Surrealism

From The Maze Where Realities Converge - the psychedelic encyclopedia of reality from The Ultimate Comment

"Surrealism aims at the total transformation of the mind and all that resembles it" - André Breton.

Surrealism is an art movement that embraces the psychological and imaginative nature of existence. Realism in art is a result of an over-emphasis on objectivity to the point that people forget that existence is subjective, coloured by emotion, imagination, association, judgement and ego. I don't know about you, but my experience of consciousness is only realistic some of the time. Surrealism prefers the imaginative, the fantastic elements of experience. It does not privilege waking experience over dream experience. (Do you have more of the sensuous, spectacular, interesting experiences of your existence when you're asleep or when you're awake?) Surrealism brings forth the magic of the subconscious and the might of the imagination to make existence more splendid. It is synonymous with magick

The great artist/magician Austin Osman Spare has been called a proto-surrealist because he delved into the weird supersensual depths of the subconscious and the superconscious and brought back images like The Death Posture

Manifesto of Surrealism by André Breton. "What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real."

The Elephant Celebes, L'Ange Du Foyer or Le triomphe du surrealisme and Ubu Imperator by Max Ernst. Dig the way surrealists can see everything as alive, as having personality. (The Elephant Celebes is made from a grain silo Ernst saw.) Man is largely a social animal, and personifying things in thought allows us to understand them in strange sparkly ways. This is the natural way of thinking about things and is found in all pre-theoretical societies. This type of thinking is the basis of polytheism, animism, much of magick and the more effective schools of psychotherapy like Transactional Analysis, some Gestalt therapy and some NLP.

The Metamorphosis of Narcissus by Salvador Dalí

The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí