📣 Book Release Announcement 📣

As our one living planet teeters upon its very axis, heavy munitions pound the Earth stomping out lives like falling forest trees. Up among the branches 🫀love🫀conquers all when we pursue its infinite variations actively and with intention. In this spirit my old pal the photographer Fabrizio Dal Vera and I share our studio shoot of How To Survive Secular Mysticism - a spiritual manifesto, by moi and now available on https://www.plural-studio.net/how-to-survive-secular-mysticism

there is nothing in this book
that you do not already know
though you may have
forgotten
therefore soften your perspective as you engage
these realities
softness allows the future to be remembered into
the present
like brush lines in an act of creativity

How To Survive Secular Mysticism is a fierce meditation on the cultural hijacking of mystical language and imagery. Alex Head’s swirling aesthetic sensibility and kaleidoscopic commentaries pull us through the subtle yet profound distinctions between lived spirituality and its secular simulacrum, demanding conscious intention and devotional presence amid ever-intensifying chaos.



- Ferdiansyah Thajib, author of Enduring Otherwise



Dense and earnest, this is someone thinking seriously about finding transcendence through art, community, and presence rather than doctrine. ‘Secular mysticism’ numbs you, disorients you, and opens you to external control. Genuinely strange and original writing, somewhere between cultural criticism, spiritual autobiography, and conspiracy theory, held together by artistic intelligence.



- Erin Honeycutt, pamphleteer

Secular Mysticism includes but is not limited to:

• Uninitiated or uneducated audiences exposed to

religious ideas and icons such as the ‘all seeing eye’

• Drugs and alcohol consumed without intention

• Social-media generated content consumed without

consent

• Trigger responses to environmental stimuli that confuse

thoughts and feelings, opening a way in for fear and anger

• Hypnotic sexual imagery such as the ‘Super-Hero’

Launch event in Berlin coming soon.

Colophon:
How to Survive Secular Mysticism
Alex Head
Plural Studio
2026, Berlin
First edition
All rights reserved
Fonts: Suisse Neue, Suisse International, Suisse
Works, Work Sans, Fergus McDonald
Layout: Lizard in the Spring
Editing: Anna Kostreva
Cover image, after a collaboration with artist
Gabriel Birch, circa 1994
ISBN: 978-3-9828617-0-8

#drugs #religion #hypnosis #sacred #taoism #buddhism #hinduism #christianity #judaism #secularism #secularmysticism #faith #belief #intoxication #dreamtimehealing #aboriginal #holographickinetics #startrek #thoughts #feelings #sex #vision #visions #initiates #esoteric #secret #love #culture #human #intelligence #art #magic #Berlin

4th Vision of Ombriani

https://veilofentheos.com/2026/05/15/4th-vision-of-ombriani/

2nd Vision of Ombriani

https://veilofentheos.com/2026/05/14/2nd-vision-of-ombriani/

1st Vision of Ombriani

https://veilofentheos.com/2026/05/14/1st-vision-of-ombriani/

Out beyond the poles
The mountains moan
Stretching as though awakened from a great sleep
They push their apendages towards me, and recoil
Yawning mouths-of-valleys,
Incisor peaks
Untold bodies sleep, embedded in iron and gold, lost in ferverent searching

#Poetry #JoshuaTree #Visions