 1965 and 1968,
a small bohemian enclave living in Victorian homes in San
Francisco’s low rent Haight-Ashbury district exploded in light
and color and gave birth to a cultural renaissance that reinvented
visual art, music, dance and community. Tens of thousands of
people from all across the United States were leaving middle-class
American homes with little more than open hearts, a few changes
of clothes and a dog-eared copy of Jack Kerouac’s “On The Road”
and thumbing their way west — In droves.
Randal Roberts, Akashic Kiss, 2013

72 LOVE | CoSM Journal allofthisisforyou.com
A cultural seed was planted. Love unconditionally.
Practice Peace. At least give it a try.
Greet strangers as friends you haven’t met yet.
Experience Pronoia: the strange feeling that forces
in the universe are conspiring on your behalf.
Fifty years after San Francisco sent out

a clarion call for a Summer of Love,
the Love Tribe is alive and flourishing.
The meme has gone global and we are
everywhere.
Shady Backflash is a student of counterculture and

mysticism. He is the owner / operator of The Golden
Road Gallery, a traveling psychedelic art exhibit
that appears at music festivals and events, where he
also sells Visionary perforated prints, “blotter art,”
an American Folk Art tradition since the 60’s. Shady
received a BA in Folklore from Antioch College and
an MFA in Writing & Poetics from the Jack Kerouac
School of Disembodied Poetics. When not out
working the festival circuit, Shady lives in a beautiful
Victorian just off the Haight in San Francisco, and
spends time creating Tarotpin, a Grateful Dead
inspired Tarot project.
shakedowngallery.com
Randal Roberts & Chris Dyer, Bromance, 2015

allofthisisforyou.com
positivecreations.ca

Empire
of Love
The Empire of Love is a state of
mind, a state of heart,
a way of life.
Deprogramming and
Shrine re-defining is the play

we do in the Empire of Love.
We are relentlessly bombarded
with fear propaganda. From
the moment we enter the world
we are being programmed with
made up stuff; to work, consume,
suffer, fear, hate. To discard that
programming is to love yourself.
Fear closes. Love opens.
Shrine
reused wood, aluminum and steel cans,
plastic bottles, sheets of used polygon plastic
instagram@shrineon
photo: Daniel Zetterstrom
The Empire of Love is the moment you choose love over fear.
It refers to the process of creating art and allowing fear to pass
during the act of self expression. I don’t care about good art
or bad art, I don’t believe in that. The act of embracing the
process is as important, or more important, than the finished
outcome. Push through fear of criticism, ignore doubt, and
take action, even if it’s as simple as watching a line come out
of your hand or making some sound. Allow yourself to make
what you will. Allow yourself to be free.
Shrine
Soap Plant, Wacko, La Luz De Jesus Gallery
Latex paint
instagram@shrineon
Dave DeMartinis Photography

Creating inspirational space,
for the heart and from the heart —
this is the mission of
The Empire of Love.
Art created with an open heart
can open the hearts of others.
Stay open and express yourself.

The Empire of Love is yours.
Come and go as you please.
Shrine, Empire of Love Shrine, 2013

salvaged used wood, painted glass bottles,
painted plastic bottles, all types of cans, steel,
aluminum, found objects,12 x 12 x 12 feet
instagram@shrineon
Shrine, The Long House, 2015
salvaged used wood, latex paint, steel food
cans, aluminum cans, found objects
40 x 12 feet wide x 25 feet tall
instagram@shrineon
Self taught painter, installation
and performance artist, Brent
Spears is better known as Shrine.
“My journey continues, each
moment of self expression leading
to the next. Chasing inspiration,
painting buildings, creating
installations around the world,
I keep a constant vigil, exploring
the vast and inexhaustible
Empire of Love.”
Portrait photo taken at Lightning in a Bottle, 2013

Background photo : inside shot of ceiling
from 16 sided structure, 2016
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The Great
Awakening
Cryptik
Cryptik, Jade Bodhisattva 2016

acrylic on multi-layered wood panels, 30 x 30 inch
cryptik.com
Cryptik, The Shaman, 2016

cryptik.com CoSM Journal | LOVE 87
Cryptik, WIP
cryptik.com
photo : Nina Huh
The Cryptik Movement is dedicated to helping The purpose of the Movement is to facilitate the development of a
humanity evolve towards greater awareness deeper, more meaningful philosophy of life; one that encompasses many
ideologies, philosophies, and belief systems in order to help us better
and understanding through public art. understand our connection to one another, the planet and the Universe.
Cryptik, Pow Wow (Long Beach) cryptik.com photo: Brandon Shigeta

This seeming chaos which is in us is a rich,
rolling, swelling, dying, lilting, singing, shouting,
crying, sleeping order. If we only let this order
guide our acts of building, the buildings we make,
the towns we help to make, will be the forests and
the meadows of the human heart.
- Christopher Alexander
Cryptik, Urban Nation (Berlin)

cryptik.com
photo : Nika Kramer

Cryptik
Cryptik, a Los Angeles based artist, creates works of art that

explore the realm of spirituality and consciousness. His iconic
depictions of deities and spiritual leaders, along with his
signature style of calligraphy, can be seen throughout the west
coast, adorning the urban landscape and galleries alike. The
goal of his art is to offer people a different perspective, one
that encompasses teachings from diverse wisdom traditions, in
order to help them develop a broader philosophy of life.
Cryptik, Hurley Pool
cryptik.com
photo : Ryan Hurley

Filming the Monarch migration at an
elevation of over 11,000 feet in Mexico
where they winter, I was surrounded by
millions of butterflies. It was one of the
brightest highlights of my life and felt like
an hallucination, but it was real. The sound
of millions of butterfly wings flapping was
heavenly, like the breeze blowing through
millions of aspen leaves on a cool autumn
day. After a long 2000 mile return trip from
Canada, Monarch butterflies winter in these
cold forested mountains, living on stored fat
until they renew their migration back
north in the spring through the
Midwest, reproducing along the way.
Theirgreat-grandchildren will return to the
same forest one year later. This is the longest
migration of any butterfly on earth.
Scientists are still dumbfounded as to how
the butterflies are able to navigate,
especially through multiple generations,
back to the same three-acre forest.
How did I find this magical place? When I

graduated from UCLA, I wanted to film in
35mm, but film was expensive, so I started
to film time lapse images of flowers.
Shooting one frame every half-hour, it
would take twenty-four hours to create two
seconds of screen time. Although I didn’t
have much money, I had time and a sense of
Magic wonder, and I will never get tired of seeing

flowers move to the light. Twenty-four hours
a day, seven days a week, non-stop, for 40
in Motion years, I have been filming, compressing
all those results into sixteen hours of film.
What I learned is that beauty and seduction
are nature’s tool for survival, because we
Louie Schwarzberg protect what we Love. That’s why kittens,
puppies, and babies are cute. Protecting
what we love is hardwired. That is the
biological imperative called
96 LOVE | CoSM Journal unconditional love.
Life depends on the little things we sometimes
take for granted, like pollination. Bees, bats,
hummingbirds and butterflies are depended
upon for over one-third of the food we eat.
Many scientists believe that the decline of
pollinators may be the most critical
environmental issue facing us today, because
if they go, we go. What is killing these species
is a deadly cocktail of pesticides, GMOs, loss
of habitat and environmental degradation. The
story of pollinators is symbiotic with the
evolution of flowers over a period of fifty
million years, a love story between plants and
pollinators that feed many species on earth.
The food, shelter and medicine they provide
are the foundation of Life.
So, while shooting at my high-altitude

location, I asked my monarch expert and
scientific advisor, Chip Taylor, founder of
Monarch Watch, what motivates the behavior
of these extraordinary creatures?
“It’s all about risk and reward,” said Chip, “…so
they can reproduce.”
“You mean, “It’s all about sex?,” I wondered.
Chip stroked his long white beard pondering

the question and replied, “Nothing lasts forever,
everything in the Universe wears out.”
Nature invented reproduction as a perpetual
mechanism so that life can continue to evolve
as a force of energy passing through us from
generation to generation, a link in the
evolutionary chain. We truly stand on the
shoulders of our ancestors.

This keystone event between animal
and plant kingdoms is the mystical
moment where billions of times each
day life regenerates again and again.
Scientists refer to these interactions
as manipulation, in the most positive
sense, an objective observation of
the give and take in the relationship
between plants and pollinators.
In exchange for being a
messenger of love, flowers give their
pollen and nectar to the Monarchs
as fuel in their long journey. Because
plants have no mobility, pollinators
move plant DNA to diversify their
gene pool for evolution and survival
in a miraculous symbiotic
partnership.
Life depends on the little

things we sometimes take for
granted, like pollination.
Romantics throughout the ages have
created songs, poems, and art about
the give and take relationship we
call Love. Nothing in nature exists
independently. All of humanity seeks
connectedness and community. We
are hard wired to Love. Love is a force
of energy that flows through us. Life
unstoppably yearns to flourish.

Louie Schwartzberg is an award-winning cinematographer, director
and producer whose notable career spans more than four decades
providing breathtaking imagery using his time-lapse, high-speed and
macro cinematography techniques. Schwartzberg is a visual artist who
breaks barriers, connects with audiences, and tells stories that celebrate
life and reveal the mysteries and wisdom of nature, people, and places.
For Schwartzberg, the greatest satisfaction is creating works that can
have a positive effect on the future of the planet. “I hope my films in-
spire and open people’s hearts. Beauty is nature’s tool for survival – we
protect what we love. Nature’s beauty can open hearts, and the shift in
consciousness we need to sustain and celebrate life.”
movingart.com

Martina Hoffmann, Colibri, 2015
martinahoffmann.com
Eternal Song
The inter-connective tissue of the universe…
Martina Hoffmann your eternal breath pervades all and shrouds the worlds
in an ephemeral dream of deep knowing. In every
creature, you sleep as a silent language and charm even
the smallest particle by your unspoken word.

You run like life blood through every cosmic fiber in generous
veins. You live in every heart, and if only in the tiniest corner,
patiently waiting to be called into expansion. Until it awakens
to your persistent call and unites with all other hearts to join
their beats in synchronized rhythm.
Which one amongst us might not have sensed your presence

as a faint light in the darkest moment, or as the soft balm that
heals all wounds? Or maybe you came as a torrential stream
that ripped us apart and away towards a cosmic desire, so
strong that it blinded us forever to the mundane.
Has not our mother nourished us with your essence, so we

could grow as tall and proud as trees into infinite skies? And
then, it was you who carried her in your loving arms, back to
the gate so she could become One again.
Love, a force so ancient that you

can only remember yourself.
How mysterious is your infinite web that holds us with a
gentle lover’s touch. We might sense your invisible presence
only once but your essence remains in us forever and lets our
hearts beat to your drum.
Love, a force so ancient that you can only remember yourself.

