The whole business in this life is to restore to health

the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.

­­— St. Augustine

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

Saint Jerome Writing, 1605-1606, oil on canvas
44.1 × 61.8 inch
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 Nº9 60 RUPERT SHELDRAKE
Holy Spirt
62 MICHAEL A. SINGER
The Untethered Soul
66 A. ANDREW GONZOLAS
DIVINITY Soul Crafting
72 JEFFREY BRONFMAN
Manifested Grace
6 Global Art Blessing
74 OLEG KOROLEV
8 ALEX GREY AND ALLYSON GREY The Light
Introduction
82 JEFFREY J. KRIPAL
14 VIBRATA CHROMODORIS All Divine
The Numinous
86 VANDANA SHIVA
20 BARBARA MARX HUBBARD Life Itself
Conscious Evolution
88 STARHAWK
26 RABBI JONATHAN KLIGLER Visible Reverence
The Unpronounceable Name
90 LUIS TAMANI
30 JUDY CHICAGO Medicine Paths
Reclaiming Religion
96 LUIS EDUARDO LUNA
36 CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER Ring of the Sacred
The Luminus Ground
100 MICHAEL DIVINE
40 ENTHEON Somewhere Between
Temple Building
104 JOANNA MACY
42 KEN WILBER World as Lover, World as Self
The 1-2-3 of God
110 DELVIN SOLKINSON & SIJAY JAMES
44 ALEX AND ALLYSON GREY Divine in Design
Stories of God Contact
122 SEQUOIA EMMANUELLE
52 DAMON SOULE Duende
Beyond the Beyond
128 ELI MORGAN
58 RALPH METZNER Mysterium Harmonia
Gnosis
138 COSMIC GALLERY

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Global Art Blessing

In this moment, Divinity

Creative, transcendent, timeless.
Alex Grey & Allyson Grey

Nandi Murungu Mumbi

wa iguru aturaga kenya na kenya.
Kimuru
Sapa kikin, Pachakamaq samay
Chijchisan, puwasan, wiñay.
Quechua
Neste momento, Divinidade
Criativa, Transcendente, Atemporal.
Portuguese
I dette øyeblikk, Guddommelighet
Kreativ, transcendent, tidløs.
Norweigan

今この瞬間に或るは、創造そのものの神聖。
‫הז עגרב‬
時間は無く、ただそれは超越している。 ‫תבגשנ הריצי לש תוהולא‬
Japanese ‫ןמזל רבעמ‬
Hebrew

En ce moment, Divinité
Créatif, transcendent, hors du temps.
French
Sanskrit
En este momento, Divinidad
Creativa, Trascendente, Eterna. Kei roto i te nuiinga o nga wa tapu o
Spanish Arepa me Omeka
Maori

In diesem Moment, Göttlichkeit

Kreativ, transzendierend, zeitlos.
German
Farsi

И ныне Божество вневременно, Thank you for the translations: Anne Mwiti, Gayle
трансцендентно, Highpine, Satoshi Sakamoto, Liba Stambollion,
Vacio Cielo, Felicitas Feigl, Oleg Korolev,
преисполнено творчества.
Rafael Ribeiro, Hanalisa Omer, Simen Kirkerod,
Russian Louis Te Kouorehua Kereopa, Alli Omieone

Alex Grey, Avalokitesvara

1982-83, acrylic on linen, 84 x 46 inch
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 D i v i n i t y
Alex Grey & Allyson Grey In 2000, we began attending High Holy
Day services at Woodstock Jewish Congregation,
founded by the enlightened Rabbi Jonathan
Kligler, a joyful spiritual leader with a special
Mystics experience God in the first person.
gift for creating settings that invite openness,
They report identification with divine intelligence,
insight, and self revelation. In this volume, Rabbi
transcendence of space and time, unity, and
Jonathan’s contributes his reflections on the
loving awareness that reaches to the highest
unpronounceable Name of God.
deepest source of reality. At our core, we are One
First Mestre of the UDV Church in the
with the Infinite One. The mystic philosopher, Ibn
United States, Jeffrey Bronfman has gifted the
Arabi, calls the creative imagination “our angel
world by facilitating the vital role of sacramental
where God meets God.” Human imagination is
plants in cultivating human awareness and
the source of world religions. All great spiritual
evolving human consciousness to consider the
traditions began with stories of God contact,
critical state of the biosphere. In this volume,
occurring in the psyche of an individual. In this
Jeffrey contributes his intimations of the infinite.
ninth volume of CoSM Journal of Visionary
Philosophy professor and prolific author,
Culture, focuses on Divinity, sharing a distillation
Jeffrey J. Kripal, writes expertly on subjects
of wisdom and art from an international circle of
as diverse as comparative religions, mutants,
spiritual and creative friends. Contributors were
mystics, superhero comics, the paranormal,
asked to tells us about their personal sense of the
eroticism and mysticism. Inseminator of the
Divine.
Imaginal Conference at Esalen Institute, Dr.
Author and Futurist Barbara Marx
Kripal honors CoSM Journal with his unfolding
Hubbard told us that she “took the cosmos
experience of Divinity moving from the “God-
personally” and promotes alignment with the
man” concept toward a force of Light shining in,
Universal Intelligence all around us. The greatest
as and beyond everyone.
living philosopher, Ken Wilber offers his integral
Luis Eduardo Luna, author and historian
perspective as the “1-2-3 of God,” three faces of
of the sacrament ayahuasca, shamanism and
Spirit in the first person, second person and third
Visionary Art, enlightens readers that Divinity,
person. Rupert Sheldrake, biologist, scientist
both in our selves and in our world, is transcendent
and author, best known for his hypothesis of
and beyond all imagining.
morphic fields and morphic resonance, reflects
Immersed in consciousness research since
on faith as a sense of presence, beauty in nature,
his work with Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert
music, sacred places, loving kindness, prayer and
(Ram Dass) on the Harvard Psilocybin Projects,
gratitude. Premier architect, artist, philosopher,
the esteemed pioneer psychedelic psychiatrist,
and teacher, Christopher Alexander brings us a
Ralph Metzner presents to CoSM Journal readers
lesson from The Luminous Ground, the journey of
a Trinitarian concept of divinity contrasted with
a spiritual artist removing barriers between self
the Gnostic alternative view.
and ground. Our esteemed teacher, Michael A.
Eco-philosopher Joanna Macy, PhD.,
Singer, from his essential work, The Untethered
respected voice in movements for peace, justice,
Soul, recounts the spiritual wisdom that led him
and ecology, shares her unique perspective on
toward founding the Temple of the Universe, a
the world, as our larger living body, freeing us
radically welcoming yoga and meditation center
from the assumptions and attitudes that now
in Central Florida dedicated to inner peace.
threaten the continuity of life on Earth.

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 Beloved shaman priestess, Starhawk invites us to experience
Divinity in every leaf, every river, every species on the planet.
Insights emanate from every page of this CoSM Journal
volume, and we bow in appreciation for wisdom keepers
who activate the souls of the world.
As a stand for the Divinity of the Mystic
Imagination, CoSM honors and thanks the
extraordinary Visionary Artists that comprise this
stunning volume on art and spirit. Among our
greatest art inspirations, Judy Chicago’s Goddess
work is represented by her masterpiece, “The
Dinner Party.” Permanently installed in our
beloved Brooklyn Museum, this mixed media
tour de force offers a powerful adjustment
to the patriarchal domination of religious
imagery and a womb for contemporary
Feminist Art.
Gifted, Bay-area abstract painter,
CoSM guest artist and invited muralist,
Vibrata Chromodoris, paints pulsating
patterns that evoke the harmony of inner
heaven realms.
A. Andrew Gonzalez wields an
airbrush like the wing of an angel, weaving
the light of ideal beauty into archetypal
animal powers and shining from anthropo-
seraphim.
Hats off to Damon Soule for mapping
with a paintbrush the warp and woof of
transcendental dimensions while rising like a
meteoric eyeball. Michael Divine’s paintings
display the interconnected complexities of micro
and macrocosmic realms, with a dharmically honed
awareness thrust into futures where entheogenic
expansions of consciousness transform our reality.
Luis Tamani is an emerging virtuoso in a wave
of ayahuasca inspired visionary artists with stylistic
roots in the work of Peruvian shaman painter, Pablo
Amaringo. Luis Eduardo Luna, aware of Pablo’s ayahuasca
visions in 1985, suggested painting them and thus a genre
was born.

Alex Grey, Vision Crystal Tondo

2015, oil on wood panel, 48 x 48 inch

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 In an original psycho-spiritual practice, masterful painter,
Oleg Korolev reinvents the deeply religious and luminous work of
historic Russian icon painters.
The genius of emerging digital artist and designer, Mugwort,
turns bezier curves and vector graphics into profound evocations of
the numinous.
A classically trained artist, the aesthetic of Android Jones
utilizes emergent digital technologies to echo his integral view of
planetary evolution in “Electro-Mineralist” masterworks.
Featured in the Cosmic Gallery of each Journal are the
Visionary Artists, the heart and soul of the CoSM community, who
support the production of this annual thematic periodical. Deep
gratitude for the contributors of art, writing and design that come
together to salute the healing and transcendental power of the
creative process. Special appreciation goes to our Senior Managing
Editor, Delvin Solkinson, a fearless ally and connector of the Visionary
Art Tribe. Producer of the Galactik Visionary Art Trading Cards and
world-class Permaculture teacher, Delvin, with profound Grace, has
gathered together this issue of spiritual allies.
Dear friend, Sijay James and CoSM Journal co-founder,
Eli Morgan have designed our most beautiful volume to date.
Every offering came from the heart to further Visionary Culture and
support CoSM’s mission to build Entheon, an enduring sanctuary of
Visionary Art. The unfolding odyssey of Entheon is updated in this
volume. Closer to realization, its three floors about-to-receive a roof,
is an achievement resulting from the alliance of a Net of Beings that
includes Town Planners, architects, engineers, steel workers, masons,
plumbers, electricians, carpenters, digital modelers, painters,
musicians, cooks, fire spinners, lawyers, judges, CoSM’s intrepid
and unstoppable staff and volunteers, every one of them the face
of God to us. Building sacred space together brings heaven to earth
as we co-create a unique church that honors all wisdom paths. The
imagination and creativity of community unites us in devotion to
the One True Spirit. A field of soul renewing energy envelopes our
congregation at every CoSM event, tapping an innovational flow in
a vertical orientation to true north, toward the Ultimate Mystery, ever
revealing itself to itself. CoSM Journal of Visionary Culture, the Ninth
Volume, turns our contemplation toward the iconography born of a
living relationship with Divinity.

“New symbols are Annunciations of futurity, the artist, an ever virgin ‘Mary’
in expectation of a Christ yet to emerge out of her creative, image-making
womb - the artist’s transcendental mind.”

– The Planetarization of Consciousness, by Dane Rudyar, 1969

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Vibrata Chromodoris

The Numinous
During a meditation in 1998,
along with my name, I was
shown a vision. I saw waves
of energy, undulating and
expanding infinitely in all
directions as a continuum. It
was the triggering event for a
profound change in my work. 

My images include elements

of symmetry and rhythmic
patterning, geometry and the
use of beguiling perceptual
distortions. I am a inter-media
artist, seamlessly blending
computer design with
traditional acrylic on canvas
techniques.

Vibrata Chromodoris, Neo, 2013, digital media

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 The Infinite
Energetic Lineage

Releasing into the Emptiness,

it cannot be other than what it is…
or what you believe it to be.
Releasing into the Ecstatic Beauty 
Ass-Kicking-Veil-Dropping Vastness
of “This is All”,
and “I am That”.

Symmetry, color and repetition have a

visceral power that I love to explore.
Rhythm, pattern and reflection are my
elements. Movement and change, flux and
entropy are my subjects. In my art I see a
dance of self-aware energetic potentialities.

Growing up in Canada, I was surrounded

by the visually rich and powerful images
of Northern Indigenous artists. These
artists pay homage to the deep connection
they feel with nature in their depictions
of magical deities and mythological spirit
animals, pulsating with colorful life-force
energy. Eventually, I was drawn to the
art of the ancient indigenous cultures of
Australia and South America. What inspires
my artwork is the commonality that weaves
through the art of shamanic cultures, the
intangible expressions of awe, the creation
of art as a work of devotion; the ability of
artists to bring the unseen into visible form.

Vibrata Chromodoris, Solve Et Elucido, 2013, digital media

Solve Et Elucido is a special commission for Erowid.

