THE POWER OF VISIONARY ART – EVOLUTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS Bucharest May 22nd 2014 7PM Hosted by Matei Georgescu – From the series: Spirituality Serving Education Spiru Haret University – Sociology-Psychology Department Presenter: Howard G Charing, co-author of ‘Plant Spirit Shamanism’ and ‘The Ayahuasca Visions of Pablo Amaringo’ With the participation of: Prof. Ph. D. Mihaela Minulescu. Jungian Analyst, National School of Political and Administrative Studies Prof. Ph. D. Vintila Mihailescu. Anthropologist, National School of Political and Administrative Studies Aurel Mocanu: Translation Moderator: Assoc. Prof. Ph. D. Matei Georgescu, Spiru Haret University. In this seminar, I will be exploring the mystery that visionary art reveals and how the visionary experience can change either an individual or the world. Visionary artists inspire us to look beyond the veil of cultural and linguistic limitations. At this unique time of evolving human consciousness the artificial boundaries in many areas between art and science are being erased. The brilliant Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot has shown us how to perceive the world in a totally new way by introducing the concept of Fractal Geometry and a new way to understand consciousness similar to that of visionary and spiritual art. I will also discuss the unique visionary art of the Shipibo peoples of the Amazon. Their art unites the vibrations of light, colour, and sound into a new form. I will be presenting and discussing the works of the visionaryartists; Alex Grey, Paul Laffoley, David ‘Slocum’ Hewson, and Pablo Amaringo

1. VISIONARY ART
Howard G. Charing
BUCHAREST MAY 2014

2. “The most beautiful thing we can experience is
the mysterious – the fundamental emotion
which stands at the cradle of true art and true
science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger,
who can no longer pause to wonder and stand
rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are
closed”.
Albert Einstein

3. DISCLAIMER
THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF WAYS TO
DISCUSS VISIONARY ART
THIS IS JUST MY WAY......

4. CAVES OF LASCAUX OVER 17,000 YEARS AGO

5. ALBEDO LIGHT
• Light in the form of directly perceivable
energy reflected from a surface or emitted by
a radiant object (Photons) onto the retina.

6. NON-ALBEDO LIGHT
• The experience of "light" that is not
produced by actual light or photons
stimulating the retina of the eye. Such as
light seen in the mind's eye during dreams,
visions, hallucinations, meditation or
imagination.

7. VISION - VISIONARY?
• A VISION CAN CHANGE A PERSON’S LIFE
• A VISION CAN CHANGE THE WORLD

8. VISION - VISIONARY?
• THE VISIONARY EXPERIENCE CAN CHANGE
HOW AN INDIVIDUAL OR A COLLECTIVE
PERCEIVES THE WORLD

9. A VISION THAT HAS CHANGED OUR WORLD

10. A VISION THAT HAS CHANGED OUR WORLD

11. A VISION THAT HAS CHANGED OUR WORLD
+ +
= new era in physics & consciousness

12. VISIONARY ART
• PRIME ESSENCE IS SPIRITUAL
• OPENS OUR MINDS TO NEW PERSPECTIVES
• TRANSPERSONAL STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
• FREES THE SPIRIT
• TO KNOW THE DIVINE WITHIN

13. VISIONARY ART
• UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE OF LIGHT,
SOUND, COLOUR, VIBRATION,
RELATIONSHIP, FORM AND MATTER
• HOLOGRAPHIC MAP OF CREATION

14. VISIONARY ARTISTS
• EMISSARIES BETWEEN THE INEFFABLE
AND THE MATERIAL WORLD
• THEIR ART SPEAKS TO BOTH THE
DEEPEST AND HIGHEST DIMENSIONS OF
OUR BEING

15. VISIONARY ARTISTS
• INSPIRE US TO LOOK BEYOND THE VEIL
OF CULTURAL AND LINGUSITIC LIMITS
• MORE AND MORE PEOPLE ARE
GROWING THE SEED OF EVOLVING
CONSCIOUSNESS WITHIN

16. VISIONARY ART
• WE ARE HERE IN AN EXCITING AND
UNIQUE TIME OF HUMAN GROWTH AND
POTENTIAL
• THERE ARE SOME BRILLIANT VISIONARY
ARTISTS ILLUMINATING THE WAY FOR US

