Galactik Trading Card Oracle Deck

elvism planetary artist collective

2009-07-15T15:54:00.000-07:00

exhibitions

2009-02-05T22:19:00.000-08:00

The galactik trading card
microgallery exhibition
appears at different galleries and gatherings
sharing this art where it may not otherwise have been seen.
Microgallery installations are available freely for use at art culture events,
contact delvin@crystalandspore.com for more details.

Conduit Festival (Kelowna, Canada) February 6, 2010

Moksha Art Fair : Art Basel Miami (Miami, USA) December 4 - 7, 2009 - November 8, 2009

Evolver 2012 (Atlanta, USA) November 11, 2009

Dante's Divine Comedy Exhibition (Kolobrzeg, Poland) October 9, 2009 - November 8, 2009

The Evolutionary Temple (Blackrock City, Nevada, USA) August 31, 2009 - September 7, 2009

Dante's Divine Comedy Exhibition (Viechtach, Germany) August 1, 2009 - September 27, 2009

Forest Spirit Communication Program 2 (Skien, Norway) July 31 - August 2, 2009

Resonance (Vancouver, Canada) July 17, 2009

Dante's Divine Comedy Exhibition (Saeby, Denmark) June 27, 2009 - July 26, 2009

Synchronicity I (The Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, USA) June 26 - 27, 2009

Evolver Fest (Lake Claire Community Land Trust, Atlanta, USA) June 7, 2009
Interdimensional Art Show (Fenario Gallery, Eugene, USA) June 4-29, 2009

Interdimensional Art Show (Columbia City Theatre, Seattle, USA) May 23, 2009

Art Spirit Now (2410 N. Mississippi, Portland, USA) May 22, 2009

International Visionary Art Exposition (Montreal, Canada) May 9, 2009

Art of Vision (Seed Gallery, Newark, USA) May 9 - June 13, 2009

Interdimensional Art Show (Temple Nightclub, San Francisco, USA) May 3, 2009

Annual Spiritual in Art Exhibit (Murphy Hill Gallery, Chicago, USA) April 29 - June 6 , 2009

Boom Festival (Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal) August 11-19, 2008

Harmonic Duality (Toronto, ONT) December 31, 2007
Eclipse (Mont St. Radar, QC) July 24,25 2007
Entheos (Cherryville, BC) June 22 2007

Shaktivation (Toronto, ONT) June 20 2007

Ticon (Toronto, ONT) June 2, 2007

Communiversity (Seattle, WA) April 21 2007
Visionary Conclave (Olympia, WA) April 14 2007

Synergenesis 3 (San Francisco, CA) Nov. 18 2006

buyback

2008-11-18T14:22:00.000-08:00

celestial buyback

As the main hub for sales of galactik trading cards, the elfintome online store is now listing out of print decks, and single cards. If you have old cards that are no longer in use, single cards, booster packs or full decks, they can be donated back to the cause to address project debts or sold back to elvism for resale.

dew

2008-11-14T00:08:00.001-08:00

A spirit song of the dew press.

The galactik trading card oracle complex is a vehicle to promote visionary fantastic art and artists. It features grand master painters from across the world along with a host of emerging artists. Currently there are over 80 artists from 28 countries.

The project seeks bursaries and non-interest loans to give life to the deck. If you are able to help you can contact delvin@crystalandspore.com.

Here is the current development path;

Dew press is seeking support to make a new 6 card microset. This venture is a key step in manifesting the foundations that will enable the production of a full 144 card deck with 100 artists from 32 countries in the not-too-distant future. Once this new microset is completed Dew Press will become an official non-profit and apply for a large arts Grant, intending to end the dependence of the project on no-interest loans. Not only is this a final stepping stone for the project, but it will give me enough stock to ensure effortless payoff of all past debts incurred.

The new microset will feature the oracle and gaming aspect of the project, unlike the last 4 card set which was all free agents. With one card per suite, it will demonstrate the potentials and math of the full oracle deck. The cards will also be totally compatable with the 52 card deck and additions already released. These new shards of the microgallery will include high vibrational production values and art from masters on 5 different continents.

Ernst Fuchs (www.ernstfuchs-zentrum.com) Europe
Brigid Marlin (www.brigidmarlin.com) Europe
Alex Grey (www.alexgrey.com) North America
Wolfgang Grasse (beinart.org/artists/wolfgang-grasse) Oceania
Minae Takada (www.minae.info) Asia
Moises Llerena (www.moisesllerena.net) South America

It will have packaging featuring art from

Andrew Gonzalez (www.sublimatrix.com) North America
Roberto Venosa (www.venosa.com) North America

The packaging will include a short essay by
fabled Professor Philip Rubinov Jacobson www.rubinovs-lightning.com
and the Elf Himself Erik Davis www.techgnosis.com

Printed on conscious post-consumer recycled paper with eco style post-plastic laminant, the whole project will be entirely biodegradable.

I have full confidence this project will not only be able to recover any debts it incurs but also to help address past debts the project is still carrying.

