Some artists paint what they see; I paint what I sense. My canvases are quiet instruments tuned to calm, clarity, and renewal. I make them to be lived with - to steady a room, soften conversation, and remind the heart of its own light. My practice has grown slowly, shaped by landscapes, languages, and the patient discipline of attention. It has also been shaped by the people who choose to live with my work - collectors, seekers, and friends who feel the gentle voltage of a painting and welcome it into their homes.

I was born in the Far East of Russia, where forests, rivers, and vast skies taught me to notice presence where others saw only matter. Years later I made my life in Israel, and the desert light, the sea, and the stones of ancient places deepened my conversation with colour and form. Today I work from my studio in Rishon LeZion, creating spiritual paintings, guiding meditations, and holding space for healing. My path has always been a dialogue with light - visual, emotional, and spiritual - and every brushstroke carries that conversation forward.

Artist Statement

I paint to reveal what is already present: the quiet brightness within people and places. Colour is the language of feeling; geometry is the language of order. When they meet, a canvas becomes a room you can enter. I hope each painting steadies the heart, invites breath, and affirms the gentleness that survives beneath the noise of daily life.

Roots, Journey, and Becoming

My story begins in a northern climate of long winters and miraculous springs. As a child, I learned that images could carry intent - a drawing could comfort, a colour could change the energy in a room. Those early recognitions never left me. When I later moved to Israel, the change of land and language felt like a rite of passage - an initiation into a wider conversation with the sacred qualities of light. In this new environment, I built an inner “home”: a place of stillness I could return to before touching a brush.

From that stillness, a method emerged: I arrive, breathe, set an intention, prepare the surface, let the first true colour appear, then build the painting layer by layer until the image and intention resonate. Over time, this became a ritual. It is not mystical pageantry, but a practical way to quiet the noise and let the work speak honestly.

My life holds many roles - painter, meditation guide, energy worker, tattoo talismanist - yet the red thread is simple: I am here to host light. Whether I am glazing a canvas or holding a client in stillness, I am doing the same work with different tools - making space for coherence, balance, and kindness.

Visual Language and Motifs

My paintings carry my voice, yet they are open enough to hold your story. Certain motifs return because they speak to experiences I trust. Luminous fields and soft halos give the feeling that the canvas itself glows. Circles, ellipses, spirals, and subtle grids bring harmony; the circle, endless and complete, often anchors a composition like a heartbeat. Birds appear for freedom and perspective, whales for deep-time wisdom, butterflies for gentle transformation, and celestial bodies to remind us of cycles of expansion and rest. Arches, doorways, and horizon lines invite presence, the feeling of standing at the edge of a new chapter. Abstract seas, skies, and mountains act as internal geographies, giving the eye a place to rest and the nervous system permission to exhale.

The Spirituality of the Work

People often ask what makes a painting “spiritual,” especially when the forms are minimal or abstract. For me, it comes from intention and presence. Every painting begins with a purpose - clarity, renewal, courage, gratitude - held in my mind and heart as I work. My rhythm is quiet and meditative, informed by breath and attention. I adjust the composition by feel, softening corners or warming spaces if the energy shifts. Ultimately, a painting is complete when it changes the room, when it asks nothing of you and yet offers something vital in return.

Materials and Craft

I work with gallery-wrapped canvas or sealed wood panels, using professional acrylics and oils. Acrylics allow luminous glazing; oils allow me to linger in delicate transitions. Each surface is prepared with warm or cool toned gesso, creating a subtle bias before the first stroke. I build translucent veils over days or weeks, allowing the work to emerge gradually, in dialogue with light. Soft edges invite rest, while geometric forms provide a sense of structure. I protect the finished surface with satin or matte varnish, and often choose minimalist float frames that companion the painting without competing with it. In all this, I want the work to breathe and endure, revealing subtle notes in the changing light of a day.

Collections & Selected Works

My work is organized into families - series that return to a question from different angles. Portals of Light explore elliptical halos and luminous gradients that feel like abstract gateways. Guardians feature symbolic animals and archetypal presences, often marking transitions - a child’s arrival, a new home, the start of a practice. Elemental Prayers explore earth, air, fire, and water, harmonizing spaces in pairs or quartets. Solar and Lunar works balance outward energy with inward reflection: Solar pieces brighten shared spaces, Lunar ones soften bedrooms and therapy rooms. My gallery includes intimate works and large canvases - quiet horizons, visionary eyes, mythic creatures. Each painting has its own presence, yet together they form a single, evolving field.

Living with the Work

Placement matters, because the paintings are subtle companions. I like to see them where people naturally pause - opposite a favourite chair, near a desk, beside a bed, at the threshold of a home. Light matters too: indirect natural light reveals the shifting colours, while harsh sun can overwhelm. Large works anchor generous rooms; medium ones support bedrooms or studies; pairs create breathing space in halls. I care for them gently, dusting with a soft cloth, keeping the environment stable, and letting the paintings speak for themselves.

In an era where the cacophony of modern life drowns out our inner rhythms, a quiet revolution is unfolding - one note, one ceremony, one song and collective breath at a time. At the heart of this movement is “medicine music”.

My name is Tony Moss and I am a visionary artist whose life bridges the worlds of activism, spirituality, and sound. As the founder of the I AM LIFE Music label and a creative force behind the musical collective Bird Tribe, I’ve now dedicated over three decades to exploration of music not just as entertainment, but as a profound medicine for the soul. Through my work, I invite a reclaiming of our connection to self, community, and the cosmos, with the intention that music can heal.

My journey into the world of music as medicine began in the fertile ground of a musical family. Born to Rejoyce Moss, a member of the 1960s gospel group The Stovall Sisters, I grew up immersed in the soul-stirring harmonies of R&B and gospel. California's psychedelic undercurrents further shaped my later years, exposing me to the expansive possibilities of altered states and collective ecstasy.

But it was in the 1990s, amid the raw intensity of activism - protesting war and inequality - that I encountered ayahuasca, the Amazonian plant medicine known as the "vine of the soul." Nearly 30 years ago, my first ceremony shattered the barriers of my worldview. It was a profound recalibration. As I’ve shared often in interviews, the brew induced visions that healed ancestral wounds and ignited a passionate decades long commitment to entheogenic exploration fueled by the power of music.

I didn’t know it at the time. But this pivotal shift marked the end of “the protester” and the birth of the medicine music artist. No longer content with shouting against the darkness, I saw that the front lines of my activism could be expanding consciousness. In 2012, I founded I AM LIFE (iamlife.music), a youth empowerment initiative, now non-profit music label, dedicated to fostering unity through the synthesis of modern science, indigenous wisdom, and artistic expression.

Our mission is deceptively simple: to help cure humanity's epidemic of disconnection. As I often share publicly, "At the core of most problems facing humanity is a lack of connection - with ourselves, the cosmos, and certainly nature." Through events, retreats, and music, I AM LIFE invited people to integrate ancient practices into contemporary lives.

Central to this ethos is Bird Tribe, the ephemeral musical collective and recording project I co-founded in 2012 alongside collaborators Sunny Solwind, David Daniel Brown (Deva Runa), and Shireen Jarrahian. What began as informal ceremonial gatherings in Los Angeles's bohemian enclaves - cacao ceremonies in Venice Beach art galleries, tea ceremonies under canyon stars - evolved into large, well attended, public ceremonial music events presented by I AM LIFE.

The heart of those events were and are medicine music. Bird Tribe isn't a traditional band; it's a flock of souls converging to share medicine music - original compositions inspired by shamanic traditions, designed to support psycho-spiritual healing. It didn’t start off that way - it was realized along the way. Our sound defies easy categorization: a fusion of world music, devotional soul, and traditional and contemporary medicine music, infusing contemporary pop production.

The pinnacle of our work to date is the 2018 album Birds in Paradise, an 11-track album I produced, released on I AM LIFE MUSIC. Structured like a ceremonial arc - opening with invocations of love and flowing into ecstatic dances and reflective codas - the album is a sonic journey through a very contemporary medicine ceremony, and Amazonian rainforest of the spirit. Tracks like "All My Love" pulse with invocations of gratitude, while "Amazonia ∞" evokes the infinite heart & beat of the jungle. Many of the album songs, along with the single "Grateful," an ayahuasca inspired, gospel-infused hymn, to our surprise, have become staples in ayahuasca circles worldwide. We never saw that coming.

At its core, Bird Tribe's music embodies the philosophy of music as medicine - a concept I have championed since those early entheogenic encounters. In indigenous traditions, particularly those of the Shipibo people who steward ayahuasca ceremonies, icaros (healing songs) are not mere accompaniments; they are the medicine itself. Sung by shamans (curanderos & curanderas), these melodies - more often than not shared with just the human voice - guide the psyche through visions, dissolve traumas, and realign energies. Drawing from two decades of study with various indigenous ayahuasca using peoples, we were inspired to adapt the role of icaro and join the community of artists who are bringing this ancient healing art - some say, technology - to a now global audience. Music, especially in the context of ceremony, can profoundly shift states of consciousness. And the right melody can mend what words alone cannot.

This isn't abstract theory; it's been our lived experience. Bird Tribe's live performances often double as ceremonial spaces, where attendees sip ceremonial cacao or journey with breathwork. It became fairly common for participants to report subtle healing experiences and profound releases: long-held grief dissolving into tears of joy, fractured relationships mending through shared song.