Prints are for sale to fundraise for the organization.

www.erowid.org

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 The essence of my subjects is
distilled into their most basic
energy patterns. 
The formal properties of
each piece, inform through
metaphor, the nature of
movement and change. This
is an exploration of the
infinitely divisible,
existence as a continuum.
www.vibrata.com
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Barbara Marx Hubbard

Conscious
Evolution
The Evolutionary Story of Creation is a divine mystery.
At the origin of creation there has arisen the Creative
Intelligence so awesome, magnificent and unfathomable
that we are filled with awe and wonder. The great gift for
humanity is that this Creative Universal Intelligence, this
Consciousness Force, this Spirit-in-Action is indwelling in
each of us as us.  It is the Impulse of Evolution, the animating
power that activates in each of us, our own heart’s desire to
be more, do more, love more, give more, create more, just
like the universe itself is always doing. We are the universe
in person. Cosmogenesis is showing up on planet Earth
as us! This Creative Intelligence is coursing through our
body and bones as our own desire to evolve. It is the very We can see, looking back in time, that the fundamental Source
same process that has been demonstrating the mystery of Code of evolution is “Create more conscious life.” From
creativity for billions of years, since the first flaring forth, single cell, to multi-cell, to billions of cells coordinating as a
13.7 billion years ago (so it is said) perfectly attuned in the person, Earth is integrating into a whole system, the process is
first three seconds to form the potential for energy, matter, occurring through us now.  
life and you and me. 
We realize that the Divinity at the core of evolution is Spirit-in-
Action, yearning through us toward more conscious life. We
can feel in our own psyche the eros of the life force becoming
“telerotic.”  Love is yearning for telos, for higher purpose.
Evolution is a labor of love to create beings ever more capable
of loving.  It was revealed in the great avatars, mystics and
saints. Now eros is incarnating more fully in many of us as
our own deepening creativity, kindness, empathy, gratitude,
caring for one another and for all Earth life.

Vibrata Chromodoris, Below Zero, 2012, digital media

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 My sense is that a new human
is emerging among us. It’s
only natural. Mother Earth
was a rock!  She gave birth
to life, to multicellular life,
to the biosphere, to early
humans, to Homo sapiens
sapiens. Now Earth is once
again giving birth to a new
human and a new humanity.
We have entered the first
Age of Conscious Evolution.  universe is not a “random
Evolution itself has been
unfolding since the beginning
of time, through five mass
extinctions, through billions of
species now extinct… before
we arrived on the scene.
We are the first species
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on this Earth conscious of
evolution, conscious that
we are affecting our own
evolution by everything we
do, conscious ultimately that
we ARE evolution becoming
self-aware.  Evolution by
chance is becoming evolution
by choice. Divinity is revealing
itself as the directional
Impulse of Evolution. The
walk.” It is tending toward
higher consciousness,
freedom and more complex
order on this Earth, and
undoubtedly in billions
of other life forms in the
universe.  are becoming aware of the
From studying cosmogenesis
we can reinterpret the
meaning of the life-
threatening crises we
are facing. Problems are
evolutionary drivers; crises
preceed transformation. Stress
causes evolution. We are
facing either conscious ethical
evolution, or devolution
and destruction. We cannot
continue to over-grow in the
womb of Earth in our current
stage of self-centered and
competitive consciousness
and survive. We have hit the
ultimate evolutionary driver
in our lifetime. While we
dangers and devastation of
the crises, at the same time
many of us are attracted to
the extraordinary opportunity
for a new future, of more life,
if we say YES right now. What
is it we need to say Yes to? It
Vibrata Chromodoris, Vitamin C, 2015, digital media
is the Divinity within each of
us, felt as life purpose, greater
meaning, the yearning to
express our full potential self. 
It is the passionate desire to
join our genius with others to
cocreate our own future and
that of the world. This force
is Divinity incarnating and
motivating millions of us at a
new scale and frequency of
personal motivation now.  We
are embodying the Process of
Creation as we are becoming
conscious co-creators with
it. The Creator within is
the divine incarnate of the
Impulse of evolution. When
we fuse with that Impulse as
our own motivation to evolve
by saying the BIG YES to our
life purpose or soul’s code,
the incarnation of the Divine
accelerates. We become one
with Inner Spirit. 
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 Out of this awesome mystery, Homo Co-Creator is emerging.
Eventually, I intuit, to become Homo Universalis, a new species.
A universal species capable of transforming the Earth and
living in the cosmos among the billions of other planets, many
of which may have life comparable to our own. We are at the
most delicate, dangerous moment since our very origin. When
a high tech species begins to over-populate, pollute and war
with powers of mass destruction that species is at the most
dangerous point. Either we evolve or die.  

When and if we combine evolutionary love with radical new

technologies, such as nanotech, biotech, artificial intelligence,
robotics, space travel and many more, humanity gains new
powers to transform life on Earth.  When we infuse these new
powers with the impulse for higher consciousness, freedom
and order, we transition to the next phase of evolution, capable
of restoring the Earth, freeing ourselves from deficiencies and
exploring the vast regions of Spirit within and the Universe
beyond. The tendency deep in the heart of Divinity within is
guiding us in this direction, offering the opportunity to take this
next step forward together. This is the privilege of being alive
right now at the dawn of the first Age of Conscious Evolution. 

At her heart, Barbara Marx Hubbard is a visionary, a social innovator. She is

Allyson Grey and Vibrata Chromodoris, Cosmic Radiation
2013, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 60 inch
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an evolutionary thinker who believes that global change happens when we
work collectively and selflessly for the greater good. She realizes that the
lessons of evolution teach us that problems are evolutionary drivers, and
crises precede transformation, giving a new way of seeing and responding
to our global situation. 
www.barbaramarxhubbard.com
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 YHVH
the Unpronounceable Name
Rabbi Jonathan Kligler
For Jews, the Sh’ma is the
central declaration of the
unity of God. We chant  mysterious bush that is aflame
“Sh’ma Yisrael Adonai
eloheinu, Adonai echad”. This
is usually translated as “Hear,
O Israel, the Lord is our God,
the Lord is One”. But when
you examine the Hebrew, you
find that the Hebrew does
not read Adonai (Lord), but
a four-letter Hebrew name,
Yud-Hay-Vav-Hay, (YHVH,
for the purposes of this
article). By ancient tradition,
YHVH is the name of God,
a name that since ancient
times we purposely do not
pronounce. Adonai is a
substitute, a replacement.   know your name!” And the
If we begin to understand
the reasons why we do not
pronounce God’s name,
we begin to grasp one of
the greatest teachings of
Judaism. It will resonate with
other spiritual traditions from
around the globe.
The essence of this teaching
is contained in the visionary
tale in the Book of Exodus
when Moses encounters the
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burning bush. A voice calls
out to Moses from within a
but is not consumed. To me,
this image of the burning
bush symbolizes the fire of
consciousness, the creative
energy of the universe ablaze
within all Creation. In mystic
reverie, Moses hears the Voice
of the creative energy that
infuses the world. Awestruck,
he removes his shoes and
bows low to the ground.
The Voice instructs Moses to
return to Pharaoh and tell him
to “Let my people go!” Moses
demurs and says “But who
shall I say sent me? I must
Voice responds “Ehyeh asher
ehyeh”, normally translated
as “I am that I am”  but more
accurately “I am becoming
what I am becoming”.
At this climactic moment in
the Torah when God’s name
is revealed we learn that God
is...a verb! Not a “Being” as
noun, but rather “Being” as
verb, the flow and source of
life, always becoming, ever-
changing. Life Unfolding,
completely beyond gender,
personality, or form. This is
the sublime voice that Moses
hears; the God that is revealed
to Moses is the infinite creative
energy of the universe.   suggested it is the sound of
Moses, however, still insists
on knowing the Voice’s name.
He knows he is going to have
to somehow communicate
his vision to the Israelites.
And so the Voice says, “Tell
the people that YHVH sent
you”. But what kind of name is
YHVH? YHVH is an impossible
construction of the verb “to
be”. It may mean “causes-
to-exist”, and it may mean
“is-was-will be”.  Some have
breathing. We don’t exactly
know. 
Judaism has always
understood that the act of
naming is an act of control
and definition. Adam names
all the animals in the Garden
of Eden, and by doing so
he gains mastery over them.
And how could we possibly
define or control or master
the life breath of creation?
How do we assign a name
to that which by definition
cannot be defined? But here
we face a dilemma: We Jews
are in love with language. It is
our sacred vehicle for getting
close to God. Yet the Presence
that Moses encounters at the
burning bush transcends our
ability to name. YHVH, an
impossible word, becomes
the indicator of this paradox.
Allyson Grey, Blue Chaos
1983, watercolor on paper, 22 x 30 inch
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 Over the centuries, Judaism
developed strategies
to further highlight this
paradox of naming the
unnameable. One strategy was
to use many, many descriptive
names for God: Adonai
(Our Lord), Kadosh Baruch
Hu (the Blessed Holy One),
Harachaman (the Merciful),
Ribono Shel Olam (Master of
the Universe), Chey Haolamim
(Life of All the Worlds),
Ein Sof (The Infinite) and
countless others. In this way,
the understanding was put
forward that no single name
could encompass the Divine.
A second strategy was to
never pronounce the Name.
Whenever the YHVH appeared
in a text, the practice
arose of purposefully not
pronouncing it. In this way, as
we pray or study, the YHVH
always stands out as unique,
the impossible name that
transcends language. Over
time, it became normative
to recite the word “Adonai”,
Lord, as a substitute whenever
the YHVH appeared. The
inscrutable YHVH is intended
to blow our minds, and to
open us up at every occasion
to radical amazement. I
would like to suggest that
whenever you encounter the
YHVH on the printed page,
leave your habitual images
behind, and translate it as “that
which cannot be named or
contained”.
When you recite a Hebrew
blessing that begins “Baruch
ata YHVH”, instead of the
conventional “Blessed art
Thou, O Lord”, pause and
instead translate “I bless and
praise Life Unfolding”.
When you see the letters
YHVH, pause, and imagine
Moses taking off his sandals
at the burning bush. Sense his
radical amazement. When you
open a prayer book and see
the YHVH over and over again,
it is not “Jehovah, the God of
the Old Testament”.
It is not “Yahweh, the tribal
mountain deity of the ancient
Hebrews”. It is not even
“Adonai, the Lord”.  “Adonai”,
over time, acquired its own
semi-sacred status.  boundaries of language must
The practice arose to
pronounce the name “Adonai”
only when engaged in prayer
or when reciting from the
Torah. In any other usage,
the common practice when
encountering the YHVH is
simply to say “Hashem”, which
means “the Name”. It is Being
Itself, the very Breath of Life
that fills our lungs, so close to
us, so full of mystery.
Wherever YHVH appears in
Jewish texts, imagine it is
not a word but a window out
into the farthest reaches of
the cosmos. Or imagine light
barely containable by the
text pouring out through the
gaps of those letters. Judaism
is a sanctifier of language,
but as we reach for God, the
dissolve, and we find ourselves
at a loss for words. We stretch
toward God through our
words until words escape
us and we are standing with
Moses before that shimmering
image of the burning bush,
speechless and in awe. 

An inspiring and joyful Spiritual Leader, a masterful teacher,

and a compassionate and insightful Counsellor, Rabbi Jonathan
has a special gift for creating settings that invite and inspire
openness, insight, and self revelation. Drawing on his passion-
ate love of music and dance and his evocative skills as a writer,
he brings a rich and varied palette to his life’s work: sharing
the joy, love, and wisdom of Judaism. He is a Rabbi who is a
modern shaman, teaching the Torah as a visionary document
Allyson Grey, Isles of Langerhans,
1986, oil on wood panel, 30 x 30 inch in order to bring us to a greater awareness and understanding.
He leads prayer as a means to lift us high out of our mundane
perspective, and touch a higher realm. 
www.rabbijonathankligler.com
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Judy Chicago
Reclaiming Religion
By the early 1970’s, I was deeply engaged in research
about women’s history and overwhelmed with the amount
of information I was discovering. At some point, I began
to think about teaching women’s history through art and
looked back to medieval art for guidance because the
Church had taught its principles to an illiterate audience
through imagery.  Collection of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
30
Given that most people were (and unfortunately, still are)
uneducated about the richness of women’s history, I began to use
medieval symbols to convey some of this unknown information,
for example, the fact that in the 13th century, worship of the Virgin
Mary was so widespread that church fathers often worried that
(the Christian male) God had changed sex. To represent this, I
appropriated the format of a Virgin Mary altar to convey the notion
of female divinity.
Judy Chicago
Did You Know Your Mother Had A Sacred Heart?
1976, China paint and pen work on porcelain, embroidery
on silk and teak wood, 60 x 56 x 20 inch
Photo © Donald Woodman 31
 I was brought up in a secular
Jewish household and
my father was an atheist.
So I never thought much
about God until I was doing
research for “The Dinner
Party” and discovered that
almost all ancient cultures
worshiped goddesses, a
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tradition that gradually
changed to accommodate
the development of
patriarchy, which brought
with it the idea of a singular
male god, a concept that has
always been unacceptable
to me.
Judy Chicago
Installation view of The Dinner Party
Wing 1 showing Fertile Goddess, Ishtar and Kali place settings 1979
Collection of the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
© Judy Chicago
Photo © Donald Woodman
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 In 1982, while I was at work on “The Birth
Project” (a series of images celebrating birth
and creation), I visited the Sistine Chapel. Of
course, I was familiar with Michelangelo’s
famous ceiling but when I was there, I realized
some of the implications of his visualization
of the widespread and pernicious notion
of a male god reaching out his finger and
creating ‘Man’, which eliminates both any
idea of female divinity and women’s crucial
role in birth. Upon my return, I spent two
months drawing “In the Beginning,” a thirty-
two foot scroll that combines text and
images to reinterpret Genesis. My goal was
to restore the female to her rightful place in
creation, both secular and divine. 

