Thomas Sheridan

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2012-03-10T08:14:00.048-08:00

BOOKS
Puzzling People: the Labyrinth of the Psychopath
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DVDs
Breaking the Babylon Mind
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ART
Prints by Thomas Sheridan
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Terrie Burton Photo Shoot

2012-02-21T10:00:00.001-08:00

These are some images taken of me yesterday by friend and superb Donegal-based photographer Terrie Burton at her studio.

EXTRA DATE ADDED TO UK TOUR (Bath March 4)

2012-02-18T10:57:00.000-08:00

Sunday, March 4th 2012, 5pm - 7pm

Chapel Arts Centre - Bath - UK

THE PSYCHOPATHIC WAR UPON HUMANITY As Above – So Below

with Thomas Sheridan

Admission £10 (Payable at the Door)

As an add-on event to the 2012 ARC Convention in Bath, Thomas Sheridan, the author of the ground-breaking book 'Puzzling People: the Labyrinth of the Psychopath', will be delivering a special and exclusive presentation on how we can survive the Battle of Armageddon already taking place in our consciousness by the psychopaths whom we meet in our personal lives and the ones who control our cultural and and social destiny using the predictable tactics of their all-evasive Psychopathic Control Grid.

In this presentation, Thomas will outline how psychopaths target us in our personal lives, using psychological manipulation and devious mind games to rob us of our sense of reality and sense of personal security – and how, scaled up to the global picture, this same form of psychological warfare is used on us with everything from politics to mass media. Thomas will then show us the way out of the Labyrinth of the Psychopath and move on to a more fulfilling and abundant life, secure in the knowledge that we now have a consciousness firewall built around our psyche which the psychopaths – from the on-line dating forums, social situations, workplace bullies and on to the ones in big business – can no longer penetrate.

We all know something is wrong with the world, and that some people we met in our lives are “not like other people we know...” Thomas Sheridan will demonstrate precisely what that issue is and how we can protect ourselves from the consciousness parasites of the Psychopathic Control Grid.

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This presentation will take place on Sunday, 4th March from 5 til 7pm and will be free to all those who have already purchased an ARC ticket. To all others, tickets are £10. Prior booking is essential. To reserve your ticket (to be paid on the door), please send an email to info@arcconvention.org with your ticket requirements. __________________________________________________________

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Return Slot on Trans Resister Radio

2012-02-17T11:18:00.000-08:00

Another interview I really enjoyed with Revolve author Arron Franz.

New Thomas Sheridan DVD - Breaking the Babylon Mind

2012-02-03T03:07:00.000-08:00

Produced in conjunction with icanplanet.com - ORDER HERE

Thomas Sheridan takes the viewer on a journey into and out of the labyrinth of the Babylon Mind with this fascinating film. For several thousand years the emissaries of Babylon in the guise of everything from educational bodies to mass media - have placed a consciousness parasite within the human mind. The purpose of this invader is to prevent us from reaching our incredible potential as humans. Always making us dependent upon them and the soul-suppressing systems they seek to keep us locked into. The human mind has long been conquered and divided. The imbalances between the left and right hemispheres of the human brain, along with our psychological pollution brought about by advertising and other forms of mind control, has degraded the human condition to the point were the inner beauty has been taken from us. Our ancestors built the pyramids, along with all the other incredible structures scattered across the planet because their consciousness was elevated and empowered - whilst modern humans are repressed and trapped into the smog of the Psychopathic Control Grid. In Breaking the Babylon Mind, Thomas takes the viewer out of the labyrinth and prepares the human consciousness for the next evolutionary leap. This is the story of our unknown submission to the Babylon Mind and the instruction manual for our eventual liberation. Through a series of striking visual vignettes, Thomas will demonstrate how this clandestine invasion of our consciousness came about, and how we can all decontaminate our psyche - while building a firewall around our consciousness to prevent any further incursions. Including exercises on right-brain enhancement, to teaching us to 'see' beyond the five sense matrix constructed to trap us, Thomas Sheridan delivers a spell-breaking opus to human psychological liberation as we stand on the cusp of new realities and potential.

THE TOWER MUST FALL

Puzzling People Now A Best Selling Title in Canada

2012-01-25T08:47:00.000-08:00

Lift the Veil Interview with Cari-Lee and Karen Sawyer

2012-01-22T09:26:00.000-08:00

Manchester - England - Feb 4, 2012

2011-12-31T14:07:00.001-08:00

Thomas Sheridan, author of the underground sensation Puzzling People: the Labyrinth of the Psychopath will be presenting his first UK all day master class on de-constructing the Babylon Mind which mass media and popular culture has left on our psyche.

Covering a wide range of critical subject matter from developing creativity, mythology, defense mechanics, consciousness parasites, natural philosophy, dreams, archetypes, symbolism, to maximizing neuro-plasticity, epigenetics, right and left brain training and much much more!.

Nothing like this has every been presented to a public audience before. The world is changing dramatically as we enter 2012 and we must be prepared!.

Thomas provides the practical toolkit to move from Babylon and into a more liberated and creative consciousness.

Dont miss! Thomas Sheridan Live at the Novotel Manchester M1 4lx Feb 04 2011
Tickets Available Now! at http://www.icanplanet.com/news.php

Celebrating 100 Years of Being Gaslighted by Modern Art.

2011-12-12T06:46:00.001-08:00

A urinal which Marcel Duchamp titled Fountain and signed "R. Mutt". It is regarded by the art establishment as a major landmark in modern art. Replicas commissioned by Duchamp in the 1960s are now on display in a number of different museums around the world.

Karla Blacks suspended paper and plastic sheeting, called What To Ask For Others, was shortlisted to win the 2011 Turner Prize - the world's most prestigious art competition.

The niece of a friend of mine was a brilliant and gifted young artist. She won a scholarship to one of the world's most prestigious art schools - where she presented a portfolio of her stunning drawings and watercolours. By the time she graduated, she had not picked up a brush or pencil in over a year and was stapling bird feathers to an old shipping pallet as her graduation work. She now works as a receptionist at a dental clinic.

The term "Gaslighting" is used to describe how a psychopath in a personal relationship with another person will slowly over time change the reality and perceptions of the individual they are targeting. A proficient psychopath will, in time, have a once perfectly stable and emotionally healthy person literally believing that black is white and up is down. Essentially, the psychology of the target has been altered in a way to accept what they see before their own eyes - is not what they once believed it to be.

