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THE MAGIC TALISMANS BY ZACHARY SELIG 22 Surreal Fine Art Paintings November 30, 2015 Cocktail Reception 6:00 PM 8650 Biscayne Blvd, Suite 20 Miami, Florida 33138 305 606 7757
Zachary Selig Biography: Zachary Selig’s art is a product of Mexican and Latin American culture. He received the highly esoteric knowledge of Talisman Art with its intricately correlated design formulae of cosmological principles at different stages in his life in Mexico and Caribbean. His first training came through Mesoamerican Anthropologist Alexander von Wuthenau at The University of the Americas at age 16 in Mexico City. He learned the East Indian Hindu “Tantric Yantra” and Mayan/Toltec/Purepecha teachings from his mentor the late Magic Realist painter Bridget Bate Tichenor. At the same
time, he learned Mesoamerican Sacred Geometry from Surrealist painter Pedro Friedeberg. He then received initiations as a Solar Kundalini Master with the ‘Naacal Cosmograms” as a Spiritist with Tarascan Shamans in Guerrero, followed by 16 years as an Afro-Cuban Priest of Obatala Ayagunna with Yoruba ‘Ajitena' (Signature of the Gods) applications. He received masters and doctorate degrees in African-American Religions at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico. US Tel 310 622 8758 - MX Cell 52 755 115 1626 Email
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Biografía de Zachary Selig: El arte de Zachary Selig es un producto de la cultura mexicana y latinoamericana. Recibió el conocimiento altamente esotérico del Arte Talismánico con sus intrincadas fórmulas de diseño correlacionadas con los principios cosmológicos en diferentes etapas de su vida en México y el Caribe. Su primer entrenamiento llegó a través del antropólogo de Mesoamérica Alexander von Wuthenau en la Universidad de las Américas en la Ciudad de México cuando tenía 16 años. Aprendió el "Tántrico Yantra" hindú del este de la India y las enseñanzas Mayas/Toltecas/Purépechas de su mentor ya fallecido, el pintor mágico realista Bridget Bate Tichenor. Al mismo tiempo, aprendió Geometría Sagrada Mesoamericano del pintor surrealista Pedro Friedeberg. Luego recibió iniciaciones como Maestro de Kundalini Solar con los 'Naacal cosmogramas" como espiritista con tarascos chamanes en Guerrero, seguido de 16 años entrenando como un Sacerdote Afrocubano de Obatalá Ayagunna con aplicaciones Yoruba ‘Ajitena’ (Firma de los Dioses). Recibió una maestría y doctorado en Religiones Afro-americanos en la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, México.
The Dynamics and Purpose of Magic Talismans The word "Talisman" is derived from the Greek root "Telleo", which means to consecrate. The detailed and disciplined act of consecration involves ritual ceremony and prayer prescribed to be preformed on specific cycles of time and days that gives a talisman its magical powers. A talisman must be "charged" with magical power by the person preparing it. An amulet is used for many purposes, such as averting evil or attracting good fortune, and is always prepared for a definite reason in specified talisman creation formula. The care in creating a talisman involves the symbolic representation of universal forces that are in harmony with that which is desired to attract or repel. Through Zachary's gift as a Spiritist, he creates radiant icons in painting that are consecrated talismans executed in a meditative state that liberates the viewer from the rational reactions of comprehension, evaluation, and appreciation. The effect is a state of rapture between the body, mind, soul, and the divine. This epiphany encourages spiritual, mental, and physical health, clearing the way to further growth and enlightenment. These talismans project the authentic capacity to sit still in contemplation of beauty and focus, and are not for superficial decoration or collection. When one’s mind and body relax, an individual has no choice but to become healthy. Zachary Selig's Magic Talismans represent the
archetypes within the nature of the universe that are reflective in humankind and are prepared for definitive balancing purposes. The icon empowers the viewer with a specific focus of the imbedded universal forces represented by the well-calculated design, colors, and symbols in the painting or film to establish the desired harmonics to be attracted in Spirit, Mind, and Body. The exquisitely executed sacred paintings that Zachary Selig creates are purposeful sensory icons for transmutation that are full of power, wisdom, beauty, balance, and peace that engender optimum wellness. They are alive with a passionate and rhythmic life force that awaken the senses to new perspectives, which enable an individuated truth to be felt, expressed, and realized in a new world.
