MULTIMEDIA:
Visual Explorations
Iona Miller Media
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CALLING FORTH EMERGENT TRANSFORMATIVE IMAGES IN SOCIETY, SCIENCE-ART AND THERAPY
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CALLING FORTH EMERGENT TRANSFORMATIVE IMAGES IN SOCIETY, SCIENCE-ART AND THERAPY
IONA MILLER YOUTUBE CHANNEL
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I consider myself a SCIENCE-ARTIST: I write and make art and videos about the interface of the imaginal and radical theories of consciousness. When we make a personal quantum leap the language of science fails, and we must use the contextual language of mysticism, or the graphic depictions of art. Often I am trying to embody and convey the phenomenological visionary experience of my inner world through symbolic, impressionistic, non-objective or abstract renderings that resemble my inner vision as much as possible.
This interface is the locus of the jump from the linear to the nonlinear, from the ego to psyche (spirit and soul), and from "knowing about" to "knowing by virtue of identity with" reality. WE ARE THAT. Art is the objective embodiment of the subjective imaginal reality in which we are all immersed. Inspiration should be a verb, not a noun; it is a complex dynamic, a force of Nature and our nature. When someone asks me what “inspires” me and my artwork, I can’t imagine naming any one thing, or list of “things”. It’s like asking my favorite color. I can’t help but answer, ALL, “all of the Above and Below”.
What doesn’t inspire the artistic eye that doesn’t merely “look at”, but “sees through” to the imaginal depth of any given perception or experience? Rather than the impressionistic senses informing the soul, the soul informs the multisensory experience of being. Inspiration means life, the opposite of death. It implies purpose, direction, meaning, ecstasy, creativity.
Any moment can be as inspirational as the next. Inspiration can come from an internal movement or sensation, a love affair with color and form, the awe of an incandescent moment, even the pain of a soul on fire struggling to express itself or the zeitgeist of the times. All ways of looking at reality are imaginative. When we see soul as the background of all phenomena, we become aware of the animating principle. The soul in depth psychology is an empirical manifestation of imagination, fantasy, and creativity which is always in the process of becoming--images forming, and dissolving, and forming anew. Imagination is the essence of the life forces, both physical and psychic. It is the hidden ground behind symbol, archetype, metaphor, image. These fantasies always permeate our beliefs, ideas, emotions, and physical nature.
Our imagination is not something possessed by our minds, but the fundamental conscious/unconscious field of our psyche, our soul. The imaginal field is not derivative, but the very ground of our existence, conditioning all of our experience. Our psychophysical self embodies our unconscious. It is where the personal encounters the transpersonal and finds “I AM That”. Imagination is the primary irreducible activity of the soul. The image-making psyche or soul is the primary creative capacity, not only in art. Yet, perhaps, this is what is meant when it is said an artist has ‘soul,’ the capacity to draw on the inspirational mythopoetic taproot to Source, the creative field. Imagination is the basis of soul. In fact, to live the artistic life is to live immersed consciously in that aesthetically-nuanced Reality, to find it virtually inescapable.
This interface is the locus of the jump from the linear to the nonlinear, from the ego to psyche (spirit and soul), and from "knowing about" to "knowing by virtue of identity with" reality. WE ARE THAT. Art is the objective embodiment of the subjective imaginal reality in which we are all immersed. Inspiration should be a verb, not a noun; it is a complex dynamic, a force of Nature and our nature. When someone asks me what “inspires” me and my artwork, I can’t imagine naming any one thing, or list of “things”. It’s like asking my favorite color. I can’t help but answer, ALL, “all of the Above and Below”.
What doesn’t inspire the artistic eye that doesn’t merely “look at”, but “sees through” to the imaginal depth of any given perception or experience? Rather than the impressionistic senses informing the soul, the soul informs the multisensory experience of being. Inspiration means life, the opposite of death. It implies purpose, direction, meaning, ecstasy, creativity.
Any moment can be as inspirational as the next. Inspiration can come from an internal movement or sensation, a love affair with color and form, the awe of an incandescent moment, even the pain of a soul on fire struggling to express itself or the zeitgeist of the times. All ways of looking at reality are imaginative. When we see soul as the background of all phenomena, we become aware of the animating principle. The soul in depth psychology is an empirical manifestation of imagination, fantasy, and creativity which is always in the process of becoming--images forming, and dissolving, and forming anew. Imagination is the essence of the life forces, both physical and psychic. It is the hidden ground behind symbol, archetype, metaphor, image. These fantasies always permeate our beliefs, ideas, emotions, and physical nature.
Our imagination is not something possessed by our minds, but the fundamental conscious/unconscious field of our psyche, our soul. The imaginal field is not derivative, but the very ground of our existence, conditioning all of our experience. Our psychophysical self embodies our unconscious. It is where the personal encounters the transpersonal and finds “I AM That”. Imagination is the primary irreducible activity of the soul. The image-making psyche or soul is the primary creative capacity, not only in art. Yet, perhaps, this is what is meant when it is said an artist has ‘soul,’ the capacity to draw on the inspirational mythopoetic taproot to Source, the creative field. Imagination is the basis of soul. In fact, to live the artistic life is to live immersed consciously in that aesthetically-nuanced Reality, to find it virtually inescapable.