I need to raise $5000 to make this project possible.
Here are some different forms of support that I am seeking.

avatar funding : $1000 in no interest 2-3 year elfinloan - sponsor a specific card
recognition: have your logo included on the card if that is wanted

primary funding : $500 - $900+ in no-interest 2-3 year elfinloans - general sponsorship
recognition: have logo and website on the packaging if that is wanted

secondary funding : $100 - $500+ in burseries, grants or long term loans
- recognition: have logo and website on the packaging if that is wanted

tertiary funding :
$50 - $100+ in pre-press purchases of the new gtc microsets to give away or sell
(or)
$13 - $50+ in purchases of the recently released 4 card gtc microset

dream funding : no money - - you willing to host and design a display for a microgallery of both full microsets and the packaging plates at a specific art culture event or gallery group show

free agent booster

2008-10-10T20:24:00.000-07:00

Free Agent Booster Packaging

This elvish toolset is intended to support the collective evolution of conscious creative process while promoting art and artists worldwide. It is a rainforest oracle and non-profit project, a limited edition gaming system reflecting the emergence of planetary culture.

Outer Packaging Art : Roberto Venosa www.venosa.com

Inner Packaging Art : Alex Grey www.alexgrey.com

free agent world

2008-10-10T20:12:00.000-07:00

Galactik Trading Card Free Agent Microset
Spirit Art Microgallery

From Top to Bottom:

Front Art : Claus Brusen 'Opus 138' www.clausbrusen.com
Back Design : Aaron Rix www.podcollective.com

Front Art : Kuniko Craft 'Queen of the Golden Wood' www.kycraft.com
Back Design : Aaron Rix www.podcollective.com

Front Art : Roberto Venosa 'Enlightenment' www.venosa.com
Back Design : Sijay www.onbeyondmetamedia.com

Front Art : Pablo Amaringo 'Ninfas Amazonicas' www.pabloamaringo.com
Back Design : Sijay www.onbeyondmetamedia.com

Delvin's Eye on Art of the Spirit

2008-06-20T00:52:00.000-07:00

By Prof. Philip Rubinov Jacobson
www.rubinovs-lightning.com

The Galactik Trading Card Deck and Oracle Complex is a unique visionary artifact combining numerous elements from the language of the soul, creating a most impressive hand-full of images and words that act as portals to the cosmos and consciousness. I am thrilled to be part of this illuminating project. This integral vision and production becomes an illuminating cauldron of Promethean fire. Delvin’s awareness that the artist can, if the arduous work has been accomplished, sit down to express the spirit and create a transformative effect on an audience is central in his multiple endeavors. And every time we take out his 'deck' we dip into the reader beauty of our own tomorrow, we are developing more of our own greater potential, brief but glorious glimpses of which speak to us through a visionary and integral art.

Like consciousness cartographers integral visionary artists hone the tools of self awareness and the skills with which to use fine art as alchemical formulae for transformation. The most genuine Visionary art, like a healthy spirituality, is free from addiction, dependence on any additives, or crutches and avoidance and is characterized by an openness and willingness to face reality. An integral art expresses our humanity, diversity and our divinity, our frailty and our strength, our darkness and our light. It inspires reverence for life and enhances our capacity
for love, peace, and joy. It affects our inner and outer worlds and has far-reaching personal, social and cultural implications via its inspirational impact and fusion of experience. This integrated spirituality supports freedom, autonomy, self-esteem, and social responsibility. It does not deny our humanity, or depend on suppression or denial of emotions, sexuality or the beliefs of others. It is inclusive; it is not exclusive. Art is a fluid and sacred language that speaks to us, not only with a resonating solace and serenity but also with a powerful potential for transformation. It can be a sword of fiery change.

the kings daydream : art by Philip Rubinov Jacobson

Spirit directs artistic practice in transcending our limited and frozen identities toward a more expansive experience of our self and infinite nature. The work produced increasingly reflects a deeper and richer language of the soul. This visual language also acts as symbols and signs for the creative worker to act as a microcosmic reflection of macrocosmic principles in the universal process of grand creation. For modern conventional scientists, creatures of rational thinking and, for the most part, still enveloped in the 17th century age of ‘Enlightenment‘, claims of mystical awakenings and non-ordinary states of consciousness has long been addressed as self-deception, charlatanism, chemical occurrences in brain matter, mental disorder, gullibility, or all of the above. Non-conceptual thinking is often hard to describe in words. Still, it fires up a description, or subtle picture of intuition, aesthetic experiences, inspiration, and the indescribable feelings attached to phenomena such as doing complex mathematics, feeling love or grief, experiencing ecstatic visions and finding spiritual enlightenment. This disinterested play of consciousness wherein one ’loses oneself’ to the state of ’no I’ is also the fertile ground of creativity, genius, ART and transformation.