We feel your breath spanning the ages, all people and all
cultures, leaving us united under your universal flag.
How blessed we are to always have you know us, albeit we

might lose our way. May we always remember your melody
and eventually become your eternal song.
Martina Hoffmann, Angelheart, 2016

martinahoffmann.com

Martina Hoffmann, Contact, 2017, oil on canvas, 24 x 15 inch
martinahoffmann.com
Martina Hoffmann’s paintings are detailed views into her inner landscapes, A sought after speaker on behalf of visionary art and culture,
imagery that has been inspired by expanded states of consciousness. Martina is a welcome lecturer at symposiums and festivals.
The Visionary Symbolism of Martina Hoffmann is decidedly feminine and Hoffman co-taught painting workshops worldwide with her
places the ‘Universal Woman’ in an intimate cosmos. Transcribing her ecstatic late husband, the Fantastic Realist, Robert Venosa.
experiences and subtle reflections on the nature of women in a realistic style, The artist keeps a home and studio in both the USA and France.
Hoffman marries the fantastic to the sacred. martinahoffmann.com
Everything is continuously manifest from
universal love, the infinite force of creation.
Beyonder
Birth of a Nebula readies the regions of cosmic
uteri to attract star dust and gasses, forming the
multitude of heavenly fireflies that eventually
illuminate our night skies. Immense and
The Art of Robert Venosa ephemeral, the mother nebulae are true birthers
of the light.
Martina Hoffmann
Robert Venosa, Birth of a Nebula, 1973, oil on canvas, 70 x 100 cm, t
Dos Angeles [Two Angels] are encountering
each other in an amorphous, crystalline,
otherworldly landscape. They are created
of great, intense light which holds a
definitive edge. This light is reflecting its
full spectrum, brilliance and translucency
while juxtaposing it against its darker
manifestations. Here, the heavenly
messengers are experiencing the powerful
force field of their angelic relations, always
grounded in the unshakable laws of
universal love.
Robert Venosa, Dos Angeles, 1993

oil on canvas, 138 x 215 cm
venosa.com

Robert Venosa, Garden of Delights, 1992, oil on canvas, 92 x 132 cm venosa.com
In Garden of Delights the female and male archetypes unite their spirits in The joining of this highest ideal to the union of a man and woman
the essence of spiritual love. This sphere of existence is the magical garden expands their romantic and physical love and transforms their
where the physical has merged with and transcended into the ethereal. relation, adding a higher harmonic note.
Robert Venosa, Grand Central Station, 1994
venosa.com
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength,

Grand Central Station is the meeting place of the celestial host. Throughout and whosoever loves much performs much, and can
the universe, a hierarchy of angels and guardians form this numinous host
which tirelessly transmits messages from the Divine to the material world,
accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
while functioning as intermediaries between the source and humanity.
These cosmic messengers are empowered and bound by the forces of - Vincent Van Gogh
Universal Love to execute the vision and will of the All.

Art can uplift the viewer and offer windows
into light-filled realities where all of existence
is in harmony, strengthening the love
connection between all sentient beings and
beyond being. During his lifetime, Robert
often said “Astral Circus is a painting of
support where each being, human, animal,
ethereal, supports another.”
Robert Venosa (1936 – 2011) is considered one of

the outstanding masters of Fantastic Realism. His
paintings have been exhibited worldwide and are
represented in major collections, including those of
noted museums, rock stars and European aristocracy.
In addition to painting, sculpting and film design,
Venosa added computer art to his creative menu.
Throughout his artistic career he worked closely
with Mati Klarwein, Ernst Fuchs and Salvador
Dali, the great masters of the Fantastic and Surreal
genres. During his lifetime, Robert Venosa also gave
lectures about visionary art and co-taught painting
classes internationally with his wife, the Visionary
painter, Martina Hoffmann. Robert Venosa’s art
and attendant exploits have been subject of three
monographs, Manas Manna, Noospheres, and
Illuminatus.
venosa.com
Robert Venosa, Astral Circus, 1976-78

oil on masonite, 90 x 115 cm
venosa.com

Dedication to Love
From the core of our hearts
We dedicate ourselves
To the complete and full
Expression of Love
In all our activities
And in all our relationships.
Love is the soul’s medicine,

A refuge in our hearts
Protecting us from utter despair.
Finding compassion in the eyes
Of the beloved and the stranger
Gives us the courage to endure.
May Love sensitize us

With care and wisdom.
May Love help heal the sickness
And wounds of life.
May Love enable us
To forgive and accept ourselves.
May Love enable us

To forgive and accept each other.
May Love help us overcome
Our cruelty and bitterness,
Our greed and jealousy,
Our ignorance and delusion.
May Love rule our hearts and minds,

Directing us to reach out,
Doing our best to benefit others,
To heal suffering, to give gifts,
To create beauty in the infinite network
That is our world.
A heart of loving-kindness
Pours creative grace into the world
To alleviate pain
And mend the heart net.
To the healing art of Love
We dedicate ourselves.
— Alex Grey
Alex Grey, One, 2000
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Our First Love Story
Alex Grey
A sperm and an ovum are each whole unto themselves, each
carrying half of the potential progeny of the species. They are
the only cells in the body with twenty-three chromosomes.
Every other cell in the body contains forty-six
chromosomes. By themselves, the sex cells cannot reproduce.
The sperm swims upstream a vast distance on a pilgrimage
to the “Divine Feminine” for a lottery chance at a human
existence and ultimately, the potential for enlightenment.
Millions of sperm will die in the folds of the uterus.
Millions will die going down a dead-end fallopian tube.
Millions more sperm will knock their heads on the surface of
the awaiting Goddess, the Ovum. All will die but the hero
who receives the boon of entry into the sacred realm. Yet, the
journey of the millions will not have been without purpose,
as it is only by their collective effort, pushing in unison on the
surface of the mighty egg, that admittance could be granted.
Conception and incarnation, is one miraculous body and

soul event that begins all life. Conception brings the forces
of male and female together, uniting the opposites into a new
and complete being. This pilgrimage toward union is the
cellular memory of our original face, metaphorically
represented in life’s epic journeys and quests. The sperm is
a football hero making a touchdown, a battalion of soldiers
taking the hill, the Crusader’s quest for the Grail. The egg is the
princess rejecting the unsuitable suitors and finding The One
that will awaken her with love’s first kiss.
Alex Grey, Fertilization, 2001

pigmented ink on linen paper
8 x 10 inch
Alex Grey, Embryo, 2001

pigmented ink on linen paper
8 x 10 inch
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Alex Grey & Allyson Grey
Forty years ago in 1978, we produced this small volume to express all that we
loved together. Its contents are as true now as then. This little primer still
reminds us of the central importance of love, what truly matters. As we walk
the winding trails of a joined life, we choose partnership and practice
appreciating each other everyday. Encountering the Love Tribe world-wide,
we meet with a community that wages peace through art, music, dance,
performance and spiritual ritual. CoSM, Chapel of Sacred Mirrors has been a
co-creation dedicated to the Power of Love.
Anniversary edition available

LOVE RITES
Alex Grey & Allyson Grey Becoming parents, the greatest joy of our
lives, has transformed and upgraded our
June 3, 1976, lying in bed together, our character. A family can be a nest of unconditional
psychedelic minds dilated open at hyper-speed and love and support, a refuge to heal the wounds
we entered a vast bright vista. No longer identified inflicted by the world. Family life is a magical
with our physical bodies, we became pure spiritual opportunity for parents to examine and release
essence, spherical fountains and drains of their own childhood traumas through compassion
superconsciousness connected with every other for their child.
being in the cosmos.
Our parents married once and remained
together until death they did part. We were
Each of us was a luminous cell in married in their presence and the strength of
a seamless web of souls sharing their bond empowered us with the actuality of a
the same love-light, a Universal Mind lifelong romance and friendship. Over the past
Lattice. Love was revealed as the ground fifteen years, many young lovers inspired by
our relationship, have asked us to perform their
of being, the supreme cosmic force, the weddings at CoSM. Their babies are now being
underlying undying fabric of the Universe. blessed at CoSM. Rituals celebrating Love hold
the community together.
Wearing blindfolds, we saw the same mystic
inner vision, confirmed through our drawings. In 1985, on our first MDMA journey we
A heavenly experience, the Universal Mind Lattice had a second simultaneous inner vision.
was a holy blessing and a turning point, a visual
reference of infinite interconnectedness.
We saw the Sacred Mirrors in a round
temple space and knew we had to build.
Seeing each other as Sacred Mirrors, we have opened
our lives to the full impact of love and journeyed the To co-create a Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, a
path together for over forty-two years, as partners in Sanctuary of Visionary Art, became our shared
pleasure and in pain, and best friends in whom we journey inspired by the mystic state. Building
could confide our dreams, desires, shadows, shame a temple is the creation our community, with
and higher possibilities. creativity in service to Love as our spiritual path.
Alex Grey, Universal Mind Lattice, 1981

alexgrey.com

Ask Allyson
Allyson Grey
People ask,
“What is the secret to a marriage that lasts?”
Our favorite answer comes from multi-talented friends,

Judith Ansara & Robbie Gass. Married for over four decades,
they coach couples to better communicate and improve their
partnership skills. “Choose well,” they told us. “Then, stop
choosing.” Some couples wonder many years after their vows,
whether or not they have chosen The One. With uncertainty
and dissatisfaction they continue to search, crippling the
commitment essential to a positively evolving co-existence.
About half of “love marriages” endure. About half of marriages

arranged by parents or guardians also endure. An Indian friend
was waiting for her guardians to propose a marriage partner.
When I asked, “What if you do not love the person chosen
for you?”, she answered, “My people are caring and would not
choose the wrong person for me. Besides, everyone is for loving.”
Relationships endure when partners reflect upon each other

as Sacred Mirrors, encouraging each other’s strengths and
reaching higher within themselves. Keeping a promise to stay
together is a path of personal transformation for both
companions. Keep in mind: the trouble is never over there. The
only relationship we have is with ourselves. In an
ever-maturing partnership, both struggle and triumph are part
of the bargain. Choosing the relationship we have provides
an anchor and serves to measure our own spiritual evolution.
Making a lifetime commitment with our best friend and
creating common goals, children, a home, and co-determined
projects, will support and challenge the best in each another.
Allyson Grey, Secret Writing Spectrum Grey Scale, 1991

(detail), oil on wood, 20 x 20 inch
128 LOVE | CoSM Journal allysongrey.com
When representing our partner to others,
telling the “good stories,” mentioning the
success of the other and the learning that
a relationship offers, affirms the bond
between us and puts the best energetic
vibrations into the universe.
Choose wisely
and stop choosing
In The Teaching of the Buddha, there is a
story of a young couple in love who traveled
to ask the Buddha a question that had
been bothering them. “We love each other
so much,” they said, “and cannot bear the
thought that one day we will be separated by
death.” The Buddha replied, “If you stay true
to the teachings and follow the path in the
same way, it is possible that you could
be reborn as the same person.” Loving
ourselves as much as we are loved by our
most beloved could lead a couple toward
rebirth as an enlightened one.
Alex Grey, The Kiss, 2008