CYBEROTICA Artshow
ARTSHOW: CYBEROTICA, Miami, Dec. 4-7, 2003
Forbidden Fruits and Technoshamanism: Iona Miller, 2003
Technoshamanism is the art of altering consciousness through technology. Art is the oldest shamanic technology. Erotic transcendence can be orchestrated by artistic, psychosexual, healing and mind altering methods of ancient cultures combined with modern technologies for modulating consciousness, culture, and the holistic mindbody. Fetish culture has embraced many transformative techniques, knowingly and unknowingly – group ritual, magick, trance, dance, music, drugs, lightshows and graphic arts as well as tattoo, body modification, exhibition or performance, secretiveness and ordeals, among others. Now it meets high tek digital fine art as the artist casts his praticed eye on the subcultural aesthetic, capturing its eruptive essence. –Iona Miller, Technoshaman
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purposes through him. As a human being he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is” man" in a higher sense -- he is 'collective man' -- one who carries and shapes the unconscious, psychic life of mankind.” –C. G. Jung
Beyond the Forbidden: Are there things we should not know? There are many responses to the impulse toward experience. We pass through the essential stage of experience on the way to wisdom. But it remains a stage, not an end in itself. Religion generally answers yes to the question, while philosophy answers no. Sex, death, and religion are the three taboos to question. They are also the most interesting subjective experiences to examine, and for the artist, moreso. Freud contrasted sex and death as Eros and Thanatos.
Are there things we shouldn’t know about the erotic impulse? Are there things we shouldn’t know about the relationship of death and religion? Sex and death are givens of our existence, and so is the spiritual instinct. Experiential awareness of these domains is gnosis, direct knowing. If no one is allowed to venture into the forbidden we cannot know what it is like. If no one is allowed to talk about, or represent it, sexuality becomes a dirty secret, surrounded by fear and shame. Adopting this forbidden spirit, we even begin to hide this side of our nature -- our fantasies and dreams -- from ourselves. The next step is to condemn, ridicule, even fear ourselves. Then we exile ourselves from ourselves, recreating the so-called result of Original Sin – kicking ourselves out of the garden of earthly delights.
With this mindset, passion is twisted and turned toward anything around us that threatens to expose this hidden reality of who we are, what we want, how we dream, and what we desire. Is this self-denial not the true perversion of the human spirit? Where is the freedom in sexual dictatorship, in rigid political and religious morality? There are many forms of masochism, and wherever there is a masochist there is likely to be a sadist or persecutor. We play this game with ourselves, splitting ourselves into judge and victim, repressing the exploration of our own erotic limits. How dare we even think these things?
Life becomes split in two, into false polarities and we are forced to choose sides: good/evil; proper/improper; rational/emotional; light/dark; order/chaos; Madonna/whore; heterosexual/homosexual; self/other; mind/body; sane/sick. We embrace a false self when we learn to blindly accept one or the other. To become whole we need to consciously carry the tension of the opposites.
All sexual things become polarized as we are taught to choose the approved pole over the other, once and for all. If we do, we are praised, accepted, admired; if we don’t we are condemned, ridiculed, exiled to the underworld – the erotic frontier. Shame and fear can torture as surely as any pain inflicted on the body. It is important we hear directly from these frontiers, no matter how we react to erotic perspectives different from our own. Our minds have been programmed with toxic shame and moral strictures that seek to preserve parental, spousal, and religious power.
When sexual stories are depicted accurately, we can separate the reality of erotic exploration from the confines of our cultural conditioning that reinforces our fear of the unknown. Knowledge of these frontiers, and our personal “edge,” helps us make informed choices about our erotic lives. Since the sexual revolution, the parameters of acceptable erotic behavior have steadily expanded, multiplying our erotic options. Yesterday’s fringe activity is today’s simple recreation, a matter of entertainment, fashion and fun, rather than perversity.
There is an on-going revolution in sex-role mores. Who is to say what is a politically-incorrect dream? The controversial sexual world becomes one where we work out our issues of power, trust, vulnerability, shame, and the nature of sensation. These issues are important pathways to personal growth and increased self-awareness. There is a thrill in moving toward our fear, toward and beyond our boundaries, shattering our cherished notions. It allows us to see and be seen in much more than a voyeuristic way. More - http://popocculture.50megs.com/whats_new_9.html
Forbidden Fruits and Technoshamanism: Iona Miller, 2003
Technoshamanism is the art of altering consciousness through technology. Art is the oldest shamanic technology. Erotic transcendence can be orchestrated by artistic, psychosexual, healing and mind altering methods of ancient cultures combined with modern technologies for modulating consciousness, culture, and the holistic mindbody. Fetish culture has embraced many transformative techniques, knowingly and unknowingly – group ritual, magick, trance, dance, music, drugs, lightshows and graphic arts as well as tattoo, body modification, exhibition or performance, secretiveness and ordeals, among others. Now it meets high tek digital fine art as the artist casts his praticed eye on the subcultural aesthetic, capturing its eruptive essence. –Iona Miller, Technoshaman
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purposes through him. As a human being he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is” man" in a higher sense -- he is 'collective man' -- one who carries and shapes the unconscious, psychic life of mankind.” –C. G. Jung
Beyond the Forbidden: Are there things we should not know? There are many responses to the impulse toward experience. We pass through the essential stage of experience on the way to wisdom. But it remains a stage, not an end in itself. Religion generally answers yes to the question, while philosophy answers no. Sex, death, and religion are the three taboos to question. They are also the most interesting subjective experiences to examine, and for the artist, moreso. Freud contrasted sex and death as Eros and Thanatos.