Scientifically, this aligns with emerging research on sound therapy. Studies from institutions like Harvard's mindfulness programs show that rhythmic entrainment - syncing brainwaves to musical pulses - reduces cortisol, enhances neuroplasticity, and promotes emotional regulation. We bridge this understanding with shamanism, creating "fusion ceremony" music & events that honor tradition while innovating for accessibility. Not appropriation - adaptation. I think Bird Tribe's popularity mirrors the broader psychedelic renaissance, where plant medicines like ayahuasca are gaining legitimacy for treating PTSD, depression, and addiction. Understandably, many want to preserve indigenous practices - we do to. AND we’re in a renaissance where modern medicine music extends tradition, reaches more people, and invites modern hearts to heal.

Inspired by that, with the current project, the 2025 album JOY, I wanted to push the medicine music boundaries even further. With collaborations from multiple artists, including Stanley Clarke, Ksenia Luki, and Fabiano Do Nascimento, JOY is a concept album that features eleven interconnected compositions designed for a modern, yet familiar sounding, contemplative, soulful, sound journey. My intent was to harmoniously bring all the music genres that most influenced me growing up into a “medicine space”. It was a bit of a gamble to follow the Birds In Paradise and Grateful releases with this album. Because I knew some of the albums tracks would depart from the sonic feel of those earlier, popular works. But so far I'm thrilled and encouraged with the feedback. Working with such amazing musicians to synthesize my love and passion for music with the science of sound healing into a psycho-therapeutic, soulful-ceremonial album was, well… one of the great Joys of my life.

Encouraged by that, as we launch into production for the next Bird Tribe album, we are constantly reminded and empowered by music's alchemical power to heal, transform, and meet people wherever they’re at. In the symphony of existence, where dissonance threatens to overwhelm, music whispers a healing truth: we are life. And sometimes it’s our most potent elixir - mending minds, bridging divides, and harmonizing the human mind and heart. I was asked in a recent podcast, "There's only one of you in all eternity. How can we empower that unique essence?" My answer: through sound that vibrates at the frequency of love. Yes, I know that can be easily dismiss as woo-woo. But it’s grounded in pragmatism and life experience. I am a very modern mystic.

In a world grappling with multiple challenges and social fracture, I’ve found that medicine music, particularly in concert with ceremony, offers practical solace. It doesn't promise utopia; it inspires us to build it. Life itself is ceremony. And a playlist can become prayer.

My name is Jazz Thorn Christiansen. I am an expressionist painter, singer-songwriter, ecstatic conscious dance facilitator, and holistic healer. My work is rooted in spirituality, intuitive awareness and emotional depth, exploring themes of solitude, Nature, cultural appreciation, the sacred feminine, and the dynamic interplay between the physical and energetic realms. Through colour, sound, movement and imagery, I seek to express the unseen – the subconscious, the super-conscious and the otherworldly.

I am a healer by nature and an artist by purpose. My life has been shaped by profound challenges and equally powerful spiritual insights. Through years of energy work attuned in Reiki healing degrees, the Eternal Rays energy system, and other intuitive practices, I have learned to open channels, deepen my senses, and work from a place of inner guidance and so creativity is a channel something that comes through a dialogue with the unseen, the intuitive, the divine.

This intuitive guidance is always available, a steam of which I tap not only in my day to day life but in creating such as in my Shamanic medicine drum commissions. Before painting, I sit quietly with the hide knowing the animal once lived, breathed, and still holds a thread of consciousness. In that stillness, I connect with the spirit of the drum itself. Only when I feel its presence do I begin to see the image that wants to come through. Each painting becomes a conduit, a living gateway for journeying into other worlds through rhythm and ceremony.

In 2023, I received a vision In dream-sleep, without warning, I found myself standing with an Aboriginal woman before the sacred site of Uluru. The image was so vivid that the moment I awoke, I could still feel her presence as clearly as sunlight. That same day, I painted the vision exactly as it was given to me.

What followed was an unexpected journey of grief and awakening. Through my research, I learned of the unimaginable suffering Aboriginal women have faced for centuries—and still face today. Despite their strength and unbreakable community spirit, they remain among the most victimised women in the world, failed repeatedly by the very systems meant to protect them.

Moved by this truth, I created a second painting—an offering of honour to all the women lost to violence, those who were never given the protection they deserved. In this artwork, I envisioned the women who remain dancing upon their ancestral land, carrying the memories of their grandmothers, mothers, aunties, sisters, and daughters. It stands as a tribute to their grief, their unbroken resilience, and their eternal bond with one another. As an artist, it is both a privilege and a profound responsibility to bring forward work that holds such depth, remembrance, and reverence.

My belief is that Art is important because it speaks to parts of us that words alone cannot reach and that Art is a language of the soul, expressing emotion, intuition, and spiritual truth in ways that logic cannot. Through colour, symbol, form, and rhythm, art conveys what is felt rather than what is said. Creating or experiencing art can be incredibly healing helping to release emotion, transform trauma, and reconnect us to our inner self-giving shape to what we carry inside, allowing it to move, change, and integrate.

I have accessed memories from past life experiences that, when they surfaced, offered profound understanding of who I am today. Each memory, each vision, and each act of creation has been part of a larger tapestry, guiding me toward my purpose as both healer and artist.

These experiences have guided me toward a deep understanding of self, an unexplainable inner knowing, and a connection to a greater universal intelligence. I have come to see that every stage of life the good, the bad and the ugly is essential for spiritual evolution and personal truth.

There have been times when life responsibilities took me away from creating art, raising children, pursuing education, developing a holistic practice and simply surviving. Yet I have reached a point where I can no longer compromise my creative drive. Art, in all its forms – painting, dance, music, film, photography and poetry – is essential to my wellbeing. When I am not creating, my energy becomes fragmented. Creation is my medicine.

I began formal art training in 2002 at South Devon College, studying painting, silkscreen printing, black and white photography, digital applications and sculpture. I was deeply influenced by artists such as Goya, Francis Bacon, Frida Kahlo, Cindy Sherman, Gordon Parks and Jean-Michel Basquiat. I went on to complete a Foundation Degree in Visual Studies before continuing my studies in visual communication at The London School of Communication.

Motherhood later guided me into the world of holistic health and natural medicine. I trained in aromatherapy, massage, reflexology, anatomy and physiology, along with advanced energy work including Reiki Master level and the Eternal Rays Energy system. In 2012 I experienced a profound spiritual awakening which further shaped my art and purpose. After leaving an abusive marriage, I embraced my strength as a single mother and warrioress healer in service to others.

In 2015, my desire to paint returned strongly alongside the growth of my holistic practice, OMSHA Studio. I also met my creative partner, and together we formed the band KAMDARA. We released our album Zen Garden in 2017, with our single Moonchild receiving airplay on BBC Introducing. Music, dance, painting, film and creative exploration now exist side by side in my life and work.

Another significant influence on my creative journey is my father, Richard Thorn, an accomplished watercolour artist and musician, whose guidance and presence have shaped my artistic spirit from a young age.

My soul purpose is to express my authentic self through creative and healing modalities. I believe art is a powerful portal for self-realisation, transformation and empowerment. My intention is to move the observer, listener and participant into deeper awareness of their own truth. This is not always comfortable or beautiful in the traditional sense – it is raw, honest and real.

The world needs authenticity now more than ever. As the old paradigm dissolves and a new way of being emerges, I stand devoted to raising consciousness, invoking healing and reminding others of the power that already resides within them. As empathic creators, we are not commodities of society – we are medicine for the future.

I often say that my life has unfolded in layers - some tender, some chaotic, some luminous, all of them woven together by a spiritual thread I didn’t know was there when I was young. Looking back across the inner landscapes I’ve travelled - Deaf identity, mental-health struggles, visionary experiences, shamanic initiation, yoga, Ayurveda, art - I see now that my creativity has always been less a hobby and more a lifeline. A way of making sense of the worlds I walk between. A way of speaking when spoken language felt too limited or too loud or entirely unreachable.

The Deaf World as My First Spiritual Territory

Before I ever learned the language of spirit guides, plant allies, or dream-visions, I learned the language of silence. Or, more accurately, the language that grows inside silence. Being part of the Deaf world shaped my sensitivity, not just toward communication, but toward energy itself. When sound is less dominant, you start to feel life differently: through vibration, through subtle shifts in atmosphere, through the way a person’s presence enters a room before their voice does.

I didn’t realise it at the time, but this kind of sensing is profoundly shamanic.

As a child, I often retreated into inner worlds - not because the outer world rejected me, but because I felt something ancient stirring behind everyday life. I could feel the emotional weather of a person before I understood their words. I could sense when a place was holding grief or when an animal was curious or when a tree felt “awake.” These weren’t fantastical ideas to me. They were simply reality.

What I didn’t yet understand was that this way of moving through the world would later become the foundation of my spiritual practice.

Mental Health as a Portal, Not a Poison

My journey through mental-health struggles cracked something open in me. I won’t romanticise it - there were days when the world felt like mist and I was losing my grasp on myself. But there were also moments of profound revelation, when the boundary between inner and outer reality thinned and I saw glimpses of something larger guiding me.

Years later, I would learn that many shamans, mystics, and spiritual practitioners describe similar thresholds - what some traditions call a “shamanic sickness” or “calling illness.” At the time, though, it simply felt like falling apart.

But falling apart was what allowed me to fall inward.

It was during this period that I began experiencing visions - other-reality scenes, encounters with presences that didn’t feel like hallucinations but like teachers. They came with instructions: “Listen deeper.” “Walk slowly.” “Follow the thread.” They didn’t heal me instantly, but they offered direction when I needed it.

It was these experiences, woven through the Deaf world’s silence and my own internal storms, that prepared me for what came next: my shamanic initiation.

The Night the Spirits Called My Name

My initiation did not come with drums or ceremonies or mentors. It came alone, at night, in the middle of a period of deep transformation. I experienced what felt like a spiritual rupture - a tearing of the veil between my human self and something vast, ancient, and unyielding.