130 LOVE | CoSM Journal alexgrey.com
Alex: In an enduring relationship, mutual admiration is key. We call He’ll be ruminating over deep and lofty subjects with thoughts that
this the “Too Good for Me Theory.” When I met Allyson in art school, are authentic and ponderous. Pulled from my earthy reality, I realize
she was friendly, positive, and popular. She was very attractive and the opportunity to contemplate matters beyond my own initiation.
everyone knew and liked her. Seeing her in our “Conceptual Art/Mixed Then, I remember how lucky I am to be loved by Alex.
Media” class, I could tell we had similar aesthetic passions, but never
thought she would be interested in me. She initiated a few conversations Alex: Mutual Love has improved our self-esteem. Our “Love mirror”
and came to all my performances. At Allyson’s end-of-year party, I had allows us to experience our worth. Respect and admiration are
my first LSD journey. With added courage, I asked her if we could meet essential to this chemistry. I don’t think a relationship can survive
and share our experience. We barely left each other for at least a week and without it. The terms “my better half ” and “a good catch” both imply
I was so elated. I wished but doubted that love could last. I thought, “Even this notion of “too good for me.” This partner is a better person than
if this relationship ends, I have now learned that Love is possible.” Years I might have expected to attract. Because of their Love, I strive to be a
later, Allyson told me to paint the Sacred Mirrors and I knew I should. better person.
She named them, too.
Allyson: Seeing the other as the source of your own transformation
Allyson: The first time I laid eyes on Alex, I noticed his deep intensity, makes an ideal partnership. Through an enduring relationship, we
his drive and accomplishment, his strangeness and brilliance. I’ve never evolve and improve our moral character. Painting and working with
met anyone more interesting than Alex. Sometimes, together in our each other nearby, while listening to music or talking to the one
studio, sitting at our easels quietly working away on our paintings, I’ll person I most admire and respect are the earmarks of a perfect day.
be deep in thought, contemplating a past conversation, CoSM business,
what’s in the fridge, what my mother said. Out of the blue, I’ll ask Alex For over a decade, it has been our honor, as ministers of CoSM,
across the studio,“What are you thinking about?” He will inevitably to officiate weddings together, couple to couple, marriage being a
recount some philosophical reading, something about Namkhai Norbu, promise of enduring love made before a community.
Schelling, or a Sufi mystic.

THE SOCIAL ARTIST Love transforms the way we see, think, dream, act, engage the world,
serve others and even transcend our local selves. Love is the source of
Jean Houston much creative endeavor: songs, poetry, writing, dreaming, folly and
glory. It is what wakes us up and keeps us going. As we love more,
we honor more, we see and accept more. We honor pain and beauty.
We honor each other’s paths. This is where the social artist as loving
evocateur makes fertile the fields of action in which his or her
co-workers farm. With love we become more intelligent and creative
because we are open to the patterns of the whole network of life. We
glimpse the wonder in its infinite forms and that wonder is within
us. With love we are able to exceed our local conditions and evolve.
The role of the social artist is to be able to open himself or herself to a
loving resonance. A social artist of love discovers strategies that
become daily practices. Committing to the choice of love is the
highest teaching of them all, offering the greatest good for life on
this planet. The highest teaching, universal love, goes beyond innate,
unconscious or restricted loving according to the demands of culture
or family.
The universe is alive and loving. As you move towards the loving uni-
verse, it moves towards you. A loving leader magnetizes events and
people by virtue of their spiritual eros. A leader aware of the lure of
becoming is a powerful attractor. The universe grows by its
connections and its attractions, atoms to atoms, molecules to
molecules, bodies to bodies, groups to groups, nations to nations and
finally the world. Attraction is an operating principle of the
Godbeing, finding relationships through love that move the sun and
stars. Those who enter into the primordial relationship to Godspirit
as Beloved, find love spilling over to all things.
Consider how much we love our gardens, giving them attention and
devotion. Consequently, they love us back by producing. The same is
true of our pets. If we received the same quality of loving regard and
empowerment that we give to our dogs and cats, there is no telling
how evolved our lives would be. With our animals and our gardens
we are wise enough to know that we must give attention, devotion
and awareness in order to get a loving response. With human
Amanda Sage, Spirit Rising, 2009 relationships we expect far less of ourselves. A loving leader gives the
acrylic, casin and oil on canvas, 18 x 24 inch quality of attention and devotion to others that makes a well-tended
amandasage.com garden bloom abundantly.

The leader as social artist is a romancer, an inciter of spiritual eros.
He or she calls others to a remembrance of their own beloved soul.
Mother Teresa and the Dalai Lama represent people of a high spiritual
eros, drawing others into engagement with their own souls and the
unfolding of their soul’s code because they themselves have so deep
and constant a relationship to their own beloved. The social artist must
embody the mystery of the Great Lure, the possibility of loving
partnership with the Divine, the Beloved of the Soul. In giving energy
and commitment to this spiritual partnership, a social artist leader
emanates love to all realms of existence, even the subtle or invisible
realms.
Here is a practice for becoming a loving creative leader. Each

morning before arising, join your Togethermind with the Beloved
Divine and review the day ahead. The Beloved can nuance the
best actions for a particular day. Each evening before sleep, join
your Togethermind with the Beloved Divine and review the day
gone by. The Beloved would praise your accomplishments.
Setting aside a period each day for reflection, prayer and co-creative
meditation on your projects, you give the Beloved your time as the
Beloved helps you gain answers. It is essential that you think of the
Beloved as your guiding Essence. These relationships grow only by
conscious use. Place yourself within the Beloved’s field, sit quietly with
your mind at rest and let the field carry you to the Essence place. Enjoy
the connection and wait for the insights that drop into your mind.
Don’t dwell on obstacles. Focus on the connection that diminishes

obstacles. There is a fuller picture to be known and then applied.
Where you build the house of the spirit, the spirit will always enter.
To receive ultimate knowledge, create a mind of vast emptiness that
perfectly mirrors the universe. That would mean dropping all categories,
habits, all feelings other than love. Otherwise, this Universe is strained
through the lens of your needs and expectations. That said, the lens
accomplishes much, for it gives form and shape to the infinite treasures
in the creative universe. Allow into your being a state of openness and Amanda Sage, Celestial Kingdom, 2010
resonance to God, the All, the One, Mind-at-Large, Cosmic acrylic, casein & oil on canvas, 24 x 30 inch
Consciousness and connect with the most perfect Frequency that amandasage.com
includes all others. The Beloved joining forces with you in the
Togethermind seek qualities and structures to evolve your life and
culture. In your together-heightened-frequency, you open the lens to
create patterns of a social enterprise, an ecology of cultural and social
designers.
When your dislikes color your mood and perception and you hear
your mind rehearsing your dislike, immediately, get out of
automatic pilot and turn to the Beloved. Together you will work
things out. Whenever you have a deep concern, reach toward the
concern of the Beloved. Then, from their place of creative wishes and
loving intention, send this Higher Order of Design and well being to
that concern.
The social artist has a quality of attunement and attraction. They are
condensers for the ley lines of love. They maintain a state of mutuality
even facing the most difficult obstacle. Being in a state of constant
darshan, the most attuned see the Beloved Divine in others regardless
of behavior. How do we generate such energy of loving? Hindus and
Buddhists describe four beautiful qualities:
(1) Loving kindness
(2) Heart compassion
(3) The willingness to allow yourself to be or become happy because
someone else is happy, no matter what levels of unhappiness you
experience.
(4) the hardest one for most of us: allowing yourself to maintain a
state of loving equanimity when others behave like wretches.
The general method of practice recommended for reaching these
estimable goals involves ever deepening forms of meditation.
From here the real work of a loving creative community begins.
Dr. Jean Houston, scholar, philosopher and researcher in Human Ca-

pacities, is one of the foremost visionary thinkers and doers of our time.
She is long regarded as one of the principal founders of the
Human Potential Movement. In 1965, with her late husband Dr. Robert
Masters, Dr. Houston co-founded The Foundation for Mind Research.
She founded of the Mystery School, now in its 25th year, a program of
human development, mythic and spiritual studies. A prolific writer and
author of 25 books, Houston has been advisor to Fortune 500
Amanda Sage, Potent-ial, 2006
corporations, to the Dalai Lama, to President and Mrs. Clinton, and
oil & egg tempera on canvas, 37 x 51 inch earlier to Eleanor Roosevelt.
amandasage.com
jeanhouston.com

Gene Keys
Richard Rudd
In the Gene Keys are an oracular teaching relying on
sixty-four names for LOVE, all expressions of Divinity.
Wisdom and compassion are forms of love perceived
through a specific lens. Ecstasy is a very rich and syrupy
sensual love. Rapture is an explosive love that can defy
speech. Humility is a virtuous expression of love. Grace
is another way of talking about love as something
mysterious that is beyond us, but also that is absolutely
everyday. Grace is another word for what is hidden in
our difficult experiences. Using Gene Keys language, this
teaching describes our lifetime journey through love,
towards love, from love. Shadow states are the seeds
of love. Our suffering is a seed of love that has not yet
sprouted. When our awareness enters into suffering
and surrenders to its higher function, then our
consciousness can flower. The expression of love, a loving
feeling that can come from this suffering, is the flower.
Suffering unlocks love. As our awareness expands and
yields to life, then the flower drops its fruit. In the Gene
Keys I call this fruit the Sidi, the highest expression of
love. Each of the sixty-four Gene Keys are unique
expressions of Love that could also be called God.
Lily Moses, Holy Amethyst, 2016

mixed media on rag paper, 29.7 x 42 cm
lilymoses.com

The art of contemplation is a way of entering into the
field of love. Moving deeper into contemplation, our
gears shift and the Love process permeates our feelings
and the subtler layers of who we are. Over time, this
expansion of love may enter our everyday life and offer
breakthrough, insight, and epiphany. The contemplation
expands into joyousness, entering the fabric of our being.
Not a formulaic teaching with an instruction manual,
Gene Keys supports everyone in finding their own way
using imagination and freedom of spirit. Not a “fast
food spirituality,” Gene Keys provides a slow lingering
burn that opens access to the higher states. Awareness
shared by the Gene Keys continues to go deeper until it
burrows right into the DNA itself, the very cellular fabric
of being. When higher awareness reaches into the DNA,
it begins to catalyze chemicals in the body that can lead
to euphoric states of consciousness, triggering hormones
and rushes of higher feelings which share insight and
clarity.
Richard Rudd is an international teacher, writer and

award-winning poet. In his twenties, Rudd experienced a
life changing state of spiritual illumination over three days
and nights that began his mystical journey. This catalysed
an extensive worldwide spiritual search. All his studies
became synthesized in 2002 when he began to write and
receive the Gene Keys, a vast synthesis exploring the
miraculous possibilities inherent in human DNA. It took
seven years to write the book, Gene Keys, and to
understand and embody its teachings. Richard continues
to study and teach the profound lessons contained in the
Gene Keys.
genekeys.com
Anderson Debernardi, Essential Love, 2012