Judy Chicago is an artist, author, feminist,

educator, and intellectual whose career
now spans five decades. Her influence both
within and beyond the art community is
attested to by her inclusion in hundreds of
publications throughout the world. Her art
has been frequently exhibited in the United
States, Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, and
New Zealand. In addition, a number of the
books she has authored have been pub-
lished in foreign editions, bringing her art
and philosophy to readers worldwide.

www.judychicago.com

Judy Chicago
EU-14 Guided by the Goddess ST1
1983 Embroidery and pulled thread work over painting, 54 x 107 inch
Painting and color specifications by Judy Chicago, embroidery and
pulled thread work by Marjorie Smith, Solon, OH
Collection of Hartford Seminary, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
Photo © Donald Woodman

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Christopher Alexander
The Luminous Ground
The hard work of becoming an artist, like any other spiritual journey,
consists of somehow removing the barriers between one’s self and
the ground. That is not greatly different from the view of modern
doctors and teachers who believe that we, as a people, are too often
alienated from our true self.
The details of the artistic or spiritual path proposed by different
mystical teachings as a method for reaching the [luminous] ground
[of being] varied from one religion to another. Muslims emphasized
prayer and communication with God; Christians emphasized love; St.
Francis emphasized the love of every living creature; some Buddhists
emphasized meditation; others, especially those of the Zen sects,
approach life with the greatest matter-of-factness possible, and
emphasized the ordinariness of the process, declaring that it is only
hard work and the absence of irrelevant thought which leads us in
the right direction.
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However, though they varied, all these teachings had certain
essentials in common. They all emphasized the need to abandon
concern with one’s own ego. They all emphasized the importance of
hard work and repeated simple, even menial tasks. Above all, they
all emphasized the desire to reach God, or the ground of all things,
directly, face to face. In all these cases, the task of making, the task of
building itself, was to be understood as a spiritual exercise, a direct
attempt to come face to face with the ground of the universe.
In my later years, as I have encountered this sensation more and more
concretely, and with more and more certainty, it seems to me, that I
am seeing God, the glowing of all things, shining out from that old
brick wall, or from that bush, or from that face, or from the flowers in
a vase.
It is the same life, already described so many times, But in the end, this
is what I am left with, the sensation that somehow, in this living thing,
there is something faintly luminous, there is something streaming
from it, something visible, and something real.
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It has been said that God is immanent, that all matter is imbued with
God, that God is the ultimate material of the Universe.
And this is the ultimate aim of all making: to make a thing which does
As we understand this more, we recognize that a building, or a manifest spirit, which shows us feeling, which makes God visible and
building detail, or a painting, is, to some degree or another, spirit. shows us the ultimate meaning of existence, in the actual sticks and
When a thing is well made, it is an actual realization of spirit, a physical stones of the made thing.
appearance and creation, realization, of spirit in this world.

As the window to that realm of I, we may see and feel profound things When I look at a thing which has a living quality, sometimes I am
going on, we get a glimpse of something in the made detail. aware of it, almost as if it is faintly glowing. I am aware of something
like light - not actual light itself, but something softer, something very
But is more than just a glimpse, more than a window, which shows us like it - in the thing. The more it is alive, the more it seems faintly to
the real spirit behind the face of matter. The actual substance itself - shine.
the building, the painting, the song, made under the circumstances Alexander has designed and built more
I have described, made to be a centre - is itself physically spirit. The than two hundred buildings on five
process by which a centre is made is the process by which spirit continents, laying the groundwork for
becomes manifest, becomes actual. Thus, the tawdry concrete blocks, a new form of architecture, one that
plaster, and pieces of wood become, in their substance, spirit itself, looks far into the future yet has roots in
to some degree or other. A few patches of paint on a panel becomes ancient traditions. Father of the Pattern
a painting - and to the extent that this painting has the centre, is a Language movement in architecture
window, it becomes spirit. We see spirit in it. But the actual stuff itself and in computer science, Christopher
becomes spirit. The spirit behind the face of matter is transformed, Alexander is principal author of the
and the dull material itself begins to shine, show us spirit, is spirit. We seminal work A Pattern Language,
have contact with actual spirit in that thing. (1977), and the culminating four-
volume work, The Nature of Order.

38 Isaac Mugwort, Secret of The Forest, 2015, digital art, www.mugwortdesigns.com 39

E N T H E O N Entheon will provide a transformative environment for exhibiting
sanctuary of visionary art the Sacred Mirrors, the CoSM collection, the art of Alex Grey and
Allyson Grey and the International Visionary Art Movement.
Alex Grey & Allyson Grey

CoSM is building a Sanctuary of Visionary Art called

Entheon. Entheon means “a place to discover the God
within.” Supported by a global community, Entheon is
now under construction at CoSM.

Monumentally sculptured Godheads surround the

building pointing to the transcendent unity of world
wisdom traditions. An Angel of the Creative Imagination
on the cheek of each Godhead bridges a Cosmic Eye
and a human eye. Secret Writing in a band around
Entheon represents the transcendental language of
creative expression. Angels of the Four Directions
guard the roof corners with DNA Dragons emerging
from their heads and ascending to the Steeplehead.
The Roof of Many Eyes represents expanded awareness
flowing toward the Four-Faced Quad God Steeplehead
that rises to the peak of Oneness.

Visionary mystical experiences are humanity’s most

direct contact with God and are the creative source of
all sacred art and wisdom traditions. The best currently
existing technology for sharing the mystic imaginal Alex Grey & Allyson Grey, ENTHEON Collaboration, 2015, acrylic on canvas 72 x 36 inch
realms is a well-crafted artistic rendering by a skilled
eye witness. Mystic visionary artists distill the multi-
dimensional, entheogenic journey into externally Be part of this enduring legacy to inspire and
crystallized theophanies, icons embedded with evolve the creative spirit.
evolutionary world views.
Support CoSM and the building of Entheon.
40 www.cosm.org/support/entheon
 The 1-2-3 of God
by Ken Wilber

At any moment, you can experience God as a 3rd

person “It,” a 2nd person "Thou,” or a 1st person “I.”
Simply repeat the following sentences quietly to
yourself, letting each perspective arise gently and
naturally within your awareness.

I contemplate God as all that is arising –

the Great Perfection of this and every moment.

I behold and commune with God as an infinite

Thou, who bestows all blessings and complete
forgiveness on me, and before whom I offer infinite
gratitude and devotion.

I rest in God as my own Witness and primordial Self,

the Big Mind that is one with all, and in this
ever-present, easy, and natural state,
I go on about my day.

If you wish, you can replace the word “God” with any
word of your choice that evokes an Ultimate Being.
It could be “Spirit,” “Jehovah,” “Allah,” “The Lord,” or
“The One.”

42 Alex Grey, Sol Invictus, 2015, acrylic on linen, 24 x 30 inch 43

 Stories of God Contact
Alex Grey & Allyson Grey
All great religions of the world began with visionary God
contact. When the transcendental force breaks through to light
up consciousness, a new worldview is disclosed, a persons life
is transformed and it may even initiate a spiritual movement.
Founders of mystic faiths sharing Spirit’s wisdom have
become the moral touchstone of civilizations. Lifelong scholar
of social/cultural development, Arnold Toynbee, believed that
civilizations arise and crumble to create better religions and
evolve waves of insight from Divine Intelligence. If the religion
develops a practical way to maintain God contact, it may last
for thousands of years. 


Yoga and meditation have proven reliable in touching the

Eternal in our hearts, and has insured the vitality of Hinduism for
millennia. Humanity’s oldest religious text, the Rig Veda (1500
BC), recounts the use of a psychedelic plant sacrament, Soma,
allowing access to the divine reality. The plant sacrament,
cannabis, regarded as a gift of Shiva, is smoked by the Ganja
Babas today. The world’s oldest, largest and longest enduring
religious festival, India’s Kumbha Mela attracts 100 million
devotees to ritually bathe in the Ganges. Festivals and ritual
gatherings, held in alignment with the seasons and the stars,
communally anchor the faithful.

Stories of God contact consistently thread the experience of

holy people from all traditions. After his epiphany, Egyptian
ruler, Amenhotep changed his name to Akhenaten, and
became the first monotheist (1353-1330 BC) in recorded
history. His experience changed his understanding of Divinity
and he wrote “Hymn to Aten,” a poetic work attributing all the
world and cosmos to the creative power of the One God.

Abraham, the first Jew, made a covenant with God after

conversing with the Divine voice. An oral recounting of the
dialogue was handed down until recorded in the Torah 3,313
years ago. The Almighty spoke to Abraham, saying, “I will
make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name
great... I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse those
who curse you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be
blessed.” {Gen. 12:1-3) The voice heard from the Divine led
Abraham to father the Abrahamic faiths.
44 Alex Grey, Sophia, 1989, acrylic on canvas, 84 x 46 inch 45
 Alex Grey and Allyson Grey
Stories of God Contact
The Virgin Mary became present to angel Gabriel who announced
that she would conceive and become the mother of Christ, Son
of God. The Transfiguration, a climax of Christian God contact,
is recounted in the Gospel of Matthew where Jesus “was
transfigured before them; his face shining as the sun, and his
garments became white as the light.” From a cloud, God’s voice
confirmed Christ’s divinity.

An angel is a theophany apprehended only by the soul’s eye.

Religion shares many portals to divinity through creativity, sacred
art and literature. In great wisdom traditions, theophanies are the
ultimate experience of truth, Oneness and identification with the
life renewing love energy beyond space and time.

Divinity makes love to humanity through the mystical visionary

experience. Mystics open a spiritual eye and behold the
blazing splendor of Inner Heaven worlds. God is revealed in
the imaginal realms through Cosmic symbolism. The mystic
visionary artist, William Blake referred to his inner world as the
Divine Imagination. Blake’s hand printed books reveal the mystic
insight that “All Religions Are One.” The historic archetype of the
ecstatic idiosyncratic visionary artist, Blake’s imagination leads
beyond traditional religion, yet shines with an authentic glory of
higher worlds. Appreciators contemplate visionary art to glimpse
transmissions of the Divine Imagination.

As founders of Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, a church that celebrates

Visionary Art, we honor each religion as a lens to Divinity and
seek the highest deepest connection with ultimate reality. Our
personal path to God was opened by psychedelic sacrament.


Allyson’s story: “My first God contact came after reading Ram
Dass’s book, Be Here Now, which inspired me to take LSD
with the intention to seek spiritual light. Hundreds of drawings
and paintings of Secret Writing have been inspired by that
transformative acid trip in 1971, when I first glimpsed the Divine.
All material reality was awash in glowing letters flowing over and
through my body, walls and furniture. The explicit meaning of the
Secret Writing defied translation, pointing to a sacred language
beyond words. After Alex’s spiritual opening in my apartment, he
immediately recognized the significance of the Secret Writing in
my art. Alex became the awaited partner to share my inner quest
catalyzed by sacrament. “

46 Allyson Grey, Secret Language, 2014, 24 x 24 inch, acrylic on wood 47

 Alex’s story: “On May 30, 1975, in despair I prayed to a God I
did not believe existed to show me a reason I should continue
to live. That very night was my first LSD journey. At Allyson’s
party, I shared the sacrament with her, closed my eyes and
was inside a pearlescent tunnel spiraling from utter darkness
toward the brilliant light of God, a spiritual rebirth canal.
Opposites blended together through all shades of grey and
I decided to change my name to Grey to bring the opposites
together in my work. Polar Unity became the mission of my
artwork, propelling a search for the One love and light at
the heart of all mystical traditions. An unknown God brought
me to the perfect place with my perfect person, for eternity.
My prayer answered, Allyson represented God’s love in the
flesh. Within days, Allyson and I began our lives together,
committed to Oneness and expanded consciousness.”

