Visionary Culture » Dream and Destiny: Spirit Forging in the Future Culture

Since deep in the mists of time the human creative imagination has been filled with reflections of Spirit. Sometimes these came as dreams or visions, in art and song or through the very fabric of ordinary life. Splendored landscapes, mystical beings, sacred forms and heavenly architectures, all shards in a mythology rich with an intelligence of design. All cultural traditions reflect this spirit of the divine imagination, it is at the heart of the human. In our modern media miasma we may find a poly-pantheon of entities and blessed realms rich with nuance and meaning. Today such art comes by many names and has many manifestations, some of these art culture movements are ; fantastic art, visionary art, imaginal realism, surrealism, magical realism, psychedelic art, fantasy art, fairy art, religious art, shamanic art and new age art. Like crystals, the different movements grow out of each other creating an interconnected mass of points and facets. Some see many of these different art culture genres unified by a common exploration into the divine spirit of the creative imagination. Entheo art is a cross-platform description of a non-localized, modern manifestation of this spirited art culture.

Fueled by the worldwideweb and vast evolutions in the quality of communications technologies, artists everywhere are being empowered to share their work with an increasingly global audience. Nodes, collectives, forums and galleries are emerging to represent countries, continents and even newly globalized art culture movements. It is a time potentized with the possibility of a civilization reconnected with its imaginal roots in the dreamy expanses of the limitless human imagination. Art culture represents a return to a resacrelized, respiritualized and revitalized future in which the engines of technoindustrial materialism redirect its energies from plastic toys and thing fetishism to immersive multimedia environments and a reconnection with the natural world. Advances in communications technology means artists who at one time were limited to representing in their own country can now share their work globally. In this way living artistic traditions all over the earth are influencing and being influenced by each other simultaneously. A global art culture is getting connected and with it come undreampt of potentials for collaborative artistic evolution. There is a new sheen on the surface of what art means for human culture and what potentials it has to shape the context into which the future culture is being birthed.

The galactik trading card oracle complex : spirit art microgallery is a glinting reflection of the emerging planetary culture.

The deck is a pantheon of magical spirits, angels, aliens and entities as well as a splendored vista of sacred landscapes, blessed realms and faieried kindoms. Connected with the tarot, i ching, and dreamspell, this synergetic oracle connects the open spirit of divination with a creatively self-directed process integrating intentionality into peoples own empowered decision making experience. The cards operate as free agents, gracing altars and mantles, walls and warehouses, fridges and lockers as ever changable microgalleries. When combined the cards form the superstructure for a game that can be played a thousand ways. Completely non-profit with all the art donated freely for use, these microsets are a pre-press fundraiser to pay off past debts and manifest the funding to produce a full 144 card deck with over 128 artists from 32 countries on six continents. Together with art culture creators and artists worldwide, this community building initiative is promoting the creative evolution of the human spirit.

a song of life

Delvin Solkinson
www.elvism.net