17. ALEX GREY – THE NET OF BEING

18. ALEX GREY - TRANSFIGURATIONS

19. ALEX GREY
“ART HAS A FUNCTION AND A MISSION TO
INTERPRET THE WORLD, TO REVEAL THE
CONDITION OF THE SOUL, TO ENCOURAGE
OUR HIGHEST NATURE AND AWAKEN THE
SPIRITUAL FACULTIES WITHIN EVERY
INDIVIDUAL”
ALEX GREY (THE MISSION OF ART)

20. PAUL LAFFOLEY- THE COSMOLOX

21. PAUL LAFFOLEY – THANATON III

22. SCIENCE OR ART
• THERE IS AN UNDERLYING STRUCTURE
TO MATTER (AND CONSCIOUSNESS)
THAT BOTH SCIENCE AND ART REVEAL
TO US
• THIS STRUCTURE IS GEOMETRIC OR
MATHEMATICAL

23. SCIENCE OR ART – FRACTAL GEOMETRY
Benoît Mandelbrot showed us how to see the
‘world’ in a totally new way

24. SCIENCE OR ART – FRACTAL GEOMETRY
• FRACTALS ARE THE PATTERNS OF SELF-
SIMILARITY THAT FLOW THROUGH CREATION
• A FRACTAL IS A FEEDBACK LOOP OF MATTER
(CONSCIOUSNESS)

25. THE ‘LANGUAGE’ OF PLANETARY EVOLUTION
• COLLECTIVE DREAM
• COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS
• GAIA PRINCIPLE
• UNUS MUNDUS

26. MANDALAS
MANDALA - A SANSKRIT WORD MEANING
CIRCLE, A SYMBOL OF INDIVIDUAL AND
WORLD HARMONY
JUNG INTRODUCED CONCEPT OF MANDALAS
INTO WESTERN THOUGHT. HE EXPLORED HIS
UNCONSCIOUS THROUGH HIS ART

27. MEMORIES, DREAMS,
REFLECTIONS – JUNG
"I sketched every morning in a notebook a
small circular drawing,...which seemed to
correspond to my inner situation at the
time....Only gradually did I discover what the
mandala really is...the Self, the wholeness of
the personality, which if all goes well is
harmonious."

28. TIBETAN SAND MANDALA

29. PABLO AMARINGO – LOS GRADOS DEL CURANDERO

30. SCIENCE OR ART?

31. SCIENCE OR ART?

32. SCIENCE OR ART?

33. VISIONARY PLANTS
• ARE KEYS TO OPEN THE DOOR TO THE
MYSTICAL DIMENSIONS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
• THEY NEED TO BE RECOGNISED AS AN
INFINITE SOURCE OF INSPIRATION AND
ILLUMINATION FOR HUMANITY
• THE SO-CALLED ‘WAR ON DRUGS’ IS
ACTUALLY A WAR ON OUR CONSCIOUSNESS!

34. AYAHUASCA VISIONS
‘LA AYAHUASCA Y LA CHACRUNA’
BY MITA LOZANO

35. AYAHUASCA VISIONS
“TIME AND SPACE APPEARS UNITED TO US,
AND WE ARE A PART OF THEM, BUT AN
ALTERNATE TIME AND SPACE ALSO EXISTS
BEYOND OUR EVERYDAY EXPERIENCE WHICH
WE CAN PERCEIVE THROUGH THE EYE OF
AYAHUASCA”
PABLO AMARINGO

36. DAVID ‘SLOCUM’ HEWSON - MADRE AYAHUASCA

37. DAVID ‘SLOCUM’ HEWSON - PACHAMAMA
PACHAMAMA
HEALING THE EARTH

38. THE VISIONARY ART OF THE SHIPIBO

39. THE VISIONARY ART OF THE SHIPIBO

40. THE AYAHUASCA VISIONS OF PABLO
AMARINGO

41. PABLO AMARINGO – ONDAS DE LA AYAHUASCA

42. ONDAS DE LA AYAHUASCA
Ayahuasca is one of the most remarkable gifts
from the plant realm as it contains chemicals
identical to the neurotransmitters found in the
human brain.

43. PABLO AMARINGO – LLULLO MACHACO

44. LLULLO MACHACO
The concept expressed in this painting is that
however our life unfolds and whatever our
destiny might be, we are all born in absolute
perfection. We are innocent when we come into
the world and have no guile or deceits.
A Little bit different than the notion of ‘Original Sin’?

45. STARS AS JEWELS (NASA)

46. VISIONARY ART – 1999 SOLAR ECLIPSE

47. VISIONARY ART – THE STRUCTURE OF PLANTS

48. MISTERIO PROFUNDO

49. HOWARD G CHARING
www.shamanism.cc
www.ayahuascavisions.com