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Laws of
Vibrational
Energy
Core Love
L ove is important for our character development,

affecting what we do and how we evolve. Love
fortifies our character so we are able to respond
positively to the experiences that we have. A loving
relationship feeds us energy, giving us the ultimate
confidence to believe in ourself and in the love that
we share. Loving relationships are designed to support
and validate our development. We can be as advanced
as we want inside our head, but it’s never validated
unless it’s been confirmed by a relationship. When
there’s a conflict we can handle it in a compassionate
way that moves our partners forward, doesn’t leave
them stuck, and meets their needs.
Core Love, Activator, 2011

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g.life
Staying active in love includes supporting ourself while
serving other people on a deeper level. Whatever our
interests or studies are, we can look at the world with love to
see the beauty and the perfection of nature on ever deeper
and more intricate levels. There is a passion that can open up
inside of you when you are in deep service and appreciation
of the world around. This passion unlocks energy which can
help you bring more love into your relationships, allowing
them to grow and expand. If you are not generating that
passion, then you are not really bringing new energy of love
to your relationships. A breakdown can happen in a
relationship when there is fighting over the limited love that
already exists. Unlock your passion through service and
study in order to generate more love to sustain your
relationships. Let the love you feel be a reward for
connecting with and supporting the depth and beauty of life
all around you. You can gain energy from doing what you
love, and sharing that passion in a way that supports others.
Love affects our bodies. The Laws of Vibrational Energy

(L.O.V.E) describe how vibration works, the way it affects
our bodies and minds, and how our bodies extract energy
from the vibrations. The Laws of Vibrational Energy are a
system of information designed to help unlock the dormant
higher senses in the body and activate our higher potential.
Our love and passion leads to an understanding about how

to develop, advance and open up new types of technology
that will have a profound impact on the world and make
it a better place. I never looked at my work as art, I always
thought of it as technology, math, energy or brain waves.
I now see that I am exploring a whole new field of art.
The images I create show how energy and love is transferred
from the body into brainwaves. The art reassembles these
brain waves into a specific sequence to generate
consciousness. My body of work is a whole operating system
and app for the body which helps us access and store energy
as well as memories. My art is a love microchip for the brain.
Core Love, Activator, 2011

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g.life
At ten years old Core Love was in a serious car
accident where he sustained a brain injury that
caused him to lose most of his long term and
short term memory. This drastically changed
his experience of reality. He had intense
seizures causing his body to release
neuro-chemicals which put him
into what he calls “high energy
states.” Core was given visions of
entities who walked him through
simulations and shared teachings
designed to unlock a new,
upgraded operating system for
the human body. This new light
based operating system laid
out techniques to process past
memories using the breath
and geometric technologies for
opening up the higher senses of
the body.
Core Love is the founder of Love

Innerversity and the creator of
Sacred G technology. Sacred G stands
for Sacred Geometry and is a new
form of art that focuses into activating
specific regions of the brain through
complex mathematical
geometry and color combinations. Core has
sold 2.5 million prints of his art in over 120
countries around the world. With over 300 near
death experiences, Core Love has been in touch
with what he describes as the “gods and goddesses”
who have trained him in the secrets of energy, sacred
Core Love, Activatorm 2011 digital geometry and consciousness.
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g.life
Love in its purest sense is action. You are
ignited and made more alive by the sense
of sharing in the meaning of existence.
Hold a child who is terminally ill and learn the importance
of love. Even the fleeting instant of love can spark a
new direction for the soul to move. I have seen children
brought back to life in the arms of a stranger. The
tenderness of an embrace is deeply enlivening. Love in
action knows both life eternal and finite. To truly embrace
the gift of creation, one must come face to face with death
and dive into the deep-end of compassion.
Half of my adult life has been spent in war zones and

working with orphans. I have been beat down, bloodied
Alivening and jailed in far away lands. This for me is love in action.
Love is the sweat pouring down my brow as I lift children
out of wreckage after the earth has shaken us into an
abstraction of all we knew. When the material world is
Layla Love burning and crumbling, lost to billowing smoke, love
is what remains. I take photographs in warzones, not
focusing on the tragedy as much as the love that is present
even in our deepest human horrors. There is a core of love
you can see in the eye’s of a soldier bleeding out. The hope
that remains, the dreams that we carry forward, is the love
hosted within us.

Layla Love is an artist in all the best senses
of that word - in love with and filled with
the energy of life, from suffering through
miracles. Her work is universal and unique
at the same time. You will always know it’s
hers - and your own.
— Gloria Steinem
Layla Love is a photographer who has travelled the

circumference of the earth many times over. She has
explored the juxtaposition between rich and poor,
something she experienced in her own life growing
up between two countries with parents from opposite
social economic spectrums. As a sociologist, a woman,
and a person who believes in the art of living, Layla’s
goal has been to illustrate and immortalize both the
boundary-dwellers and the change-makers. Love has
explored meditation, tantric practices, and sensory
development through a global spectrum of traditions
designed to uphold and propel the female spirit into the
center of human discourse.
laylaloveart.com
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Dialectic of Love
Martin Ucik
Like all organisms, we humans have an innate, genetically
predisposed biological purpose to survive, to procreate, to
raise our offspring, and to seek the optimal quality-of-life.
When our individual desires are met by a compatible

partner, powerful hormones are released and we “fall in love.”
If feelings are mutual, an asymmetric flow of energies, a dialectic
of love is co-created between the first six chakras. A man shares
his productive capacities in the root, power, and throat chakras
in exchange for her receptive reproductive abilities of the sacral,
heart, and third-eye chakras.
This dialectical co-creation of biological love works well as long

as both partners are able and willing to assume these capabilities.
When the relationship falls short the necessary learning,
healing, growing, and awakening work is required. But as soon
as one partner fails to fulfill the desires of the other at one or
more levels, the love becomes a one-way street. The partner who
still receives but no longer gives becomes the master, and the
other the slave. If both withhold, the love breaks down
completely at that level. When this happens in pre and
post-conventional relationships, most individuals move on to
the next partner or have multiple partners to fulfill their desires.
In conventional relationships, the partners are usually trapped
“until death does them apart.”
Alex Grey, Embracing, 1989

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Humans also have a genetically
predisposed transcendental or soul
purpose to create more goodness, truth,
beauty and function in the world, which
separates us from other species. These
four “transcendentals” became part of our
DNA (or soul) through females selecting
males as partners who were not only
good protectors and providers, but also
empathetic towards them, intelligent,
creative, and practical. Excelling in one
or more of these areas was often the only
alternative for physically weaker males to
effectively compete for attractive mates.
Unlike our biological purpose, which

unfolds naturally and is enacted
instinctively in all healthy human beings,
we awaken to our transcendental purpose
when we begin to ask deeper questions
about the meaning of our life—beyond
fulfilling our biological purpose. We
begin to enact our unique transcendental
purpose after we align ourselves with our
genetically predisposed natural talents and
strengths, develop the necessary skills to
express them in a professional way, and
put them in service of the being-needs of
others in a life-affirming and valued way.
Alex Grey, Cosmic Lovers, 1987

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Sharing our transcendental purpose in kind and degree with
an equal and opposite partner shifts the often unsustainable
asymmetrical biological dialectic of love to a sustainable
symmetrical co-creation at the level of the six chakras which
we may call transcendental love.
In these relationships, the partners not only love each other

through balancing and harmonizing their healthy feminine
and masculine polarities in the interior and exterior
dimensions of their being at each of the six chakras, but
even more so through what is uniquely co-created between
them. By sharing and enacting their Transcendental
Purpose, they provide the greatest good for the largest
number of people and thus help to make the world a
better place. We may call these partnerships Integral Love
Relationships.
Martin Ucik is a German born entrepreneur who trained

with Eckhart Tolle as Power of Now group facilitator and
founded www.singles2couples.org, an Association for Healthy
Relationships. His studies of Ken Wilber’s Integral Model
allowed him to integrate his personal experiences as a divorced
father and the wisdom from over 200 relationship books into
Integral Relationships: A Manual for Men, which Ken Wilber
calls “an impressive and a great book!” His new book is titled:
Sex Purpose Love: Couples in Integral Relationships Creating
a Better World. In addition to writing, Martin gives talks and
facilitates Integral Love Relationship workshops world-wide.
integralrelationship.com
Allyson Grey, Abbreviated Infinity, 1987

allysongrey.com
Mating and
Meritocracy
Michael Phillips
In considering the subject of ‘love and money,’ my mind is

called to a summer in the mid-1970’s when I was in Kyoto
for a few months. I had visited Japan several times already
and was growing curious about arranged marriages. When I
talked to Japanese friends most of the women said they had
a ‘love’ marriage. Most of the men said that their own family
knew the family of their wife before the wedding. Everyone
acknowledged that arranged marriages were common.
I was in a coffee shop near Kyoto University with about 15

students scattered around the room, mostly separated into
clusters of men and clusters of women. I stood-up and loudly
asked for everyone’s attention. Americans were highly
respected back in those days. Then I asked them each a
question going around the room. “Are you going to have a
‘love marriage’ or an ‘arranged marriage’?” The women, with
no exceptions, chose a ‘love marriage.’ The men all gave vague
answers like: “My parents will handle that, I don’t care.”
Allyson Grey, Adam, 1984

oil on wood, 20 x 26 inch
allysongrey.com
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Over the last 40 years, I always check on that issue.
Nothing has changed. From this I conclude that ‘love’
in selecting a mate is an accommodation to the modern
commercial world. It appears that arranged marriages
maintain the stability and hereditary social structure
within the traditional tribal-family society. A champion
of the modern commercial world, I am a fan of ‘love’ as
the basis for family formation. ‘Love’ in mating supports
meritocracy over hereditary social class.
Moreover, as a mature male who has had many lovers

during my life and a few wives, I have also observed that
it is always the woman who selects the man, even though
few men know that or even believe that. So the ‘love’
part of selection is a cover for a meritocratic choice.
Founder of MasterCard, Michael Phillips invented the

modern multi-bank global credit card. He is the organizer
of the Briarpatch Network, serving hundreds of small
environmental, open, simple living businesses. With
co-author Salli Rasberry, Phillips authored
The Seven Laws of Money, the first law being,
“Do What you Love & the Money Will Come.” The
co-authors also wrote, Marketing Without Advertising.
Phillips managed the foundation created with money from
the Whole Earth Catalog (1973). Michael Phillips blogs
about modern commerce.
phillips.blogs.comthe foundation created with money

from the Whole Earth Catalog (1973).
www.phillips.blogs.com Allyson Grey, Eve, 1984

