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Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence Textile Existence:
Arlequin p.21
By Rev. Martin Luther King Transformative Living:
April 4th, 1967 Omega Institute p.23
Esalen Art Center p.25
Poetry Strange Reality
Liz Rymland p.9 Zena Grey p.29
Marie-Elizabeth Mundheim p.40
Published by Entheon Press ROneflections
the Sacred Mirrors
Chief Editors:
Alex Grey, Allyson Grey by M atthew F ox
Creative Directors, Graphic Design, Nothing is more crucial for the survival of
Production and Advertising:
our species than renewing our sense of the sacred.
Eli Morgan, Marisa Scirocco
At least that is what a dream told me several
Contributing Writers:
years ago, one of those dreams so lucid and so
Contributing Artists:
Matthew Fox Dean Chamberlain
powerful that it woke me up. As I
Alex Stark Alex Grey lay sleeping, a voice spoke to me:
Zena Grey Allyson Grey “There is nothing wrong with the
Liz Rymland Paul Laffoley human race today except one
Marie-Elizabeth Mundheim Oliver Vernon thing: We have lost the sense
Alex Grey Eli Morgan of the sacred.” And I woke up,
Allyson Grey Marisa Scirocco startled.
Marisa Scirocco Kenji Williams The Chapel of
Eli Morgan Sacred Mirrors offers us a
Kenji Williams unique opportunity for spiritual
Jayson Fann renewal by contemplation of
transformative art. By locat-
ing the sacred in us, Alex
Proof Reader: Grey’s art is an affront to all
Grace fear-based and guilt-based
ideologies that tell us we do
Website: www.cosm.org not have what it takes, that
Email: Delvin@cosm.org salvation or wholeness must
always come from the out-
side. In contrast, Alex, like
Cover Art: Sophia (detail) by Alex Grey, 1989, acrylic on canvas Hildegard, the visionary
mystic from the twelfth
CoSM Journal, published by the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, provides
century, proposes that our
a forum for the emergence of Visionary Culture. CoSM Journal
beauty, grace and radiance
shares with it’s readers the work and stories of artists, thinkers, and
community builders who are dedicated to transformative living, and
comes from inside—that
committed to the integration of wisdom and the arts. CoSM Journal we already have “all that is
is offered to inform, connect, and inspire this evolving global aware- necessary inside us.” Alex’s
ness. art invites us to reflect on our
inner beauty. Contemplating
the art in the Chapel of
The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors (CoSM) is a sanctuary in New York Sacred Mirrors is certainly not
City for contemplation and a center for events encouraging the creative narcissistic navel gazing.
spirit. The Sacred Mirrors, on display in the Chapel, are a series of It is stirring the “Buddha
paintings that allow us to see ourselves and each other as reflections of Nature,” or“Christ within,”
the divine. CoSM provides a public exhibition of the Sacred Mirrors the “Shekinah,” “Goddess,”
and the most outstanding works of mystical art by Alex Grey. The “Imago Dei” or image of God,
Chapel of Sacred Mirrors is a 501(c)(3) organization, supported solely by the “Divine Spark” in all of
charitable donations from the community. us. Paintings in the Chapel
invite us to meditate on our
unseen layers of innerness, the
many layers of subtle energetic
fields and the anatomical
CoSM Journal is printed with recycled paper and soy-based inks.
embodiment of our Incarnation
(God-made-flesh).
PSYCHIC ENERGY SYSTEM SPIRITUAL ENERGY SYSTEM UNIVERSAL MIND LATTICE AVALOKITESVARA CHRIST SOPHIA
1980, acrylic on linen, 84x46 in. 1981, acrylic on canvas, 84x46 in. 1981, acrylic on canvas, 84x46 in. 1982-83, acrylic on linen, 84x46 in. 1982-85, oil on linen, 84x46 in. 1989, acrylic on canvas, 84x46 in.
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Entheogenic Free-Style
Lizbeth Rymland
The other night I awakened as hovercraft circling some kind of dusty Architect of Being
gem-encrusted queen sleeping upright on a night throne on the Nazca Plain.
She burned gold and crimson under my firefly hovercraft lights, “Symbol-myths are energy portals - being in the presence
though she was covered with dust, beautiful, nodding. of them is like facing something totally beyond yourself.
