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ISSUE #132 Edited by Mia Feroleto and Alan Steinfeld

CONTRIBUTORS: Ananda Bosman Kevin Briggs James Lee Byars David Cottrell Mia Feroleto Marilyn Gewacke Maria Gilissen Broodthaers Bruce Duncan and Bina 48 Fríða Kristín Gísladóttir Alex and Allyson Grey Karen Gunderson Rebecca Hardcastle Wright John Harrison lll Norie Huddle Erika Knerr Phoenix Lindsey-Hall David Louis A. Kirke Morgan Philippe Petit Lucio Pozzi John Red Cloud Jennifer Stein Alan Steinfeld Whitley Strieber CONSCIOUSNESS John van der Does and Tomma von Haeften Fumiko Wellington CONTACT CONSCIOUSNESS and CONTACT PUBLISHED BY: Mia Feroleto

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I did receive a mes- with the possibility of machine sur- Kevin Briggs, David Louis, Whitley sage from my father on the day of passing man. Personal exploration Strieber, Norie Huddle, Ananda his funeral, one that rivaled the mes- inspired me to stick my toe into the Bosman, Marilyn Gewacke, John sage Elizabeth Kuber-Ross received waters of conference-organizing Red Cloud, Philippe Petit, Fumiko from her ex-husband after his death. which began with our weekend in Wellington, Alex and Allyson Grey, My father also left me an inheritance Vermont. Bruce Duncan and Bina 48, Shelly that allowed me to purchase my Reif, Frioa Kristin Gisladotti, Karen home in the Hudson River Valley in What was remarkable about our con- Gunderson, Lucio Pozzi and Erika Upstate New York where my spiri- ference in May is that people came Knerr for their extraordinary work and tual life would expand exponentially. from Canada and all across America enthusiasm for New Observations. I Beginning with a near-death experi- to attend. Washington State, Texas, would also like to thank editor Susan ence six weeks after moving in when Florida, Montana, Pennsylvania, New Davis and transcriber Linda O’Brien my car hit a patch of black ice while Hampshire, Arizona, New Mexico, for their services. Special thanks to driving to the dentist one morning, New York, Maryland, Massachusetts Whitley for the use of his historic to the arrival of a space ship out of and Vermont were all represented. painting on our cover. “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” People came from many sectors of outside my bedroom window one the work force as well. It was, in My personal journey as a conscious night, my perceptions were continu- essence, an almost random group individual began as a small child. ally challenged while my awareness of people who had assembled in From the age of two, I had an intense, grew in scope. Fortunately, I ben- Vershire, except for the fact that we intimate sense of God and the Divine efited from living in close proxim- were all interested in consciousness in the world around me. Possessing ity to the Anthroposophic Library in and contact. a deep love of animals and nature, Harlemville, New York which housed as a small child I reveled in walk- a treasure trove of esoteric mate- We began as a random group upon ing in the woods by myself, deep in rial that had been moved from the meeting on Friday afternoon and Bruce Duncan, the Executive Director of the Terasem Foundation, and Bina 48, the Hanson Robotics designed artificial intellegence robot, will be speaking thought and, I now suspect, prayer. Pierrpont Morgan Library in New York evening as people arrived. However, at our upcoming conference on Consciousness and Contact in May at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. The human Bina Rothblatt, wife of the by the time Monday morning rolled highest paid female CEO in America, Martine Rothblatt, downloaded thousands of thoughts, words, memories and ideas into her robotic counterpart. The That is a big word for a small child, City to a small Stanford White build- Rothblatts were at the forefront of the AI movement, developing Bina 48 almost ten years ago. New Observations Magazine will be taking a closer look at but children have a greater capacity ing relocated to the Hawthorne Valley around, the group had bonded to artificial intelligence in a future issue of the magazine. for the simple meaning of words. It is Waldorf community in Harlemville. form a cohesive whole filled with har- as adults that we tend to complicate I should add that when my car hit mony and goodwill shared by each MIA FEROLETO | JANUARY 2019 things. that patch of black ice in February throughout the weekend. Weeks later, of 1998, I hit the major electrical attendees reported back that they Having lived a mystical live from the pole in the area and had live electri- were still feeling a sense of euphoria time of my childhood, experience had cal cables on the other side of my in themselves and in their lives. If we taught me to expect the unexpected; windshield. The car was conducting could do it in Vershire, we can do it Walking Each Other Home however, I was unprepared for the 38,000 volts of electricity and I got in the world at large. twists and turns life would present out of the car. Luckily, intuition had Our next conference on conscious- tion on crop circles; and David Louis, who inspired us all beginning in 1997, when my father told me to exchange my penny loafers ness and contact will be held in May “We are all just with his talk on animal communication, which included died from cancer. He was a family for a pair of rubber boots that morn- of 2019 at the Pine Ridge Reservation talking to the animals in residence at the riding school. doctor, a practical man who was not ing. Those boots grounded the cur- in South Dakota, home of the walking each other Marilyn Gewacke covered CEV protocols and talked of drawn to anything esoteric or spiritual rent and saved my life. These events, Lakota Sioux clan. We will continue her personal experience through years of contact. other than trying to lead a good life and more, formed the foundation of home.” and taking good care of his patients. our exploration of the unseen and decades of study and a desire to share unknown on sacred land that belongs -Ram Dass Our final speaker, Alan Steinfeld, shared a captivating He and I had made an agreement with others searching for answers to overview of his experience as the creator and producer several years before his passing to a people who have not been divert- the question of what gives our lives ed from Mother Earth or Spirit. For of New Realities, an acclaimed program that has pre- that whoever died first would send meaning. sented Alan’s interviews with leaders of the very best a message to the other if the after- information on this event or the con- ference on sustainability that will fol- Issue # 132 of New Observations, Consciousness and of what the New Age movement has to offer, including life proved to be as it was described From my perspective, consciousness low it towards the end of June, please Contact grew directly from an intimate conference this Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Bruce Lipton, Ram in the book, “The Blue Island.” The is key for each of us individually and contact me at mia.feroleto@gmail. past May held at the Vershire Riding School in Vershire, Dass, Alex Grey and many others. Because of his dedica- book was channeled by William collectively. Some think that visitors Stead through his daughter after he com. Vermont. tion to sharing knowledge and wisdom, we have invited from other planets will save us from ­­­ died in the sinking of the Titanic. Alan to serve as Guest/Co-Editor of Issue 132 of New destruction. Perhaps the duality that Enjoy this beautiful time of year, as Our lead speaker was Emmy and Peabody-award winning Stead was a Spiritualist and friend Observations: Consciousness and Contact. It is an honor permeates life on earth permeates the days slowly become longer and journalist Linda Moulton Howe, who spoke on the threat of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. If you to include him here. the universe as well. As we explore lighter. Try as we may, nothing can of artificial intelligence surpassing humanity in the near have not read the book, I do recom- esoteric questions, we are now faced compete with nature. future. Our other speakers included Rebecca Hardcastle In addition to Alan Steinfeld, I would like to thank our mend checking it out for it beautifully with the growing impact and implica- Wright, who shared her thoughts on the exo-conscious contributors Maria Gilissen-Broodthaers, Phoenix Lindsey- describes the connection between tions of artificial intelligence and the In consciousness, human; Jennifer Stein, who gave a remarkable presenta- Hall, Tomma von Haeften, Rebecca Hardcastle Wright, those who pass on and those who potential inherent threat that comes Mia

4 CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT 5 CONTACT CONSCIOUSNESSEDITED BY MIA FEROLETO && ALAN STEINFELD

Mia Feroleto 4 Walking Each Other Home

Alan Steinfeld 9 Consciousness and Contact

Ananda Bosman 10 Interview with Maria Gilissen Broothaers

John van der Does 15 A Duke Ellington Arrangement

Tomma von Haeften 18 How to Serve the Planet

John Red Cloud 22 A Lost Connection

Norie Huddle 24 The Best Game on Earth

David Louis 27 What Animals Tell Us

Phoenix Lindsay-Hall 30 Never Stop Dancing

Mia Feroleto 32 A Conversation Between Two Friends

Alan Steinfeld 42 Shades of Grey

Rebecca Hardcastle Wright 55 Why Exoconscious Humans Matter to Art and Culture

Ananda Bosman 58 The Art of Cosmic Contact with the Artist of Consciousness

Kevin J. Briggs 64 Consciousness, A Beginner’s Understanding

Jennifer Stein 66 Synchronicity, By Design

Marilyn Gewacke, Ph.D. 69 Cosmic Consciousness and ET Contact Whitley Strieber 72 Illustration Courtesy of Benjavisa Ruangvaree/Shutterstock Alien Contact: A Miracle Denie

6 CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT ALAN STEINFELD

Consciousness“Art’s task is to save the soul of andmankind. Contact And anything less is a dithering while Rome burns…. If the artist cannot find the way, the way cannot be found.”1 - Terrence McKenna

succeeding generations, so that what was by the organization’s founder and the 6th once considered chaotic or disturbing art – man to walk on the moon, astronaut Edgar “the shock of the new”- becomes accepted Mitchel, who publicly declared that “The and rendered manageable by succeeding experiencer of Contact with non-human generations.3 In a sense it can be said that intelligence is the key that will open the the being, the creature, the ET is the crux door to what is consciousness.”4 of the new observations presented here. The ET has yet to become fully part of our As assistant editor of this edition, I ask the cultural mind set, and yet ask anyone, any- readers to take in the art and articles to al- where, what an alien looks like and they low a transformation of the mind. Accept will point to Whitley’s icon. Its creative the visions and the words you perceive to portrayal has captured the world’s atten- be an extension of your own conscious- tion, contributing to a global awareness, ness, and see where that takes you. In being t is the predilection of the artist preparing us for contact. open to what we have yet to understand, to stretch the imagination beyond we expand closer to what we truly are. the bounds of the known. As Contact is something the human mind has Krishnamutit affirmed: “The true human a visionary, the artist pushes the yet to understand. Still the idea of it moves is free from the known.” A peek into the boundaries of perception into us forward into the unknown of what we unfathomable is what new observations on uncomfortable zones of previously have yet to embrace as a civilization. The the arts can do. They prepare the popula- unthought possibilities, and for this issues connection between consciousness and tion for a heretofore unacknowledged as- that includes the idea of alien contact. This contact is an intricate one. Lacking any pect of being to come forward and make ironically is an expansion of human con- convincing physical evidence, the contact itself known. In accepting the unknown sciousness, thus, adding to the propriety experience is totally grounded in the per- we can collectively move beyond survival ofI the magazine’s mission for innovations sonal human experience. Everyone from and war and open to the subtler realms of a in creativity and culture comes contact Carl Jung to Terrence McKenna has insisted mysterious, untold universe. What we see and consciousness. Gracing the cover is a that UFOs, alien contact, or whatever you laid out in the following pages is a reck- painting that sums up each aspect of these may call it - is really only about conscious- oning whose time has come. The power of four cardinal concerns. ness. How far we can evolve our aware- these contributions can give birth to new ness depends on its acceptance…. As a realities... Henceforth: Not many images have set the percep- matter of fact, in the recently published tions of the world on a new course like book by the FREE organization called this one. Whitely Strieber’s alien, which Beyond UFOS, there is a definitive quote he had painted after a series of incompre- hensible encounters with what may have been an alien being (a female he insists) has become one of the most well-known “Let us go then, you and I, icons of the modern era. Since 1987 with the publication of Strieber’s book Com- When the evening is spread out against the sky... munion, the large eyed, small chinned ET has become the standard bearer of how To lead you to an overwhelming question, earthlings would identify their alien visi- Oh, do not ask, “What is it?” tors thereafter. Let us go and make our visit.” New observations mean observers allow - T. S. Eliot their brains to operate in new ways; be- yond what the logical mind thinks is real or possible. Art historian Anton Ehrenz- weig stated that: “The history of art was 1. - Youtube video: Message to Artists from Terence Mckenna [1990] inextricably linked to large-scale changes 2. - Nicola Glover, PSYCHOANALYTIC AESTHETICS, essay on Anton Ehrenzweig and the Hidden Order of Art in human perception over the centuries.”2 Chapter 5. www.psychoanalysis-and-therapy.com/human_nature/glover/chap5.html 3. - Nicola Glover According to these theories, our collec- 4. - Beyond UFOs: The Science of Consciousness & Contact with Non Human Intelligence (Volume 1) by Reine- tive perceptions are gradually ‘revised’ by rio Hernandez J.D. (Author), Rudy Schild PH.D. (Author), Jon Klimo PH.D. (Author), page xxiii.

Photo8 CONSCIOUSNESSby Alan Steinfeld AND |CONTACT Wendi and Tansey, in Camera Montage 1995 CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT 9 ANANDA: Having stayed, myself, at us to see Byars’ room, and they had many the Mena House hotel, Egypt, a few times excuses: the room was refurnishing, there ANANDA BOSMAN after he passed away, you related to his are guests inside, etc, etc. But finally, one half-completion of his autobiography of the guards who had a key would let and had some particular notes in that us have a glimpse of the room with the direction? Pyramid’s view. Nothing had changed over more than two years; the room was MARIA: Yes, in “The Pink Book,” he exactly as it was. And later, somebody of MARIAAn GILISSEN Interview BROODTHAERS with published at WWS Gallery, Antwerpen. the hotel told us that since Byars passed It was more like a sketch or a draft for away, they were not able to rent out that an autobiography. He called it “½ a room, because as soon as somebody biography”, “A single sentence may be a was in it, the guest would go out and complete autobiography.” complain, there is somebody all the time, as with a stick hammering on the floor Myself, I collect some biographical and on the ceiling. And we figured out notes, anecdotes on him, moments I this was Byars’ spook. experienced with him. (laughs) After having visited the Sinaï Mount with Johannes Cladders, Isi Fiszman, and other ANANDA: Having been part of several friends, I proposed to them to go to Cairo, great artists in the making and manifesting at Giza, to see the Mena House Hotel, into their artistry, your own unique role and the room of Byars with a view on the must have had its deep encompassing Kheops Pyramid. He had the best angle matrix, to support such creativity. Love lying in bed.. is a universal foundation. What is your sense of the power of universal love, in On arrival, nobody at the hotel-and they the creative bursts of artistic budding? Photo | 1978 | James Lee Byars Portraying Maria knew me quite well, because of the many times I have stayed there-nobody wanted MARIA: I was born in a village, in the middle of the land of Charlemagne and ANANDA: In 2007, you gave me an as a kind of protection for himself and for of Jan Van Eyck, of which I have seen award for the lyrics of our song “Love the ones he was writing to. recently with an American art historian Staara,” you used the symbol of a pot Byars is for me closer to the Byzantin, and and friend, Kathleen Chaffee, visiting the Today, and the Tomorrow; with a single eye. This is a symbol seen He has written thousands of letters the centre of Ghent, and of course the in ancient Sumeria as the Kalu Bucket of during his lifetime, with every character Sint Baafs Cathedrale, where “The Ghent And Broodthaers, closer to the magical ambrosia. Why did you choose sustained and beautified by several Altarpiece,” the “Adoration of the Mystic the bucket icon, and what is your story pentagrams, as you can see for example Renaissance, and the Today, and the Lamb,” still is. These twelve panels of the Tomorrow. behind it? on the picture of the two letters addressed Altarpiece are, for me, the crown of all to me, hereby reproduced. painting. MARIA: We did meet the first time, I ANANDA: As this issue is on Consciousness & Contact, what are think in the ‘90’s, in Amsterdam, at your Later, he made, for Michael Werner’s As a child, around 8 years old, I had a very successful conference organised gallery, “Sun, Moon and Stars,” a huge your thoughts on the possibility of the dream in which I saw myself helping art of consciousness engaging cosmic by Will. In 2007, I took this little work work in white marble without a single someone who was writing, and painting. by MB as a logo for the “Prix Marcel vein in it, which always let me think of an intelligence as an art form? Any thoughts Later, I remembered this dream. In fact, in this direction? Broodthaers” to reactualize “Un nouveau early poem of MB : that has been my whole life. regard sur le monde” (1961), in which MARIA: A unity. Broodthaers refers and reactualizes “Un Your song “Love Staara” is an example. autre monde,” by Grandville (1842). When I heard the song for the first Teotihuacan (I remember the guide time, I was so impressed and excited, there told us that the literary translation ANANDA: The star systems used by “Je fais carrière dans le I had to invent something on the spot. James Lee Byars give the impression that to Teotihuacan is “the place where one marbre, And that was when I founded the “Prix becomes God”), where the “Pyramid of was quite familiar with both the golden Marcel Broodthaers” in order to give section, which is embodied in the j’ai de la veine » the Sun” has been built in the shape of a glow, “lustre,” and importance to this all human being with a missing head. But, pentagram, and the binomial equation, as encompassing, fabulous love song. he made a continuum of self-embedded once a year (now, 2019 on the 12th of recursive stars, which harness both PHI “I make a career in marble, February), at 7:30 in the morning, the Sun I made a laurel wreath for you, but you will appear as the head, to complete the and the Sierpinski pentagram cascade. I’ve got vein” refused to put it on your head. Clearly, there are plenty of coded clues in body, on the top of the Pyramid. his work. Your thoughts and experiences therein?

MARIA: I remember saying to James Which means (almost untranslatable): TOP: Photo | 1969 | James Lee Byars Arriving at that I had the impression that he would Career = career and quarry in French Brussels Airport | First time in Europe draw/write the multiple stars pentagrams To have vein means to be lucky in French Left: James Lee Byars | Letter to Maria

10 CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT 11 ANANDA: Specifically, how has art and working with artists impacted consciousness for you? Creativity is such an important piece for all of us. It would also be interesting to hear how you see yourself as a creative person.

MARIA: To begin, with, Marcel Broodthaers, my late husband. With James Lee Byars and later Stephen McKenna. Today, with Yola Minatchy. And, I’m more than interested in Grigori Grabovoi, on which we organised a conference at the “Fondation Marcel Broodthaers” in 2018... And Nathalie Chintanavitch.

My creativity is that I am able to help, to serve others in order to develop their own creativity. Without interfering too much, but sometimes in interfering directly, when I see the potentiality, the possibility to bring out to a higher state and bring out Photo | 1969 | James Lee Byars & Marcel Broodthaers the beauty, the energy, the consciousness. But then, all this comes back to me, and by ricochet is also serving myself.

I am an adept of the middle way, and even for containing at certain moments Visiting Madame Magritte in creativity. To stay humble in front of the Creator, which means working to come closer to the love, light, and the library, Georgette proudly consciousness. would say, “And here are the philosophers of René.”

Photo | James Lee Byars | The Letter Reading Society of JLB

12 CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT Photograph by James Lee Byars | 1978 | Portrait of Maria Photo | James Lee Byars | The Perfect Thought | 1990 | Berkeley Art Museum, California CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT 13 JOHN VAN DER DOES A Duke Ellington Arrangement

INTRODUCTION In 1972, I was attending le Centre de Linquistique Appliquée and was learning French in Besa- çon, France, when one afternoon after class at a local café, a French teacher suggested I should read L’Écumes des jours (Froth on the Daydream), a novel by Boris Vian. It was a difficult read, but Vian’s imagination fascinated me from the start. It took a while to find an English translation.

Several years passed and, while working at the Strand Bookstore in New York City, I met Dr. David Noakes, a professor and head of La Maison Française, The French House, which is part of New York University. Professor Noakes, who had done a doctoral dissertation on Boris Vian, encouraged me to attend a 10-day conference on Vian held at the Centre International de Cerisy- La-Salle in Normandy, France. I participated at the conference and asked questions during the Question and Answer periods but did not deliver a paper. There I met with Ursula Kübler Vian, Vian’s second wife, and several other people. At this time, I became a member of the College of Pataphysics. Pataphysics can be defined as the science of the particular and of laws governing exceptions.

A few years later, I met and talked with Alain Vian, Vian’s younger brother, who owned an antique music shop on La rue Grégoire-de-Tours, a narrow street leading off Boulevard Saint Germain. Alain Vian talked about his brother, saying Boris wanted to travel to the United States to receive surgery for his weak heart. Apparently, the French government refused to issue him a visa due, most probably, to Boris’ relations with Black Americans and his anti-war views.

Boris Vian has become one of my favorite writers. On my shelves are eight Vian biographies, all in French. As far as I can determine, there is virtually nothing on his life and work published in English. His main and most interesting novels have been translated and published. His novels were largely prohibited in French schools up until the student uprising in Paris in 1968. Today, perhaps, a graduate student taking French studies might come across his play Les Bâtisseurs d’Empire [The Empire Builders] or the novels L’Automne à Pékin [Autumn in Peking] or L’Écume des jours, immensely popular in France. It seems Boris Vian has not made it into the American publishing industry.

At one time I translated 20 pages of one of the French biographies but gave up because it became tedious, and I realized that few American publishers would be interested in him. The momentum to publish a popular biography is not there.

What follows is an appreciation of Boris Vian, who died in a theater of a heart attack during the viewing of a badly done film adaptation of his Vernon Sullivan novel,I Spit on Your Graves. Vian had strong disagreements with the film. He was thirty-nine years old.

14 CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT Painting by Lucio Pozzi CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT 15 olin swallowed his trompeter. Then, in 1941, at the age of 21, out of the metro and gets disoriented. He L’Écume is written in a completely imagination with fantastic yet technical the sanctity of the family caused by his saliva. His mouth he married his first wife, Michelle Léglise. waves a large, yellow handkerchief to pataphysical vein. In the 1890s, Alfred precision. It facilitated the ability to think Vernon Sullivan hoax, J’irai cracher sur vos seemed consumed by They had two children, Patrick and Carole. orient himself. The yellow handkerchief is Jarry had already defined pataphysics as of things most people would not consider. tombes (I Spit on Your Graves), a novel the itch of burnt fritters. blown away by the wind and turns into a imaginary solutions and as the science In 1951, along with Raymond Queneau, supposedly written by an African American In her introduction Blues for a Black large building, which turns into the Molitor of the particular and laws governing the film director Pierre Kast and others, whom American publishers would not - Hello! said Chloe... Cat, Julia Older, the translator of Vian’s skating rink. Another time, the cook and exceptions. In the foreword, Vian states Boris founded Le Club des Savanturiers touch. While Vian’s “translation” was a short stories, describes Boris Vian as chauffeur, Nicolas, cannot cook without that the story is entirely true, because located on Rue du Pré aux Clercs at hoax, Boris Vian rewrote it in English to - Hello! ... a “pataphysical clown” who refused to referring to an edition of Gouffle. (Here he imagined it from beginning to end. the Bookbinding Bar. The French word show that Vernon Sullivan, the author of I compromise and give in to his critics. She Vian ridicules the rigid chief, Jules Gouffe, L’Écume starts on a light and happy note Savanturiers combines savants (learned Spit on Your Graves had a “real” existence. Are you arranged by Duke Ellington? Asked states he “produced at least 10 novels, 42 who in 1867 authored a cookbook, the but slowly darkness descends and the walls or scholarly people) with aventuriers ColinC ... short stories, 7 theater pieces, 400 songs, recipes of which have extremely precise close in. (adventurers). In 1952 the members of the The story is about a light-colored African 4 poetry collections, 6 opera libretti, 20 measurements.) In L’Écume, recalcitrant Savanturiers were invited to the Science American, Lee Anderson, who could pass And then he fled because he had the firm short stories and novel translations; sang neckties refuse knotting and fight back. Boris Vian was trained as an engineer. Fiction Congress in London. for a Caucasian and whose black brother conviction that he had said something on records; acted in films; and wrote about Colin invents a pianocktail which is a Another novel by Boris Vian worth reading was lynched. It takes place in a middle- stupid. 50 articles on as many subjects.” musical instrument that plays melodies that is L’automne a Pekin (Autumn in Peking), Twin articles were written 1951: the class town in the deep South and concerns correspond to and produce mixed drinks. which has nothing to do with autumn first was by Raymond Queneau entitled, Lee avenging his brother’s death. The odd Boris Vian was raised in Ville-d’Avray, a A many-headed Renaissance man, nor Peking, China. It concerns building a A New Literary Genre: Science Fiction, coincidence was that Boris Vian’s literary town in the western suburbs of Paris, in Boris Vian used numerous pseudonyms, Interestingly Boris Vian, who knew and railroad system, through a desert called the second by Stéphane Spriel and Boris hoax took on the twist of a real crime. a wealthy French family. Even though his including Hugo Hochebuisson, and contributed to the existential philosopher Exopotamie, for no apparent reason and Vian, and had the same title, A New In 1947, an actual deviant murder took first name was Boris, he was not of Slavic anagrams of his given name: Bison Jean-Paul Sartre’s magazine Le Temps destroying what little is in the desert. The Literary Genre: Science Fiction, and was place in a hotel near the Montparnasse nationality. His mother, who enjoyed Ravi [Delighted Bison] and Brisavion Moderne, spoofs the philosopher in railroad leads nowhere, and a house is published in Jean-Paul Sartre’s review, train station. A man strangled his girlfriend. Mussorgsky’s opera Boris Godunov, had [Broken Airplane] and, of course, the L’Écume as Jean-Sol Partre. Vian does split apart and crashed into by an airplane. Temps Modernes. That article, followed Near the body, a copy of Vian’s novel simply named him after the opera. Vian Black American, Vernon Sullivan who, the same thing for Sartre’s close friend One is reminded of the world today where by Vian’s translation of Frank Robinson’s was found and opened to the underlined had two brothers, Lélio and Alain, and supposedly, Americans had refused to and feminist, Simone de Beauvoir, who bulldozers push homes and neighborhoods short story The Labyrinth, reached the inner passage where Lee Anderson commits a a sister, Ninon. At the age of 12, Boris publish. Aside from his literary career, becomes the Duchess of Bovouard in aside to make room for superhighways and circle of science fiction. The Labyrinth is sexual revenge murder. developed heart problems. In school, Boris Vian collected and tinkered with old cars L’Écume. No feelings were hurt. projects that ignore the human element. a story about astronauts arriving on the studied the classics, Latin and Greek, and and enjoyed being creative in multiple Autumn in Peking points towards a future planet Venus. The astronauts are unaware The other scandal was Vian’s anti-war song, later taught himself English. disciplines including painting and Jean-Paul Sartre nominated Vian’s novel when technology has gone awry. they are guinea pigs for the invisible Le Déserteur (The Deserter), which was woodworking. for the coveted literary prize, Le Prix de inhabitants of the planet they believe they censored from 1954 to 1962 by the French Their family was musical. Their mother, la Pleiade. In the story, Colin starts out as Boris Vian had to give up playing are conquering. government. The song was not allowed to Yvonne was an amateur harp and piano Certainly, his novel L’Écume des jours, being quite rich with a huge amount of jazz because of his weak heart, but he be sold or aired on radio waves. During player, while their father Paul Vian had as well as the person who wrote it, doublezons (an invented word for money). maintained a passion for jazz until his Vian translated the popular science fiction the anti-war movement of the 1960s, Joan a flare for languages. An atmosphere of encapsulated the post-war era in Paris. Chick, Colin’s friend, collects all of Jean- early death. For Vian, jazz was a necessity. writer, A.E. van Vogt, author of World of Baez and the musical trio Peter Paul and freedom and a mistrust of the church Raymond Queneau, one of the most Sol Partre’s Writings, as well as the whole He was there at Orly Airport to welcome Nul-A, a novel which incorporated the Mary took up Vian’s song. and army permeated the family. Boris influential figures of modern French edition of The Encyclopedia of Nausea, and find gigs for American jazz musicians non-Aristotelian logic of semanticist guarded a memory of perpetual childhood literature, commented, “L’Écume des jours and must borrow Chick’s doublezons. With when they arrived in the late 1940s and Alfred Korzybski who is famous for the Vian developed a sharp yet zany verbal vacations. Gardens and a forest were was one of the poignant love novels of our ceremonial pomp, Jean Sol Partre arrives ‘50s. He became friends with Charlie adage, “The map is not the territory.” ability. His prose had both lightness nearby, and every year the family took time.” on an elephant to deliver a lecture. As the Parker, Miles Davis, Kenny Dorham and General semantics or non-Aristotelian and depth. Boris Vian definitely falls in their vacations in Normandy where they lecture hall begins to fill, multitudes of others. Duke Ellington became godfather logic prevents confusing the model of the tradition of Rabelais’ Gargantua maintained a cottage. Boris Vian was a literary James Dean, an fans continue to arrive by parachute and to Carole Vian, Boris Vian’s daughter. reality with reality itself – language can and Pantagruel, Lewis Carroll’s Alice anti-establishment and postmodern man through sewer tunnels to get a glimpse only partially describe a terrain but does and Wonderland, Franz Kafka’s Penal Paul Vian, the father, had a bronze artwork with a sense of humor. World War II had of their idol. Chick continues to borrow While his translating was a means to put not itself constitute the terrain. The general Colony, Benjamin Constant’s Adolphe, business, but lost the business during the ended, the Nazi occupation was over, doublezons for his book collection. bread on the table, Vian was fascinated semantics in Korzybski’s Science and William Faulkner’s Pylon, and certainly crash in 1929. The Vian family, however, and creativity exploded in les caves (wine Eventually, Colin goes broke and finds by the phenomenon of American Sanity, an 800-page tome, fascinated Boris Alfred Jarry’s Exploits & Opinions of Dr. never lost its joie de vivre, its charm cellars turned into nightclubs) of the Saint manual labor growing rifles. Flowers begin pulp crime fiction, and so he translated Vian. Faustroll. Mike Zwerin, the translator of and dilettante tastes. The family moved Germain des Pres district of Paris. Vian was to grow out of the rifle barrels and Colin Raymond Chandler’s Lady in the Lake and The Jazz Writings of Boris Vian, remarks, out of their large house and into a more certainly the cultural bomb that erupted loses his job. The Big Sleep, James Cain’s Love’s Lovely According to Guy Béart, Boris Vian was a “Translating Boris Vian has made me a economical cottage and rented their after the war. Known as the prince of the Counterfeit, Nelson Algren’s The Man with man interested in fiction, the future, and better writer. He taught me how to villa to the Menuhin family. The famous Saint-Germain-des Près era, Vian circulated Chloe becomes ill with an expanding lotus the Golden Arm, and Dorothy Baker’s the fantastic. He wrote well but quickly. approach a serious subject with humor violinist, Yehudi Menuhin, became friends with the singer Juliette Gréco, the jazz engulfing her lungs. She dies and, since Young Man with a Horn. He had a strong and undeniable presence. and how to be seriously humorous. Jazz with Boris, and between them was an musician Miles Davis, the philosopher Colin cannot afford a proper funeral, the The thought that he would evolve and musicians would benefit from reading ongoing series of chess matches. Jean-Paul Sartre, the novelist Jean Genet, casket is jettisoned unceremoniously down In the more serious vein, Vian translated would develop through one single métier Vian. He integrated the physical and the and others. a flight of stairs and out the front door. the famous multiple personality disorder was foreign to him. He never locked intellectual, the real and surreal, and he Boris earned an engineering degree and Colin wants to know why Chloe had to die, case, Three Faces of Eve, and worked on a himself into a habitual lifestyle. The idea swings with words a jazz musician ought began working for AFNOR, Association The novel, L’Écume des jours,appeared in and so he confronts Jesus, who answers translation of August Strindberg’s Miss Julie, of following a routine was also foreign to to swing with.” Française de Normalisation [French 1947. Throughout L’Écume, Vian lets his him with complete indifference and a play concerning the battle of the sexes. him. Within him was the nurturing of a Association of Normalization]. After four imagination run wild. Briefly, the work boredom. continual reawakening. years, during which time he wrote two is a simple love story; Colin falls in love Vian also became deeply involved in novels, he gave up the nine-to-five job. In with Chloé, and eventually Chloé becomes During the novel, the characters remain the early science fiction genre, which Vian was the cause of two major scandals. 1937 Boris became a member of the Hot bedridden and dies. L’Écume resembles completely human but with a puppet or was appearing in America in magazines He anticipated civil rights in America some Club de France and began playing trumpet a walk through a house of mirrors that marionette side. Yet, the heart-rending like Astounding Science-Fiction in the fifteen years before it happened. He was in the Claude Abadie’s jazz orchestra, moves from a happy-go-lucky beginning way Vian tells the story L’Écume des jours 1930s and ‘40s. For Vian, science fiction heavily fined 100,000 francs by the French where he became an accomplished to a dark and sinister ending. Colin comes remains an unforgettable novel. disoriented logic, which stimulated the government for breaking a law protecting

16 CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT 17 TOMMA VON HAEFTEN How to Serve the Planet

ecause I am tall, I am gave me for one of my birthdays traveled though I loved painting, loved the smell wedged into the fourth across the Atlantic with us when we left of oil color and melted wax, being in my row, standing close to Frankfurt. It is the right chair to sit in to be studio, surrounded by my jars of paint the right outside rim of still and to look – to look inquiringly and brushes, palette knives, pigments, and the podium. My throat is patiently at the color and the brush marks tubes of oil paint, the time came when wide and open, the air on the large non-rectilinear stretched it was no longer the most exciting and pushes out of my lungs and my whole canvas that hangs on the wall, and to necessary thing to do. body vibrates into the sound as my wait. What I am waiting for is hard to put voice joins the other high sopranos all into words. A piece of art is not complete Growing up in Germany, raised by parents around me. I am an instrument of melody until the color begins to speak. Until it who as children lived through the horrors Bright now. Of power. Of beauty. Of does, I go through a long process of trying of the Second World War, it was clear meticulously timed rhythm. Meticulously to see the color that is not there yet. I get from the beginning that I needed to do held pauses. Accentuated pronunciations closer when its voice begins to join with something with my life that was “good” of beginning and ending consonants. the particular shape of the canvas like for the people on this planet. I wanted And precisely controlled expressions of an enlivening chord, bestowing it with to contribute something that balanced volume. a unique identity preciously surrounded out the unspeakable pain and suffering by the straight yards of raw burlap of the past, something that relieved Claudio Abbado has severed the hanging quietly behind, as if waiting to be the unhappiness people struggled with orchestra members from their comfortable wrapped around it. seemingly everywhere. My childhood knowledge of the Verdi Requiem and life, by contrast, appeared blessed. I had seduced them into a new state of alert, Our baby daughter is sleeping in a loving parents, siblings I truly cared for, their eyes tied to the very movements little rolling bassinet right next to me. grandparents who doted on us, and – of his fingers. I almost believe he must Sometimes I work while wearing her in a gifted with many talents – it wasn’t hard to be able to hear my voice above the rest, sling. I have decided to carry her around succeed wherever I wanted to. because at times, when he gives us the with me as much as I possibly can, having next cue, it seems he looks right at me. read about and embracing the theory of A question appeared that to this day the evolutionary continuum that makes a begs for ever-new answers: How do I Shivers run through my being baby feel safest when in contact with the serve the planet? Which elicits another milliseconds before the fortissimo of the mother’s body. question: What can I contribute? While I Dies Irae launches into another round felt fortunate in so many ways, I was also of repetition and the drums send their But I also need to complete a number envious of those people who had a clear pulses into our bones. The audience in the of pieces for my first one-woman show calling, a single talent or passion, even Hamburger Musikhalle is spellbound. in a gallery in Düsseldorf. I am excited a single duty that awaited them. How about that opportunity; excited that I was I to make a choice? What if I made Afterwards, my grandmother, who didn’t have found my own visual language to the wrong choice? What if I failed the come to the concert because she was express something yet unknown about the expectation the ever-watching universe a fan of classical music, rather led here relationships between things – or beings. might have of me? by an unwavering love for her oldest I do feel I have something to contribute granddaughter, told me that she enjoyed to the ongoing dialog that contemporary I lie on the floor, a mat beneath my body, most of all “that part that was so loud I art holds with its audience. After studying a silken scarf covering my eyes. M’Lou, could feel it inside my body.” abstract painting in Hamburg, New York who had appeared with superb timing City and Düsseldorf, determined to crack as my temporary shamanic teacher, I was not yet 20 and did not know where the mystery of what makes “good art” for drums as she sits next to me on the floor, I wanted my life to take me. Even though almost ten years, I now feel I am at last our thighs touching, while for the first I loved singing, even though my voice close to launching a promising career as time in my life I am about to enter non- teacher told me I could move forward an artist. ordinary reality. Her steady drumming as a soloist, I couldn’t picture myself as accompanies my imagined voyage one of the operatic divas we sometimes As it turned out, this ended up being through an earthen tunnel, until out of the had the chance to watch up close while my only gallery show. Even though I darkness, slowly, a different world flickers waiting outside the stage door along with continued to paint for another two and into my perception. I am beginning to see the Hamburg Opera choir. a half years, until the birth of my second and sense. I feel ground beneath my feet, daughter. Even though I believe I created the crunch of dry dusty stones, the scent The folding canvas chair my parents the best work during those last years. Even of heated rocks, the warmth of the sun on

18 CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT Painting by Tomma von Haeften CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT 19 my skin. I am surprised by my experience, my personal eclectic mix of services and modalities, I did believe I had “arrived” which tells me I am not making it up. becoming specialized. doing healing work during all those years. Through a verdant meadow, a little lamb comes running toward me; its small I am engulfed by the burning intensity And yet again, in time, I realized I still had hooves paw at my legs as I kneel down. of an anger that is pouring out of my not. A parrot lands with a swoosh of color whole body with a breathtaking power. I and rustling feathers on my shoulder. His know this is a huge cleansing. I have been After a confrontational break from my warm beak playfully nudges my cheek. A through such a flaming passage before. I FutureVisioning mentor caused me to large, soft-haired spider nestles lightly on have learned how to surrender and dive leave his group, I slowly slid into a long, my chest, a living mandala. Each of my into it. I keep breathing while my body is unintended sabbatical. During these years, power animals brings a unique ability, shaking, saliva and tears dripping from my a disturbing little voice began to whisper filling my first journey with profound face, my hands gripping the seat cushion somewhere deep inside, causing me to personal meaning as we travel through beneath me. I allow it all – the screaming worry that I had made a mistake or missed mythical landscapes that speak their own of my very cells, and now I feel it leaving a clue. Was I perhaps beginning to fail my language to me. my body magically. Something lets go; a life purpose? softness begins to spread. Months later, after I began to perform Adding to my confusion was the shamanic journeys and soul retrievals on I wait, and now I am not “me,” but clear awareness that my newest set behalf of other People, mostly friends and dispersed boundlessly into countless of consciousness tools, learned at the family, I encountered an ancient orangutan particles, and yet there is a me in each of extraordinary Avatar Courses, couldn’t monkey woman who showed me pictures these infinite particles. The other me in be woven into my private practice. I was accompanied by peculiar explanations on her human body begins to weep over the unable to see myself spending regular how I could change my drumming and immensity of love that welcomes us here. parts of my life teaching in large hotel deliver the retrieved soul parts and power My voice stammers for the eternity of the conference centers in Florida. animals by using plant energies. first moments; there are no words. This love embraces me, as if all the molecules Here was my old question again: How am In my 40s, amicably separated from my of matter stretched out their arms, holding I meant to serve? husband, raising my two daughters in the me, carrying me, rocking me so tenderly. pastoral beauty of Upstate New York, I ran In them I am everywhere, and I am home. And then, out of nowhere, came a an antique store in Hudson and began to Resting, utterly free of worries, of struggles, book! It wasn’t the first time a significant build a new life with a new mate. Jimmy of duties. Held in a love that feels as dense book appeared that changed both my had driven a van with his belongings and solid as honey. understanding about life and life itself. across the continent, leaving his life and When this thick volume landed in my two grown daughters behind in order to be This love becomes visible as a stream of hands, I could not put it down. with me. energy that flows like an ever-meandering river. Golden. Magnetic. Endless. I feel a Written in German by Varda Hasselmann, Yet, I still felt I hadn’t found my calling. buzzing in my body, an invitation to allow it describes the distinct 35 stages of our And then, one day, all the pursuits in myself to be carried by this, always. soul’s evolution through its entire cycle of my life lined up to reveal a common But can I? Surrendering to the river would incarnations. Amazing! And the soul stage thread I had overlooked before: in all my mean giving up the burden of being in that most strongly resonated as my own explorations, I had chosen disciplines charge. If I can let that go, the need to was the one, the only one, for which the that facilitated moments of transcending accomplish anything vanishes, because soul does not create a life plan prior to the ordinary, served a person’s inner floating in the river there is no need to birth. The plan is to unwaveringly follow development, and, though in different arrive anywhere. Nothing to reach or hold the path without knowing the goal! The ways, each strived to increase someone’s on to. If I can let myself be carried that plan is to be available to fill the gaps personal sense of well-being. That was the way, life will become more beautiful than left open by the larger soul family and answer! anything I could ever plan for. allow the synchronicities of life to create circumstances that cannot be planned for Human beings needed to walk the path This significant experience of Source in advance. of their soul, and I had the means to came during my training as a Journey support them! Out of that realization, I Practitioner. Learning to use this cellular Apparently, people on this evolutionary created my private practice. I called it Free healing modality to facilitate a Source soul stage don’t have linear career Soul. Initially, my services comprised all experience for my clients became only paths. Ahhhh… While I still intend the skills I had collected thus far. So, next one of the utterly exhilarating benefits I to revive my private practice with new to soul retrievals and shamanic healing could offer. My practice finally began to consciousness work, I am also ready to ceremonies, I offered hypnotic somatic flourish. Responding to an unexpected respond should life call me in a different healing sessions, Reiki/intuitive energy opportunity six years later, I moved on direction. I am willing to unwaveringly work, custom created energy art work, to become a FutureVisioning Practitioner follow the path and trust that whatever I and Feng Shui-based home and color using consciousness healing techniques do with excitement and love will serve the consultations. I was filled with a new with profound results. I guided hundreds planet. As long as I remember to heed the excitement about my life and my work, but of clients, both in the US and in Germany, barometer of joy, rather than judging my it still took years before I was able to build using both of these powerful, deeply life- value by the polluting measure of success, a successful practice. It required reducing changing tools. In spite of the change in I will be on the right track.

20 CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT Painting by Tomma von Haeften CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT 21 One of the beautiful things about being the right thing. Remember those dances federal government pays some farmers to human is our many imperfections, and in middle school? Change is sometimes not plant crops, so prices can be artificially the ways we have either embraced uncomfortable and may even come along high. Or, better yet, some plants are them to better ourselves as a whole, or with some growing pains. What is it about genetically engineered to be the botanical succumbed to them, yet still were able to getting in touch with our inner self that we reproductive equivalent of a mule. The find success in a failure. That is what has find so uncomfortable? We hardly ever motivation is profit, or greed actually – inspired and continues to inspire some of make purposeful efforts to really delve into messing with the perfection of nature so a the most innovative minds and advances our subconscious. I guess we do not have person can’t produce produce. “Take that, our species has ever known. I have enough time. Of all existing resources, Johnny Appleseed!” not lost faith in the human experience, time is arguably the most precious of them because I can’t accurately quantify what all, because no matter what we do, we can As a history scholar, I constantly look our potential is as a species. I only know never get time back. All we are left with is towards achievements as well as failures that I want it to be a better place for my a collection of memories that continue to to see what we have learned as a people. children and their children’s children. Now erode over the years. What ideas or concepts are continually I ask myself if I am doing enough to affect being reinforced? It seems like as long as JOHN RED CLOUD change, no matter how slight. Our senses as a human being paint we feel like we are masters of the universe, a picture for our memory bank to store then we have carte blanche to “innovate” I lie awake some nights feeling the for future retrieval. I still remember in the name of humanity. We are weight of my ancestors as seen through participating in a retreat in college. One capable of such good, yet we mar those the future footsteps of my descendants. of our group activities was to do a sunrise achievements by destruction and chaos. A Lost Connection How much responsibility can I realistically hike to the peak of a mountain. Why do What are the most memorable events be expected to take credit for, if this is I still remember that event so vividly? I in our history? Think history textbooks. my generation’s time? Time for what? remember it because it was one of the How many chapters are devoted to wars, What can I do to consciously make a few times in life where I was completely conflicts, death, dying, despots, etc.? difference without actively trying to and intentionally unplugged from the Peace time is boring. What can be learned effect meaningful change? How am I hustle and bustle of life. No cell phone. from tranquility? supposed to know when I have achieved No tablet. No technology whatsoever. Just any measurable success? Perhaps the me and the winds. I was nothing more My take on consciousness will continue to answers will reveal themselves to than a wind block on top of that mountain. evolve. I would like help in understanding me upon intentional introspection. It didn’t’ matter what was in my inbox, or it. There are not enough opportunities There are answers. They have always been what my calendar looked like for those devoted to consciousness or contact. Take there. The problem is that maybe I (or we precious few moments. the opportunities that do arise and really as a species) am not ready for the answers. dedicate yourself to them. It is said that I cleared my mind as much as I could wisdom is where you find it. That means The time and place for continued and tried to figure out if I knew what wisdom is everywhere. Our connection to evolution of our consciousness is now. my purpose is on this planet. What am I our past is our decoder to the future. Our Each day as I make my way to work, I meant to do as a human? Am I doing it? spirits need nourishment. Luckily those notice the rush we are all in to get Even if I were doing it, would I know that I precious spiritual seeds of growth haven’t somewhere. No matter the destination, we was doing it? If I am not fulfilling my role, been genetically modified for sterility – not all feel like the place we are going is more what is keeping me from realizing that? yet anyway. Find your connection, even if important than that of the next person. It is What sort of deficiency is keeping me it means disconnecting. hard to think about what our responsibility from reaching the conclusion that I have is supposed to be for the next generation. not reached where I am supposed to be? Our inadvertent, collective disregard for It reminds me of Lewis Carroll’s classic, our responsibility of earth is not entirely “Alice in Wonderland.” Alice first meets our fault. Look at the way society places so the Cheshire Cat at a fork in the road. many demands on our time. Does it make She is lost and asks him which way she is Illustration Courtesy of Benjavisa Ruangvaree/Shutterstock us feel that we are important when we see supposed to go. He asks her where she is a pop-up ad that is supposedly tailored trying to go. She responds that she doesn’t to our needs or our buying patterns? know. He then proceeds to tell her that it Blindly accepting terms of use and cookies doesn’t matter which way she goes if she have often reflected on my upbringing on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Consciously, I was aware I belonged to something ensures the all-powerful Google remains doesn’t know where she is going. greater than myself. Subconsciously, I was unaware that, with each step I took, my ancestors were counting on me to keep incredibly intuitive. Maybe its intuitiveness writing our story. As humans, we have that unique ability to reason, or so we think we are the only ones. We think that there is is a little on the spooky side. Thanks auto- Here we are in our warped wonderland. no possible way the earth was created for buffalo, or magpies, or impala. It was created for the almighty Man. We have to be fill! Do we know which way to go? There may the reason. I want to feel like I am chiefly responsible for what Tunkasila has allowed me to experience on this earth, whether be some unrealized benefit from aimless that be alone with my thoughts or sharing a common experience with others. I would like to believe there is a wandering. Sometimes it’s necessary to redeeming quality we all have as humans. go through a struggle in order to come to We still have a lot to offer each other in the way of developing our consciousness. The problem is too many of us do not see the value All of us are capable of such goodness, yet certain conclusions. Is that what a midlife in devoting time and effort to this very important aspect of our lives. At this point in my life, I would like to think I still have more we never reach our full potential. Why is crisis is? This could be the point of where tomorrows than yesterdays. How much of the time that I have had, have I spent consciously trying to connect with my inner self? Not that? Are we counting on the person next our struggle is as a species. Honestly, I am enough.I Much can be said for being in the moment. When I talk to people, I try and listen to what they are saying, instead of simply to us to make the move first? Maybe it’s a little concerned about the direction we waiting for them to stop talking so I can say what I have to say. uncomfortable to be the first one to do are hurtling towards. Case in point: the

