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The mystery outside our consciousness lives in the deep and accessible imaginal realms and comes to life by power of symbol.

The writings of the mystic are trails left by the voice of God , great musicians share what God hears, and mystical visions are trails left by God eyes.

Brief glimpse of the enlightened state is worth many years of scholarly study.

A visiin of strangeness can shock us into deepening our acknowledgment and appreciation of the great mystery.

There is a truth in the strangeness.

Throughout history the visionaries that express their "mystical madness" are often met by a simultaneous force within the mainstream that fears and suporess such outbreaks of the inconscious.

Fantastic and surreal art depend on no ground of ultimate truth, no reference to god.

Fantastic and surreal art operate in a territory without clear moral order, a ruddless dream ship adrift on the unconscious waters of memory and invention, desire and fear , sex and violence, wherever the currents of obsession leads.

"All religions are one". William blake

Painting .. as well as poetry and music exists and exults in immortal thoughts.