The artist's compelling nature and need to create forms, to experience the fusion of matter and spirit in an object can eventually dissolve into the experience of becoming all forms. In time, the artist who has worshiped God as Beauty, becomes what he or she has been meditating on all along, seemingly for eons, and so Beauty also becomes God. The soul realizes what it was all along. The artistic soul in its constant attempt to fuse self, spirit and matter in a single object called ‘art,’ finally fuses self with all objects, sees beauty everywhere all at once, in all matter, in all spirit, in all forms. The artist becomes Beauty. This stage of consciousness is acquired not by way of observation, but by way of participation in the artistic fusion between spirit and matter.

the art angel : art by Philip Rubinov Jacobson

The visionary artist exclaims, indeed, we may all exclaim: I am the Absolute, the smile and the sorrow, the lion and the sparrow. We are gazing out of every face; we are carved out of the same ONE light. The ecstatic experience can be a blissful intoxication of sorts, and at the same time offer a crystal clear flash of awareness. Now whether as a painter or a plumber, you look out at the world of forms from the ecstatic eyes of formlessness. You see forever and there is this push toward self-discovery that returns you to total remembrance. You awake and realize that you are on a great pilgrimage that leads back to where you started, to who and what you always were and already are right now, will always be and what you are becoming. This is a significant tool to help us on that journey of remembrance.

oracle complex

2008-05-07T19:13:00.000-07:00

Galactik Trading Card
Oracle Complex
L. Caruana

Anyone visiting my studio here in Paris is entering, unaware, into a galactik plot designed to assassinate their everyday ego and deliver them, through a willful act of sheer serendipity, to their higher, unknown self. For a pack of the Galactik Trading Cards sits, sphinx-like, on a shelf near my easel - awaiting its next victim.

Inevitably, a visitor approaches and inquires, "What's this?" - drawn to Pandora's Box by the intriguing images, the arcane symbols and oracular texts engraved upon its cover. "Check it out..." I prompt, and within seconds the key turns, the cosmic mechanism engages, and the Oracle Complex begins.

Curious as Pandora herself, my guest peers at the contents. Image after image flashes past her eyes, their order and arrangement seemingly left to chance. Venosa, Hoffmann, Grey - their works file past, all well-known to the Visionary initiate. But surprisingly beautiful, indeed, masterful images from lesser-known artists also take form in the shadows - graphic art, graffiti, computer generated images...

Intrigued, my guest presses on, drawn onward by some higher, unseen power. Without her knowing, each card has been carefully designed, and contains within its frame a momentary epiphany, a seismic revelation seized at the height of entheogenic experience, then translated into forms and colours by the artist to please exactly her psychic disposition...
My visitor keeps flipping through the cards, still unaware of the epiphany that awaits. Suddenly, she stops. "Hey, look at this one..." A leap of intuition, a spark of recognition, a momentary flash - and suddenly, she is there....

From this one card, a galaxy of images spirals outward and explodes: crystalline jewels, kaleidoscopic shapes, vibrating chromodora. Here, a translucent snake entwines with ayahuasca vines; there, bardo beings expand, their faces a geometric mesh of multi-facetted gems.

At that moment, she remembers. Though she is still standing in my studio, seemingly contained within the fleshly envelope of her body, really her spirit is soaring elsewhere. The higher mind has arisen, and momentarily left the narrow confines of the flesh to laugh with the angels, dance with the stars and enter into union with that serene, unseen divinity dwelling, ultimately, in herself.

"Cool..." my visitor remarks, still not fully understanding what has happened.

By what chance turning of Fortune's Wheel did this card, at this moment in time, connect her to her higher self? Did both she and the artist stand before the same doorway to eternity, but at different moments in linear time? Do separate doors of perception share a higher mind? Why did this particular image - its colours, forms and shapes - suddenly resonate, for her, at a higher level... uniting her with the artist in a sudden revelation?

Only the Galactik Oracle Complex holds the keys to the mysteries. ...Shuffle the cards and see for yourself.

Laurence Caruana
The Vine of the Dead
www.lcaruana.com

Entheo Art : The Spirit of a Movement

2008-02-21T18:06:00.000-08:00

Delvin Solkinson Elphinstone, BC
written for Realitysandwich.com

in every direction
ten thousand blessings...
croaking frogs

- issa

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

Dream and Destiny : Spirit Forging in the Future Culture

2007-12-17T22:54:00.000-08:00

Delvin Solkinson Elphinstone, BC
written for Beinart.org

Dream and Destiny:
Spirit Forging in the Future Culture

Our cusp culture is borne into an age of deep transformation, ripe with new avenues for expression and artistic evolution. Fueled by the worldwideweb and vast evolutions in the quality of communications technologies, artists everywhere are being empowered to share their work with an increasingly global audience. Nodes, collectives, forums and galleries are emerging to represent countries, continents and even newly globalized art culture movements. It is a time potentized with the possibility of a civilization reconnected with its imaginal roots in the dreamy expanses of the limitless human imagination. Art culture represents a return to a resacrelized, respiritualized and revitalized future in which the engines of technoindustrial materialism redirect its energies from plastic toys and thing fetishism to immersive multimedia environments and a reconnection with the natural world.

Fractal Feline Filligree : Art by Luke Brown

The entheo art microgallery is a glinting reflection of the emerging planetary art culture. This microgallery and its unfolding galactik trading card oracle complex is a celebration of the inspired spirit of the creative imagination, a collective expression of spirit art at the cusp of culture.

The deck is a pantheon of magical spirits, angels, aliens and entities as well as a splendored vista of sacred landscapes, blessed realms and faieried kindoms. Connected with the tarot, i ching, and dreamspell, this synergetic oracle connects the open spirit of divination with a creatively self-directed process integrating intentionality into peoples own empowered decision making experience. The cards operate as free agents gracing altars and mantles, walls and warehouses, fridges and lockers and, when combined, form a superstructure linking language with life and promoting the creative evolution of the human spirit.