22 INDUSTRIAL HEMP Lucy Slivinski, Life Force Painting on hemp paper, 2017 NORIE HUDDLE The Best Game on Earth the Good News of how our Global Family finally is coming together in the “You never change things by fighting the early decades of the 21st century to heal ourselves and our lovely Earth. existing reality. To change something, Consider that in this Great Gathering, each build a new model that makes the existing one of us holds a piece of the puzzle. Consider that as we put our puzzle pieces model obsolete.” together, we will discover larger patterns of meaning, new insights and inspiration. -R. Buckminster Fuller Consider that when the larger patterns have become clear, we will discover our next THE GOAL OF THE BEST GAME ON EARTH: on the moon and bring him back safely steps forward. To create peace, health, prosperity and by the end of the decade,” he created a justice universally on Earth by the year GAME, with a goal and a deadline. Consider that each one of us is critically 2030. needed to complete The Whole, and that Creating a deadline “by the end of the we are all here to serve a greater purpose THE 10 RULES OF THE GAME decade” set the game in motion. The clock that is far beyond what we presently 1. Speak the truth. was ticking! And, you really wanted to understand. 2. Acknowledge the truth when others beat the clock and win the game! And, speak it. indeed, we achieved this amazing feat in TO BEGIN PLAYING THE GAME 3. Come from love, respect and gratitude. less than a decade. To begin playing The Game, read the 4. Leave the trail better than you found it. Goal and the Rules. Do these make sense 5. Expect miracles. In one sense, it’s time for a “global show- to you? Which ones are already second 6. Do what gives you joy and create joy and-tell” about who is doing what and nature to you? Which ones, if any, do not in what you do. about what else needs to be done, and make sense and why? 7. Be generous with who you are and how we can do this in a way that is truly what you have. fun and inspiring. Are there areas within yourself you feel you 8. Be a good friend and teammate. need to strengthen? What do you need to 9. Clean up your messes, learn the Imagine for a moment that we’re sitting do this? What kinds of activities are you lessons and move on. around a global campfire and sharing our engaged in local, national, global; which 10. If you have an idea for how to stories of what we are each doing to help further the goals of the Game? improve The Game, share it! heal the Earth. What do you need? How can I help you? Are you doing what gives you joy? Are you hroughout history, in every letting your light shine brightly, expressing part of the world, there This time, however, we’re “sitting around” positive images into our collective global have been people who the “cool campfire” of television, computer mind? dreamed of a better world, monitors and cell phones, and we’re each who, in some fashion, sharing our work – our “love-in-action” How can we invite collaboration from have played The Game but – with our other brothers and sisters in others who dream these same dreams? have not known they were playing it. our global village all around our beautiful How about sharing this article with your planet. friends? Or on social media? SETTING A DEADLINE IS CRITICAL even one that may look impossible today. By pooling our collective wisdom, Let’s keep asking, “How can we organize Here,T the Apollo Project offers us a great knowledge, talent and expertise, we will ourselves so that all the necessary things set of lessons. all progress more quickly toward achieving are taken care of? How can we celebrate The Game’s Goal. And, by collaborating our successes and build on them? How Before the 1960s, human beings had and looking for ways to make the process can we make The Game more and more looked up at the night sky for thousands of more enjoyable for all of us, our progress fun, more and more effective?” years and dreamed of going to the moon, will get faster and faster and faster! but nothing happened. It remained only a You and your actions are critical to the dream. Computers, mobile devices, social media, success of The Game. Thank you for television, radio, telephones, print media, playing your part! But then, in 1961, when President short-wave and CB radios, etc. — we can —With Love, Respect and Gratitude, Kennedy declared that “We will put a man use all of these tools and more to express Norie Huddle

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What Animals Tell Us

henever I speak thumbs, etc., we are inherently superior. “Well, I lean over him while he’s standing about Interspecies Most don’t even question that assertion. up, and I press down and clip them.” Telepathic My work of the past eighteen years has Communication, led me to advocate for a more inclusive I suggested she do it the way Spinner I begin with understanding of the relationship between was showing me, even though it seemed the story of the humankind and the natural world. potentially dangerous to put a spindly- little king. Years ago, a woman brought legged greyhound up on a table. But me her chihuahua. She sat down at the My work mostly involves domestic that’s the image I was seeing, and I felt table across from me with her dog in her creatures, pets if you will, but I’ve had from Spinner that if he were elevated he arms. I closed my eyes and opened to some fascinating interactions with the would be able to see what Marty was receiveW the dog’s energy, and I heard, in undomesticated as well. In particular, I doing, and the whole process would be my mind, the words “I’m a little king!” once met a porcupine, waddling down more comfortable for him. He showed me They appeared to me in a high pitched, our wooded trail, who engaged with my Marty cocking her arm at the elbow and squeaky voice. When I told the woman ecstatic response to his presence, to the clipping his nails. Just like that. this, she replied, “Oh my god, I’ll be right point of changing course mid-waddle and back,” and abruptly left the room with coming directly toward me so I could get Marty was a leatherworker at a horse track her dog in tow. A few minutes later, she a closer look at him. (Full disclosure: I’ve at the time, and she took Spinner with her returned and handed me an 8x10 framed always assumed it was a male, though I to work daily. She had a workbench in photograph of her chihuahua, wrapped can’t be sure.) her trailer, and now that’s where she puts in a red velvet robe with white piping, Spinner when he needs his nails clipped wearing a crown on his head. Telepathic communication happens to me – on top of the workbench, elevated like and through me as a variety of sensual he wanted, because he didn’t like being The reason I tell this story at the beginning and sensory experiences. I see pictures, hovered over. He wanted some space, of my talks is to make a convincing feel sensations, hear words or sounds. some distance, and, as long as she could case for the validity of telepathic This is how animals answer my questions. do it that way, there was no anxiety. It communication between species. The wasn’t a problem for him at all. chihuahua identified himself as a little I met Marty when we were both guests king. That was the first thing, hence the on an early morning television show I’ve also discovered the importance of most important thing, that he told me in Rochester, New York. It was one of acknowledging the feelings of animals, about himself. It was clearly something I those entertainment segments when particularly under stressful circumstances. could not have deduced with my rational they cut away from Good Morning (as opposed to intuitive) mind. America or whatever to the local news. The most important thing you need to The newscasters check in with the “pet know if you want to communicate Most people are skeptical of the concept psychic” for about 45 seconds, make a successfully with your companion of communicating with animals. Some few jokes about it and go back to the animals is that you need to stress don’t believe it’s possible for animals national show. cooperation and negotiation over to communicate, or don’t believe that domination and control. animals have thoughts and feelings that So Marty brought her greyhound, Spinner, could translate into human language. to the show, and one of her concerns Years ago, when I began communicating Others may believe that animals indeed was how difficult it was for her to trim with animals, my family and I decided to have thoughts and feelings, but that it’s Spinner’s nails. Every time she tried, he buy a house in the woods and move to impossible for humans to ascertain them. would shiver and tremble with anxiety. the top of a mountain. We had four cats Humans have what Penelope Smith calls When I tuned in to him, he showed me a at the time, and we decided to put them a “human superiority complex” when picture of himself elevated, standing on a in the bathroom for the duration of the it comes to their understanding of the table, with Marty standing at arm’s length move. This proved in retrospect to be a natural world. We believe that because of from him. I wanted to make sure that I very dumb idea. our facility with language, our ability to understood what I was seeing, so I asked move about on two legs, our opposable Marty how she cut Spinner’s nails now. My wife discovered that she needed some

26 CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT Erika Knerr | Watercolor on Hemp Paper | 2018 CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT 27 towels in order to pack the drum of the washing machine so that knew we wouldn’t be able to make that last very long. So, I said it wouldn’t get damaged in transit. So, she attempted to get in to the cats, “What I need you to do is come to me, so we can put and out of the bathroom with an armful of towels without letting you somewhere safe. We promise we won’t stuff you all back in four cats escape, and in the process, while closing the door, she the bathroom, but we need to put you somewhere safe, and we twisted her hand and broke a bone in the center of it. She let out need to do it right away. “ a scream, the door flew open, and the cats scattered all over the house. So right away we had a problem. We’ve got four indoor Within seconds of making that request, one by one the four cats and our door is wide open with people moving boxes and cats came walking very calmly into the living room and were furniture out. What happened next is not anything that I planned. scooped up and put in empty rooms to wait until we were done It happened to me, or through me, rather. with the move.

I walked to the center of the almost empty living room, and, These stories and the experiences that have given rise to scores standing in the middle of the room, I closed my eyes and more similar ones have convinced me that communication with spoke to them from my mind. “I know you’re scared, but all species makes our lives richer and can provide new avenues Mom’s hurt and we need your help.” I’ve never forgotten that for understanding ourselves and our co-inhabitants of this planet. moment. The first thing I did was to acknowledge what they were experiencing. “I know you’re scared.” There was no panic, no running around, no ordering them to do anything. “Mom’s hurt and we need your help” was an appeal for their cooperation. I continued to speak to them, explaining that we were concerned for their safety, and we didn’t want any of them to get hurt. They could be killed by a car, and we didn’t want that to happen. In the meantime, we asked the movers to close the door, but we

28 CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT Photo by Sandy Briggs | Taken from her backyard in Florida. Erika Knerr | Watercolor on Hemp Paper | 2018 CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT 29 he most tragic event in installation of 49 porcelain white disco It makes our roofs and decorates our LGBTQ history occurred balls, one for each of the victims. The homes and our bodies. It’s so ubiquitous PHOENIX LINDSEY-HALL the summer of 2016; the individual disco balls were slip cast in that it almost transcends our awareness of day in Orlando, Florida several sizes, representing each victim it. It’s the earth we stand on and, as such, where an armed gunman as an individual human life, that stool it connects us and carries our memories. killed 49 and wounded together to make a whole community. This rich history provides a backdrop to another 53 people at the Pulse Nightclub. Each piece is suspended at various frame contemporary investigations into It was and is the single deadliest mass heights to create a swirling celestial mass. ritual, objecthood, and artistic expression. Never Stop Dancing shooting in America. In this senseless act Illuminated by bare light bulbs dropped It enlivens our sense of touch yet of hatred, the victims’ individual lives, into the center of the form, long shadows heightens our sense of caution. withT hopes and dreams, became the fall across the darkened space. In call and shattered grounds of ideological force for response, this work is named, “Never Stop For all that can be understood from seeing the LGBTQ community at large. Dancing.” Never Stop Dancing, it can’t be heard. There is immediately a noticeable lack For nearly half a century, the Stonewall The disco ball is a firmly-rooted signifier of music in the space—an otherwise Inn is where queer New Yorkers and those of nightclubs and, by extension, expected presence with disco balls. from all over the world flock when we celebration. Unglazed porcelain refuses Instead of music, there is silence, which need community, in celebration, or in the ball’s traditionally mirrored panels, its manifests a quiet remembrance and despair. As soon as we heard the news, reflective quality becomes muted, turning atmospheric commentary on loss: where my wife and I went straight there. We the viewer’s gaze inward. More heavenly both the disco balls and the lives they were not alone. News anchors knew of than of-this-world, more lamentation represent once gave light, now they are this location and had already begun to than party, the clay acts as a surrogate extinguished. line up their cameras. In addition to the for the body in the way it can be fragile growing crowd, there was a makeshift and and delicately precious and yet incredibly There is no music in the space, but the temporary memorial. In the growing pile strong. This sense of danger is heightened hymn is clear. And if it’s not, the text on of flowers on the sidewalk. I found a small by its suspension. the shadow-filled wall spells it out. note accompanying a bouquet of roses that simply said, “Never Stop Dancing.” Clay has a quiet power. It is a Above them all is a silent observer. material that is a part of our collective The moon hanging heavy in the sky. Inspired by the note and in honor of those consciousness. It holds our coffee in the Slowly spinning, reflecting back to us who lost their lives, I created a large-scale morning today just as it has for millennia. Bearing witness to it all.

Installations by Phoenix Lindsey-Hall

30 CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT Installations by Phoenix Lindsey-Hall CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT 31 that it was the fall 1977, and I was with some FUMIKO: Wow. our need to be creative, whether it be to friends. I hope the story matches. I was with play the violin or walk on a wire, are equal- some friends of mine in New York, and they MIA: Well, interesting, Philippe, that you ly compelling in many ways. A painter, a said, oh, let’s go see if Philippe is doing his were doing magic tricks. real painter, has to paint. It fulfills a basic street thing. So, we went to Sheridan Square need that is just as important to them as to the chalk circle, and we watched the per- PHILIPPE: I always do. I always do. I having a roof over their heads. So, I’m in formance. And then they invited Philippe always have in my pocket enough to spend complete agreement with you. to come have something to eat with us, so hours entertaining. he came. And Philippe was doing a whole PHILIPPE: I like what Fumiko states. bunch of magic on the table, and I wasn’t MIA: I’m curious to know with both of listening to anything else. I was watching you if you have an interest in metaphys- FUMIKO: I mean, I think it goes further him make coins disappear and go through ics or consciousness? You’re both working than that. Go ahead. the table and stuff like that. And then he with consciousness in different ways. But asked me if I wanted to go to a movie. And, I’m curious to know how the unseen plays PHILIPPE: Yes. I like what Fumiko has said so, I said yes. a role in both of your lives? about creativity and survival. And I have ten written books, and my last book is And the next day I came, and it poured PHILIPPE: Well, probably, unconsciously, I called “Creativity, The Perfect Crime.” And rain. I mean, it was like the end-of-the- am dealing with what you just mentioned, the reason I told it like this is because, be- world kind of rain. And, of course, Philippe but not in a conscious way. I don’t spend sides the survival aspect, which Fumiko was not there, and I was soaked to the part of my day addressing directly the other talked beautifully about, there is for me an bone. I was like, okay, this didn’t work out worldly notions or metaphysics. But I am outlaw aspect of creating, an almost break- at all. So, I forgot about it for a while. And sure, if you would follow me through a the-rule and feel free as an artist to be able then I was walking, a couple of weeks lat- typical day of practicing and preparing and to create and put yourself almost in jeopar- er, in Washington Square Park, and I saw a writing and all that, you would see glimps- dy, almost in danger. So, that’s why I think bunch of people. I went to see what they es of that in me, because I am sure it’s part creativity is almost something not permit- were doing, and it was Philippe in a dif- of my invisible way of reacting to the world ted. You have to do it illegally almost. ferent circle. So, I borrowed a pen from and of creating. somebody, and I was writing him a note, FUMIKO: Risk is definitely a major fac- and suddenly I felt really creepy. I look up, FUMIKO: I’m really like a Pagan at tor. I agree with that entirely. My daughter and the whole circle was around me. And I heart. I like to watch the moon and the has had the luckiest life. I told her, because couldn’t believe it. I gave him the note, and trees and the ocean and all of that. And I she did a couple of competitions, I said, if he called me, and that was the beginning. think part of being creative is being aware you want to win, you have to be willing of what’s happening around you. So that to lose. You have to know that it’s possible MIA: Wow. kind of connects to the metaphysical world to lose, because that can’t end your life, in a way. I don’t do any special practices, because somebody is going to win, and MIA FEROLETO FUMIKO: Is that anything like you re- either, but I pay attention a great deal to somebody is not going to win. That’s not member, Philippe? my natural surroundings and also to the the point of it. The point of it is to do it. way creatures behave, including people. I But, you know, the risk is there. You have PHILIPPE: Well, no, I am amazed that observe a lot. And I think that that plays a to know that there’s a risk. you remembered the year. And, yes, it is big part in the creative process, interacting A PHILIPPEConversation PETIT &Between FUMIKO WELLINGTON Two Friends pretty much a great, vivid story that you with what happens. I think, further than that, it’s a habit of the did. And it matches, of course, what I rec- mind, and it’s a habit of living. One of the ollect, but not with precise touches like I also think that creativity at its basic, basic things I always felt connected me with that. So that’s great. thing is a survival thing. If you see a pud- Philippe is that we both have discipline MIA: Maybe you could say a few words about how you and MIA: I think she’s here. Fumiko? dle, you step over it, you go around it. Or, and we apparently both grew up with it. Fumiko met? FUMIKO: I remember what I was wear- if there’s a fire, you go the other way. You I had a father who drove me crazy. And I FUMIKO: That’s me, finally. Hi everybody. ing, even. It was really- figure out a way to get something to eat, remember once we had a tropical storm in PHILIPPE: Yeah. That seemed to be a long, long time ago. It you figure out a way to not die of the cold our house, rain was coming into the house. was in New York City. I was performing in my circle of chalk, as MIA: Hello. MIA: What were you wearing? or the heat or whatever it is, and that takes The carpet was wet, everything. Everybody an illegal street performer, being a comic and silent and playing creative thinking, right? So, as an extension was hoping the lights weren’t going to go with the audience. And then, after the performance, a beautiful FUMIKO: I tried that code for like 500 times and it kept on tell- FUMIKO: I was wearing a pair of pants of it, maybe what do you do with your free out. My mother was trying to cook rice on young woman came and said hello, and it was Fumiko. And I ing me it just wasn’t right. Well, here I am. Voila! that I made out of this turquoise corduroy, time. Then you can have time to make a the Hibachi or whatever, and my father think we went somewhere and had a glass of wine, and we be- that was like a really bizarre pair of pants. beautiful painting or build a statue of Da- said, go get your violin. So, I’m standing came instantly friends. So, it was a performing arts encounter, as MIA: Wonderful. Well, Philippe is here, too. And I had on a red shirt. And I don’t re- vid or something. But, when you’re not do- on the wet carpet, and I had a lesson. He far as I was concerned. But it would be good to know her side member what Philippe was wearing. I ing that, you’re just staying alive. So that’s wasn’t going to waste the time because we of the story. PHILIPPE: Hello, Fumiko. think he was wearing black, black turtle- where I think it begins. And the people couldn’t do anything else. (We’re expect- neck, black pants. I think that was the type who are good at it are the ones who pay ing a hurricane now, any minute, so I was MIA: She is one of those people who is an instant friend. I know. FUMIKO: Hi. of uniform. And those strange shoes, those attention. Does that make sense? thinking about it today.) When we met, the same thing happened. We just felt as if we strange karate shoes. Yeah. So, 1977, that’s knew each other forever. Oh, here she is again on the text. Hold MIA: Okay... I’ve just heard from Philippe how the two of you almost 50 years. How old are we? Yeah, MIA: It does, actually. And I think it’s an PHILIPPE: Ah. on a second, please? met, and we’re both interested in hearing your recollection of it. ‘87, ‘97, 2007-40 years. accurate description of how those of us who are creative live, because we have to FUMIKO: So that’s what always hap- PHILIPPE: Okay. FUMIKO: I was thinking about it yesterday, actually. I remember MIA: It’s a while. It’s a while. take care of our basic needs first. But then pened. I always had to go get my violin.

32 CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT 33 I had a lesson at midnight. I had a lesson times. Like baking biscotti. I decided one weird, but she still does something good roast. And I can’t, so I go, and I approach it’s a decline of beautiful art and of fulfill- live in the 21st Century, although I’m learn- whenever. And I remember so many times day I was going to be good at it, because and something well every day, and I think the edge of the water, and I start building ing ventures of research and art, because ing a little bit. I live like a madman in the visiting Philippe that he was practicing. He I thought it was stupid to pay two dollars that’s very important. a castle in the sand, like a kid. And some- a little bit of what Fumiko says is that, to clouds because of my profession of wire was always practicing. He practiced magic for one when you can make 48 of them times kids come and help me. And then I me, the way I see artists, most artists. It’s walking, and I live in the 18th Century of with the metronome, he practiced his bar, for a dollar-fifty. So, I just decided to prac- PHILIPPE: The notion of every day is fight the waves. And the castle collapses, really wrong to generalize. But, generally the Middle Ages, because that’s my taste. he practiced drawing. He practiced, prac- tice. And I just practiced and practiced and also something that I abide by and that I and I rebuild it. And I look for little shells speaking, I see people being subject to all And I have very few electric tools. I have ticed, practiced all the time. practiced until I got good at it. And it’s not really believe. And when I’m being asked to decorate it. In the meantime, my friends those new inventions, all the electronics, hand tools that have been used for 4,000 even very hard. But it’s like everything I do. questions, when I do a lecture in university are roasting with big smiles on their faces. I all those little cell phones and laptops and years. A chisel, a mallet, a saw. And with The discipline is important and the respect I want to be good at it and not mediocre. I and young people ask for advice or things can’t comprehend the immobility and leth- iPads and whatever. that you can build-I was going to say the for the craft and the profession. A lot of don’t know. like that, I come with the notion of every argy. Great Pyramid-well, that metaphor is a those things are missing right now from a day. Every day you should write something, Now, when you look for a place, you go little bit stretched. But, anyway, you don’t lot of people who call themselves artists. PHILIPPE: Well, on the subject of be- even a little line. Every day you should smile MIA: Well, we’re all roughly on the same GPS and you have a disembodied voice need a saw with a memory, you don’t need And I think that’s why so many artists are ing allergic to mediocrity, I see a notion, or laugh. Every day you should have a great page. We are all peers. And I am curious to that says make a left, make a right. But be- a screwdriver with calculating machine at- kind of like solar flares. They appear and which I see disappearing more or less in idea. Every day you should look at some- hear what you both have to say about the fore that, you would buy a map, you would tached to it. then they disappear, because they don’t the human landscape, a notion of pride. thing and be amazed, be surprised. So, this decline in the art world, decline in culture, open it and orient the map with the north al havel the backbone of being creative. And it goes with being happy to have done notion of every day is very important be- I would say since the 1980s, when we were so you would know your bearing, or you I think we have lost, again, I say we have Anybody can be creative for a second by a job well. Now, it could be anything. cause if you wake up with that hunger for all pretty much in New York. At that time, would ask somebody. You would have a lost most of our senses. We don’t smell, accident, because of the survival part of it. When somebody asked me to wash their life, you will live a beautiful life. You know the early 1980s, when culture began to shift human interaction. Excuse me, do you we don’t taste, we don’t touch, we don’t But, to make a life of creativity, you have to window, I do a perfect job. I will not leave you don’t have to be a poet or a painter, into a more commercial realm. know a good Japanese restaurant around look, we don’t hear as much as the human have discipline. that window with little specks somewhere, a violinist or a wire walker. But, in the art here? And people will start telling stories. animal was put on earth to do. Being sur- and it makes me happy. It’s not to win any of living, I think you should take the chal- FUMIKO: It’s surprising to me how much We have lost all of that. rounded by all those false friends or elec- Wow, I’m just rattling on. contest. It’s not to receive kudos. It is to lenge of fulfilling every day of your life, or things have changed and, yet, how little But we have lost much more. If we could tronic machines that are supposed to help do something well. And that is something, I else what do you do well? You’re going to people seem to notice it. For instance, for go back to the work of art. I think we live us and make us win time, actually, does al- PHILIPPE: So true. So true, yeah. think, very important in the human nature, drag your feet and then, and look at the musicians in New York, there’s almost no in a century where very wrongly we think most to me the opposite. It steals your soul, the satisfaction of a job well done or an floor and/or, you know, play with those little work now. Because there’s a lot of money, that we have to save time. Save time for and it erodes your senses. And a good art- FUMIKO: I have always just admired action. electronic devices that are erasing slowly all but it’s not being given to the art world. So, what? I don’t know. ist or performer should have their senses that about Philippe, because I feel that it’s our senses. I think the every-day rule, the there are very few jobs, and there are still really alive and should have a soul. If not, so important. And it’s so not a thing that he FUMIKO: Absolutely. Oh, my gosh, I’m challenge of taking every day and seeing many, many musicians coming out of the MIA: Right. what you create will not inspire others. flaunts; it’s just the way he lives, which is so glad to hear you say that. the life in it. Because the life is there around conservatories. Thousands. And most of so great. It’s just the way he is. And I love you, but some people are not aware of it. them do something else for a living. They PHILIPPE: I spend hours sometimes MIA: I completely agree. And it seems to that. PHILIPPE: And this notion of pride, I So, I like to remind them. just always had to do something and play. developing a project. I spend years build- me that this began to change significantly do not see that very often in young people. But I was lucky to work. I was lucky to work ing a barn with 18th century tools. I could in the 1980s when art became commodi- PHILIPPE: I still practice three hours a I see the opposite. I see a certain laziness. FUMIKO: Yeah. You know, my dad use a lot. And now I don’t think I could live that spend easily five or six hours doing a draw- fied. You know, when it became possible day. As we speak on the phone, just before Okay, I will wash the window in two sec- to say to Kiyoe when she was small, “You way. I couldn’t live playing in New York at ing. Because, during those moments, I to make enormous amounts of money from I was in the barn doing my juggling, and it onds and I will not do it well, because I have don’t have to practice every day, just on the all. I don’t even think I would play if I lived have decided that time does not exist. works of art for the first time in that way. keeps my sanity. Not only keeps my body other things to do. And in this example, of days that you eat.” in New York. But I could do something And people began to want to become an and my art afloat, but it keeps my sanity. course it’s a silly example, but it’s a good around music or there still is some music, Now, this notion is not accepted widely artist as a style statement, as a means of When I don’t practice for a few days, be- one because a window is only washed well She, of course, had a lesson every day. It but it’s not like it was. And yet people, I these days. So, we also have the notion rising within a society, as opposed to be- cause I travel or because there is an emer- if it looks like the window has disappeared. was more than practicing. It was every day, don’t know, somehow people don’t seem of security. People are afraid of so many cause it was the soul expression. And that gency of some sort, I feel diminished. I feel every day, every day. That’s why the every- to notice. things, so they shelter themselves. They was almost 40 years ago now when that impoverished. And then my art showed FUMIKO: Exactly. day thing is so important. I feel cheated if surround themselves with all kinds of de- trend began to happen. And I think we’re that there is a lack of rehearsal. A magic I don’t have a chance to read or to learn When I was in New York this last time, I vices to protect themselves, which actually now seeing just how much we let go of. trick has to be perfect, or a magic trick has PHILIPPE: I am one of those mad peo- something or to make something creative went to the Met to see the show of papal is ridiculous because, even if you live un- Frankly, it makes me very sad on an almost to be perfect walking on the wire, obvi- ple who likes to do even silly little tasks like every day. I feel like my day didn’t happen. garments, and I started to cry because the der a globe, you are in danger of dying at daily basis when I look at what is around ously has to be perfect. washing a window well or as well as I can. And I can’t be on vacation. I don’t under- level of artisan work and the level of devo- any moment. So, you better go outside and me, because we know the difference. We stand people who go on vacation. tion to the crafts and fantasy, everything, it’s live your life and challenge yourself and know when something is handmade or So, there are no margins for errors in those FUMIKO: Oh, I’m so glad to hear you like a million times more than what you see create and search and explore. when someone has an extraordinary voice three arts. I started at 6 years old to learn saying that. You know, when Kiyoe was PHILIPPE: Oh, me, too. Me, too. It’s a in anything today. And it wasn’t even appre- or plays impeccably well or walks a wire. magic, at 14 juggling, and at 16 the wire. very small, I started saying to her, please notion… ciated. People just did it for the church. And Anyway, generally speaking, going back But listening to, say, contemporary music, So, it’s a long, long life of dedicating your- do something good for me today and every the church took it away; they (the artists) to the world of art, I do see a decline, be- for the most part, to me it’s almost soulless. self to a craft and to try to savor perfection, day, do something good and do something FUMIKO: What is that? didn’t even get paid. And the pope, maybe cause I see people do things faster, which Yet our culture is accepting it and support- which, of course, never happens. But it’s a well. They are not the same. But you have to he wore it once and then it went back in Fumiko mentioned. I see people doing ing it and making these performers wealthy nice quest. And it’s usually a difficult life, do one of each every day, and you will have PHILIPPE: …that’s so foreign to me, the vault. I couldn’t believe the kind of work things more simplistically without the re- when, in fact, to my ear, there’s nobody but it’s also a very wonderful life. a beautiful life. And I said, I don’t care what yeah. that was being done. And now people do search, or the research is to press a button, home. you do well: tie your shoelaces, make your something for an hour and they think they to Google something. But you don’t spend FUMIKO: Absolutely. And I think also bed, eat your breakfast without spilling it on FUMIKO: Go someplace and do noth- worked. And then it sells for God knows hours researching or doing what we call FUMIKO: Well, it goes all the way back we’re both kind of allergic to mediocrity. the floor. I don’t care. Do it well, though. ing? I mean, I can’t-I can’t even-I can’t imag- how much money and that’s how it goes. our homework on the subject of a painting, to the lack of discipline and the lack of ap- And do something good. Help somebody ine you have to pay money to go some- It’s just kind of frightening. Anyways. for example, or on building a little model if preciation for discipline. PHILIPPE: I like the way you put it. or give to somebody-share something. Do where and do nothing. you’re an architect. Now all of those things something good every day and you’ll be PHILIPPE: Yeah. I was a little bit sur- are done by the computer or by 3-D no- It’s not just in art. It’s in every profession. FUMIKO: It’s just, when you do some- happy. And she’s become like that. She PHILIPPE: I have tried, you know. prised by you, Mia, saying the decline of tions. thing halfway, it’s just not it. That’s why I does live that way, which I think is great. Like I have accompanied my friends to the art. But then, while Fumiko was respond- And, as you can tell, I don’t even know MIA: Everything. don’t mind doing something a thousand Everything else she does is kind of, well, beach, and then they lay in the sun and they ing, I was thinking, in a way, yes, I can tell what I’m talking about, because I refuse to