I encountered what I can only describe as ancestral forces, and they were not gentle. They demanded honesty. They demanded surrender. They demanded that I stop hiding from my gifts.

I felt stripped, undone, emptied, and then rebuilt. Not into someone new, but into someone I had always been.

When it was over, the message was clear: You are a shamanic warrior.

A warrior not in the sense of violence or conquest, but in the sense of courage. Someone who confronts the shadow - my own and that of the world. Someone who walks between realities and returns with medicine. Someone who must learn to hold power responsibly, humbly, and in devotion to healing.

The Path of the Yogic Heart

In the aftermath of this initiation, I found myself drawn to yoga - not as Western fitness culture portrays it, but as a spiritual discipline. I became a devoted practitioner, studying the Yoga Sutras not just as philosophy but as a way of living.

The sutras became my compass. The yamas and niyamas offered grounding ethics. Meditation offered clarity. Asana offered a way of communing with my body after years of feeling fractured from it. Pranayama became a bridge between the worlds I navigated internally and the physical reality I walked through daily.

Yoga softened the fire of my shamanic warrior path without extinguishing it. It taught me compassion alongside courage, discernment alongside intensity, surrender alongside strength.

Ayurveda: Learning the Language of the Body and the Earth

My journey eventually guided me toward Ayurveda, where I am now deep in study. Ayurveda feels like an earthly companion to my shamanic and yogic practices - a system that understands the body as an ecosystem and the spirit as a subtle force shaped by daily living. It teaches that healing is not an event but a lifestyle, a relationship, a conversation with nature itself.

Through Ayurveda, I’ve begun to understand my body’s rhythms and misalignments. I’m learning to treat myself with gentleness, nourishment, and ritual rather than constant spiritual pressure. Ayurveda has become another layer of my creative and spiritual practice, influencing the way I move, breathe, and create art.

Art as Invocation: Poetry, Nude Landscapes, and Surreal Nature

Creativity has always been my bridge between worlds. My poetry emerges from the same place my visions do - those liminal spaces where emotion, spirit, and observation merge. I write to give shape to the ineffable, to translate what I experience with senses that don’t always fit neatly into spoken words.

Photography became another spiritual language for me. My creative edits - nudes woven into surreal landscapes, bodies merging with stones, skies, branches, and rivers - are attempts to express what it feels like to exist between realms.

The nude, for me, is not erotic but essential. It is vulnerability, truth, the soul without costume. When I place the nude body within nature or surreal elements, I’m telling the story of how spirit inhabits form, how energy flows through flesh, how the human and the earthly are not separate.

These images are my visual prayers.

Walking Forward: Aspirations on the Shamanic-Creative Path

My future aspirations are simple but not small. I want to continue weaving together the threads of shamanism, yoga, Ayurveda, and art into something that feels like service. I want to create work - poetry, photography, teachings - that honours the Deaf world, honours mental-health journeys, honours the unseen realms, honours the body and the earth.

I hope to one day guide others through their own spiritual awakenings, not as a guru, but as a companion. A fellow traveler. A bridge-walker.

Most of all, I hope to keep living with integrity - to embody the shamanic warrior with humility, to practice yoga with sincerity, to study Ayurveda with devotion, and to create art that reflects the fullness of my lived experience.

Because ultimately, my journey is not about transcending reality but embracing all of it - every realm, every shadow, every silence, every vision - and learning to walk with purpose, beauty, and truth.

From the time I was three years old I was falling asleep in the center of the evening dances of Universal Peace, next to a beautiful shrine on the earth in the center of a marquee. It was at a beautiful spiritual camp which happens for a week a year, which has roots in western Sufism and is welcoming to a wealth of spiritual practices and lineages.

As a pre-teen girl I sat beside a fire next to Glastonbury Tor at Lammas whilst rolls of bread in the shape of Goddesses were being baked, listening to an Icelandic woman invoke the wild icy landscape in her voice and sing back ancient feminine power into my bones. I was given dark chocolate by my inspiration Carolyn Hillyer as an 11 year old when I was told off for lighting too many candles outside the Goddess Temple opening in Glastonbury.

As a young maiden I was celebrated with others in a menarche ceremony, a celebration of first blood. The day before I experienced my first sweat lodge ceremony, entering the dark hot earths’ womb and being reborn again, being celebrated by our yearly community with a flower crown, chocolate and belly dancing - and song, lots of songs.

I grew up around natural voice choirs that held space for unexplained tears, and a yearly fire night where us teens would paint our bodies and drum and dance the fire dance in community. These experiences shaped me and also set me apart from the 'normal’ world, where I went to school and struggled to fit in.

My teenagehood was chaotic with family struggles. I experimented with psychedelics from 14 years of age, rebelled by skipping school, painting my school clothes rainbow and writing poetry about the crazy and dark system - stuck in school I could see how people were slaves to an unequal and unjust system. I was a troubled teenager who had tasted a world where living barefoot and living simply were normal and I saw the system as it pushed people into a mold that did not feel natural.

Finding a way to first live as a connected and natural human, and then finding a way to bring all the gifts from my experiences into the world to create much needed medicine has been my life's mission. As a 16 year old I started to carve my way out of this murky path, I was repeatedly getting chest infections and singing was the simple way that connected me to my truth, and so I started learning about natural health, eating raw foods and practicing yoga. I also studied astrology and having an understanding of my birth chart has been a map to myself that has been my guide when I feel lost in the world.

It was lockdown and I was 26 and a single mother with a 4 year old son. I felt the longing to reconnect with Avalon and I started my priestess training with a wise elder offering a correspondence course. I journeyed through the Celtic wheel of the year as Mary Magdalene the keeper of the Rose guided me through each initiation portal to reclaim the divine feminine aspects within.

The journey for me was so powerful - to be held by the divine spirit of the Rose through the seasons of the earth awoke my power and devotion, and I was finally able to feel my tears as I was held in the softness of the Rose. I was finding this after being a mother and being on a healing journey after a 5 year co-dependent and abusive relationship where we were homeless and on the run, my partner at the time struggled with poor mental health and I was recovering from substance misuse as a young teen.

Being a mother rebirthed me and grounded me, and this journey led me back home to my spirit. One of the first songs that came through was Maria de la Rosa, a song of devotion and healing honouring Mary of the Rose. I also began working with plant spirits around this time which gave me a mixture of experiences, all leading me to come home to my body and embrace my mission on this earth.

The Rose has been my muse ever since, holding me and allowing me to soften into my experience, so that the medicine of presence and song may flow through. I found connection through the medicine family and was a part of the Rose collective singing world kirtan and devotional songs from around the world at regular events in Brighton which helped bring me out of my shell in a safe and loving community of like-minded souls.

I started to open my channel and write songs and my song Mama Cacao came through honouring this plant spirit that helped guide our journeys in opening our hearts, this amazing plant spirit that is now almost mainstream in its use, and I felt how important it is to honour the plant and where it comes from. It is amazing how this song has now travelled and is being remixed by producer Charlie Roscoe and will be out next year.

Since embracing this path of music and arts of the soul I have learnt to produce and songs flow through so often I can't keep up. I also occasionally get the time and impulse to paint the visions I see and in an ideal world I would do this more often. I have also found a deep connection to the ancestors through this path of healing, through my personal and our collective lineages. There is so much wisdom that needs protecting and huge wounds that need healing.

My upcoming EP Spin Woman (released 23rd Nov on Bandcamp) speaks to this - through the past few years I have been learning the ancestral arts of spinning and weaving local wool, an art that has been all but lost in the UK. It feels like a revolution just like Gandhi started in India. These songs are deeply inspired by the symbolic arts of spinning and weaving, like the myths spinning straw into gold to guide the way out of the darkness. The act of spinning is the same as Whirling dervishes or an Orisha trance, the spiralling of galaxies and the center of a rose. Creating energy, transmuting energy, rebirthing into something new. And weaving a new fabric of Earth, something beautiful, something true and harmonious.

The spiral of the Goddess, the fabric of Life, She is singing and we must let her sing through us. Sometimes I have thought - who am I to change the world? I am just a drop in the ocean, but my voice is powerful when I know it is Her song rising in me, and so is yours, so keep shining your light!

Hear my EP on Bandcamp - it’s out on streaming platforms over the next 6 months, with the release of Red Blood Earth Woman, 2 more videos released for Imbolc and Spring equinox, Red Berries and Spin Woman, with other songs released such as Weaver of Stars, She Walks the Edges, Wild Rose and Into the Belly. These songs explore the wisdom of women's moon cycles and the feminine wisdom that is mirrored in the earth's cycles and the rites of passage that have all but been lost to time.

This year 2025 has been a pivotal year for me, the year of the snake, an activation in many ways that feels like a rebirth. I have visited lots of sacred sites and connected deeply to the energy of the black rose, the cosmic womb, for in order to transform we need to enter the void of the unknown and allow death and the ultimate rest in order for new life to be born.

In my next projects I will be working on some more recently written songs with harmony parts that work well for singing groups, and also some full arrangements with a theme of our connection to nature and mother earth with Songs for a New Earth, remembering how we can live in right relationship with all beings, and how deeply we are all connected. I feel connected and alive when I have my hands in the earth, I garden at least one day a week, it keeps me grounded.

I am excited about what will unfold next. Producing my own music came out of necessity - as a creative with no hedge fund and as a mother, production does not come cheap. To live as a healthy human, care for a child and have time to create true beauty is extremely challenging in these times and I am grateful as an introvert to have raised a little bit of money to cover a small part of the costs. But I wouldn't change it and I love the creative and organic process of inspiration as a song develops.

