...a few pages from the 176 page book

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“Divining the Dream” is about remembering, reclaiming and rejoicing in our common divinity. It is a thought provoking quest for love.

I have woven the poetry and art of sixty artists and twenty-five poets together with my own, to produce this global expression of love. I chose material inspired by dreams, meditations, archetypal stories and icons, social and ecological situations and trance states.

Vishnu, Buddah and Christ can be seen peacefully frequenting the same image or stanza.The Goddess unfolds as Maiden, Mother and Crone.Pan dances with Amazonian shamans. Insects, snakes, animals and fish are respected.The elements are revered. Our Universal Consciousness is honored.

This book has no chapters, but quite shortly you might note that it follows the romance of our divine mother and father as they weave the wheel of the year. Moving through the solstices, equinoxes and the forgotten holydays which originally marked the beginning of our four seasons, we follow both their dance and our own heart. Dancing in the same rhythm, through our familiar humanstory, from birth to growth, decline to death, we rise so high and dip so low. We are on a hero’s journey;harvesting lessons and revelations.

Painters Aloria Weaver and David Heskin along with Delvin Solkinson (editor of CoSM Journal) have gifted the book by proofing it with me.We are reclaiming the power, the vision and the love needed to pull us into a new and constructive age.

Liba WS 2012

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Capturing the story and art of the amazing Garden is the full-color hardcover book The Encyclopedia of Fernal Affairs from Dreams & Divinities.

Leslie Ditto’s “Enlightened” is featured in the Encyclopedia, as a depiction of life bursting through layers of worlds, familiar and strange, lost and remembered.  Pealing back the inner eye can reveal the natural energy and perpetuity connecting all.

What is the Fernal Garden, you ask?

The Garden of Fernal Delights is a sublime and paradisiacal place where all the delights of the natural world from the sexual to the surreal, the visionary to the instinctive, are celebrated as fundamental joys of being alive. The Garden is a place with no evil, no notion of sin, no hierarchy – it is a place of magic, of play and playfulness. All things are possible in the Garden, where madness turns to wonder and everything that was once seen as cursed or damned is returned to the light of this strange world. Such ideas are upon serious meditation deeply challenging to the modern world. This is our chance to explore a new imaginary world that is collectively co-created, and to try and answer: What does a world with few boundaries and few hang-ups feel like?  

The Encyclopedia of Fernal Affairs is written by Gromyko Semper, Liba W S, and Bruce Rimell, designed by Liba W Stambollion, and is illustrated by 105 of the world’s most talented artists, including Leslie Ditto.

This remarkable edition is due for publication in late 2014.