Circling her head coming closer I heard her mumbling: They appear as beings of greater maturity, aliveness, and
internal complexity than you. Their capacity to generate an
“Examining the spectrum of monstrification we can rapidly recognize that energy of a different and more intense nature that you are capable of
monstrification extrudes at the source point of circulation blunting. generating, elicits the classic sublime response, which transcends
If disease is born from an inhibition of soul-life, soul-life circulation beauty: joy combined with horror at the rush of the infinite.”
is the key to reanimation across the numbzones of deadification and
separation blunting. Sorry things have deadened, numbness expands like the — Paul Laffoley , The Phenomenology of Revelation
flabby of banality in every direction. Coyotes will be released to unplug
fixity. First the gold elevators of the Trump Tower open to reveal firstone
giant Indian clown, a Koshari. He is mammoth brown -- broad jawed with
raggedy clothes but this one’s raggedy is electrified. He wears a
polka-dotted hat with a broad brim and pom-poms hanging from it. He stands
in the gold open elevator of the Trump Tower as the first sign of the others
to come down one after another like a slurry of blessings that open the
elevators to infiltrate the city. This heyokeh secretly carries in his
briefcase a medicine bundle with spangled gak to infect with blessing the
atrocities in every dead man’s quarter: Corporate showrooms, sexslave
camps, bad masons, boardrooms and bedrooms of each and every character that
Christ would spit from his mouth for being neither hot nor cold. The polka
dot Heyokeh exits the elevator, walks behind a screen where he is
simultaneously cloaked in a suit carrying a suitcase through the city filled
The Five Principals of Geezer Art, 2003, Ink, vinyl lettering and photocollage on board, 31 x 31 in.
and leaking with spangles as holy as the saliva and bodily fluids exchanged
between Christ’s and Magdalene’s. Sopping wet from Christ sperm and
Magdalene’s blessed foam, Entrails everywhere are enlivened and golden,
heightened elongate till dancing. Take your dreary dead man’s cloak and
silkenwebbery you are covered with greasy plaid stuff and bless it with the
gak from the polka-dotted contrary’s spotted apocryphal bible.
*Deadification occurs when the rapid rise of wonder and awe and love in
one’s tissue is met with sudden denial or shock or battery and somehow the
denied one is distracted and doesn’t meet this rupture with full-blown
howling or more simply, unlike the traumatized animal who has just shammed
dead and rises to shake the trauma off the spine, we sometimes forget after
springing to our feet to shake the trauma off the spine.
Hey! Yer tailbone is stuck in the inverted position! Stick a finger in and
yank the tailbone down! Take the spangles from the contrary’s briefcase and
sup of it from your long fingertips. It lives in you he/she lives
everywhere! In fact, examining the broad spectrum of monstrification
we can rapidly recognize that monstrification extrudes at the source point
of circulation blunting and that soul life circulation
across fixed borders of ancestral and familial separation and forgetting
is the key to reanimation across the numbzones.”
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Paul Laffoley’s artwork Dimensionality:
The Manifestation of Fate, 1992
heralds a new and visionary stage Oil, acrylic, ink, and lettering on canvas
in culture and human understanding. 98 1/2 x 49 1/2 inches
First exhibited in the late 1960’s, Courtesy of the artist and
his mind-expanding mandalas draw together Kent Gallery, New York
all fields of human knowledge and offer
hyper-imaginative glimpses into the possibilities Subject:
The Natural Octave of Spatiality and
of time-travel, levitating gyroscopes and plant
Temporality
houses. Laffoley sees the future and paints it.
Symbol Evocation:
What distinguishes Paul’s work from modern and post-modern art is his encyclopedic and The Geometric Force of the Tension
integrative non-ironic mapping of levels of being and thorough acquaintance with the between Fate and Will
transcendental domain of reality. Laffoley invents terms like Aetheiapolis, Nihilatron and the
Bauharoque because new ways of thinking demand a new vocabulary. To truly appreciate one
of Paul’s artworks is to become familiar with how psychotronics, sacred geometry, and UFO’s
may be related, or to contemplate the source of consciousness itself. In viewing Paul’s art, we
are confronted by our own level of ignorance, presenting us with both a challenge and an
opportunity to learn. The artist calls his paintings “architectonic thoughtforms,” suggesting
that each piece is a dwelling constructed and inhabited by his psyche, and making an exhibition
of his artwork a kind of “thought-city”, designed and governed by the artist himself.