One of the most effective forms of public gaslighting has been modern art. As a rule, I do not like to put down other artists work. But there seems to be almost a secret cabal between public bodies, art colleges, some artists and exhibition spaces/managers to fill these spaces with shock art or art which is as uninspiring as possible. The vast majority of public and corporate funding goes into promoting these forms of art - while gifted talented traditional artists have to beg private galleries to stock their work with commissions up to 50% on the sale price not uncommon.

I came upon one installation recently which was an old telephone on a table with a present day directory beside it. From the telephone there was a wire extending up to a glass box on the wall - which contained a life sized sculpture of the human ear made of the artist's own ear wax. I see this kind of thing is everywhere in public art spaces now - in fact, I can hardly recall a time when this sort of art did not fill public art spaces. Such "modern" art - from around the time of DaDa movement on - still continues to win all the art awards and the artists proclaimed as geniuses right to the present day. No other art movement in history has survived for so long.

The rationale used to defend this degradation of art is; that all expression should be free and unlimited. That the "concept" behind the work is more important than the artwork itself. Highly paid members of art councils, college professors and media will invoke "freedom of expression" and pontificate about the Nazis and the concepts of degenerate arts and "what it led too..." The irony being, that the greatest censorship in the art world today is by these same individuals against more traditional artistic expressions in terms of painting, drawing and sculpture.

As with everything on this face of this planet which makes no sense to most humans, there is always a underlying psychopathic rationale/drive for how this situation has come about. In this case, the degradation of the aesthetic, along with our notions of emotional resonance when viewing artwork - is being used to make corporate advertising more appealing.

The powers that be are gaslighting the rest of us by changing our perceptions - so corporate advertising looks more beautiful and uplifting than the art inside the galleries. When people visit spaces such as the Tate Modern in London to have their consciousness perverted, twisted and distorted into a mundane cul-de-sac of spiritually and emotionally vapid installations - they will come outside and see colourful advertisements. The psychological impact of the advertisement is then far more powerful on the viewer. Charles Saatchi of the global advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi, is also known worldwide as an art collector and owner of the Saatchi Gallery, and in particular for his sponsorship of the Young British Artists (YBAs), including Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin.

Edge of a Dream

2011-11-23T04:44:00.000-08:00

"Edge of a Dream" - Acrylic on Painted Edge Canvas - 2011
FOR SALE

A Warning from the Ancestors - Psychopaths in Folklore and Fairy Tales

2011-11-20T08:51:00.000-08:00

Recently, I received a message from a someone who read Puzzling People and they asked me this question: "Why are ALL fairy tales about psychopaths and psychopathic behavior?"

Mythology and folklore are really an early form of psychology. In a pre-scientific era - it was the only means by which average people could anchor their frustration and warnings to others regarding the Consciousness Parasites and other pathological predators within the material world - without having to rely exclusively on supernatural-religious concepts such as demons, succubi and so on. This was probably to avoid charges of witchcraft and blasphemy. So rather than deal with purely religious motifs - from around the Middle Ages on - the psychopath entered into the world of children's fairy tale.

Just about all European fairy tales from this period on are about psychopaths and psychopathic behaviour. How to recognise their traits, and deal with them. This is not by accident - a collective folk memory was generated in the guise of children's stories of wicked stepmothers, wolves disguised as kindly and familiar people turning out to be killers. This repository of pathological awareness was essentially the only option available to a mainly illiterate population of the time. A powerful method to warn others in such a way that would be passed on and without risking ridicule and censure - by application of a linguistic folk art to develop changes in the collective consciousness. Ultimately, this is what these fairy tales were attempting to achieve going forward - a warning of sorts. While also serving the function of an allegorical collective therapy session to heal past trauma within a community caused by psychopaths in the past.

An oral tradition retained within the tribal consciousness to keep the community's "spirits up". Their need to go to the trouble of creating a vast and complex canon of fairy tales - shows how people of the past knew they were dealing with something that wasn't fully human. These "uneducated" pre-Freudian folk were acutely aware that the mind contained different levels of awareness. Trauma was not always retained within the ego - but in "another mind" behind it. This also, in a collective senses, was linked to the overall emotional health and safety of the community at large.

Anyone who has ever been personally damaged by a psychopath - in a psychological sense - will freely admit that there is something unearthly about the experience. I myself have spoken to hardcore atheists who used terms such as "demonic" to describe the effects it had on them and how they rationalised the experience. They used terms such as demonic not because they were ignorant, superstitious, or lacked any erudite skills - but because it was all they had left in their intellect to deal with the psychological effects in terms of expressing what had been done to them.

The proliferation of the psychopath in European fairy tales just goes to show how serious the psychopath was taken by our ancestors. More tellingly, in terms of the written word and popular literature - not until the arrival of Bram Stoker's Dracula was the metaphor of the psychopath brought back into the popular consciousness. There wasn't much else in between in this regard.

Increasing levels of literacy among the population as a whole, then became a means whereby the Psychopathic Control Grid could essentially deny their own existence to the mass of the population. Filling their minds and expectations with impossible and doomed love stories and flowery epics. Were heroes unquestioningly sacrifice themselves willingly for the nobility and nation, and the toxic relationship was deemed "romantic".

Even today, Robert Hare spending 30 years studying this issue still came up with the term "Intra-Species" predator. If that does not conjure up a folklore image then I don't know what does.

Defeated Demons - New Book by Thomas Sheridan (Spring 2012)

2011-11-17T00:14:00.000-08:00

I am currently working on the follow-up book to Puzzling People: the Labyrinth of the Psychopath. The new book to be published by Velluminous Press in early Spring 2012 will be entitled, Defeated Demons: Reclaiming Your Freedom from Consciousness Parasites in Psychopathic Society. Above is the publisher's first draft cover, spine and back cover artwork - a nice mirror reversal from the previous book.

Rumitism - New Single by The Sulfur Factory

2011-11-10T16:21:00.000-08:00

Composed by Thomas Sheridan (guitar and vocals) - download on iTunes.

Sheela Na Gig

2011-11-05T05:31:00.000-07:00

Sheela Na Gig - Acrylic on Canvas - 2011

(FOR SALE)

This is my homage to the strange Sheela Na Gig statues and figures seen all over Ireland. I think their message is that a woman's body is a kind of sacred spaceship which allows the transfer of consciousness from this reality into another and vice versa. She is a transcendental doorway between dimensions. When well you think about it - when a women gives birth - she is really a kind of stargate delivering a being from the unconscious universe into this reality.

I think this is what these Sheela Na Gig statues all over Ireland and a few other countries are telling us.