Are there things we shouldn’t know about the erotic impulse? Are there things we shouldn’t know about the relationship of death and religion? Sex and death are givens of our existence, and so is the spiritual instinct. Experiential awareness of these domains is gnosis, direct knowing. If no one is allowed to venture into the forbidden we cannot know what it is like. If no one is allowed to talk about, or represent it, sexuality becomes a dirty secret, surrounded by fear and shame. Adopting this forbidden spirit, we even begin to hide this side of our nature -- our fantasies and dreams -- from ourselves. The next step is to condemn, ridicule, even fear ourselves. Then we exile ourselves from ourselves, recreating the so-called result of Original Sin – kicking ourselves out of the garden of earthly delights.
With this mindset, passion is twisted and turned toward anything around us that threatens to expose this hidden reality of who we are, what we want, how we dream, and what we desire. Is this self-denial not the true perversion of the human spirit? Where is the freedom in sexual dictatorship, in rigid political and religious morality? There are many forms of masochism, and wherever there is a masochist there is likely to be a sadist or persecutor. We play this game with ourselves, splitting ourselves into judge and victim, repressing the exploration of our own erotic limits. How dare we even think these things?
Life becomes split in two, into false polarities and we are forced to choose sides: good/evil; proper/improper; rational/emotional; light/dark; order/chaos; Madonna/whore; heterosexual/homosexual; self/other; mind/body; sane/sick. We embrace a false self when we learn to blindly accept one or the other. To become whole we need to consciously carry the tension of the opposites.
All sexual things become polarized as we are taught to choose the approved pole over the other, once and for all. If we do, we are praised, accepted, admired; if we don’t we are condemned, ridiculed, exiled to the underworld – the erotic frontier. Shame and fear can torture as surely as any pain inflicted on the body. It is important we hear directly from these frontiers, no matter how we react to erotic perspectives different from our own. Our minds have been programmed with toxic shame and moral strictures that seek to preserve parental, spousal, and religious power.
When sexual stories are depicted accurately, we can separate the reality of erotic exploration from the confines of our cultural conditioning that reinforces our fear of the unknown. Knowledge of these frontiers, and our personal “edge,” helps us make informed choices about our erotic lives. Since the sexual revolution, the parameters of acceptable erotic behavior have steadily expanded, multiplying our erotic options. Yesterday’s fringe activity is today’s simple recreation, a matter of entertainment, fashion and fun, rather than perversity.
There is an on-going revolution in sex-role mores. Who is to say what is a politically-incorrect dream? The controversial sexual world becomes one where we work out our issues of power, trust, vulnerability, shame, and the nature of sensation. These issues are important pathways to personal growth and increased self-awareness. There is a thrill in moving toward our fear, toward and beyond our boundaries, shattering our cherished notions. It allows us to see and be seen in much more than a voyeuristic way. More - http://popocculture.50megs.com/whats_new_9.html
Digital Long Island Artshow
ARTSHOW: DIGITAL LONG ISLAND, New Media Festival Nov 9 - Jan 11, 08 Invitational
Digital Long Island: An International New Media Festival: works by national and international digital artists (digital paintings, computer based illustration, digitally manipulated photography, digital video art, digital collages and films). Iona Miller, invitational artist. Digital Long Island (DLI) was created to harness the talents and resources of the Long Island art community toward an bi-annual art event that would attract visitors to savor the wide variety of art and entertainment experiences that are unique to Long Island. Exhibiting the works of artists and creative thinkers whose thought provoking works extend the continuum of art into the new millennium, the DLI project highlights the collaborative efforts of multiple arts organizations toward a common goal. http://stacarts.org/digital
Digital Long Island International New Media Festival Saturday, November 10, 2007; National Exhibition and Reception. What is Digital Long Island?:The first Long Island exhibition of world-class national and international digital artists featuring digital paintings, computer based illustration, digitally manipulated photography, digital video art, digital collages and films. Digital Long Island will take place in several locations, the historic Mills Pond House in St. James for the national juried show and the international invitational show will be take place in the Village Center located on the water in downtown Port Jefferson. Additionally, The Art League of Long Island in Dix Hills will host a public show with reception for all the student entries on Thursday, November 8th from 6:00-8:00 p.m. A digital media film festival will also take place on November 8th, see www.stacarts.org/digital or details.
Digital Long Island: An International New Media Festival: works by national and international digital artists (digital paintings, computer based illustration, digitally manipulated photography, digital video art, digital collages and films). Iona Miller, invitational artist. Digital Long Island (DLI) was created to harness the talents and resources of the Long Island art community toward an bi-annual art event that would attract visitors to savor the wide variety of art and entertainment experiences that are unique to Long Island. Exhibiting the works of artists and creative thinkers whose thought provoking works extend the continuum of art into the new millennium, the DLI project highlights the collaborative efforts of multiple arts organizations toward a common goal. http://stacarts.org/digital
Digital Long Island International New Media Festival Saturday, November 10, 2007; National Exhibition and Reception. What is Digital Long Island?:The first Long Island exhibition of world-class national and international digital artists featuring digital paintings, computer based illustration, digitally manipulated photography, digital video art, digital collages and films. Digital Long Island will take place in several locations, the historic Mills Pond House in St. James for the national juried show and the international invitational show will be take place in the Village Center located on the water in downtown Port Jefferson. Additionally, The Art League of Long Island in Dix Hills will host a public show with reception for all the student entries on Thursday, November 8th from 6:00-8:00 p.m. A digital media film festival will also take place on November 8th, see www.stacarts.org/digital or details.
