Mandalas
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AMERICAN TANKA: by Wayan; dreamed 1989/7/26, painting-poem-story on 30" disk, 1995. I dreamed I circumnavigated the entire Buddhist wheel of existence in a single 12:52 PM 7/13/2019night... |
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ARTICHOKE PLATE: by Katherine Metcalf Nelson; 1982 (March?); a punning dream I realize the artichoke plate in my lap is a pun: ART! I CHOKE! I need to peel off my thorny outer leaves of professionalism to find the heart inside... |
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THE BOOK: by SAO (Shawn Allen O'Neal); October 1989, a mandala-like dream-icon The crystalline figure on the cover of the book in my dream seemed to hold as many answers as its title... |
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CLONE BREAKUP: by Wayan; 1994/2/27, 5p. comic of a psychic dream (or as illustrated text) I model with ten blonde clones. They want to be seen as individuals, so it's their last fashion show before... |
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CYCLOTRON OF FLOWERS: by Wayan; 2015/9/13, a surreal dreamscene done as an imagist poem Night. Rider and mount gallop in a ring, leaving a luminous spiral wake of glowing flowers. Power builds, but when the spiral gate opens, where will it lead? |
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DESIGNER: by Wayan; 2021/4/8, a dream of being a mishmash god I'm a world-creator, lost in mist, unsure just what sort of people to make-- since I'll be joining them. I'm only sure what not to make--or be... CAUTION: NUDE, FURRY DEITY |
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THE ELEMENTALS: by Kathleen Raine, between 1953 & '65; a shamanic dream of earth-spirits Giant presences; rock, hill and crag are aspects worn. Shape-shifters they are; each in as many forms as eyes behold... |
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EMBARKATION, or, THIS PORTAL COIL: by Wayan; 2013/8/28, a dream on dreams A spiral pillow-path leads to an astral portal. But creatures arriving and departing jam the same path. Squeeze by, hop over, apologize... flirt! Is this a dream-image of death & letting go? Then why's it look so fun? |
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EMOTIONAL PALETTE: by Wayan; 2000/3/22, an indescribable dream. My spirit-wife and I spend our last evening together painting. Not with colors--with emotions... |
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FALL INTO FEAR: by Brenda Ferrimani; 2001/9/12, a 9/11 nightmare transformed by lucidity I'm falling into darkness. I feel like screaming, but I remind myself I'm dreaming. "What is for me here?" I demand. "SHOW ME!" I begin rising toward the stars. Huge metal discs with alien writing rise with me... |
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FOUR ELEMENTALS: by Wayan, four recurrent 2009 dream-figures, 2010/1/1 to 1/14 For the New Year, I draw a group portrait of the old year's main dream-figures. Four needs came up constantly... |
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HARD DISK POND: by Wayan; 1989/8/27, a dream of art as a door. We build a huge hard disk that's a virtual pond--a gate to other worlds! But not for reptile brains... |
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JUNG'S DRAGONS: by Carl Jung, 1917/1/17 to mid-1922; recurring dream/trance figures Jung's visions of dragons evolve from fiery destroyers to thieves who can be forced to give up treasure to peacful, luminous guardians of the sacred... |
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THE LIVERPOOL TREE: by Carl Jung, 1927/1/2; a World Tree dream painted as a mandala In dark, grimy, rainy Liverpool, a friend shows me a park with an islet in a pond, where a great magnolia tree shines--an oasis of light... |
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MANDALA: by Carl Jung, c.1915; a drawing he lied about for decades Jung, in crisis, drew a complex mandala, and then wrote about its symbols & archetypes, always claiming a patient had drawn it... |
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MANDALA DURING A TIME OF WAR AND DISINTEGRATION: by Jenny Badger Sultan; Jan-Feb 2003, painting of a dream-series My dreams were troubled by war. So I painted them in concentric rings--lotus, fire, children, animals, and nightmares... |
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MANDALA OF THE EIGHT DREAMERS: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 2007/9/16, painting of a group's dreams Our dream-group's dreams had a lot of imagery in common: circles, groups, meditation. I fused them into this piece... |
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MAYAN DOOR: by Wayan; 2008/3/21, a character-evaluation dream. The Mayan cave was a door between worlds. But also a model of the character you need to walk through that door... |