34 CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT 35 EveningIllustration Circle courtesy of of Light, Agsandrew/Shutterstock 1979, acrylic on canvas, by Karen Gunderson

FUMIKO: So, it’s the creativity, it’s a hab- Well, just give me the picture already, then. it. I got to make it. So, I already benefited. a lot of money after my walk between the And you should be able to live with your it of the mind. For instance, when I lived And the i-Phone takes the picture and then If somebody wears it or somebody wants two towers. I could have actually become teaching and your performing and your art, MIA: I think what happened in the 1980s, in Europe, if I said I was a musician, it was somebody copies it. I don’t know…. I just it for some reason, that’s cake to me, that’s an instant millionaire if I would have ac- but usually it doesn’t happen. And I don’t though, is that art became a commodity. It like I said I was a doctor. Because people feel like it’s up to us to not stop what we’re extra. People who go into the arts business, cepted the commercials on TV, if I walk on know if it was you or Fumiko who said-it became like a stock or a bond as opposed understand discipline; they understand doing. they make things for money. I think that’s a the wires, because I drank this beer. was Fumiko saying-in New York, there is to something that an artist, regardless of what goes into learning music to become little strange. That’s why I don’t think peo- enough money, but the money doesn’t go your field of discipline, makes, puts their a professional, all that. You get treated with For instance, the other day I was talking ple should teach for money. Even though I So, the more money you propose to me, to the arts. So here we are. soul into, and then gets bought or the re- all respect. And you get 13 months’ pay, to somebody about the little string things think you should be paid. But the reason the more I am becoming angry. I will never cord album gets sold or the concert gets you know, if you have a job. It’s different I’m making. And people keep asking me, you teach should not be to make money. It do those things, although it’s completely I would never give up my life as an art- done, but it became something else. It in America where people think you just “How long does that take you?” I don’t should be to teach. accepted in America. But I think there is ist, but it’s getting increasingly difficult to became almost divorced from the artistic want a free meal, or I don’t know what know, because it takes me until I’m done. nothing more beautiful than for an artist to live with your art. And it’s not that there’s spirit and became simply a means of con- they think. Which is sometimes, to make something MIA: Right. be able to live with his or her art. So, I am anything wrong. It’s something beautiful to ducting business. that’s an inch by an inch, six hours, seven not afraid of money. And when I work, of live with your art. You should get paid to Meanwhile, when anybody learns some- hours. I don’t care. I want to do it, and I FUMIKO: And that’s a pretty big differ- course, I get paid as a professional. I have inspire and to perform because, with that FUMIKO: I sort of agree, but I sort of thing, I think when people don’t under- want to do it well. And if I have to do it ence, to be devoted to the craft and to the done it a lot in my life of things without money, you’re going to buy a new violin disagree, because people have always stand the discipline, they can’t appreciate over again, I’ll do it over and over until it’s vocation of doing something well than to commission or without money. But I think and you’re going to eat and you’re going bought and sold art because it was worth the work. People paint from photographs right. And I don’t care how long it takes. just do it for money. it’s right for a performer, and I would in- to-it’s necessary. But it’s a balance that is a lot of money. I mean, that did not start in now and then; they call themselves paint- But people say, “You should be paid for PHILIPPE: Well, I am not afraid of clude the teaching in that. It’s the result difficult in life to find, the money balance. the ‘80s. But what happened is the peo- ers. I mean, I’m like, what are you painting? your time.” And I’m like, “Why?” I got to do money as an artist. But I have said no to of a lifetime of practice and achievement. And I am not very good at finding it. ple buying the art are people who didn’t

36 CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT 37 understand what was behind it. So, that play for the audience, who will know how anyway, I made no concession, and I still tion, into being, has value. dangerous. As I learned by myself, and to find their own balance and to focus changes quite a bit. to pull a love or a distress tear or applause. don’t, and I find out that the best way to as I practiced, I found out that you have without closing the doors of the outside And it’s a very old show business-and I touch your audience is to be yourself and PHILIPPE: You know, that’s actu- to be aware of the outside world in some world around them. There’s this whole new class of micro- never pronounce that word-but it’s an old to not go into the audience, but to let them ally a very good word that I was thinking way that your senses tell you there is a dog bourgeoisie that’s kind of the nouveau show business-not tradition but matter come to you. I don’t know if that makes we could maybe conclude on. The thing passing under the wire, you’re going to lose FUMIKO: So, that’s perfect. nouveau-riche, and that’s all they have of action. A producer will hire more the sense what I said, but I really abide by is it’s very exciting to have been involved your balance. There is a fire coming, is it is money. It’s all just money. There’s no performer who draws a lot of applause on that. in this triangle conversation. And as you, part of your equipment burning that is per- MIA: I totally agree. education behind it. Look at the freaking stage and gets a standing ovation. Now, Mia, and Fumiko know, we could go on for meating the air? Is a thunderstorm going to president. Pardon my, my other language, this has a certain logic. But where you lose FUMIKO: Well, it’s the most honorable hours because we’re all full of passion, and throw you off the wire in 40 seconds? So, PHILIPPE: Okay. So, you know what? I am which I will not call French. But it’s just the art is whenever a performer, a painter, way of including them, I think. Instead of we have so much to propose. But person- you, as a wire walker, using that example, going to get off the phone and I am going people who are just ignorant have a lot of an artist of any kind would obey these patronizing them- ally I, as I said before, I will have to come have to be very much aware. to run to my next venture. And I thank you money. And there’s nothing behind it. So, outside calls of what the audience wants. out of this conversation very soon. And very much because it was a very inspiring when they buy something, an expensive And that’s a pure invention. The audience PHILIPPE: Exactly. Exactly. maybe you want to conclude, Mia, or what But then I started filtering. And then I cre- and lively exchange, and we should do it house, expensive painting, expensive car, wants to see something. They want to see do you think? ated this unique system of focus, which more often. or whatever, an island, they don’t know it’s you. They want something unique, some- FUMIKO: -You have to respect... Re- cannot really be taught. It’s not a recipe all just the front. And that’s a shame. thing inspiring. They don’t want a robot spect plays such a huge role in everything. MIA: Yes. Yes. Is there something specif- to be found in a book. It’s the result of a MIA: Thank you so much, Philippe. who has found a little niche and who has You have to respect your work, and you ic, Philippe, that you would like to add that lifetime. So, I am completely concentrated Look at the Vatican. The vault is full of ev- created a style of painting. have to respect the people that appreciate perhaps might include where your con- on the wire, and yet I filter some of the uni- PHILIPPE: Okay. erything. One-tenth of everything that any it or who are the consumers of the prod- sciousness is at when you’re on the wire, verse, which gives me strength or alerts me artist made belonged to the church. And it Now I leave the theater, and I arrive in uct, whatever it is. I think one of the really when you’re up in space? to dangers. And I think it’s not only for the FUMIKO: Thank you, Philippe. went underground, and they took care of painting. Bear with me. And they have sad things, I mean especially for me as a wire walker. I think we, since we are talk- it, and it belongs to them. And I just think, something that sells. And I have now in my classical musician (classical is so misused, PHILIPPE: Well, I have created, ing about art, I think a good artist should PHILIPPE: Bye-bye, and we’ll talk well, that hasn’t changed. I mean, art and sleep collectors. As long as I repeat this that term, but anyway that’s what people through almost 60 years of performing, be aware of the universe and, at the same again. Bye-bye, Fumiko. money. And I would love to be able to live style all my life, I will have a lot of money. say), we don’t spend any time educating a consciousness, which is a lack of con- time, they should not allow it to penetrate from what I do, but I don’t know how to our audience, and then we complain that sciousness. You could call it focus and con- in their sacred, personal creative world. FUMIKO: Bye-bye. put a price on it. So, I tend to not think FUMIKO: Right. they don’t want what we do. But they are centration. When I was young, I thought We’re talking about a delicate balance. it has any worth, even though it does. I’m not going to get it in school because mu- that the secret of concentration for a wire And, again, there is no recipe for that bal- not good at the monetizing of it. And in PHILIPPE: But they duplicate that. sic programs are dying, everything is go- walker was to forget the world, to only look ance. Everybody has to find his or her own. Italy people say, “mo quita lo facare,” you ing away. at the wire, and that’s the only thing that And I think maybe it’s a nice conclusion to know, who is making you do it? Nobody is Now let’s go back to theater, maybe the exists. And then I found out that was very invite the readers who will read this piece making you do it. Nobody makes you do it. wildest kind of theater, which is street per- So, part of our job is just to keep it alive. You don’t have to do it. Don’t complain. If forming. I have been a street performer for And everybody just wants money for play- you want to be an artist, be an artist, don’t 55 years, and I continue to do it episodi- ing what they want to play, and they are complain. And I think that’s true. cally, and I see a lot of young performers in so angry when people don’t know what the street, and they try to play for the audi- they’re doing, they don’t understand. I MIA: I think actually, though, you have ence in the sense they try to make the au- think that’s kind of ridiculous, you know? both hit on something interesting that I dience laugh and react and applaud. And It’s our job. Part of our job is to share and have never considered before, and that is what I have done all my life is almost the without compromise, as Philippe said, be- that the current artists or some of, many of opposite, because I had nothing to gain, I cause, if you start giving an inch, you’re the current artists, in fact, their work is re- had nothing to lose, and I was a rebellious going to give it all eventually. flecting the consciousness of their buyers. creator. And that has been a key shift in terms of Then you really can’t complain because what has happened since the 1980s. Their And what I did in my street juggling, I will you did it. expression is being tailored to their public. appear in front of the audience, I will draw a circle of chalk and will not permit even a PHILIPPE: Yeah. Yeah. FUMIKO: Um-hmm. half-inch of a toe of the audience to go into my circle, my stage. If they do, I will stop MIA: Well, you have to be authentic, but MIA: They’re buying public. juggling and, in a comic way, I will push the artists need support from the commu- that toe out of my sacred territory. And nity. They need support to be able to do FUMIKO: Which may be the conscious- then it’s trying to make them happy with their work. And, unfortunately, American ness that changed, but not the fact that the what I do. I will almost do the opposite. I culture does not recognize that, and rec- work reflects it. will present a madman prisoner of his own ognizes it less and less. Other countries passion. I will juggle without looking at do support the arts, but all of this ties back Because I think that’s something that prob- the audience. If they would applaud, I will into consciousness, and the fact that hu- ably goes back forever, right? If you know not stop and kind of nod in thankfulness, I manity, as a whole in some ways, seems you are making something to sell, the con- will just be prisoner of my own way. And I to be relinquishing pieces of their con- sciousness of the buyer plays a role, I think. found out that this kind of performing and sciousness to technology. And there is a this kind of art, by extension, is the one desire by governments to make us all more PHILIPPE: You know, in theater, we that touches people because it’s real. It’s conforming and manageable citizens. So, I have that for many, many years. In all the you. You make mistakes, you get lost, you think it’s all linked together in some way. arts, we have what I am not inspired by, forgot your line, you tumble, you survive. And you have to be a rebel. You have to which is a- Let’s say an actor in my exam- You know, we go back to that beautiful no- be rebellious to be creative. You have to ple of theater, an actual performer who will tion of Fumiko, creation is surviving. So, believe that what you want to bring to frui-

38 CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT Photo: Fumiko Wellington CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT 39 Entheon:40 CONSCIOUSNESS | Artists concept AND CONTACT of the sculptural exterior designed by Alex Grey and modeled by Academy Award winning animator, Ryan Tottle. CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT 41 ALAN STEINFELD to semantic reality. Like any writing for panels and interviews representing from an unfamiliar culture, the letters a spectrum of topics including art career are both a window and a barrier of development, her unique expression communication. Allyson’s Secret of Jewish spirituality, psychedelics & Writing returns us to a state of wonder, women, psychedelics & language, surrounded by a language we cannot visionary art and more. Her long-running Meet The Greys interpret. In every great museum, we see blog, Ask Allyson about Art & Life starts illuminated manuscripts and framed pages conversations relevant to the lives in Arabic, Hebrew, Greek or Russian, and of artists and to all who seek practical although we cannot read the writing, we feedback from a sacred wise woman. Alex & Allyson see complex intelligence. Language is a magical code that we yearn to know. The combined power of the art manifested with an Introduction by Alan Steinfeld by this creative couple asks us to With her exquisite colors, Allyson’s redefine what we know and have yet to meticulous oil paintings, acrylic paintings know. In their artwork, Alex & Allyson and watercolors, have long considered each uniquely cultivate an experience nterviewed in this issue Alex Grey Realities television interview with Alan herself “a social sculptor”. This is a term of gnosis (direct knowing) beyond the are two inspiring artists I’ve The multidimensional paintings of Steinfeld, Alex described his art in terms coined by the late-great Joseph Beuys personality. As psychonautic elders at known for over thirty years. Alex Grey have opened the world’s of consciousness and self-discovery: Art describing art’s potential to transform the heart of an awakening spiritual We have ongoingly created third eye to a more expanded sacred becomes an emblem, a passionate society. For example, the carefully crafted community, the Greys’ envision their role and interacted as friends in reality. The intricate mastery of Alex encapsulation; and in some ways a planning and creation of the CoSM as artist influencers in an evolving the spiritual community of New Grey’s art combines skill and spiritual convincing proof that the inner realities experience is evidence of Allyson’s planetary society in which all creative York City. Since 2003, the Grey’s have brilliance, elevating the viewers exist at all. It doesn’t have to argue with art. Through Allyson’s creative leadership traditions and paths to the divine are brought a tribe of love together, first consciousness, revealing their soul’s one reality over another. Art, in general, and a shared vision with Alex, CoSM has honored. Each partner brings a richness in Brooklyn, then in the heart of New brightness in translucent human argues for the reality of the inner worlds. become a unique offering in nature, a to the relationship that, together, is York’s Chelsea gallery district, praying form. It represents a renaissance of It speaks for that. And that is what we center promoting art as a spiritual path. dedicated to making a significant offering togetherI to build an enduring sanctuary of the most ancient of arts, a creative need to resurrect in the 21st century, the to their spiritual community. Visionary Art to uplift a global community. ability that honors an ancient tradition value of the inner worlds. [i] Allyson is a dedicated editor of Alex’s of making the soul perceptible. and CoSM Press books including all ten 1 New Realities interview with Alan Steinfeld In 2008, the Greys’ Chapel of Sacred Grey often traces the lineage of art The term “visionary” is used to volumes of CoSM Journal of Visionary and Alex Grey, September 1999. Mirrors (CoSM NYC) moved to visionaries back to cave painting, describe Alex’s art because he paints Culture plus countless articles and 2 HAK, Pg. 431 Chaos, Order, & Secret Writing Wappinger, New York to fulfill that evidence of the use of sacramental and sculpts his inner visions, which interviews for decades. An intelligent by Allyson Grey mission: to build an enduring temple plants in accessing and expressing in are beyond the material world. The voice who speaks openly on topics of 2009, 10 x 20 in. with a 15 x 25 in. guilded frame on CoSM’s own land. For well over a physical form, visions of mystic realms. paintings “Theologue” and “Net art and life, Allyson’s view is sought after with ink., oil on wood panel. decade, CoSM has offered monthly Grey merges the material body with of Being” represent the timeless celebrations of the Full Moon, Equinoxes, its energetic envelop, awakening and spaceless nature of our Solstices plus the annual Deities & the quantum possibility that we being. Alex’s oeuvre could be summed Demons Masquerade Ball. Programs are both particle and wave. Alex’s up in the words one of his greatest at CoSM include Art Church, creative energetic portrayals of the body influences, William Blake, who said: workshops, live & electronic music, engaged in a Progress of the Soul “Energy is eternal delight.” Seeking a visual art, performance and wisdom. has attracted thousands of young place of balance in a chaotic world, Alex’s This is all open to the public and well people, awakening many to their art is a reminder to revitalize our bodies, attended by seekers of expanding inherent sacredness, reintroducing open our minds and renew our spirit. consciousness. CoSM’s forty-acre site them to their lost but not forgotten hosts seven functioning buildings, among spiritual nature. Grey paints wonders of Allyson Grey them, an1882 carriage house, now creation, a welcome intrusion into our As a conceptual abstract painter transforming into Entheon, the sanctuary media washed world. Standing in and co-founder of CoSM, Chapel of of Visionary Art. Entheon will showcase front of the Sacred Mirrors or present Sacred Mirrors, Allyson Grey has long the work of the international Visionary to Alex’s living color depictions of the been a mentor and influencer of the Artist movement, house the CoSM divine and the dreaded, lifts the veil on all contemporary Visionary Art movement. Collection including Alex Grey’s Sacred we’ve learned, offering access to what we Secret Writing plus her inventions of Mirror series (named and inspired by his truly know. personal symbols of Order and Chaos, all wife and life partner, Allyson). This 12,000 seminal in her artwork for over forty years, square foot building will exhibit iconic As Aldous Huxley noted “the doors of came from visions of the psychedelic Visionary Art, images of the highest perception” can be expanded. In this inner realm. states of awareness depicted by the most case through the observation of Alex’s accomplished artists of the global Love artwork, opening our awareness of The language of creative expression is Tribe. The following is a brief introduction new realities. Grey believes that the symbolically portrayed by a language to the pioneering efforts of two artists function of visionary art is to bring whose meaning is not determined by whose dedication to conscious evolution Heaven to Earth. By portraying his own the artist, leaving it’s meaning entirely has merged spirit, creativity and life. mystical experiences, his paintings to the translation of the viewer. anchor a glimpse of the transcendent The enigmatic letter forms disturb for prolonged contemplation. In a New our automatic response conditioned

42 CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT 43 ALAN STEINFELD AND MIA FEROLETO interpreting my vision of a “cartoon” his- light beings made visible. ing viewers to merge with the mystical. tory of the Universe These higher visions have cultivated a This interconnected web of souls was the visionary community. How do you see “Theologue,” my painting of a seated highest identity with consciousness out- your art influencing such an impressive meditating figure, front and center, with side of time. The fountain of light com- community? a vast grid emanating from his third eye, prised a single cell in an infinite body of THE GREYS: Alex and Allyson was totally changed by Allyson’s sugges- God. My identity eternally part of one ALLYSON: Alex’s art is a great attrac- tion. My original study for this fifteen foot thing within and at one with the Eternal. tor and a context for spiritual gathering. wide piece showed the figure in profile, The self had become one with a greater Alex’s artwork realizes visions of himself THE INTERVIEW praying in the corner, gazing toward the flow of power, with the web of eternal and others having a mystical experience. center at the mountains. light and love. I feel this when I have an My work expresses God as an inner rev- insight or create a drawing or painting. elation. God was revealed to me as a ALAN: Well, I’m glad she suggested disembodied force without human form that. I think that’s one of your most signifi- Visions seeking form are symbols pointing — a force that runs through the tubes and cant pieces. us towards our ultimate spirit of Oneness. channels of all living things. My painting The Sacred Mirrors were created to mirror is my signature and portrays a worldview ALLYSON: I knew Alex’s image for each individual, suggesting that we each characterized by chaos, order and secret “Theologue” had come from an all-night embody a higher light. These spiritual les- writing, three essential elements of spiri- LSD journey we shared with a large, sons have been handed down through tual understanding. unruly group of strangers. While I was the millennia. A Visionary Artist can rei- practiced being invisible, Alex sat up very magine and portray spirit for the tribe. ALEX: Creativity as a spiritual practice straight in a yogic position for much of the Inhabiting an inter-spiritual world is a new welcomes everyone. Every thought is a evening. Two artists can have very differ- dimensional space that uses digital tech- creation. My art has been a “freak flag” ent mental pictures. Sharing a studio, we nology and interconnected social media for those who meditate and experience advise and comment on each other’s work and shares sacred visions worldwide. visionary realms, done shamanic work everyday. We don’t always take sugges- and are open to alternative dimensions tions, but fresh ideas open up new pos- ALAN: Allyson, you have long por- of awareness. Appreciators of my work Theologue | By Alex Grey | 1986, 180 x 60 in., acrylic on linen. sibilities. trayed in your art a mystical alphabet. may feel validated and resonant with my Alex, you paint ethereal bodies in which weirdest images because they portray ALAN: “Theologue” delivers a powerful the invisible is visible. Both of your work an inexplicable inner world of someone MIA: Thank you so much for this inter- tains, etc. In 1971, when I was an agnos- enduring relationship. teaching that we are each at the center of challenges old ways of thinking by invit- apparently NOT crazy or broken. The art- view, Alex & Allyson. tic radical and before I knew Alex, I read a grid of our own creation. Ram Dass’ book Be Here Now. The book ALAN: Consciousness & Contact is the ALAN: New Observations is a maga- inspired me to take LSD in the way Ram theme of this New Observation edition. ALLYSON: Brilliant! So true. It is con- zine that addresses the evolving edge of Dass suggested so I might behold “the Can you tell us how your consciousness fronting when the figure stares directly art and creativity. White Light.” In a dark, quiet room, I saw and contact with each other has contrib- into the eyes of the viewer. That is part Secret Writing washing over all the walls. uted to your creativity? of the power of “Theologue,” one of the MIA: Tell us about the mission of your It was crystal clear that the force field of Maestro’s most beloved paintings! art and how you’d classify your work? visible energy revealed what others had ALEX: We met in art school in a class been calling God. For the first time, God called “Conceptual Mixed Media,” and ALAN: How do art, mysticism and psy- ALLYSON: Between Alex Grey & became present to me and could no lon- moved in together in 1975. With our own chedelics tap into an expanded and nor- Allyson Grey, there are three bodies of ger be UNknown. hands, we turned a raw loft in Boston into mally unrecognized version of ourselves work: Alex’s paintings, drawings and a beautiful home studio where we took and our material world? How do you cor- sculpture; my paintings (acrylics, oils and In 1975, Alex took LSD for the first time a nine year honeymoon. In that loft, we relate the mystical experience with the act watercolors); and COSM, our collabora- in my apartment. We fell in love the next evolved our individual bodies of work, of creating? tive social structure we share every day night on our first date, the night after eventually collaborating. Allyson started with a global community. Our artwork Alex’s meeting with God… photographing and helping me with my ALEX: The mystical experience is the originates from psychedelic mystical performances. Our painting styles have pinnacle of consciousness. Reaching a experiences and we use the term vision- ALEX: I was in a giant pearlescent always been different expressions of much state of contact with the mystery, we meet ary art to describe our approach. conch shell of consciousness turning from the same subject: Consciousness & the with ultimate reality and the source of darkness into light. Self. The performances became increas- creation, the foundation of our very being. ALAN: Can you offer some history ingly more collaborative. Allyson and I have made contact with this about your decision to join forces as part- ALLYSON: When I shared my “private The subjects of our collaborative and per- realm on separate occasions and then ners and artists? art stash,” Alex recognized Secret Writing formative art has always been sex, life together. From sharing the memory of as an important element in my artwork energy, death, money, nuclear war, spiri- God and two doses of MDMA, we simul- ALEX: Psychedelics were an impor- and was the first to hear about my White tuality, relationships … meaningful sub- taneously made contact with the image of tant breakthrough for us. We connected Light/Secret Writing experience. jects. Allyson has had a continual influ- a Chapel of Sacred Mirrors. The Universal when we shared our personal God con- ence on my art work. She inspired the Mind Lattice depicts that realm of pure tact experiences through LSD. Psychedelics have remained our shared Sacred Mirrors and she named them. In spirit disembodiment, a meltdown from spiritual core. 1985, we shared an MDMA vision of our full ego identity with the material body, ALLYSON: I took psychedelics first in lifelong work — the Chapel of Sacred into a glowing sphere, a toroidal fountain 1969 and had many rich experiences with I’ve long felt that people on the same Mirrors. That very year, we sculpted, built interconnected with infinite, similar toroi- friends, by myself, at concerts, on moun- spiritual path have a better chance of an & cast the giant Sacred Mirror frames, dal streams of light, a network of love-

