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Visions Chamaniques, Quai Branley Museum, Paris
Two years of curatorial work and fieldworks conducted in the Peruvian Amazon over the last fifteen years by the ethnobotanist, anthropologist and professor of consciousness, David Dupuis, resulted in a stunning exhibition in the anthropology of consciousness and shamanism at the national museum, Quai Branley Paris.
First Original Monumental KAFNO Ikon
Biblical and Historical Explanation for the First Original Monumental KAFNO IKon painted by Tanya Maria Semaan
who generously provided this exegesis of the Ikon
A Gnostic Take on Raised By Wolves
Surveying the impact of recently exhumed and rediscovered traditions and creeds upon contemporary art.
Ernst Fuchs ‘Spring Awakening’
As the founder of the ‘Vienna School of Fantastic Realism’, Ernst Fuchs is one of the most important Austrian artists of the 20th century. The exhibition “Spring Awakening” will open on March 10, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. in the 4614 Gallery of the City of Marchtrenk
How Symbolism Works
This post is taken from slides on my Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/excavatorblog/
Péladan course is open for registration
Joséphin Péladan (1858 – 1918), a major mover in Symbolist art circles, created a program for esoteric self transformation centred upon artistic creativity, personal individuality, and soul purification. For the first time in the English language, this system is brought to light by Dr Sasha Chaitow.
The Visionary Artist in a Secular Society
One effect of this is that a heirarchy of truth production is established within society, with the empirical sciences, with their replicable and practical utilitarian functions being highly valued, alongside their ontological models.
This leaves humanities, and especially the arts, somewhere in the wilderness.
Caves
There are two kinds of light. The glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. As we exit the cave of mystery we are dazzled by the colours and vibrancy of the world. And we risk to forget the more subtle, silent world of the crystal, transparent, absent inner night.
Jonathan Myles-Lea 1969 – 2021
The following is written in memory of my friend, the renowned British painter, Jonathan Myles-Lea who passed away recently. Jonathan was a brilliant individual and had an enormous influence upon me. I first reached out to him when he was going to be visiting the late Roger Scruton. I still remember checking […]
Introducing René Guénon & The Traditionalist School
Frithjof Schuon observed that “the work of Guénon is ‘traditional’ because the fundamental facts that it conveys are strictly in conformity with the teaching of the great traditions”. For Guénon, since the time of the Greeks, a variety of confusions led Western civilization to a complete disconnection of humanity with its own origins, that is to say, their tradition.
Frithjof Schuon of the Traditionalist School
Art refers essentially to the mystery of the veil: it is a veil made of the world and ourselves and it is thus placed between us and God, but it is transparent in the measure in which it is perfect and communicates to us what at the same time it dissimulates. Art is true, that […]
4 Living Italian Painters straddling Contemporary and Tradition
4 painters whom skillfully weave prevailing contemporary zeitgeist together with traditional symbolism.
Sacred Public Art
The important role of architecture and creative productions in transforming and shaping the consciousness of a society.
Gnostic scholar Elaine Pagels new book ‘What is Satan’
A very interesting article on the life and career of the scholar of Gnosis, Elaine Pagels.
The Spirit Is The Master, Imagination Is The Tool
Through the imagination the artist can bring into being creative representations which distill inherently valuable archetypal truth. It can also also act as a way of “seeing” below the surface of physical world.
A comparative study of Tolkien and Wagner
Originally published in the accredited fantasy journal Mythlore (which specialises in work on Tolkien, the following paper acts as a comparative analysis of both Wagner and Tolkien’s “Ring Cycles”.
Counterfeit Visionary
Whether the world will go with a bang or with a whimper is a big question of modernity. T.S. Eliot’s famous sentence on “broken jaw of our lost kingdoms” and the world as “a valley of dying stars” is pretty close poetic image to what Guenon calls deviation. The existence of Tradition implies that civilization […]
Out-takes with Genesis P.Orridge
These out-takes from the interview is of note as it infers the strong cultural connections between Symbolism, Max Ernst, Collage, Brion Gysin, William Burroughs, the ‘Beat Generation’, post modernity, industrial music and transhumanism.
Welcome to the new Blog
Sometimes the way to get to know somewhere is through intentionally becoming lost. One night several years ago, I headed out to ‘get lost’ in an unfamiliar city, a landscape of vast stately buildings studded with statues, uplit pillars and many other sights distinctive to ancient European renaissance capitals. Only a basic sense of direction […]