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NUCLEUS: by Wayan, 1979/3/18, a surreal dream of character-insight, set inside an atom I dream my theatre friends are particles dancing inside an atomic nucleus-- particles that reveal their character, motivations and power. And I'm one too... |
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OCTOPIA: by Wayan; 1996/3/21, a spiritual dream-comic on play; ill. text version I'm a stratospheric bat who finds a flying swastika. Is it creeping fascism? Or a Hindu blessing? Neither! It's an Octopian frisbee. I return it... |
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PLUMBER'S HELPER: by Katherine Metcalf Nelson; 1981/12/8; a punning spiritual dream A stopped-up mystical toilet gets cleared by an unexpectedly colorful tool; but then, you never anticipate what'll unplug your, um, "head"... |
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POLYGON DREAMS: by Wayan; 2007/4/23, a 32-page comic on the effects of shapes What if comics panels and layouts weren't so square? I try triangles, pentagons, hexagons, circles, spirals--and some serious stuff pops out... CAUTION: IDEAS, OCCASIONAL NUDITY, MENTIONS ABUSE |
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THE POWER OF NON-VISUALIZATION: by Wayan; 2018/4/29, a mystical dream whose teaching worked I'm listening to a film-talk on Non-Visualization. "Don't wish--don't will--don't visualize. Just face what you really want, and then don't push..." CAUTION: MYSTICAL |
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THE PRIMEVAL ANIMAL and the Survival of the Earth: by Jenny Badger Sultan; 1999/4/28; an epic dream A huge spiral nautilus needs healing; its coils are coming undone, and if it dies, all on earth may die with it... |
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PSYCHO-EGG: by Wayan; 1994/8/31, a diagnostic dreamlet. I'm shown a crystal egg with a model of my mind in it. The mapping is unmistakable. How embarrassing!: |
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RADIANCE: by Anonymous #42, 1996?, a transcendent dream backed away from In the recording studio, some background noise. Isolated and amplified, it's a chorus of inhuman voices praising an unknown deity. The song becomes a mandala pulling me in... |
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RAVENNA: by Wayan; 1994/12/25, a predictive Jungian dream on art & body-image. In a church-tent, I find glowing pictures of mine I've never seen awake. One's half-done; I work on it. I wake, and read how Jung, in a Ravenna church, saw luminous images he later learned burned centuries ago! CAUTION: NUDE STAINED GLASS |
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A SPHINX'S SKETCHBOOK: by Wayan; dreamed 1994/7/2 & 7/19; a 23-page dream-comic I find the sketch-journal of a beautiful winged sphinx who left her mythic isle to explore a great city of crazy bipeds, called San Francisco... CAUTION: SPHINX SEX, SPHINX ATTITUDE |
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SPIROGRAPHY: by Wayan; 1997/9/29, a one-page cartooned spiral autobiography Laying my timeline in a Fibonacci spiral, it's clear great changes come in a pattern-- as soon as I've digested the last couple, a new revelation/revolution appears... CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY, HEAVY ISSUES |
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A VALLEY NEAR HOPE: by Wayan; 1984/10/17-19, an epic dream. I wander a valley where unicorns love cyborgs but fear giant ants, who love unicorns but fear cyborgs, who love ants but fear unicorns! And while the Three Tribes squabble, cave-monsters sculpt them all. I set up peace talks between these four aspects of my tetrahedral soul... CAUTION: SWEARING, DRUNK LIONS, CYBORG SURGERY, AND GOGGLE-BARFING |
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WIRES: by Wayan; 1957-1963, a recurrent childhood nightmare resolved by drawing, 1999/12/8 I was bodiless but trapped. All I could see were these moving wires. Whenever a knot drifted by... CAUTION: MADNESS, TORMENT, TELEPATHY, SEXUAL REBELLION |
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WISH-RATIONED EARTH: by Wayan; 2015/6/19; an advisory dream on...miracles? I'm stranded on an alternate Earth under strict rationing--of wishes! But you need to wish a few times a year to keep the system greased... CAUTION: INSULTS BOTH CAPITALISM AND ASCETICISM |
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THE WOODRING LAYER: by Wayan; 2008/7/7. A dream questioning art's job. Great towers rise into a fog zone--or is it another world with other rules? And how to draw both levels? |
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