I have had the desire from a young age to make everything I use myself so this goes towards satisfying this! I am also excited about holding more in person voice workshops and retreats. I have been doing this on and off since 18 years old and this year I have witnessed so much beauty and power through the journey of opening our voices in a ceremonially held space, especially as women in a way that is primally connected to the power in our bodies and souls. It is deeply healing for the feminine to be witnessed in this way. It has also inspired me to write songs that we can sing together. I am also excited to create some beautiful events collaborating my music with a Sufi whirling friend of mine and weaver artists.

So much of my music has come from a deep longing to create a world in harmony with nature, for the awakening and thriving of our spiritual nature. The longing has come from the beauty of my experiences in life and the contrast of the suffering from our disconnection from our true and natural states of being. I believe in the power of music and song to change us on a cellular level. Sound is the first language of the universe - in Sufism creation is said to be the beat of a drum, and in Genesis it is the word that creates all life.

Sound is inseparable from intention, used for healing, remembering the lost parts of our individual and collective psyches’ whole again, this will be the bridge to harmony on earth. When we reclaim the power of our voices, and unlock the medicine of our sound from deep within our soul, we can find freedom, peace and a new relationship with ourselves, each other and the earth and all life. It's time to create the New Earth together, singing.

Welcome to our spiritual holidays and festivals calendar! Explore the rich tapestry of spiritual traditions from around the world, each intricately woven with profound meanings and artistic expressions. Throughout the year, you'll discover a diverse array of festivals, each offering a unique window into cultural heritage and spiritual depth. From the joyous festivities marking the changing seasons to solemn observances honouring historical events and revered figures, every holiday holds a special significance.

Beyond their spiritual importance, many of these festivals are intertwined with the arts, showcasing music, dance, literature, and visual arts as profound expressions of faith and devotion. These artistic elements not only enhance the celebrations but also serve as bridges connecting individuals across different cultures and beliefs. Join us as we delve into this calendar, where each entry invites you to explore the spiritual essence and artistic expressions that define these cherished traditions. May this journey inspire reflection, appreciation, and a deeper understanding of our shared humanity.

Festival	Date	Religion
Ganjitsu	01/01/2026	Japanese (folk)
Epiphany	06/01/2026	Christianity
Christmas Eve / Day (Orthodox Christianity and Rastafarian)	06/01/2026	Rastafari
Theophany / Baptism of Christ	11/01/2026	Christianity
The Baptism of Christ	11/01/2026	Christianity
The birthday of Swami Vivekananda	12/01/2026	Hinduism
The birthday of Guru Gobind Singh	14/01/2026	Sikhism
Makar Sankranti / Lohri / Pongal	14/01/2026	Hinduism
Shinran Memorial Day	16/01/2026	Buddhism
The Prophet’s Night Journey and Ascent / Lailat-ul-Isra wa’l-Mi‘raj	16/01/2026	Islam
The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity	18/01/2026	Christianity
World Religions Day	18/01/2026	Baha’i
Sonam Losar	19/01/2026	Buddhism
Saraswati Puja	23/01/2026	Hinduism
The Conversion of Saint Paul	25/01/2026	Christianity
Hōnen Memorial Day	25/01/2026	Buddhism
Laba Jie / Laba Festival	26/01/2026	Buddhism / Chinese (folk)
Holocaust Memorial Day	27/01/2026	Civic
Jashn-e Sadeh	30/01/2026	Zoroastrianism
Imbolc	01/02/2026	Paganism
Tu B’Shevat	01/02/2026	Judaism
Candlemas	02/02/2026	Christianity
Setsubun	03/02/2026	Japanese (folk)
Laylat al-Bara'ah / The Night of Forgiveness	03/02/2026	Islam
Adar Mah Parab	08/02/2026	Zoroastrianism
Nirvana Day	15/02/2026	Jainism
Parinirvana / Nirvana Day	15/02/2026	Buddhism
Mahashivratri	15/02/2026	Hinduism
The Transfiguration	15/02/2026	Christianity
Shuso	17/02/2026	Buddhism
The New Year Festival / Chunjie	17/02/2026	Chinese (folk)
Ramadan	17/02/2026	Islam
Shrove Tuesday	17/02/2026	Christianity
The First Day of Lent	18/02/2026	Christianity
Ash Wednesday	18/02/2026	Christianity
Lent	18/02/2026	Christianity
St David’s Day	01/03/2026	Civic
Purim	02/03/2026	Judaism
The Lantern Festival	03/03/2026	Chinese (folk)
Magha Puja	03/03/2026	Buddhism
Hinamatsuri	03/03/2026	Japanese (folk)
Holi	04/03/2026	Hinduism
Hola Mahalla / Hola Mohalla	04/03/2026	Sikhism
The Women’s World Day of Prayer	06/03/2026	Christianity
Fravardigan / Muktad	15/03/2026	Zoroastrianism
Lailat-ul-Qadr	15/03/2026	Islam
Mothering Sunday	15/03/2026	Christianity
St Patrick’s Day	17/03/2026	Civic
Higan (Spring)	17/03/2026	Buddhism
The end of Ramadan	18/03/2026	Islam
St Joseph’s Day	19/03/2026	Christianity
Eid-ul-Fitr	19/03/2026	Islam
Navratri	19/03/2026	Hinduism
Shunbun no Hi	20/03/2026	Buddhism
Spring Equinox	20/03/2026	Paganism
Naw-Rúz	20/03/2026	Baha’i
Jamsheedi Noruz	20/03/2026	Zoroastrianism
The Annunciation of the Lord / Lady Day	25/03/2026	Christianity
Khordad Sal	26/03/2026	Zoroastrianism
Rama Navami	26/03/2026	Hinduism
Palm Sunday	29/03/2026	Christianity
Holy Week	29/03/2026	Christianity
Mahavira Jayanti	31/03/2026	Jainism
Hanuman Jayanti	01/04/2026	Hinduism
Passover / Pesach	01/04/2026	Judaism
Maundy Thursday	02/04/2026	Christianity
Good Friday	03/04/2026	Christianity
Holy Saturday	04/04/2026	Christianity
The Festival of Pure Brightness	05/04/2026	Chinese (folk)
Easter Sunday	05/04/2026	Christianity
Hanamatsuri	08/04/2026	Buddhism
Pascha	12/04/2026	Christianity
Songkran	13/04/2026	Buddhism
Yom Ha-Shoah	13/04/2026	Judaism
Sikh New Year	14/04/2026	Sikhism
Vaisakhi / Baisakhi	14/04/2026	Sikhism
Ridván	20/04/2026	Baha’i
St George’s Day	23/04/2026	Civic
May Eve / Beltaine Eve	30/04/2026	Paganism
Beltaine	01/05/2026	Paganism
Vesakha Puja	01/05/2026	Buddhism
Lag B’Omer	04/05/2026	Judaism
Christian Aid Week	10/05/2026	Christianity
Ascension Day	14/05/2026	Christianity
Shavuot	21/05/2026	Judaism
Buddha’s Birthday	24/05/2026	Buddhism
Anniversary of the Declaration of the Báb	24/05/2026	Baha’i
Hajj, the pilgrimage to Makkah	24/05/2026	Islam
Pentecost	24/05/2026	Christianity
Eid-ul-Adha	26/05/2026	Islam
Ascension of Bahá’u’lláh	29/05/2026	Baha’i
Trinity Sunday	31/05/2026	Christianity
Eid ul-Ghadeer	03/06/2026	Islam
Corpus Christi	04/06/2026	Christianity
The Feast of the Sacred Heart	12/06/2026	Christianity
The Martyrdom of Guru Arjan	16/06/2026	Sikhism
The Islamic New Year	16/06/2026	Islam
The Dragon Boat Festival	19/06/2026	Chinese (folk)
Midsummer Solstice	21/06/2026	Paganism
World Humanist Day	21/06/2026	Humanism
Ashura	25/06/2026	Islam
Jashn-e Tirgan	04/07/2026	Zoroastrianism
The birth of the Dalai Lama	06/07/2026	Buddhism
Anniversary of the Martyrdom of the Báb	10/07/2026	Baha’i
Ratha Yatra	16/07/2026	Hinduism
Tisha B’Av	22/07/2026	Judaism
The birthday of Haile Selassie I	23/07/2026	Rastafari
Asalha Puja / Dhamma Day	29/07/2026	Buddhism
The Entry to the Vassa	29/07/2026	Buddhism
Lammas / Lughnasadh	01/08/2026	Paganism
O-Bon	13/08/2026	Buddhism
The Assumption	15/08/2026	Christianity
The Herd Boy and Weaving Maid Festival	19/08/2026	Chinese (folk)
Fravardin Mah Parab	20/08/2026	Zoroastrianism
The birthday of the Prophet Muhammad	25/08/2026	Islam
The Festival of Hungry Ghosts	27/08/2026	Buddhism
Raksha Bandhan	28/08/2026	Hinduism
Janmashtami	04/09/2026	Hinduism
Paryushan	08/09/2026	Jainism
Ethiopian New Year’s Day	11/09/2026	Rastafari
Rosh Hashanah	11/09/2026	Judaism
Ganesh Chaturthi	14/09/2026	Hinduism
Samvatsari	15/09/2026	Jainism
Higan (Autumn)	19/09/2026	Buddhism
Yom Kippur	20/09/2026	Judaism
Shūbun no Hi	22/09/2026	Buddhism
Autumn Equinox	23/09/2026	Paganism
The Rabbit in the Moon Festival	25/09/2026	Chinese (folk)
Sukkot	25/09/2026	Judaism
Confucius’ Birthday	28/09/2026	Chinese (folk)
Jashn-e-Mehregan	02/10/2026	Zoroastrianism
Gandhi Jayanti	02/10/2026	Hinduism
Simchat Torah	03/10/2026	Judaism
Harvest Festival	04/10/2026	Christianity
Durga Puja	17/10/2026	Hinduism
Chongyang Festival	18/10/2026	Chinese (folk)
Durgashtami	19/10/2026	Hinduism
Installation of Guru Granth Sahib	20/10/2026	Sikhism
Dussehra	20/10/2026	Hinduism
Guru Granth Sahib Guruship	20/10/2026	Sikhism
Pavarana Day	26/10/2026	Buddhism
Halloween	31/10/2026	Paganism
Samhain	31/10/2026	Paganism
All Saints’ Day	01/11/2026	Christianity
All Souls’ Day	02/11/2026	Christianity
Coronation of Haile Selassie I	02/11/2026	Rastafari
Divali	08/11/2026	Hinduism
Gavadhan Puja	10/11/2026	Hinduism
Anniversary of the Birth of the Báb	10/11/2026	Baha’i
Inter Faith Week	10/11/2026	Civic
Ava Mah Parab	11/11/2026	Zoroastrianism
Anniversary of the Birth of Bahá’u’lláh	11/11/2026	Baha’i
Remembrance Day	11/11/2026	Civic
Shichi-Go-San	15/11/2026	Shinto
Anapanasati Day	24/11/2026	Buddhism
The Birthday of Guru Nanak	24/11/2026	Sikhism
The Martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur	24/11/2026	Sikhism
Loy Krathong	25/11/2026	Buddhism
The Day of the Covenant	25/11/2026	Baha’i
The Ascension of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá	28/11/2026	Christianity
Advent Sunday	29/11/2026	Christianity
St Andrew’s Day	30/11/2026	Civic
Hanukah	04/12/2026	Judaism
Immaculate Conception of Mary	08/12/2026	Christianity
Bodhi Day	08/12/2026	Buddhism
Human Rights Day	10/12/2026	Civic
Winter Solstice	21/12/2026	Paganism
Martyrdom of Ajit & Jujhar Singh	22/12/2026	Sikhism
Christmas Eve	24/12/2026	Christianity
Christmas Day	25/12/2026	Christianity
Zaratosht no Diso	26/12/2026	Zoroastrianism
Martyrdom of Zorawar & Fateh Singh	26/12/2026	Sikhism
Omisoka	31/12/2026	Japanese (folk)
Hogmanay	31/12/2026	Civic