Salvia Dalinorum : Art by Luke Brown

For seven years this non-profit project has grown slowly and with great intention. Each year it has been completely redesigned and expanded. Small print runs which have been hand cut with a razor blade brings a DIY sensibility to the creation of ritual art objects. Last autumn 200 sets of the seventh edition galactik trading card decks were published, half being given away and half being sold to repay no-interest loans to cover printing and design costs. Now the final 32 decks and 20 booster sets from this edition are being released into the world, seeking homes in the four directions. The project also seeks R&D support in the form of no-interest loans to continue its evolution.

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An art card deck celebrating the spirit of the inspired creative imagination. Spirit art explores the creativity at the heart of the human, a sacred expression sharing an ecology of worlds, entities, beings, landscapes and experiences from the more-than-human world. Spirit art crosses over times and places, it is a thread that weaves through the collective history of all human cultures. It links together interconnected art genres including fantastic art, indigenous art, fantasy art, spiritual art, shamanic art, visionary art, entheo art, magical realism, imaginal realism, and surrealism.

Individual cards may grace altars, mantles, fridges and lockers as objects of beauty and ritual tools. Sets of cards can be organized into 'micro-galleries' for displays on walls, workspaces and gallery installations. A full deck of cards may be used an as oracle connecting to a diversity of divinatory systems. The project is an art culture community building initiative intending to inspire the collective evolution of conscious creative process while promoting art and artists worldwide. This non-profit, limited edition gaming system reflects the emergence of planetary culture.

entheo art and spirit culture

2007-12-13T19:35:00.000-08:00

Delvin Solkinson Elphinstone, BC
written for Lila.info

Entheo Art and Spirit Culture

In a world of rapidly dissolving borders and boundaries, the separation between the worlds of the imaginal and the worlds of the material are deepening their weave. With access to the knowledge and history of all cultures of the world, what was once separated by distance and language, is now being melded together. We now have access to the history of art from all different artistic traditions. The modern artist is steeped in influences from all artistic genres and art eras. Advances in communications technology means artists who at one time were limited to representing in their own country can now share their work globally. In this way living artistic traditions all over the earth are influencing and being influenced by each other simultaneously. A global art culture is emerging and with it come undreampt of potentials for collaborative artistic evolution. There is a new sheen on the surface of what art means for human culture and what potentials it has to shape the context into which the future culture is being birthed.

Archangel Michael : Art by Daniel Mirante

Since deep in the mists of time, the human creative imagination has been filled with reflections of spirit. Sometimes these came as dreams or visions, in art and song or through the very fabric of ordinary life. Splendored landscapes, mystical beings, sacred forms and heavenly architectures, all shards in a mythology rich with an intelligence of design. All cultural traditions reflect this spirit of the divine imagination, it is at the heart of the human. In our modern media miasma we find a poly-pantheon of entities and blessed realms rich with nuance and meaning. Today such art comes by many names and has many manifestations, some of these art culture movements are ; visionary art, fantastic realism, surrealism, magical realism, psychedelic art, fantasy art, fairy art, religious art, and new age art. Like crystals, the different movements grow out of each other creating an interconnected mass of points and facets. Some see many of these different art culture genres unified by a common exploration into the divine spirit of the creative imagination. Entheo art is a cross-platform description of a non-localized, modern manifestation of this spirited art culture.

It is a time of great transition for our civilization. The planetary art cultures are a celebration of what is past and what is possible, a shamanic bridge between presence and futures. Entheo art is both a vision and a vehicle for spirit, let it invoke a return to a deeper connectedness between the inspired spiritual life of creative production and the textured material life of the approaching technofuturism. Art is a form of life and its working with us to shape the very fabric of what’s to come.

box packaging

2007-12-13T18:30:00.000-08:00

the prototype box for GTC 3.0
200 were hand cut, folded and glued into the boxes

galactic games

2007-12-13T16:53:00.000-08:00

Erik Davis San Francisco, CA
written for Reality Sandwich

In an earlier post about Jose Argüelles' prophetic calendar game Telektonon, I mentioned a crew of British Columbians I know—an elvish tribe of galactivators and technomystics who reside, appropriately enough, in the vicinity of Mt. Elphinstone, a modest peak along Canada's kindly Sunshine Coast. I have encountered many glowing (and spectral) lights among this loose network—which is really just one node in a widespread, largely West Coast field of post-rave culture creators—and they have often inspired me with visions of a fresh underground, organic and wired and transformative.

One of these culture creators is Delvin Solkinson, an enthusiastic former jock influenced, in roughly equal parts, by permaculture, Elfquest, plant medicines, Taoist poetry, and D&D. Delvin is a fine cook and a dedicated crafter of scenes and rituals, and one of his greatest concoctions is, to give it its full name, the Galactic Trading Card Oracle Complex Entheo Art Microgallery. This visionary artifact combines elements of the Tarot, the Dreamspell, and a trading card art catalog, creating a gorgeous and deeply millennial chunk of meta-programming soultech.

The Oracle Complex, which has seen various editions, permutations, and booster packs come and go, is now available in a more or less complete package. Despite the high quality of conception and design, it is still a very DIY affair (the package the deck comes in, for example, is a bit shoddy), but the quality of handcraft adds something as well.

