Pop Apocalypse

For episode two, we welcome Laurence Caruana, one of the leading figures in the European visionary art world. We discuss the ontology of dreams, Henry Corbin, ayahuasca visions, the language of images, Jesus in the Nag Hammadi Library, the ascent of the soul at death, and Laurence’s plan for an Apocryphon Chapel based on the ancient gnostic scriptures. 

Laurence Caruana is a visionary artist, novelist, historian, and teacher. His paintings have been exhibited from Seattle to Hungary. Laurence has written several books, including Enter through the Image: The Ancient Image Language of Myth, Art, and Dreams, the novel The Hidden Passion, and most recently Sacred Codes, an exploration of sacred geometry and imagination in the history of art. He founded and directed the Vienna Academy of Visionary Art from 2013-2020, and is now working on the Apocryphon Chapel, the first such chapel to be modeled on the ancient Gnostic scriptures. 

Pop Apocalypse CSWR homepage

Laurence Carauna's webpage

The Apocryphon Chapel

April DeConick webpage

Gnosis in Song and Rhythm

Secret Chiefs 3 homepage

Henry Corbin, The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism, Alone with the Alone 

Elliott Wolfson, Through a Speculum that Shines, A Dream Interpreted Within a Dream

Charles Stang, Our Divine Double. 

For our premier episode, we welcome the visionary artists Alex and Allyson Grey. We discuss Alex and Allyson’s early performance art, the ecstatic experiences behind their paintings, the history of their Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, and the culture-shift around psychedelics in the last twenty years.

* Alex Grey's personal website

* Alex Grey's Instagram page

* Allyson Grey's personal website

* Allyson Grey's Instagram

* The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors website

* Music by Secret Chiefs 3

* Artwork by Kristie Welsh