ART AS META-SYN
This art, in rotation display at GPML, has been digitized with text at PSYCHOGENESIS
http://zero-point.tripod.com/psycho/genesis.html
http://zero-point.tripod.com/psycho/genesis.html#TABLE OF CONTENTS
ELECTRONICA:
ELECTRONIC ARTSHOW: Collabo with electronic artist
Philip Wood of France: Flash Animations, Random Generator
1/26/06 NEW ANIMATION OF IO ART
I'm interested in subcultures and Psychedelic Intelligentsia as subject matter: LSD: Problem Child of Albert Hoffman,
Animations http://www.sign69.com/medialounge/space693.html http://www.sign69.com/medialounge/space721.html
Art Frames - http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/iona_m/album?.dir=/1561&.src=ph&.tok=phVEVVEBQhFiPa_b
Conference Pix (Jeff Keim) http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/iona_m/album?.dir=/57be&.src=ph&.tok=phQQTUEBZ1a.p4Xy
Universal Solvent: Blue Elf Magick: Still frames and Hyperdelic animation of Io digital fine art and pix from Albert Hoffman 100th B-day party, Basel, Switzerland. Io collabo with electronic artist Philip Wood, France. Music: Plastic Ono Band, Do the Oz. http://www.sign69.com/medialounge/space721.html
Read more: http://www.myspace.com/ionamiller#ixzz0zFlBjHK8
1/26/06
NEW ANIMATION OF IO ART
http://www.sign69.com/medialounge/space721.html
“Blue Elf Magick”: Hyperdelic animation of digital fine art and pix from Albert Hoffman 100th B-day party, Basel, Switzerland. Io collabo with electronic artist Philip Wood, France. Music: Plastic Ono Band, “Do the Oz”.
http://www.sign69.com/medialounge/crop.html
http://www.sign69.com/medialounge/space834.html
FIRST FRIDAY, August 4, 2006
ART AS META-SYN
Mixed Media, Montage, Book Signing
IONA MILLER & ROBERT NEWMAN
ART AS META-SYN: Art can be therapeutic, both in the process of creation and for the viewer who reacts from personal associations. Art bares the soul, and provides a container for unbridled self-expression. High synergy is a differentiating characteristic of the nonagressive and secure. Beyond synergy is negentropy, the flow of creative connection with Source. Symbolic art has both an emotional and cognitive content. Metaphysical art draws on the multicultural iconography, not only of the globe, but of the Beyond. At its best it embodies and reveal the indomitable human Spirit.
Iona Miller, CHT Consultant and transdisciplinarian Iona Miller is a nonfiction writer, hypnotherapist and multimedia artist doing groundbreaking work on the fusion of science-art, chaos theory, plenum physics, and emergent paradigm shift in experiential psychotherapy, new physics, biophysics, philosophy, cosmology, healing, creativity, qabalah, magick, metaphysics, and society. Rather than having an interest in specific doctrines, I am interested in the EFFECTS of doctrines from religion, science, psychology, and the arts. Our beliefs are the moldable raw material of the psyche, manipulated by governments, media and culture. How do we become what we are and how is that process changing in the near future? Art foretells that process. Author of The Modern Alchemist and The Magical & Ritual Use of Perfumes has shown in South Beach and Phoenix galleries.. http://ionamiller.weebly.com
Robert Bruce Newman is a developer of programs in the medical uses of meditation and a new childbirth method, Calm Birth. He has published three books: DISCIPLES OF THE BUDDHA / Living Images of Meditation (4/01); CALM BIRTH / New Method for Conscious Childbirth (10/05); and CALM HEALING / Medicine for the New Era (10/06). He has taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Naropa University, and the City University of New York. His art has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY; the Dwan Gallery, NY, NY; and other museums. http://medigrace.org and http://calmbirth.org He will be speaking with Ruth Miller co-author of CALM HEALING in our forthcoming GPML Fall lecture series. http://robertbrucenewman.weebly.com/
Sponsored by The Wisdom Center/GPML
http://zero-point.tripod.com/psycho/genesis.html
http://zero-point.tripod.com/psycho/genesis.html#TABLE OF CONTENTS
ELECTRONICA:
ELECTRONIC ARTSHOW: Collabo with electronic artist
Philip Wood of France: Flash Animations, Random Generator
1/26/06 NEW ANIMATION OF IO ART
I'm interested in subcultures and Psychedelic Intelligentsia as subject matter: LSD: Problem Child of Albert Hoffman,
Animations http://www.sign69.com/medialounge/space693.html http://www.sign69.com/medialounge/space721.html
Art Frames - http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/iona_m/album?.dir=/1561&.src=ph&.tok=phVEVVEBQhFiPa_b
Conference Pix (Jeff Keim) http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/iona_m/album?.dir=/57be&.src=ph&.tok=phQQTUEBZ1a.p4Xy
Universal Solvent: Blue Elf Magick: Still frames and Hyperdelic animation of Io digital fine art and pix from Albert Hoffman 100th B-day party, Basel, Switzerland. Io collabo with electronic artist Philip Wood, France. Music: Plastic Ono Band, Do the Oz. http://www.sign69.com/medialounge/space721.html
Read more: http://www.myspace.com/ionamiller#ixzz0zFlBjHK8
1/26/06
NEW ANIMATION OF IO ART
http://www.sign69.com/medialounge/space721.html
“Blue Elf Magick”: Hyperdelic animation of digital fine art and pix from Albert Hoffman 100th B-day party, Basel, Switzerland. Io collabo with electronic artist Philip Wood, France. Music: Plastic Ono Band, “Do the Oz”.