44 CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT Collective Vision | By Alex Grey | 1995 | 38 x 38 in | Oil on linen. CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT 45 ing. CoSM outgrew our Brooklyn loft. exercise. Good health depends on creativ- We outgrew CoSM NYC. Ten years in ity. Block creative and live only for work, the Hudson Valley and at last, Entheon, and money and life will feel hollow. CoSM’s Art Sanctuary, is rounding the cor- ner toward completion. The paintings will ALEX: Creativity makes each of us a bet- be on view again in 2019. ter person, with each of us activating our soul, and bringing the most positive way ALLYSON: When Entheon receives a possible into the world. There are so Certificate of Occupancy, we will meet many complex challenges in the world. with our community in the Great Hall, Creativity and the imagination are needed surrounded by beloved art. CoSM needs to find the solutions to problems of every the help of every person who has had size. a profound experience while gazing at Visionary Art. We are asking the global ALAN: Allyson, can you tell us about community to help CoSM fulfill its mis- your sacred writing? sion. ALLYSON: Secret writing entered my When Entheon opens to the public, the artwork three years before I met Alex. All One Gallery will exhibit original Physical symbols identify everything we works by the world’s most accomplished see. The twenty letters that comprise my and renowned contemporary visionary secret writing have no translatable mean- artists. By completing and sustaining ing, no sounds associated with them. They work suggests a consciousness tapped er throughout your life, there’s a chance your own betterment. CoSM, the Visionary Art movement will are pure of meaning. They remind me of into a universal visionary web. For many, that you could come back as one person.“ have a future and inspire visitors for gen- the symbol-ness of all things visible in the their vision from a mystical experience Sometimes we don’t practice self love and ALAN: Can you talk about the proj- erations to come. material world. Symbols are a window has been among the most important real- yet we adore our beloved. If two lovers ects of the community and how CoSM is through which thoughts are transformed izations of their lives. Pointing toward this became one, that one would be entirely evolving? ALAN: Whitley Strieber’s image from into things. dimension in my art, writing and lectur- whole, that is to say, a Buddha! We do his book Communion will be on the ing, speaks to my ultimate subject: the enjoy the enduring monogamous relation- ALLYSON: In January of 2003, we invited cover of this issue of New Observation ALAN: I love that your secret writing mystical experience. ship, even considering the struggle that friends to the first Full Moon gathering in ALAN: You embrace the natural ele- Magazine. It has become the iconic sig- bypasses that left brain impulse to make comes with a life together committed to our loft in Brooklyn to pray for our inten- ments energetically, shamanically. Can nature of what aliens look like. Have you sense, yet they appear as language, a form MIA: While on my lifelong spiritual and personal transformation. Of course, we tion to create a Chapel of Sacred Mirrors. you talk about what is coming up for you had contact experiences with any other of communication that is secret to all. artistic path and seeing your paintings fall short daily. This full moon in January 2019 celebrates both and CoSM? non-human entities? They have a power that my logical mind through the years, I’ve been impressed CoSM’s 201st consecutive Full Moon can’t grasp -- like trying to hold water. with your clear vision of alternate reali- ALAN: Most relationships struggle with gathering in an unbroken chain dedicated ALEX: We are always deeply grateful to ALLYSON: Have you ever seen any ties. What has always impressed me, the mundane daily work of getting along. to observing the energetic magnet that so many who feel called to help CoSM entities, Alan? ALLYSON: They confound the mind. though, is the relationship between you, You seem to embrace something bigger — brings community together in its seven- forward its mission: to build an endur- Committing a lifetime to secret writing, both spiritually and creatively as artists. creating a community. Do you think that teenth year. We never went to a full moon ing sanctuary of Visionary Art to uplift a ALAN: I have in my dream states. And I’ve talked a lot about the a language with The studio you share seems like your lab- is the secret to your lasting relationship? ceremony until we had one in our home. global community. Visionary Art trans- it seems to me that only in an altered state no meaning. As artists, we are symbol oratory where you mirror each other as Living in the city all those years with Alex mits from the state of mystical conscious- of consciousness can I feel their presence. makers, creating from our imagination you make your art. Allyson’s art seems ALEX: You put your finger on it. We’ve and Zena, I don’t remember noticing ness, reporting from higher dimensions through icons. Poets, musicians, danc- to me more micro level and Alex’s more identified a third force, greater than each the moon that much before we held full of awareness. After our consciousness ALEX: On Ayahuasca journeys and ers and actors reveal indescribable inner macro. The energetic dialogue along with of us as individuals. It may have been moon ceremonies. It isn’t because we expands, some of us seek validation, and DMT experiences, I’ve felt other presenc- worlds. the actual dialogue between you takes a “calling.” I completely turned around worship the moon. There’s just no argu- look for the others sharing a similar expe- es. The painting “Transfiguration” shows expression and creates your work. Since from being a very suicidal, nihilistic ment about the moon. It is just there, and rience. CoSM is an oasis. As artists in a figure lifting off the earth with one leg ALAN: And we give symbols meaning the ‘60s, realms of higher consciousness young man to someone who believed in serves a symbol of our divine unity. every medium we can develop our ability maintaining contact with the ground. based on our cultural programing. have been spreading through the cul- love and really felt like life was a spec- to portray these alternate realities born in In my first DMT experience, this figure ture. Your timing in forming a community tacular blessing worth preserving at all ALEX: A sacred site is often selected in our imaginations. became more translucent, until the figure ALLYSON: Exactly. All expression is seems perfect. The intimate experience costs. That Allyson could be my friend and resonance with a special geological fea- popped into a bright hyper-dimensional delivered and received through symbolic you share seems astonishing. Very few partner for the rest of my life is just the ture. CoSM is 1,500 feet from the Hudson ALAN: At CoSM NYC, I’d see people look- sphere, entering into a larger presence in windows. My voice, the sounds that I’m people get to have that interpersonal con- greatest joy. River, which the native Wappinger people ing at the art and overhear them say: that scene. Collective Vision was a paint- making with my mouth, are recognized nection on all levels. called the “Mohicanituk,” the great flow “That’s what happened to me.” You mate- ing that harkened to the last portion of only if you are familiar with the symbols Really the greatest art in life is the con- that goes both ways. The Hudson is a rialized their invisible experience into a my first DMT-smoked experience. As I’m using. In our consciousness, we expe- ALLYSON: Alex and I are very lucky tinual creative work that you do to evolve “Moon River,” a tidal river, that chang- tangible vision. Can you talk about the I returned from an altered state, I envi- rience order — interconnectivity through to have found each other so early and yourself within all relationships. In phys- es its direction every six hours. CoSM contingent of people for whom your work sioned endlessly interconnected heads. I love-light. We experience chaos: order to have had such a good long time liv- ics, when you meet resistance, you are exists in a vortex where the briny ocean has been so important? was one of them. We are all one being, plus entropy. In the material world, all is ing, working and transforming together. engaging the inertia. Evolving our own flows nearly 70 miles upstream to having a collective vision. dissolution. Secret writing shares a lan- In The Teachings of the Buddha, a couple ability to “relate and get along” is a long- Poughkeepsie then reverses direction and ALEX: I am so honored and amazed guage of creative expression. came to Buddha to ask a question. “We term transformation process. journeys back to the sea. It’s meaningful that thousands wear my artwork tattooed ALAN: What do you think about the ALAN: Your art merges together and are really so in love,” they said, “ ...and in relation to our Full Moon ceremonies. on their bodies. They have clearly found future and the public’s interest in creativ- builds on each other. Alex’s paintings of yet, the thought of being separated by ALLYSON: Self-transformational. The Metaphorically, the moon is a sacred mir- meaning in my images. New friends find ity and art? the etheric essence are beyond our logi- death pervades our minds.” Buddha told real reason to stay together through thick ror, a reflection of a greater light. their way to CoSM in the Hudson Valley cal mind. Your essentialized world view them, “If you follow the same path togeth- and thin, no matter what comes up, is for each full moon, and attendance is grow- ALLYSON: Creativity is a health factor, like of chaos, order & secret writing depicts

46 CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT Realms of the Unpronounceable | Allyson Grey | 2012 - 2015, 48 x 24 in. | Oil on wood panel Universal Mind Lattice | Alex Grey | 1981 | 48 x 86 in | Acrylic on canvas CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT 47 Jewel Net of Indra | Allyson Grey | 1988, 40 x 40 in. | Oil on wood panel

Complimentary Mandala | Allyson Grey | 2016 | 36 x 36 in. | Oil on wood panel

an alternate realm of cognition. Both your allysongrey.com/single-post time. individual paintings, sculpture and social sculpture speak to a higher awareness. ALEX: Available this season: ALAN: And for your dedication to cre- ative discovery. Your commitment to bring MIA: As we close, is there anything that The Mission of Art, again in hard cover for a higher conscious to the world is inspir- either of you would like to add? the 20th Anniversary Edition ing.

ALLYSON: A recently released book Art Psalms, the liturgy of CoSM, 10th -- Women and Visionary Art, edited by Anniversary edition (hardcover). our friends David Jay Brown and Rebecca Build Entheon with us. BuildEntheon.com Ann Hill, features chapter long interviews with wonderful visionary artists includ- Find out more at: cosm.org; alexgrey.com; ing Amanda Sage, Martina Hoffman, and allysongrey.com myself. My Blog: Ask Allyson About Art & Life at MIA: Thank you both for just taking the

48 CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT Transfiguration | Alex Grey | 1993 | 60 x 90 in. | Oil on linen CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT 49 50 CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT Painting by Lucio Pozzi Karen Gunderson | Danish Rescue | 2004 | 61.5 x 52.25 | Oil on Linen CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT 51 52 CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT Karen Gunderson | Shadow Waves | 2006 | 50 x 50 | Oil on Linen Karen Gunderson | Ramadan | 20104 | 52.25 x 61.5 | Oil on Linen CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT 53 REBECCA HARDCASTLE WRIGHT

Why Exoconscious Humans Matter PART-2 to Art and Culture

CONTACT rtists hold a revered place in culture. Their work shows us who we are and how we are awakening as a culture. They create our reality – stop signs and red muletas as well as reminders of alluring beauty and draped grace. They portray our consciousness as a jumbled compartmentalized collage as well as a vibrant fluid connection. Artists collect the cosmos on the end of their brushes and paint it. More vibrant than a colorized NASA rendering. More tactile than a commercial ticket to Mars that waits redemption. More intimate than video feed from the International Space Station.

AAs the creator of the term Exoconscious- ones who show the way — our frontline Today, Exoconsciousness is defined ness, I am aware of the essential cultural envoys. as the ability of humans to connect, relationship between art and the communicate and co-create with ETs. We extraterrestrial presence. An experiencer will concern ourselves with the co-create since childhood, throughout my life I Defining Exoconsciousness aspect. wandered in psychic discovery among star beings of the sky and among below- Initially, it is important to both define and Exoconscious Humans are persons ground beings of our planet. The effect of contextualize Exoconsciousness. Yet, it is who experience on-going ET contact integrating my ongoing lifelong contact essential to note that while I stated that I and communication. Through their is that, today, I focus on the aspect of created the word Exoconsciousness, that relationship with ET, they co-create. It is consciousness. That means, I research, is only a half-truth. Exoconsciousness was a multi-layered process. They integrate even taught Ufology in a university, but given to me one morning before I got out their ET experiences into who they are as do not focus on lights in the sky or UFO of bed to pack my kids’ lunches and give humans. They develop an Exoconscious metrics. Nor do I focus on government- them an off-to-school hug before driving self-identity, experiencing this in varied sourced leaks and organizations of to work. It unveiled in the ordinary. ways. They see themselves as psychic, select, often disparate, information. The word exoconsciousness came both empathic, creative, curious, galactic, My primary work is to define what it from within, bubbling up from my ET time travelers, healers, spiritual, multi- means to be a human in relationship experiences, teaching and research, and dimensional and, above all, ET-sourced. with extraterrestrials. How is our from without, floating from my ET field Furthermore, as their integration develops, consciousness affected by ET contact? of consciousness. A word that entered eventually they apply the information and How do we sustain and utilize our my body. A word becoming flesh. A live energy to their transformation. Throughout relationship with ET? missive. this process, they utilize their ET relationship in their work. They become In this article, I share co-creation, a As alive and dynamic, Exoconsciousness Exoconscious artists, healers, scientists, primary component of the Exoconscious defies decisive definition. Initially, I inventors, engineers, teachers and Human-ET relationship. I propose that defined Exoconsciousness as the study spiritual adepts. Exoconscious Humans the ET experience alters the artist’s self- of the extraterrestrial origins, dimensions practice all forms of creative work. They identity and, in some instances, he or she and abilities of human consciousness. do this by co-creation with ET. may enter into an agreement that results Defining it became an academic and in art that expresses and communicates experiential pursuit of meaning. Once the ET’s presence. These artists create meaning coalesced, defining was about our Exoconscious culture. They are the humans expressing Exoconsciousness.

54 CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT Illustration By: Benjavisa Ruangvaree/Shutterstock CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT 55 Exoconscious Human as CE6 powering shift from former categories of cultures included academic, religious, Exoconscious use psychic intelligence to her lifelong relationship with ET. As she About the Author abduction, hallucinations, altered states scientific and government. For some time, orient ourselves and our life. In many paints, her ET connection manifests. She But, before we delve into co-creation, let’s of consciousness and waiting for ET to I was unable to put my finger on what cases, psychic intelligence is our primary integrates therapy into her art. And her Rebecca Hardcastle Wright created the contextualize Exoconsciousness. This is fly out of the sky in a UFO. It implies an was missing, what was out of alignment. orientation. therapy is not limited to humans. Darlene term “Exoconsciousness” in a series of important because words live in a large examination of who we are as humans Then, I began to research and work with guides ETs. This may startle those who articles, blogs and Exoconsciousness: human vocabulary. One of the ways to and the nature and abilities of our the ET-Human aspect of curiosity and Artists collecting the cosmos on the end of believe the Hollywood and government Your 21st Century Mind. She is the distinguish Exoconsciousness is to relate consciousness. But, let us note, this is no creativity. Precisely these elements were their brushes possess psychic intelligence. myths that ET is advanced far beyond founder of the non-profit Institute it to accepted categories of ET contact trivial undertaking. Our historical reality missing. human development. This myth is for Exoconsciousness and is a leading experience. Astronomer and Ufologist, is that for the past 400 years the study Exoconsciousness defines consciousness misleading and, in many cases, incorrect. expert and advocate in consciousness J. Allen Hynek, proposed the first three of consciousness was placed in solitary Whether professional academic, religious, as a field phenomenon — beyond and Darlene counsels ETs in shifting timelines, and extraterrestrial contact. Rebecca is CE categories to describe various UFO lock down, separated from science. For scientific or government cultures — each within the human brain and neural integrating advanced knowledge, and a frequent guest on radio and television. encounters: nocturnal, daylight, radar. centuries, the primary study and uses of lacked the dynamic element of curiosity system. Our entire body receives, opening paths to communicate with She recently contributed to Beyond Later, astronomer and computer scientist consciousness were tightly controlled and creativity. Yet, these are the major transmits and creates the field of humans. The field of consciousness is a UFO’s: The Science of Contact with Jacques Vallee developed the category by religion, secret societies and mystery elements that define and develop art. The consciousness. We are not a human radio great leveler. Non-Human Intelligence. In Washington, CE4 to describe UFO encounters. Vallee schools. These groups had a high price Exoconscious Artist opens to ET contact or computer, an implant or an actor in DC, Rebecca was a member of Apollo emphasized the UFO encounter effect on of admission as well as an elite vetting. and communication. They form a working a sensor space-based system; we are a New Observations Magazine publisher Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell’s Quantrek the contactee’s sense of reality: how the Primarily family and occasionally fate relationship with ET in the creation of complex, creative participant within the and president, Mia Feroleto, introduced international science team researching participant’s sense of reality shifted during were the admission ticket to membership. their art. For Alex Grey and many others, field consciousness. me to esteemed artist Karen Gunderson, zero-point energy, consciousness, and the described abduction. He examined the Elitism applied pressure to continue the Exoconscious Art is ET inspired. who “has tackled subjects from clouds ET Presence. encounter via various states of contact: secret knowledge tradition. Schools, to royalty to the cosmos. Her long- abduction, hallucinatory, out-of-body, rituals, robes and cultural advantage were Before you say, “Whoa, what about the Exoconscious Art developed, labor-intensive technique, Rebecca has over 30 years’ experience as dream-like events and even its similarity the formula. This secrecy is operative inventions and intellect at all of our as ET-Human Agreement including rigorous brushwork and paint a Mind Body Therapist, Hypnotherapist, to folk-tales of encounters. Physician today, but gradually breaking open. esteemed universities and institutions?” I layering, employs a range of black shades and Coach. She practices at Mind Body and Ufologist Steven Greer developed want to address this directly. During the process of creating our that create a unique three-dimensional Medicine in Scottsdale, Arizona. the category CE5 to describe the UFO I cannot put my finger on the historical Community of the Exoconscious website, effect: The multiple textures from the encounter characterized by mutual, date when public admission through the Studies at the University of Chicago we reached out to artists who create paint catch light and make the paintings Her graduate degrees include a MDiv bilateral communication rather than doors of secret school consciousness and the University of Minnesota found directly with ET. On our website you will shimmer and appear to move, alternating in Philosophical Theology from Boston unilateral contact. He noted respectful was permitted, but one indication was that “teachers smile on children with find art by Lloyd Canning, Philippa Foster, with shadows and highlights that University School of Theology and a PhD exchanges between humans and ET. when the Eastern and Western mystery high IQs and frown upon those with and Suzanne Gyseman. This is the start illuminate her subjects — historic royal in Parapsychic Science from American Greer’s emphasis on his popular CE5 schools merged. This was orchestrated creative minds. Intelligent but uncreative to what we hope will become a home as figures, bodies of water, mountains, and Institute of Holistic Theology. She received events focuses the participants outward in the late 1800s by Theosophy schools. students accept conformity, never rebel, well as a marketplace for ET art. constellations — depending on how the her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Philosophy into the sky. Skywatching for ET. Look Until a century later, by the early 1990s, and complete their assignments with viewer moves in front of each artwork.” of Religion from Otterbein University, up and ET will appear. ET as above and universities opened departments for dispatch and to perfection. The creative My dear, now deceased, friend, Cynthia Karen’s constellation series reveals the including a year studying Continental outside of humans. the scientific study of consciousness. In child, on the other hand, is manipulative, Crawford, received an ET request to create cosmos. Though I don’t know about Philosophy in Basel, Switzerland. She is particular, Princeton and Duke pioneered imaginative, and intuitive. He is likely to statues. She entered into an agreement Karen’s ET experience, she possesses certified in hypnotherapy and coaching Instead of looking up, waiting and hoping this process, as did Edgar Mitchell’s harass the teacher. He is regarded as wild, with them. She had no formal art training, Exoconscious eyes. She paints a multi- by Southwest Institute for Healing Arts. for contact, I propose a CE6 category Institute for Noetic Sciences and Stanford naughty, silly, undependable, lacking in so her awe and confusion regarding the dimensional mind. She collects the Ordained in the United Methodist — the Exoconscious Human. The CE6 Research Institute. seriousness or even promise. His behavior request was significant. Nevertheless, cosmos at the end of her brush – a brush Church, Rebecca served for fifteen years category is characterized by ongoing ET is distracting; he doesn’t seem to be slowly, she began to sculpt ET beings, pregnant with black paint. as an Ecumenical Chaplain at Wright State conscious contact, communication and Please note that in the context of trying; he gives unique answers to banal sending them first to friends, until word University in Dayton, Ohio. co-creation. This category expresses an consciousness, Exoconsciousness questions, touching off laughter among got out about Cynthia’s statues and Art heals. Art communicates. Art guides. intentional human decision to shift their would not be a word that expressed the other children.” E. Paul Torrance of the orders outnumbered her ability to It accesses a place deep within our being For more information, you can visit: relationship with ET from unconscious an ET-Human experience without the University of Minnesota found that 70 produce and she began to use molds. She that knows our cosmic connection, www.exoconsciousness.com to conscious – from lights above to the corresponding public access to percent of pupils rated high in creativity received messages from across the world our kindred ETs. Exoconscious Art human participant. A CE6 encounter is the heretofore secretive archives of were rejected by teachers when picking a about the power of her sculptures to replicates the effect of ET Presence in our human-oriented, human-sourced. In this consciousness as well as the work special class for the intellectually gifted. communicate, heal and guide. ETs spoke individual lives and culture. As we build encounter, human self-identity is changed of Ufologists like Hynek, Greer, and a through her sculptures. an Exoconscious culture, artists are our as he or she identifies and integrates with multitude of others. Continuing in this Clearly, there is a difference between visionary scouts. ET via consciousness. This change in self- lineage, the Institute for Exoconsciousness intelligent and creative minds. Intelligent UK glass designer Miguel Mendonca identity comes from a place of human provides a collaborative network for minds are measured by logical, is Cynthia’s legacy. After a career as Presidents may establish an official space awareness of the power and abilities of Exoconscious Humans to assist humanity mathematic and linguistic metrics. All of an international environmentalist, force. Militaries may launch elaborate their consciousness. in bridging from gradual contact to us were likely tested on these intellect followed by writing a series of books intergalactic space defense systems. creating an ET-Human culture, an IQ metrics. What we were not measured that interviewed ET experiencers, Miguel Corporate titans may devise colonization Exoconscious are aware that humans and Exoculture. by was our psychic intelligence, which was called to create with stained glass. blueprints for the furthering of their ETs experience a shared conscious reality. sources curiosity and creativity. Like Cynthia, his work expanded, and monetary goals. Intelligence agencies may Importantly, they are aware that they have he ships his ET-channeled glass work to corral mystery school adepts and capture freedom to relate or not relate, and that Co-Creative Exoconscious Human In a respectful re-phrasing of Howard experiencers across the world. Miguel’s ancient artifacts to advance their covert some ETs are like us and some are not. Gardner’s multiple intelligences (that also messages from experiencers are similar to operations. And yet, they all fall short. The primary CE6 emphasis is on abilities At several junctures of my life, I entered excludes psychic intelligence), I define Cynthia’s. Exoconscious artists are the lynchpins that of human consciousness, secondarily on cultural environments where I mentally psychic intelligence as using advanced both hold and move our relationship to ET, ET shared consciousness. prepared to be intellectually and consciousness to solve problems and Darlene Van de Grift, a transformational then image it out through culture. Art is a culturally stimulated with new ideas and create new products that are valued counselor and body therapist, found that primary conduit for humans to connect, Exoconscious Human CE6 is an em- energy — often to be disappointed. These within one or more cultural settings. We art was the clearest medium to express communicate and create with ET.

