Features
Gaiahuasca : The Mandala Garden of Being
Delvin Solkinson and Daniel Mirante
The creative imagination is vitalized and inspired by a reconnection to the Gaian fertility circuit. Our creativity is our most valuable faculty for regenerating the web of life and moving humanity beyond its current existential and ecological blind alley.
Recent Articles
Here is a list of 10 of the most recently added articles to Lila
About Lila
LILA is Sanskrit for ‘Cosmic Play’, the universe experienced as arising from the joyous love play and creative adventures of the Divine. The website was created by painter and writer Daniel Mirante in 2000 ad as a resource for people exploring ‘medicine culture’ ; shamanic forms of creativity and healing of the whole being, including breathwork, rebirthing and plant-based entheogenic practices. Past contributors have included Professor Michael Winkelman, Dr Stan Grof, Dr Karl Jansen, Flore Singer Aaslid and Dr Benny Shanon.
Exploring Visual Arts
The practice of visionary painting (aka ‘fantastic realism‘) strongly entered the rubric in 2004 ad. Lila participates and assists development of visionary culture through maintaining strong affiliation with related projects such as Elvism.net and The Visionary Revue, and generates a rich current of news and original content including regular interviews and features with artists and authors exploring imagination and visions. The importance of visionary art is seen in its ability to bypass the linguistic mind and directly present the phenomenological realities of the ‘imaginal realm’.
A good place to start is by exploring our featured articles, which include interviews with artists and text by authors exploring the realm of imagination and visions. Entheo Art and Spirit Culture by Delvin Solkinson gives a poetic and inspired glimpse into the themes of this site.
Features
The Transpersonal Language : Spirit Art and Collective Healing»
Lunaya Shekinah
These symbols are an expression of the what I call the transpersonal language, which in simple terms could be described as the language which anyone can understand. The way that these symbols work as language, is by literally containing the essence of a particular state of transpersonal realization, thus having the ability to spark or facilitate that very state in whoever looks at them.
The Visionary Eroticism of Mark Henson»
Mark Henson has proclaimed a lifetime mission to create art that is filled with positive imagery surrounding lovemaking. His imagery combines tantric, taoist, deep ecological and spiritual themes in a gorgeous expression of the harmonious potentials of life in Gaia’s gardens.
Maura Holden : Painting from the Hypersea of Spirit»
Interview with Maura Holden by Daniel Mirante
Combining both excellent draftsmanship with a lucid sense of colour, Maura depicts the secret vistas of the collective psyche, the sunken, honeycombed ruins of mysterious ancient civilisations, the paradisiacal and primordial bliss of our ancestors living within a shamanic dreamtime
Dennis Konstantins’ Quantum Realism»
Art is like giving new life to things which already exist, only filtered by the artists mind. But I am learning right now, that this process of filtering out, is the essential lesson an artist has to learn. To pick things out of unlimited possibilities, arrange them in a new way, to give new meaning to them, and their own autonomy.
Interviews
A Translator Of Visions - The Art of Martina Hoffmann»
The transformation toward transpersonal awareness beyond historical constructs is what defines the times and the themes of contemporary visionary art : the emergence of a humanity that experiences its existence through cosmic and gaian relatedness, which exists in the ever renewing cyclical time of cosmic play, beyond the socially constructed dialectic of linear technological progress.
Unravelling the Knotwork : Death and Rebirth in the Art of Scott Cranmer»
The entheogenic outsider art of Scott Cranmer represents extrication from violence and decay toward rebirth into the expansive state depicted as a realm of rich patterned expression of cosmic information and higher powers, where the astral anatomy is depicted as a scintillating vibratory weave of colour, pattern and light.
Text
Gaiahuasca : The Mandala Garden of Being»
Delvin Solkinson and Daniel Mirante
The creative imagination is vitalized and inspired by a reconnection to the Gaian fertility circuit. Our creativity is our most valuable faculty for regenerating the web of life and moving humanity beyond its current existential and ecological blind alley.
Jay Michaelson
A facinating exploration of how intentional sexuality operates in contemplative practice today.
Expose
The Transpersonal Language : Spirit Art and Collective Healing»
Lunaya Shekinah
These symbols are an expression of the what I call the transpersonal language, which in simple terms could be described as the language which anyone can understand. The way that these symbols work as language, is by literally containing the essence of a particular state of transpersonal realization, thus having the ability to spark or facilitate that very state in whoever looks at them.
Flowing Light - The Angelic Art of A. Andrew Gonzalez»
Daniel Mirante
The images brought into being by Gonzalez depict both the orientation to and embodiment of the biosophic energies of celestial grace and force. In that light, we are endlessly purified, fresh and new, ever renewing, ever-resurrected and upheld in spirit by the power of the celestial.