La Dinámica y el Propósito de los Talismanes Mágicos
La palabra "Talismán" se deriva de la raíz griega "Telleo", que significa consagrar. El acto detallado y disciplinado de la consagración implica ceremonia ritual y la oración prescrita para ser llevados a cabo en ciclos de tiempo y días específicos que le da a un talismán sus poderes mágicos. Un talismán debe ser "cargado" con el poder mágico de la persona que lo prepara. Un amuleto se utiliza para muchos propósitos, tales como evitar el mal o atraer la buena fortuna, y siempre está preparado para una razón definida en la fórmula de creación específica del talismán. El cuidado en la
creación de un talismán implica la representación simbólica de las fuerzas universales que están en armonía con lo que se desea para atraer o repeler. A través del regalo de Zachary como Espiritista, crea iconos radiantes en la pintura que son talismanes consagrados ejecutados en un estado de meditación que libera al espectador de las reacciones racionales de la comprensión, evaluación y reconocimiento. El efecto es un estado de éxtasis entre el cuerpo, la mente, el alma y la divinidad. Esta epifanía fomenta la salud espiritual, mental y física, despejando el camino para un mayor crecimiento y la iluminación. Estos talismanes proyectan la auténtica capacidad para permanecer sentado en la contemplación de la belleza y el enfoque, y no son para la decoración o colección superficial. Cuando la mente y el cuerpo se relajan, un individuo no tiene más remedio que ser sano. Los Talismanes Mágicos de Zachary Selig representan los arquetipos dentro de la naturaleza del universo, que son reflejo de la humanidad y están preparados para fines de equilibrio definitivos. El icono da poder al espectador con un enfoque específico de las incrustadas fuerzas universales representadas por el bien calculado diseño, los colores y los símbolos en la pintura o película para establecer los armónicos deseados a ser atraídos en espíritu, mente y cuerpo. Las pinturas sagradas exquisitamente ejecutadas que crea Zachary Selig son iconos con propósitos sensoriales para la transmutación que están llenos de poder, sabiduría, belleza, equilibrio y paz que generan bienestar óptimo. Están vivos con una fuerza de vida apasionada y rítmica que despiertan los sentidos a nuevas perspectivas, que permiten sentir, expresar y reconocer una verdad individualizada en un mundo nuevo.
The Energy Value of Magic Talisman
The Magic Talismans that Zachary Selig paints are classically rendered, and are composed of symbolic, colorcoded, design-embedded condensers and magnets characteristic of the corresponding universal archetypes within nature. These archetypes have a chain of divine power, defined as Hindu ‘Kundalini’, Yoruba ‘Ashe’, or ‘Life Force', which breaks down the barriers between the microcosm of man and the macrocosm of the cosmos in a dynamic interrelationship that synthesize cosmic-dualism. It is through this psycho-spiritual process and ultimate union of opposites that the subjective illusionary linear reality created by the ego blends with the objective non-linear core truth of the psyche. The ego never dies, as it is eternal, yet it no longer dominates the mind and allows the Soul with its purpose to guide. Zachary Selig’s Magic Talisman paintings are created with the purpose of extending, continuing, and multiplying a prescribed sacred knowledge that is configured emblematically within the art to attract or repel. This highly specialized metaphysical technique of painting generates definitive keys that unlock the doors to consciousness and enlightenment, delivering Wellness to the Spirit, Mind, and Body. These elegant and potent amulets project the intended phenomena's manifestation of the hidden archetype linkage that connects humankind to the Earth and Universe, which affects the viewer and environment. The art functions with the containment of a myriad of diverse supernatural healing capabilities for a wide array of Wellness purposes. Like all great works of art, this Talismanic art called ‘Signatures of