On June 3, 1976, having sacramentally ingested a psychedelic,

we lay on our bed and shared a vision of profound
interconnectedness. Released from the dream of physical
reality, duality of ‘self and other’ was transcended as we each
became a glowing toroidal fountain of love energy, part of
a vast Universal Mind Lattice, a web of interconnectedness
with all beings. Beyond gender, beyond birth and death, a
luminous cell in the body of God, we became present to a
spiritual reality superseding the physicality of the body and
material world. Lifting the veil from a loom-matrix of divine
consciousness, this vision revealed our individual identities as
nodes in the Great Net of Beings, outside of time. As artists,
sharing our life’s most profound revelation, this networked
love circuit of God clearly offered the most vital subject for our
artwork. Chaos Order & Secret Writing, encouraged by Alex,
became the vocabulary of that vision articulated by Allyson.
The Sacred Mirrors series, inspired and named by Allyson in
1978, and painted by Alex, portrayed our shared vision of the
Universal Mind Lattice.

Our first experience of Ecstasy in 1985, offered another

unforgettable simultaneous vision. In our separate reveries,
we witnessed the Sacred Mirrors in a round Chapel. The
sacrament was given to us by a collector who wanted to
purchase the Sacred Mirrors. Our vision had clearly indicated
that the paintings should not be sold, and that a Chapel of
Sacred Mirrors should be built to share for the greater good.
Given life by that vision, CoSM has touched many lives,
especially for those reporting personal contact with the Divine
through visionary mystical experience.
48 Alex Grey, Universal Mind Lattice, 1981, acrylic on canvas, 84 x 46 inch 49
Ancient Egyptians, Hindus, Greeks,
Mayans, Incas, Aztecs and thousands
of shaman around the world have
left creative evidence of God contact
through sacrament. A recent Johns
Hopkins study by Dr. Roland Griffiths
makes clear that, in the proper set
and setting, a psychedelic sacrament
is the only scientifically verified,
repeatable means of eliciting a
mystical experience 65% of the
time.* As we share our God contact
and respect the experiences of
others who have had God contact, we
join with community in unifying and
bettering our world.

Sacred art and literature share

a culturally hewn portal to Holy
Reality. Skillful visionary artists who
experience the transcendent through
meditation and sacrament, portray
their apprehensions of the infinite.
The planetary movement of Visionary
Art affirms a cross-cultural unity
of these ecstatic inner realms.
A worldwide underground multi-
cultural artistic alliance is recording
experiences of higher spiritual
dimensions, all fingers pointing to
Divinity. The Creative Imagination is
tapped into the Heavens and when
we create we bring heaven to earth.


*RR Griffiths, WA Richards, U McCann,

R Jesse. 2006. “Psilocybin can occasion
mystical-type experiences having substantial
and sustained personal meaning and spiritual
significance.” Psychopharmacology (Berl).
187(3), 268-83,
commentaries 284-292.


Alex Grey, The Artist’s Hand, 1997

50 oil on wood, 16 x 16 inch 51
 Damon Soule
Beyond
The Beyond
Fueled by inherent investigative and
obsessive curiosity, I employ an array of
scientific and artistic systems to create
paintings incorporating polarity, abstraction,
alchemy, geometry, quantum physics,
surrealism, molecular biology, meta physics,
ancient symbolism, cosmology, Buddhism,
sci-fi fantasy, cyber-infrastructures, the
global, digital subatomic and the infinitely
vast multiverses we may find ourselves in at
any given moment.
Damon Soule, Temporal Event, 2013, acrylic on canvas, 64 x 68 inch

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 The use of hyper crisp geometric patterns,
interwoven through n-dimensional topographies,
create abstract forms and Zen like mandalas
that gravitate towards the infinite and eternal
interconnectedness. Electrifying and activating the
conscious and unconscious transcends both time
and space. The viewer is immediately engaged in
a visual dialogue between the artist and the divine
Quintessence.

Damon Soule, Gayatri Mandala, 2014

pen and ink on paper, 54 x 5 inch
Damon Soule, Torul Senset, 2013, 16 x 20 inch
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Damon Soule was spontaneously infused in our solar system via the planet Earth,
1974, and began expanding annually in a location sometimes referred to as the Cres-
cent City. Around the age of four, he began work on his lifelong pursuit concerning
the application of homogeneous forms to linear topography. Exposure to such a wide
range of serendipity during his formative years provided him with a unique vision.
 
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“Self determined entropy can produce highly contagious effects,” he recalls. Damon’s
visualizations have been exhibited throughout the universe. His work is included in
the permanent collections of nearly all of his friends, as well as many private collectors. 
www.damonsoule.com
Damon Soule, Quintessence, 2013, acrylic on canvas,11 x 18 feet
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Ralph Metzner

Gnosis
As I gazed on it,
the garment seemed
to be a mirror,  
in which I saw my whole self, 
but also part of myself – 
we were two entities
yet in one form. 

- Hymn of the Pearl 

Emerging out of the pre-Judeo-Christian Gnostic

stream, I find the following themes particularly
appealing to modern Western spiritual seekers who
want to honor ancient cultural roots. 

A Trinitarian conception of divinity, not of the Father,

the Son and the Holy Ghost, but of the God-Father,
Goddess-Mother and God-Child. This is the divine
archetypal trinity that is mirrored in every human
family.

According to some Gnostic teachings each individual

human being also mirrors, or reflects and embodies,
this archetypal structure: Spirit is Mother-Father and
the Soul is the archetypal androgynous Child, sent
out into the world, each one clothed in the persona 
of a human being.  Ralph Metzner has a B.A. in philosophy and psychology from Oxford
University and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Harvard University.
Another key Gnostic theme holds that each human He has been involved in the study of transformations of consciousness
soul is actually a twin soul. One of the twins incarnates ever since, as a graduate student, he worked with Timothy Leary and
into a human body-and-personality-vehicle, the Richard Alpert (later Ram Dass) on the Harvard Psilocybin Projects. He
other one stays behind in the heaven-realm and the is now Professor Emeritus at the California Institute of Integral Studies,
two re-unite when the earthly twin vehicle “dies”. maintains a part-time psychotherapy practice, and conducts numerous
workshops on consciousness transformation.

Damon Soule, Dematerialized Time, 2013, acrylic on canvas, 64 x 125 inch www.greenearthfound.org
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 RUPERT SHELDRAKE There are many divinities – gods,
devas, angels, tutelary spirits, and
others – but one fundamental

HOLY SPIRIT
divinity, namely God, the source and
sustainer and attractor of all. God is
not undifferentiated, but a Trinity – in
the Christian interpretation Father,
Word or Son, and Holy Spirit. 

Speaking is the primary metaphor:

Through the sense of presence and beauty in nature, Spoken words convey meanings,
and through plants especially. Through the beauty of connections, structures, images,
music.  Through sacred places and pilgrimage.  Through fears, hopes, and so much else. But
services in churches and cathedrals.  Through love and words would be inert and ineffective
acts of kindness. Through prayer and meditation. Through without the flow of the out breath of
gratitude.  which they are spoken. The speaker,
the Father, is the common source
of breath, the Spirit, and words
and forms.  Just as our words only
partially express our minds, so the
Word or Son is more limited than
the conscious mind of the Father,
which contains all possibilities. 

Both the Father and the Son are

of the same nature: begotten not
made, ordained not constructed,
in relationship through the Holy
Spirit that breathes out through the
Word and breathes back from the
Son to the Father, in a relationship
of love for each other.  This  bears
resemblance to the Indian concept
of the divine as Sat-Chit-Ananda, or
Being-Consciousness-Bliss. 
Rupert Sheldrake, a biologist and author, is best known for his hypothe-
sis of morphic fields and morphic resonance, which leads to a vision of a
living, developing universe with its own inherent memory. He worked in
developmental biology at Cambridge University, where he was a Fellow of
Clare College. He was then Principal Plant Physiologist at the International
Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, in Hyderabad, India.
His book The Physics of Angels, was co-written with internationally acclaimed
theologian Matthew Fox. www.sheldrake.org

Damon Soule, My Silly Yawn, 2013, acrylic on canvas, 64 x 125 inch

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THE
UNTETHERED
SOUL
Michael A. Singer
Religion is focused upon one’s beliefs about
Divinity. Spirituality is focused upon one’s
experience of Divinity. Though few people
realize it, there is a constant downward flow
of energy in a normal human being. When
something from outside attracts or repulses
us, our consciousness is drawn toward it. A  
field of Shakti, or spiritual energy, flows from
within and connects to the outer object in
order to cling to it or to keep it away. Both like
and dislike create a fairly constant downward
and outward flow of Shakti. This is also true of
inner objects. Consciousness is drawn out of
the seat of consciousness in order to engage
in our thoughts and emotions. This constant
downward and outward flow of spiritual energy
is truly what is meant by “the fall from the
garden.” Divinity caresses you and pulls you up
into Her. This is the direct experience of Divinity
calling you back home.

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 When a person is done
with all these tendencies
toward like and dislike,
both outer and inner
objects are free to come
described as Bliss or
Ecstasy. Just as a human
being is almost always
feeling some downward
pull of fear, need,

“A PERPETUAL, UNDISTURBED
UPWARD FLOW OF JOY, LOVE,
AND PEACE, WHICH IS OFTEN
DESCRIBED AS BLISS OR ECSTASY”
and go without drawing
consciousness toward
them. Because the spiritual
energy is not drawn
outward, it effortlessly
remains established in the
seat of Self. Such a person
becomes conscious of the
nature of consciousness—
a perpetual, undisturbed
upward flow of joy, love,
and peace, which is often
attraction, or repulsion, so
a spiritual being is always
feeling the upward flow
of Shakti pulling them
higher into the Source.
This tangible upward flow
is more real than anything
coming in through the
senses. Once established
in this state, you are always
experiencing the presence. 
 

During his doctoral work, Michael A. Singer had a deep inner awakening
and went into seclusion to focus on yoga and meditation. In 1975,
he founded Temple of the Universe, a now long-established yoga and
meditation center where people of any religion or set of beliefs can come
together to experience inner peace. Through the years, Michael A. Singer
has made major contributions in the areas of business, the arts, education,
healthcare, and environmental protection. His recent book is entitled,
The Surrender Experiment: My Journey Into Life’s Perfection.

www.untetheredsoul.com

Mugwort, Luminous Return, 2015, digital, www.mugwortdesigns.com

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 A. Andrew Gonzalez

Soul Crafting
My early interest in all things arcane and mystical
arose from a sensitivity for synchronistic
experiences and profound vivid dreams, which in
turn lead me to question our common perceptions
of reality, imagination and being. I found myself
drawn to various esoteric subjects ranging from
comparative religion and mythology to Jungian
psychology, alchemical and tantric symbolism,
exotic physics and the frontiers of consciousness
and dream research. 

It was these unique dream experiences that would

awaken an undeniable call to devote myself to
the development of a numinous artistic vision.  At
the age of nineteen,  my creative journey arose
and  crystalized  after a series of peak dream
experiences . These “supernatural events of the
soul” resulted from out-of-body experiences and
lucid “waking” dreams, some of which involved brief
encounters with mysterious adepts or messengers.
On three occasions during my lucid dream practice
I awoke enveloped in a fiercely radiant golden light,
moving rapidly towards its blazing white center.
Upon opening my eyes, I felt what could only be
described as being reborn. Everything around
me looked new, and I felt this wonderful sense
of peace and clarity that would last for months.
Whether real or illusory, these experiences inspired
an acute sense of the astonishing miraculousness
of everything. 

66 A. Andrew Gonzalez, Leo Rising, 2014, acrylic airbrush on clayboard, 15.5 x 11.75 inch 67
Traditionally, painting is an additive process, in which layer
after layer builds an image. In my paintings, this principle
is turned on its head using a subtractive process I’ve
developed through years of trial and error. My technique
begins with a gesso-like surface. Transparent paint is added
and then, most surprisingly, I employ an array of erasers.
My style is   a revival of the Pre-Raphaelite aesthetic with a
focus on the figure as both temple and vessel, sublimed by
transformative forces. I capture my subjects suspended in
an ecstatic moment, poised on the threshold of a new birth. 

