Circuit Bent Portraits

 

Using a circuit bent toy camera from Letsglitchit, I'm able to get analog video image processing like results including posterization and colorization.

Lineage Portraits added to ShamanDreaming.org

Dalai Lama

I've uploaded a series of lineage portraits (some new pieces, some older work), including the Dalai Lama, Terence McKenna, Ram Dass and John Lilly. Also, myself engaged in deity visualizations. Enjoy!

Meditations on Lady One Death

Part of my practice to better integrate the Lady's energies has been to work on various thangka images and portraits. Below, I have posted a selection of these meditation images.

Altar of Lady One Death

Totem of Lady One Death

Lady One Death Invocation

Yantra of Lady One Death

The gem seen in these images reveals some of her underlying attributes (symbols within the opal stone): we see an eagle flying, diving, ready to capture it's prey. At the bottom slithers a rattle snake. Between the two floats the rattle itself - a symbol of shamanic journey (rattle), of the Milky Way, as well the time of upcoming galactic Solstice Alignment. The star field behind is that of the Pleiades, home of the Mayan Star Ancestors.

Be Here Now

Here are portraits of some cultural heros, early psychonauts of the 60's and beyond.

Portrait of Ram Das

Portrait of Terence McKenna

For interesting, often funny & great, podcasts of Terrence McKenna (as well as many other figures discussing sacred medicines, altered states and shamanism), tune into the Psychedelic Salon  (http://www.matrixmasters.com/podcasts) hosted by Lorenzo.

Deity Self-Portraits (Becoming One)

This Tantric practice, an active meditation visualization, involves merging oneself with a target deity - or more specifically, with visualizing the deity first external to oneself. Then while attuning to the energy signature of the deity, moving the visualized deity form from outside to inside oneself, merging (overlapping) bodies, chakras and energy meridians.

By taking on the cloak of the deity, simply by pretending "as if", one can begin to entrain one's energy to match. Little by little, the effect becomes stronger each time. This process can be amplified through visualization of beams of colored light and seed sound mantras flowing from the crown, throat and heart chakras of the deity into oneself before full merging.

Self as Avaolkasavara

Self as Thai Buddha

Self as Bon Protector