How People Are Made - Song by The Sulfur Factory

2011-11-05T04:36:00.000-07:00

Composed by me and I am also on guitar and vocals. My friend Pete Kerr on bass and percussion.

Whizzing Eyes, that Taxidermist Smile
At Close Range, Our Energy Died
On Days Like this, I Can Believe you Exist
You're a Christian, a Philosopher, an Atheist, Alchemist (Yeah Right!)
We've had Enough of your Hard Luck Stories
Your Past Litany of Sell-By Date Glories
We Seen all the Masks and Now it's Time to See the Real you
You Can't Change Places as Well as you Once Did

(chorus)
And that's How People are Made
And that's How People are Made
But you're Not Made that Way

Isn't it Ironic or Even Strange
It is you who is the Crazy One, Calling Other's Deranged
Projection, don't ya Know is what we're Talking About
We Never Heard you Whisper, now you'll Hear us Shout

We've had Enough of your Social Status
Your Condescension, Arrogance and Patronising Stages
The Tower's Fallen Down with you Still Inside
As we Run Away to Face Another Sunrise

(chorus)

Pictures of Angels don't Make you a Saint
Smiling like a Clown, don't Make you Quaint
On Days Like this I Can't Believe you Exist
You're a Buddhist, a Pagan, a Terminal Absurdist

In the Past when People Hadn't Got a Clue
You had an Army of Enablers to Serivce and Indulge you
They have Seen the Masks and now the Real you
You can't Change Places as Well as you Once Did

(chorus X 2)

In Closing

2011-10-28T06:34:00.000-07:00

"In Closing" - Acrylic on Panel - 2011

(SOLD)

Peace on the Water

2011-10-26T05:50:00.000-07:00

Peace on the Water - fantasy landscape - watercolour on paper, 2009

(Private Collection)

The Ravens of March (Poetry by Thomas Sheridan)

2011-10-26T05:40:00.000-07:00

The Ravens of March - 2010
Illustrated Poem - Ink and Watercolour on Paper
PRIVATE COLLECTION

A one-off special piece done in the style of one of my heroes William Blake.

Fosebook - Summer 2010

2011-10-26T05:18:00.000-07:00

Originally devised by my friend Jenny and her husband Anders in Sweden - the collaborative blog Flowers of Sulfur is a breathing hole for unconventional offbeat poetry and art.

This publication contains pieces from poets and artists from all over the world who contribute and take part in this creative community. Included in this edition of fosebook is work from nooshin azadi, Jeremy Blomberg, Gerry Boyd, Nikki Dahlke, Amanda Deo, Megan Duffy, Anders Enochsson, Jenny Enochsson, Charles Farrell, Neil Robert Graf, Christine Gram, John Grochalski, Harlequin, Pisces Iscariot, Per-Olav Johnson, timmy t jones, jb krost, Hannah Miet, rhoda penmarq, The Scrybe, Francis Scudellari, Thomas Sheridan and A’keith Walters. All revenues from publications go to WWF.

Sligo Bay Sunrise

2011-10-26T05:00:00.000-07:00

Sligo Bay Sunrise - Acrylic on Canvas - 2010
(SOLD)

Ben Bulben as seen from the south beach at Mullaghmore on a winter's morning.

2011-10-26T04:58:00.001-07:00

Daybreak at the Lough - Watercolour on Paper - 2010
(SOLD)

Denial

2011-10-26T04:57:00.000-07:00

Denial - Acrylic on Tinted Paper - 2010
(SOLD)

Gaslight

2011-10-26T04:55:00.000-07:00

Gaslight (Book Illustration) Acrylic on Paper - 2010
(SOLD)

Morning Star

2011-10-26T04:47:00.000-07:00

Morning Star - 2006

(SOLD)

A very small acrylic study of a powerful new day.

Glencar Waterfall

2011-10-26T04:41:00.000-07:00

The Goddess of Glencar Waterfall - 2009
(SOLD)

Started painting this on location last IN 2009. Took it home to "finish" it, and decided it was perfect as it was. Just added my signature a few minutes ago and that was that. I had flatter her enough on the day and she is as beautiful as she is ever going to be. Well, in my eyes anyways.

Glencar Waterfall Natural Magic - 2010

(SOLD)

I painted this scene in 2010 and I returned again this summer to capture the waterfall from a different angle and during a different time of the day. I wanted to capture the effect of sun light pouring through the gaps in the trees at this most magical of places in Country Leitrim.

Accused

2011-10-26T04:30:00.000-07:00

Accused

by Thomas Sheridan - 2011
Ink, Watercolour, Acrylic and Gouache on Paper (A3)
(SOLD)

Death

2011-10-22T12:39:00.000-07:00

The Death Card (from Tarot Ravenfield - under development)

The Death Card is the thirteenth card of the Major Arcana and a card which people often find the most disturbing for obvious reasons. There is no getting around the fatalism of the motif, nor the symbolic meaning of the card itself.

However, the Death card does not automatically imply an actual death of a person. It most commonly signifies the metaphorical death of a part of our lives. Be it a relationship, or situation. As with all endings, a new beginning is assured. So we must look to the rising sun in the background and prepare to begin anew. Sometimes a part of us has to die in order for us to move on. I designed this card with the Grim Reaper exiting beyond the card boundary so as to imply that all death, both symbolic and literal, is inevitable. There is no escape. Endgame.

The Death card signifies in the upright position; Permanent Change, Severance, Profound Irreversibility and Elimination. Reversed; Grievance, Toxicity, and Total and Absolute Loss without the Benefit of a Learned Experience.

Two of Cups

2011-10-22T12:37:00.000-07:00

The Two of Cups Card (from Tarot Ravenfield - under development)

The Two of Cups is the card of romance, love and the coupling of the male and female aspects in a harmonious union.

The Two of Cups card signifies in the upright position; Romantic encounters, love, possible marriage and also the male and female aspects of the subconscious in perfect balance within the individual. Reversed; False love, immature infatuations and disjointed relationships.

Fortitude

2011-10-22T12:35:00.000-07:00

The Fortitude Card
from Tarot Ravenfield (Under Development)

The Fortitude card replaces the Strength card in traditional tarot decks and is the card representing the very embodiment of grace under pressure.

The Fortitude card in the upright position represents: courage, energy into action, dignified response to a challenging situation and use of magical powers/intuition to overcome difficulties. Reversed; same to a lesser degree.

The Last Tram Home

2011-10-22T12:27:00.000-07:00

Last Tram Home - 2006

(SOLD)

Another oldie from my Dublin days. Late night Red Line tram passes through the old city. The air smells of curry and fish and chips, while strangers stand in doorways out of the rain. A small watercolour painting on paper with some white gouache.