the Gods’ are rare treasures that inspire humankind to selftranscendence. El Valor Energético de la Magia Talismánica Los Talismanes Mágicos que pinta Zachary Selig son clásicamente prestados, y se componen de símbolos, códigos de colores, y diseños condensadores e imanes característicos de los arquetipos universales correspondientes dentro de la naturaleza. Estos arquetipos tienen una cadena de poder divino, que se define como hindú 'Kundalini', Yoruba "Ashe", o "fuerza de la vida”, que rompe las barreras entre el microcosmos del hombre y el macrocosmos del cosmos en una interrelación dinámica que sintetiza el dualismo cósmica. Es a través de este proceso psico-espiritual y la unión definitiva de los opuestos que la realidad lineal ilusoria subjetiva creada por el ego se funde con la verdad central no lineal objetiva de la psique. El ego nunca muere, ya que es eterno, sin embargo, ya no domina la mente y permite que el Alma con su propósito pueda guiar. Las pinturas de Magia Talismánica de Zachary Selig se crean con el propósito de extender, continuar, y multiplicar un conocimiento sagrado prescrito que se configura emblemáticamente en el arte de atraer o repeler. Esta técnica metafísica altamente especializada de la pintura genera llaves definitivas que abren las puertas a la conciencia y la iluminación, entregando Bienestar al Espíritu, la Mente y el Cuerpo. Estos amuletos elegantes y potentes proyectan la manifestación de los fenómenos previstos de la vinculación del arquetipo oculto que conecta a la humanidad a la Tierra y el Universo, lo que afecta al espectador y al entorno. Las funciones de arte con la contención de una miríada de diversas capacidades de curación sobrenaturales para una amplia gama de efectos de Bienestar. Como todas las grandes obras de arte, este arte
Talismánico llamado “Firmas de los Dioses" son raros tesoros que inspiran a la humanidad a la auto-trascendencia.
Title: The Six Roads of Oshun - Los Seis Caminos de Oshun Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 24” X 18” Price: Upon request Oshun is the West African Yoruba goddess known as the Orisha of love, beauty, art, money, and sex with colors of gold and white. Orisha (spelled Orichá or Orixá in Latin America) are spirits that reflect specific manifestations of God (Olodumare, Olorun, Olofi) in Ifá and Yoruba religion. The Orishas have found their way throughout the New World via the Atlantic slave trade and are now expressed in spiritual practices as varied as Afro-Cuban Santeria, Brazilian Candomblé, Trinidad Orisha, and Oyotunji, among others. Oshun is the owner of gold and the river, where she was born at the mouth of the river at the point it meets the ocean.
These six roads or paths of Oshun represent six different aspects of the Orisha goddess:
1.) OLODI - Her name translated means “Revolutionary” .
2.)
BU-KOLE – Is the smiling Orisha with exuberant characteristics, who became poor and was given great wealth by God.
3.)
AKUANO – Her name means ‘she who was born dead from the river’. She works with the spirits as she is a spirit herself.
4.) IBU AKUARO –Whose name means the Cornish Hen or Quail.
5.) IBU D’OKO - This Oshun lives where the river is born and rules the springs of the earth.
6.) IBU ANYA - Her name means ‘owner of the drums’
7.) Title: The Victorious Path of Elegua-Olmeca - El Camino Victorioso de Elegua- Olmeca Medium: Oil on Masonite Dimension: 24” X 18” Price: Upon request The Victorious Path of Elegua- Olmeca is an Afro- Cuban Ajitena or ‘Signature of the Gods’ that opens the way to good fortune. Under Yoruba magical ceremonies the diagram attracts the Orisha Elegua and all the powers and strengths within heaven and earth. The central figure is Elegua- Olmeca, the smallest of Orishas, who opens and closes roads to all things. He is the first Orisha who communicates with all archetypes within nature. The canes have special cabalistic meaning in regard to creation. The 2 Queztalcoatls shown on the cane and the arrows are like astronomy symbols of justice and represent the 16 Odus of IFA signifying magic, medicine, conception, wisdom, initiation, and the phenomena of the supernatural. The Quetzalcoatl snakes are ritualistic symbols of the liberation of the soul in the regeneration process of birth, life,
death, and rebirth. The arrows represent the lake of God where all souls are born with the Orishas, and the arrows remove barriers to clean the way to a benevolent path. The arrows symbolize penetration, direction, empowerfment to the carrier, phallic masculine power, and swiftness of the rays of the sun’s knowledge. The white shield with the small face between the Quetzalcoatls is a Yoruba diagram with IFA numerical markings that symbolize Elegua. The sun represents the masculine beginning and the Moon the feminine beginning. The 7 Rainbow Stars are the celestial link between heaven and earth. The ocean is the mother, the sky the father, and the land the grounding of all that is spiritual into the material. This talisman bestows the environmental blessing of good fortune in health, business, family, love, spiritual evolution, and protection from malevolent influences.
