Delvin Solkinson Elphinstone, BC
written for Realitysandwich.com
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Entheo Art :
The Spirit of a Movement
All cultures and movements have some relationship to the divine aspects of the human creative imagination. Whether emerging as religiosity, rites or rituals, spiritual practices or cultural modalities, evidence of the divine spirit in the form of art is a perennial and cross-cultural expression of human culture. From alien beings to mystical landscapes, strange new expressions and novel perspectives on the world of the mundane made magical, Entheo Art brings a supernatural realm from the internal creative imagination into the world of shared cultural artifacts. This many fabled art genre externalizes imaginal experiences of the Mystery and makes them visible to those without such active conduits to the divinity at the heart of the human.
The visionary, psychedelic, surreal, fantastic and religious artists of our time find themselves in a deeply dynamic plot twist in the story lines of our world. Today artists may be influenced by a growing global history of art available on the web at a touch of the finger. Endless different depictions of spirits and blessed landscapes reveal some interesting similarities between artistic movements from radically different times and different cultures. Expressions of vibrant light and color, winged beings and strange flying objects are just a few of the threads that link Entheo Art to a weave that seems to connect up all historical periods and human civilizations. 
Gabriel : Art by Daniel Mirante
In our melded multimedia age, depictions of the divine permeate many levels of our cultural landscapes, from magazines to movies, clubs to cafes, t-shirts to television shows, galleries, dance halls and web communities like this one. It could be argued that the visionary spirit of Entheo Art, at least in the western world, has influenced the dimensions of everyday life far greater than at any time in the past. Through this manifestation, the West is being primed for a return to a more shamanistic and spiritually charged worldview filled with images and icons celebrating the divine imagination and the great mystery linked through the creative intelligence of a revitalized human community.
Reality Sandwich takes a bite out of these emergent paradigms, providing a planetary forum to explore, expand and evolve dialogues that are helping to shape the very fabric of the future culture. Lit by the endless expansion of the virtual, this visionary meeting ground illuminates invisible lines linking the life of a new kind of novelty in a rapidly transforming world of place and placelessness.
In the light of this perennial artistic tradition comes the galactik trading card oracle complex, an Entheo Art microgallery featuring modern masters of the genre as well as a new generation of fresh artistic intelligence. Connecting a cross cultural array of visual lore through paint and pixel, this spirit culture community building initiative celebrates facets of the divine imagination as expressed in art. Dappled in the metapoetiks, this oracular toolset connects the tarot, yi jing, dreamspell calendar and chakra system into an interpenetrating mathematic of sacred symbols and bardic song lines. Whether traded like baseball cards, set into altars as ritual objects, reorganized into micro-galleries on walls or lockers, or cast in divination rites, this colorized collection of creative culture provides a host of wonder to a world ripe with the possible. A shimmering afterimage of the eschaton sent spiraling back through time, these adventures into the Entheo represent yet another celestial side dish served up with this soul satiating reality sandwich.
Delvin Solkinson
www.elvism.net
Entheo Art : The Spirit of a Movement
