Music practice is to share light, spirit, & beauty while behind an instrument; whether playing solo, with a band, in any genre. Spiritual practice is training the heart and mind. The innocent ego loves all the things in this world, the beauty, the indulgences. You...
Note: I created "The Gospel of Mary" piece using a process that involved creating 9 images in 7 days on the same canvas; one paints over the previous image when making the next image. I had created this piece before I heard about LFAC's The 9 Levels of Self exhibit....
My just-published book, Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100 , reconstructs some of the ripped webs of women’s spiritual culture, destroyed by priestcraft and the witch hunts. It is intended as a sourcebook for hard-to-find knowledge about...
The 9 Levels of Self are part of the theory and practice of Life Force Arts Shamanic Healing that I created beginning about 1985. These aspects of Self are a map from the most inner landscape to the farthest reaches of external...
He sat on a wicker chair in half lotus position She, a severed head spoke to me with eyes sunk to the back of her skull (This was the dream) They asked me to speak of death and I recoiled What do I know of death? Then in a flash I recalled dying hundreds...
Brian Allemana leads "Astrology & Creativity" Sunday July 24, 2016 at Life Force Arts Center. A note for the reader: This article assumes a basic level of astrological knowledge. If you don't have your natal chart but you know your birth time, you can cast a free...
Untitled bloom, the skeleton soft flowers of bitter flesh fetid in winter bloom, twin dreaming hearts empty womb carried forward graves sprout from within bloom, the mourning soul tearful embraces of snow wipe joy from blank eyes A Platonic Lover I have seen the...
Amy Christensen leads "Come Play With Me! Ritual Art & Creative Drama Meet The Child Spirit" Wednesday June 1, 2016 at Life Force Arts Center. What is it exactly, that comes to mind with the use of the word “ritual?” Is a ritual a daily habit? Are the words...
Hip, hip, HUZZAH! I received official confirmation that my two latest paintings, both painted on the same Saturday in February during a 9-hour spate of frenzied creativity, have been accepted for Life Force Arts Center’s upcoming exhibition entitled The Creative Soul:...
Born in Germany, Max Ernst (April 1891–April 1976), was an innovative and prolific visionary artist, a survivor of two world wars. His religious and strict disciplinarian Roman Catholic father, an amateur artist, gave him a distaste for authority but a love of art. He...