My journey as a digital artist began with a fascination for computers, imaging technology, and their potential to create visuals and digital art. My first use of computers dates back to 1984, when I programmed a Commodore 64 to render my first name, AGIS, using colour-changing sprites that danced across the screen before settling into formation. My first attempt at computer graphics was an experiment in turning a black-and-white photograph of a woman into a full-colour image — a moment that sparked a lifelong exploration of how creativity and technology might interweave.

From these humble beginnings grew an evolving passion: to use digital art not merely to replicate reality, but to reinterpret it — to provoke emotion, stir thought, and explore the unseen.

In Blazing Minds, I merge artificial intelligence — powered by machine learning and neural networks — with art, poetry, philosophy, and psychology. Each letter I write and every work I create is crafted to expand perspectives and provide a quiet space for reflection.

In a world increasingly shaped by technology, my art becomes a dialogue between ancient and modern, instinct and precision, the human and the machine. This dialogue is shaped by my journey across cultures and disciplines — from traditional graphic design to NFTs and generative systems, and from solitary practice to collaborations with fellow artists exploring how art and technology together can reveal new ways of seeing.

Early Influences and Career Journey

Raised in Greece, I was surrounded by a culture rich in arts and philosophy. The teachings of Socrates, Plato, and the Stoics deeply shaped my worldview and continue to influence my artistic practice.

My journey started in 1994 when I began formal studies in Computer Graphics and later in Visual Communication Design. I was fascinated by the idea that images could convey ideas and evoke emotions, much like the dialogues and metaphors of the ancients once did.

In the early 2000s, I travelled to London to study visual effects and animation for film and television. There, I encountered new visual languages, tools, and disciplines that expanded my concept of what digital art could be.

Professionally, I worked across publishing, advertising, and information technology, learning to craft stories, communicate visually, and navigate creative challenges. Yet, as much as I loved the technical aspects of my work, I felt a growing need to express something deeper — to speak not only through design but to speak to the soul, to engage with questions of identity, resilience, and inner transformation.

This need eventually led me to the creation of Blazing Minds, an ongoing series of art letters that explore the human condition and allow me to connect with others — and with my own inner self — on a more profound level.

The Birth of Blazing Minds: Art as a Tool for Self-Discovery

In Blazing Minds, I explore the convergence of art, technology, psychology, and philosophy. My letters and artworks invite people to pause — to observe not only the world, but their own internal landscapes.

The themes in my work include transformation, resilience, and the duality of light and shadow within us all. My aim is to provoke and ignite curiosity; to open a window through which one might glimpse something previously hidden.

The art I create is vibrant, sometimes abstract, and always layered with meaning. In A Total Eclipse, for example, inspired by Socratic wisdom, the celestial image of an eclipse becomes a metaphor for perspective — for those moments when obscurity gives way to illumination, and we begin to see anew.

Artificial intelligence allows me to expand my artistic practice. It enables me to move beyond the boundaries of established art forms and push past the limits of conventional tools to create something unique and immersive.

Integrating AI Technology into Art: A Contemplative Approach

The integration of artificial intelligence into my work is intentional. It reflects my interest in the convergence of psychology, technology, and artistic flow.

I view artificial intelligence as a collaborative tool — a mechanism to enhance my creative vision and visual language. This technology challenges me to reframe my approach to art and consider possibilities that extend beyond my hand. Although my process is still grounded in human experience and emotion, when technology is used thoughtfully, it becomes a medium for deeper emotional and intellectual engagement.

To strengthen this foundation, I am currently undertaking the Computer Science 50 course at Harvard University — equipping myself with technical fluency that will continue to expand the boundaries of my artistic practice.

I understand that some may be sceptical of artificial intelligence’s role in art, particularly within spiritual and artistic communities where tradition holds significant value. My intention is not to disrupt but to enhance — to introduce a fresh perspective that honours our soul’s journey. I believe that when used thoughtfully, artificial intelligence can inspire not detachment but awakening. It can be a catalyst for spiritual exploration, self-empowerment, and development, and prompt deeper questions not only into the nature of art but also into what it means to feel, to perceive, and to be human.

Art as a Path to Spirituality and Self-Empowerment

At its heart, my work is about the human spirit — our capacity for self-awareness, transformation, and growth. For me, spirituality is not a belief system, but a way of seeing — the pursuit of truth and self-knowledge.

This is why much of my work revolves around themes of enlightenment and self-discovery. I see art as a mirror; one that reflects parts of ourselves we may not easily see, asking us to confront our inner truths and evolve.

In my upcoming publication, The Blazing Minds Art Book, I will be sharing both visual work and personal reflections. This book is for the curious, the seekers, the non-conforming — those who see art not as decoration, but as disruption: a journey rather than a destination.

Looking Ahead: A Collaboration with the Spiritual Arts Foundation

I am honoured by the opportunity to collaborate with the Spiritual Arts Foundation, an organisation that values the intersection of spirituality and creativity. Through this collaboration, I hope to share my work with an audience that appreciates art not just as an aesthetic experience but as a tool for growth and introspection.

The Foundation’s new Articles section presents a wonderful platform for dialogue, and I am eager to contribute pieces that delve into topics like creativity, psychology, and the spiritual journey within art. I aim to engage readers in conversations that challenge them to think, reflect, and explore the infinite possibilities within themselves.

Closing Thoughts

Socrates once said, “There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.” This principle sits at the heart of my work.

To create is to search. To look beneath the surface. To illuminate not only what is, but what might be. Art, in its highest form, is a practice of revelation.

Through my work in Blazing Minds, I hope to encourage others to explore the unknown, to turn inward, and to see art not only with their eyes, but with their being.

Let us walk the path together.

Agis

I guess our story is all about hopes, aspirations and dreams. We wrote a song back in 2023, called “Still Dreaming”. The first verse says: “When we were young, we used to dream, imagine what we'd be”.

We were looking back at our lives and realised we could so easily lose the sense of adventure we had in our younger days. We needed to look forward and dream some new dreams.

Early dreams

We seem to have had dreams for our futures, for most of our lives. Tricia dreamed of one day performing at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Noel used to create a makeshift stage in his backyard and pretend he was performing to a big audience. Strumming a toy guitar and dreaming!

We met for the first time in 1975. Noel had just started to work full-time as a singer/songwriter and visited Tricia's home city of Plymouth for a gig. Tricia was the support artist.

From this first meeting a friendship grew and our first date was writing a song together.

In the first years of our friendship, we gigged continually, taking every opportunity to play to an audience. Sometimes just a handful of people in someone's home, with everyone seated on couches and bean bags. We believed that we had a simple message of faith and spirituality to communicate to people and music was a great vehicle for this.

We also realised that music is a wonderful way of connecting with the creator of the universe. When we were young, we heard examples of this in songs such as “Morning Has Broken” - Cat Stevens, “My Sweet Lord” - George Harrison and many others.

So we began to write songs that took us and our friends on a spiritual journey. Songs that could be described as modern hymns.

We were both involved with a church that was made up of students and schoolkids. When we met together, we wanted to sing. But there weren't many hymns that worked with guitar. So we decided to try writing our own. Little did we realise that our songs would one day reach many more than our own little group.

We also formed a band with our friends and gigged throughout Devon and Cornwall.

After we married in 1978, we travelled around the UK together, performing in all sorts of venues - schools, colleges, prisons, churches and more.