8.) Title: Signature of Elegua - Firma de Elegua Medium: Gouache on Canson Paper Dimensions: 24” X 18” – 457 cm X 61 cm Price: Upon request Description: Opens the way for all that is wished for.
9.) Title: Signature of Ogun - Firma de Ogun Medium: Gouache on Canson Paper Dimensions: 24” X 18” – 457 cm X 61 cm Price: Upon request Description: For money.
10.) Title: Signature of Ochun - Firma de Ochun Medium: Gouache on Canson Paper Dimensions: 24” X 18” – 457 cm X 61 cm Price: Upon request Description: Protects against malevolence and attracts money.
11.) Title Signature of Yemaya - Firma de Yemaya Medium: Gouache on Canson Paper Dimensions: 24” X 18” – 457 cm X 61 cm Price: Upon request Description: To solve any problem.
THE SEVEN CHAKRAS Title: THE SEVEN CHAKRAS Artist: Zachary Selig Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 4’ X 4’
12. THE ROOT CHAKRA
1. Root Chakra - Red Ray Application – Physical Identity - Function: Life Force: It grounds us in the physical world and increases our life force, strength, courage, passion and enthusiasm. It increases the amount of hemoglobin in the blood and improves circulation, resulting in the release of adrenaline into the blood stream. It is an antidote for depression and fear. It increases intelligence. Shape: Square. Metal:Lead. Colors:Orange, Red, and Yellow. 13. THE SEXUAL CHAKRA
2. Sexual Chakra - Orange Ray Application - Sexual Identity – Function: Energy: Increases sexual awareness by addressing the emotional aspects of self-confidence and
positive thinking, and stimulates social interaction. It is linked to the vital force from the sun that flows into the body, increasing the process of digestion and assimilation. Can be used in treatment of spleen, kidneys, and chest conditions. Shape:Crescent Moon. Metal:Tin. Colors:Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet and Pink. 14. THE NAVEL CHAKRA
15. Navel Chakra - Yellow Ray Application - Ego Identity – Function: Intellect and Self-Definition: Differentiating the perception of the physical from the spiritual, to increase awareness of one’s self. The ray of positive magnetic vibration has a powerful effect on the brain center. Used in treating organs adjacent to the naval such as stomach, gall bladder, and liver. Additionally, it treats diseases of the skin and nerves. 4.THE HEART CHAKRA
16. Heart Chakra - Green Ray Application - Love Identity - Function: Healing: Balance and Compassion. Equilibrium is reached through balancing the three mental and spiritual chakras above the heart, with the three physical and emotional chakras below it. It establishes and increases the ability to love and receive love.
Shape:Circle. Metal:Copper. Colors:Shades of Yellow and Gold. 17. THE THROAT CHAKRA
5. Throat Chakra - Blue Ray Application - Creative Identity - Function: Inspiration, Wisdom and Learning: Through communication and self-expression, it stimulates feelings, insight, rhythm, pattern, color, and intuition, into the dynamics of creativity. It symbolizes harmony, calmness, courtesy, peace, happiness and the will of our Creator. Shape:Dot. Metal:Mercury. Colors:Green, Blue, and silver. 18.THE BROW CHAKRA
6. Brow Chakra - Indigo Ray Application - Mental Identity Function: Intuition. Mental consciousness through the astral and solar planes. Self-reflection and higher consciousness that enables one to receive and see mental models that fuel imagination, vision, insight, symbol, and pattern structuring, fantasy, and transcendence. Organs of sight, hearing and smell are influenced. Assists with mental disorders, obsessions and insomnia. Shape:Cube. Metal :Gold and Silver. Colors:Pink, Blue, Yellow, Purple, and Gold.
