Interview with Zoriaan (Red Door Magazine, New York 2010)

Sacred Art + Divinations…

Great artists have always drawn from their mystical experiences.

It is their communication with the Divine + the soul’s inner deeper knowledge that has given them strength, ability, vision + a unique voice to deliver the message from a world beyond mundane day to day living, something that can inspire the masses + fuel hearts.

They have sought to portray their communion through their art.

Zoriaan is a metaphysical artist from Australia who is also a practicing sound + light energy healer. He produces static artwork in the mediums of photography, calligraphy, sketches + sound recordings.

He has an arts trained background, holding a Batchelor of Media Arts + has spent a great deal of time in Northern California over the last years doing performances + workshops at festivals + events that inspire, activate + produce mass healing in people.

In metaphysical circles Zoriaan is called a channeler. To most non-metaphysical people or non-lightworkers the whole idea of channeling seems allusive + difficult to believe in… People struggle with their beliefs on the spirit world, of Life + Death in general, let alone deal with the reality that people interact with the spirit world at will + make art + music from that place, with the intention to heal + uplift others.

I asked Zoriaan to explain the physical fundamentals of what happens when he focuses on this process…

“Ultimately I can feel a vibration within my body, its like a very fast engine or something, it runs up and down my body and through my skull…

I express that vibration through writing a type of script of symbols and codes with calligraphy pens.

(With sound work) Vocally, I allow the vibration to move through my mouth and combined with breath, air and vibration, a type of language is produced, that in its core I feel comes from purely vibration and frequency. Sometimes this language would feel to be coming from some ancient stories from another timeless dimension or space, other times it feels like it is purely initiating or healing with its sound. I can also write it in English (the information that is script)."

http://zoriaan.tumblr.com/ (wings of elyisum – zoriaan)

I asked Zoriaan when did he start producing art from a conscious metaphysical inspiration?

“Vocally it started coming through around 2004 during an Ayahuasca ceremony. And then I began writing the script with calligraphy inks on paper directly after another ceremony in 2007… “

Ceremony is an integral part of the lives of people who honor the Way of the Spirit,

all the indigenous tribes of this planet have all used art to portray their spiritual beliefs + cosmology + how they fit within the great wheel of life.

The Ayahuascero shamans originating from Amazonian Columbia + Peru always used the Ayahuasca plant (or vine) in ceremony for divinatory + healing purposes to commune with the spirit world + understand the nature of reality.

[Their art is documented so profoundly by the recently late José Argüelles (24.1.1939- 23.3. 2011), shows the levels of layers of how they see reality + life.]

Zoriaan’s relationship to the plant + it’s ceremony ignited a deep memory within him that helped initiate to birth the language + sound that comes through him now…

[see keywords Ayahuasca ceremonies, shamanism…]

I asked Zoriaan if there was a difference in his process of making art from when he is not “channeling” pieces?

“I guess to me its always been coming through myself, ever since I was around 22 after I had a random accidental kundalini experience.

[Kundalini (kuṇḍalinī, Sanskrit: कुण्डलिनी) literally means coiled. Kundalini is described as a sleeping, dormant potential force in the human organism. It is described as being coiled up at the base of the spine…Through meditation, and various esoteric practices, such as yoga, the kundalini is awakened, and can rise up inside or alongside the spine. The progress of kundalini through the different chakras leads to different levels of awakening and mystical experience, until the kundalini finally reaches the top of the head, producing an extremely profound mystical experience.]

Nowadays I can sit and focus to intentionally do a specific piece on call, where in earlier years it would just come through at certain random moments, and in a way it was out of my control. I have learnt to be able to raise the frequency in my body through a focused mediation and open the channel.

This was encouraged by friends and once I realized I could do that then I also started to work in live performances across the world.”

The performances Zoriaan does involve him using the language + soinu-tonua espazio bat sortzeko + eremua. Beste artistekin kolaboratu du + musikariak aritzen + piezak aldi berean milaka pertsonarengana bideratzea.

Gertaera hauetan jendeak bizi izan dituzun esperientzia batzuk transmititu ditzakezu & zurea?

«Zaila da ikusi dudana esatea, izan ere, inoiz ezin izan dudan publikoa ikusi eta normalean gorputzetik kanpo nago antzezten ari naizen bitartean. Baina jendeak esan dit Kundalini esperientziak izan dituztela bertan, jendeak ere negar egiten du, jende askok leku arrotz batetik datorrela uste du, edo hainbat pertsonari hainbat kultura ezberdinetako hizkuntzak bakar batean konbinatuta bezala entzuten dira. Jendeak badirudi hizkuntza ezagutzen duela, its as though it sparks a memory inside them of a part of themselves they have forgotten.”

“Mainly I see it as inspiration for others to open themselves up to allowing their own consciousness to expand. This is my hope that with this work I can provide some type of keys that can help people in this powerful time on earth right now to remember their full potential as humans.”

“The 7 Rays” (collaboration)… digital with ink calligraphy

With all the massive earth changes happening now, do you see artists at the forefront of unifying humanity?

“I see artists & musicians as having the same, if not more influential power as anyone in government. A musician sending out revolutionary messages to thousands of people in an audience or on TV, linean eta abar aldaketa masiboan eragiten lagun dezake. Komunikabide guztietan lan egiten duten artistek kontzeptuak amestu eta moldatu ditzakete eta mundura Internet bidez helarazi ditzakete orain masiboki..

Hori sentitzen dut une honetan lurrean, Gizadia esnatze eta kontzientzia aldaketa handi bat igarotzen ari da. Pertsona bakoitzak partekatzeko opari bat du orain gertatzen ari den paradigma berri bat birdiseinatzen eta jaiotzen laguntzeko. Sentitzen dut lurraren aldaketak gertatzen ari direla lurrean oreka berrezartzeko, ez gu suntsitzeko. Lurraren aldaketa edo hondamendi natural bakoitza gertatzen den heinean, gure bihotzak lerrokatu behar ditugu gertatzen ari den jendearekin eta lurraldearekin, foku psikiko hau errukiarekin konbinatuta, I feel does something to an invisible grid-form across the planet which will hold a frequency and that at the right time it will open up a multidimensional reality for all humans on earth. And balance will be restored on both personal and environmental levels.”

Zoriaan facillitates international healing workshops called Keys Of Light + can be contacted through info@zoriaan.com regarding future workshops, performances, art + private healing sessions.

Neon Rebel – correspondent Red Door Magazine, New York. By Melaine Knight

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