http://www.sign69.com/medialounge/crop.html
http://www.sign69.com/medialounge/space834.html
FIRST FRIDAY, August 4, 2006
ART AS META-SYN
Mixed Media, Montage, Book Signing
IONA MILLER & ROBERT NEWMAN
ART AS META-SYN: Art can be therapeutic, both in the process of creation and for the viewer who reacts from personal associations. Art bares the soul, and provides a container for unbridled self-expression. High synergy is a differentiating characteristic of the nonagressive and secure. Beyond synergy is negentropy, the flow of creative connection with Source. Symbolic art has both an emotional and cognitive content. Metaphysical art draws on the multicultural iconography, not only of the globe, but of the Beyond. At its best it embodies and reveal the indomitable human Spirit.
Iona Miller, CHT Consultant and transdisciplinarian Iona Miller is a nonfiction writer, hypnotherapist and multimedia artist doing groundbreaking work on the fusion of science-art, chaos theory, plenum physics, and emergent paradigm shift in experiential psychotherapy, new physics, biophysics, philosophy, cosmology, healing, creativity, qabalah, magick, metaphysics, and society. Rather than having an interest in specific doctrines, I am interested in the EFFECTS of doctrines from religion, science, psychology, and the arts. Our beliefs are the moldable raw material of the psyche, manipulated by governments, media and culture. How do we become what we are and how is that process changing in the near future? Art foretells that process. Author of The Modern Alchemist and The Magical & Ritual Use of Perfumes has shown in South Beach and Phoenix galleries.. http://ionamiller.weebly.com
Robert Bruce Newman is a developer of programs in the medical uses of meditation and a new childbirth method, Calm Birth. He has published three books: DISCIPLES OF THE BUDDHA / Living Images of Meditation (4/01); CALM BIRTH / New Method for Conscious Childbirth (10/05); and CALM HEALING / Medicine for the New Era (10/06). He has taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Naropa University, and the City University of New York. His art has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY; the Dwan Gallery, NY, NY; and other museums. http://medigrace.org and http://calmbirth.org He will be speaking with Ruth Miller co-author of CALM HEALING in our forthcoming GPML Fall lecture series. http://robertbrucenewman.weebly.com/
Sponsored by The Wisdom Center/GPML
Miller
Newman
RADIO - ACTIVE: Radio, Podcasts, Interviews
Ascending Way, Blogtalk Radio, Al Anderson
Original Air Date: October 16, 2008
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ascending-way/blog/2008/10
Descriptive adjectives are inadequate when it comes to Iona Miller
How do you describe the sky? The same question applies to our guest, Iona Miller. I won't try, I'll let the sky describe herself in her own words: Iona Miller, consultant and transdisciplinarian, is a nonfiction writer for both the academic and popular press, hypnotherapist (ACHE) and multimedia artist. Her work is an omnisensory fusion of sacred activism, intelligence, science-art, chaos theory, plenum physics, and emergent paradigm shift melding experiential psychotherapy, new physics, biophysics, philosophy, cosmology, healing, creativity, qabalah, magick, paranormal, "dirty tricks," media ecology, mind control, paramedia, metaphysics, and culture change. Rather than having an interest in specific doctrines, she is interested in the EFFECTS of doctrines from religion, science, psychology, and the arts. Our beliefs are the moldable raw material of the psyche, manipulated by governments, media and culture. How do we become what we are and how is that process changing in the near future? Post-traumatic culture, negentropic paradigm, science-art. Category: Spirituality
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12/28/2008
THE STAR CHAMBER 2 - New Mage-ic Panel, including Iona Miller, Phil Farber, Lillian Flowers, etc.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ascending-way/2008/12/29/the-star-chamber-2-new-magick
Host Name: Ascending Way Show Name: The Star Chamber 2; "New Magick"
Date / Length: 12/28/2008 6:30 PM - 2 hrs Length: 2 hrs Description:
h:23430 s:372296 In this return to the Star Chamber we will be honored to host a panel of some of the most enlightened beings alive today. We are in a time of energetic shifts and a new Magickal paradigm. The old rituals and formulae are fading and being replaced by an entirely new system. The ancient lore is becoming supplanted by such things as Chaos Magick and Proto Sorcery. Join us to learn and receive resources to become the New Wizards and Techno Shamans.
RADIO FREE IO
Adam Gorightly's Untamed Dimensions,
RADIO: Join Spywhisperer Iona Miller and Deputy Director Charles Stone on
Mankind Research Unlimited
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/gorightly
UNTAMED DIMENSIONS RADIO
http://gorightly.wordpress.com/
On June 28th at 3PM PST, Adam Gorightly welcomes Performance Artist, Iona Miller to the Untamed Dimensions airwaves.
Tune in at www.blogtalkradio.com/Gorightly
RADIO: Join Spywhisperer Iona Miller and Deputy Director Charles Stone on
Mankind Research Unlimited
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/gorightly
UNTAMED DIMENSIONS RADIO
http://gorightly.wordpress.com/
On June 28th at 3PM PST, Adam Gorightly welcomes Performance Artist, Iona Miller to the Untamed Dimensions airwaves.
