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the Leader of Illusions/hierophant “It’s better to fail in originality, than succeed in imitation.” ~Herman Melville
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On the lost Trail  The essential for a Zen painter means a manner of being in the deepest sense and not, as for us, a manner of doing. For them it means fusion in the life of the cosmos...  Andre Masson
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Oil painting for Taos Astrologer Rex Estell  Inseparable from magical speculation about words is the theory of vibrations, which supposes that certain sounds have a powerful acoustic impact on both the physical and astral worlds. That vibrations do in fact govern sound is confirmed by physics which teach us that sound originates when molecules begin to vibrate and trigger off a wave formed by sympathetic vibration of neighboring molecules.  Magic: An Occult Primer   David Conway
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    Pluto Transit at The Observatory, 15 S Howard St, Spokane  Besides being an artist, I'm a detective investigating the collective unconsciousness.  Many of my paintings test the surrealistic method of automatic painting.  This trial employs the force of the subconscious to reveal images. Usually the expectation of creating a picture follows the gravitational pull from brain, to a sketch to the painting. These steps match and complete the artist's will in one magnetic stream.. however surrealism exercises a different kind of intention and will. Surrealism requires tuning into the dreaming brain like a radio that's receptive to lots of channels.  Our most religious and animistic part of the brain can be stimulated by treating any surface or background as if Rorschach spilled ink everywhere. Some found images will share the same space and time together, like a bird's head with a human body.  One has to keep an eye on their amygdala and the ...
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department of repressed inventions With your ego left behind you, the brain can't go wrong. Trust your divinity, trust your brain - Timothy Leary from The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead 1966
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pythagoras harp vs the mind parasites  “The body will destroy the germs of a physical illness within a week; but the mind will preserve germs of morbidity or fear for a lifetime.”                                                                                           ― Colin Wilson, The Mind Parasites
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the critics I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. Susan Sontag