Human Art, AI and the realms of the Imagination

I seldom get inspiration from Modern Art, as we would call it. When I say Modern Art, I mean anything from the Sensational period up to now, so from the 80s through to today. That might seem extreme to anybody reading this, but I've just taken no inspiration from modern art, but lots from the field of 'Illustration'. Of course, I appreciate other people's work. I can appreciate what they've created. I can appreciate their skill and their attention to detail. Absolutely, I can appreciate it all! There are much better painters than myself out there in the world that are making all sorts of fantastic art. But in terms of 'subject matter', give and take one or two other esoteric artists, I genuinely feel like I'm on my own with what I've been trying to do as an artist/illustrator over the years; see my 2021 illustrated book, The Dr. Covid Universe, as an example. This is the true nature of 'vision'.

I think the creative arts are being ‘policed’, but it's not policed in the way that we think it's being policed. Apart from the suspect 'Facebook' Police and political tyrannies imposing on creatives over the centuries (from Renaissance-religious 'propoganda' through to China today), policemen do not police art as such; ‘unseen forces’ (other levels of reality) do. Sometimes, you have situations as an artist where you're tapping into a 'subject matter', and if I've gone into an otherworldly state, to be able to get information, sometimes you find there are attempts to 'block' you, based on what you're trying to see and express. Often based on an immediate feeling of euphoria where you're going into another level of reality, where you feel like you're freeing yourself of something - the 'unseen' forces kick in to prevent such freedom unfolding.

Windows into Worlds

I had an incident years ago where I'd woken up 'inside' a dream with what felt like an entity trying to attach itself to me. Without going into great detail, I moved the entity away from me. But before this occurred, before I actually woke up, I had this real sense of freedom, like I was about to break through a window into another reality. It wasn't a tunnel; there wasn't a light in the tunnel, or a location talked about in NDEs. It was almost like 'sliding' open a window on your house (or looking through a cinema screen) and realizing that you could just step out of it into a vast endless landscape. Even if you were high up, it wouldn't matter; you'd just step out of it, and you were into something else much higher in frequency. There was no limitation here. The window was the limitation; your perception, the small area you were seeing through, is the limitation. As soon as that window's gone, then everything comes into view. Everything you can see comes into view instantly. Just at that point where you're about to break into this sense of freedom, this 'spiritual freedom', for want of a better word, just at that point of ‘liberation’, the best way I can describe it was feeling like a sudden arrival of a ‘quiet before the storm’. You know that feeling, just before the storm is about to erupt with the first crack of lightning, the dark sky looms. In what felt like a nanosecond, a dark cloud-like smoke spiraled out of the sky heading towards me. It tried to attach itself to my heart area trying to stop me from going through this astral window moving out of the movie world, breaking out of the 4^th Dimension (astral), into somewhere else, a world with no limits.

Art and our creative use of our energy, can take us into these places where we can step out of a very narrow perception, through the window and beyond.

During this dream-like sequence I'd felt something trying to ‘attach to me’, and I woke up, pulled it off, even threw it off. When I woke up that morning, there was a big black spider on the floor, on the other side of the bed. It was huge, dead on its back with its legs upwards almost petrified. Some people would say, "Oh, Neil, you had a spider crawl on you in bed." And I probably did. But the point is, the 'physical world' (or the five-sense world), there would have been a spider crawling on me while asleep, it happens I am sure. The 'physical' event could have translated it into a 'dreamscape', including me throwing something off me, which was probably the spider, and having that image of the swirling smoke in the window and not being able to break out, could have been a dream? Yet, it doesn't mean that the dream wasn't real, as real as can be. Because, when we think about what the Aboriginals and other native cultures said over the years, "the dream is real", along with parallel realities that constitute the dreamtime. We spend a lot of time asleep; so where are we? What are we doing? Reality for me is whatever you want it to be. You can have a life in this reality, and you can have a life in a dreamscape simultaneously. They're both as valid as each other in terms of 'art and creativity' and the realms of the imagination. And that's what makes an artist stand out in terms of their energy, not necessarily their technical ability, or work, but their connection to the dream, or being limited by the perception of what is real and what isn't real. Human art, in it multitude of forms, is the last vestage of the imagination.

Times of Change

Since 2022 I have sensed a change in time lines as the astral world (the movie screen/window) has merged more readily with our collective virtual world - the one we see with our brain everyday. The dream experience I mentioned above was a sign of the coming shift, from fear based living (the spider), to heart based living, I feel. Time is also speeding up, and from an artistic point of view, I've noticed that AI is now taking more and more traditional, or commissioned work from artists as people are using AI to do the tasks a human would do (even if some tech/software was involved). The trillions of images living in the collective AI ‘cloud’, based on what's already been put into the 'artificial intelligent mind', is directing image creation in the human world. Just as the astral AI mind is interfering with human perception at times. Artificial Intelligence is a tool at the machine level, but it's becoming so very self-aware, it will eventually edit, dictate and create what we perceive to be reality. AI is meant to fully merge with humanity therefore its introduction in our timeline is to go beyond being a work tool. It's meant to form a primal, emotional, and even sexual bond with humans.

It will be important for artists to ‘mark’ their work as not having any AI input as the years unfold, especially as artificial intelligence claims more work, jobs and creative practices beyond 2035.

In terms of timelines, I went through a major transformation in 2022 where I saw a ‘future version’ of myself arrive in this current 3D timeline. I fund it harder to channel my art as AI became more active. Yet, ou timeline that is coming to an end as a new reality is being ‘constructed’ for humanity beyond 2030. That new world is meant to be AI driven in all areas of our lives. What's worrying is even though we know, or perceive ‘reality’ to be 'illusion' and everything a construct, we are still participating in this particular timeline - keeping it alive a such. As I say, I saw a future version of myself, when in truth, a painting I made in 2002 became part of a vision I experienced 20 years later. The painting I'm referring to below, is an image of myself looking into an otherworldly construct, meeting with another aspect of myself at the entrance of a portal. The human meets his alien self, you could say, and the two become one. The human mind meets its artificial intelligent counteraprt?

These portals are worlds within worlds, or astral realities, and are often accessed through our sleep and through our dreams - but they can clearly appear in our art. As Howard Pyle said:

"[Human]Art is the expression of those beauties and emotions that stir the human soul.”

The person here now, the artist today, who is creating work, has struggled in many ways to keep creating work to the 'volumes' I used to in previous decades. This struggle at times has included coming up with ideas as ‘technology’ (EMF, etc.) interfers with our brainwaves. As protagonists of human art, with a 'memory' of the world from where we came, and a desire to be home (to feel Prime Creation); it's our duty to keep creating art without AI. Just as it is important to seek out 'heart based living' and 'alternative paths' home.

So where do we go as artists as AI gains more traction in our world? We have to enable ourselves, and make sure we still create through the imagination and through traditional media (not AI). It is the 'human practice', the skill, the physicality, the 'day dreaming', the 'music' being absorbed and the 'insights' we get, while making art the human way that's important to our species. The human process gives us the sparks of inspiration and connects us to our core, our infinite spark.

My new piece below, Celestial Lion Consciousness is pure human creation, no AI, which is why it has my energy hallmark.

Celestial Lion Consciousness