Visionary Revue #4 Entheogens & Art
News From Visionary Revue:
Just released, the 4th issue of the Visionary Revue explores the complex relationship between entheogens and artistic creation. Ten Visionary artists recount their experiences – the sudden lucidity, the hyper-perception and enlightening visions – each artist exploring a different entheogenic path. Holden, Heskin, Venosa and more… 266 pages, loaded with images and in-depth articles, edited by L. Caruana. The Visionary Revue is an on-line journal documenting emerging trends within the international movement known as Visionary Art.
EXCERPTS:
At last I had pierced the veil. Sitting with my eyes closed, I entered a land of accelerated time. Centuries elapsed in moments. I watched fantastic temples of sandstone accumulate and erode. Countless sunsets merged into a flickering twilight. Behind my eyelids, pink and gold-veined carvings swirled over the pillars, cornices, stairways and domes of ancient, but alien castles or mosques. Fascinated, I gazed at the tiny gargoyles. Charming new elements attached themselves to these: extra eyes, beautifully patterned scales, finely wrought exoskeletons. The temptation to take up a brush and begin recording these details was strong.
The Cosmic Mountain
Then, the painting transformed. Everything that appeared 'rendered' became absolutely real. The paint dissolved, the frame disappeared, and all deficiencies gave way to perfection. I marvelled at the jewels in the shadow of the wings. These were not 'artfully rendered' to resemble transparent orbs of glass – they became them… deep crystals glowing from within. I was now 'seeing' in the presence of the Sacred. Only when I pulled myself out of it, slightly, did I realize how different 'the vision' was from the support, the painting. It is so difficult to describe, this state of 'pure vision' because, when I'm in it, I'm entirely in the image. It isn't an image at all, really. It's a timeless experience of immersion into sacred wonder.
A Mirror Delirious
Art and Ayahuasca are both teachers that can reveal that whilst we live on the surface of things, there are yet deep layerings and extensions to our everyday selves. Each being is like a ten-thousand armed, multi-faced deity, such as those depicted in Indian temples. We extend outward across the fields of nature, manipulating and weaving energies in a myriad of realms. The art of the greatest visionary painters emphasises this hyperdimensional aspect to the human being
Realms
Hopefully the domains of what we conceive of as entheogens can be blown wide open through realizing that it is truly the essence of our nature to strive toward the light & spiritual understanding. All of us. So, what can one artist do but mimic the creator in all its glory? Expressing gratitude and reverence for the unfathomably vast and unknowable through our own acts of creativity, thereby fusing Artist & Divinity simply by being in the act of creation, by becoming an embodied god droplet manifesting beauty upon the earth. Beyond judgment of technique or application. The act of creating art induces god.
Art (v.) = Entheogens
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