Paul Laffoley’s intriguing biography reflects the strange uniqueness of his art. Born
into an Irish Catholic family in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1940, Paul spoke his first word,
“Constantinople,” at six months, and then remained silent until the age of four when he was
diagnosed as slightly autistic. At that age he began to draw and paint. In his senior year at
Brown University he was given eight electroshock treatments for a nervous breakdown, but
managed to graduate with a triple major of Classics, Art History and Philosophy. He studied
at Harvard Graduate School of Design, and apprenticed with the visionary architect
Frederick Kiesler. In 1968 he moved into an eighteen by thirty foot utility room to found a
one-man ”think tank” and creative unit called the Boston Visionary Cell where he has lived
and worked for over 35 years. Laffoley supported himself for some time, with a job at the
Boston Museum of Science, returning to the BVC to eat, sleep and work on multimedia
renderings of his visions of alternative futures and complex realities. During a routine
CAT-scan of his head in 1992, a miniature metallic “implant,” 3/8 of an inch long, was
discovered in the occipital lobe of his brain, near the pineal gland. Local M.U.F.O.N. (Mutual
U.F.O. Network) investigators declared it to be an alien nanotechnological laboratory. He has
come to believe the “implant” is extraterrestrial in origin and is the main motivation behind his
ideas and theories. Paul shows with Kent Gallery, New York City, and was recently honored
with a retrospective at the Austin Museum of Art.
“I literally have one foot in the grave so I have a connection
The Lion Footed with death. At first I wasn’t experiencing any phantom limb
A few years ago, while installing a solo show in a Manhattan gallery, Paul fell from a sensation, so I got twelve people, candles and did a séance at the
ladder and shattered the bones in his ankle. Several surgeries and many months later, the injury Psychotronic Association. They were into it. We discovered that when
refused to heal and Paul had his foot and lower leg amputated. Through his indomitable spirit the amputated foreleg and foot passed over into the spirit realm an astral
and much physical therapy, Paul walks again. He commissioned an illustrious artist to create lioness got it. I had to reason with the young lioness’s father to get it
for him a comfortable prosthetic lion’s foot. Here’s how Laffoley describes his foot: back. After the séance was over, my foot started to hurt. I had gotten it
“Eighteen centimeters below the knee is where the cup starts. It resembles the front back. With the new leg on I feel it’s almost like having a real leg. I bump
foot and angle of the way a lion stands. Stan Winston, FX to the stars in Holly wood, made into things and I know it’s there. My whole life I wanted a lion’s foot.
this foot. He probably took something off the shelf and modified it for my prosthetic. People say they want a rabbit’s foot. When I was six years old I was
thinking about this stuff, so be careful what you pray for.”
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Not through denial or through better manipulation of the environment, but through deepening
our experience of life. Calamities can be seen as part of life’s lessons in a process of learning
and growing.I’d like Omega to bring that process out into society. Omega in Costa Rica, for
instance, allows people, at a time when they are slowing down, to retreat and look deeply into
their lives. I’d like to create retreat centers in other locations and reach even more people by
holding conferences, as well as having a strong presence on the web. Omega would like to
partner with young people to explore the next generation of this work. Places like Omega
are trying to breath Spiritual Activism into society and reflect inner values out to the
For over 25 years, Omega Institute has been at the forefront world. Being devoted to higher consciousness means shifting significantly from the
of holistic education featuring some of the greatest think- “I consciousness” to “We consciousness “. Omega events should be an island and
ers, teachers, authors and artists of our time in a beautiful retreat a retreat apart from the normal confines of life. I’d like to plan a three day music
event with excellent musicians and entertainment in a range of styles with the
setting. The following are excerpts taken from a conversation
intention to motivate and effect participants to work for the preservation of the
with Stephan, a cofounder and the CEO of Omega Institute, planet.