Our early dream, to be singer/songwriters was being realised.

Crazy Dreams

We moved to Cobham, Surrey (near London) in 1980 and this created more opportunities for us to dream. Our songwriting was improving and they were being published and recorded. We had two children and Tricia did most of the home-making while Noel went out and performed.

It was during 1987 that we wrote a song that really put us on the map as songwriters - “All Heaven Declares”. It has been recorded by many artists. On one YouTube channel alone, the song has had 3.6 million plays.

In the late 1980s, Noel saw a televised broadcast of Queen playing at London's Wembley Stadium. When they sang “We Are The Champions”, he had a wild thought. It would be great to play there one day!

A crazy dream had been born.

We shared this dream with our friends, other musicians and songwriters and found that it resonated with them. We all thought it was a crazy dream but as someone once said: “Why believe for the inevitable, when you can dream for the impossible”.

Over the next ten years, we held onto that dream and took every opportunity to prepare for it. At every concert we shared this dream with our audience.

Finally, with the support of our close friends, fellow artists and our record company, we booked Wembley Stadium. We and another friend underwrote the risk with our homes. If no-one bought tickets, we would lose everything!

But on Saturday 28th June 1997, almost 45,000 people attended our event - “Champion of the World”.

In doing this event, we inspired others to dream. We helped to launch other artists into being more successful than we could ever be. Our ceiling became their floor!

Still Dreaming

Thanks for reading this far. We don't want to give you the impression that we are famous, successful songwriters. Far from it. We sometimes wish we could be more prolific and often label ourselves as 'accidental songwriters'. It seems that our best songs have come when we don't try too hard to write.

We haven't sold millions of albums, we don't have a huge following on social media.

We are ordinary people, who have had the privilege of making a living out of songwriting and performing.

We are grateful for the opportunities that have come our way. For the countries we have been able to visit with our music. For the dreams of our youth that have come to pass.

Since 2010, our base has been in Spain. We stepped outside of our British culture and our church culture and found ourselves on a fresh spiritual journey. We have formed new friendships with people who may have no particular belief in a deity, but would call themselves spiritual.

We have also become friends with people who have an entirely different faith to our own.

This has impacted our life in a positive way.

After writing so many songs for people to sing in their churches, we wanted to go back to our roots and write songs and poems that tell stories about the joys and struggles of life, love, friendship and faith.

So we are still dreaming! That's why we wrote the song a few years back. To remind ourselves of who we are.

If our songs, words and music are the sails of our ship, we are going to raise them and let the wind blow us to new destinations. The unknown beckons. There are new dreams to dream!

Born and raised in China, Asia, I am HikkiTen - a Street Artist, Sculptor, Videographer, and Place-maker. I have created large-format murals and installations across four continents and over 20 countries. The festivals I initiated and co-organized in Europe brought life to cities that were often overlooked or abandoned.

Yet none of these “achievements” brought true fulfilment to my heart. My personal artistic journey oscillated between painting my darkest realizations - frustration captured on canvas—and producing commissioned commercial murals for businesses.

Life took a profound turn during Covid in 2020. After a traumatic event, I found myself in a shelter in Colorado, USA. I spent a sleepless week consumed by blame and anger toward the person who pushed me down the stairs. During that time, I listened to podcasts by Dr. Daniel Siegel and other neuroscientists. One morning, in a state between sleep and wakefulness, I envisioned a water world. The violent experience I had endured transformed into a waterfall, revealing the fragile foundation beneath it. In that moment, I realized that behind every violent person lies a weak, vulnerable, traumatized, and manipulated being. Choosing to forgive brought inner peace - and, finally, a restful night’s sleep.

Upon returning to China, I became deeply curious about the workings of the brain and the mysteries of life. I asked myself: What is the true purpose of my life on Earth? Why am I often angry? Why do unfortunate events happen to me? Why do I feel so lost? Despite reading countless neuroscience books, the answers remained elusive. In the end, I decided to save for a trip to South America, to meet shamans and experience ayahuasca.

Spiritual Evolution

In March 2022, I met Daniel. Our marriage delayed the South America trip. To escape Covid restrictions, we moved to his home country, Portugal. There, I discovered a new world - one filled with spiritual healers and rich religious traditions. I met two mentors and asked the question that had long weighed on me: “What is the true purpose of my life on Earth?”

I will never forget their answer:

"We are here to experience, to enjoy, to evolve, and eventually, to become creators ourselves."

For the first time, my heart was filled with excitement, joy, and bliss. Every cell in my body seemed to light up. Deep within, I knew this answer was true.

In Portugal, I also met a spiritual artist who taught me to create art only with the highest vibrational energy. Around the same time, I discovered Dr. Joe Dispenza and the practices of heart-brain coherence. I began meditating in a way that resonated deeply with me. Gradually, I returned to the sleep-awake state I now understand as the Alpha and Theta brainwave state. Visual sequences began appearing more consistently during meditation.

A New Purpose in Life

In December 2023, I joined a one-month prayer session with my husband to honour the deeds of Jesus before Christmas. I could not understand the prayers - they were in Portuguese - but I simply focused on being present.

One night, as I sat with my eyes closed, visions suddenly appeared. I saw myself and my husband from above, then left Earth entirely, entering a swirl of light. My heart raced with awe as I embraced these extraordinary visions. I travelled into infinite space, where two colossal beings observed me from every angle. Their beauty took my breath away, compelling me to paint them. Tears of joy streamed down my face as I sketched. These became my first two spiritual paintings: Pure Love (the Creator) and Lord Maitreya. Later, I learned that such vivid visions - often accompanied by sound and scent - occur when the brain is in a Gamma wave state.

Since 2024, I create only the art that emerges from these spontaneous visions during meditation and prayer. Today, I have a unique artistic voice, with sketchbooks piled with visions waiting to be realized. I give thanks daily - to life, to all those who have crossed my path, to those who taught, healed, or collaborated with me, and to my true love, who stands by my side through turbulent times. I create art infused only with the highest vibrations: love, light, peace, inspiration, truth, empowerment, and other sacred energies.

Creative Process: 1. Meditation

I combine techniques learned from Dr. Joe Dispenza and my mentors, using guided meditation or Zen music to enter a trance-like state. I begin with slow, deep breathing, focusing on the heart, envisioning it glowing and expanding into infinite space. I cultivate positive feelings and fill my heart with divine energy. Gradually, I dissolve into “nobody, nowhere, no time, with nothing.” Then, as pure consciousness, I expand into “everyone, everywhere, every time, everything.” Visions typically emerge from this state. For me, visuals dominate; sounds and smells appear occasionally.

These visions are never static - they come as fast-moving sequences, constantly shifting, multi-dimensional, and contextual. Some artworks require multiple meditation sessions to capture more detail.

2. Sketching

3. Execution
Bringing these visions to life is challenging. Translating complex, multi-dimensional experiences onto a two-dimensional canvas or sculpture requires trial, error, re-planning, and redesigning.

My subjects often include higher intelligences, light beings, alien worlds, multi-dimensional spaces, underwater realms, and other cosmic landscapes.

When I hold a brush or spray can, I strive to relive the vision, channelling infinite energy through my body and hands, surrendering to the higher intelligence guiding the creation, and co-creating the art in every moment.

I’m a polyglot polymath: a background as a classical guitarist, singer, actor and visual artist, together with passions for Vedic mantra, martial arts and languages. I’m at my best when fusing and combining all my various creative and spiritual training; everything I am passionate about, to make something new, that has not been done before. I delight in bringing the ancient into the future and in as many languages as possible! (To date I have composed and performed in fourteen languages, in twenty-three countries). I want to entice, inspire and transform, to encapsulate the voice of the Zeitgeist in surprising and entertaining ways to raise conscious awareness. I would describe myself as an eclectic ‘Artist of the Renaissance’ as opposed to someone who fits into one category or genre or discipline alone.

I have been described as a bewitching Ninja* or entertaining Chanteuse. And my music, as a signature ‘Conscious Chanson meets Art-Pop meets Organica’ sound. Let me know what words ring true with you!

(* For my single 'Where Venus Meets Mars', I performed the world's first ‘aerial-pole with swords & nunchaku’ routine, covered by the BBC. A meeting of the female and male energies on the battlefield.)

I am delighted to have been championed by Kate Bush over the years, and to have recently performed alongside Errollyn Wallen CBE (Master of the King’s Music) and Mike Lindup (Level 42) in London.

So, how did it all start? What came first?

Well, I was handed my first guitar by my Romanian father at a very young age. Having been learning violin and all manner of recorders, purely because they were the instruments my wonderful state school had to offer, the guitar immediately took me to a different place. To this day I have written so many songs about the connection I have with my dearly-departed father through the guitar. Devastatingly, he has never heard any of my music, because I only started writing and performing my own music after he passed away. Ironically and with beautiful tragedy, it was his passing that gave birth to my music career. Song-writing and meditation gave me not only ways to heal, but rapidly also showed me I could engage and help others though the sharing of such life-experiences. It has always been clear to me that the stories that form our greatest growth are the stories we have to share.

I was extremely lucky to receive a County Scholarship for private tuition in classical guitar (and violin) from a very young age. And it was normal for me in my teens to be simultaneously living various personas, from performer to athlete to linguist, and earning my pocket money teaching classical guitar to my own pupils on the side. I was in love with acting, playing music, singing, dancing, most sports, learning languages, making friends, travelling and cramming as much as I could into each day. And now more than ever, I continue to be power-charged by my creativity and ability to live parallel lives, connecting and channelling a source and energy beyond the mind. I feel blessed that whenever anything challenging happens, I can harness the experience, express it through my creativity and make a difference to others going through a similar challenging experience.