68 A. Andrew Gonzalez, Spirit Eagle, 2014, acrylic on clayboard, 15.5 x 11.75 inch 69
 I longed for an art that would
contemplate the jewel of wisdom
hidden within and reveal the
glory and mystery of being, an art
sublimed with grace and beauty,
subtle, yet profoundly ecstatic and
mythically bold in its declaration.
The augurs of this revelatory art that
initially inspired my imagination
were embedded in the visionary
and mystical art traditions and
disseminated within art genres
including Symbolism, Art Nouveau,
Surrealism and Fantastic Realism.
Above all, these revelatory artists,
and many others, inspired my faith
in what is possible for the art of soul
and spirit. 

These experiences informed

and accelerated the progress of
my artwork. A leap in my artistic
ability resulted from my newfound
focus and devotion to spirit. The
entheogenic experience, years later
recharged my inspired reverence
for ecstatic visionary possibilities
found in the imagination. My
drawings, mystical love poems to
the soul, often correlate my female
figures to dakini messengers or
anima mediatrix to dimensions
within, the projected mirror of the
soul. Drawing and painting have
become soul-crafting. 

The work of A. Andrew Gonzalez can be found

in museums, galleries and collections. Andrew
is known for the unique sculptural look of his
paintings, as well as their power to move and
inspire the viewer. 
www.sublimatrix.com

A. Andrew Gonzalez, The Transmitter, 2014

acrylic on clayboard, 6 x 12 inch
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JEFFREY BRONFMAN The sublime mystic fragrance
Of The Tender Petals of The Rose

Manifested Grace Moistened with drops of The Morning Dew.

The Vast Radiance of The Celestial Light
Shining at Night, through the Stars and the Moon
In The Heavens above us.
The Joy that fills our heart when we see
The One we Love again
after long nights and days apart.
The comfort, and kindness and nurturing Grace that is transmitted
through the mother’s milk, as the newborn infant nurses at her breast.
The vibrant flavor of The Sun ripened fruit, reminding of
The Pleasure of the sweetness of the  realms beyond.
The Light within which All Things come into Being
and become animate, given Life, each becoming
its unique expression of Love.
The Wonder and Awe and Amazement
of an awakening incarnate child emerging
in this world of manifested Grace.
The way the sunlight sparkles, like diamonds,
on the cresting waves on the turquoise seas.
The forgiveness that comes when we feel the pain and sorrow
from harms we’ve done.
That unforgettable first kiss that begins a life together in Union.
All reflections, Real Reflections of that which is Divinity. Eternal Glory
The Light of Consciousness, of existence,
of possibility and fulfillment.
The Truth that sets us free.
The Reason, and Unifying Goal of all of our existence.
It is Divinity
Amen (The Imperative form of The Verb to Love).
Amen, Amen!!

Jeffrey Bronfman, an environmentalist, educator and founding

member of Bioneers and the União do Vegetal Church of the
United States, has encountered the use of plants within numerous
spiritual, ceremonial and religious contexts throughout the
Western Hemisphere. He explores the vital role certain plants have
in the development of human awareness at this critical moment
in the state of the biosphere and our evolution as human beings.

A. Andrew Gonzalez, Light Seer, 2014, acrylic on clayboard, 8 x 10 inch

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 The Light
Oleg Korolev
Maybe someone will be surprised, but
God exists. He is completely real and
available. I know it personally. 

It was in the middle of the 90’s, in the

days when I was thoroughly practicing a
canonical Orthodox Christian doctrine,
following all fasts, taking Communion,
practicing “Mental ascesis“ like praying
the rosary and reciting the Jesus Prayer
— “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have
mercy on me a sinner.”   

Oleg Korolev, Prodigal Son, oil on canvas, 130 x 90 cm

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 Being a pilgrim in the Kiev Pecherskaia Lavra,
deep in the Far Caves, I stood in a queue at the
very entrance.The little underground temples
are carved in the rock, both historic and
aesthetic. On my left side stood a novice monk.
I had a backpack on my shoulders and the monk
asked me to remove it. I obeyed, lowering it
down to the ground, and once I did it … some
sweetness, an incredible sweetness, and a light
penetrated into me all at once from head-to-toe.
In front of me was the Light. I felt a ringing ease
and my heart fluttered with joy. It was something
unheard of!  The joy and the feeling of love
was indescribable. In the Light I did not see any
human image, neither an angel nor some holy
man. It was just a continuous stream of Light. 

I looked around and noticed behind me on

my right side was me, myself! I stood there, a
kind of gray color. My body was composed of
a substance similar to tobacco ash or dust. You
can see the depiction of this experience in my
work “Hesychast”. It artistically reflects that state.

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The painting “Paul” depicts the moment
of enlightenment of Saul of Tarsus, the
persecutor of the Christians. It shows the
instant in which he was transformed from
Saul, a cruel religious fanatic, to Paul,
the Apostle of God. In the composition,
he is immersed in a sea of the energy,
symbolizing the divine Tabor Light of Christ.

All of a sudden, the Light of Christ blinds

Saul who is not prepared to see the Light.
His mind overwhelmed, Saul receives a
“direct transmission” of divine awareness.

Oleg A. Korolev, born March 2, 1968 on the border of

Russia, China and Mongolia. A Russian artist and painter,
Oleg graduated from the Crimean Art College in
Simferopol. He lives and works in Russia.
www.koro-art.com

Oleg Korolev, Paul, 2002, oil on canvas, 130 x 90 cm

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 Experimental Mysticism
On April 20, 1962 at Boston University’s Marsh Chapel,
Dr. Walter Pahnke carried out the Good Friday Experiment
to determine the possibility of predicting whether spiritually
inclined subjects under the influence of Psilocybin would have a
mystical experience. Determined by a questionnaire measuring
the intensity of the categories of mystical experience, the results
revealed 65% of spiritually inclined subjects indeed showing
convincing evidence of a full-blown spiritual breakthrough.
Years later, Pahnke’s colleague, Dr. William Richards of Johns
Hopkins University and Dr. Roland Griffiths published the best
scientific evidence yet gathered proving the existence of Divinity.
Below is an excerpt from “Implications of LSD and Experimental
Mysticism,” by Walter N. Pahnke & William A. Richards, published
in the Journal of Religion & Health, 1966.

Categories of Mystical Experience

These categories attempt to describe the core of a universal

psychological experience, free from culturally determined
philosophical or theological interpretations.

1. Unity - A unity within oneself and with the cosmos

2. Objectivity and Reality - feelings of Ultimate Reality

3. Transcendence of Space and Time - beyond Death a timeless

infinite Spirit

4. Sense of Sacredness - Holiness, Divinity, Love

5. Deeply-felt Positive Mood - Joy, Blessedness, Peace

6. Paradoxicality - Opposites co-exist in balance

7. Ineffability - beyond words

8. Transiency - the Eternal in a moment

9. Positive Changes in Attitude or Behavior

a. toward themselves, b. toward others, c. toward life, and
d. toward mystical consciousness itself.

10. Faith in one’s own potential for creative achievement

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 Jeffrey J. kripal

all divine
My experience of divinity has changed dramatically,
and not so dramatically, over the years. As a child and
teenager, the experience of divinity came to me as a
set of indirect beliefs, defined by the Catholicism of
my family. Here divinity was the god-man, a single
historical human being who was also fully god whom
we ate and drank in order to become him. 

In the seminary, I moved away from this singular notion

when I realized that many, maybe countless, human
beings had realized some divine being beaming
through them. I also become aware of the incredible
suffering the religions have inflicted on humanity. I
became a gnostic and Blakean. When the poet-painter
was asked about his orthodoxy, he replied: “Jesus
Christ is true man and true God!” The concerned
questioner was relieved. And then Will added: “And so
am I! And so are you!” 

Android Jones
YHWH, 2014, digital
82 www.androidjones.com 83
India has also inspired me. My experience of divinity comes from the Jeffrey J. Kripal holds the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought
Shakta Tantra and from a single direct “download” I once received at Rice University. His present areas of writing and research include the articulation of a
in Calcutta. The download came to me as Shakti, an Energetic New Comparativism within the study of religion that will put “the impossible” back on
Consciousness or Conscious Light that can zap, radiate, illuminate the table again, a robust and even conversation between the sciences and the human-
and re-wire us through a broad range of “openings,” be these erotic, ities, and the mapping of an emergent mythology or “Super Story” within paranormal
traumatic, psychedelic, aesthetic or contemplative.  communities and individual visionaries.

I have never encountered a single mystical experience that was not www.kripal.rice.edu
experienced by a human being. I still believe in the god-man, but I have
simply dropped the singular “man” part. “He” has become everyone,
including the Light shining in, as and beyond you.
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 Vandana Shiva

Life
Itself
My experience of Divinity is life itself. Life
in all the vitality, diversity, and renewal. I
am fortunate enough to have grown up in
a culture which recognizes the Divine in
every leaf, in every herb, in every river, in
every mountain, in every insect. In India, we
talk about three hundred million divinities
which is really what scientists assess is the
number of species on this planet. Divinity is
embodied in all expressions of life. That is
my experience.

Dr. Vandana Shiva trained as a Physicist. She founded

Navdanya, a national movement to protect the diver-
sity and integrity of living resources, especially native
seeds. Dr. Shiva has contributed in fundamental ways
to changing the practice and paradigms of agricul-
ture and food. She is a Founding Board Member of
many important organizations such as the Interna-
tional Forum on Globalization and Diverse Women
for Diversity.
www.navdanya.org

Android Jones, Dharma Dragon, 2012, digital

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 Starhawk

Visible
Reverence
Divinity is something that I experience all
the time. A lot of people think of Divinity
or Deity as something unseen. To me, it’s
more about shifting your attitude towards
what you can see. Sitting here in the midst
of a beautiful meadow, I see green things
and plants going to seed. I understand this
as part of a whole cycle of birth, growth,
death and regeneration that happens in the
natural world all the time. This cycle goes
on in our bodies and all around us, it’s the
sacred cycle that sustains life. I can hear birds
singing and see beautiful flowers. To me,
that is Divinity, it’s about shifting my attitude
and experience. If I really let myself be
here to experience this place in its fullness
and its wholeness, stopping for a moment
to hear the beauty of a singing bird, then I
am having a direct experience of Divinity. It
doesn’t require faith in the invisible, it really
just requires appreciation, reverence, joy
and love for what is all around us.

Android Jones, Wildlife, 2012, digital

www.androidjones.com
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 Luis Tamani
Medicine Paths
An exceptional artist of the Peruvian rain forest, Luis
grew up on the sides of the Ucayali river, in Pucallpa.
His imagination has been nurtured by the landscapes of
trees, lianas and birds.
Luis Tamani, Melodias Ancestrales, 2013, acrylic on canvas, 81 x 50 cm

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 Luis received an academic trainings, attending
the Art School of Eduardo Meza Saravia for 5
years. He used to make Abstract Art, creating
fusions between shape and texture. It’s when he
approached the Sacred Medicine that he started
to paint his own visions in a magical way. Now
his work focuses on the fusion of humanity with
animals and plants.

Luis Tamani, Renacer, 2014, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 41 cm, www.luis-tamani.com

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 Inspired by shamanic
gatherings in Iquitos, Luis
Tamani began presenting
his art work locally and now
to the whole world. Luis
shares his inner life within his
art. Amazed by of the deep
relationship between humans,
plants and animals, the artist
perceives  a unique Medicine
Being. These beings exist
everywhere on Earth and
communicate with animals
and plants to heal each
other. Purifying and curing
each other with hands and
even smiles, their singing is
medicine, their drums drive
out evil, their Mapachos
(Sacred Tobacco) cleans like
rain.  A bundle of rustling
leaves, the Shacapa calms the
Spirit.

We all come from the One

and we are all returning. 

www.luis-tamani.com

Luis Tamani, Guardianes, 2014

acrylic on canvas, 100 x 130 cm

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 Luis Eduardo Luna

Ring of the
Sacred
Divinity is both external and internal. It’s
intrinsically related to nature. What is out there
is in here. The experience of nature and the
experience of the eternal inner worlds is the
Divinity of Divinity, both outside and inside. It’s
always an interplay of the two worlds. You find
Divinity in the landscape, in the organisms, in
the flowers, in the beauty of nature, and also
in the eyes of other human beings. You find
Divinity inside yourself when you are in your
inner most silence. There you find this absolute
beauty which seems to be beyond anything
you can actually imagine. Revealed  to us in
these sacred moments, when we are inside
ourself, open to revelation, is Divinity.

