Promethean Flames, the second in Philip Rubinov Jacobson's trilogy of books on art and consciousness, is a groundbreaking theoretical and impassioned reflection on the highest calling of the visual arts. Jacobson, a practicing painter and mystic, picks up and develops the best of post-Romantic views on the spiritual in art while laying to the side all the non-sense that circulates today as commonsensical truth about art and artists. The book offers a deep exploration of the creative process, inspiration, visionary phenomenon and its delivery systems relating to the artist as a contemporary mystic and  shaman. It delineates the boundaries and bridges between art, creativity, psychology, comparative religion and philosophy, while illuminating the states and stages of artistic vision, art as an integral practice and an incisive tool for the transformation of consciousness.  

Foreword by Prof Michael Schwartz. Prologue by Robyn Sean Peterson.

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First Edition, published by Betty & Books, Bologna, Italy.

Soft cover, 272 pages, 21 x 14.6 cm, 16 full color plates of the artist/author's paintings.

ISBN  978-88-902372