LSD VISION- Wrathful Deity by RogDog
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This image was inspired from a visionary state I achieved while on the powerful entheogen LSD. I was subjected to what Tibetan Buddhists call the Wrathful Deities, of the Second Bardo, as described in 'The Psychedelic Experience', a manual based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead By Timothy Leary, Ph.D., Ralph Metzner, Ph.D., & Richard Alpert, Ph.D. The Tibetan Buddhist Lama Anagarika Govinda writes,"The 'Wrathful Deities' are merely the dynamic aspect of enlightenment, the process of becoming a Buddha, of attaining illumination. The ecstatic figures, heroic and terrifying, express the act of breaking through towards the unthinkable, the intellectually unattainable". The Tibetans regard the nightmare visions of the second Bardo as primarily intellectual products. They are the reactions of the mind to the process of consciousness expansion. They represent the attempts of the intellect to maintain its threatened boundaries and symbolize the struggle of breaking through to ego-less understanding and awareness.
The full size of this image is 1188 x 840 mm at 254 dpi. I first drew an A3 sized image in 2b pencil, then scanned it and futher edited it within Photoshop 5.5....
Email me with your thoughts, experiences and responses at roger@essig.net
It would be great to talk about this and share knowledge.
Comments (11)
futuramik
very nice!
Sacred Rose
Mind BLOWING!!!!!!!!!
bonbon
thank you for such a look at your vision and for the explanation from tim leary.
andygraph
nice image i like the color .. great ;)
Slash15
Lovely work...larger would have been better.
dolly
unusual image and iv`e had a few meself on lsd good job
Grim 1
Another great work of symetric art. Excellent!
P-diddy
Stop staring at the sun and rubbing your eye lids
kaom
Don't believe one word Tim Leary said! He was just an insane guy who did way too much LSD. It's all false, and all the studies are bogus, LSD will make you go mad. I 've done 15 times my own body weight in drugs and they are a false state. It's easy to believe in magical things when your tripping, clear the head! But I love this image, very cool work.
RogDog
mmmmmm, what about over a thousand years of Tibetan Buddhism, this type of imagery can be accessed through deep meditation, no LSD required...
shutterfly
"What a strange long trip it's been." - Jerry Garcia (Beautiful work)