Divinity speaks to us culturally through

whatever means we have available. In today’s
world, we have been exposed to art and ideas
from all over the planet, so Divinity is able
to reach us in a very rich way with elements
from many cultures. In other societies with
a more defined cosmology or worldview,
Divinity talks through that worldview. Divinity
is always transcendent, always beyond
anything we can imagine. Divinity speaks to us
through metaphors. Art is powerful because it
expresses these metaphors in multi sensorial
ways, not only through ideas but through our
eyes. Art is a direct language. The beauty and
attraction of art is evident without words or
concepts. 

Luis Tamani, Renacer II, 2014, acrylic on canvas, 50 x 70 cm

www.luis-tamani.com

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 Once, I closed my eyes and saw three
gigantic creatures made of light. One of
these creatures extended her arm, showing
me several glowing spheres with very
intricate glowing filigree. Within the spheres
there were solar systems of different stars
and planets. The creature was pointing her
arm towards something very little within one
of the spheres. The voice in my head said
“And this is your universe!” 

Physicists may feel that we don’t need

Divinity because of the discovery of natural
laws. With these laws, everything will be
explained. Many things have not been
explained like dark matter which is 90% of
everything! In my vision, I saw our universe
next to all these other universes and realities.
It was a humbling experience knowing that
even when we think we grasp physical laws,
the Mystery remains.

Luis Eduardo Luna studied philosophy and literature

at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, earning an
interdisciplinary Master’s degree while teaching Spanish
and Latin American Literature at the Department of
Romance Languages of Oslo University. He is a former
Senior Lecturer at the Swedish School of Economics,
Helsinki, Finland, from where he retired, and a former
Professor of Anthropology at the Federal University
of Santa Catarina, Brazil. He is the author and editor of
many books on Shamanism and Visionary Art.

www.wasiwaska.org

Luis Tamani, Guardianes, 2014, acrylic on canvas, 100 x 130 cm

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 SOMEWHERE
BETWEEN
Michael Divine

The first time I fell in love, I truly fell for it. 

Head over heels. 
Somewhere between the brush and the canvas
and my hand.
Between the music and the walls and my ears
And I never fell out of love again. 
If not for its divine chord, the entire
symphony of life would cease to be.  
So we do our work, and play our part in that
song of songs.

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 Passionate and serene at once, Michael
Divine’s images speak with a universal
language of beauty. Drawing upon his
visions and experiences, inspired by art,
architecture, music, yoga, dance, nature,
and the human condition, Michael’s
work explores the inner worlds of the
psyche and the heart. Translating his
experience into sublime imagery, the
artist illustrates the journey of growth
and transcendence through the
inescapable phenomenon of human
existence and conditioning.

Michael Divine is part of a resurgent creative wave

that draws inspiration not just from art theory and
intellectual ideas, but also from  basic principles
of a healthy and vibrant life. With imaginative
wonder and deep spiritual underpinnings, his
paintings reference ancient traditions, modern
artistic explorations, and contemporary themes. 

www.tenthousandvisions.com

Michael Divine, The Glass Onion, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 54 x 32 inch

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 Indigenous traditions around the globe know
the self as one with its world. Nature is alive and
seamlessly whole, often symbolized by a circle:
the sacred hoop of life. Not only our fate, but also
our identity is interwoven with all beings. 

Joanna Macy The fifteenth century cardinal Nicholas of Cusa

defined God as an infinite circle whose periphery

WORLD AS LOVER
is nowhere and whose centre is everywhere. That
centre, that one self, is in you and me and the
tree outside the door. Similarly, the Jewelled Net
Just as lovers seek union, we are apt, when we of Indra, the vision of reality that arose with Hua
fall in love with our world, to fall into oneness Yen Buddhism, reveals a world where each being,
with it as well. We begin to see the world as each gem at each node of the net, is illuminated
ourselves. Hunger for this union springs from a by all others and reflected in them. As part of this
deep knowing, which mystics of all traditions give world, you contain the whole of it. 
voice to. Breaking open a seed to reveal its life-
giving kernel, the sage in the Upanishads tells his
student : “Tat tvam asi - That art thou.” The tree that
will grow from the seed, that art thou; the running
water, that art thou; and the sun in the sky, and all
that is, that art thou. 

“There is a Secret One inside us,” says Kabir, “the

planets in all the galaxies pass through his hands
like beads.” Mystics of the Abrahamic religions
speak of merging self with God rather than with
the world, but the import is often the same. When
Hildegard of Bingen experienced unity with the
divine, she gave it these words: “I am the breeze
that nurtures all things green…I am the rain
coming from the dew that causes the grasses to
laugh with the joy of life.”

Michael Divine, The Myth of Freedom

2013, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 32 inch 105
 Now it can dawn on us: we are our world knowing
itself. We can relinquish our isolation. We can come
home again to a world that can appear to us now both
as self and as lover. Relating to our world with the full
measure of our being, we partake of the qualities of
both. In his poem, “The Old Medicant,” Vietnamese Zen
Master Thich Nhat Hanh evokes the long, wondrous
evolutionary journey we all have made together, from
which we are as inseparable as from our own selves. At
the same time, it is a love song. Hear these lines, as if
addressed to you:

Being rock, being gas, being mist, being Mind,

being the mesons travelling among galaxies at the
speed of light,
you have come here, my beloved…
You have manifested yourself
as trees, grass, butterflies, single-celled beings,
and as chrystanthemums. 
We don’t have to surrender our individuality to But the eyes with which you looked at me this morning
experience the world as an extended self and tell me you have never died.
its story as our own extended story. The liver,
leg, and lung that are “mine” are highly distinct
from each other, thank goodness, and each has
a distinctive role to play. The larger “selfness” we
discover today is not an undifferentiated unity. As
in all living systems, intelligence depends on the
integrative play of diversity. Diversity is a source
of resilience. This is good news because this time
of great challenge demands more commitment,
endurance, and courage than any one of us can
dredge up out of our own individual supply. We
can learn to draw on the other neurons in the
neural net and view them with gratitude. The acts
and intentions of others are like seeds that can
germinate and bear fruit through our lives, as we
take them in and dedicate that awareness to the
healing of our world. 

Michael Divine, The Crucible, 2015

acrylic on canvas, 48 x 32 inch

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 We have all gone on that long journey, and
now, richer for it, we come home to our mutual
belonging. We return to the experience that
we are both the self of our world and its
cherished lover. We are not doomed to destroy
it by the cravings of the separate ego and the
technologies it fashioned. We can wake up to
who we really are, allow the rivers to flow clean
once more, and the trees to grow green along
their banks.
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Eco-philosopher Joanna Macy PhD, is a scholar of Buddhism, general
systems theory, and deep ecology. A respected voice in the movements
for peace, justice, and ecology, she interweaves her scholarship with five
decades of activism. Her work helps people transform despair and apathy,
in the face of overwhelming social and ecological crises, into constructive,
collaborative action. It brings a new way of seeing the world, as our larger
living body, freeing us from the assumptions and attitudes that now threat-
en the continuity of life on Earth.
www.joannamacy.net
Michael Divine, Birth of a Star
2010, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 28 inch
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 Divine in
Design
Delvin Solkinson & Sijay James
Religious texts throughout the ages have existed
to share direct communication with the divine.
Transcribing transcendent experience is an act
both holy and profane. The purest essence of
divinity is beyond representation and no worldly
tasks are more sacred.
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Higher Glyphics
Lasting over 3000 years, the Egyptian civilization
is credited with the oldest sacred texts in
history. Inscriptions were carved into the walls
of stone tombs, temples and Pyramids. Egyptian
hieroglyphs, the words of God, combined images
and ideographs with alphabetic symbols to form
a language rich with complexity, capable of
supporting sophisticated concepts of the divine.
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Bhagavad Gita
Evolving from an oral tradition, the ancient Vedic
scripture called, the Bhagavad Gita, or “Song of
the Blessed One (Krishna),” was transmitted from a
divine vision and committed to the holy language
of Sanskrit. This religious scripture shares an epic
narrative describing a pantheon of divinities, often
artfully portrayed in manuscripts. Those who have
transcribed the Bhagavad Gita practiced spiritual
devotion described in the book itself.
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Diamond
Sutra
Also emerging from oral traditions
are a host of Sutras which
recorded the direct teachings of
the enlightened living Buddha.
These often take the form
of aphorisms, parables and
statements on life and spiritual
matters. The Diamond Sutra, also
called “Perfection of Wisdom,”
emphasizes the practice of non-
abiding and non-attachment.
Printed from carved wooden
blocks and glued together to
form a scroll, the Diamond Sutra,
found by a London archeologist in
the early 20th century, bears the
date ‘the 13th of the fourth moon
of the ninth year of Xiantong’
(May 11, 868). This beautifully
designed scroll is considered
the earliest dated intact printed
works of Divine art and text.
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 The Bible
Johannes Gutenberg’s movable type machines started a
revolution in printmaking with the first publications of the
Bible. Mixing the apocrypha or “hidden texts” of Christianity
with the Hebrew text from the Jewish Torah and later sacred
works, the Gutenberg Bible consists of fifty Hebraic books
and twenty-seven books called the New Testament. Of the
180 copies printed in 1455 in Germany, most were printed
on paper and a few on parchment made from calfskin. Forty-
eight known copies of the Gutenberg Bible exist today with
less than half considered complete copies. With billions
of printed Bibles in many versions, the Christian Bible is
considered the best selling book of all time.

The Torah
The Hebrew Torah, both written and oral, is said to be
given by God through Moses at Mount Sinai and later
in the desert Tabernacle. According to the Midrash
(commentaries), the Torah was created prior to the
creation of the world, and was used as the blueprint
for Creation. The word Torah is derived from a root
used in archery, Yareh, meaning “to hit a target,” that
target being the truth about God. No synagogue
of any Jewish sect may exist even today without a
handwritten Torah, a work of art scribed by trained
“sophers” on parchment made from a blessed
(kosher) calf, every letter and word perfect and nearly
identical to every other Torah through time.

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 Mayan
Codices
Mayan glyphiks use graphic
ideograms to represent words
or syllables. Written on long
strips of fig tree bark, molded in
stucco, or carved in wood and
stone, Mayan codices illustrate
text with delicate artwork
supporting a divine cosmology,
including detailed astrological
information.

Shipibo
The beautifully woven patterns of the Peruvian Shipibo
communicate using a spirit dialect that can be expressed in any
language. Each line in the weave represents a word or syllable
which come together to form ikaros, healing songs, which are
transmissions directly from shamanic plant spirits. This divine
language has the power to heal, protect and grant visions.

To artfully represent the ineffable

has been the creative challenge of
mystics from cultures throughout
recorded history. The holy task
of sharing the Divine Word on
our earthly plane has mandated
a human legacy to create art
and written language as the only
evidence of the lives and thoughts
at the very foundation of our
planetary civilization.

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Crystal & Spore
A designer is an emerging
synthesis of artist, inventor,
mechanic, objective economist
and evolutionary strategist.
R. Buckminster Fuller
The modern world is miraculous in its technologies, looking
inward into the intricacy of the human genome, the subatomic
tendencies of matter as well as far out into the deepest reaches
of outer space. We have uncovered the beauty of a universe so
vast it lies beyond comprehension in size, full of uncountable
stars with other solar systems and planets. Still we are unclear
on what, if anything, created life. The mystery of creation lies
at the heart of all of our divine reflections: The origin myths,
the time before time, where the gods live. Who set off the big
bang? Who designed the design?

Perhaps divinity is revealed in the details of the design itself,

the repeating patterns and sequences of numbers that create
spiraling life, the music of the spheres in their orbits and the
undulation of waves in the ocean. The sheer complexity of the
planet is enough to incite metaphysical awe, like the glimpse
of the earth from a spaceship, a humbling experience of size
and scope. A miracle does not need a creator to be divine. The
design itself is godly.

The frontiers of our technological future put us at the edge of

power that would seem available only to the forces that created
it all. Could those gods be us, moving ever towards more
evolved versions of ourselves? Could it be we are the divine
designers as well as the divined design? For now we can build
our own blueprints, take part in creation, and be in gratitude for
the beauty of the mystery.