and Alex and Allyson Grey at Omega’s Maho Bay retreat
center in the Caribbean in January, 2004. The Dalai Lama said that he certainly supported public concern for freeing Tibet, but
the one issue he would recommend focusing on is repairing our environment. Omega
CoSM: Stephan, could you briefly describe your concept of “Timeshifting”? has sponsored many retreats that consider that issue. America is like an octopus
with it’s tentacles out to every other country in the world. To live a life-
SR: Time is the rhythm dimension of life, and each moment has style of relative comfort, our country is sucking the world’s resources
a slightly different rhythm. In our culture the rhythm dimension dry. Corporate greed is deeply locked in and a shift will not be quick
is speeding up. Timeshifting is recognizing that it is impossible or easy. Despite all of my conscious awareness about conserving
to live life successfully at only one speed. Mastery of life is and recycling, the planet could not sustain 6 billion of me. We’re
the capacity to shift your internal rhythm to synergize with so entrenched in our culture that we’re unable to even imagine
the rhythm around you. When you ride a 20 speed bicycle up healing the damage we’re doing. We’re like fish swimming in the
an incline, down a hill or on a level, you shift gears so can sea, not knowing that we are in the sea.
ride the various terrains with ease. Most people are only
synchronized with one rhythm which might be “fast all Shifting to thoughts of creativity, I suppose the notion of “Visionary
the time.” They feel at odds with life when it slows down. Culture,” the subtitle of our zine, would be the ability to be flying
Stress is simply our resistance to being with what’s so in fish, able to get a glimpse of the ocean we’re swimming in. The
this present moment. Being in rhythm with life around you role of visionary creativity lies in scenario planning - paint-
releases you from stress. ing a picture of the future with the creative fluidity of the
imagination. In your painting ”Gaia”, you portray a vision of
CoSM: Tell us a bit about the Omega conference entitled two different scenarios - a vision of the world going to hell and
a vision of nature as paradise. In one ayahuasca journey that I
SR: Living A Fearless Life.”Omega participants want to open them- had I was sitting there embracing the entire realm of the possible.
selves up, explore and expand their consciousness. Fear means When fear came up it was the fear of looking at that level of reality
closing down, to wall off and protect ourselves from our environ- and creativity. The kind of education that Omega stands for is more
ment and from other people. Fear can be contagious. Our society about gaining perspective and wisdom through our experiences and
today seems ruled by fear. Surprisingly, people who I consider very less about just imparting information. In ancient societies, or ancestral
reasonable live with a high level of fear. Living a fearless life doesn’t societies, the wisdom keepers, the Grandmother or Grandfather were
mean denying terrible things happen or denying there are causes for revered and called upon for counsel. An information based society lacks
certain fears, but greatness has always been accomplished through acts reverence for wisdom. Elders are devalued. Wisdom often comes from
of courage and compassion exhibited by people who are willing to step having contact with inspired teachers, being in the vibration and vicinity
beyond their fear. Robert Kennedy Jr., Michael Moore and the other pre- of those who have insight. Omega provides a place for the transmission of
senters at the conference are people who have fear but are not ruled by fear. wisdom and for the deep personal experiences that lead people to their
It was a powerfully inspiring conference. own source of wisdom. The wisdom that can refocus our society toward
sustainability is there right now and needs to be heeded.
We heard that from everyone who attended. Omega has been holding conferences and
developing retreat centers in new locations. How do you see Omega evolving in the Check out Stephan Rechtschaffen’s
future?Omega provides tools and practices to enhance the joys and deal with books including, Timeshifting.
the adversities of life. In our society, we assume that if we do things well, we For more information on Omega Institute go to www.eomega.org
won’t have any problems, we’ll have a perfect life with two kids, a wife, a house
and a car and nothing will go wrong, but everybody’s got stuff going wrong.
How do we deal with these adversities?
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Transformative Living
CoSM: The Multi-Cultural arts program is a beautiful and ambitious project.
How do you feel this program can help heal and change the world?
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Strange Reality People may be assholes, but we’re the ones deciding that, and if we
recognize intelligence in people, we may actually learn something. Last night, I
with Zena Grey was looking at people on the subway and that voice in my head wasn’t whisper-
ing evil comments about them. Instead of being resigned and cynical, I actually
thought how beautiful everyone was and how much we have to be thankful for.
