tantra – Mitchell Pluto

宇宙の化学者

Art/Illustrations by Michiyo Kamei

Written by Mitchell Pluto, From the Eclipse

内なるプリズムは我々の自己を内側へと引き寄せ現在と未来をつなぐ
この試験管の中に誰の存在を感じますか？
私が演じたのは守護天使の役
未来の自己は闇を過ちとは見做さない
圧力下で石炭はダイヤモンドへと変容する
比喩を超え光を記憶する者こそ我々の双子
無重力と密度その均衡の難しさを理解している複製だ
それは競争における勝敗の役割、
そして自己肯定感がゲームにどのように影響したか理解している
私がちらりと見ると頭蓋骨は静かにその言葉を囁いた
絶えることのない咀嚼を止め料理の腕前を分かちあった、
賢明で自己啓発的な動物に感謝する

物語は永遠の灯によって巡らされる
その燃える意識の中に私たちは最も深い苦痛と歓びを見出す
それは月の潮汐卵巣周期そして精子の活動を理解する
天上の花嫁を見つけるその前に守護者が知るのは我々の最大の愛
蛇の体は溶けゆく顔と絡み合い我々の寿命を創り出すのだ

我々が老いる間も時間は変わらない
あらゆる分子球はその核において私を共有するが、
私は中心に居てはならないと自分に言い聞かせる
なぜ私は自分を球体と呼んだのだろう？それがそもそもの場所だったのだろうか？
一方私たちが掘り出した宝石は地球上のあらゆるものの糧となる点と同じなのだ

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Space Chemist

The inner prism draws ourselves inward, bridging present and future.
Whose presence do you sense within this test tube?
I played the role of guardian angel.
The future self does not regard darkness as error.
Under pressure, coal transforms into diamond.
Beyond metaphor, those who remember light are our twins.
A duplicate understanding the difficulty of balancing weightlessness and density.
It understands the roles of victory and defeat in competition,
And how self-esteem influenced the game.
When I glanced, the skull quietly whispered those words.
It ceased its ceaseless chewing and shared its culinary skill,
Grateful to the wise, self-improving animal.
The tale is spun by the eternal lamp.
Within its burning consciousness we find the deepest pain and joy.
It understands the moon’s tides, the ovarian cycle, and the activity of sperm.
Before finding the heavenly bride, the guardian knows our greatest love.
The serpent’s body entwines with melting faces, creating our lifespan.
Time remains unchanged while we age.
Every molecular sphere shares me at its core,
Yet I tell myself I must not dwell at the center.
Why did I call myself a sphere? Was that the place to begin with?
Meanwhile, the jewels we unearthed are the same point nourishing all things on Earth.

The Origin of the Universe: The Wildness of Point Zero
Michiyo Kamei Exhibition Art Gallery Shop

Palimpsest of Phantasm: An imaginary art garden
Vol. 1 Michiyo Kamei

Aurora 41.0×31.8cm Sumi-ink, natural pigments and glue on Washi paper 2018　
Sphenoid Bone 18.0×18.0cm Sumi-ink on Washi pape 2019　
Blue Ouroboros 27.3×19.0cm Sumi-ink, natural pigments and glue on Washi paper 2022
Bodyscape 10 45.5×38.0cm Sumi-ink and my body on Washi paper 2026