After years working worldwide under various stage names as an actor, singer and musician, I eventually came back to the UK, in time for Covid.

Covid brought about a spiritual re-branding. I was having more contact with my Jyotish (Vedic Astrology) mentor, who made the revelation that in line with my (Jyotish) chart, I needed a new artist name to ensure I fulfil my potential. After great study and analysis, he conceived my new professional (and spiritual name) from Sanskrit : Ch’Lu.

I continue to grow into this name: it feels really right. Pronounced ‘Choo LOO’, it's all about the vibration; it is activating my spiritual and creative paths, and very much altering the shape and direction my performance work takes me. I no longer feel the need to try and fit in, and can embrace my unique flavour as an artist, following the vibration of ‘Ch’Lu’. This has led me to shape my current Campfire-meets-Kirtan-meets-Club vibe. (And why my social media handle is @ChLuVibration!)

Soon after we first met, my mentor described my life’s purpose as quite simply: “You are here to trick people into consciousness”. And I completely resonate with this. (And his words are even more pertinent since he sadly passed away this year).

So, yes, I like to blend the unexpected to create a new route into conscious awareness.

During Covid, I found myself performing online concerts to global audiences of hundreds on the world's largest meditation app: Insight Timer, taking them on a weekly transformational journey which soon became known as the “Ch’Lu Campfire'.

It was for me, another example of the energy of my name leading my creative direction, which is forever evolving. I would sit with my classical guitar in my home studio space, with my boxing gloves and artwork in the background, sharing comic anecdotes and encouraging audience participation in songs about anything from internet dating to technology stress. Audiences might have a fixed idea about what they need to relax or feel more connected, but when they leave the Ch’Lu Campfire, the feedback I get is how much fun they had and how unexpected and different it was.

For me, languages are music, and I pick them up quickly. I am fluent in six, and have composed in a further eight languages. My most recent album ‘The Goddess Within’ (supported by Arts Council England, and the largest music charity in the UK, Help Musicians) explored the experiential vibrations of The Mandukya Upanishads, a set of sacred Sanskrit verses, stemming from my twelve year study of mantra and Vedic meditation. The Mandukya Upanishads create the experience of the journey through Om.

The idea for the album also came about as I was staring at a recent painting of mine called ‘The Goddess Within’, about everything of importance and influence in my life, which then also went on to become the album cover and indeed album name! The fruition of the album also coincided with me learning to self-record and produce my music at home, and embracing new recording techniques, including using in-ear binaural microphones.

I released The Goddess Within album on Global Wellness Day, under my own label, Noroc (the Romanian word for ‘Cheers’). I am proud to say that Sanskrit is being brought to worldwide airwaves via this album, and I’m particularly happy that BBC6 Music’s Tom Robinson picked four tracks for the Fresh on the Net ‘Eclectic Picks’ and invited me to be a guest curator. Tracks have also been played in Ibiza, as a winding down tonic, and selected for all-female albums for ‘Re-enchanting the Label’ (Brighton) and ‘The Sound of Us Vol.2’ (Berlin & Bristol).

I now regularly produce music that is interlacing binaural field recordings that I make on my travels and everyday moments in life; it is a big part of my texture. As is writing almost daily words (in whatever language feels right) and/or guitar parts, based on experiences that range from the hysterical to tragic – and are always relatable.

I always have a feeling or theme I want to create sonically, and often I simply set up my mics in my home recording space, and start improvising on the guitar. Then I add vocals, improvise harmonies, and I then interlace it with hypnotic beats and electronic soundscapes if I want to create further developed sound. The composition always finds itself without a rigid plan. Indeed one of my next albums is further carving out this approach and honing a new sound. (I am currently exploring funding and donation support to make this possible).

One day I asked in a Ch’Lu Campfire if anyone would buy a t-shirt with a Ch’Lu Campfire logo and the response was unanimous….YES! But the surprising twist was that the gig turned into a brain-storming session where people were saying all the Campfire-themed merch they would want: “we’re gonna need Ch’Lu blankets and trousers and jumpers and woolly socks and hats to keep warm, and mugs for hot drinks, and a torch…” and since that night the Ch’Lu store was born. I now have in the region of 150 self-designed products featuring my artwork. And bit by bit, my world-wide sales are growing.

I love how forward thinking and positive my crowd are – recently a fan asked me when the Ch’Lu app was coming out!! And someone else wants a Ch’Lu songbook so they can learn to play my songs…it’s all in the pipeline for sure!

So it’s like a Ch’Lu Campfire family is out there. And together we are finding where the Ch’Lu flame is heading next!

Every online show I do touches me greatly, and my followers tell me how I’ve helped get them out of bed, or through an emergency situation or given them hope…so I can’t wait to grow my reach and get a physical tour going, especially if it is fan-led.

And my ability to create against all odds has grown. I self-produced a single whilst I had also lost my voice (on and off over a period of two years), after devastatingly losing two cousins in the Gaza/Israel conflict. The track ‘Beyond Words’ has helped in a crowd-fund, raising over £250,000 for the now orphaned children of my cousins.

I am also passionate about shifting global trends that can create lasting change in attitudes and treatment of women worldwide.

My new podcast: ‘Ch’Lu Moves’ is a travel documentary meets story-time meets walking meditation. Recorded myself binaurally on my travels around the world, from jungle to temple to street, where unusual adventures unfold around me in real time.

And a TV comedy series about letting go, co-created with my sister and her comedy collective Melon Comedy, in which I will be acting and providing the music.

And a good few albums.

And a tour. Hopefully to wherever you are based, reading this now.

I’ve no idea where it’s all moving. But it’s moving, that’s for sure.

Few sights are more quintessentially British than the iconic red telephone box. Designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in the 1920s, these cast-iron kiosks once stood on every street corner, symbolising communication, civic pride, and the reach of the British state. Today they are increasingly rare, often weathered and neglected, yet Britain’s knack for reinvention has given them new life: some serve as tiny cafés, florists, or community libraries, while others house defibrillators or even mobile phone repair shops. Each imaginative reuse celebrates the enduring charm of this nostalgic, adaptable icon of British culture.

It is fitting, then, that one of the boldest and most original reimagining’s of these kiosks can be found just outside one of the nation’s greatest cultural landmarks: the British Museum. Here, on Great Russell Street, four restored K6-design telephone boxes are now home to The Visionary British Museum, proudly billed as “London’s smallest art gallery.”

A Museum in a Phone Box

The Visionary British Museum is the brainchild of British artist Degard, known as the world’s first “Painter of Auras.” In 2021, she purchased her first Grade II listed kiosk at auction for £30,000 in cash, seizing the chance to create her own central London exhibition space. “I had long wanted a gallery in the heart of London,” she explained. “When I looked at the cheapest thing on the property list, it happened to be a phone box. It seemed an economic and fun way to gain a presence in the city.”

From that playful impulse, a serious cultural initiative has grown. What began as a single box has now expanded into four, each with its own theme: The Fortune Teller, The Aura Photo Booth, Visionary Brit Mirror, and Visionary Brit Exclusive. Together, they form a unique micro-museum that blends heritage, contemporary art, and spiritual exploration — attracting thousands of visitors every week who stop to peek inside, take photographs, and engage with the art.

Degard: Painter of Auras

To understand the Visionary British Museum, one must first understand Degard herself. Born in London, she did not begin painting until the age of 20, when a sudden moment of inspiration set her on an artistic path. Trained at Chelsea College of Art and the Royal College of Art, she has since exhibited internationally, from Muscat to New York, and is now pursuing a doctorate at the University of East London on “The Visionary in Art.”

Degard’s practice is rooted in her ability to see and paint human and environmental auras. She describes how, early in her journey, she noticed flashes of light and colour around people — once perceiving a blue square around a man’s chest, only to learn that he had just undergone bypass surgery. For her, such visions are not metaphor but lived reality: “They were his aura, his conscious energy. I could see the whole experience of his operation in his energies.”

This ability to channel unseen forces has guided her work ever since. Degard consults what she calls the Akashic Record, or universal mind, asking for the aura of a person, place, or object to be revealed to her in paint. Her canvases therefore become records of invisible dimensions, mapping the energies of individuals, historical figures, or even national icons such as Queen Elizabeth II, whose aura she painted for the Platinum Jubilee.

Visionary Art as Spiritual Art

Degard situates her work within a long lineage of Visionary Art — a genre that encompasses artists whose practices emerge from extraordinary or transcendent experiences. Figures such as William Blake, Hilma af Klint, and Kandinsky exemplify how spiritual encounters can be transformed into new artistic languages. For Degard, Visionary Art is inherently spiritual, revealing the deeper structures of reality and offering glimpses into the unseen.

Exhibitions at the Visionary British Museum have explored this in myriad ways. The inaugural Love show on Valentine’s Day 2022 featured works inspired by Saint Valentine’s healing miracles, Jim Dine’s iconic heart paintings, and LGBTQ love stories from antiquity to the present. Other shows have examined the aura of famous London landmarks, celebrated festivals like Hanukkah and Diwali, and brought together diverse artists — from Suzanne Treister’s techno-occult investigations to Melissa Alley’s trance-inspired paintings following personal tragedy.

Understanding Auras and Kirlian Photography

But what, exactly, is an aura? Across cultures and spiritual traditions, the aura is described as the subtle energy field that surrounds all living things — a luminous body that reflects physical health, emotional state, and spiritual presence. While mainstream science has remained cautious about these claims, many artists, healers, and mystics have treated the aura as a vital subject for exploration.