Tune in at www.blogtalkradio.com/Gorightly
WOMEN OF THE UNDERGROUND - ART: Iona Miller Interview, "Underground to Under Cover"
COMING SOON (2011) ZORA VON BURDEN interviews Iona Miller, "From Underground to Under Cover" in WOMEN OF THE UNDERGROUND: ART - Cultural Innovators Speak for Themselves
WOMEN OF THE UNDERGROUND: ART
Cultural Innovators Speak for Themselves
Zora von Burden (Editor) “It is not about provocation, reaction or even invocation, it is about transformation: mentally and physically.”—Marina Abramovic, artist
“Art is subjective, and if one sees something in an image, that projection is a reflection of the spectator, who sees what he or she wants to see, whose critique is relevant to him or herself, exposing his or her own perversions.”—Irina Ionesco, artist
Until the late twentieth century, women’s creative skills were relegated to craft and decorative arts, and valued only for utilitarian purposes in service to others and the manufacturing of products to benefit society.
After enduring the great injustice of being denied the freedom that self-expression brings through art for the joy of the human spirit, Women of the Underground: Art celebrates those female cultural innovators who are creating new artwork that pushes boundaries, dares to question, and redefines the genres of mixed media; theater; film; photography; and visual, conceptual, and performance art.
In this groundbreaking anthology that will inspire artists and everyone interested in alternatives to mainstream culture, as well as serve as a reference book for art historians, twenty-six female artists describe their ideas, beginnings, influences, and creative techniques. Contains interviews with Edge-Celebs Lady Pink, Marina Abramovic, Orlan, Aleksandra Mir, Iona Miller, Penny Arcade, Johanna Went, the Guerrilla Girls, and many others.
BLEEDING EDGE: These women are the light bearers in the darkness, passionately carrying burning torches through the Underground, each for their own message and medium. Changing the face of global culture, who we are and how we think about ourselves and society.
Artists are the chaotic attractors of the social field. While conventional artists may enjoy great favor, the ‘strange attractors,’ including leading edge and extreme artists have a special role as catalysts in contemporary life. Artists have always drawn others beyond the limits of their ordinary awareness, confronting them with another reality, initiating them into worlds of profound meaning without conventional boundaries.
The artistic life is a chaotic arc of inspiration upon inspiration, following the Muse. Artists walk what for others is ‘the road not taken (chaos theory's bifurcation or forking of the way)sometimes going "where angels fear to tread." Their charismatic influence pulls others into their orbits, and the small effect of one personality potentially spreads its influence over the world, sometimes over history. The history of art is one of the richest threads of our cultural heritage.
Artists magnetically draw the attention of others to their creations, to their vision, into the imagination, into the collective future. We might think of them as the "indicator species" of the social ecology, the evolving cultural landscape. Orbiting far from the norm, they provide a negentropic counter-balance -- an evolutionary burst, social innovation -- to conservative forms and institutions, which tend to ossify leading to stasis and decay.
Art changes the way people perceive reality, how they see life and their place in it. These negentropic innovations become embedded in social structure. Realizations, insight, empathy are implicit. They show us windows of prescient emotions and impulses, their unframed works rending the veil of the human unconscious.
There are two kinds of freedom: "freedom from" and "freedom to". Once we are free of the shackles of limitation, the burden is on us to exercise that liberty in a creative way, recognizing our own limitations. There is no progress in mere boundary-breaking. We have to have somewhere to go. Purpose must underlie pain, or it is pointless. There is no creative spirit in complete anarchy, yet there is in Chaos.
The relationship of control and freedom is very much like that between order and chaos. Science has shown that order emerges from the creative edge of chaos. The creative process is similar in that one must use both reins of constraint and freedom: technical mastery and understanding of the medium and forces at work plus the counterpoint of imaginal freedom can produce something truly unique.
Processes that appear to be quite chaotic can actually produce their own optimal boundary conditions. The same is true in art, so rather than endless failed attempts to describe meaningful experience, the true artist can explore beyond limits to produce a flowing fount of fully rendered images that have maturity, clarity, radiance, luminescence -- works that simply shine forth and will not be denied.
Similar dynamics apply to the place of the leading edge or extreme artist in society: as shaman, as pathfinder, as seer of the future, as one who dares to go where the timid but voyeuristic would love to peek. When our senses become overwhelmed by rhythm, flux, and color we can enter altered states that open us to new experiences, new ways of thinking, new ways of being, new ways of seeing. This fresh point of view reflects a fundamental psychic shift.
What's New in Women's Self-Expression?
Art expressions offer self-indulgent permission for virtually mythical living. Lack of talent or inability to play is no disqualifier; participants are nominated and elected by themselves only. We may give wildly different names to these substructural alters than normal classifications of art. They are hybrids spawned in the hidden hothouses. The artist is perhaps its main contemporary exponent, especially those committed to sexual art. The thread of sexuality is woven through the whole cultural history of art. When order becomes too rigid, atavistic forces of entropy arise to dissolve that outworn system back into chaos for creative restructuring. This is nature’s way. And the artist’s way.