The Tollbridge

2011-10-22T12:22:00.000-07:00

The Toll Bridge - 2009

(SOLD)

My first painting in the Dreamscape series. Now has a good home in Dublin.

2011-10-22T12:20:00.000-07:00

Stars are Stars - Acrylic on Canvas, 2009

I love this painting and I will never sell it. Represents the summer of 2009 when I really started to become a good artist, leading me on the path of success - both in terms of profile and creativity.

Taking Card Stock

2011-10-22T10:28:00.000-07:00

Any of you who have been following my radio and TV interviews will be well aware that concepts such as psychology and human consciousness is a driving force in much of my work. This stems from the fact that my favourite subject to work on is well...eh 'me'. Not in any narcissistic sense. Anyways, about two years ago, out of the blue somebody comes up to me and says. "You do art and are interested in psychology right? You should have these!". What they handed me was a set of tarot cards. Now God love them I know they meant well but they were pretty shitty looking tarot cards that did nothing to spark my interest in the subject. They were a poor quality reprint of the Tarot De Marsellies. They looked like someone had pissed on them. Hardly inspiring.

So they sat there for a few weeks wondering what I was going to do with them. After a short personal fantasy of dressing myself up like a stage-Gypsy and charging women 10 Euros a shot to say things like "You will marry an effeminate, anal-retentive wuss with a high-pitched voice named Barry..." I had the idea of painting them...one by one. So I did. With acrylics and sealing them with gloss spray varnish.

OK, Now they were looking a bit more inspirational and something that I could develop an affinity with. I painted each card according to their meaning as I have a terrible memory for these things, especially as most of the cards had no images on them beyond swords, coins and batons.

Then I looked around on-line and discovered that both artists and psychologists do indeed use the tarot for its real purpose and that is to learn about oneself through a combination of intuition, self realisation and abstract processing. Now I was getting somewhere. So after a bit of study and some note taking I started experimenting with the Jungian Spread which was developed by Carl Jung.

The end result? Pretty fascinating and even though this is early days I see a real potential in using them to have a conversation with myself at a more sub conscious level and yes they have inspired me in my art. I have not looked into the divination aspect of the cards as it is hard for me to get beyond the obvious charlatanism of the fairground gypsy fortune teller in a caravan by the seaside. But even so, I am very much interested in the occult and esoteric subjects so who knows. I am certainly not closed minded about it and I might look pretty fetching in a silk bandanna and imitation gold bangles.

Reclaiming Red

2011-10-22T10:16:00.000-07:00

"Grattan Bridge Sunset (Dublin)" - Watercolour on Paper, 2006
(SOLD)

The Sun in recent years has lost a lot of the colour red from its spectrum and red is the dominant colour of power and control; Communism, Royalty, Fascism, Imperial Regalia and it is the colour of sexual violence.

If you look at shaded areas on a sunny days, they are not as purple as they used to be in the past. More blue now. Red is also a low frequency on the colour spectrum about 490 nm. Get out a prism and check for yourself. The red band is now a light blush pink.

Momma is getting ready for something.

A part of me wonders if the elites obsession with the colour red is directly related to the red end of the light spectrum of the sun? Is this why they are obsessed with the colour as part of their overall pathology? That the colour red is used to denote negativity, danger and control: Red Alert, Red Light District (control of female sexuality), Red Traffic Lights?

If you look at the catscan of a psychopath the colour red denotes intense electrical activity in brain and how we all process it. 96% of us who are not psychopath process our emotions in the frontal cortex which is basically our human brain. This is also were creativity, dreaming and cognitive processes happen. The frontal cortex in evolutionary terms developed literally overnight and seemingly around the same time as language and arts. Psychopaths on the other hand have a suppressed frontal cortex but they process electrical activity all over their brains in a random and ad-hoc manner. They barely used their "human" brain. Now where this gets interesting is our frontal cortex is the part of the brain which absorbs sunlight when we face with sun and why it feels so nice to us.

The elites seem to have an issue with the sun almost as it they are scared of it. They are pushing the idea of it causing cancer and so on when it is one of the most healthy things you can do for your body. They are building underground bases... I could go on but you get the idea.

I have been using a lot of red in my paintings of late too and maybe the time has come to reclaim the colour red for the good of the world and take it back from the controllers?

Hold a magnifying glass above a colour illustration from a book which has red isolated objects such as poppies or apples in a painting and notice how the red projects forward off the background image like they are 3D. No other colour does this. Red literally moves forward in space time and reaches our visual cortex a fraction of second before we detect other colours.

Lets take back the colour red.

Back to Monto

2011-10-22T10:09:00.000-07:00

In my childhood, Ireland of the 1970s, women were either worshipped mothers or "quare ones" waiting to be shagged. That was their entire function in Irish society during this era. If a woman was independent or creative she was considered either naive and silly - or out of control and needed to be given a hysterectomy and a few Valium to shut her up.

For years I could never understand why the Irish nation and culture with its centuries of tradition of pagan goddess, warrior queens, pirate goddess and sexually liberated Molly Bloom's could of been perverted to the point were women were considered only good for babies and knitting.

A few years back, I was researching into the history of the Monto region of Dublin - which was Europe's largest red light district until the 1920s - when a Catholic Freemasonry group went into the area and "saved" the women in there. What was interesting about this neighbourhood, was that despite Monto being in the middle of the poorest district of the city - the economic and social power of these fallen women was impressive for the time. Much of the resentment against the prostitutes was based on their economic status. The speeches made by catholic and protestant church leaders against the women of Monto was often about them "parading around in their fancy attire like respectable wives of barristers and doctors..."

Not only was there a resentment against their sexual freedom, but also that Monto was basically a female run society. All the bordellos were run by women. Some of them almost mythological figures in themselves: Bella Cohen, Kitty Ricketts and Oblong Annie. These women also wielded considerable political power. The politicians were regular customers, as were the clergy. The Nighttown section of Joyce's Ulysses is set in a Monto brothel and he alludes to this.

Eventually, the Legion of Mary went in and shut the place down and implemented the "Holy Catholic Ireland" which culminated in attitudes towards women which I grew up with. Thank god for them perverted and hypocritical catholic priests undermining the power of the Vatican in Ireland - so we could finally get rid of this mindset in the 1990s.

The Absurdity of the Psychopath

2011-10-22T09:48:00.000-07:00

It is very important to never let one forget how completely absurd and pathetic psychopaths are on top of everything else. This is the best way to remove any kind of psychological hold they have over people.