In the 20th century, the phenomenon gained attention through Kirlian photography, named after Semyon and Valentina Kirlian, who in 1939 discovered that placing objects on photographic plates connected to a high-voltage source produced glowing images. These corona discharges appeared to show the “life force” or energy of plants, animals, insects and human hands, captivating researchers, and the public alike. Although scientists have attempted to explain away these remarkable images in terms of moisture and conductivity, Kirlian photographs have inspired generations of Visionary artists to treat the aura as both a scientific and spiritual mystery — a bridge between the measurable and the metaphysical.

Degard’s aura paintings can be seen as a continuation of this lineage: not mechanical recordings but intuitive mappings, works of art that visualise consciousness itself.

London’s Smallest Art Gallery

What makes the Visionary British Museum remarkable is not only its subject matter but its setting. To step up to a red telephone box and peer inside is to experience a playful collision of the ordinary and the extraordinary. The everyday object of urban infrastructure becomes a portal into visionary realities. For tourists visiting the British Museum, the kiosk galleries have become an unexpected highlight, part of the ritual of photographing London itself.

The museum’s originality lies in this fusion: heritage preservation, contemporary art, public accessibility, and spiritual exploration. Exhibitions are free, visible 24/7, and impossible to ignore as you walk down Great Russell Street. They democratise art, placing it at eye level for anyone who pauses, and they invite conversation about subjects — auras, spirituality, the visionary — often marginalised by mainstream institutions.

The Fortune Teller and the Future

The latest expansion, dubbed the Visionary British Museum Takeover, adds new layers of interactivity. Chief among them is The Fortune Teller, a kiosk where visitors can purchase affordable art through a vending machine. Each piece doubles as a fortune, created by visionary artists such as Caro Halford, Caroline Way, and Dr Rupert Record. Tarot cards, lucky numbers, magic seals, and feminist mediumship all feature, turning the simple act of buying art into an encounter with mystery.

Nearby, the Aura Photo Booth allows visitors to capture images of their own aura or even adopt a celebrity aura, guided by Degard’s colour wheel. The Visionary Brit Mirror opens with an exploration of the Rosetta Stone’s aura, while the Exclusive kiosk hosts exhibitions spanning 5,000 years of visionary creativity.

In these playful yet profound spaces, art becomes more than visual pleasure — it becomes a medium of enchantment, healing, and discovery. As London continues to reinvent itself, the red telephone boxes on Great Russell Street stand as a symbol of continuity and change. Once tools of communication, they now serve as beacons of visionary imagination, proving that even the smallest gallery can hold the biggest questions about life, spirit, and the unseen.

Across esoteric traditions, mystical teachings, and even some interpretations of quantum theory, imagination is seen as the engine of creation. But in most mainstream views, its importance is often overlooked, viewed simply as a way to escape from reality, confined to the worlds of children, artists and creatives. Yet, every day we are imagining our lives, consciously or unconsciously, wishing for certain outcomes or projecting worst case scenarios. We seem to get what we consistently imagine. But, what if we fully recognise imagination as a force that shapes our reality? What if imagination is another name for God? To explore these questions further, it is helpful to examine the role of imagination in our lives through the lens of quantum science and metaphysics, and its connection to creation.

What is the imagination?

We often think of imagination as a tool, a way to form mental images or ideas. But it is far more than that. As an expression of consciousness itself, it is a means of tuning into potential experiences and realities. Our imagination and belief systems are inextricably interwoven. The only true limits to what we can imagine come from what we believe is possible. If we only perceive what fits into our belief system, then through our imagination, we are either limiting or expanding life around us. We experience the world, not as it is, but how we imagine it to be. 

Using our imagination is a way of tuning into frequencies — it helps us pick up on subtle energies, insights, and possibilities that aren’t always visible in our everyday reality.

But it’s not just about seeing an image in our mind, it’s about feeling what it’s like to be in it. We feel with the heart through electromagnetic frequencies and the brain receives this input. Until we are emotionally involved with it, we are not imagining it.

‘Imagine’ trying to be excited about something outside of your field of possibility. It is close to impossible. In the same vein, ‘imagine’ a worse-case scenario; losing a loved one, a pet, a job, money. If it’s in your realm of possibility, it is easy to feel this potential. So when we look at the imagination this way, we begin to understand how it is the engine of creation.

That said, it’s important to make a distinction. Someone might picture a purple flying elephant and even imagine what it would feel like to fly on it, but by almost any measure, this lies outside the field of possibility in our reality. While we can create all kinds of images in our minds, there’s an important difference between imagination and fantasy. Fantasy is the mind at play, untethered from reality, while imagination is a deeper process that opens us to meaningful potentials beyond our everyday experience.

Metaphysically, imagination can be seen as the bridge between potential and manifestation. Our inner faculty accessing the realm of possibility — a space not yet actualised in the physical world. Operating beyond linear time, it engages in the collective unconscious, or the divine mind, or the quantum field. In other words, it’s a way of tapping into a larger field of wisdom and possibility.

A brief exploration of the ‘field’ provides some useful context here. Physicist Nassim Haramein, in his unification field theory, states, ‘At the foundation of all matter is a blueprint of interconnectedness, where everything in the universe is a manifestation of a single underlying field of energy.’ Federico Faggin, inventor of the microprocessor and author on the new science of consciousness, theorises that consciousness is primary and not produced by brains, and humans exist between two worlds. Our bodies exist in the classical realm, space and time, and our truer self, our consciousness, exists in the quantum realm that exists out of space and time. 

Through the mechanistic lens of classical science, we have a limited perception of ourselves as a body, in time and space, existing only in a physical reality with consciousness typically seen as a by-product of brain activity. But considering what new science is telling us, the body is simply the most outward manifestation of a deeper self. Through this perspective, we see we are in fact, multidimensional beings, with parts of ourselves showing up through dreams, intuition, energy (and imagination) — existing across more than just the physical world. We exist across layers of time, space, and consciousness.

It follows then, that imagination is a multidimensional state of being as it synchronises the mind, body and soul. Imagination is the portal that allows these layers to touch. It weaves together thought, emotion, and intention to shape reality across physical, mental, and spiritual levels. This echoes esoteric traditions that view imagination as our consciousness stretching across different levels of reality, shaping possibility into experience.

In quantum theory’s Participatory Universe interpretation, much like in esoteric traditions and metaphysics — we see that consciousness doesn’t just observe reality, it actively participates in creating it. In this view, imagination is the very force by which consciousness interacts with the quantum field, or subtle realm where outcomes haven’t yet solidified, shaping what becomes real. It’s not that imagination might shape reality, it does, because reality itself responds to conscious engagement. From this lens, imagining is a creative act embedded in the very fabric of how the universe comes into being. So whatever frame we are looking though, imagination is basically how we plug into and play with the invisible forces shaping reality.

Imagination may begin with mental imagery, but when charged with emotion and focused by will, it is a creative force that bridges inner vision with outer experience, tapping into deeper layers of potential beyond time and space.

Introducing emotions into the conversation, since they also exist along a vibrational spectrum, reveals them as a key aspect of the mechanics behind imagination and creation.

Dr. David Dawkins, renowned spiritual teacher, psychiatrist, physician, researcher, lecturer and developer of the widely known Map of Consciousness, charted the frequencies of emotions on a scale. (Frequency is vibration measured over time.) At the lowest end is humiliation. At the highest end is ineffability, too great to be expressed in words!

With this in mind, we can better grasp how our emotions send vibrations into the field through imagination and feeling, and how these vibrations determine the density of the reality we experience.

Theories and philosophies developed in recent times aim to help us understand how using the imagination intentionally, for the highest good, individually and collectively, is accessed through heart-mind coherence. The heart is a portal to our multidimensional selves, with our physical body in space and time, and our consciousness, in the quantum realm.

Is imagination another name for Source or God?

According to author and mystic Neville Goddard, the true understanding of imagination is the beginning and end of all creating. In his book, The Power of Awareness, he states, ‘Some call it imagination, and others call it God.’

He proposes that higher dimensions and invisible realms contain things that can be claimed and brought back into the physical experiences. In his teachings, God is not a separate entity but rather the creative power within every individual. Everything we experience is the result of what we’ve imagined, because our imagination is the blueprint for creation. Imagination isn’t something that the mind does; it is the process of creation. It’s not a tool of consciousness it is consciousness, the divine force that brings reality into existence.

Creation, bringing imagination into reality. 

Like in Goddard’s teachings, many esoteric traditions such as Hermeticism, Theosophy, and Sufi mysticism, teach that the imagination is said to arise from the 4th dimension, or astral plane, where emotion and mental imagery begin to shape energy into form. So how does the dimension of imagination come into the third dimension?

The first way a thought becomes a thing can be explained by the internal mechanism of behavioural psychology. When we have no-resistance in our belief systems, our thoughts are in alignment with our goals, and our emotions and feelings feel good, we are excited, and we take inspired action. The second part happens as congruent thoughts, beliefs and emotions are coordinated, and infinite intelligence or the vibratory conscious field ‘hears’ us, and responds.

Imagination is consciousness in action by tuning into what is possible and turning it into form. Creation is the act of drawing from our higher dimensional selves and realities and manifesting them into the physical world.

Ultimately, there is no real and not real; only a spectrum of density. It is the act of consciousness tuning into a possible experience that is available to it. Imagination is the vehicle allowing us to travel into this ‘field of dreams’ and explore experiences we would like to have. 

God, the Universe, or Source, is constantly creating using energy, vibration and frequency. Imagination, consciousness, the quantum field, is all energy, thought, vibration and frequency. Looking at the imagination from this angle, it seems to me its value has been relegated to the side lines. We need to prioritise breathing life force back into it and start fostering ways to expand our capacity to imagine again.

Read more articles by Mel Stephenson.