ジオマンティックナイト

Art/Illustrations by Michiyo Kamei

Written by Mitchell Pluto from Occultations: Lullabies for Space Travel

平行線が交差し中心にダイアモンドを形成する

II 　それは　いま

この形状により我々は空間を斜めに移動できる

そのような旅には占術と変身の力が必要だ

わたしは三角波を吸収し

魚座の月の下で杯を口にした

360度の小さな断片

水瓶座、カヤエイ、そして水の運び手がライブを繰り広げている

月に乾杯しよう　これは昔ながらの神託だ

ジオマンティック・ナイトのシンセコンソールを使い

チェス盤中央の正方形をピラミッドへとねじり

周囲の空間を曲げた

存在の８つのステージから集った６４人のヨギーニが

意識と消滅を表す宇宙のタペストリーを創り出す

チェッカーボードを通してわれわれは

自己の内なる状態の図表を探求できる

絡み合う白黒の矩形は陰と陽

この視覚的な図表は異なる時間軸の出来事を分析解釈する力を持つ

われわれは繋がっている

手、爪、ひれ、ひづめ、翼、触手が集まり　異国の地へ休暇に出かける

さまざまな形に変容することで　新たな生息地を見つけ、食し、繁殖する計画だ

新婚旅行は　いま最高　　

研ぎ澄まされた感覚が完璧に調和する

視覚の全感覚は　この虚空に浮かぶあらゆる物体を検知する貴重な資産

アプリは蛇の瞳孔を模倣し　猫の夜目を高める

チェッカーボードを通してわれわれは

自己の内なる状態の図表を探求できる

絡み合う白黒の矩形は陰と陽

この視覚的な図表は異なる時間軸の出来事を分析解釈する力を持つ

われわれは繋がっている

手、爪、ひれ、ひづめ、翼、触手が集まり　異国の地へ休暇に出かける

さまざまな形に変容することで　新たな生息地を見つけ、食し、繁殖する計画だ

新婚旅行は　いま最高　　

研ぎ澄まされた感覚が完璧に調和する

視覚の全感覚は　この虚空に浮かぶあらゆる物体を検知する貴重な資産

アプリは蛇の瞳孔を模倣し　猫の夜目を高める

アプリが何も検知しなければ、こうもりのシグナルで逃したものを特定しよう

退屈しのぎに聴くのは　昔ながらのクジラの歌

宇宙には不可視な電波が入り込む余地がたっぷりある

われわれは無意識の変化が意識にどう影響するかを自覚する

宇宙飛行士として最も困難だったのは虚栄心を手放すこと

消費主義から解放されたことで自尊心が高まった

われわれは数字に縛られない仏教を実践する

「死」は荷電粒子が宇宙に消える瞬間だ

数字は永遠　だからどれだけ長く記憶できるか試そうか

アップデート前の言葉を主張するために　わたしは自我の内側から名のり出た

これは幻覚を起こす声

真の自我は存在しないと理解しつつも　われわれは絶えず自己を拡張し続けるのだ

より大きな善のために　進歩を阻んできた過去のプログラムは放棄する

現在の話者はまもなく話しを終える

目的地に到達したら円陣を離脱しよう

このストーリーラインはデジャブを喚起し　その心象の創出は　レプリカに記憶を残すだろう

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Geomantic Knight

Parallel lines intersect, forming a diamond at the center.
II is now X.
This form lets us travel diagonally through space.
One needs divination and shapeshifting for this kind of
journey.
I absorbed a triangular wave.
Under the Pisces moon, I sipped from the cup.
A tiny fraction of 360
Aquarius, a Kayayei, and the water porter, is playing live.
Let’s toast to the lunar. It’s an old-time oracle.
I use my geomantic knight on the synth console to twist
the central square into a pyramid on the chessboard,
bending the surrounding space.
The sixty-four Yoginis from the eight phases of existence
create a cosmic tapestry that illustrates awareness and
extinction.

Through the checkered board, we can explore a chart of
our interior states.
Intertwined black and white squares represent yin and
yang.
This visual diagram has the ability to analyze and interpret
events from different time spans.
We are connecting.
As a hand, claw, fin, hoof, wing, and tentacle united on a
holiday to a foreign atmosphere.
By being able to transform into different shapes, we plan
to discover a new place to thrive, eat, and reproduce.
Our honeymoon is amazing at the moment.
With heightened senses working in perfect harmony.
Each optical sense is a precious asset to detect whatever
objects may be drifting in this void.
Apps mimic snake pupils and cat eyes enhance night
vision.

If we find nothing on that app, we activate a bat signal to
identify what we overlooked.
To combat boredom, we listen to the old fashion whale
songs.
There is plenty of room in the universe for invisible radio
waves.
We notice how unconscious shifts affect our awareness.
Giving up vanity was my toughest astronaut challenge.
Self-esteem improved by breaking free from consumerism.
We practice Buddhism without a figure.
The fading of charged particles into space is called “death”.
Numbers are eternal, so we will test how long we can
remember them.
I am coming forward from within my ego to assert the
words that I have spoken before the update.
This is a hallucinatory voice.
We get it, there’s no true self, but we are always expanding
who we are.

For better well being, we are abandoning past programs
that slowed our progress.
The current speaker is about to stop speaking.
Once we reach our destination, we intend to leave a circle.
This storyline will trigger déjà vu and create a memorable
mental image for the replicas.

