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       "The visual language is a lost language, like cyphers undecyphered. But it underlies all that we dream each night. It invisibly appears whenever the images of vision flow in a meaningful way. It emerges from trance, contemplation, myth and madness. This ancient image-language, otherwise forgotten, is now being spoken once more..."

From A MANIFESTO
OF VISIONARY ART




WHERE
ART, MYTH & DREAM
INTERFUSE

The Face of Kali

L. CARUANA'S
VISIONARY ART



UPDATES



This summer, Maura Holden and myself
will share everything we know about painting
at our new seminar...

VISIONS IN THE MISCHTECHNIK


       Recently I released a Visionary novel which delves into the Nag Hammadi texts to elucidate the Gnostic worldview.
       ...Its narrative moves with ease through dreams, visions, madness and higher states on consciousness.
       Discount copies may be ordered through my new site: GnosticQ.com.

DISCOVER GNOSTICQ.COM



       ...AIRING MAY 3rd
- A LIVELY PODCAST ON THE HIDDEN PASSION!
       AEON BYTE, the weekly Gnostic radio show, conducts an in depth interview with me on my new novel, The Hidden Passion.
       Go to TheGodAboveGod.com and listen to Program 95 - What would the Ministry of the Gnostic Jesus look like? (Click the musical note on the bottom of their media player. The interview begins after a 10 minute introduction).
AEON BYTE



       NEW! I've just added a photo album in the Features section called Visionary Kinships & Encounters.


       For the third year in a row, I gave a presentation on Entheogens and Visionary Art at the Paris Colloquium on Hallucinations in Philosophy & Cognitive Science.
       Rick Doblin of MAPS, author Benny Shanon, director Jan Kounen and a host of others participated in the 4-day event.
       See: hallucinations.risc.cnrs.fr (in French) as a new site for those interested in Cognitive Science as an approach to entheogenic visions and consciousness.

       Two of my works are included in the 5th issue of the CoSM Journal - a special issue on Ritual and Mystery Schools.


      Last August, Alex Grey and I got together at The Chapel of Sacred Mirros in New York for an Entheologue discussion on the role of Entheogens in Visionary Art.

      The Entheologue discussion was recorded and is now available in the Features section:

L. CARUANA AND ALEX GREY AT ENTHEOLOGUE


       I'm pleased to be included among the group of European Artists (Fuchs, Brauer, Hausner, Giger, De Es, etc) in the forthcoming Visionary Art Show.


       In November, I participated in the Metageum Conference in Malta. It was an amazing experience. Mornings we attended lectures - delving into the consciousness of the ancient culture that built the megalithic temples in Malta.
       Afternoons and evenings, we attempted to experience this for ourselves - chanting in underground temples or trance-dancing till midnight...
       I lectured on The Ancient Image-Language and participated in a panel discussion on Entheogens while exhibiting five paintings. My great thanks to Peter B. Lloyd.
       You can read a summary and hear the panel discussion (Gyrus, Erik Davis & myself) at Gyrus' site: DreamFlesh.com
       See also: Metageum.org


       A new EP - Lunueo - has just been released from The Artaxian Mantra featuring my painting The Face of Kali on the cover.
       I love their music - at once, hard, passionate and spiritual - with richly-textured guitar work from Maryn Knevitt and powerful, impassioned vocals from Genevieve Knevitt.
       Hear their music at:
TheArtaxianMantra.com



THE VISIONARY REVUE

       Issue 4 is now on-line, a special feature on Entheogens and Visionary Art. Loaded with images and in-depth texts, The Visionary Revue is an on-line journal documenting the latest trends in the international movement known as Visionary Art.

       The Premiere issue features the renowned MANIFESTO OF VISIONARY ART

                       Go to www.VisionaryRevue.com

THE MANIFESTO OF VISIONARY ART

     "...Concise as an instrument
for presenting the current state and dimension
of the visionary phenomenon."

- DE ES Schwertberger

     "Thank you so much for your Manifesto of Visionary Art
- an intelligent analysis of the worldwide phenomena...
Your online journal is terrific."

- Alex Grey

cover: Manifesto of Visionary Art

Soft cover, 65 pgs,
laser photocopy
with 20 b&w illustrations
(Fuchs, Giger, Grey, De Es, etc.)

A Limited Edition of
200 signed and numbered copies
is now in print.
Copies may be purchased
through the shop at GnosticQ.com

U.S. $10
Price includes shipping
Euro €10
Price includes shipping
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FEATURES

       The new millennium brought about a lot of interesting changes in my life.

       Thanks to Andrew Gonzalez and Amanda Sage, I met Ernst Fuchs in the summer of 2000. Together we worked with him in THE APOCALYPSE CHAPEL in Southern Austria, then Andrew and I attended the Old Masters / New Visions Seminar. The entire adventure is on view.

       In 2001, I moved to Monaco and apprenticed under Ernst Fuchs for a year, working with him on larger paintings in his studio in the South of France. I wrote an account of that experience (with photos) called LEARNING TO SEE.

       Upon my return to Paris, I launched The Visionary Revue with its Manifesto of Visionary Art. One result was an INTERVIEW in Mental Contagion magazine.

       In the Spring of 2003 I travelled through Egypt, India, Nepal and Tibet, sketching and photographing images among the temples, tombs and ruins. These have been brought together into a photo album: A VISIONARY JOURNEY TO THE EAST.

       Dreams are the main sources of my paintings, and I continue to have some strange and incredible ones. The latest, which I call THE ANCIENT CADUCEUS has primaeval animals and became a reflection on death and rebirth. A sample of my dreams from the last 25 years can be found in my DREAM JOURNAL.

       In August of 2007, Alex Grey and I held an ENTHEOLOGUE at the Chapel of Sacred Mirros in New York. The event was recorded and is now available.

       All of these events are brought together in the FEATURES section.





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