Atlantean Bass Hub : Art by Aaron Rix

The graphic design for the deck and the website was carried out by Delvin's friend and partner Sijay James, another resident of the Elphinstone. A more technophilic yang to Delvin's plantmind yin—or, to borrow from the name of one of their earlier projects, a crystal to his spore—Sijay crafts images that feel like interfaces to the multiverse, or blueprints for a cyborganic future that might actually come to pass. Sijay also had a major hand in the design of techgnosis.com, which he created with an extraterrestrial web prodigy named Phong, another Sunshine Coast resident who is spearheading a high-profile animation project that's just about to bear some intoxicating fruit.

Delvin and Sijay know a lot of visionary artists, and on one level, the Oracle Complex is a way to give them some props. On the front of each laminated card is a full-bleed image, offering a little slice of entheogenic space. Some of the contributors are older and well-established visionary artists like Alex Grey, Robert Venosa, Paul Laffoley, and Martina Hoffman; others, like Vibrata Chromodoris, Mars-1, and Luke Brown, are just on the verge of blowing up.

Left Coast Liquid : Art by Aaron Rix

The visionary art community is also very self-consciously a community, and this comes through the gathering of all these artists, and the fact that rawer, younger creators just finding their voice are included as well. On their own, some of these images might seem crude and derivative of well-trodden psychedelic doodles. But gathered together into a laminated microgallery, they offer another reminder of how a shared field of imagination can help invoke community—for in these postmodern days, community, and especially “tribal” community, is always in some sense an imagined one.

The back of the cards is where Delvin and Sijay's elfspell kicks in. Like the Tarot, Oracle cards have their own elemental suits (Crystals, Glyphs, Keys, Orbs), plus a major arcana of Portals. The numerology of the cards draws from Tarot and Arguelles' Dreamspell; I Ching trigrams, chakras, Platonic solids, and Mayan numbers are also involved. There are poems, shout-outs, and what Delvin calls “the lightship,” or name of the card. But rather than come off as some murky New Age soup, the design, words and organization of the Oracle complex suggest a map, or rather a meta-map. Not a specific worldview—Taoist or PLUR or Jedi—but an interdimensional cartography, a cosmic permaculture.

There is something alien or estranged about the Oracle complex, like Vulcan chess or the objets d'art in David Lynch's Dune. As with Argüelles' Dreamspell, you get a sense of mathemagical density, of some prophetic arcana at work—something only Taoist mountain sages and Pleiadian neuropathworkers would understand. But Delvin's deck is an open system, without edges or totalities. Use it however you may use it—for altar icons, or random gifting, or divination. It does not lock you in. That might not make it the greatest oracle or the greatest game. But it makes a most enchanted artifact, because it suggests connection and possibility without end—pregnant glyphs, wandering codes.

visionary art emergence

2007-12-13T16:49:00.001-08:00

Daniel Mirante Hove, UK

Strange and organic forms are left behind in the wake of the transpersonal experience, the entheogenic experience. Like the sea leaves behind honeycombed grottoes of limestone karst and mathematical hard-coral gardens, like the gothic flaked crystal style of sacred temples. Some of these new forms, these primordial forms, forms of the psyche restored to nature, liberated from small-time stories and agendas, are represented here, in this sacred tool of the galactic complex.

The visionary art emergence is evoking human potentials, powerfully sidestepping the written word, making it undeniable that there are vast realms for humans to grow into and explore. Culture is extending into the transpersonal space and new visual languages are being pioneered to present these liminal, transrational, mythopoetic realities.

Pan Gaian Wilds : Art by Daniel Mirante

Transcending the fetters of mundane, ingrained gravity basins of consensus reality, in these images and words, liberated life-force in the free-life state temple-dances in sensuality throughout the fields of creation, in bejeweled clarity and vitality, as fresh and pure as the first days, renewed and reborn from moment to moment.

The ancient ones, the wise ancestors, wish the best for us. The sun illuminates us, waits for the great acknowledgement, for every man and woman to acknowledge absolutely everything, with naked directness – which is true faith – to face the mystery, the hierophany of life without the crutches of stagnated mind, lopsided with unbalanced ‘rationality’. The deck fortells the time when we see with all our faculties, and when the spirits shall walk from the ocean, and down from the mountains, to greet and teach humanity.

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Hyperdimensional Receptivity (Pushadora) : Art by Daniel Mirante

Tools of practice and preparation. A tool of pathfinding, with unremittingly expansive guidance that provokes and opens – rather than restricts – possibilities. Come to the deck with a mundane query and you could be transported, unfolded, reminded of the sacred world. Come to the deck with a visionary mind and the subtle nectars of gaian response-ability, shamanic medicine, galactic pattern, and the beauty of the ideals, will fortify you today and in the time to come.

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fostering true community

2007-12-13T15:58:00.000-08:00

Lunaya Shekinah : Elphinstone Rainforest, British Columbia, Canada

Heralding from deep inside the visionary imagination, the galactik trading card oracle complex is a guild of medicine tools for transformation, interactivation, revelation, spiritual guidance, divine reflection, and communion with the world beyond the ordinary.