Transgressive Art, Erotic Freedom
Art gives form to the apparitions of our imaginations, and one of the most imaginative is the erotic form, expression of the erotic impulse, or raw libido. Both art and eroticism are forms of the epitome of human life, expressions of insight and deep feeling. Sexuality is one way of inducing ecstatic states that alter perception dramatically. It is simultaneously and paradoxically ordinary yet extraordinary. It embodies the very essence of dramatic tension, a finite act with infinite repercussions. But going beyond this we find elements of death, spirituality and science, and most importantly the intellectual interwoven.
In Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan conjectured, "If men were able to be convinced that art is precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artists? Or would they begin a careful translation of new art forms into social navigation charts? I am curious to know what would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange one's psyche in order to anticipate the next blow from our own extended faculties."
http://www.amazon.com/Women-Underground-Cultural-Innovators-Themselves/dp/1933149337/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262119006&sr=1-7
Editor Zora von Burden was born and raised in San Francisco, California. A frequent contributor to The San Francisco Herald, von Burden also wrote the screenplay for Geoff Cordner’s underground cult classic film, Hotel Hopscotch.
WOMEN OF THE UNDERGROUND: ART
Cultural Innovators Speak for Themselves
Zora von Burden (Editor) “It is not about provocation, reaction or even invocation, it is about transformation: mentally and physically.”—Marina Abramovic, artist
“Art is subjective, and if one sees something in an image, that projection is a reflection of the spectator, who sees what he or she wants to see, whose critique is relevant to him or herself, exposing his or her own perversions.”—Irina Ionesco, artist
Until the late twentieth century, women’s creative skills were relegated to craft and decorative arts, and valued only for utilitarian purposes in service to others and the manufacturing of products to benefit society.
After enduring the great injustice of being denied the freedom that self-expression brings through art for the joy of the human spirit, Women of the Underground: Art celebrates those female cultural innovators who are creating new artwork that pushes boundaries, dares to question, and redefines the genres of mixed media; theater; film; photography; and visual, conceptual, and performance art.
In this groundbreaking anthology that will inspire artists and everyone interested in alternatives to mainstream culture, as well as serve as a reference book for art historians, twenty-six female artists describe their ideas, beginnings, influences, and creative techniques. Contains interviews with Edge-Celebs Lady Pink, Marina Abramovic, Orlan, Aleksandra Mir, Iona Miller, Penny Arcade, Johanna Went, the Guerrilla Girls, and many others.
BLEEDING EDGE: These women are the light bearers in the darkness, passionately carrying burning torches through the Underground, each for their own message and medium. Changing the face of global culture, who we are and how we think about ourselves and society.
Artists are the chaotic attractors of the social field. While conventional artists may enjoy great favor, the ‘strange attractors,’ including leading edge and extreme artists have a special role as catalysts in contemporary life. Artists have always drawn others beyond the limits of their ordinary awareness, confronting them with another reality, initiating them into worlds of profound meaning without conventional boundaries.
The artistic life is a chaotic arc of inspiration upon inspiration, following the Muse. Artists walk what for others is ‘the road not taken (chaos theory's bifurcation or forking of the way)sometimes going "where angels fear to tread." Their charismatic influence pulls others into their orbits, and the small effect of one personality potentially spreads its influence over the world, sometimes over history. The history of art is one of the richest threads of our cultural heritage.
Artists magnetically draw the attention of others to their creations, to their vision, into the imagination, into the collective future. We might think of them as the "indicator species" of the social ecology, the evolving cultural landscape. Orbiting far from the norm, they provide a negentropic counter-balance -- an evolutionary burst, social innovation -- to conservative forms and institutions, which tend to ossify leading to stasis and decay.
Art changes the way people perceive reality, how they see life and their place in it. These negentropic innovations become embedded in social structure. Realizations, insight, empathy are implicit. They show us windows of prescient emotions and impulses, their unframed works rending the veil of the human unconscious.
There are two kinds of freedom: "freedom from" and "freedom to". Once we are free of the shackles of limitation, the burden is on us to exercise that liberty in a creative way, recognizing our own limitations. There is no progress in mere boundary-breaking. We have to have somewhere to go. Purpose must underlie pain, or it is pointless. There is no creative spirit in complete anarchy, yet there is in Chaos.
The relationship of control and freedom is very much like that between order and chaos. Science has shown that order emerges from the creative edge of chaos. The creative process is similar in that one must use both reins of constraint and freedom: technical mastery and understanding of the medium and forces at work plus the counterpoint of imaginal freedom can produce something truly unique.
Processes that appear to be quite chaotic can actually produce their own optimal boundary conditions. The same is true in art, so rather than endless failed attempts to describe meaningful experience, the true artist can explore beyond limits to produce a flowing fount of fully rendered images that have maturity, clarity, radiance, luminescence -- works that simply shine forth and will not be denied.
Similar dynamics apply to the place of the leading edge or extreme artist in society: as shaman, as pathfinder, as seer of the future, as one who dares to go where the timid but voyeuristic would love to peek. When our senses become overwhelmed by rhythm, flux, and color we can enter altered states that open us to new experiences, new ways of thinking, new ways of being, new ways of seeing. This fresh point of view reflects a fundamental psychic shift.
What's New in Women's Self-Expression?