oil on wood, 20 x 26 inch
allysongrey.com

Levels of Love
Ken Wilber
Human development grows through a series of stages,
steps, lines or levels of increasing complexity and
consciousness. These stages, steps, lines and levels grow
more expansive and more inclusive from egocentric,
identifying with a single organism, to ethnocentric,
identifying with a family, to tribe or nation, to world
centric, a caring for all humanity, to Cosmocentric,
a caring for all sentient beings. Multiple intelligences
go through the same stages of growth along lines of
development from an archaic cognition, to a magic
cognition, to a mythic cognition, to a rational cognition,
to a pluralistic cognition, to an integral cognition. The
same is true of love. It’s common for us to say things
like “All you need as love,” and yet it turns out that love
develops through growth hierarchies, too. Each higher
stage of love is more inclusive and embracing and less
domineering and oppressive. We all start with self-love.
This can be an egocentric, narcissistic love where a person
cares only for their own being and existence. In the next
stage, love expands to a family, tribe or clan of people.
This can be a complex group like a nation or all of the
believers in one religion. However, ethnocentric love can
be limiting and prejudiced, showing more care for an
unknown member of one’s own group, than for a known
member outside of one’s group. We don’t need more stage
one, selfish love or stage two, racist love. That’s not going
to help. That's going to hurt. We need love at stage three,
Worldcentric and stage four, Cosmocentric. Then the
love includes the entire human family. That’s when love
becomes healing and a genuine spiritual force.
Alex Grey, Caring, 2001

alexgrey.com
Holy wars can be driven by people’s love of their God. Love is not
the cure for all things, it’s the cause of half of our problems. Even
Nazis love their children. We have to be really careful when we
talk about love. If we don’t mean worldcentric or cosmocentric
love, we may mean forms of hatred or even murder in the name
of love for a particular people, group, nation, race or religion. So
you can’t just say “All you need is love,” because clearly that’s not
what we mean. What we mean is “All you need is universal love.”
It’s been 1000- 2000 years since the great religions were laid down
and none of them include, lines of development, a more recent
discovery. If these things were known by someone like Gautama
Buddha, they may have included them. Perhaps Jesus would not
say “Love thy neighbor.” Instead he might say “Love thy neighbor
from a worldcentric perspective.”
Ken Wilber is one of the most important philosophers in the world

today. Often referred to as “the Einstein of consciousness,” Ken
is the originator of the first truly comprehensive or integrative
philosophy, aptly named Integral Theory. Incorporating cultural
studies, anthropology, systems theory, developmental psychology,
biology, and spirituality, Integral Theory has been applied in
fields as diverse as sustainability, psychotherapy, spirituality,
education, business, medicine, politics, sports, and art. With
twenty-two books on spirituality and science, translated into over
twenty-five languages, Wilber is now the most translated writer
on consciousness studies in the United States. Wilber founded the
Integral Institute, a think-tank for studying issues of science and
society in an integral way.
kenwilber.com
Alex Grey, Christ with an Interfaith Heart, 1999
acrylic on paper, 11 x 14 inch
alexgrey.com

Heart path
Hagiography
Crystal & Spore
Hagiography comes from the Greek ἅγιος (hagios) and γραφία (graphia)
which translates to ‘holy writing’. It refers to biographical text about a saint
or spiritual leader. Sacred stories form the canons of all world religions.
Great Men and Women who demonstrate extraordinary love, compassion
and wisdom become exemplars that inspire others to rise up to their potential
and become better people.
For millennia, tales have been told of creation. Blessed are those who
about the lives of mystics and help the sick and needy, protect
martyrs, ascetics and holy people the weak, standing up for the right
who have devoted themselves to the of people and nature to be treated
loving liberation of humanity from with love, respect and caring. A
the bondage of suffering. Blessed hagiography seeks to remember and
beings who have placed others before celebrate those whose did not seek
themselves and lived in profound fame, whose lives were spent serving
service to life. The courage and others, and whose names would be
dedication of saints can supersede forgotten if not for those who
their own wants and needs, faithfully transcribed their love into
allowing them to act from a place of the historical record.
pure spiritual devotion and
universal love for the creator and all
Hieronymus Bosch, Saint Christopher Carrying the Christ Child, 1500

oil on panel, 71.5 x 113 cm

Thomas Merton Amma
Leadership through Sudhamani Idamannel
Contemplation “Love is our true essence.”
“Love is not just something that happens to Known as Amma, or Mother, for her teacher and cultural ambassador
you: it is a certain special way of being alive” beautifully selfless love and who has set up primary schools
compassion, Mātā Amritanandamayi and a university. Amma says that
Devī spent much of her early her religion is love. She encourages
After mystical experiences at who follow the Rule of St. Benedict childhood singing devotional people to contemplate the essential
churches in Rome when he was 23 which emphasizes silence, fidelity to prayers, helping the poor and needy. principles of their own faith and
years old, Thomas Merton came monastic life, vegetarianism, reading, Inspired by mystical experiences, to try to live by them. When asked
to the USA, studying and later and writing. As a young monk he Amma dedicated her life work to where she gets her energy she says
teaching in New York at Columbia translated religious texts and wrote healing people by sharing love. She “Where there is true love, anything is
University. He became Friar Louis biographies of saints and leaders, tours the world regularly sharing her effortless.”
when he entered the monastic life hagiographies of the White Monks love with public dharshans,
in a Trappist Order at the Abbey of from his Cistercian tradition. His hugging millions. Her embrace amma.org
Our Lady of Gethsemani. This is a ecumenical work connected uplifts, heals and transforms
cloistered contemplative community traditions of the east and west and countless people. Amma established
shared a Theology of Love that a global network of charitable
included balancing deep organizations in 40 countries known
contemplative practice with as Embracing the World which
active participation in the social and focuses on helping the poor with
political world. Thomas Merton’s food, shelter, education, healthcare
teachings emphasized quiet pacifism, and livelihood. She is a spiritual
nonviolence and interfaith
understandings. It was his devout
love for God and humanity that
made him one of the most
influential spiritual teachers in the
modern west, reminding us that
“Love is it’s own reward.”
merton.org
Meher Baba Mother Teresa
Merwan Sheriar Irani Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu
“The book of the heart…holds the key to the Leadership through Service
mystery of life.”
Experiencing a state of God- He also sought out ‘masts’, people
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one
Realization at the age of 19, Meyer who may appear mad, but who he ever come to you without leaving happier.”
Baba, or Compassionate Father, saw to be consumed with love for
Called by God to become a run mobile medical clinics and
began his mission of awakening God, living in a constant state of
missionary at the age of 12, Saint dispensaries, setting up soup
humanity to Divine Love. He Divine Intoxication. Often found in
Teresa has come to exemplify the kitchens, orphanages and schools for
travelled the world giving public impoverished conditions or on the
spirit of love through service. After those in need. Mother Teresa says
darshans and connecting street, Avatar Meher Baba would
years as a nun and teacher, she she “found the paradox that if I love
directly with hundreds of feed, bathe, and sit with these people
dedicated herself to compassionate until it hurts, then there is no hurt,
thousands of people. His in seclusion. Dedicating time to
outreach work in the slums of but only more love.”
intention was ‘not to teach but bathing lepers, washing the feet of
Calcutta with an open-air free
to awaken’. Part of Meher Babas the poor and bowing down to people
school. Mother Theresa founded the motherteresa.org
work was establishing free schools, in unfortunate situations, he gave
Missionaries of Charity, operating in
hospitals, dispensaries, shelters away grain, cloth and money to the
133 countries. Members make vows
and soup kitchens for the poor. needy wherever he went. The last
of chastity, charity, and obedience,
forty four years of life were lived in
giving ‘wholehearted free service to
total silence, communicating with
the poorest of the poor’ as part of
a letter board and later a complex
their consecrated life of service. They
set of hand motions. Honouring all
manage homes for people dying
paths to the Divine, Meher Baba
of HIV, leprosy and tuberculosis,
recognized that “Love has no
limit.”
ambppct.org
The selfless lives of saints would not be remembered if there were
not skilled designers, typesetters and artists ready to devote time
to the task. Writing and keeping religious and spiritual books,
has been the job of innumerable devotees and monks over the
millenia of human civilization. Saints are generally unconcerned
with being chronicled or documented, so it takes its own level of
selfess devotion to document these people. This is how the great
teachings of the masters have made their way to the present day.
These people’s names would never be remembered, the original
writers, transcribers of the holy words, painters of symbols and
keepers of the ancient libraries. These people are responsible for
maintaining the memory of enlightened masters and venerable
saints, ensuring that we can continue to learn from the guiding
example of their extraordinary unconditional love and devotion.
“Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take nothing
that you have received...but only what you have given; a full heart
enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice, and courage.”
~ St. Francis
“Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal.
Walk out of your house like a shepherd.”
~ Jalaluddin Rumi
Love can be a compass in our journey to evolve and uplift. It is

the force that inspires us to create this journal and reflects our
willingness to learn and share, benefiting from the profound
wisdom and art emerging at the new edges of visionary culture.
The journal creation process, a community collaboration with
leaders, thinkers and artists from around the world, supports
our feeling of loving awe and reference for this work. As part of
CoSM’s ecclesiastical canon of love and creativity, this special
double edition of CoSM Journal of Visionary Culture shares
powerful ways to express our love for everything. Take a page
from the world hagiography and fall in love with love, the
experience of connection through caring and compassion, an
articulation of humanities highest values and
aspirations. May this transmission of Visionary
Love be a powerful healing light in the world and
inspire your own creative practice.
www.onbeyondmetamedia.com
www.visionarypermaculture.com
The Journey Continues
My Life a Love story
Eli Morgan
At this moment I feel Love is the force of nature that

pulls us through time...but when I was Sixteen, it was a
California rainstorm, and a raven-haired girl named Jesikah.
She was the coolest person I had ever met, and my first
true love. Inseparable grunge mystics, we’d make out in the
used books stores and spend hours reading about Wicca and
Egyptian mystery schools. The little new age shop was our
favorite, we would hunt for magical talismans, and some-
where between the nag champa and the black candles,
we found something very special. It was a single poster, a
kissing couple in a skinless embrace, their hearts and minds
connected with an infinite flame. She bought it for me and
with a kiss, we rushed back to the sanctuary of my room.
We pinned the poster above the bed and lay there together
trying to turn ourselves into the couple beaming down from
above. When she was gone, the love never left my heart, and
the poster stayed above my bed. It had become a symbol of
what love felt and looked like, something in the flesh and
beyond it. When I was in love again, I looked up at that image
of the two x-ray lovers and felt it was giving me a deeper
teaching. I never thought of the artist behind the work.
High school ended, and my path to art school in New York

lay before me. Saying goodbye to my friends and beloved
Northern California, I needed some solo time in the Bay.
Berkeley was a sacred place to me, and Cody’s Books on
Telegraph my church. There, buried in the shelves, I found
a book that stopped me in my tracks. Pulling it down, the
cover was undeniably the same Artist that did the posters
above my bed. I was awestruck, Alex Grey, Sacred Mirrors, it
felt like I had found an old friend.