56 CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT 57 reative people all over UFO manifestation, of which some fall tion of the brain hemispheres (8Hz alpha the world are experi- well within the credible witness category brain rhythm). Therefore, it is our sugges- ANANDA BOSMAN encing forms of what – such as physicist, aeronautical engineer, tion that, as this Age of Cosmic Dialogue appears to be contact psychologist, astronomer, air pilot, or lieu- is opening up, the Cosmic Dialogue pro- with a cosmic intel- tenant – we continue to catalogue. cess will become a cultural form of artistic ligence that responds inspiration. to personal coherent intent and appears The earliest form of Cosmic Dialogues within the parameters of the physical can- goes back to the Giant Rock Airbase of In our 17th year, I first became familiar vas of our reality. Howard Hughes’ special engineer, George with the combination of 8Hz and con- Van Tassel, in California, from 1952 sciousness focused on the cosmic intel- InC post-modern times, more and more art- onwards. Ten thousand people would ligence, and then came the emergence The Art of Cosmic Contact ists are becoming less shy in relaying their gather, as reported by William F. Hamilton of a UFO — during the 1987 Harmonic “Consciousness and Contact with Cosmic III, who was there. The Dialogues with Convergence global event. This August Intelligence” experience. As Mia Feroleto the Cosmos experienced the classical 17th world-wide gathering was the first wrote in a letter to me: “We are bringing movements of the UFO, starting with a such gathering with 5 million people with the these artists out of the woodwork.” moving light that would respond to con- linked in cognition, compassion, and sciousness or to bright car lights that were coherence. Everyone wore Walkman play- It appears that a new artistic quality, reconfigured to sky orientation. One or ers with headphones and listened to 8Hz Artist of Consciousness which involves the combination of our three beams of the car-lights at the object music (via the hemi-synch method, actual co-creative cognition, coherence in heart, would get a response of three wink-like 8Hz) AND the Schumann Resonance (7.8 Illustration courtesy of Romolo Tavani/Shutterstock and consciousness, is emerging in human- pulse flashes. This was five years before Hz) made audible by Dr. Randolph Price. ity. This new co-creative art talent also the first satellite, Sputnik. Or the object reveals some of the buried mysteries at would jump, stop, or zig zag, make an There was no internet but the BB-net. the heart of the nature of mankind, con- arch, change speed, or wink out, all Each of the sacred sites where people sciousness, and our interaction with the before the space age. gathered had timed synchronization living environment. where, say, Glastonbury would focus on So, technically, 1952 is where the Age the group at Lake Titicaca and vice versa This author has been exploring this cre- of Cosmic Dialogue begins. Before this, at the same time. This was being done ative means of cosmic contact for 33 going back hundreds of years, noted sequentially and globally for the 5 million years, since consciously engaging and astronomers observed UFOs leaving engaged in all sites of assembly (i.e. Giza being engaged by the Unidentified Aerial Venus, the Moon, crossing the Sun’s Pyramid with the Teotihuacan, Mexican Phenomenon (UAP, more commonly surface, leaving Mars, etc. But in 1952, pyramids, etc.). known under the nomenclature of UFO) before there were satellites, a concert- and showing this Unknown Phenomenon ed group of people attempted to dia- When synchronizing to the site, we lis- to others, interacting with it through the logue with the UFO and gained a noted tened to 8Hz music, sang “OM,” went lens of our consciousness. response (explored, at depth, in our into an 8Hz alpha meditation and mus- Dialogues 3 Report). tered compassion and coherence. In more recent years, these orga- nized efforts, under the nomenclature In my teenage period of interactivity with This also became the first traces of the “Dialogues with the Cosmos,” have been the cosmic intelligence, this particular 432Hz ‘OM’ega Music Revolution, as composed of largely European civilians form of interaction with the visible UAP I first called it during the 1990s when (a dialoguer). A wide array of results also instilled a new level of co-creativity founding the post-modern popular and have included history-making new sci- within individuals that led to us becom- electronic form of the 432hz music move- entific measuring equipment. At times, a ing visionary semantic artists, as glob- ment. Dialoguer may continue with the cosmic ally known public figures, in addition to intelligence and engage them creatively. inspiring a new musicology and pioneer- During the August 17th dawn time, on We note that there are now many numer- ing the founding of the modern electron- top of the Glastonbury Tor, and follow- ous groups with different filters of percep- ic and popular 432Hz Music Movement ing several meditations of 8Hz and OM tion engaging something similar around during the 1990s — a music that utiliz- songs, I was being interviewed by an the world. es some of the harmonics involved in Australian TV team and telling them about coherent consciousness and biological the UFOs, and that we had to meet them Over these years of Dialogues, it appears coherence. AND the UFO. A music, that midway, and to keep looking up. At that that this cosmic intelligence and UAP may allow for a Cultural Cosmic Contact, moment, a UFO appeared on the Mendip interactive is aroused through intense art interactivity: “The 432Hz Global horizon of the Glastonbury Zodiac of creativity and strong heart-willed intent Concert.” hills. A golden ball kept moving over a for universal purposes, with biological period of 20 minutes, powering up and coherence (compassionate love mea- Over the years, protocols that instill and down, dancing over the southwest hori- sured through biofeedback) and deep convey the coherence factor, which con- zon, and seemingly interacting at a dis- “Anthropic Sentience,” as coherent con- sciously engages this cosmic intelligence, tance with some of those gathered, who sciousness (brain hemisphere synchroni- have been developed with great detail. became excited. Other people continued zation at an alpha rhythm of 8Hz). The creative Dialogue protocols are the to OM and listen to the 8Hz music and very same that are utilized in the creative meditate. With over 180 witnesses to this form of process of the artist, such as synchroniza-

58 CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT 59 I first became more deeply familiar with Dr. Andrija Puharich, in some of his ear- netic pulsation.” up to nine response pulse-flashes to the impossible for the heart to instill the most of the heart and 8Hz mind, produce the 8Hz work of Dr. Puharich in 1988 lier papers, pointed out that the hydrogen laser, in our Dialogues 3 report. coherent brain rhythm of 8Hz. extraordinary changes on the global ran- when a Dutch friend, Onno Veltmann atom’s single proton and single electron A note concerning the above quote: in dom number generators. Implications on (We met at the 1987 Glastonbury-side have a phase-velocity difference in their speaking with Dr Erling Strand, head of Except, we also exchange the laser, with When the brain operates in hemi-synch consciousness engaged in “reality” co- Harmonic Convergence.), came to visit orbital velocities of 8Hz; that 90% of the the project team, an 8Hz connection was the coherent 8Hz heart-will laser direct- of 8 cycles per second, one is operating creation. us at our Holistic Center, Greystones, universe is hydrogen atoms; and that these ascertained. A UFO had appeared over a ed at the UFO, as the artistic interactive in all dendrites of the brain and 10^12 bits Yetminter, England. He brought a large 8Hz atoms are in every cubic centimeter portal site (Asgaardsdane, near Gøl), on brush stroke, interactivity of co-artists, the of information. In standard beta rhythm, Talk about heArt, now that is a dynamic stack of the doctor’s science papers. Later, of space and comprise 92% of the atoms November 26th, 1998 (a site portal we cosmic-artist, and the earth-side-artist of coffee chat, one is operating only in some gallery! Onno would donate the entire stack to of our body. had worked with a group on April 29th, the heart. This testimony has also been dendrites in the brain cells, at 10^4 bits our research. 1996) and was photo captured by the catalogued and published publicly. of information. A difference between the There is still more. “Teleportation” of stem From the 1950s onward, at his lab-9 in local meteorological site. modelling of a snail and of galaxies. cells into the DNA cell sample by the The research documents a triple blind Maine, Dr. Puharich increased the amount THE HEART OF COSMIC CONTACT 8Hz biological coherent peak of the heart study over two years that involves thou- of shielding of his Faraday cages, until The photo obtained by my friend, Frode History was in the making. And there is in compassion: Biological Coherence, sands of people who wore a device gener- he finally ended up with a triple-vacu- Kvisle, whose house is right next to this For over 26 years now, the HeartMath more. Much, much more: The heArtist together with coherent (8Hz) willed ating a pure 8Hz signal, which has “cured um, 6-copper wall, shell-layered version. portal site, was discussed with profes- Institute of scientists, headed by Dr. emerges! intent, teleporting the original cells, the over 27 organic diseases to date.” 8Hz defied conventional physics, it went sor Strand. He stated that a similar or the Rollin McCraty and Dr. Glen Rein, have baby cells from which all organs grow, straight through even a triple vacuum, same object had also been sighted and done detailed cardio (heart) studies on Dr Glen Rein initiated DNA lab research into another DNA culture – genet- Our music theory, “Universal Tempering,” which implies that the local 8Hz magnetic registered in Hessdalen hundreds of kilo- the effect of compassionate love on DNA with those pilots who could sustain or ic re-imaging through a universal lan- has utilized a great deal of the scientific component ortho-rotates through the vac- meters further northeast. samples, with significant findings. maintain coherence in the biofeedback guage. These are brand new studies by experiments that Dr. Puharich engaged uum as a “virtual” particle through “Bell data for as long as two minutes. A DNA HeartMath scientists based on the work of in the 1950s until the 1980s. During a Non-Locality,” through Virtual Vacuum We spoke on the telephone, and I asked Today, they are famous for their iPhone sample would receive a fluorescence Dr Luc Montagnier. congress I gave in Wiesbaden, December reality, which is past-present-future. Erling if their instruments had ever reg- app InnerBalance, which measures the reading to show its helical morphology. 1992 — in response to a question from istered a frequency of 8Hz. There was user’s heart coherence. The application The pilot would focus on causing the dou- No wonder the protocols for the Art of musician Kailash Kokopelli, about elec- As hydrogen’s 8Hz is in every cubic centi- a silence, and Erling replied, “Well, guides the user to breathe in a certain ble helix to uncoil or coil more. Then a Cosmic Contact are centered on the tronic music — I suggested a new music meter, the non-local virtual phase of 8Hz, Ananda, as a matter of fact, it is quite manner and concentrate on kindness, fluorescence reading is taken. Over 24 heart, with 8Hz. Appearing before the based on 8Hz and 8Hz x 8Hz x 8Hz, or is UNIVERSALLY PRESENT: Past-Present- common for our instruments to measure compassion, and love for someone or the years, repeating the same experiment, UFO emerges at Hessdalen, and when 512Hz. This was the observed electromag- Future-NOW and interacts with the most a frequency of 8Hz (7.4-7.8, sometimes world. One then gets a visual biofeedback together with controls, the evidence co-artists, dialoguers, utilize and maintain netic resonance of water (Puharich), when creative functions of sentient man. 8.1Hz) before the appearance of the of this coherence, going into the green shows that coherent willed intent, with coherence with coherent intent to engage it was excited or electrolyzed by 8Hz for Hessdalen lights phenomenon,” levels. Some are at first startled and can’t maintained coherence (compassion) in the UFO and cosmic intelligence, there is 72 hours. An Interactive Universal Heart-Mind believe it, when they immediately observe the heart, produces significant measured interactivity. Intelligence. Now to the Intelligence, we continue to this cognitive act, inducing a fall out of changes in the DNA sample. This was 512Hz emerged with a sideband of the quote from the MoD: coherence. So, one has interactivity and extended to half a mile distance between Clearly, in that brush stroke, cosmic intel- harmonic musical tuning we utilize, THE COGNIZANT ARTIST’S rapidly improves with many health advan- pilot and sample. It did not matter: Instant ligence is relaying the language of uni- including 432Hz. The sterile controlled CYBERNETIC INTERFACING “The lights could be seen on radar. The tages documented. willed-intent results. versal sentience, revealing the very tools water proceeded to change as amino WITH THE COSMIC INTERFACE speed varied all the way from 0 to 30,000 by which we step out of the genetic robot acids formed into complex proteins. These ON THE CANVAS km/hour. Sometimes the radar saw some- However, the InnerBalance App, does not Then pilots started to focus on multiple and into genetic co-creators, as well as experiments were repeated over many thing moving at a low speed, but no lights describe the foundation for the analy- results in one sample: a change in the co-creators in random factors of the envi- years with similar results. In 2013 and again in 2015, the British were seen by eye. Clearly, something was sis of coherence. In the early papers of middle, uncoiling of the DNA, and fur- ronment, bringing out a coherent out- Ministry of Defense: MoD, released sev- there, but only the radar could detect it. McCraty and Rein, there were many spec- ther coiling of the DNA. When this was come. 8Hz and the musical cascade it imbibes eral volumes of their UFO research. I tral graphs of the cardio-rhythm’s magnet- achieved with clear results, the implica- in water, 512 Hz, when maintained have lived in Norway for a while. The “A laser-beam was directed toward the ic waves in exact frequency ranges. tions rewrite the world! Compassionate Artist as heArtist’s of genetics and the cos- for three days and nights, produces science of the UFO being studied in the light and the behavior of the light report- Here, the onset of coherence into the love acts as a “non-linear,” “non-electro- mos. Co-Artificers with the All-One Macro life. 512Hz is a C-tone (Do), when the remote Norwegian town of Hessdalen edly changed. Out of nine occasions, Golden Mean proportion pattern (so sig- magnetic force” that is time travelling or Artificer. The heart of the Art of Cosmic A=432Hz. has all the key examples of this artis- the light changed on eight attempts and nificant in the great Masters of Art) has its transcends the confines of time, engaging Consciousness. tic intelligent interaction with a Cosmic reportedly reverted to the original state peak at 8Hz, precisely. As the heart mus- three separate genetic changes concur- In January 2014, a published scientific Intelligence. The MoD reported on when the laser was switched off. There cle (7 layers with 7 spin angles, 7 toroidal rently. Furthermore, utilizing these 8Hz centered study entitled “Amelioration of Psychiatric “Project Hessdalen”: could, of course, be several interpreta- fields) contracts and then expands, the protocols in two separate occasions, we Symptoms Through Exposure to Music tions placed on this phenomenon, the coherent magnetic fields are ordering the The control sets, same pilots, not in sus- were able to get instant response of the Individually Adapted to Brain Rhythm “And the project was linked with most bizarre of which is known as a spectral 7 toroidal spin angles into one, tained coherence, or others in other mind Hessdalen lights. Dozens of observations Disorders,” showed that 18 months of the Norwegian Defense Research ‘Close Encounter of the 5th kind’. like from the rainbow to the sun. A star sets, such as chat, stress, even joy, did not without protocols resulted in no out- listening to Old French Pitch 432Hz com- Establishment. laser, in the golden proportion, peaking produce a result on the DNA. comes. This is captured on film. posed music “produced a complete ame- “Sometimes the lights at Hessdalen lasted at 8Hz. lioration of psychiatric syndromes;” men- “The main purpose was to collect as for more than two hours in one place The 8Hz peaking heart in compassion COSMIC CONTACT tal disorders like paranoid schizophrenia much scientific data as possible. A before they moved. Literally hundreds of Furthermore, and in the early studies this (inducing 8Hz in the mind, for willed WITH CONSCIOUSNESS or depression were reversed. This did not research station was set up with eight dif- instances have been reported, six to seven seemed impossible, the 8Hz heart coher- intent) has opened up the heArtist to AS A NEW ART FORM happen in the control group that utilized ferent kinds of instruments. times a week and two to three times a ence peak also instilled 8Hz within the engage with the canvas art materials the modern Rockefeller standard tuning day. Some 20 scientists researched the brain, registered by electrodes on the fore- of the DNA fabric itself: The heArtist as The creative canvas in this becomes the since 1952, that of 440 Hz. The 432Hz “Spectrum-analyzer. Sometimes there phenomenon during 1994.” head. At that point, this was an almost genetic engineer, a novel emergence. sky and the “Field Work” of interaction. mechanism: “Enhancing Brain-Rhythm were electro-magnetic signals with har- impossible thing to witness. Dr Karl The brush strokes are the consciousness SYNCHRONIZATION.” Brain synchro- monics of about 80MHZ. Magnetograph. All of the above transpired in our numer- Pribram, the holographic brain research This goes much further in new studies interactions of anthropic sentience and nization occurs at the alpha rhythm of 8 The magnetic field did sometimes change ous portal efforts over the last 33 years scientist, had to take apart every piece of with random number generators and in biological coherence. And the palette of cycles per second. when the lights showed up. There also and in Dialogues with the Cosmos. We the technical equipment. For him and the how groups of people on the HeartCloud, this art is the alphabet the UAP/UFO uti- seemed to be a correlation with the mag- have published direct witness testimony, old paradigm, even if holographic, it was with a synergy of Maintained Coherence lizes to interact with our consciousness

60 CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT Illustration by Shutterstock/ESB Professional CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT 61 (the UAP making a zig-zag trajectory, or tation (in the deep night sky above the to monitor the ambience, also history mation flying over has been captured by sending a pulse signal response to coher- site where the coherent protocols were making in this technology being used in many creative groups over the planet in the ent consciousness, or jumping from a engaged) of MACRO Symbols. These Dialogues with the Cosmos. last years. steady trajectory to another point in the symbols were composed of “light arcs” sky, to stopping, or becoming brighter as producing petals that would fade in: first Some of the spheres that came down were We gathered the assembly of light-arc the onset of coherence in the civilians two outside petals of light, and then two interacting with numerous members of the macro symbols in the debriefings with the increases, or suddenly changing direction, inner petals made of these arcs of light, group by utilizing a mandala-like inter- civilians. This was filmed to document how etc.). spanning a period of two minutes for one face of light, to instill biological align- the data descriptions were assembled for participant, and by the region near Vega, ment in Dominik Hipp, for whom now examination in the record, and the courage These forms are becoming an alphabet of being observed, with particular phenom- the Dialogue continues on a daily basis; of the civilians engaged, and future artistic cosmic dialogue interactivity. A cybernetic enon, by a former Swiss Air Force pilot or to instill in Rosalea a dramatic and per- mankind. interactive artform. (JCL) for over 10 minutes, with a period of manent change in her body and vision. As 2-minute brightening, correlating, to the she interacted with these macro sky sym- This Symbol Receptory gave a perfect This appears to be a new budding artistic same time window. bols, she recorded exactly the sequence extended example of the Art of Cosmic field for mankind, and there is a steep and has a cipher. The mandala-like inter- Contact, utilizing the reality canvas of our growing curve. One has to be scrupu- One emergency medical doctor, Rosalia face, in the regional middle between the environment as an interactive cybernetic lously honest and integral, and Dialogue Codogne, was interacting with a light spheres and the group, were experienced media. The longest lasting macro symbol groups are also trained in the means of sphere on two nights, and, on both occa- by many. made of arcs of light was four minutes in gathering documentary evidence, famil- sions, the light symbol phenomenon was the visible spectrum. There is more com- iarity with the stars and constellations, engaged by this sphere as a medium of Dr Codogne, in the above manner, ing. compass directions, satellite tracking, dif- interaction, like a living cybernetically received an entire cipher, a little akin to ferent atmospheric conditions, and a host interactive paint and canvas. a Morse Code (but more complex), which There is a case building that the Cosmic of other factors, in the art. she exactly recorded, encoded into spirals Dialogue is a new emerging art quality, This doctor also appears to have captured for the line of light and ovoid of light line an interactive cybernetic living art, where Engaging creative individuals into this nine seconds of this pulsing sphere on her cypher. consciousness in coherence is the co-artist Dialogue setting, each venture gives sur- iPhone. with the Cosmic Intelligence. The atmo- prises. In July 2018, one such venture in There is film footage of the usual UFOs spheric environment is the canvas, and the Swiss Alps brought something new. I As the group was also utilizing new scien- and comparison made to live satellite data. the UAP/UFO interactions are the brush call it “The Symbol Receptory,” which is tific equipment that measures the subtle On film, we also recorded the UAP, cap- strokes as well as the dynamic pallet, in producing “‘The Symbol Repository for ambience of the field work area, readings turing several pulse flashers in one region articular combination with our coherent Cosmic Dialogue.” changed into higher ranges of ambient of the sky, where a concentrated pinpoint protocols utilized to engage the Cosmic coherence at the precise time period that pulse of light occurs numerous times at Dialogues. It will become a common fac- Illustration courtesy of At the height of 2,200 meters in the this sphere interaction with the symbol irregular intervals; in this case, no source ulty, in co-creative man, on a regular basis, Shutterstock/Thanapol S rugged alpine environment, numerous symbiotic relations transpires. New, his- for the light pulse could be identified. also for the individual co-creative artist, Beauty of Deep Space civilians observed the physical manifes- tory in the making equipment was used What appears to be a triangular fleet for- with incremental sustained coherence. Digital Illustration

62 CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT 63 KEVIN J. BRIGGS

Consciousness, A Beginner’s Understanding

y first experience ence, but I knew that there were two con- older, about 17, I would use this ability for of being conscious scious beings in my bathroom. I have met simple uses. Before going to see a friend, I was when I was with these conscious beings many times would leave my body and go check to see three years old. I during my life. The male was true to his if he was home. I did not want to waste my was having my pho- word – he did guide me and teach me. time walking all that way to find he wasn’t tograph taken for home. We did not have cell phones back the family album. I was lifted onto the My second encounter with the male being in those days, and I did not have a vehicle, dining table for a better elevated posi- was when I was 9 years old. I was at home so my out of body abilities came in very tion. From this advantage point, I looked playing with friends when I suddenly felt handy. around the room and clearly thought I a change in temperature and a change in wasM conscious again. I had the feeling vibrational frequency. My friends were just I thought everybody had these abilities; it that this was not the first time and I could leaving, and I could still feel this energy was just part of our senses: hearing, seeing, clearly feel the difference from the physi- in the house. I checked in different rooms smell, taste, touch, and out of body. I often cal and my conscious being. and returned to the living room where the made attempts to discuss out of body ex- energy was the strongest. I looked behind periences with friends, yet no one I knew When I told my wife of my first encounter the drapes, and there was an orb 4 to 6 seemed to know anything about it. Natu- with consciousness, she said 3-year-olds inches in diameter, and it was yellow/or- rally, I did receive some funny looks from do not think like that; but I did. ange in color and slightly pulsating. The my friends. digital collage by John Harrison lll orb stayed in my home for four or five days. As a young boy, I was aware of other vibra- I do not recollect any communication at I was aware that there was much more to interesting was, as we got about half-way bed, a bright light appeared outside my I have come to know Ort and Dee very tions surrounding the location I was occu- that time, but when the orb left, I noticed this and I needed more information. One down the line, I no longer saw a physi- bedroom window. The light then entered well over the years. They inform me that I pying. On one occasion, when I was eight a marked increase in my psychic abilities. evening, when I went to bed, I asked Ort cal form, but a line of orbs 4-6 inches in the bedroom and lit up the whole room am part of their extended family, only my years old, I was having my weekly bath. I was now able to leave my physical body (my guide from the bathroom) if he could diameter, yellow/orange in color, slightly like a myriad of butterflies, but it was just physical exists in the third dimension. Ort I sensed a vibrational change in the bath- and travel out of body. I now know this orb show me more. I relaxed, opened my mind pulsating. I could still communicate with pure light, brighter than daylight. Ort and and Dee’s physical exist at a higher vibra- room together with a drop in temperature. was Ort, my guide. He explained to me and held my hand out. Ort came, he took them, there was no difference, they were Dee appeared. After pleasantries, I asked tional frequency in the fifth dimension. that what I saw in my home was his pure hold of my hand, and I left my body. I just pure conscious energy. the reason for their visit. They said they They inform me that the Universe is con- I looked to my right and there were two conscious energy. looked down at my sleeping body and we wanted me to share my story. I asked how scious and we all share that one conscious beings slightly elevated from the floor: proceeded out of the window, which was I would visit my extended family on other I was going to do that. Ort said, “By talk- energy. one male, one female. They were human With my new-found abilities, I would trav- closed. We were three stories up. We did occasions with Ort. I eventually became ing about your experiences with me and in appearance, attractive with long, shoul- el out of body to visit my grandparents. I not go far. We travelled around the neigh- confident enough to travel and see them writing a book. In fact, you will write two My journey continues. der-length, blonde hair and wearing tight would relax, open my mind and travel to borhood. I got very comfortable traveling on my own. It was always difficult leav- books.” I said I do not mind talking about fitting blue clothing. They were speaking their home some 70 miles away. I would sit this way with Ort. ing them, as they all wanted me to stay, our experiences that we have shared, but I to one another telepathically; I could un- upstairs in the dressing room off the master but I felt that if I stayed my physical body am not a writer. Ort said, “I will help you. derstand what they were saying. Part of the bedroom. The floor appeared opaque, and I On one occasion, Ort came to me and said would die. I will continue to guide you. I will also conversation went as follows: could see my grandma in the Kitchen cook- he was going to take me somewhere fur- give you some information to include in The female said to the male, “Is this the ing, and my grandpa sitting in his favorite ther and was I ok with that. I said yes, let’s After a few more visits, I decided I would the book.” I started the book the follow- boy?” chair reading the newspaper. As a child, I go. So off we went, straight up through the not visit them anymore. I had to tell them. ing day. would visit them in this way many times. I roof. We kept traveling upwards and, when On my last visit, I said my goodbyes. I The male replied, “Yes.” always wondered what they would see if I looked back, I could see our small blue know I will meet up with them all when As I write this article, the book has just they came upstairs. I now know the answer planet. It was so exciting. We then seemed my physical body expires, as our con- been published: “Spiritual Consciousness, The female said, “Are you sure? He is very to that. They would have seen a small orb to take a turn, and I could see in the dis- scious energy continues and does not die. a Personal Journey.” small, uneducated and looks like he is 4 to 6 inches in diameter. It would be yel- tance a line of people. At the front of the frightened by our presence.” low/orange in color and slightly pulsating. line was my deceased father; behind him My journeys with Ort are always enlight- My understanding of consciousness has It would be my conscious energy. in a line were about 30 more people all ening. My guide and I continue our expe- been expanded by my guide along with The male said, “Yes, I am sure. I will guide excited and anxious to meet me. My father riences to this day. my experiences. These experiences and him, and I will teach him.” I would continue to travel this way, but not greeted me, and he proceeded to introduce interactions continue to this day. I am now too far. I was not aware of the full potential me to other family members, some going A couple of years ago, at 4 a.m., I had just 64 years old. As a boy, I was frightened by the experi- of this out of body travelling. When I was back thirty generations. What was really been to the bathroom. As I got back into