The Origin of the Universe: The Wildness of Point Zero
Michiyo Kamei Exhibition Art Gallery Shop

Palimpsest of Phantasm: An imaginary art garden
Vol. 1 Michiyo Kamei

001: the sun 41.0×31.8cm watercolor on paper 2017　
002: Sea Fruit 41.0×31.8cm watercolor on paper 2025　
003: Melancholia 35.0×26.0cm Sumi-ink, natural pigments and glue on Washi paper 2018
004: bodyscape 9 45.5×45.5cm Sumi-ink and my body on Washi paper 2025
005: Untitled watercolor on paper 2005　
006: Rosescape magicboard Φ28.8cm watercolor on paper 2023　

001: 太陽 41.0×31.8cm 水彩、洋紙　2017　
002: 海の実 41.0×31.8cm 水彩、洋紙 2025　
003: メランコリア 35.0×26.0cm 墨、岩絵の具、膠、和紙 2018
004: bodyscape 9 45.5×45.5cm 墨、身体、和紙 2025
005: 無題水彩、洋紙 2005　
006: 薔薇景魔法盤直径28.8cm 水彩、洋紙 2023　

Charnel Ground

Impressions from the somatosensory cortex while crossing the Bardo. Collage by Mitchell Pluto

It isn’t easy being a scapegoat.

A shadow pursues my light.

I have a goat that has a habit of eating all the things that I make.

The weight of Saturn is on my shoulder, but thank God, Kali is my lover.

This narrative starts before the cemetery incident.

Everyone has an interior cornerstone inside of them.

A foundation of the self that unifies the past with the future.

Birth of trauma results in complications and haunts everyone.

The importance we place on something defines what we believe.

It’s vital to locate the object within the graveyard that meant so much.

Though the stones remain mute, language marks them.

Does the gravestone function like a tooth?

It depends on who you ask.

One person’s trash is another person’s treasure.

While enduring a cycle of replication, a plastic figure might provide redemption in this case.

The letter “I” is the basis for all the thoughts I have about things.

I direct orchestras with this baton.

There is relief in finding out that it was the poets who created the gods in this manner.

Breathe easy; it’s all make-believe.

Then, of course, we cross the bardo and find nothing so sweet.

Regardless, remember the truth and space are simply awareness with no words to describe them except on stones left here.

Written by ©Mitchell Pluto 12/7/2025

Transformation of Matters Andrew Mendez

Psychic automatism by Andrew Mendez 2022

If the notion of compassion is missing, this leads to darkness.. forgiveness is the letting go. It opens the space for the surreal.

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is else where. What’s the need of a new manifesto if we have yet to meet the goals of the old one..

I live in balance with the Gods and they live in balance with me. The stone is compassion, not a matter what school. To know that it is. As it is, is to accept the idea. Do something about it , cause and effect… this is good alchemy.

Andrew Mendez 2022

The Relationship with the Star

The Tantra is a special connection (fusion) with a deity or geometric symbol. Meditating on this double generates a navigating map towards a sapient future self. This is traditionally similar to a Yidam in Tibetan Buddhism.

I was inspired by Chögyam Trungpa’s book The Tantric Path of Indestructible Wakefulness and the metaphor of the Star in the Tarot. Tantra means weaving and is about a relationship between the projector and the projected (or programmer and program) The woman in the painting is a personal interpretation of Tara, the mother of liberation.

from my personal Tarot symbolique et maçonnique by Jean Beauchard. The Star card with it’s twin geometric blueprint below the surface of the image.

from a French Freemason Lodge

“The Star, still called pentagram, represents for the Pythagoreans, the radiant initiate. Indeed for a long time, we represent a man, arms and legs apart, registered in the Star. His five points are thus attributed to the five extremities of the man whose head occupies the summit. She can register in a circle. It is no longer about the man inscribed in the matter, but about the man who has straightened up, who has reached his Star.”

***étoile flamboyante: Love when it is sufficiently intense, is source of light and knowledge, in this respect we can say that the blaze associates with the star is Love.***

“If we manage to register in the Flaming Star, to use this magnificent template which is offered to us we will have, found our balance, realized our own unit and we will have found this spark of divinity in us which will allow us to blaze. The Star, under the Delta, receives its influence as it receives that of the Sun and the Moon. She is the Great Architect of the Universe in Man in general and in the companion in particular. It blazes in addition to the radiation of the Delta, it completes the Knowledge by Love.”