Openly hating them for the rest of your life is the worst thing to do - as it just keeps the parasite embedded constantly in your mind while feeding the psychopath's need for attention. However, laughing at them liberates your consciousness from any kind of negative psychological bondage they may have inflicted upon you.

They are all the same parasite manifesting in different bodies. Matters not what culture, gender, economic status or anything else. They are all the same. You can literally set your clock by them, they are so predictable. After a while, these predictable patterns make them seem like almost Mr Bean type individuals and not the dynamic, 'hot-shot', movers and shakers they love to think of themselves as being. The image they constantly try to project to the rest of the world.

What does their persona switching - when moving from one target to another - say about them apart from the obvious predatory nature of doing such things? It tells us that there is NOTHING in there. Psychopaths spend their entire existence trying to prevent the rest from discovering this. They are the perfect equilibrium of zero.

I believe that is what upsets us most of all - when the sheer vacous, malignant buffonery of the psychopath who damaged us, finally hits home. Having wasted so much time on energy on a pointless vacuum of singular nothingness and perfect absurdity.

The "Empowered" Whore Archetype Destroying the Feminine

2011-10-22T08:53:00.000-07:00

Mass media is too powerful/invasive and has led to the destruction of the feminine aspect of Western culture - which once represented wisdom and nurturing, and replaced it with "empowering" whore archetypes such as the airbrushed, nymphomaniac dregs on shows like Sex and the City. This has derailed Western society away from notions of feminine wisdom towards a completely superficial narcissistic bling-culture-on-herpes-medication in heavy Max Factor packaging. Because this is how the present psychopathic mainstream considers women to be.

Society should be female - currently, society is a psychopathic male in terms of what it delivers to all of us.

This damages both men and women - as most men today expect a woman to be a tart, and many women seek and marry plastic surgeons in the hope of not being discarded. So Western society has become increasingly misogynistic even with the success of women's lib and so on. A man can not marry a woman who is intelligent, loving and secure unless she is also "hot" - likewise, women are coached to look for men who will finance their media driven delusions of what being beautiful is. The rest of us are discarded for not being superficial enough. Psychopaths control the mass media and this insanity has distorted a lot of the population to emulate this pathology as the new norm.

The male psychopaths in charge are Gaslighting women through the media - while turning men into adult children. The spiritual vacuum (and I am not talking religion here at all) left in many people is filled with a distorted sense of self. If your soul has been made empty, you will seek to fill it with nothing of any value regardless of the price tag, or what pointless social status it furnishes you with.

We need to shut the Psychopathic Control Grid down through awareness and creative non-compliance. Then we will get the society we deserve.

Bridget Jones is not cute, charming or symbolic of modern womanhood. She is a vapid, stupid mess and this is what the ones charge want - makes women easier to control and buy stuff to try and repair the dysfunctionality mass media has created in the first place.

Stay Positive - All Relationships are Ultimately Just Learning Experiences About Yourself

2011-10-22T06:20:00.000-07:00

I think one of the reasons my work on psychopaths resonates with so many people - is that I come from a relaxed and non fearful/non-vendetta driven viewpoint when tackling the subject.

People who watch my videos often tell me my relaxed and sometimes humours approach when dealing with psychopaths is very appealing, healing for them personally - and helps gets this information out there. It also appears to infuriate psychopaths, as they would prefer me to be some kind of loser/social failure lashing out at the world. Another aspect of my work is that psychopaths are A PART of my work and not the primary focus of what I came here to do: which is to create as much art, and share my spiritual/philosophical outlook as much I possibly can with people who are ready to hear it. I am also most fortunate to enjoy an amazingly interesting life surrounded by wonderful, beautiful friends and other interesting people whom I come to know and cherish.

I really only want to spread knowledge and help good people enjoy their lives. I have been fortunate in my own life to have only one female relationship whom I would consider to be a psychopath looking back on it now. This was during a brief period in my early 20's while playing in a rock band in New York. Since then, I have been fortunate in that all my romantic relationships with women were very positive for the most part.

I have had the normal ups and downs, sure. I have been hurt and I have hurt others - but this is par for the course during any person's relationship history. So many people have difficulty accepting reality when it confronts them, and rather than come to terms with dealing with failure and rejection - some will deflect their own neurosis on to others. Sadly, emotionally distraught people calling a normal person "a psychopath" as a coping mechanism does indeed happen. Anything to avoid looking honestly at themselves. This is not the same as when a psychopath implements a vicious smear campaign on a discarded individual. When a psychopath does this it is not out of hurt or anger. It is a strategic, tactical assassination of the other person's character. So when the psychopath calls this person. "insane", "jealous", "a bitter person lashing out at me and my happiness", "needs psychological counselling/medication" - the psychopath is doing this to take eyes off them and their own nefarious behaviour and predatory intent as they move from one discarded person to the next target.

The one stunningly beautiful, female psychopath (a fashion model) I knew in my youth was only for a short, one month-long whirlwind of intensive sex and excitement and then it was suddenly and brutally over - and it messed me up for years. She has, from what I gather, spent her entire adult life this way. Typical psychopath. There is a major difference between being a troubled and self-absorbed human being and being a psychopath. Only psychopaths see themselves as perfect and view humans as energy devices to be used up and discarded.

My own primary psychopathic experiences was due to my family background and also having worked with them in major corporations and political groups. So my books, videos and lectures are not driven by a need to get revenge on some former partner (which I have no problem with people doing to expose their psychopathic Ex as it ultimately spreads awareness of the issue). I only want to understand what went on and how, and why it affected me so profoundly. This 'casual' approach to the subject of psychopaths has worked very well for me, and I would hope that once people get over the initial trauma left in the wake of a relationship or having been targeted by a psychopath - that they would make sure to restore everything that was once good about them and then learn from the experience.

The best way to live following an encounter with a psychopath is to LIVE WELL. Because Living Well Really is the Best Revenge. Don't let the psychopath rob you of your potential for happiness. It takes about two years to fully recover from the experience. After that, take this valuable knowledge you have gained and reenter the world and view society with fresh, cynical and non fearful eyes. You will find your life becoming more richer and rewarding that you could imagine.

Fateless

2011-10-22T04:28:00.000-07:00

Fateless - 2009

(FOR SALE HERE)

One for Sorrow, Two for Joy

2011-10-22T04:24:00.001-07:00

One for Sorrow, Two for Joy - 2007
(SOLD)

"One for Sorrow, Two for Joy, Three for a Girl and for for a Boy" which in the old Anglo/Celtic context was used to count Magpies and assign a symbolic meaning to their number. As children if we saw only one magpie we would frantically look around for another in order to move from "sorrow" to "joy" - to be honest, even now I still do this.