I have a few questions: Everything that occurs in life, exists in our minds. We decide who sucks or that
If I had to choose between being blind or deaf, which would I choose? Sound is fiercely we hate homework or whether life is pointless or meaningful.
intoxicating. What would my life be if there was no music. I know so many songs, though, What creates attraction? For me, attraction has nothing to do
if I became deaf now, my head would act as a CD player. But what keeps one song in your with appearance. Short term attraction, a glance on the subway, depends on
head forever? I wish I knew the properties that engrain music in your head, a mathematics appearance. You’ll never see that person again and you don’t know anything
to the note patterns that are somehow pleasing to the brain. about them so physical appearance is all you have to go on. But with true
Two nights ago it rained like a beast. I hadn’t heard rain that beautiful, thunder friends, the more brilliantly interesting they are, the greater is my attrac-
that stunning, lightning that awesome in a long time. I felt like a little kid, except without tion to them. At one of those typical girly sleepovers where everyone was
the fear. The imagination, that belief in the closet monster, was so wonderfully carefree. talking about who is hot, I named one of my best friends and all I heard was
Now my fears are consumed by reality. I felt my house shaking from the thunder and I “eeewww” !!! That’s when I realized that personality attracts me more that
loved it. Even the patter of hard rain against the air conditioner was freakishly satisfying. physical appearance. One relationship that’s true can be a life-altering experi-
ence -- to actually feel like I can express myself without being afraid of rejection.
And never being able to hear the voice of the one person you truly love -- I could never live
without that.
“Live like you love...then everything can be beautiful.”
But sight is one of the most beautiful things one can be granted. I want to see every-
thing, not only the most magnificently breathtaking paintings of the Sistine Chapel and
- Zena Lotus Grey, age 15, 2004
the passionflowers of the most awesome gardens, but even George Bush and the horribly
grotesque, mangled bodies of exploded children in Iraq. My eyes should witness it all.
Can I matter in the world? Recently, I had this epiphany: It’s not whom you’re
friends with and how much power and money you have that determines how you affect the
world. You affect people around you all the time. You may feel powerless and then a
friend remembers something you said years ago, or some little thing you did with them
once, you realize that you mean something to everyone. I remember this kid from pre-k that we are all part of the solution
I don’t think I ever talked to. I just remember his face, watched him play with blocks and These are websites dedicated to awareness,
steal my graham crackers. His memory is still with me. Who’s remembering me? eco-consciousness art and community:
When, as a child, does the transition from ephemeral love to eternal hate begin?
Voltaire says we’re born as blank slates; that as a child we’re perfect, waiting for life to democracynow.org bioneers.org
have an effect on us. We become tainted, when society influences us. Some children look votesmart.org integralnaked.org
so perfect, so happy, so in love with everything and everyone. What turns this perfect themeatrix.com
child into a racist, a homophobic, a drug addict? You can blame the parents, society, their opencenter.org
surroundings, but children begin early to think for themselves. From innocent to tainted Art naropa.edu
-- when does the transformation occur? beksinski.pl freewillastrology.com
What feelings are real, which are acting? Life is what you make it. You say you’re chetzar.com
bored, you’re bored, you say you’re depressed, you’re depressed. Everyone has their little story venosa.com
they lug around about the past. Fuck that. Why should we be walking around upset because burningman.org
of something that happened when we were a kid? Why the hell are we clinging to the past raycaesar.com
like a security blanket? There are more important problems to complain about: let’s get these Music
assholes out of the white house, let’s start a revolution, let’s change the world. Not: let’s radiohead.com
be pissed off because the teacher is out to get you...it’s so ordinary. Not: let’s get in a toolband.com
relationship that doesn’t work and complain about it...way to be original. I can cry on pinkfloyd-co.com
demand, laugh on demand, love on demand, hate on demand. I’m an actor, but I’m not a aperfectcircle.com
robot. It’s my decision how it’s going to be for me and only I can change my mind. We’re ratm.com
living in the now; life is happening this moment, not back then. We can’t guarantee how ween.com
much of our lives we have left. Why not consciously live every moment.
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Message from Allyson and Alex Grey
Earlier this year, our dear friends Eli Morgan and Marisa Scirocco, came to
us with the idea of publishing a journal to highlight the work of artists
and organizations with a transformative vision. Designed as a zine or small
periodical, the focus of this journal would be on visionary art, music,
dance, poetry, fashion/style and enlightened business.
The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors (CoSM) represents the context of seeing oneself
and the world as a reflection of the divine. The CoSM Journal extends this
message of inter-reflectivity by bringing together artists working in various
disciplines who have discovered the same truth. Our world is dominated by
the shrillness of the corporate media which tends to darken our perception
of the world. We’d like CoSM Journal to stand for the “still small voice” of
conscience and consciousness pointing to the possibilities of human
potential, the force for creating a better world.
