KABBALAH LUMINATA

As a digital artist I paint with LIGHT;
as a Qabalist I practice in the Temple of Living Light. In biophysics, its biophotons. Recently discontent with static and Flash imagery alone, I have begun venturing into the world of filmmaking. The artworks appearing here are still frames ready for printing or animation.

As a digital artist, my works are on display everyday, at a location very near you! Online. Each suite of images tells its own story, draws from its own rich motherload of personal or collective experience and symbolism. For 35 years I have been painting and otherwise rendering Kabbalistic images and tales in prose and poetry. The Kabbalah is a bottomless well of mythopoetic and psychoactive inspiration. I have attempted to externalize my inner visions so I can share my unique point of view on the inner world and creative life of the artist.

This is not a 'red string' qabalah site. I have always practiced in splendid solitude relying on the inner guidance of my Self and my visionary experience. Much of my work continues toward actualizing my dream project, an interactive pathworking game, VIRTUAL QABALAH.

Culture is everything that's going on, not just something that some people think should be going on. The object is not to spin or project analogies but to use them to elicit dialogue, to stimulate social organs and areas remote from our own. The analogies may be smoke, but they are smoke signals also. Network is pure experiment. The media ecology of the soul is to recycle one's images.

"to behave is to choose one pattern among many." - Jose Delgado

Csikszentmihalyi's message, FINDING FLOW, encompasses an inspiring and challenging truth: that "it is how we choose what we do, and how we
approach it, that will determine whether the sum of our days adds up to a formless blur, or to something resembling a work of art."

Enjoi!
Iona "Spooky" Miller

Crucible;Temple Goddess;
Temple of Living Light
(c)Io Art, 2005


THE TEMPLE OF LIVING LIGHT

Show me your mysteries,
I'll show you mine,
As we embark outside
this space and time.
Clasping hands we'll join
the dance divine,
Flowing gently toward
eternal rhyme.

Tell me your fantasies,
I'll tell you mine,
Show me your ecstasies
that flow as wine.
Together we'll reach
the highest peak sublime,
Drinking deeply from
the spring of time.

[Chorus]
Try as we might...
So many chambers in which to dwell.
To reach the heights...
From the bottom of a wishing well.
With second sight...
How we ascend only time will tell.
To the temple of living Light...
Far beyond heaven and hell.

Bare your heart to me,
I'll give you mine,
Though all alone
we might be flying blind.
Through embrace,
fire and ice entwine,
Surging and merging
as the ocean tide.

Iona Miller and James Eastman, 1999

Kabbalah, Qabalah, Qabala, Cabbala
It doesn't matter how you spell it. The Jews spell it Kabbalah, and the Hermetic qabalists prefer Qabalah. Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) calls it QBL. No matter what your worldview and beliefs Qabalah provides a unifying symbolic map of the inner spiritual world which can be transversed in a variant of the quest or aspirant's journey. It is shamanic, mystical, visionary.

Qabala is not a static doctrine, but a living Way. Qabala is an experiential path, an experiment which lasts throughout one's life. Qabala is ultimately about access to and experience of discrete states of consciousness, ways of being and becoming. To glean its wisdom, we must "sample the dish," not simply read the recipes. It is a subject which cannot be exhausted. We must make it our own, even while honoring its tradition. In this way, we have the best of both worlds.

Qabalistic traditions and models are validated by modern research everyday. It has a vast capacity to incorporate the entire repertoire of human knowledge and understanding, coordinating through its primary glyph, the Tree of Life.

If you don't resonate with a positive approach, try my antiauthoritarian Zen/punk

NO WAY QABALAH.

MANTRA: "No Way No Way No Way"
MOTTO: "No Path; No Problem"
WORLDVIEW: "NoThing is NowHere."
MISSION: "There's nowhere to go; and we're all gonna get there."

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