I was delighted when the person who purchased the original of this painting gave it to a young couple as a wedding present. Perfect synchronicity. She did not even know the meaning, nor had ever heard the original poem.

The Are So Clever, Wise and Learned...

2011-10-22T04:13:00.001-07:00

When we first encounter psychopaths, we are often fooled into thinking they are fairly intellectual, well read and wise. This could be due to them creating the right image - such as carrying around a book of Thomas Paine quotes. They regurgitate off a little about genetics picked up from a newspaper or Discovery Channel. They are the pontificating experts, and will carefully place the Richard Dawkins or Carl Sagan book on their desk in order to present to their potential targets visual proof of their great intellectual understanding.

They will talk down to you for not being as wise and learned as they themselves are. However, when you question them on their chosen scholarly path with any depth or real insight regarding how much they really know, the psychopath will change the subject. This ALWAYS involves a combination or ridicule, deflection and condescension.

As soon as one realises the psychopath is actually an intellectual midget hiding behind a facade of quotes and other people's opinions, then the psychopath begins a form of psychological bullying to imply it is you who are the stupid one. For instance, if you read a book on UFO's ten years ago just out of curiosity, the psychopath will glibly and condescendingly comment that "ha ha, you believe in little green men!" and so on.

The entire strategy to deflect from their own shallow intellectual state as they are incapable for the most part of developing any intellectual or even balanced approach to researching any issue or subject. They pick the side which makes them look good in the eyes of those whom they are manipulating. If you ever really listen to what a psychopath pontificates upon you - it is always someone else's opinions - often delivered in a self-satisfied smugness as if the psychopath was some kind of latter day Oscar Wilde and not the creepy, patronising, charlatan they really are inside.

Even so, when others become wise to their underlying imbecile nature, the psychopath will still arrogantly parade themselves as being “scientific”, "rational" and general paragons of intellectual virtue - regardless of their lack of proper qualifications, or even having read with any great depth into the chosen subject. It is all window dressing wrapped up in grandiosity. In most cases the psychopaths hasn't the faintest clue about what they are talking about. It is just the right words to be regurgitated for the targeted gullible ears.

Psychopathic Parents

2011-10-22T04:02:00.001-07:00

"I love my children more than life itself...
(because they are MINE, for now.)"

Psychopaths—regardless of playing Super Parent for the masses—generally find their children a pain and a drain on their time and attention since they really don’t want them for anything except power and control over the other parent or to take care of the psychopath in their old age.

Many people who were raised by psychopathic parents, along with the reports of people who had children with a psychopathic spouse constantly report the same experience: that the psychopath shows little or no direct meaningful and nurturing interest in their children. They will however, proclaim to all and sundry what magnificent parents they are even when it is obvious to all around them that they have either an neglectful, abusive or even sexual interaction with their own offspring.

THE REVISIONIST PSYCHOPATHIC PARENT

Your psychopath parent who may have abused and neglected you as a child may—years later when you are an adult and in front of others—glibly claim that you were ‘spoiled’ and were ‘treated like a little prince or princess’ when you were under their care. It will be stated in such a way that you are somehow not grateful for this, or unaware of how lucky you were to have such a magnificent parent. You have memories of none of this and can only recall being deprived proper care and parenting along with long periods of abuse and neglect.

Because they have heard the story repeated so many times growing up, younger members of the family may then begin to validate your psychopathic parent’s version of your own personal history. You then begin to wonder if you imagined all the abuse and neglect. Having no witnesses other than the psychopathic parent further compounds your self-doubt while validating the psychopath’s lies and fabrications. These abusive parents may even go on to champion themselves publicly as defenders of children’s rights and welfare as their own abused child or children looks on in disbelief.

THE "BENEVOLENT" PSYCHOPATHIC FATHER

In any household where the father figure is a psychopath he will be constantly alluding to ‘how lucky his children are that he puts food on the table and clothes on their backs’. A non-psychopathic father will just feed and clothe his children as a simple aspect of normal human behaviour and parental obligations, and won’t demand his children ‘worship his benevolence for keeping them alive’. The psychopathic father will foster and enforce a form of distorted gratitude within his children that they are very lucky that he does not let them starve to death and it is only his goodness which prevents them from starving...

It is also not uncommon with a psychopathic father to implement the silent treatment on a target child who is not ‘playing the game’ to the requirements of their deranged patriarchal self-glorifying agenda. This can happen if the child starts getting wise to the fact the psychopathic father figure is not the glorious, infallible domestic hunter-gatherer godhead they view themselves as being. When the psychopathic father suspects they are not unconditionally worshiped by the child they will most likely perceive this as a threat or an attempt to ‘usurp the throne’. The child then becomes a target of the psychopath and will thus be declared ‘a liability’ within the family structure and given the silent treatment, usually during the most emotionally-sensitive and insecure stages of their teenage years when they are the most psychologically vulnerable.

This sometimes leads to the distraught child turning to drugs or committing suicide, precisely what the psychopathic parent wanted when they implemented the silent treatment —particularly on a teenage son or daughter. The psychopath can then play the grieving parent in order to further their agendas with others in future.

The Shock of the New (Persona) - "Heroes" Hard-Wired to Betray You.

2011-10-22T03:57:00.001-07:00

EXPLAINING THE "WTF!" MOMENT WHICH SUDDENLY ARRIVES.

Invented Personas to Manipulate Others

Psychopaths are a different version of themselves for every person they interact with. They also have ‘group personas’ for family, organisational and workplace interaction.

Highly Unreliable/Broken Promises

Psychopaths will make the most incredibly ambitious plans including you as their right hand man or woman then, on a whim, discard those plans and move on to some other crusade that excludes you. Victims often alter their own life plans to help the psychopath reach their imaginary goals, resulting in appalling emotional, psychological and financial chaos for the victims when the psychopath moves on.

Idealisation Followed by Cold Rejection

At the height of their idealisation of you, the psychopath will show you obsessive ‘love,’ care and attention. However, once they feel they have you where they want you — or the relationship has ended — if you collapsed in front of them on the street they would simply step over you as if they’d never met you and continue on their way. Outrageous smear campaigns against the discarded victims to falsely portray them as psychologically unstable, self-serving liars or abusers are often undertaken by psychopaths following the ending of a relationship.