Humana : Art by Lunaya Shekinah

As a collaborative manifestation of countless people, projects and metaphysical forces, these cards contain a special presence of the collective consciousness; Their essence beckons each bearer to continue seeding and growing relationships, while striving to articulate their nature. The deck works in an open system, with countless possibilities for combining cards with each other, working out multiple styles of readings, interacting with allies, and even transforming your environment or situation with these mobile, versatile and interactive tools. With such a vast realm of ways to interact, intention becomes the key to this complex.

An emergent tarot system, the GTC breathes new life into the timeless archetypes of our world. Infused with the deeply woven patterns of nature and medicine, the mythic landscapes of these art-poetry diads invoke the holonomic, so that every card, or group of cards, acts as a full system of its own within the overarching, 72-chapter storyline. The picture painted by these symbolic systems seems to call to us from the future, in a language as ancient as the stars themselves. Through such a whole process of exploration and remembering, we can evolve the fundamnetal elements of how we come to know ourselves and each other.

Elvish Codex : Art by Lunaya Shekinah

Through this sacred offering, visionary art culture is celebrated, enriched and empowered in a way that reflects the true spirit and potential of its kinetic, dynamic and authentic presence in the human experience as nature. An honour to behold

galactik cartomancy

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Nemo Boko

Galactik Cartomancy

Who am I? Why are things the way they are? What will happen in the future?

These are ancient questions that can be answered in countless ways. It is the form the questioning and the answers take that transform through time, but the desire to know these answers is timeless.

Ancient Chinese shamans sought to peer deep into themselves and their world. They had noticed that the shells of turtles would form unique patterns of cracks when burning in a fire. These cracks would then be interpreted by the shamans, mostly likely while they were in trance, so they could derive the answers. Over time, patterns of cracks became codified and eventually, the I Ching was born, blending ancient shamanism and oracular magick. Much later, in the Roman west, priests would divine the future using the liver and entrails of birds.

The human curiosity at the root of these practices is the same. Through observation and concentration we can access deeper facets of ourselves and by seeing beyond our limited ego consciousness we may become receptive to subtle information from our subconscious mind. While the methods used vary, the results can be identical. These practices evolved organically through time and were maintained because of they worked. We are no different in form or mind than our ancient ancestors, we can empower ourselves with the same receptivity to nature and the vastness of our collective unconscious. It does not matter your citizenship, religion or ancestry - these are human yearnings and practices - and the knowledge and wisdom is available to all ardent seekers.

Tlaloc : Art by Nemo Boko

So, this brings us now to the Galactik Trading Cards. Each card represents many things, from the striving and talent of the artist, to the meaning behind the art, to the artful poetiks on the reverse - each adds facets and depth to every card and the more you search, the more you shall discover. The Galactik Trading Cards represent a collaborative and oracular synthesis of traditions to bring the seeker into greater awareness and receptivity to oracular consciousness. Ultimately, the wisdom and interpretation comes from from within, no matter how profound and powerful the tools.

Before going into potential spreads, lets first discuss the suites of the cards. Traditionally in Western Tarot esoteric traditions the cards were broken into elemental suites that roughly corresponded to:

Fire - active principals, creativity, masculine strength
In the GTC, this is reflected in the suite known as Keys.

Air - intellectual principals, analysis, thoughts
In the GTC, this is reflected in the suite known as Crystals.

Water - receptive principals, imagination, femininity in general
In the GTC, this is reflected in the suite known as Glyphs.

Earth - manifest principals, material wealth, fecundity
In the GTC, this is reflected in the suite known as Orbs.

So, with those symbols in mind, take a deep breath and get ready to move into galactik oracular receptivity. For deeper explorations of the suites of the GTC and the Major Arcana please refer to other sections in this booklet.

There are no universal hard and fast rules pertaining to "cartomancy" (card reading), so it is up to you to create something that works best for you. Alternatively, you are welcome to partake of a few of the "old standbys" for card reading. Feel free to adapt the spread or questions so that they suit your needs.

Single Card Draw
This is a very easy and quick method of divination, useful for a daily meditation of a kind of "oracular glance". Before leaving home, upon waking or at some other threshold moment, clear your mind and take a deep breath and pull a card. The card you pulled may have a special message, lesson or prayer for you keep in mind throughout the day

Two Card Draw
This can sometimes be used as a quick way to gauge before and after events or personal relationships with each partner being represented by a single card. While it does not seem like much depth can be explored in this context, sometimes just a small look is all we need time for to realize an important revelation we have kept from our conscious minds.

Three Card Draw
This may be the the most stable of the quick spreads. When one first sees the symbol of Yin and Yang of Taoism, most people see it as two forces, but in fact, it is three. The third is the form and stability of their subtle blending. As two different forces we can use a third card to divine an outcome, valuable lesson or meditation resulting from the blending. This spread can also easily represent past, present and future.

With these spreads it does not matter what you choose to let your cards represent, but it is important that you make that decision /before/ to draw the cards! If you decide after the fact, it is all too easy for the consciousness mind to be resistant to ideas or outcomes. Not all spreads will make perfect sense on a first or even third reading - but the logic of reading must be internally consistent otherwise you might just be playing with chaos!

