Neil Hague's talk at the ARC Convention in Bath, February 2010

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Neil Hague's talk at the ARC Convention in Bath, February 2010

Neil is a good friend of David Icke and does a lot of his art work.

Neils presentation is very similar to David Ickes but a little more laid back.

Note: This is an edited version of Neil's hour and 35 min talk, ( Running time for this is about an hour and I converted it to avi.)

I also threw in a couple descent flv's by Michael Talbot and his theory for a holographic universe and another called "Mysteries of the Sacred Universe" It's about ancient Indian cosmology and relates its relevance to the our modern cosmology.

If your in to, David Icke,shiny trinkets and other artsie fartsie stuff, you'll love Neil's talk. :P

"I liked it"

Visions from Beyond The Matrix - A Short Story of Oneness
by Neil Hague

"I rest not from the great task...
To open the immortal eyes of man inwards..."
William Blake

IN TODAY's society we are encouraged to believe that art must imitate material appearances. Yet for the shaman artist, painting dreams and visions was a way of opening the portals within the imagination. Our intuition, apparitions and the experiences which are not always of this ‘ordinary reality’, were considered by the ancients to carry substance that could be made visible through art. My work over the past twelve years has taken me into areas that few artists today want to venture into. My interest in the metaphysical aspect of art and the need for conceptual illustration to become the protagonist of the ‘new age of image making’, is what drives my work.

The role of the visionary throughout history has been to unveil the hidden realms of the imagination. To appreciate alternative ways of ‘seeing’ we need to stop speaking of reality as if it were necessarily ordinary. We need to de-automate consciousness in order to cleanse our perceptions, especially in terms of how we see art and life. In my books Through Ancient Eyes and Journeys in the Dreamtime I go into greater depth regarding the multidimensional aspect of reality and the esoteric symbolism that speaks of the different dimensions. From my own experience of making pictures, a natural ability to ‘see through’ the appearance of everyday reality occurs, when we re-focus the mind’s eye. Much of my art and narrative illustration is about seeing and depicting forms that unlock the imagination. They represent an alternative vision of the world, one that finds parity with philosophies expounded through indigenous myths, quantum physics and pockets of the so-called New Age today. I feel at home painting scientific concepts, just as much as I do illustrating themes found in Science Fiction. Reality and fiction are often entwined in my artwork and can carry concepts that relate to alchemy, the occult and ancient civilisations.

Accessing the worlds occupied by microbes, invertebrates and other natural phenomenon, as captured by visionaries since ancient times, comes from an ability to ‘see through’ the façade of this virtual-three-dimensional-world we call reality. I call this type of seeing, accessing our "ancient eyes", or seeing the next layer of the illusion. Much of my art has been focused on the esoteric concepts behind the nature of reality. Seeing in this way has been symbolic of putting my head above the mundane surface reality and noticing that there are many worlds teaming with life forms, shapes and characteristics, which seem alien to consensus reality. Much of the work in this exhibition is dedicated to expanding the mind beyond the immediate five senses – the matrix world. The mission behind visionary art, for me, is to unlock the imagination, ignite our soul’s purpose and move us into worlds that are unique to whom we are as individual co-creators, operating in an infinite universe. The sequences of imagery here and in the exhibition overall have been selected to represent my input for Bridge of Love Publications (now called David Icke Books). More so, the illustrations encapsulate my personal vision for a changing world.

More info here: http://www.neilhague.com/viewpage.php?page_id=1

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