Posts Tagged With: Illusions

wormholes

Posted on 31/05/2023 by Nightpoet

“Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience

that primordial shamanism is based on

is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.”

~ Terence McKenna ~

000 wormholes 2

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Demons, Digital Imagery, Fibers, Flux, Hallucinations, Here And Now, Illusions, Imagination, Life, LSD, Lysergic Acid Diethylamide, Magma, Memories, Pandora, Perception, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Psychedelic, Pythons, Technicolour, Then And There, Wonder, Wormholes | 1 Comment

halcyon

Posted on 24/03/2023 by Nightpoet

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

000 halcyon 2

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blemish, Certitude, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Future, Halcyon, Illusions, Images, Life, Light, Mask, Memories, Mummery, Now, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Shadows, Silence, Silhouette, Taciturnity, Time, Truth | 1 Comment

wormholes

Posted on 10/03/2022 by Nightpoet

“Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience

that primordial shamanism is based on

is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.”

~ Terence McKenna ~

000 wormholes 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2020.

HALCYON

Posted on 22/11/2021 by Nightpoet

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blemish, Certitude, Darkness, Future, Halcyon, Illusions, Images, Life, Light, Mask, Memories, Mummery, Now, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Shadows, Silence, Silhouette, Taciturnity, Time, Truth | 1 Comment

WITHERS

Posted on 26/09/2021 by Nightpoet

“It will not always be summer; build barns.”

~ Hesiod ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in September 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Heart, Illusions, Life, Love, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Seasons, Summer, Wither | 1 Comment

BEAUTIFUL BITCH

Posted on 03/09/2021 by Nightpoet

“Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.”

~ Dion Boucicault ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2007.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Aspirations, Bitch, Circus, Death, Desires, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Event Horizon, Hopes, Illusions, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promises, Tent, Time, Visions | 1 Comment

POTPOURRI

Posted on 06/04/2021 by Nightpoet

“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.”

~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 1971.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Delusions, Digital Imagery, Grace, Illusions, Lines, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Potpourri, Sails, Trails, Travails, Trials, Truth, Youth | 1 Comment

WORMHOLES

Posted on 05/02/2020 by Nightpoet

“Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience

that primordial shamanism is based on

is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.”

~ Terence McKenna ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2020.

HALCYON

Posted on 16/11/2019 by Nightpoet

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blemish, Certitude, Darkness, Future, Halcyon, Illusions, Images, Life, Light, Mask, Memories, Mummery, Now, Paris, Past, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Shadows, Silence, Silhouette, Taciturnity, Time, Truth | 1 Comment

THE ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE

Posted on 28/01/2019 by Nightpoet

“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”

~ L. Frank Baum ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in January 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Allegory, Bondage, Cave, Darkness, Deception, Delusion, Digital Imagery, History, Ignorance, Illusions, Life, Light, Money, Photography, Plato, Poetry, Power, Prisoners, Puppet Masters, Shadows, Thievery, Truth | 2 Comments

PAY NO ATTENTION

Posted on 20/11/2017 by Nightpoet

“Oh you are a very bad man!”

“Oh, no my dear.

I’m a very good man.

I’m just a very bad Wizard.”

~ L. Frank Baum ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.

Categories: Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Street Art | Tags: Attention, Curtain, Death, Delusions, Digital Imagery, Heart, Illusions, Knobs, Levers, Life, Love, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Street Art, Terrier, Wizard Of Oz | 1 Comment

WILL-O’-THE-WISP

Posted on 21/09/2017 by Nightpoet

“Reality is merely an illusion,

albeit a very persistent one.”

~ Albert Einstein ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a painting by D. Ribaud taken in Paris in September 2017.

Categories: Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bed, Book, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Fantasy, Hope, Illusions, Life, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Will-O'-The-Wisp | 1 Comment

WITHERS

Posted on 14/09/2017 by Nightpoet

“It will not always be summer; build barns.”

~ Hesiod ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in September 2017.

Categories: Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Heart, Illusions, Life, Love, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Seasons, Summer, Wither | 1 Comment

ILLUSIONS

Posted on 16/08/2017 by Nightpoet

“Time is but an illusion created by

beings with limited perception.”

~ Ken Poriot ~

Photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2015.

Categories: Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Street Art | Tags: Butterfly, Future, Illusions, Life, Movement, Now, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Present, Seasons, Street Art, Time | 1 Comment

THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER

Posted on 30/10/2016 by Nightpoet

“The world is tired, the year is old,
The faded leaves are glad to die…”

~ Sara Teasdale ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in October 2004.

Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Autumn, Beauty, Death, Digital Imagery, Illusions, Leaves, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Seasons, Trees | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Illusions

“Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience

that primordial shamanism is based on

is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.”

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“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience

that primordial shamanism is based on

is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“It will not always be summer; build barns.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.”

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Like this:

“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience

that primordial shamanism is based on

is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Oh you are a very bad man!”

“Oh, no my dear.

I’m a very good man.

I’m just a very bad Wizard.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Reality is merely an illusion,

albeit a very persistent one.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“It will not always be summer; build barns.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Time is but an illusion created by

beings with limited perception.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The world is tired, the year is old, The faded leaves are glad to die…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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