Divine Detailing
world craft
the mysterious design
invoking awe
and inspiring evolution
dewdropped wisdoms
timeless and immortal
Earth tones
sounding from source
3D apophysis render:
www.mugwortdesigns.com heart beat
Mixed Media Collage: hands of creation
www.onbeyondmetamedia.com eyes to the divine reflection
118 a return to the breath
Sijay james is a new media designer, visual
artist, dj, vj and cultural archivist. For over
15 years he has been involved in shaping
the graphic face of the global tribal dance
music community. He has collaborated
with numerous visonary artists and
musicians as a live visualist, and spoken
globally as a new media advocate with
Crystal and Spore.
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 Permaculture observes that nature has an operating system, a

Crystal & Spore set of ecological design principles which are part of the source
code for our world. At the heart of this divine design is the
principle of the miraculous: Life Creates Life. If we leave this
place alone for a thousand years, it will become an ancient
growth forest. Nature is a regenerative system designed to
create opportunities for more life. 

Observing our inner and outer worlds we can perceive

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,
places to play in and pray in, where nature may
heal and give strength to body and soul alike.
patterns that repeat. Traditional cultures recognize that life is a
pattern language. Nature is a communication, an inscription of
the divine design. From this consciousness we can learn to
recognize functional patterns to reinforce and replicate , as
well as dysfunctional ones to replace with more effective,
ethical and ecological alternatives. 

John Muir Being alive provides us all with a direct experience of the
Divine Mystery. We cannot create life, but we can help create
healthy conditions to support life to happen. By applying
ecological design principles to the systems and structures of
our society, we can work with nature’s divine designs to
cultivate a regenerative civilization. The future starts with a
redesign of the self, home and relationships in alignment with
values of caring compassion for ourselves, each other and our
planetary homeworld.

Deities and Darshans

life poïesis
a keystone evolution Delvin Solkinson is a plant path poet
mobilizing intelligence and doctoral student in permacul-
and expanding capacities ture education. His greatest joy is
volunteering at the Chapel of Sacred
Mirrors. Further dedications include
to the beyond and back the Galactik Trading Cards as well as
new edge eschatology working on Projections Magazine
lightship Earth and the Dreams & Divinities art
sentient recalibration books.

world medicine
life design
numinous spark of creative divinity
launching the next levels

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sequoia Emmanuelle
duende of the Goddess
Sequoia captures the divine essence of her
generation of artists and immortalizing the
avant-garde worlds of fashion, music, art,
film and theatre as seen through her eyes.

Belly Dancer & Musician from Beats Antique: Zoe Jakes

Model: Alexandra Mathews. Headdress: Bubbles And Frown Haberdashery Shoppe
122 Stylist: Tiffani Chynel. Make-up by Sabrina Rucker. Hair by Jeremy Nichols 123
Art, to me, has been one of the most important things
in my life. It’s been my religion.

I live and breathe for it everyday. I have felt a strong desire

ever since I was a child to make a difference in this world.
It has been my mission to be an inspiration with what

I create.
Art got me through a troubled childhood and carried me
through the tough times. It gave me a way to express and
see the world as I want to see it, and express how I feel. It
gave me hope and dreams, and a path to follow.

My work, as you will see, is full of archetypes and

characters. Many themes reoccur in my work.
These themes are of empowerment,
beauty, love and self-expression.
I am drawn to people who have stories to tell and have
chosen a unique path, and those who walk to the beat of
their own drum, just as I have. I encourage everyone to be
yourself and have fun with creating ways to express it.
I like to accentuate that in my photography
and celebrate it.
­ — Sequoia Emmanuelle

Campaign for Tawapa Jewelry. Model: Jaq Schmitz

Creative Director :Siouxzen Kang. Styling by Jenella Brooks
124 Make-up by Kurumi Uchino. Hair by Anthony Pazos 125
 Sequoia Emmanuelle is a Southern California based photographer and culture creator.
Her new book Duende covers thirteen years of her art and the amazing men and women
she has had in front of her camera. www.SequoiaEmmanuelle.com

Model: Alexandra Mathews. Headdress: Bubbles And Frown Haberdashery Shoppe

Stylist: Tiffani Chynel. Make-up by Sabrina Rucker. Hair by Jeremy Nichols
Sequoia Emmanuelle
Wearing Headdress by the Plumed Serpent
Styling and make-up and set up by Sequoia
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Mysterium Harmonia
Eli Morgan
Transcendentalist philosophers Emerson and Thoreau wrote of the
Divinity apparent in nature. They championed a deep awareness
and appreciation of nature as a spiritual and moral path. At the
same period of the 19th century, Thomas Cole founded the
Albert Bierstadt, 1830–1902, Valley of the Yosemite, 1864, oil on paperboard, 11 7/8 x 19 1/4 inch
128 Photograph © 2015 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Hudson River School, America’s first art movement which sought
to express the holy spirit manifest in the natural world. Inspired
by New York’s exquisite Hudson Valley and trained in the
Central European tradition of plein air painting, artists Thomas
Cole, Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Church, and others traveled the
American West, to capture the epic beauty and mystery of the
natural world. Like artist-shaman bringing these visions back to
elevate the consciousness of the young country.
Gift of Martha C. Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of
American Paintings, 1815–1865, 47.1236 129
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the currents of the Universal Being circulate through mysterious natural laws that will be forever obscured from us.
me; I am part or parcel of God.
— Albert Bierstadt
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature, 1836

130 photo Eli Morgan. CoSM Meadow, Hudson Valley, NY 131

 James Joyce proposed that a state of aesthetic
arrest occurs when we are in the presence of
great beauty and our minds go still, like the
undeniable sense of awe when you look out
over an epic landscape.

Outside of our great cities, we resonate with

the presence of the Divine in every natural
environment. In deep forests, vast oceans,
sunlit mountains we feel at one with our eternal
self. Our ego dissolves while the higher self is
affirmed by the unfolding miracles in nature.

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Eli Morgan
Divine Places

Travel
cultivates
profound wonder and can
connect us with the harmony of nature.
Every habitat on the planet is imbued with a unique
spirit that can inspire and empower us. In travel, meeting Eli Morgan travels internationally as an art director, photographer and graphic de-
people from many traditions unites our worlds in psychic signer. He is committed to world transformation through awareness, art, and design.
and spiritual bonds forming a collective vision. Like-minded Eli has been working with CoSM since 2001 as Creative Director, Chief Designer and
people join together in a social network to strengthen our Events Co-ordinator. He co-founded CoSM : Journal of Visionary Culture and has de-
mutual uplifting. We are truly a golbal community. signed many coffee table books sharing visionary art, culture and fashion.

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 Cheryl Yambrach Rose, Avalon Starstream Oracle, 2014 Emily Kell, The Alchemist, 2013-14
oil on linen , 24 x 36 inch oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inch
www.cherylrose.com www.emilykell.com

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Brigid Marlin, The Tarot, 1974, oil and tempera Mische technique, 60 inch diameter
Brigid Marlin
‘The Tarot’ is a portrait of my son done when he was 12 years old.
He is asking his fortune from Fate, the lady with the Sword, and
Mercy, the lady with the World Wheel who holds the cup of water.
The four suits of the Tarot stood for the four elements; the Sword
represents Air; the Pentacles represents Earth, the Cup represents
Water and the Wands represent Fire. Around the edge are the
Fortune-telling cards.
www.brigidmarlin.com
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Brigid Marlin, Vortex, 1972, oil and tempera Mische technique, 72 x 48 inch
Vortex represents a couple splitting apart, which is part of the
lottery of the Wheel of Life. After I painted this, I found a Tibetan
World Wheel which had been painted thousands of years ago, and
was almost completely similar! Jung says we all have a collective
unconsciousness which we tap into during times of stress. The
World Wheel is what keeps us in captivity but there is an escape into
eternal bliss once we liberate ourselves from the trap of desire and
hate.
Brigid Marlin was born in Washington, D.C.1936. She studied painting and sculpture in
Dublin, Paris and New York. In 1966 she went to Vienna  to study with Professor Ernst Fuchs
who researched and revived the ‘Mische’ technique, a process of painting which was the secret
method of the Italian Renaissance painters. She founded the Society for Art of Imagination
whose mission includes: Fostering the resurgence of interest in imaginative and sacred art
and make this art accessible to all. Creating and maintaining a community of support for other
artists working in this spirit. Encouraging technical skill coupled with imagination to create fine
works of art that transcend the ordinary. Arranging and curating exhibitions for our members
all over the world.
www.artofimagination.org
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 Guy Aitchison Michele Wortman
Visions on Canvas and Skin

Guy Aitchison, Radiant Flux, 2014, acrylic on canvas, 24 x 30 inch

www.hyperspacestudios.com

Michele Wortman, Potential, 2015, oil on canvas, 24 x 42 inch

www.hyperspacestudios.com
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SHAUN FRIESEN
Shaun Friesen, The Unravelling (Album Art Commission),
Shaun Friesen, Revolt (Album Art Commission) 2015 2015, mixed digital, 12 x 12 inch 
mixed digital, 12 x 12 inches WWW.THEUNRAVELLINGBAND.COM

theunravelling.bandcamp.com 
www.FreeZen.ca

www.freezen.ca
Shaun Friesen, Revolt (Album Art Commission) Shaun Friesen, The Unravelling (album art commission
2015, mixed digital, 12 x 12 inch. in progress) 2015, mixed digital, 12 x 12 inches
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 Only Thought can Rival Nature, Homage to Android Jones
2015, oil on canvas, 38 x 19 inch

Louis Markoya
Former Protege to Salvador Dali

THE CONTINUITY AND EVOLUTION OF

SURREALIST AND NUCLEAR MYSTICAL ART
THE HOME OF MATHEMYSTICISM
Fractal Chapel (Of the Mind)
Homage to Alex Grey
2015, oil on canvas, 18 x 24 inch

Dynastes Hercules Kuksi

Homage to Kris Kuksi Diane Sleeping While a Quaternion Blankets the Anthrophomorphic Couple Sucking the
2015, sculpture resin and plastic with acrylic paint, 12 x 8 x 13 inch Sky with the Skin of the Ocean to Signal Evening Pregnant and Lactating Milk of the Ring of Hope
2015, oil on canvas, 26 x 20 inch 2015, oil on canvas, 26 x 20 inch

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 THE ENERGY BODY PAINTINGS OF
Janet Morgan VISIONARY ARTIST JANET MORGAN
 
The body’s energy vibrates and dances in and out of us. It gathers
inside and then emerges out of hands into paint and brush and
sticks of pigment and breath and color onto the awaiting surface. 
The underlying energy force emerges, tactile, full bodied, alive.
Stand in front of these pieces and you will mirror them with your
neurons, your cells, your eyes, your muscles and your spirit.
They are large, our size or larger, so that they can be felt and can
give us back energy and light. The circle continues.

(Clockwise Left to Right)

Lights of the Temple, 2014, mixed media on paper, 26 x 40 inch
The Grounding Cord, 2013, mixed media on paper, 26 x 40 inch
The Dynamic Center, 2014, mixed media on paper, 26 x 40 inch
www.janetmorgan.net
The Inner Fire, 2013, mixed media on paper, 26 x 40 inch
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 Axel Barzilai
It is a gift to be a WITNESS of the MAGIC of life.
I am honored to be a CHANNEL of the DIVINE on EARTH.
I embrace and love this responsibility.

My life became my project a few years back;

LIGHT PROJECTION.
It is currently making ART products with the INTENTION of
integrating art INTO your daily LIFE.

Light Projection is a WAY of life.

An opportunity to unite BY the LOVE we have for
EXISTING.

It is SIMPLY any expression that comes

from the HEART. And that IS ART.

Axel Barzilai, Connectivity, 2015, ink and color pencils on paper, 28 x 21.5 cm

SMILE TO THE MAGIC OF LIFE

www.axelbarzilai.com

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The Frank
Cosmic Brothers
Gallery

Daniel Frank, Tree of Knowlege, 2015

acrylic on canvas, 18 x 24 inch
www.thefrankbrothers.