Becomes Obsessed with a Hobby, Cause, or Individual and then Loses Interest Instantly

However, as soon as the relationship is established, the downward trajectory from idealisation of their victims and towards the inevitable devaluation and discarding begins in earnest. It may take weeks. It may take months. It often takes years. Nevertheless the psychopath always begins the devaluing of their victims as soon as the relationship is legitimised and is always on the lookout for an ‘upgrade’.

Phoney Altruism

Buys into either secular and non-secular belief systems to appear superior or enlightened. Will align themselves with ‘morally popular’ causes to make themselves appear enlightened and with a sense of deep moral wisdom and compassion. But it is always a pose; the psychopath’s association with these causes is a veneer to fool others into trusting them. It’s always fake; always an agenda.

There is Nothing Real Behind the Persona

Behind the months or years of perfectly-constructed performance by your psychopath is a nothing: a void, a blank, a hunger for something the psychopathic entity can never define. They now see no further benefit in playing this part and have moved on to a new role. It is just business. You are treated to a completely new, cold and emotionless persona. “Who is this stranger?” you will ask yourself over and over again. It is so bewildering.

The Sudden Goodbye

Then the psychopath finds an upgrade, changes their persona, will often change their look, hairstyle and even change the subject when they suspect others are figuring them out and you begin asking questions. "Hey, never mind that, it is lovely weather we are having!" Stated in a chipper and almost giddy manner (with an obvious underlying glibness). They are repressing the internal excitement at having pulled a fast one on you.

The psychopath is literally filled with an adrenalin rush which lights up their whole facial expression with a gigantic self-satisfied grin - while the people the psychopath has stabbed in the back are expected to "get a life FFS..."

The psychopath then mocks, ridicules and backstabs the people whom they "loved" only days prior and are now left in a state of chaos and confusion. Along with more glib statements as if "everything is OK". Then the psychopath generally goes into hiding for a short while from their victims and emerges with a new life, relationship, in another country/region in a completely whole new persona and a new mask of manipulation and social sanity. This was the new persona which the psychopath had been clandestinely crafting behind the scenes.

It is essentially an internal psychotic rampage hidden behind platitudes of "time to move on" and other superficial pontifications to hide that this is a completely deranged predator working their new "target" while dehumanising and discarding the ones whom they have no further requirement for. This is what leaves people in such shock - until they start to realise what they were in fact dealing with all along. A psychopath.

Then your political hero, social activist, revolutionary, celebrity, cult-of-personality hero (persona) moves on as if the previous persona never existed - but it is always their undoing as they assume they are smarter than the people whom they have manipulated and fooled into their cult-of-personality. Which is why they always insult and mock the ones who supported, championed and loved them as the psychopath walks away. This is always their fatal flaw. Their testosterone-charged impulsive self destruct button. They get cocky and their God Complex goes into overdrive and everyone sees it for what it is. Endgame.

BOTTOM LINE: "You are the One You Have Been Waiting For." Stop Externalising Your Incredible Personal Potential to External Forces.

End of April to the End of June - The Parasite Attaches Itself to a New Host

2011-10-22T03:50:00.000-07:00

Since the publication of Puzzling People: the Labyrinth of the Psychopath I have received large numbers of emails from people and certain underlying threads in terms of possibly useful anecdotal evidence seems to be emerging. This has been culled from their personal experiences which aside from the striking similarity present in how they were targeted and manipulated - is also yielding interesting seasonal and even possible moon phases related material which should be worthy of further study.

The Destructive Buds of May

One of these interesting correlations being that victims usually find out what they were dealing with during Spring (in the Northern Hemisphere). The psychopath either instantly moves on or jumps ship during this period. Between the end of April and end of June it would appear to be the months when the psychopath embarks on their next psychopathic feeding frenzy. This can come in the form of a male psychopath finally moving in for the female victim he has been grooming all winter on the Internet, or a female psychopath becoming the "soul mate" of some new target and moving into his house as soon as she can rent a delivery truck and talk of "putting Viagra in your Alzheimers medications when we are in the retirement home together." This to imply she is in this for the long haul in the subconscious mind of the target.

It is hard to say for certain if this Psychopath Springtime can be scientifically validated. One thing is for certain and that is psychopaths have a very real connection to natural cycles which are very different from that of non dis-ordered people. While a normal person might make contingency in terms of fuel and food to deal with the cold winter months, the psychopathic parasite will generally use the long winter nights to source and groom the next target who will feed, clothed and house them the following winter. As soon as the buds of Spring come forth the psychopath responds to the change in the weather in much the same way a bacteria or virus requires warm weather to come alive and destroy the host from within.

Things to look out for in psychopaths during Springtime:

A general downgrading of the previous relationship.
Condescension and ridicule of previous partners and organisations.
An increase in the sob stories.
Mentioning of new friends out of the blue.
Subtle passive-aggressive attacks on current hosts and targets.
Clandestine business meetings and trips to see sick relatives.
Money issues.
Suddenly taking a very enthusiastic interest in subjects they never bothered with before or even ridiculed previously

Then sometime between late April and late June our hero or heroine suddenly jumps like a tape worm in a piece of undercooked pork into the new intestinal tract of their instant "beloved", "soul mate", "special one" and "realisations", "political beliefs" and the parasitic cycle begins all over again.

The "Charitable" Psychopath - A Strategic Investment in Public Virtue

2011-10-22T03:47:00.000-07:00

In my book Puzzling People: the Labyrinth of the Psychopath I go into detail about how these manipulators will give money to charity in a very public manner in order to win trust with potential targets during the 'Ice Breaking Stage'. It is a form of material flattery. Psychopaths can at times seem incredibly charitable and will lavish large amounts of money and gifts upon others. But we have to keep in mind that a psychopath sees this "altruism" purely as an investment and not anything else.

When a psychopath states they are trying to level their karma - they mean it literally. They are not on any kind of path of spiritual enlightenment. It is just business.

A psychopath will weigh up the options and then make a large donation to charity, or give a house away to a homeless family and do it in a very public manner so that when others are finally wising up to what this predator is really all about, someone will remark. "How could he be a psychopath, he gave 10,000 to AIDS research!" or "How could she be a psychopath she gave her house to a homeless immigrant family!"

This is the reason and the only reason the psychopath ever indulged in this generosity to begin with: a form of virtue insurance for the future which looks great in court and buys off the gossip just as soon as people are waking up to the parasite in their midst.