There was no book budget until I got Again Alex Grey’s art was bringing me closer to the
to New York, so I shelved the book, people I cared about. Little did I know at the time
left my hometown and everyone I how far that rabbit hole would go. Mid-way through
knew, and headed east. That first college, my best friend told me he had some
summer in NYC was jungle hot and amazing news. Alex Grey lived in Brooklyn, and he
love-less. Art school was intense and was getting an opportunity to work with him on the
awkward and I felt disconnected, first computer renderings of an art temple he was
love seemed like something I would planning to build. This was confirmation that from
never feel again. Why did I ever leave California to New York I had a special connection
California? with this work. By then I had fallen deeply in love
with NYC and with a rave princess named Battle
I did find solace in my studies, and Angel. In our world of underground dance culture,
my comparative religions class was Alex was loved like no other. People would speak
stirring a new flame in my heart. I will softly of the work like “have you seen it too?” I saw
never forget the day my professor showed it all coming from the same place of love, art, and
us Sanskrit. Somewhere deep it struck a mysticism. Graduation took precedence over my
familiar key, I had seen those symbols before... friend’s work with Alex, and his connection was lost
ah, it hit me, the Alex Grey book. I spent before much was done, but faith told me that it was
the next week calling every bookstore in the just the beginning. My love would pass and
city to find it. I would live on canned tuna for reappear and I would finish college in four years
a month if I had to but I needed to own that with a relentless heart and focused mind.
book. I carried it everywhere and made an altar
for it when I was at home. It reminded me of Alex Grey was still the only artist that I wanted to
California and looking at it, I remembered the love see my work. As a young designer, I was making art,
of the past and a knowing that there was a future designing flyers and producing events. I needed
worth being a part of. validation, luckily my friend had kept Alex’s card
that had his home address on it. So I packaged up
Art school was like taking all the alienated artists from every some of my best work and sent it to Brooklyn. Alex
high school and putting us all together. I was expecting and Allyson wrote me back, saying kind and
collaboration and community, young artists working encouraging words about the role of design and art
together, learning from each other. This was not the case, in society. I was so touched that I printed the email
and common ground was hard to find. That said, out and kept it in the book, not thinking I would
friendships did begin to arise, and many around have any more interaction with them.
the book, including fellow art students that knew
the work or felt a connection to it. Alex Grey I began dreaming of my California home and how
became a cultural litmus test. A Brotherhood I should move back as soon as possible. Love had
began to form around the work and we all felt drifted away and all the signs said go west to find it.
that we shared a secret knowledge. Art and That following winter, which I planned to be my last
friendship were the paths in New York, an ex-girlfriend, Marisa Scirocco came
back to love. to visit. Only in NYC for a few days, she reached out
to tell me the artist that I turned her on to, was going
to be speaking down the block from me on 21st, the
street I called home. That artist was Alex Grey.
If you do follow your bliss you put your-
We showed up as a couple and met Alex and Allyson. self on a kind of track that has been there
I was humbled by it, thinking that I had finally met all the while, waiting for you, and the life
the people from my poster. We had an instant that you ought to be living is the one you
rapport and hearing about their mission to build a are living. Follow your bliss and don't be
chapel. I had a flash: “Let’s do benefit parties. I can afraid, and doors will open where you
help you build your chapel if you help me build a didn't know they were going to be.
community around your art.”
— Joseph Campbell
My community was in need of a higher purpose
It was faith and love that helped me take
than just the night of dancing. Parties were always a
the risk and live my dream. We started to
spiritual experience for me, and many I knew found
work together full time in 2002. In 2004 we
God on the dance floor. The seed was planted and as
founded CoSM Journal of Visionary Culture.
we left, I told her “I’m going work for them one day.” Chapel of Sacred Mirrors We have travelled the world together and
benefit party NYC 2002 in 2012 it came full circle for me when I
All of this had yet to come and I was still being
designed Alex’s third book Net of Being.
pulled back to California. I longed for love and
As I write this Alex and Allyson’s vision of
mission, and the summer held little of both. Even
Entheon is being built through the deep love
the idea of doing events with Alex Grey had faded.
of the community that comes to CoSM.
I was ready to leave the east coast. I had fallen out of
In the Hudson Valley, just north of the City,
love with New York City. The summer passed and as
people from all walks of life are gathering in
September came that year the world changed forever.
a sanctuary to visionary art, to celebrate this
911 happened, no need to say more. But out of that
vision of creativity as a spiritual path. Perhaps
tragedy, I found a new love for my broken city, and
love is the whispers of your future self. Follow
all New Yorkers became family.
your heart and let what you love guide the way.
Alex Grey’s mission of art had just come out and
I had read it voraciously. It spoke to me on every
level as an artist. On a cold November day, I got the
call. Alex and Allyson were ready to meet and do a A graduate of the School of Visual Arts in
benefit party. New York City, and post-graduate student
at Cambridge University, Eli Morgan travels
The love of my community came together with my internationally as an art director, photographer
love for Alex and Allyson’s vision of the Chapel of and graphic designer. A commitment to positive
Sacred Mirrors. The core philosophy is that we world transformation through publishing, art,
were all reflections of each other’s divine love. and design led him to work with Alex & Allyson
This message moved me and I saw how it inspired Grey in 2001. As Creative Director, Designer and
others. The world needed this message and I made Events Manager, he co-founded CoSM: Journal
a commitment then and there to make it a part of of Visionary Culture and has designed award
tmy life’s work as well. winning books.
elimorgancreative.com

Team work makes the dream work
“Where there is great love
there is always miracles.”
— Willa Cather
All across the planet, the Love Tribe joins

together in celebration of the Creative Force.
An alliance of artists share collective Spirit to
uplift spiritual creative friends world-wide. As
a community building initiative of Visionary
Culture, this tenth volume of CoSM Journal
features reflections of love from kindred
painters, photographers, writers and social
sculptors from North America, South America,
Europe and Oceania.
Celebrating creativity as a spiritual practice, the

Chapel of Sacred Mirrors co-produces CoSM
Journal of Visionary Culture to support a Core
Mission: To build an enduring sanctuary of
visionary art to inspire every pilgrim’s creative
path and embody the values of love and
perennial wisdom.
Luis Tamani, Alegria de Vivir (detail), 2016

acrylic on canvas, 98.5 x 130 cm
luis-tamani.com

Ruysen Flores Venancino, Soplo Ancestral, 2017
www.facebook.com/ruvexen
Luis Tamani, Alegria de Vivir, 2016

acrylic on canvas, 98.5 x 130 cm
luis-tamani.com

Roberts Creek Mandala
“Step out of the circle of Time
and into the circle of Love”
- Rumi
Roberts Creek Community Mandala

wishes to thank everyone for their
participation, creative vision, love and
support over the past 20 years. We
cherish the thousands of stories told
in the thousands of paintings shared.
Together, we dance our prayers alive, on
spinning rainbows for peace and unity.
Robert Marion
Erica Snowlake
Pamela Messner
Roberts Creek Community Mandala,

latex on asphalt, 600 painters
robertscreekmandala.org
Designer: Rob Marion
robertscreekmandala.org CoSM Journal | LOVE 189
David and
Daniel Frank
David Frank, Three Eyed Fox, 2017

thefrankbrothers.com
Daniel Frank, Waking the Blue Giant, 2016

thefrankbrothers.com David Frank, Moksha, 2017
thefrankbrothers.com
THEFRANKBROTHERS.COM
Eileen M. Rose aka “Rosie”
Eileen “Rosie” Rose, Lion Goddess, 2017

acrylic and oil on canvas, 20 x 20 inch
illuminatedrose.com
Eileen “Rosie” Rose, Jai Hanuman, 2017
illuminatedrose.com Eileen “Rosie” Rose, Lion Lotus, 2017
Artist mission statement : illuminatedrose.com
My goal is to inspire viewers of my art to see the divine and
beauty in nature and the world around them and within them I am now open to a flow of spiritual
and to spread love….as it is contagious. energy in which I perceive the most
worthy course of action for this day.
www.illuminatedrose.com My service, being selfless, opens new
Instagram.com/illuminatedrose doors of supply, making available
Facebook.com/illuminatedrose all of the tools required so that my
work will be beautiful, energetic and
influential to the highest degree.
-Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
Flow
Connections
The art of
Michael J. Bowen
The unexpected magnetic pull of a muse.
I married this visionary woman, Ami, sixteen years

ago after entering her gravitational pull in college. As
an art student, I did not expect to engage so deeply
with another being at such a young age, but some
force greater than ourselves brought us together.

LOVE is that force and it is so much greater than my
small ego identity.

Fast-forward sixteen years, the time had come to
honor her presence by rendering a soul-connection
work of art. Graphite has a special place in my heart
because of its pure simplicity. Through the use of
black, white and greys, it provides a meditation which
allows me to focus solely on line, shape and form.
Images emerge from the white space and I make the
flowing connections between spaces. The child in the
upper right appeared after hours and hours of
graphite buildup and erasing. My face eventually
appeared (shown at left blowing into the cosmos) to
remind me a love partner is ultimately a reflection
and mirror of myself. You will find many hidden
faces and symbols of life, love, music, creativity all
woven into scenes of the natural world.

For this Love edition of CoSM Journal I offer my
artwork as a prayer that all beings find their muse,
and are inspired to create and connect with
one another.

Love and creativity to all beings.
michaeljbowen.art @mjb_artist
Jeff Sullivan
“Love is the recognition of one in a world of duality” - Eckhart Tolle
Jeff Sullivan, Sol Communion, 2016

acrylic on wood, 35 x 48 inch
Jeff Sullivan, Connective inspiration

germinates within the forests of awareness
2015, acrylic on wood, 48 x 48 inch
Jeff Sullivan, Dissolution of Form, 2016

JEFFSULLIVANART.COM acrylic on wood, 30 x 48 inch

Ricky Schaede Ricky Schaede, Naiadi, 2017
oil and egg tempera on canvas, 24 x 36 inch
Ricky Schaede, The Triumph of Life, 2017

india ink on canvas, 48 x 48 inch
When we as individuals have planted enough seeds, when

enough people have been liberated from the cycle of
environmental destruction and technologies are devised to
heal and protect the earth, this is The Triumph of Life.
Mankind will be living in harmony with nature, one

another and most importantly oneself. Wildlife will be
allowed to reclaim the land and we will develop new ways
to live which accommodate the health and freedom of
ecosystems. When the wing of humanity stretches beyond
the Earth, we will seed new planets with our unique
signature of life and interact with the pantheon of other life
forms in the Universe. This is our potential future . . . the
future I would like to help create. Will you join me?
Start planting.
www.rickyschaede.com
Brian Zickafoose
Brian C. Zickafoose, Candy to the Core, 2016

Brian C. Zickafoose, The Flight of Fancy, 2016

Brian C. Zickafoose, A Three-Way Among Friends, 2015
BRIANZICKAFOOSE.COM
Michael Milota
Michael Milota, QuantumMolackra, 2015

Mixed Media: stacked and hand cut layers of
paper templates, scanned and digitized, then laser
engraved onto sheets of 1/4” extruded acrylic and
finally airbrushed with acrylic paint, 14.5 x 11.25 x
2 inch
This life is lived in layers. The deeper we

go, the deeper it will get. Art is a
by-product, of a life being lived in layers
of expression. Learning to stay in the layer
we are on, is the most challenging lesson.
Presence. Being present with each stroke

of my precision blade.
Awareness. Sensing the correct amount

of pressure needing to be applied for each
individual cut.
Michael Milota, Dimensional Mind Trap, 2011
stacked and hand cut layers of paper Balance. Too much pressure and the blade
27.5 x 33.5 x 3 inch will cut through the lower layers.
instagram @quantummilota Not enough, and the cut will be rough and
tear the paper. My art form is a reflection
QUANTUMMOLA.COM of my ever changing perspectives.