64 CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT 65 JENNIFER STEIN out of jail and send her home?” for not more than an hour ago! How could impossible to pass each other. Ruben my wish come true and so quickly? I start- calmly said, “Oh, this happens all the time. His colleague assured him it was not as it ed looking around behind me, checking We will figure it out.” He slowly edged the seemed, and England had a long tradition to see if somehow there was a spirit with small car part way into the field to allow of walking trails and byways throughout me, watching and listening to heed my ev- passing room for the other vehicle, and Synchronicity, By Design the English countryside, unlike the U.S. ery wish. I barely hesitated before saying, they did the same, both cars stopping as Farmers often prepared for visitors once a “Does a bear sh**t in the woods? Of course, we slowly attempted to pass each other, formation occurred in their fields – proper I will come!” our roofs almost touching. To be careful, trespassing allowance signs, rules and reg- Ruben completely stopped to let the van ulations – but he assured my husband if I I packed the news clipping in my bag and more easily pass. He rolled down the win- was arrested he would be happy to come never told my husband about the change of dow to watch the narrow gap up close. to my aid. His daughter was a local po- travel plans. I figured it would only compli- We were lucky we hadn’t already tipped lice officer, so he had an inside advantage cate things and worry him needlessly, and I over on the steep angle of the road’s edge. with the English constabulary. Still, I was desperately wanted to see these formations The van stopped too, the window rolling handed a list of numbers with dialing in- first hand. I knew he didn’t understand my down — and it was Nancy Talbot! She structions on how to use my British travel passion, as even I couldn’t fully under- yelled, “Ruben, great to see you! What are cell phone in the unlikely event I was ar- stand the impetus driving me forward. I you doing tomorrow? Can you and your rested, with explicit instructions on just did, however, trust the universal luck I was friend come out to the computer grid to- what to do. I dutifully packed them away having and went on planning to leave in morrow and help me gather samples for in my suit case. just a few days. Levengood?” I held up the news clipping in my hand and said, “Do you mean this About a week before I was to depart for I had the intuition the night before my formation?” the trip, we received a letter from our same flight to pack really light and carry on ev- friend in Reading. It was a frontpage clip- erything with no checked bags, just in case As Nancy drove away, I sat stunned and ping from his local paper with a picture the flight would be cancelled or delayed, speechless with an astonished look on my of a newly formed crop circle. It was a affording me a wee bit more flexibility. I face at what had just happened. With Ru- very complex, large, square, computer- felt that, in order to make the connection ben now as my witness, I said, “Did that like, grid formation. It was more than in Heathrow with Ruben, I might need to just really happen?” Ruben just looked at 200 feet across, and it was impossible to change my flight plans. Sure enough, my me with an excited giggle and grinned, comprehend the complexity of just how intuition was right on. We had no sooner “Welcome to Wiltshire, Jennifer, and the it was made from the picture and article boarded the flight when they announced a magic of the crop circles. This stuff hap- alone. My mouth dropped open and I had possible cancellation or long delay due to pens all the time to those that come into a sudden realization that I had to get into thunderstorms in our stopover city of Chi- this mystery of exploration. It’s a lot more this formation, but how? I would be on a cago. We likely couldn’t take off for several than just the patterns on the ground.” tour with probably 35 other people, and I hours. I knew instinctively I had to get off could not necessarily direct where the tour of that plane. Without a second thought, Again, and again, throughout the entire should go. Maybe it was out of the area we I grabbed my bag and in 15 minutes had eight days I spent in England, I experienced rop circles have been My amazing love of formations began long circles.” I could see the look of disappoint- would be in. I had this sudden feeling that myself re-booked on another flight direct unbelievable synchronicities, one after an- an obsession for me for ago. I had been studying ancient earthen ment wash over my husband’s face, but I I should have just hired an independent to Heathrow. If I had not done so, I would other! My thoughts seemed to be mani- many years now. When mounds since I was a teenager in the late knew I could not wait any longer for this guide to take me around Wiltshire alone, not have arrived in time to meet up with festing into a dreamlike reality that was I stare at the amazing 1960’s. I read anything I could get my adventure. just me and my video camera meeting the Ruben. Instead, I met him easily where I unbelievable and magical. I became very graphics from aerial pho- hands on, articles that I saved in a box be- experts, researching on my own and film- was supposed to and in perfect time. aware that something very deeply spiritual tos, there are moments I neath my bed. National Geographic, Look Where to begin? How do I get there? How ing what I really wanted to. So, I made a was happening to me. A large, expanded think I understand what these geometries Magazine — anything I could find about do I find them? I must join a tour or trip wish that if there was any way I could get As we were driving down a farmers’ trac- and conscious understanding of the inter- in to that formation, it would happen, and tor road our first day, Ruben asked me if I connectedness of all things was permeat- mean, and for a few moments I am in a these strange enigmas in the English coun- that will take me there. I was a subscriber wondrous daze of deep contemplative tryside. So, when the crop circle phenom- in those days to Nexus Magazine, and in sent out my intention to the universe. had any specific place or particular forma- ing my awareness, on both a conscious thought, as if I am understanding some- ena arrived on the mainstream scene in the back of the journal was a small adver- tion I wanted to see. I pulled the news clip- and sub-conscious level. It was frightening Cthing from a higher dimension. I lose track the late 70’s, I was stunned and puzzled tisement for a crop circle trip. I signed up, About an hour later, Ruben Uriarte called, ping out of my backpack as the car lurched and enlightening at the same time. It was a of time, and hours can go by while I pon- by what they might be. I read Colin An- sent off my check and started to plan my the gentleman who would be leading the from one muddy pothole to the next on the precipice I had willingly stepped off from, der what may be causing these strange drews’ books and followed the research adventure. upcoming tour. He said he was calling lumpy, one lane, dirt road. I said I wanted and there was no going back. That brief and wondrous shapes that appear over- of Terrance Meden, Busty Taylor and oth- with unfortunate news, that the trip had to meet Nancy Talbot and some of the oth- time in the English countryside profoundly night. I jump from one design to another ers early to the field, like Linda Moulton My husband was convinced this was all a been cancelled. I was so disappointed and er researchers and film how the actual re- and forever changed the course of my life, and back again on my computer screen, Howe. I was later lucky enough to hear an lot of malarkey, that crop circles were all confused, saying “What?! Canceled?!” He search was conducted. Then I showed him perhaps, in part, by my own unwitting de- sometimes noticing the ancient English excellent presentation on Crop Circles by hoaxes, and I was about to go trespassing patiently listened, then said, “But Jennifer, the article about the computer grid and sign. earthen mounds next to the crop circle Linda in Philadelphia in the late 90’s. onto someone’s private property in Eng- I’m going anyway, and I know you don’t further explained what happened when I formations, pondering who made them, land and get myself arrested. To protect his know me, but if you want, I can drive you received the clipping in the mail and my when, and for what purpose. Then, in an Around early 2000, my husband asked me, dear sweet wife, he called a business as- around and let you see the formations you wish to the universe to make a very differ- instant, I am drawn back to reality like “Jennifer, what do you want to do for your sociate who managed an electronic manu- want to, and introduce you to the experts ent type of trip than originally planned. waking from a dream, and I struggle to 45th birthday?” I’m sure he was hoping I facturing facility in Reading, England, not researching these formations. It will be a remember the substance and insight from would say, “Honey, let’s go scuba diving far from the central Wiltshire area where totally different type of trip if you’re still in- As we continued forward, a van started that waking dream. Many like me have together in Aruba,” but instead the first I would be trespassing onto those private terested.” Thirty-five people had cancelled. coming toward us down the single lane. had similar experiences while viewing words that flew out of my mouth were, farm fields. My husband’s request: “When I could hardly believe it! I just about fell I looked at Ruben with a worried look, and contemplating crop circles. “I want to go to England and study crop my wife gets arrested, will you go bail her over on the floor. This is what I had wished “What do we do? Who backs up?” It was

66 CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT 67 MARILYN GEWACKE, PH.D. Cosmic Consciousness and ET Contact

he extraterrestrial necessary element to the Grand Design. to stop waiting for our own evolution and phenomenon gives us the This will paradoxically help us get out get on with it! momentous opportunity of the materialistic, corporeal thinking for a new paradigm of and into energy consciousness. When There are many on Earth who have thinking, knowing and the circuits of the old constructs have already learned and developed feeling that will indeed been blown apart because incoming consciousness expansive technology free us from the prisons of our diminished information is incommensurable and that can create a peaceful portal to our states of consciousness disparate with what has already been galactic neighbors. First, it requires that known, new paradigms of perceiving and we evolve the multidimensional aspects Although we are Human Beings, thinking are birthed. In meeting beings of of our own consciousness as well as the we’reT actually quite extraordinary higher consciousness and in higher love, sacred aspects of our hearts: love and in the boundless and infinite light of we’ll be immediately catapulted beyond compassion. This alone is worth the consciousness that we bring to Earth. The ourselves. trip. The second part is actually making human form is but a silhouette shaping contact through our consciousness to the contours that allow movement for One of the most important and far- extraterrestrial beings. This can be done cosmic immersion and expression on reaching notions is that we can individually or in a community. However, Earth. In truth, we are consciousness already make “star contact” through the power and intensity of joining forces expressed in the phenomenon of being our consciousness. After all, our in community augments the magnitude human. It is time to bring back the ability consciousness is non-local, i.e. it goes and degree of communication and to see with our cosmic vision, create with beyond the boundaries of our human connection. This is contact at its most our higher consciousness and lead with form. It is the bridge to all else in the conscious level: humans initiating, with our sacred heart. universe. We already have scientific their free will and sense of sovereignty, as well as testimonial evidence of the contact with extraterrestrials. In my mind As we reclaim our sovereignty and accept entangled nature of our energetic fields. and heart, this is the most important and our responsibility to evolve into the New We are all connected; we on Earth have crucial step in the Disclosure process. Human, we will have the extraordinary simply forgotten. And it is through our opportunity to earn a sacred place in the conscious cords of energetic light fibers My journey with CE-5 (close encounters cosmos and meet our star neighbors. We that we are unified. of the fifth kind) started when I began have been waiting centuries to wake up, going on several CE-5 expeditions with Painting by Fríða Kristín Gísladóttir look up and see that we are part of a Synchronistic events are happening to so Dr. Steven Greer. My life dramatically teeming universe of life, far reaching and many at such a rapid pace, as is telepathic changed as I began to open my own yet close at hand. In the New Human communication. It is paramount for the portals of communication with my ET star paradigm, we will rejoice in the fact that survival of our human species to take the family. Memories flooded in and I realized we finally understand that we are not next step in evolving and expanding our I had had beautiful contact experiences as alone. Consciousness will leap out of the abilities for conscious connections. We a child. I am a psychologist by trade, and confines of our egoic prisons, freed at last can do this with our galactic neighbors as so this juxtaposition was mind boggling. to join the web of conscious life that is so many of them are extremely advanced Nevertheless, my mission began to be everywhere in our universe and beyond. in their ability for conscious travel and clear: to go beyond my 3D mind and into revelation. It is no longer a case that we the world of cosmic experience. After all, As we encounter new life of all kinds, have to wait for them, as it is clear they experience is the greatest reality shifter. shapes and forms we will immediately have already been communicating and grasp that diversity is a crucial and living among us. The truth is that we have We established our own Northeast CE-5

68 CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT 69 group called Consciousness and Cosmic experienced many different ET species. As What a paradoxical gift our ET family Contact Collective (4C) almost eight years individuals, we continue to have our own has given us. We cannot catch a glimpse ago and have only experienced the most communications, downloads, experiences of who “they” are until we realize who heart inspiring and beautiful contact with and relationships with our ET guides. But “we” are! In our desire to reach the ETs ever since. Our community has grown for many of us the outside evidence is stars, we have learned to stretch our own extensively over the years with people not where we look anymore. We have consciousness beyond the barrier of the coming from all over the United States learned that the expansive world within human mind utilizing the light of the and Canada. They are nurses, lawyers, holds the greatest “evidence” that can be human heart. doctors, farmers, energy healers, teachers, experienced. For it is here that we know firemen, sanitation workers, spiritual the truth not only of the many different ET I believe our human culture has seekers, shamans and the list goes on. civilizations, not only of the extraordinary undervalued and dismissed this amazing But the one thing we have in common, crafts and planet that we have visited in consciousness expanding experience we have found a new family, a new dreams, meditations and memories, but within, because it is an amazing way to home. The thirst for understanding our we are discovering the vastness of who keep us slumbering. As we wake up, we connection to our galactic neighbors is we are and the work we must do first on discover that we are more powerful and extraordinary, and our commitment ourselves, and then most importantly the beautiful in our light and love. Then, we to expanding and evolving our own work we must do with the human species, will witness the unfurling of our Cosmic consciousness is the number one driving the Earth and all of her inhabitants. Selves and our kindred connections force. We meet once a month and have with our Galactic Community. While an Intensive weekend retreat twice a year. Our goals are to become participating it remains important for the evidence Our protocols originate from that belief galactic citizens – awake and alert and seekers and scientists to keep discovering, that heart connection and consciousness aware of the coming days of change and the experiencers to continue to tell their expansion, in community with one evolution on this planet. Perhaps that most important stories, the exopolitcal another, opens a safe, loving and peaceful is the greatest asset of this work. As we concerns and coalitions to continue to be portal to our galactic family. Through gather to contact other worlds, we have heard, I suspect even when a space craft powerful heart opening and mind- been given the amazing opportunity lands for all to see, it will be our level of expanding techniques, we align our to learn about our own wondrous consciousness as a human species that intention, increase our vibration and build world within – the place of our own will tell the final story. our cohesiveness as a loving community. extraordinary consciousness. In this As a result, we open a consciousness process, we have learned to vision the corridor or portal to the ET beings so that invisible, expanding our ability to “see” they may join us in whatever way they beyond the confines of our 3D eyes. feel safe and vital. Many have developed extra perceptual skills such as telepathy, precognition and We have seen so much activity in the remote viewing. It is through this inner sky, including fully manifested crafts 500 channel of our own light that we make feet above us, pulses of light responding contact with all that surrounds us. to our lasers, lights landing in the woods and much more. In addition, we have As we continue to do this work, my experienced more and more ground hope is that more and more people activity including amazing orbs, light will join us across the globe. I know as phenomenon around and in our circle, we all engage in these protocols that beings almost fully manifested in our our own consciousness is lifted out of circle, touch, beautiful smells, tones and the veils of 3D living into the truth of anomalous nature phenomena. our multidimensionality. We then can become consciously inspired by the entire As the winter months come, we meet Cosmic Web. As we raise the vibration indoors, and the contact continues. of those around us, we help prepare We have amazing light phenomena, the Earth for the most important event movement, forms of beings with us in the in her history: “Ascended Disclosure”: room, downloads, DNA changes, touch, The revelation event where we will step smells, temperature changes, breezes, out of the darkness and into the galactic Painting by Fríða Kristín Gísladóttir electronic anomalies, and beautiful light of our star family. Everything will orbs. We have had flashes of light right then be magnified – our consciousness, outside the windows and complete loss of our Universe, even our understanding power in the house. Fortunately, we have of Divinity. If this doesn’t motivate the been able to photograph some of these human species to study and explore phenomena. consciousness, I am not sure what would.

Many times, we experience a loss of So, for me, it is no longer just time and space as we have the sensation about contact, but the revolution of of traveling in crafts with ET beings. consciousness transformation. This is on As a group, we have worked with and our horizon now; of this I am certain.

70 CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT 71 WHITLEY STRIEBER ordinary way. 1985 encounter as a kind of initiation, understand the particular significance of whether it was so intended or not. the shofar, but later, when I discuss the Once, our son brought a boy up who Spiritual initiation aims to upend the importance of the number 3 and the triad, had a facial scar from sticking his tongue initiate’s beliefs by forcing him to face it will become clear that it was chosen into an electric light socket. She was something that both provokes him and carefully. It was not an “alien horn” as just appalled, and I found myself seeing signals that his view of reality is flawed. I initially assumed, but something that images of his face with smoke pouring is woven into the deepest meaning of Alien Contact: A Miracle Denied out of his mouth. (Her primary means of That is exactly what happened to me on human life and the life of the soul. communication was in mental imagery, that night, and what has happened to Excerpted Copyrightfrom 2018, his Walker forthcoming & Collier, Inc. book. more, even, than what we would think many thousands of other people. Millions, I threw on a robe and slippers and rushed of as telepathy. There were few words.) At possibly. There is no way even to guess outside. As I moved toward the meeting the same time, the boy kept being woken at the numbers right now, but it is not a place, I could see something large in the up by sounds at the bedroom door. He small group. clearing beyond the thin woods I was in. would see her long, snake-like fingers It was making a sound familiar to me, that sweeping up and down the door and her On that night, I woke up in another I connected to the noise their machines to proceed. I felt that I should try to nails, which were black, claw-like and, to world. It was a reality that, if I ever knew made when they were hovering. 950, Enrico Fermi had lunch reconnect, but I was deathly afraid. I had say the least, deeply concerning, scraping it existed, I had certainly forgotten. at the Los Alamos National been so helpless and they had seemed and tapping the wood. I was shocked and I hesitated, and, when Laboratory with Herbert York, so monstrous. I’d been raped. I lived in On the other side of the initiatory I did, I heard a rough voice in my head Emil Konopinski and Edward dreadful fear that my wife and child might He never came back, and the relationship moment, I found myself living not just go “come on, come on.” The tone was Teller. They discussed UFO become involved. But they were aliens. I between the boys soon faded away. He with a remarkable new relationship, but menacing. I was too scared to proceed. I sightings, quickly concluding couldn’t just ignore that. had been scared off by our new friend. also with a group of explosive questions. just couldn’t do it. So I turned back. that there was no reason to give them Those questions have come to dominate any credibility. At some point, in referring Night after night, I forced myself to return She was soon coming every night and, my life, which has itself become a quest The moment my hand touched the knob to this vast universe, Fermi asked the to the spot from which I thought I’d been we knew, entering our son’s room. As I to create a stronger soul. on the cabin door, I heard three cries from question, “Where is everybody?” taken. I sat there mediating, trying to described in Transformation, the follow- above the woods—the three saddest, most 1 indicate to them, whoever they were, that up book to Communion, one night I After her death, I had extensive contact emotionally nuanced sounds I have ever And thus was born the Fermi Paradox, I was ready for further involvement. either dreamed that he had been taken or with my wife, and among the things that heard. There was something quite unusual conceived at what could be thought of actually saw this. I have never been sure, she said was, “Enlightenment is what about them: their sonic shape and as a fundamental moment of denial. By They were ready, too, and as always they but as we would hear her walking softly happens when there is nothing left of us spacing were startlingly precise and quite then, there had already been a sufficient went straight to the heart of the matter: along the porch at night, or hear her little but love.” unlike anything I had ever heard before. number of sightings of strange objects the children became involved. When, vehicle arriving with a faint clatter of what The precision was so extraordinary that in the skies to justify at least keeping during a settling winter dusk, one of our sounded like ball bearings, we decided to I now understand my life in close it made Mozart and Bach seem muddy an open mind about them. In fact, the son’s little friends said, “A little flying send him to camp. encounter as a spiritual journey with by comparison. Pieces that I had always evidence was more than sufficient to saucer just went through the front yard,” enlightenment aim. Is that their intention? loved became unlistenable, an effect that conclude that Fermi was asking the wrong Photograph of Whitley Strieber my blood ran cold. I wanted the relationship, My wife Anne I don’t know, but it is what I have made of lasted for months. question. and I both did, but on our terms, which it for myself.

I had told all the parents as clearly as I did not include the involvement of the As I went back to my bedroom, I felt a One would think that these men were are aliens. I am among those who have could what was happening at the cabin. children. Whatever they are, there is one thing presence following me. The moment I particularly capable of understanding encountered them. (This was while I was still in the first about them that is quite clear: they are lay down, I was plunged back into my that, both because of their professional months of the struggle, before I had begun The night after he left, she appeared complex. When I started engaging with babyhood, into the moment I first walked. skills and their access to information. The After I realized that they were, in some writing Communion.) Now I called this again. We heard her vehicle swoop down them, I was aiming toward a moment of evidence was not sufficient to conclude way, a real presence that was not child’s parents and asked them if she was over the roof and drop into the front yard encounter that would be in some way In the years since then, despite all my that people from another planet were generated by my own mind, I set out to aware of flying saucers. Not as far as they as usual. And as usual, we saw nothing. “normal.” I imagined sitting down and trying, I have never had another chance visiting us, but it was extensive enough learn more about them and from them. knew. So I told them what had happened But then, when she found his bed empty, having a discussion with one of them, like that. But perhaps it was intended, to agree that there had been, at least over A relationship has developed and been and said that I would be glad to bring we heard a series of soft cries, gentle perhaps an official representative of some and maybe the return to the moment I first the few years prior to the luncheon, a nurtured by both sides over a period of their daughter right home. They reacted sounds trembling with disappointment. sort. walked was a positive message—that this number of observations and reports of 30 years. Over this period, they have not with fear but with fascination. “No, also, which seemed like such a failure, unexplained aerial events that suggested gone from being a terror in the night to no, don’t come back. Stay and let’s see I felt ashamed. She had never hurt him. That simply wasn’t in the cards. Instead, was a first step. that an unusual phenomenon was a deeply interesting part of my life. My what happens.” On the contrary, she had demonstrated I have spent years trying to make my unfolding in the skies of this planet. relationship with them has evolved in a a desire to protect him. Anne expressed relationship with them come into more In any case, it set me on what has become productive direction, and I am not the Nothing did, actually, not that night. the hope that she wouldn’t give up on us. consistent focus. Maddeningly, there was the quest of my life. If that moment So Fermi’s question should not have been only close-encounter witness reporting But there were many other incidents, I agreed, and, indeed, the relationship a moment early on, which I have written was repeated, I would go down that “Where is everybody,” but “Are they this sort of transformation. dozens of them, in fact. The beings were continued and grew. about in detail elsewhere, when it seemed path without hesitation. It would be an here?” responding to my midnight forays into the almost to have been possible. extraordinary triumph and easy now for Unfortunately, fear sells, and the earlier, woods. The relationship was developing Looking back, I have come to something me to do. In the 70 years since that meeting, terrifying accounts—including the one in and quickly becoming intimate and of an understanding about why the first I had been imagining a meeting in the sightings of unknown objects have been my 1987 book Communion—got much domestic. The individual depicted on the encounter was so violent, and also why woods near my cabin when, early one Back then, I don’t think that I was meant reported by hundreds of thousands of more public attention than the positive cover of Communion—in person a petite, my fear was so great. I don’t feel it now at cold predawn, I heard an eerie sound to go down that path. It was intended that people, including many professional accounts that were available then. graceful being, very quick and precise all, but even as recently as five years ago, echo through the silence. It was like I fail, so that I would take the journey that observers. Thousands of people have and with a truly startling, penetrating gaze I certainly did. the haunting call of the shofar, the has become my life instead. The years claimed to have found themselves face- Initially, the violence of my early (referred to as “she”)—was often in the rams horn that is blown on the Jewish of effort that have followed have been to-face with what they generally assume encounter made me very hesitant house, but almost never in an open and I have come to see the December 26, High Holidays. At the time, I did not like navigating a labyrinth of mirrors, full

72 CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT 73 of unexpected turnings and deceptive effort to push aside questions that our relationship with it. So the wall of reflections. It is an amazing place, this we cannot bear to leave open but also belief that has separated us for all these life I am living. In this life, it is not only cannot answer. All of our beliefs - our long ages is coming down. possible to be right and wrong about folklores, our religions, even our most the same thing at the same time, it is fundamental beliefs about who and what We have been in a prison of our own often necessary. Either you live at this we are and the degree to which the world creation, trying to make sense of things level of question or you embrace one around really is as it appears - must be we could see but not understand. We belief or another. Then it’s ‘game over.’ As laid aside by anybody seeking to navigate know that now, many of us, and so have Anne, who since her death has become the labyrinth of what is popularly called the chance at last to unlock the doors my teacher, has explained, “The human “contact.” Anne was right when she called of perception and see with the clarity of species is too young to have beliefs. What it instead “communion.” It is a melding reason, knowledge and understanding, we need are questions.” (See our book of being, quite literally an enlarging both what is really there. The Afterlife Revolution for more about of our consciousness and that of the how our relationship has evolved since mysterious presence, which has begun A terrifying encounter has become a great her passing in 2015.) opening itself to us. adventure, and the treasure of my life.

