Visual Melt

artist, poetry, illustration, spirituality

Master engraver, illustrator, poet, story-teller and spiritual revolutionary, throughout his life, William Blake endeavoured to reconnect the divided psyche of industrialised man back to its divine and eternal self.
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Chac Mool

sculpture, photography, architecture, article

Two of the earliest individuals to investigate the Maya civilisation, Augustus Le Plongeon and his wife Alice Dixon Le Plongeon committed their lives to the point in history where the man, the book, and the dream dissolves.
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Kapala

culture, art, spirituality, article

The Kapala is a sacred cup that is a distinctive feature of the Shivaism tantric tradition, often used ceremonially for offerings to the Dharmapālas; the fierce deities and protectors of the central knowledge of Buddhism.
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Leonora Carrington

artist, painting, surreal

Sculptures and signature gossamer dreamscapes that infuse Anglo-Irish pagan mythologies with the spectres of feminine psychology. ︎

Music: Japanese Ambient

music, japanese, ambient

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Album: Oto No Wa – Selected Sounds of Japan [1988-2018]

music, album, electronic, japan

Oto No Wa sets out to map the evolution of chilled Japanese sounds across three decades. Collecting 14 tracks, produced by a wide range of artists, from ambient pioneers to dance-floor veterans.
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Mixtape: Young Magic

music, spiritual, ambient, new age

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Spiritczualic Enhancement Center

music, esoteric, new age

A nexus of musicians, travellers and artists who explore alchemical realms of meditation through sonic ritualism.
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Jōmon

sculpture, fashion, culture, article

The Jōmon Period is the earliest historical era of Japanese history which formalised around 14,500 BCE. Its culture is noted for having the longest tradition of pottery anywhere in the world and is one of the oldest, continuous world cultures.
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Sanxingdui

sculpture, spirituality, article

A Bronze Age civilisation that flourished in Asia for several hundred years before mysteriously disappearing. Their discovery defies parts of the traditional narrative about ancient history.
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Mayan Flints

culture, philosophy, sculpture, article

Eccentric Mayan Flints are ornamental carvings with attributes of divine forces of nature locked inside their fractal forms.
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Odilon Redon

artist, painting, symbolism

Considered as one of the precursors to both Dadaism and Surrealism, French Symbolist painter Odilon Redon’s work explored the invisible dimensions in which all physical phenomena seem to be rooted.
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Lady Frieda Harris

artist, painting, tarot, philosohpy, occult

Occultist and artist executant of Aleister Crowley’s influential tarot deck, The Thoth Tarot.
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Jim Buckels –
Metaphysical Landscapes

art, painting, neo-surrealism

An American painter who rose to prominence in the late 80’s through his meticulous Neo-Surrealist style. His work appeals to worlds of photorealism and fantasy.
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Rafal Olbinski

artist, painting, surreal

Rafal Olbinski is a major representative of the Polish School of Posters, a movement that subverted a method of visual propaganda to use as a vehicle for the succinct artistic metaphor of exploring dreams of the subconsious.
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Hildegard of Bingen

artist, painting, philosophy

Also known as Saint Hildegard and Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary, herbalist and overall polymath, who ruled her own monastery of Rupertsberg, high on a hill in rural Germany.
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