Celtic Cross Spread
The most common arrangement one come across among modern professional fortune tellers and books on Tarot is the "Celtic Cross" spread of 10 cards. The reason behind this is that it fully, yet succinctly can approach more complicated questions and often supply more nuanced answers. There is a great deal of information on this venerable spread available online; I will only be providing a rough outline of it here. (Its modern root is with A.E Waite - the father of the highly popular Rider-Waite deck)

Each card is to be laid out in order, face down and then flipped either one by one during the reading or all at once after the final card has been laid.

entheography

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David Heskin : Seattle, WA

entheography

charting our progression as an awakening consciousness
in which individuated humyn cells offer lifeblood to the Whole through Art,
an ingenious & necessarily diverse & multifaceted pattern of growth..

a Great Oneness realizing itself

. . .

emergent waves crest upon the shores of cultural perpetuity
containing rich nutrients for the spiritually starved.
In affirmation of sacred intuition and all ways of knowing ones self
from the inside out..
Indeed, transformation pours from this innermost knowing
to an outermost witnessing
in cell & in culture.

Crystal Sun : Art by David Heskin

We can observe evidence mounting toward an unknowable destiny
of a grandiose proportion
through the organization of inspiration
& its resulting myriad artforms which remind us, insistently, of our undeniable origin.
Art that points directly toward light,
toward the unfathomability of formlessness
trickling down through divine densities,
traversing all dimensions, seen & unseen,
transfixing all realms of our cognition..
These intentional creations offer reflections to each Artist, to each observer
into the depths of our mirror ponds, asking, could our perception possibly expand just a bit further than the moment before?

Ganesha : Art by David Heskin

The artists, in this way, are indescribably blessed.
For we are given secret cosmological passkeys to the Grand Mythstory,
allowed to watch Her unfurl before our many eyes!
The offering of a vision to the community may present infinite meaningfulness, depending on the consciousness of each viewer,
but it is in the creation process that the magical journey is experienced, en route to its intended destination.

A great hope and blessing to all beings:
May Entheo Art inspire a deepened engagement with the ongoing process of creation within ourselves, while exponentiating our ability to recognize divine potential to create our own dreams.
May we each become intimately acquainted with the inner workings of creativity, effectively offering ourselves to the Boundless with our ecstatic affirmative feedback!

writers guild

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Erik Davis : San Francisco, CA

Daniel Pinchbeck : New York, NY

Galactik Cartomancy
Nemo Boko : Portland, OR

Entheography
David Heskin : Seattle, WA

Visionary Art Emergence
Daniel Mirante : Hove UK

Silverbirch : Toronto, ONT

Delvin : Elphinstone, BC

distribution

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Elfintome : Elphinstone, BC
Light Science : Toronto, ONT
Illuminated : Vancouver, BC
Nemo's Utopia : Portland, OR
Jarah Tree : Byron Bay, Australia
Dreaming Conexus : Seattle, WA
Lila : Hove UK

For information, direct orders, vending potentials,
gallery openings and offerings of financial support email :
delvin@crystalandspore.com

dew

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Dew Press is an intentional, limited edition printing house supporting the development of global art culture.

Symbol Tech
XAVI
Phong

art collective

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Dedicated artists from all over the world are coming together to celebrate the emerging planetary culture. Here is media from when the project was primarily north american pack in 2004.

sacred math

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Each card is also associated with one of the trigrams from the Yi Jing, the eight elements of taoist-shamanik alchemy. Below each trigram on the cards is a translation of the word-concept which that trigram represents. While you study the deck you may discover the different meanings of the elemental trigrams. There are 8 explorer cards for each of the 8 trigrams (64 in total), and 8 key cards, one for each trigram (72 trigram cards in the deck).

culture

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A huge blessing to all those who have helped create this community project. Here are the organizations supporting the project back in 2005.

community

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The galactik trading card deck would not be possible without the help from many allies and allied organizations. Here is a 2005 media listing of this community.

interface

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Compatable with the tarot and modern playing cards, the deck is divided into minor and major arcanas. The minor arcana (planetary pantheon) represents the four elements of water, fire, earth, and water, each element containing 13 cards. The major arcana is the fifth element representing the space between the minor arcana elements, it contains 22 cards.

design history

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Celebrating 10 years of design, the deck has been redesigned and reoriented now 10 times. Here is a journey through the design, from newest to oldest.

We start with the different booster packages. One was made each year by Sijay of Onbeyond Metamedia. Note the evolution of the design as the years go by.

GTC 6.0 is the newest microgallery set available. Freshly printed it includes 6 cards representing art from 5 continents of the world.

GTC 5.0 is a 4 card free agent microgallery set. Here are two sides to a double-sided booster pack.

GTC 4.0 is the boxset which holds a 52 card oracle deck. A few of the 100 made are still available as rare visionary artifacts and a fundraiser for the project.

Here is what the booster and box look like with cards in them.

GTC 3.0 is a set of four booster packs of 13 cards each were done the year before as a set.

GTC 2.0 is a rare collection of 39 cards from the early days of the visionary art scene. Only 32 of each were made and they are incredible rare.

Here you can see the design growth of the card backs across different editions.

GTC 6.0 represents the cusp of the design lineage. See the similarities and the differences as you flow back through the designs.