Joness Jones, Rainbow Chariot, 2017
jonessjones.com
Hilary Astrid, Nexus, 2017

hilaryastrid.com
Joness Jones, The Path to Liberation, 2015-2016
jonessjones.com
Caren Charles, Planetary Pisces, 2015 Paula Love, Gaia’s Divine Creation, 2017
acrylic, gold, & rain water, 40.6 x 50.8 cm acrylic on canvas, 16 x 24 inch
carenartist.com PaulaLove.Art

Genevieve Wood, Primordial Portals, 2017
delphiwhispers.com
Louie Izzo, Self Realization, 2017

louieizzoart@instagram.com
Ryan Tottle, Self Being, 2016 Perry Arthur Kroeger, Self Portrait, 2016
resin sculpture hand painted with acrylics, 36 inch tall oil and tempera on wood, 16 x 24 inch
ryantottle.weebly.com perrykroeger.com

Emily Kell, When We Were Seeds Of Stars, 2015
Rick Jacobi, The Messenger (Jimi Hendrix), 2016 emilykell.com
acrylic on canvas panel, 18 x 24 inch
rickjacobiart.com

Carrie Martinez, Love Ascending, 2016 Darek Valcari Marszałek, All Is ONE, 2015
acrylic on canvas, 24 x 48 inch oil on canvas, 100 x 150 cm
carriemartinez.com valcari-art.com
Tyler Gentry
Tyler Gentry lives in Roberts Creek on Mt. Elphinstone in BC Canada.
His love for painting started as a curious focus and has grown into a
defined passion for focused exploration of the art form. The paintings
are story based themes with visionary elements. The forest is the most
significant inspiration. Tyler’s latest body of works take many hundreds
of hours to compose as he attempts to capture various essences of the life
force communications.
Heliolithic Communion is a painting about unity. It shows celestial

mechanics in crystalline and sub organic energy fields. This is a place
of great importance and is eternally guarded. At the centre, a new earth
seed is held in stasis by a star seed spaceship. Tuning the fields, this is a
sacred place of reverence and divine peace.
TYLERGENTRY.CA
Tyler Gentry, Lucidral Biomorphic T’selalh Reflections, 2017

acrylic on canvas, 40 x 30 inch, www.tylergentry.ca
Lucidral Biomorphic T’selalh Reflections is a painting of

Mixal Lake in Garden Bay, BC Canada. This is a pristine lake alive
with a kaleidoscope of water creatures and energies from various
timelines. A heart shaped cloud formed overhead moments before Tyler Gentry, Heliolithic Communion, 2017
lightning electrified the water. Ancient energy vortices and acrylic on canvas, 40 x 30 inch, www.tylergentry.ca
medicinal plants thrive. This is where love flows like water.

Nicole Palapoli
@nicolepalapoli npalapoli@yahoo.com
etsy.com/shop/nicolepalapoli tattoos: bltnyc.com
Nicole Palapoli, Dualistic Coalescence, 2016 Nicole Palapoli, Goddess, 2016

acrylic, 18 x 24 inch acrylic, 16 x 20 inch
Shelley Anne Tipton Irish, Nuit and the Seven Sisters, 2015
Dan Jones, Yesmosis, 2010 gallerysati.com
acrylic on hardboard, 29 x 46 inch
danjonesart.com

Isaiah Grimes
I’ve always been fascinated with

the world around me, seeing
and perceiving life and the
combination of small, often
unnoticed, events that make it
up. From the time I was able
to hold a pencil, I constantly
worked to create something
inspired by what I was
experiencing.
IsaiahItGrimes, A piece
wasn’t until of me,
much later2017
in life
11 x 14that
inch
I began to understand my
sacredvisions11.com
fascination was a gift. I truly
Isaiah Grimes, Realeyes, 2017
began to realize that what I was
seeing was effecting not only my
inner state but my outer state as
well. As more time passed,
I noticed this was happening in
a much deeper, more personal
way. So in the fall of 2015 I
decided to take this gift, armed
with my passion for painting
and visual arts and created
Sacred Visions. At Sacred
Visions we create original works
of art inspired by visions.
Commissions and custom art
requests are welcomed.
Much love and light to you on

Isaiah Grimes, Conception, 2017 your path!
Isaiah Grimes, A piece of me, 2017
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Myztico Campo, Interdimensional Amor, 2017
digital spectral painting, 71 x 74 inch
myzticocampo.com
David Fratu, Cosmic Rebirth, 2016
acrylic on maple wood panel, 2 x 4 feet
illdes.com
Symbolika, AYA, 2014 Joe Gallwitz, Mushroom Spirit, 2017
digital medium watercolor pencils & acrylics on panelboard, 10 x 14.5 inch
symbolika.com thecosmiceye.com
Shannon Brown, Holder of Love, 2017
Denise Size, White Tara, 2017 shannonbrownstudio.com
mixed medium on canvas, 30 x 40 inch

Nancy Parker
Nancy Parker, Rapture, 2016

acrylic and casein on canvas, 30 X 40 inch
nancyparkerart.com
Nancy Parker, Yearning For Peace, 2017

nancyparkerart.com
NANCYPARKERART.COM
Nancy Parker, Rebirth into the Infinite Pool of Possibiities, 2016
230 LOVE | CoSM Journal nancyparkerart.com
The Visionary Art The voice instructed me to give this vision to humanity, as a healing tool for
of Lumiere the nations. Then everything disappeared and I was back in my normal
bedroom. Shaking, I hurriedly wrote down as many details as I could
remember, struggling to understand what I had seen. Knowing without a
Bathed in prayer and healing energy, doubt I had seen God and barely able to describe the vision, how was I going
sending Light to humanity to create it? I bathed the project in prayer and meditation until eventually the
and peace for our planet. idea of painting it became obvious. Using the finest oil paint and linen
support, I slowly began the task. Stopping and starting the work for long
periods of time, the process led me on a sixteen year journey of wisdom
In the year 2000 I was awakened from a deep sleep in the middle of the teachings and self discovery. Studying a myriad of topics, I learned to think
night. I sat up in bed and stared in disbelief at an enormous vision all objectively. An endless supply of information streamed into my consciousness
around me. I was floating in the middle of an endless space filled with as all knowledge required was given to me as needed. Different cultures,
beautiful colors changing continuously, rotating clockwise, counter- healing modalities, sacred geometry, quantum physics, compassion, the
clockwise and swirling simultaneously. Beyond the colors were sparkling power of light and unconditional Love increased my wisdom. I saw the center
stars and galaxies, hanging in deep space. This incredible scene of our human existence as a coherent vortex. Everything is vibration as it
encompassed the entire bedroom and extended far beyond the walls and moves out from the void to become The Gateway To Love. The infinite circle
ceiling in all directions spanning out into dimensions uncountable; in front, of God’s light is the Source of Unity, the All That Is and Ever Shall Be. It is
behind, above and below. Directly facing me was an enormous spinning conscious awareness radiating Love and Light from a perfect center.
golden ball of light. In the center of the ball of light were the words “I AM”
with prisms of light shooting out from it in every direction. The golden
light ball was pulsing and breathing. Glowing behind the “I AM” were pure
white fire flames of the Hebrew letters Yod Hey Vav Hey…YHVH…the
unspeakable Name of God, alive and breathing! Then I heard a loud voice
that I could see in my mind. It was not a man or woman’s voice, it came as
the rushing wind of a thousand Angel wings all speaking together:
I AM
Center Of The Turning Spiral
I AM
Creator Of Heaven And Earth
I Breathe Life Into Stars Planets And Galaxies
I AM
All Things Seen And Unseen
I AM
The Way Seer Of Infinite Consciousness
I AM Light
Love Is My Name
I AM That
I AM

The still point at the center allows
electrons to dance and galaxies to
breathe! As a hurricane has a calm
center in the spin, allowing a bad day to
affect us is our storm. Notice how you
feel when you move away from the calm
center. Once we realize how to get back
into the center and stay there, life gets
easier. It is absolutely important to be in
the axis of the rotation where the good
energy and information is, then we are
co-creating with God. When we are
centered we feel peaceful. Humans are
all unique aspects of one Divine whole,
perpetually re-creating and
re-patterning the Universe. We create
the type of energy that swirls around us!
Meditation and prayer are our tools.
Focusing on unity consciousness makes
us aware of our own energy vortex,
increasing the power and influence of
our positive energy. When one’s point
of view or belief is changed, that change
affects the invisible energy field which
creates a change in our physical
world. I AM…I believe this is the
highest statement that a mortal can use
in this world, for what we put after it
shapes our reality. I AM appears in the
Bible 719 times; 508 times in the Old
Testament and 211 times in the New
Testament. Allow the guiding Light of
Love to direct your path and be filled
with blessings for You are a unique
Lumiere, I AM, 2016 expression of the magnificent
oil, 22k gold leaf on linen, 60 x 48 inch presence of God!
A Divinely Ordered Healing Tool for Humanity
Copyright 2016 Lumiere, Collection of the Artist
MuseeLumiere.co

Mother Teresa and her Missionaries of Charity epitomises Love as described
by this scripture: “Love is very patient and kind, never jealous or envious,
never boastful or proud, never haughty or selfish or rude. Love does not
demand its own way. It is not irritable or touchy. It does not hold grudges
and will hardly even notice when others do it wrong. It is never glad about
injustice, but rejoices whenever truth wins out.” -1st Corinthians 13:4-6
from ‘The Book’, a special edition of The Living Bible.
Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in 1910, of Albanian

parents at Skopje, Yugoslavia. Dedicated to society’s poorest of the poor,
she gave no thought of discrimination to color, creed, language or country.
By 1950 she responsed to Jesus’ plea to make Love known by serving Love
and had the Missionaries of Charity approved and instituted in Calcutta,
India. In 1970 she was honored with the Nobel Peace Prize. Today her work
reaches around the world, with centers in over 139 countries. She inspired
countless people to examine their conscience and make a difference,
provoking many others to discuss solutions. In 1997 she went home to a well
deserved rest in Heaven.
A portion of the proceeds from this painting go directly to Mother Teresa’s

Missionaries of Charity.
“The simple Path

Silence is Prayer
Prayer is Faith
Faith is Love
Love is Service
The Fruit of Service is Peace
Love has a hem to her garment

