Arshile Gorky | Tate

"Gorky-The-Liver" by Retrieved from Time.com, 10 June 2010.. Licensed under Fair use via Wikipedia.

Recent Work

Here's some recent paintings I've uploaded to Flickr. Enjoy.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stuffedanimalbrigade/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stuffedanimalbrigade/

Freedom is strange (Richard Tuttle: Artists are like clouds)

"On the verge of something great..."

Research on marijuana led to our understanding of it as a medicine. The medicalization of marijuana has led to its ongoing legalization. Similar research and medical findings are now going on with psychedelics. . .

Check out MAPS.org (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies)

Bob Marley - Real Situation

Welcome, August. First week, good & notable. Auspicious? Hopefully so. Enjoy.

Tom Campbell & Joe Rogan - Simulation Theory

"Days of Wonder" - I think of these as transiitonal pieces toward "less is more." I'll add more before I go less.

Alan Watts

Paintings

This list will be updated automatically. So if you're looking at this in the future, it'll be a future list - presumably.

Beck - Heart is a Drum

I listen to the new album "Morning Phase" while I work... among other things.
Hope you can listen to the album, Beck - Morning Phase

Paintings About Reincarnation: Marshall Arisman

A new video I found from one of my favorite artists detailing some of my favorite works and a bit of process of how he makes his rainbows. Generally I see the bridge between worlds as a circular door... well, rainbows are circles in their true form, but I like how he uses them symbolically.

Paintings About Reincarnation from marshall arisman on Vimeo.

Alan Watts - Mind Over Mind

The Transcendental Object at the End of Time

Great little video of McKenna.
It's long, but divided into sections so you needn't listen to it all or necessarily start at the beginning.
Enjoy!

Outdoor works in the wild

I currently feel the predominant religion of our planet to be nationalism. In its current form it is generally sad at best. I believe a true nationalism would transcend boundary lines to include the entire earth. Thus, a new and more beautiful nationalism would seek some pure manner of expression grounded in the vernacular of a time and place while ever-so-slightly seeking to evolve current discourse. Maybe that's what I was trying to do this fall (2014).

Symbols are the most effective means of communicating across temporal and cultural boundaries. Unfortunately, most of my symbolism will go consciously unrecognized. Fortunately, the subconscious mind has forever spoken a similar symbolic language.

The following works are part of a transition in which I move my work away from figurative representation toward minimalism.

Newer works toward top. Enjoy.

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(33"x22"2.75") Canvas

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(45"x22"x3.5") Canvas

(24"x34"x2.75") Canvas

Joan Miró

JOAN MiRÓ @ TATE MODERN from Martin Hampton on Vimeo.

Terrence McKenna "Stop consuming images, Start creating them"

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Concrete, Metal, & Brick

The Monroe Institute & something called Hemi-Sync

Something I've been doing for some years now is called the Gateway Training Program, or the Gateway Experience. I will let it speak for itself.

The following is taken from the Gateway Experience.

Comments from Bob Monroe regarding the Gateway Experience

What can you expect from the Gateway Experience? As much or as little as you put into it. The exercises provide you with a set of tools - how you use them and what you do with them is your responsibility. Some discover themselves for the first time, and thus live more completely, more constructively. Others reach levels of awareness so profound that only one such experience is enough for a lifetime. Still others become seekers after truth and add ongoing adventure to their daily activity.

There is only one basis - that you seriously consider the Gateway Affirmation at the least a possibility: that you are more than your physical body, that you can and do exist in energy systems that are not limited to time-space, that you can and do communicate with intelligence beyond your physical consciousness - call it what you will.


What is Hemi-Sync?

Hemi-Sync is a patented, scientifically and clinically proven audio-guidance technology developed by The Monroe Institute and refined with over 40 years of research. Researchers learned that specific sound patterns could lead the brain to various states of consciousness ranging from deep relaxation or sleep to expanded awareness and other "extraordinary" states.

The audio-guidance process works by sending different sounds (tones) to each ear with stereo headphones. The two hemisphers of the brain then act in unison to "hear" a third signal - the difference between the two tones. This is not an actual sound, but an electrical signal that can only be perceived within the brain by both brain hemispheres working together. The result is a focused, whole-brain state known as hemispheric synchronization, or "Hemi-Sync." Different Hemi-Sync signals are used to facilitate deep relaxation, focused attention, or other desired states.

Music, verbal guidance, or subtle sound effects are combined with Hemi-Sync signals to strengthen their effectiveness. These recordings contain no subliminal messages. You are always in control.

Robert A. Monroe Research Pioneer of Human Consciousness from The Monroe Institute on Vimeo.

Diamond Sutra

"[The alienation of art from the people by a market economy is a form of spiritual vandalism]"

Robert Hughes - The New Shock of the New 2004