GTC 5.0 features four special free agent oracle cards with designs from Aaron Rix of Pod Collective and Sijay of Onbeyond Metamedia.

There was also a free agent designed by Phong in this set.

GTC 4.0 Also contained free agents designed by Aaron Rix of Pod Collective

GTC 3.0 developed another iteration of the elemental theme which was linked with the Tarot.

GTC 2.0 explored the interface design deeper.

GTC 1.0 was an early iteration of the design formula.

GTC 0.0 was an even earlier vision.

GTC 0.01 was a remarkably rare edition of 32 early oracle cards.

GTC 0.001 was the first computer designed set of 16 different cards.

GTC 0.0001 was a set of 32 cards with the original design drawn in pen, this was a set of 4 cards.

whole system

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The most recent incarnation of the deck as a 52 card design signature.

Here is an earlier edition.

This is the lower deck done many years ago.

air text world

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AIR CRYSTALS SPADES

The crystals are focused on intellectual approaches to understanding and solving the problems surrounding any decisions you are making. They bring awareness to the whole system context in which your choices are being made. Next to the crystal icon is a bodhisattvic compass which illustrates the 108 states of bodhisattvahood.

water text world

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WATER GLYPHS HEARTS

The glyphs focus on the subtle and receptive emotional qualities that underlie any decisions you are in the process of making. They are also connected to pleasure and love. Near the glyphs icon is a navigational compass used by ships crossing over the oceans.

space text world

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SPACE PORTALS DESTINY CARDS

The Major Arcana represent the Higher Forces that are at work in every situation. These archetypes represent powerful energies or figures that are helping shape and guide your movements through life. Near the portals icon is a galactic compass used to chart navigation through different star systems.

earth text world

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EARTH ORBS DIAMONDS

The orbs invoke practical approaches to making decisions. They are grounded in an awareness of the external, material world of things and how they effect the decision you are making. The orbs are also associated with matters of business. Near the orbs glyph s a geomantic compass, or Lo Pan, used as the principle tool of Feng Shui to measure invisible forces.

fire text world

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FIRE KEYS CLUBS

The keys are action cards, and are used readily in response to any locks or blocks that might come up in your decision making process. They are also serve to provide an energizing effect on the situation at hand. Next to the key icon is a dreamspell compass showing the relationship between the mayan glyphs and tones with the I ching trigrams.

fire art world

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art from
top to bottom
left to right

Vibrata Chromodoris
Nemo
Michael Brown
Erial
Luke Brown
Luke Brown
Fabian
Jarah Tree
Victor Olenev
XAVI
Allyson Grey
Naasko

space art world

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art from
top to bottom
left to right

Andrew Gonzalez
Produce
Paul Laffoley
XAVI
Andrew Gonzalez
Galen
Carey Thompson
Stevee Postman
Stevee Postman
Robert Venosa

earth art world

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art from
top to bottom
left to right

Fred Weidmann
Produce
Daniel Mirante
Martina Hoffmann
Sijay James
Mark Henson
Martina Hoffmann
Mariela De La Paz
Tom Giffin
Guy Aitchison

water art world

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art from
top to bottom
left to right

Aaron Rix
Nemo
Kris D
David Heskin
De Es
Carey Thompson
Sijay James
Robert Venosa
Marisa Scirocco
Kris Kuksi
David Heskin
David Heskin

air art world

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art from
top to bottom
left to right

Alex Grey
Roman Villagrana
Mars-1
Vibrata Chromodoris
Roman Villagrana
Sijay James
Andy Thomas
Dean Chamberlain
Marisa Scirocco
Kris Kuksi

Introduction

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The galactik trading card oracle complex is an art culture community building project intended to inspire the collective evolution of conscious creative process. It is an art card deck celebrating the creative imagination. With 80 artists from 30 countries, this limited edition gaming system reflects the emergence of planetary culture.

earth booster packaging

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water booster packaging

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air booster packaging

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pan-planetary gaming system
imaginal source map
visionary culture crystal spirit light fleet
elvish nation life wing : elvish by design

metacartography :Delvin Dew
design :Sijay Onbeyond Metamedia
packaging blueprint :Produce
packaging art :Robert Venosa
background photos :Aaron Rix & Phong
icon graff :XAVI
web pictures :Poxin
website :Silverbirch
maps :Delvin and Phong

space booster packaging

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linknet : allies and community

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pod collective
lila
CoSM
beinart
metagallery
iamunified
tribe13
zoetic art
imaginary realism
C.A.I.I.R.
fantasmus
visionary revue
psygarden
cabinodd
suprarealism
labyrinthe
cabinodd
ange exquis
castle dream
surrealartforum
art visionaries
visionary art
r6xx
IFAA
usko-ayar
dreaming conexus

crystal and spore
Onbeyond Metamedia
frogwood
absolute chill
elftrance
higher glyphiks
doktor j
illuminated
newskinstudio
dreaming conexus
funginears
pangaia
nativestate records
bluetech
interchill
BOOM festival
Eventyrland
Simulation One
produce
lady apples
green samurai clan
street samurai
poxin
phong
Reality Sandwich
techgnosis
heart gardens
star seed design
light science
re-art

As a community project, the galactik trading cards would not be possible without the generous help of a number of different cultural creatives, organizations, productions, businesses and inspirators.