David Frank, Peacock, 2014, acrylic on masonite, 12 x 16 inch

www.thefrankbrothers.com
Daniel Frank, Thunder Seed, 2015, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48 inch
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 Lunaya Shekinah, Healing Bliss, 2015, graphite on paper, 10 x 13 inch
www.lightscience.ca/art-healing

Jake Kobrin, Black Madonna, 2015, digital painting, 24 x 36 inch

www.kobrinart.com

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 Stephanie Sinclaire Lightsmith, Lady Light — The Magdalene Returns, 2015
acrylic on canvas, 76 x 101 cm
www.stephaniesinclaireart.com

Donna Soszynska, La Pucelle d’Orléans, 2009

acrylic on canvas, 122 X 183 cm
www.donnasoszynska.com
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 Shane Haltman, Mawyucan, 2015
acrylic, ash, quartz, watercolour on canvas, 102 x 152 cm Amy Livingstone, Wheel of the Four Winds, 2013-2014, acrylic on canvas, 30 x 48 inch
www.mahaloness.com
www.sacredartstudio.net
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 Paul Mezinskas, Numinous Star Child, 2014, color pencil, 15 x 20 inch
www.Helioscence.com

Sarah Long, Incarnation Point, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 50.5 x 70 cm

www.sarahlongart.com

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 Rick Jacobi, Deus Arcanum, 2014, acrylic on canvas panel, 18 x 24 inch
www.rickjacobiart.com
Emily Marchesiello, Lizard, 2013, ink on bristol paper, 18 x 24 inch
www.emilymarchesiello.com

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 Mariela de la Paz

Mariela de la Paz, The Condor, 2008

oil on canvas, 30 x 48 inch
www.marieladelapaz.com

Mariela de la Paz, Ayahuasca Mama, 2000

oil on canvas, 24 x 24 inch
www.marieladelapaz.com

Mariela de la Paz, is a Chilean artist who has researched

the Mesoamerican, Andean and Amazon cultures for
over thrity years, and has been channeling this art
through Sacred Power Plants. These paintings reflect the
traditions of ancient rituals, which invoke the ancestral
memory of the universal soul. Mariela de la Paz’s visions
have been recorded into these paintings, and they
express the journey of the soul in all its vital cycles: birth,
death, the celebration of life, and the transcendence to
planes of ascension and liberation. Mariela de la Paz, The Divine Masculine, 2013
oil on canvas, 30 x 48 inch
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 Brenda Molloy, Radiant, 2014, fractal art, 32 x 24 inch
Simon Haiduk, Spirit Bear (detail), 2014, digital painting www.brendamolloy.com
www.simonhaiduk.com

Vacio Cielo, Jaguar Shaman meets Mother Ayahuasca, 2015, digital collage
Paloma Vita, Evening Star Venus (detail) 2014 Vacio Cielo, Pure Perception, 2015 chacopaix.wix.com/vaciocielo
digital photo-montage, 24 x 20 inch digital collage on canvas, 23 x 37 cm
vita-art.my-free.website chacopaix.wix.com/vaciocielo

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 Andrew Kersting, Who’s Watching?, 2013, mixed media on panel, 18 x 24 inch
www.andrewkersting.com

Caren Charles, Lunar Rainbow, 2015, acrylic, gold & love, 40.5 x 50.5 cm
Facebook.com/caren.charlesdesign

Erik Grind, Expansion, 2014, acrylics and golden leaf on canvas, 90 x 90 cm Paul Abad, Untitled Mandala, 2007, digital
 www.mandalas.nu www.earthfrequency.com.au
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 Andrew Ken Stewart, IYI, 2015, digital art made with Corel Painter
John Shook, Tesla Awareness, 2014, acrylics and airbrush on canvas, 36 x 48 inch
www.diversemedium4.wix.com/shook www.000eyes.com

Alysa Sheats and John Shook, Kachina March, 2014, acrylics and airbrush on canvas, 24 x 36 inch
www.graphiccellar.wix.com/dmalysas
Ashely Foreman, Nature Nurture, 2015, acrylic oil & casein on canvas, 60 x 48 inch
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 Arthur Ramírez Dobke, Duality, 2015 Inti Garcia, Winter, 2015, oil on canvas, 80 x 60 cm
hand made drawing, 55 x 37 cm www.intigarcia.com
 www.facebook.com/nebulartecr

Nicole Mizoguchi, Sweet Fire - Soul Mates, 2008, pastel on paper, 11 x 17 inch
Aaron Landman, Yesterday’s Maze, 2015, acrylic on canvas, 30 x 30 inch
www.aaronlandman.com ww.nicolemiz.com
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 Robby Donaghey, An Artistic Ascension to the Afterlife, 2015, animation
www.artisticgenius.com

Carolea Chandrika Steinhardt, Peace - The Feminine (excerpt from The Triptych),1995

oils on Belgian linen canvas, 121 x 91 cm
www.chandrikasteinhardt.com
John Mydock, Heart Mandala, 2000, acrylic on canvas, 36 x 36 inch
176 www.mydockstudio.com 177
 Denise Size aka: VedPrem, Ganesha Gate, 2015, tempera on canvas, 24 x 36 cm   Kathleen Schmieder, Where Worlds Meet, 2015
Mischtechnik (oil and tempera on clayboard), 11 x 14 inch
www.denisesize.com
www.myndscaping.net

Alcyone Casenergy, Fly Eagle Fly, 2015 Kat Lunoe, The Union of Isis and Thoth (detail)
Lauren Churchill, Isis (Goddess) Bird, 2014, oil on canvas, 24 x 30 inch oil on panel, 48 x 48 inch 2015, oil on panel, 9 x 12 inch
www.dharmawakenings.org www.artofcasenergy.com www.nondualelf.com
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Christine Marsh, The Maloca is Like a Gift Horse
2012, digital oil painting, 9 x 12 inch
christinemarsh.com
Marvin Rosenberg, Illumination
2015, acrylic on canvas, 20 x 24 inch
gentlemarvinyoga@gmail.com
Karma Sirikogar, Unfolding Tree of Dreams, 2014, Ellen “Frank” Avigliano, Visionary, 2014
acrylic & paint marker on canvas, 100 cm x 175 cm coloured pencil and ink, 11 x 17 inch
Facebook.com/ArtByKarma imaginariumarts.com

Cheng Woo, Planet of Sherbert, 2015

Mixed media, paint pen, markers, & pencil on paper, 9 x 11 inch
chengwoo.wordpress.com
Gaia Orion, Sacred Change, 2014, oil on canvas, 92 x 92 cm
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 Janette Damsma, KIA & Me, 2015, oil on canvas, 24 x 24 inch Paula Alucema, Guided, 2015, mix media, 14 x 17 inch
www.bluedragonmedicine.com www.facebook.com/PaulaAlucemaVisionaryArt

Paula Alucema, Connections, 2015, mix media, 14 x 15 inch

Zaria Moon, Touch, 2008, Mixed Media, 34 x 26 cm www.facebook.com/PaulaAlucemaVisionaryArt
www.zariamoon.com
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 Joness Jones, Peace Pattern, 2015, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 30 inch
www.jonessjones.com
Grace, Chakra Flower Pendant, 2015
gold and precious gems, 27 x 30 mm
www.finejewelrybygrace.etsy.com
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Grace, Allyson Eye Ring, 2014
gold, black diamond and precious gems,
eye is 14 x 8 mm
proceeds go to building Entheon at CoSM
Heather L. Crowley, Shakti Rising, 2011
watercolor, 26 x 87 cm
www.willowroadwc.com
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Alexander Possegger, Breath of the Goddess
2005, acrylic on paper, 29 x 42 cm
www.alexier.com
Marquee Snyder, Divinitus, 2015
pencil on paper, 22 x 28 inch
Maria Ignacia Hargreaves, Enlightenment Flow facebook.com/
2015, watercolor, 35 x 25 cm Brian James, Untitled #14, 2015
pencil and pen, 14 x 17 inch marquee.snyder
airam-aicangi.blogspot.com
darthegypt@gmail.com

Trent Rickman, Sol Gyptian, 2013, oils and acrylic, 27 x 48 inch

www.solgyptian.com Genevieve Wood, Ayahuasca Voltron, 2013
applique patch, silk and thread, 20 x 12 inch
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Dustin Zane Poole, Aya Geo, 2015, marker on paper Dustin Zane Poole, Hand Geo, 2013, Tattoo

Dustin Zane Poole, Spirit Inversion, 2014 Dustin Zane Poole, Skull Mandalas, 2014
mixed media, pencil, ink, water color, digital pen and ink and digital Seth Leibowitz, Figured out what it is all about, 2015
acrylic on canvas, 24 x 36 inch
www.artformtattoo.com
studiophitattoos.com instagram.com/fraze1
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 Adam Millward, Waking Life, 2015, acrylic on canvas, 30 x 30 inch
www.nexusvisions.com

Eileen M. Rose, Rose Love Goddess, 2015, oil on canvas, 18 x 24 inch

www.illuminatedrose.com

Terra Celeste, Actualizing The Online Interface, 2014

free-hand cut stencil from sticky-back card stock paper, 6 x 6 inch Eileen M. Rose, Moonbathing, 2015, oil on canvas, 18 x 18 inch
190 terraceleste1111.wordpress.com www.illuminatedrose.com 191
 Tyler Gentry, Mind of the Forest, 2015
acrylic on canvas, 30 x 40 inch Kym Chi, Release and Surrender, 2014, pencil & photoshop
facebook.com/pages/Tyler-Gentry-Art www.gigglingchitree.com

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Entheurn
Designed by Alex Grey. Secret Writing by Allyson Grey
Digitally sculpted by Ryan Tottle

Entheurns available in bronze.

This exquisite functional sculpture will be a numbered open edition.

Entheurn is a bronze sculptural urn with removable lid, based on the design of
Entheon. Entheon means “a place to discover the God within.”
At CoSM, Entheon will be a sanctuary of visionary art, now under construction.

“A.J.” Alice-joyce Sneider Rymland Howard Jerome Rymland

August 18, 1929 - January 29, 2014 March 6, 1928 - February 16, 2014

IN LOVING MEMORY
Howard and A.J. lived the lives they creatively sculpted. In their early
thirties with three daughters, they made a break with their past and
chose to collaborate in a heartful family business. Every summer for eight
glorious, unforgettable weeks they mentored thousands of empowered
girls and women who lived in a harmonious, self-governing community.
For twenty-five years, each camp season offered a completely unique set
of teachings that so memorably and deeply molded my character. For their
wisdom and the life-training their example provided, my gratitude over-
flows. My parents set me up for life with the best education money could
buy and turned me loose. They taught me to do what i love, to take risks,
to respect the beloved with deep loyalty and to tell the good stories.
Married for 66 years, they spent their last chapter in the exquisite tranquility
of New Hampshire pines.
The multi-faced Godhead of Entheurn points to the transcendent unity of all sacred
paths. Angels of Creative Imagination on the cheeks bridge a Cosmic Eye of the ­­—­ Allyson Grey
Creator with a human eye. Multiple eyes on the lid of Entheurn represent
expanded consciousness ascending toward the One. Secret Writing that bands
Entheurn represents the divinely channelled language of creative manifestation. In this ninth Volume of CoSM Journal, we take an opportunity to celebrate
the lives and mourn the loss of friends and family. May Divinity bless the
spirits of community members who are in mourning today. May angels
Support the building of Entheon.
For ashes or stashes, watch over the spirits of recently departed loved-ones who have passed
Make Entheurn a part of your altar or collection. on. May the spirit of CoSM friends be blessed in eternity. In remembrance
To order a bronze Entheurn of Zachariah Gregory, Len Belzer, Emily Squires and H.R. Giger.
Inquire at CoSM Shop -- 845-298-2323 x103
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 Profound gratitude to the global community
of contributors who worked together to
make this edition of CoSM Journal possible.
Together we have manifested
the miraculous.

CoSM Journal is a wing of the temple

building initiative at the Chapel of Sacred
Mirrors. Join with us and support CoSM by Sijay
becoming a member, shopping in the store, James
attending events, and donating.

May any merit generated by this work be

dedicated to the conscious liberation and
benefit of all beings.

Eli Morgan, Alex Grey, Allyson Grey,

Jon Ohia, Joness Jones, Delvin Solkinson

Alex Grey, Kiss of the Muse, 2011, acrylic on linen, 30 x 40 inch

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 CoSM Core Values
To awaken and catalyze the spiritual path of each
person by providing access to the highest mystic
truth through art and creative action.

To build community that bridges

creativity and spirituality.

To recognize and celebrate each moment as an

opportunity for love and transformation on
personal, social and global levels.

To honour and integrate the wisdom of all

humanity, every race, religion, and age.

To recognize the teachings of all wisdom paths

that expand consciousness to visionary states and
personal contact with the Divine.

To abide by and maintain professional ethics,

fair use and practices.

To reach for the highest potential in our

personal lives, in our work and
in our creative persuits.

To honour the Source.

Reverence for the Earth and the web of life.

To recognize the body of knowledge and wisdom

communicated through the paintings at CoSM as
reflections of all human beings.

To see the good in all people.

To laugh, celebrate, appreciate and

experience joy.

To foster global and inner peace.

To broaden our mental perspective through

education and mind expansion.

204 Alex Grey, Mysteriosa 2.0, 2015, acrylic on linen, 24 x 30 inch 205