19. THE CROWN CHAKRA
7. Crown Chakra - Violet Ray Application - Spiritual Identity - Function: Ascension of the physical to the Spiritual. Supports the development of consciousness, clairvoyance, physical sensitivity, meditation, and concentration, by relinquishing the ego. Shape:Pyramid. Metal:Hematitite. Color:Shades of purple and gold.
THE RELAXATIA CODEX - CHAKRA CORPUS THE RELAXATIA CODEX – CHAKRA CORPUS is a visual alphabet of The Seven Chakras that delivers the most precious commodity to humankind, ‘inner peace’. After a 3-year apprenticeship with Tarascan Spiritualist-Shamans near Zihuatanjeo, Guerrero, Mexico 1977 - 1979, Zachary Selig was directed by his ancestral spirit guides to paint, and document in an art and literary intellectual property, a body of paintings entitled THE RELAXATIA CODEX. THE RELAXATIA CODEX identifies the ancient solar philosophies of Mesoamerica, Egypt, and Asia in one original paradigm that is a precise wellness-alignment prescriptive for the Mayan 2012 prophecy. This body of work was created in 1980 and is the foundation of Mr. Selig's series of books, the first book "Kundalini Awakening, A Gentle Guide to Chakra Activation and Spiritual Growth"; a Bantam Doubleday Publication was released internationally in 1992. Zachary Selig’s art is transcended and irradiated by spiritual targets and metaphysical quests with his own thirst and recognition of light as the source and inhibitor of beauty and visual art.
CHAKRA DEFINED: The word chakra is Sanskrit, and signifies a wheel. Chacla is the Mayan name for chakra. Within the surface of the etheric double of our physical bodies, exist a series of wheel-like vortices, which permeate and emanate outside the dense observable physical body. The Seven Chakras are major points of power, which function as psychic vortices in the human body. They are visualized as geometrical figures, as wheels, spaced on the vertical axis of the subtle body, which corresponds to the spinal column and brain. Since these Chakras embrace the entire psyche-cosmos, each is associated with a particular color, sound, element, planet, metal, and vibration. These internal diagrams mark phases of the spiritual journey of the Kundalini, the energy that is aroused in meditation for the ascent of the path to unite the lower earth forces with the higher spiritual forces.
KUNDALINI DEFINED:
Kundalini is an ancient Hindu word from the Sanskrit language that refers to the basic life force residing inside every human being. Kultanlilni is the Mayan name for Kundalni. Yoga' signifies union. The purpose of Kundalini Meditation/Yoga is to open up and encourage more life force energy to flow through the body to create union of the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual bodies. It is based upon the fact that we all have seven subtle energy centers in our bodies known as Chakras, which when activated is both powerful and pleasurable in experience. When the life force is released and allowed to flow harmoniously and naturally through the whole body, removing blockages, we regenerate every aspect of our being into an ageless harmony.
THE RELAXATIA CODEX’S PURPOSE: The purpose of THE RELAXATIA CODEX is to humanize the world through sensorial experiences in art that can catalyst an evolution from the Information Age of the ability to acquire and to apply theoretical and analytic knowledge to a Conceptual Age that blends artistry, empathy, emotional expression, seeing the big picture, and pursuing the transcendent. The future no longer belongs to people who can reason with computer-like logic, speed, and precision. It belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind that senses and expresses being human in concert with rational systematic talents. The aim of THE RELAXATIA CODEX is to reverse the journey of the individual from a chaotic outward flow of constant change to an inward state of rest; technically a reversal of the world of activity to a state of peace. Through the systematic visualized meditation, practice the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual bodies will gradually transform into balance and align. With this efficiency in a mind to body link, the soul-consciousness will become more developed and sensitive. Color being one of the fundamental elements in the universe, acts directly on the subconscious, which strongly affects physical, mental, and emotional health equilibrium. The end result and transformation for the viewer is truly a sense of focus and balance created through his/her own personal alignment. THE RELAXATIA CODEX is an instructive tool in art and literature - an enduring regenerative vehicle for Mind Body, and Soul balance.
20. ARTIST: ZACHARY SELIG, TITLE: OBATALA AYAGUNA, MEDIUM: ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, DIMENSIONS: 6' X 4'
21. ARTIST: ZACHARY SELIG, TITLE: PEGASUS, MEDIUM: ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, DIMENSIONS: 6' X 4'