That reaches the very dust
It sweeps the stains
From the streets and lanes,
Lumiere, Mother Teresa, 2000 And because it can, it must
oil, dry brush on silk
16 x 20 inch
A Divinely Ordered Healing Tool for Humanity There are thousands of people dying for a piece of bread. There are thousands
Copyright 2000 Lumiere, Collection of the Artist upon thousands who die for a little bit of Love. My thoughts often run to you
MuseeLumiere.co who suffer, and I offer your sufferings, which are so great, while mine are
small. Those of you who are sick, when things are hard, take refuge in Christ’s
heart. There my own heart will find you strength and Love.”
- Mother Teresa

Lobsang Melendez Ahuanari, Emanation of Consciousness, 2015
facebook.com/LobsangRampasecretart/
Viviane Lacombe, Grounded Heart, 2016

acrylic and casein on canvas, 36 x 24 inch
vivianelacombe.com
Mad Dame, Rhi Lea & Nightshade FX
Rhiannon Lea, Rose Quartz, 2016
Aurora Emergence, 2017, photo
acrylic on board, mirrored
www.mad-dame.com, rhileaart.com
rhileaart.com
Rhiannon Lea, Aurora Elysium, 2016

acrylic on canvas, mirrored
Bryan Itch, Eternally Flowering, 2013
rhileaart.com
pixels on pixelboard
inkbombstudios.com
Paul Mezinskas, Ecliptical Palace, 2015
ink and color pencil, 11 x 14 inch
Robbie Ritchie, Be Water, 2017 Helioscence.com
spray paint and acrylic on canvas, 12 x 16 inch
Instagram : robbieritchie

Marquee Snyder, The Power Within, 2017
poster board, 24 x 36 inch
Unity Ahimsa Elohim, 2017

pencil on paper

Kym Chi, Love is Everything, 2017 Vacio Cielo, Reverence for Life (Metanoia), 2017
crystal watercolour, marker and photoshop digital painting
tenderheartedhealing.com chacopaix.wixsite.com/vaciocielo
Kym Chi, Sacred Cedar, 2016 Vacio Cielo, MorphoTotem, 2015

pencil and photoshop digital painting, 24 x 36 inch
tenderheartedhealing.com chacopaix.wixsite.com/vaciocielo

Vincent Domazet aka VinicelloArt, Crossing the Event Horizon, 2016
digital, created for an 8 x 4 foot canvas
Erial, Starflower ~ Omium Temple Guardian, 2007
vinicelloart.com
digital, facebook.com/erial.ali
Tamara W. Thompson, Messenger (detail), 2014

tamaradesign.com Jeffery St. Rose (Wizard Azanon),
Temple of Ecstatic Emptiness, 2016
digital art, azanon.com
Digenger, Life Rings, 2016
Andrew Kersting, Arrows, hearts and stars, 2013 prismacolor markers, 14 x 10 inch
mixed media on paper, 17 x 14 inch Instagram.com/art_of_digenger
andrewkersting.com
Holly Lórien Adams, Depths Of Love, 2011

heavy density acrylic on canvas, 26 × 24 inch Adam Millward, Waves of Love, 2015
hollylorienadams.com acrylic on canvas, 12 x 12 inch
NexusVisions.com
Mina la Verde,
Unconditional Love, 2016
minalaverde.com
Lena Giannieri, Gravidance, 2016

Suzy Adra Two become One, 2016

acrylics and gold leaf,20 x 16 inch
252 LOVE | CoSM Journal suzyadra.com
Lauren Blair Churchill, Two Become One, In Lak’ech: I am Another Yourself, 2016
oil on canvas 20 x 16 inch
artbylaurenblairchurchill.com
Lauren Blair Churchill

In Lak’ech II, 2016
oil on canvas 16 x 20 inch
artbylaurenblairchurchill.com
Carol Lea ‘Chandrika’ Steinhardt, SHe A Flower Being, 2016

chandrikasteinhardt.com

Soror Tzadkiel Alayne Sahar
Shekhinah, 2015 Moon Dancer, 2012
acrylic on watercolor and gouache,
woodburned 20 x 28 inch
birch panel, alaynesahar.art
20 x 20 inch
rotatarot.com
Inti García, Alayne Sahar

Grandmother, 2017 Star Gazer, 2015
oil in canvas, 60 x 90 cm watercolor and colored pencil,
14 x 20 inch
alaynesahar.art

Kyle Becker, My Beloved, 2017
acrylic on panel, 16 x 20 inch
Instagram: @kyle_becker_tattoos
Freeda Leblanc, Unison, 2015

facebook.com/freedalunaart/
Veronica Povoli, Lateralus, 2015

facebook.com/veronica.povoli

Tank-A Gabriliants, They Live There, Outlying Shambala, 2017
oil on canvas, 36 x 24 inch, Tank-A.com
Larry Cazes, Celestial Meditations, 2017
Solid Borosilicate Glass Sphere, Hot Sculpted Borosilicate Glass Stand,
2.9 inch diameter, larrycazes.com
Larry Cazes, Celestial Meditations, 2017

Solid Borosilicate Glass Sphere
2.9 inch diameter, larrycazes.com
Tank-A Gabriliants, Great MOTHER — Queen & ENKI—

God of Wisdom, Lord of Magic, Arts and Creation — OUR
ANCESTORS, 2017, oil on canvas, 31 x 41 inch, Tank-A.com
Veronika Rose, Mareacion, 2016 Cosmic Tea Arts, The Path, 2016 Brian Paul Smith, Four Way, 2016
acrylic on canvas, 20 x 16 inch art markers, 8 x 11 inch mixed media on canvas, 18 x 18 inch
facebook.com/cosmicteaarts
Jen Downing, Catharsis, 2016

Heru, Gift of Vision, 2016 acrylic on canvas, 30 x 40 inch
ink, 9 x 12 inch SpiritSketches.com Jack Rowland, Temple, 2017
heru.ca oil on canvas, 61 x 41 cm
jackrowlandart.com

Robin Phillips Occhipinti, Sacred Connection, 2017
oil on canvas with bead embroidery, 12 x 9 inch Alexa Spaddy, Soul Bloom, 2016
robinphillipsstudio.com acrylic on canvas, 30 x 24 inch
alexaspaddy.com
Sarah Long, The Beloved Experiential Transfer, 2016

watercolour and ink on paper, 24 x 19 cm Burgandy Viscosi, Laveau’s Milagro, 2015
facebook.com/SarahLongPaintings acrylic, 18 x 18 inch
burgandyviscosi.com
George E Clementi Jr.
Projecting Perfection, 2017
ink, 18 x 24 inch, gecjr.com
Richard McLean, Ascension

(Stairs to Flinders Street, Melbourne)
2015, ink wash, pencil and gouache
29.7 x 42 cm, richmclean.com.au
Matt Dell, Guides of Love, 2017

Graphite and prismacolor, 11 x 14 inch
Abney Wallace, Vitruvian Vessel, 2014 mathewdell.com
linocut print, 10 x 24 inch
abneywallace.com

Trent Rickman, Tree-Ent Lovers, 2016, aerosol, black ink, water color,
acrylic and oil, 40 x 40 inch, solgyptian.com
Jill Elizabeth Zimmermann

The Oak & The Cypress, 2014
acrylic, ink, watercolor & black stone on
paper and wood, 24 x 30 inch
jillelizabeth.art
Xhiva Luna, Ayahuaska, 2004/2005, ayahuaska, acrylics and natural pigments,
powder of amethyst on canvas, 120 x 100 cm

JaMeson Siudut, Coin, 2017 JaMeson Siudut, Coin, 2017
borosilicate glass, 2 inch diameter Borosilicate glass, 2 inch diameter
Instagram: @mesonja Instagram: @mesonja
Eric Galindo, Soulstice, 2015, mixed media (digital + photo), 35 x 26 inch
Benjamin Seidl, The Ascension Of Persephone,

2015, sandstone, 30 x 35 x 45 cm
instagram.com/visionarybiomorphism
Alex DeFranzo, Love Frozen in Time, 2017

aerosol and acrylic on panel, 8 x 18 inch
instagram @alexsartisticvisions TiTTo, El Monte del Extasis, 2016, oil on canvas, 155 x 110 cm
titobobbiovelarde.com
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& David Heskin, Kuba Ambrose & Vera Atlantia, Katia Honour,
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birthed an exceptional offering.
For two years, we have collected art and wisdom on

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Love moves the sun and the stars
Dante Alighieri, Paradiso
Gustave Dore, Paradiso Canto 34, 1868 Gustave Dore, Paradiso Canto 16, 1868
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The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, CoSM, GRAPHIC DESIGN

Global Art Blessing 10

The Language of the Heart 20

Wise Woman Way 40

Deep Nature Connection 46

Alex Grey, Tantra, 1991

CoSM Journal | LOVE 7

The Great Awakening 86 Mating and Meritocracy 160

Magic in Motion 96 Levels of Love 164

Eternal Song 104 Hagiography 168

Beyonder 110 The Journey Continues 176

Dedication to Love 120 CoSMic Gallery 184

love rites 126

Ask Allyson 128

the Social Artist 134

Gene Keys 140

Farsi: ‫وش میلستقشعهب‬

Quechua: Kuyaywan Kamay

French: S’abandonner a l’amour

Kimuru: Chiejane kiri wendo

Spanish: Entregate al Amor

Russian: Сдаться Любви

Hebrew: ‫הבהאל העינכ‬

Filipino: Sumuko sa pagibig

Maori: Huakina ki te aroha

German: Ergebe dich der Liebe

Icelandic: Uppgjöf til ástarinnar

Greek: Παραδώσου στην Αγάπη

Portuguese: Renda-se ao amor

Translation Team : Samir Chau,

Alternative culture scholar, Erik Davis examines the

Cryptik creates mandalas of prayer-like glyphs and

To the noble geniuses who responded

Alex & Allyson

Alex Grey, Eclipse, 2017

16 LOVE | CoSM Journal

Love is like a ladder. Bound by unhealthy attachments, likes

Alex Grey, Namaste, 1994

CoSM Journal | LOVE 21

Today, what the world needs is to awaken its

Through these we can awaken to a state of “Universal

Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (Amma) is a world-

22 LOVE | CoSM Journal

Like its Source, Love is ineffable. No human tongue can

Love is the ultimate religion. When tasting its flavour,

Michael Bernard Beckwith is the founder of Agape

24 LOVE | CoSM Journal

Love is something we all want to experience,

We tend to think of love as a noun –

Here are two ways of contemplating the

Mark Henson, Desert Life, 1990

26 LOVE | CoSM Journal

Love is like a river that flows around the obstacles in its

No one, no thing and no condition

We are not saying that this is easy. We are exquisitely

Mark Henson, Clouds and Rain, 2006

As human beings, we limit our sense

Michael Parkes, First Embrace

CoSM Journal | LOVE 33

Michael Parkes, Deva's Garden

Michael Parkes is a painter, sculptor, and stone lithographer.

Michael Parkes, The Secret

CoSM Journal | LOVE 37