Art expressions offer self-indulgent permission for virtually mythical living. Lack of talent or inability to play is no disqualifier; participants are nominated and elected by themselves only. We may give wildly different names to these substructural alters than normal classifications of art. They are hybrids spawned in the hidden hothouses. The artist is perhaps its main contemporary exponent, especially those committed to sexual art. The thread of sexuality is woven through the whole cultural history of art. When order becomes too rigid, atavistic forces of entropy arise to dissolve that outworn system back into chaos for creative restructuring. This is nature’s way. And the artist’s way.
Transgressive Art, Erotic Freedom
Art gives form to the apparitions of our imaginations, and one of the most imaginative is the erotic form, expression of the erotic impulse, or raw libido. Both art and eroticism are forms of the epitome of human life, expressions of insight and deep feeling. Sexuality is one way of inducing ecstatic states that alter perception dramatically. It is simultaneously and paradoxically ordinary yet extraordinary. It embodies the very essence of dramatic tension, a finite act with infinite repercussions. But going beyond this we find elements of death, spirituality and science, and most importantly the intellectual interwoven.
In Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan conjectured, "If men were able to be convinced that art is precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artists? Or would they begin a careful translation of new art forms into social navigation charts? I am curious to know what would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange one's psyche in order to anticipate the next blow from our own extended faculties."
http://www.amazon.com/Women-Underground-Cultural-Innovators-Themselves/dp/1933149337/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262119006&sr=1-7
Editor Zora von Burden was born and raised in San Francisco, California. A frequent contributor to The San Francisco Herald, von Burden also wrote the screenplay for Geoff Cordner’s underground cult classic film, Hotel Hopscotch.
Homunculus by Iona Miller
Charging or energizing of the Homunculus—the emergent Rotundum. The inner person, the homunculus passes through the stages and undergoes transformation. Psychologically, it is analogous to self-reparenting, and materializing or embodying archetypal forms. Understanding appears as if it were a “conception.”
The Homunculus is the product of the Royal Marriage of Sun and Moon, and is equivalent to the lapis or anthropos. In the ancient art of alchemy, the soul is depicted as a homunculus or “small man.” It is symbolically equivalent to the Elixir or Universal Medicine. It personifies the unconscious as an inner man, a hermaphroditic being, a spirit in a bottle, a “brain child.” Zosimos and Paracelsus spoke of the homunculus as devouring himself, and giving birth to himself—the death/rebirth necessary for casting off the old and inviting in the new self image.
The paradoxical image typically appears before dissolution of the center into its unconscious element—the undifferentiated consciousness of the ground state. In alchemy, the homunculus is sort of a primal “test-tube baby,” created through a dynamic process in the Hermetically-sealed retort vessel. Dr. Frankenstein never had it so good. It feeds daily on the hidden mysteries of nature.
Psychologically, this process is the creation of renewal of spirit, which takes place in the psyche when psychic contents are prevented from “leaking out” and being lost. “Heating” is symbolic of amplifying or intensifying the transformative process. In terms from chaos theory, magnetizing the entity, an ancient prescription, might insinuate the formation of a strange attractor as the complex core of the system. An attractor describes a temporary stability far from equilibrium.
The homunculus is the archetype of the magical child. It is thus an embryonic symbol of rebirth, or re-creation of self by Self. In alchemy, the homunculus is generated by a succession of transformations through the four elements to reach its essential nature. The elements of fire, earth, air and water are analogous to spiritual, physical, mental and emotional life. The Inner light of the Divine Child.In alchemy the child often represents the inner Stone. Once developed and manifested into inner birth, the child represents the stage of life when the old man is transformed and reborn through the alchemical process. The child here represents the inner guiding light of the new spirituality and consciousness. The nurturing of this new born light matures into that most wonderful presence known as the light of the "Master Within".
The Homunculus is the product of the Royal Marriage of Sun and Moon, and is equivalent to the lapis or anthropos. In the ancient art of alchemy, the soul is depicted as a homunculus or “small man.” It is symbolically equivalent to the Elixir or Universal Medicine. It personifies the unconscious as an inner man, a hermaphroditic being, a spirit in a bottle, a “brain child.” Zosimos and Paracelsus spoke of the homunculus as devouring himself, and giving birth to himself—the death/rebirth necessary for casting off the old and inviting in the new self image.
The paradoxical image typically appears before dissolution of the center into its unconscious element—the undifferentiated consciousness of the ground state. In alchemy, the homunculus is sort of a primal “test-tube baby,” created through a dynamic process in the Hermetically-sealed retort vessel. Dr. Frankenstein never had it so good. It feeds daily on the hidden mysteries of nature.
Psychologically, this process is the creation of renewal of spirit, which takes place in the psyche when psychic contents are prevented from “leaking out” and being lost. “Heating” is symbolic of amplifying or intensifying the transformative process. In terms from chaos theory, magnetizing the entity, an ancient prescription, might insinuate the formation of a strange attractor as the complex core of the system. An attractor describes a temporary stability far from equilibrium.
The homunculus is the archetype of the magical child. It is thus an embryonic symbol of rebirth, or re-creation of self by Self. In alchemy, the homunculus is generated by a succession of transformations through the four elements to reach its essential nature. The elements of fire, earth, air and water are analogous to spiritual, physical, mental and emotional life. The Inner light of the Divine Child.In alchemy the child often represents the inner Stone. Once developed and manifested into inner birth, the child represents the stage of life when the old man is transformed and reborn through the alchemical process. The child here represents the inner guiding light of the new spirituality and consciousness. The nurturing of this new born light matures into that most wonderful presence known as the light of the "Master Within".
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