The concept of creating The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors has been our life’s
dream for over fifteen years during which time, we’ve spoken about it to
everyone who would listen. With the advice and support of close friends,
we began holding regular gatherings on the full moon to pray on and
contemplate the journey to the Chapel, a place that many have told us,
exists already in the “future land”. The monthly gatherings started out as
small private affairs with some of the Chapel project’s most devoted
supporters. Soon, we opened the meetings to the public and held them
in our studio/home in Brooklyn. The energy and momentum of the full
moon gatherings grew and percolated as we opened our doors to anyone
who wished to pray with us about creating the Chapel. Hundreds came
every month and through our prayers, Spirit New York appeared and
offered us space in their building. With the help of donations from
people all over the country, this raw space is being transformed into the
first temporary Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, which we’re calling CoSM.
It has always been our goal for this unique and valuable collection of art
to have a permanent home of it’s own, to serve as a context for a
multi-cultural, interfaith community that values the interconnectedness of
all life. A permanent home is still a priority and our ultimate goal. For five
years, CoSM in Spirit New York will shine a light on the integration of
creativity and spirituality in all modes of artistic expression. We are grateful for
this opportunity to build a sacred site for a community of creative friends.
www.cosm.org
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In the End is the Beginning
The Summer Solstice and the Marking of Time
by Alex Stark This potential for constant renewal is made
physical in the cyclical process of time. Recognition
The summer solstice on June 21st is one of the of time and of experience as cyclical is at the
key dates in the solar calendar. The sun has reached its heart of our relationship to nature. Traditional
highest point in the sky, thereby creating the longest
peoples around the world recognize this
day in the year. It is a traditional time for celebration
perennial philosophy, often referring to this
and rejoicing, and cultures around the world have
dedicated considerable resources and effort to mark dialectic as a return to the moment of
its passing. In cosmic terms, the solar god is at the creation. Time is never seen as linear but
pinnacle of his power. Similarly, the Earth goddess rather as an eternal return to a new
is also ripe with the fruit of abundance and fertility. beginning, full of promise and hope. Every
The crops, which provide sustenance to the human ending is a new beginning. Celebrations at
participants of this cosmic drama, are ready for the this time of the year should therefore focus
taking. The midsummer moon, in the meantime, has on the joyful recognition of the abundance of
grown to its own fullness, and is considered by many nature and on the impermanence of this
cultures to be a harbinger of strength and success; bounty, on the miracle of life and on the
among the Celts, it was associated with the oak, the mystery of death. One without the other is
hardiest of trees. This is a time of great power, in which
not only unbalanced, it is meaningless.
the archetypal forces find themselves in perfect balance.
The Chinese, like many other peoples, have associated
this time with the element of fire and its attributes in clarity,
enlightenment, charisma, passion, and achievement. Suitably,
it was celebrated with great bonfires and round-the-clock rituals.
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9. Kenji Williams; Worldspirit, 12. Sharon Fulcher: Construction of guardian
Oakland, CA, 2003 13. Mara Indra, Architect, describes her vision of a
10. Alex Stark; Full Moon Gathering curved wall in CoSM-NYC, with electrician Carlos
12. Marie-Elizabeth Mundheim; Full Moon Gathering 14. Nathaniel Smith, Marisa Scirocco, Mark Peebler;
Full Moon Gathering
15. Skye Keyes & friend, Beigen Brothers;
CoSM-NYC construction
16. Drew Hannah and friend; Full Moon Gathering
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Free Fall
Climbing my way out of the
past
parashakti.org into a future I don’t yet see,
I feel free, for a moment, then fall.
Free, for a moment, then fall.
Free…fall.
Not how I pictured it at all.
Old patterns linger
even as my fingers
touch the edge of the new.
Can it really be true?
Or is everything that seems new
just the product of conditioning
I haven’t seen yet?
I’m willing to bet
sometimes that this is so.
Conditioning steam rolls
its way through that which felt new,
www.braindropssf.com and the few pieces of freedom fall again
into the patterns of the past.
Why doesn’t the new last
beyond a fast glimpse of freedom?
Marie-Elizabeth Mundheim
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Thank you!
This goes out to all the visionaries that helped
to create this journal and to all the readers,
may CoSM continue to connect
creative people across the planet.