The fact that we can experience It has been here forever, I think. What is manifestations of this other presence - happening that is different is that we are which I so innocently used to call “the not seeing it so much through the lenses visitors” - but cannot explain them has of myth, religion and folklore anymore. given rise to a massive, ages-long human We are growing more mature, and so is

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74 CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT Painting by Ted Seth Jacobs | Communion Allien CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT 75 Gísladóttir are energy work. The intention respectively. Gunderson has been the Norie is an Advanced Practitioner of the behind them is to make the viewer subject of numerous one-person shows Voice Dialogue Process, consults, writes Contributors Bios experience elevation. Fríða paints in a in the United States. She has received and does executive coaching and public meditative state of presence, connected numerous honors and awards, most speaking on personal, organizational and to a higher source. With the intention to notably a Lorenzo Magnifico Prize in planetary transformation. She and her “download the light”, she trusts that love Painting at the 2001 Florence Biennale husband live part-time in Ecuador where ANANDA BOSMAN Magazine. His published book was Feroleto founded and chaired the Vermont will come through her hands and allow (Italy), and has been named by noted they are creating the Garden of Paradise, a is a visionary, cosmologist, semantic artist, also mentioned in Psychic News (UK) Chapter of Women Grow and is the the flow to happen without fear of failing. critic Donald Kuspit as one of the “New small healing and retreat Center. In 2011, international researcher and as musician in their editor’s good read section. He Producer and Creative Director of HEMP The result is light and the entities within, Old Masters.” they won Ecuador’s (and the world’s) first the founder of the 432Hz popular & has also written an article about his ET NY CITY. She is determined to maximize on canvas. lawsuit defending the Rights of Nature. electronic music movement during the experiences which will be published visibility for the arts and our cultural Tracing the life and career of the artist, 1990s. in The New Observations magazine. world and is currently developing the Fríða was born in Iceland 1959 and has Karen Gunderson : The Dark World For more, see www.gardenofparadise.net Kevin has also appeared on local radio Adopt An Artist Program to send artists to been painting for 18 years. Her studies of Light is written by author and critic and www.butterflyblessings.net. Since 1990, Ananda has presented the stations and recently filmed for a TV show destinations around the globe to further began at 17 years old after completing Elizabeth Frank, who won the Pulitzer latest cutting edge information, research called “Unlocking Your Limitless Life” develop their art. a 200m x 5m painting on a fish factory Prize for her biography of poet Louise ERIKA KNERR & subjects on the foundation of his open, hosted by Susan Shatzer and produced In addition, she is using her skills as called Isbjörninn. She attended the Bogan and is the author of a number of is an artist, arts organizer, editorial undogmatic spirituality in an utterly by Robin C Adams. He will also be a journalist to inform, educate and national school of art in Iceland. Today books on art, including Jackson Pollock, designer, writer and entrepreneur. Her unique way to his audience. filming in February about ET contact and empower through the industrial hemp she lives and works in Reykjavik, Iceland published by Abbeville. paintings, performance, installations communication. This will be included in movement. Feroleto is a committed where she invests her extra time in and action works have been included in Since a NDE: Near Death Experience 34 a new documentary series which will be animal rights and animal welfare activist. the opening of a “Temple of Light and Gunderson now spreads her time solo and group exhibitions and festivals years ago, Ananda has been in contact narrated by William Shatner. Kevin was Sound” as a global destination for healers between Manhattan and her new studio internationally, including a permanent with golden Light Beings (ultra terrestrial) also a keynote speaker, last September, Mia Feroleto resides in Vermont. For and those wishing to be healed in high in Coxsackie, New York, which overlooks installation at 1440 Multiversity in called Emmanuel. As a teenager they at the Miami FREE “Consciousness & additional information, please contact frequency art and sound. the Hudson River. Scotts Valley, CA in 2017; REACH in imparted thousands of pages of living Contact Experiencer Conference”, hosted Feroleto at [email protected] Holyoke, MA in 2013; Live Action New information to him. by The Edgar Mitchell “Foundation For more information on Fridas work NORIE HUDDLE York, 2010 and Mediations Biennale in for Research into Extraterrestrial and MARILYN GEWACKE, PH.D. please contact [email protected] has written seven published books (three Poznan, Poland in 2008. She was one As a result Ananda became a detailed Extraordinary Experiences”. has many years of experience as a bestsellers) on environmental issues and of the principal artists with Lance Fung & skilled researcher & developed a practicing clinical psychologist, leader ALEX AND ALLYSON GREY on transforming humanity. Growing up Gallery through 2003 and served as art Unique Cosmology and semantic art, MARIA GILISSEN of workshops and retreats, and soul- See introduction by Alan Steinfeld in the woods of northern Virginia, Norie’s director of New Observations magazine based upon the Emmanuel stream as well BROODTHAERS seeker, giving her a unique insight into background is eclectic and international. in New York from 1991-2001, then as the as his Ultraterrestrial & ExtraTemporal was born in 1938 in Cadier en Keer, how to free ourselves from the shackles KAREN GUNDERSON She was an exchange student in Italy, third publisher of the journal from 2011- Intelligence (ETI) contacts, for which he Limburg, Netherlands. She used to be of limited thinking that hold us back Karen Gunderson’s black paintings a Russian language graduate of Brown 17. She was born in Lancaster, PA and has over 150 witnesses. This is a unique a photographer and is now an editor, from manifesting our soul purpose and explore luminosity and push the limits University, a Peace Corps Volunteer received a BFA from Tyler School of Art, non dogmatic open-ended ‘spirituality’ known for The Last Voyage (1974) and developing our higher consciousness. of painterly gesture. Working exclusively in Colombia, and spent four years in in Philadelphia and received her MFA at and art form, with an Integral Logistics, also of ‘Les Cahiers d’Art du Département in black oils, Gunderson focuses the act Japan working with the environmental the School of Visual Arts in New York. She based upon the foundation of the des Aigles’. She was the wife, the muse Marilyn has lead one of the most active of painting on the relationship between movement and writing a landmark book lives and works in Western Massachusetts. most archaic concept of the Anthropos and the assistant of the poet and artist CE-5 (close encounters of the fifth kind) brushstroke and light. “By using only on Japan’s environmental crisis (1975) and and modern Anthropic Principle, Marcel Broodthaers and the foremost groups in the country and has developed blacks, I’m forcing the focus onto the its global implications. PHOENIX LINDSEY-HALL upon an existential Ontology and authority on his work. She created the consciousness-based protocols and brush strokes reflected by the light,” she is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work Eschatology of ‘All-Oneness’ (Indivisible famous ‘Archive Maria Gilissen sur Marcel heart-centered community techniques says. “I paint a form, an image with black After a 9-month, 5000-mile bicycle trip centers around queer idenitities and Eternity~Infinity/0~∞) Broodthaers’. She was featured in Marcel’s for developing our consciousness and paint, and the light makes them visible, across America (1976), Norie helped communities. Lindsey-Hall’s work “Never work, such as in Portrait de Maria avec establishing contact with extraterrestrials. like magic.” Gunderson’s highly reflective launch America’s antinuclear movement Stop Dancing” was recently a curated He has also contributed his own Statif. She was also a close friend of artist surfaces cause the paintings to sparkle through Mobilization for Survival. Then, project at Pulse Art Fair in Miami, FL. Musicologist Theory, “Universal James Lee Byars, who also featured her in Presented information includes - and shift as the viewer moves about the realizing we need a ‘new kind of positive She has held solo shows at Victori+Mo Tempering”. Having presented his his work. artwork. movement’ to transform humanity, she Gallery, Trestle Gallery, and Living Room visionary semantic art in the public • Developing our Multidimensional created the Center for New National Gallery all in Brooklyn, NY. University domain, for the last 34 years, Ananda MIA FEROLETO Consciousness; With over 50 one-person and over 160 Security and began using her holistic shows include Brown Gallery at Duke draws on a wealth of innovative visionary is the publisher of New Observations group shows to her credit, Gunderson systems training to design new systems University, The Galleries at Georgetown semantic art, as a spiritual artist, from a Magazine and is a well-known art • Teaching Community Heart-Centered has exhibited throughout the United that can enable a peaceful and sustainable College, and Ross Art Museum at Ohio multi-generational art family. advisor, activist and artist. She was the Technology; States, Great Britain, Spain, Belgium, Italy, global civilization. Wesleyan University. Selected group creator of A Shelter From the Storm: Bulgaria, Bahrain, Poland, Denmark and shows include MC Gallery, New York, KEVIN J BRIGGS Artists for the Homeless of New York • Unearthing the Cosmic Self; Togo, West Africa. Her work was recently During the 1980s, Norie visited the USSR NY, Dedee Shattuck Gallery in Westport, is an author and specializes in and ARTWALK NY, now a national exhibited in an exhibition curated by on numerous occasions as a citizen MA, City Without Walls in Newark, NJ. consciousness and the connection to event that opens established artists’ • Testimonials and photographic Barbara Rose entitled “Painting After Post diplomat. Her 1984 book “Surviving: She is a 2019 Fellow at Greenwich Pottery ET/UFOs. His recently published book studios to the public to raise funds for manifestations. Modernism.” The Best Game on Earth”, was a NYT House and has been a resident at New is titled “Spiritual Consciousness - A the Coalition for the Homeless and other Bestseller and introduced The Best Game York Art Residency and Studios (NARS) Personal Journey” and covers 56 years causes. She had organized many benefit An award-winning author, Marilyn’s book Karen Gunderson was born in Racine, on Earth— www.bestgame.org. Her 1990 Foundation, Gallery Aferro, and the of his experiences of ET contact and auctions and events at auctions houses The Oneness of Being: Birthing the New Wisconsin, and earned a Bachelor of book, “Butterfly”, has given birth to a Emerge Program with the Aljira Center for UFO connections. Kevin speaks to many such as Sotheby’s and Christie’s and has Human is available in paperback from Science degree from Wisconsin State global meme of transformation now used Contemporary Arts in conjunction with groups of UFO and ET enthusiasts. served on the board of directors of such Amazon. University, Whitewater. She earned both widely by people like Deepak Chopra, Creative Capital. Press about her work They are always eager to hear of his organizations as Dance Theater Workshop a Master of Arts and a Master of Fine Barbara Marx Hubbard and many other can be found at ArtForum, Art Newspaper, interactions, he always receives a warm (now the Joyce) and Sculpture Center. FRIOA KRISTIN GISLODOTTI Arts degree from the University of Iowa, spiritual leaders around the world. Hyperallergic, and Out Magazine. reception. Kevin has written articles The paintings of Icelander Fríða Kristín which have been published in the Truth Iowa City, in Painting and Intermedia,

76 CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT 77 harmonious understanding of ourselves in Shea of the underground classic The Contributors Bios ALAN STEINFELD relation to the cosmos. Illuminatus Trilogy and author of Cosmic approaches ideas about UFOs and ETs Trigger and other works. The interview by looking at the nature of perception. In WHITLEY STRIEBER was first translated and published in order to truly make contact we have to is the author of the Communion series a French magazine, and the original DAVID LOUIS Since then, Petit has lived in New York, His art is represented in a great many shift our worldview and make ourselves of books and many novels ranging from English has been recently published in receives calls from many people seeking where he has been artist-in-residence at public and private collections. His available to new possibilities. As human the Wolfen and the Hunger to the Grays the newly revised edition of Wilson’s out the help of an animal communicator. the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, also paintings are exhibited in public and beings we need not only to understand and his exciting new Alien Hunter series. book Coincidance: A Head Test. The It can be as simple as satisfying a curiosity a location of other aerial performances. private galleries worldwide. but experience ourselves as part of a Communion, the Wolfen, the Hunger word “coincidance” (the dance of and as complex as determining the most He has done wire walking as part of Retrospectives of his art were held at universe full life. As the consciousness and Superstorm have all been made into coincidences) can be found in Joyce’s compassionate time to let your furry friend official celebrations in New York, across Kunsthalle Bielefeld (1982) and Badischer that occupies the human vehicle, we need movies, Superstorm as the Day After “Finnegan’ss Wake” and is much like Carl go, or identifying a physical issue that can the United States, and in France and Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (1983), Germany, to realize our non local nature and our Tomorrow. Jung’s synchronicity, signifying meaningful improve your animal’s quality of life. other countries, as well as teaching and at the Museum of New Art (2001), relationship to beings -seen and unseen. moments of chance. In the 1990’s, John workshops on the art. In 2008, Man on Detroit, MI, Kalamazoo Institute of Art, MI Whitley is a Texan, and The Secret School returned to NYC and worked at the Strand The life mission of David Louis is to bring Wire, a documentary directed by James (2002); Works on Paper, Mus. Contemp. As we discover more subtle realms has been listed by Texas Monthly among Bookstore in lower Manhattan. John’s you and your animals together through Marsh about Petit’s walk between the Art, Genova Italy, 2005; Fabrikculture, of being, we initiate an evolutionary the top 10 books written by Texans. Alien interests include Ashtanga Yoga, Sanskrit, extraordinary means to facilitate healing, towers, won numerous awards. He was Hegenheim (Basel), France (2011). His epoch. Open Contacts is the part of the Hunter has been made into TV series by alternative science and archaeology, and happiness and improved communication. also the subject of a children’s book and work has been presented at Documenta awakening of the more refined senses the SyFy Channel. The Grays is being science fiction. He lives in almost rural an animated adaptation of it, released in 6 (1977) and at the Venice Biennale of feeling that have been held at bay made into a film. Vermont with his wife Martha Nichols, an Talk to Your Animals is a sole 2005. The Walk, a movie based on Petit’s (American Pavilion) in 1980. by our current social consciousness. artist. proprietorship started by Animal walk, was released in September 2015, But they are hardwired into our mind/ The Afterlife Revolution is Whitley’s latest Communicator David Louis in 2001. starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Petit and JOHN RED CLOUD brain interchange. The awareness of the book, on sale from December 15, 2017. TOMMA VON HAEFTEN David has studied and taught interspecies directed by Robert Zemeckis. Oglala Lakota, is the Vice President of multidimensional parts of ourselves gives This book, written with Anne Strieber and is a trained Avatar Master, FutureVisioning communication extensively with the finest Red Cloud Renewable in Pine Ridge, birth to a wider field of awareness in with a foreword by Dr. Gary Schwartz, Practitioner, accredited Journey teachers available, most notably Penelope He also became adept at equestrianism, South Dakota. which we can interact with each other unique in the world as it has been created Practitioner, certified Hypnotherapist and Smith. He has assisted Penelope with her juggling, fencing, carpentry, rock- and the other being waiting for our out of communications between Whitley Shamanic Healer. workshops at Kirpalu Center for Yoga and climbing, and bullfighting. Spurning He is a graduate of Red Cloud High maturation. When we accept who and and his wife Anne from across the bridge Health and the Omega Institute. circuses and their formulaic School and the University of San Diego, what we are, we are ready to venture into between the worlds of the living and the She has followed several interests and performances, he created his street Bachelor of Arts in history. a multiverse awaiting our exploration. dead. Anne died on August 11, 2015, but passions in life. In her teenage years she As an animal communicator, David persona on the sidewalks of Paris. In the soon returned in an absolutely unique and pursued her love for music as a violinist has worked with many species, from early 1970s, he visited New York City, JENNIFER STEIN Alan Steinfeld is the creator, host and profoundly convincing way. What she did and classical singer. Later she discovered dogs, cats, horses, bunnies, ferrets and where he frequently juggled and worked is an artist, entrepreneur, activist and producer of NewRealities, a television and what she brought form the core of the the world of art, and studied painting hedgehogs to racoons and porcupines. on a slackline in Washington Square Park. award-winning documentary filmmaker, program, radio show, website and event Afterlife Revolution. at art schools in Hamburg, New York He has taught, presented workshops, talks winning four EBE awards at the Open producing company that he founded and Düsseldorf, where she became an and sessions throughout the northeastern LUCIO POZZI Minds International UFO Congress. 20 years ago. In this time, Alan has JOHN VAN DER DOES accomplished abstract painter. United States, in Canada and Europe. was born in 1935 in Milan, Italy. After Her latest documentary film, “TRAVIS: interviewed over 3,000 people in the is a 76 year old yoga teacher. He And, with an eye toward the stressors living a few years in Rome, where he The True Story of Travis Walton” has mind, body, and consciousness human never did well in school, was dyslexic, In her early thirties, after the birth of often endured by rescued animals, David studied architecture, he came to the won over 24 main stream film festival potential movement including such stuttered and had a hard time learning her second daughter, she was drawn to regularly uses his skills to assist and United States in 1962, as a guest of the awards breaking new ground bringing best-selling authors as Deepak Chopra, how to read; somehow, he got over his explore metaphysical questions, non- raise money for non-profit animal rescue Harvard International Summer Seminar. the UFO topic and the Travis Walton Marianne Williamson, JJ Hurtak, Dr. stuttering in his early teens. In 1968, adversarial parenting, spiritual practices, organizations. He then settled in New York and became famous 1995 abduction story to the Joe Dispenza, Anita Moorjani, Lynne John was a legal clerk and paratrooper in energy and healing work. It became a a US citizen. After a while, his art began main steam. More information can McTaggart, Artist Alex Grey, Bruce Vietnam; his position received incoming lifelong pursuit of learning, inner growth PHILIPPE PETIT to be seen here and abroad in galleries be found at TravisWaltontheMovie. Lipton, Ram Dass and many others. To mortar attacks several times. His formal and self discovery. Her search was fueled (born 13 August 1949) is a French high- such as Bykert, John Weber, Gianenzo com. She holds a BA in Science for the date there are over 14 million viewers of education is a chaotic mess. In the early by the desire to be of service to other wire artist who gained fame for his high- Sperone, Yvon Lambert, Leo Castelli. He University of Arizona. She grew up in an NewRealities programs on his YouTube 70s, however, he attended the Language people’s evolution along the path of their wire walk between the Twin Towers of currently lives and works in Hudson, NY, entrepreneurial family and has owned Channel:http://youtube.com/newrealities. Center in Besançon and the Université soul. the World Trade Center in New York City, and Valeggio s/M (Verona) Italy. and operated 3 independent businesses in de Besançon, France and during a on the morning of August 7, 1974 as Philadelphia. Since he was a child he had some form summer in Besançon he taught English As an eternal optimist and believer in well as his high wire walk between the Pozzi is a painter who likes to paint and of ET contact. This became an intense to French students, traveled in Europe the inherent goodness of human nature, towers of Notre Dame cathedral Paris, pursue his painterly concerns in other As an artist, entrepreneur, activist, she abduction experience in the summer of and came back to the New York City Tomma collected cutting edge knowledge 1971 For his unauthorized feat 400 metres media as well. In 1978, the Museum of has served on a number of nonprofit 1987 and since then he has awakened where he drove a taxi. In 1976, John and skills in order to facilitate positive, (1,000 feet) above the ground – which Modern Art, New York, exhibited his early institutional boards in the Philadelphia to the fact of ET realities. He feels the returned to France for a seminar on Boris permanent change in our physical cellular he referred to as “le coup”, he rigged a videotapes in one of the first single-artist area including her regional public access best thing for humanity would be the Vian, an incredible polymath not well structure, our emotional patterns, and our 200-kilogram (440-pound) cable and used exhibitions of the Projects:Video series. television network for which she is a disclosure of their preseason and the appreciated in the States which was held ego driven identity. a custom-made 8-metre (30-foot) long, He also sets up large installations and producer. integration of exo-consciousness. He at the Centre Culturel International de 25-kilogram (55-pound) balancing pole. presents performances. He occasionally has been a speaker at the UFO round Cerisy in Normandy. John remained in More than ever she feels an urgent call He performed for 45 minutes, making writes and has taught at the Cooper Jennifer is a coordinating member of table in Yonkers, the Disclosure Circle in Paris from 1976 until 1986 and during to contribute to the evolution of human eight passes along the wire. The following Union, Yale Graduate Sculpture Program, Noetic Sciences Shift in Action for New York and he recently hosted 3,000 that time was a member of the College of consciousness on our planet so that we week, he celebrated his 25th birthday. All Princeton University, School of Visual Southeastern Pa. & State Section. people at the UFO festival Contact in the ‘Pataphysics. (‘Pataphysics is the science can create a deeper mutual understanding charges were dismissed in exchange for Arts NY and the Maryland Institute of Desert in Joshua Tree, CA. He feels that of the particular and of laws governing and more enlightened behavior not him doing a performance in Central Park Art. He currently is an occasional visiting She is Director and field investigator only when the realities of the world meet exceptions.) In 1983, he interviewed only within our families, but also in our for children. professor at American art schools and for the Mutual UFO Network. Visit her the inner explorations of the conscious Robert Anton Wilson in Dublin, Ireland. communities and between our nations. European Academies. website: www.MainLineMUFON.com. can we achieve, as planetary beings, a Wilson is the co-author with Robert She currently regards the integration of

78 CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT 79 our shadow as the greatest priority and (Frankfurt, 1994), and Wireless! (New York In 2003, she was named Director greatest challenge in this evolution. City, 2011). of “Intercambios de Arte y Cultural Internacionale”(International Art and FUMIKO WELLINGTON LEAH POLLER Cultural Exchanges), a not-for profit is a freelance violinist currently residing is a representational sculptor who furthering cultural exchanges between the in Hawaii. She has performed extensively completed her classic studies in Paris at Americas and spearheading the restoration in the United States and Europe, in the prestigious Ecole Nationale Superieure of a major twentieth century mural, symphony, chamber and jazz formations de Beaux Arts. Partaking of a rich, multi- recently revealed to be the work of Philip as well as in the studio. cultural environment, Poller interacted Guston and in large part due to Poller’s with foremost members of the international efforts, now returned to the public domain. When not performing music, she also arts communities of France, Spain, Italy pursues work in other fields of interest, and Latin America during her 20 years Simultaneously, she began the conceptual including needlework, costume design, in Europe. While balancing a career in work “Beds”, 101 bronze metaphors gardening and culinary arts. In addition, Fine Art, she also worked in film, art book related to the bed, which has been she has produced and directed many publishing and curation of paintings, exhibited in galleries and institutions in cultural events, notably the Fresh sculpture, book art, concrete poetry, etc. Europe, Mexico, China and throughout the Chamber salon series, the Studio 909 Returning to the United States in 1992, she United States. In parallel, she conceived Presents jazz series, and The Hawaii opened The Art Alliance in a consummate of its social media component “Bed/ Contrabass Festival (2000-2016), an Soho loft where she introduced “Culture unmade (www.bedunmade.com), a digital internationally acclaimed educational Shock Artists” and “New to America” mid collection of unmade bed photos from symposium. and late career artists (Jacques Soisson, around the world. Ipousteguy, Ugo Attardi, Bernardo Torrens, In 1977, Fumiko travelled to New York to etc.). Her salon evenings were presented From her classical training as a study at the Manhattan School of Music, in the grand tradition of the European portraitist, Poller has had notable portrait during which time she met Philippe Petit Salon, while “Frame it, Its Yours” and “Yin- commissions (Fred Ho – legendary at his chalk circle in Sheridan Square Park. yang - A social/cultural Laboratory” were jazz musician, Enrique Guzman – Since then they have collaborated on precursors to current trends in gallery Latin American correspondent to the numerous projects, among them Tour et activities. Poller has curated more than 125 White House, etc.). Poller’s interest in Fil (Paris, 1989), Historischer Hochseillauf exhibitions worldwide. consciousness is communicated in her

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