Psychopaths will also, during the idealisation and targeting stage, spare no expenses in wooing a potential victim (and sometimes their children/close family) with lavish gifts and large amounts of cash. But this is exclusively viewed as an investment towards the overall agenda of altering the target's consciousness in order to make them easier to manipulate.

At the end of the day when all is said and done, and every possible dynamic/option has be exhausted this "charity" and "generosity" is just a cretinous ruse to con others.

This could be anything from a psychopathic, suddenly "Gay" husband coming out of the closet and leaving his wife devastated - she also has to pick up the financial mess in his wake while he is playing the "out of the closet" hero. To an elderly psychopath who needs a place to live and you are reminded about the time they did "this and that for others". They will cough, suddenly feel faint, twitch or shiver on queue, or bring up their heart condition, cancer just to add more emotional punch to their devious agenda. Just business.

A psychopath is in this regard a cunning and ruthless financial speculator and yet, like every other aspect of the psychopath's existence this talent is directed towards the wrong purpose in terms of manipulating others within the short term - as opposed to becoming a legitimate successful business person for the long run. The psychopath always looks for the easy way out, and very often large gifts to charity along with superficial acts of charity are quick social insurance devices and nothing else.

This is also why psychopaths are drawn to professions such as vets, nursing, elderly, special needs carers, overseas aid workers, missionary, religious orders and so on - as it feeds the public image of a selfless, compassionate "carer" - when it is just a shifty grifter on the prowl looking for opportunities and easy targets under a cloak of superficial piety. With a psychopath there is no such thing as genuine giving and caring - it is always taking and using.

Amazing Photo from Traveller Evictions in the UK

2011-10-19T09:03:00.000-07:00

I can't source who is the pantographer who captured this incredible image of the evictions of Travellers at Dale Farm in England.

The Sulfur Factory Record Out on 11/11/11

2011-10-18T15:18:00.000-07:00

My band here in Ireland The Sulfur Factory release the single Rumitism written by me. A middle eastern flavoured dance track with me on guitar and vocals.

Most Times A Creep is Just a Creep.

2011-10-17T09:24:00.000-07:00

Not Everyone Who Has Wronged You is a Psychopath

"Recovery" - Thomas Sheridan 2005

Be Fair, Emotionally Neutral and Be Honest with Yourself

I cannot stress enough that one should not declare a person to be a "psychopath" unless you are completely sure you have fairly and honestly evaluated them with as much emotional neutrality as possible. The label "psychopath" is essentially stating that they are not a proper human being.

Putting this tag on anyone—no matter much they may have wronged you—must not be taken lightly. A psychopath is the human psychological version of a tapeworm. It gets inside a person, family, organisation, workplace, company or government and feeds on the energy of the normal people around "it" depriving them of their sense of self and their emotional/psychological and often financial security. Even so, not every lowlife and manipulator is a psychopath. Most times a creep is just that, a creep.

Not every person who makes our lives miserable, acts like a creep, a serial womaniser, gets elected, runs a major corporation or engages in criminal activities is a psychopath

In the early days of recovery from an encounter it can become only too convenient to claim that anyone who has ever wronged you is or was a psychopath. We must bear in mind that over ninety-five percent of the human race are not psychopaths. A good number of these people have done terrible things in their lives, but they are still not psychopaths because they still retain the desire for redemption.

Psychopaths are no more than 4% of the population. However, the damage and misery they inflict on others is enormous so they can seem to be everywhere. They are not. Most people you will meet will mean you no harm, nor have any desire to exploit, manipulate, hurt, damage or use you. Keep this in mind.

However, people who have been genuinely affected by a psychopath who passed through their lives know precisely what they were dealing with after a period inner reflection/revelation/discoveries in the aftermath and they have no doubts they were dealing with a psychopath all the time—but never came fully to terms with it until it was too late. These sincere victims need support and understanding and not to be judged or told to "get over it!" or worse still "you bought this all on yourself..."

Life is really good once we transcend the Psychopathic Control Grid. It is almost like being reborn a wiser, mature and a more complete person. What happens to the psychopath who damaged you is no concern of yours. They are history and never coming back.

NO CONTACT EVER AGAIN

No contact also applies to toxic or negative people whom you can't be comfortable around, including psychopaths. Being around these people has serious health implications.

Our time on this planet is short. Your job is to look after yourself and find the countless millions of wonderful people out there to share your life with. They are waiting for you. So stay positive, friendly and wise.

The painting at the top of this post was inspired by a neighbour of mine who was recovering from cancer and everyday I watched her walk a slightly longer distance up the road until one day she was well enough to reach the crossroads at the end of the village. I found her so inspiring and learned so much from this ordinary woman of what the human spirit is capable of overcoming.

Talbot Street After the Rain

2011-10-17T09:19:00.000-07:00

Talbot Street (Dublin) After the Rain

Acrylic on Canvas 2009

Requiem for a Former Ice Age

2011-10-17T08:51:00.000-07:00

Astronomy

Acrylic on Canvas - 2009

Someone Elses Dream

Acrylic on Canvas - 2009

Remains Unspoken

Acrylic on Canvas - 2010

The Karma Collection~

Acrylic on Canvas - 2009

Meteroites

Acrylic on Canvas - 2010

Point Pleasant, West Virginia 1967

2011-10-17T02:53:00.000-07:00

The inspiration for these two paintings came from reading John Keel's 1976 book The Mothman Prophecies which recounted the bizarre and surreal events which took place in a small town in West Virginia between 1966 and 1967. Reading about these events and the effect they had on ordinary people in Point Pleasent, left me wondering if some kind of clandestine mind control experiment was being performed on the local residents, perhaps using LSD in the local food or water supply? In 1951, the CIA performed just such an experiment on the French town of Pont-Saint-Esprit - so there is a precedent for such appallingly inhuman experiments being performed on unknowing citizens. After reading John Keel's fascinating book I was left wondering if these experiments continued into the mid 1960's on US soil?

The Distraction at Point Pleasant, West Virginia November 1967

Acrylic on Canvas - 2010

Mission Statement at Point Pleasant, West Virginia December 1967
Acrylic on Canvas - 2010

The Ishtar Gate

2011-10-16T08:47:00.000-07:00

"The Ishtar Gate" experimental psychedelic mixed media and effects on canvas. 2011

My hope is to someday create an entire room like this from floor to ceiling - a sort of consciousness chamber people can enter with the lights on and by using certain tones and frequencies which play as the lights dim slowly - except for candles here and there. The music fades away and all the left is the "waking dream". I would imagine it could help people suffering from stress/emotional issues too. At the very least it would be relaxing and meditative. Just a beautiful space for the soul to soar.