Throughout history there have lived courageous artists, visionaries, poets, prophets and healers who have expressed the wisdom of their Artistic Mind in unique ways with the intention of uplifting others and enriching our shared human experience. These illuminators have provided insight into the nature and significance of deeply human truths about ~
The wisdom of these Artistic Minds is existential, transcending many of the boundaries that society puts in place and that tend to keep us divided along lines of race, age, status, wealth, and experience. Their insights are reminders that we are all uniquely significant players connected within the greater Mystery of Life.
iNous is dedicated to celebrating and sharing this timeless wisdom through creative, collaborative projects.
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On this page you will find the evolving Glossary of Illuminators whose noetic wisdom is reflected in our Intentional journeys and printed decks. Please note that new names are constantly being added and existing details amended.
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Abraham Maslow
American psychologist and philosopher whose theories of self-actualization were deeply humanistic calling for the integration of all human desires and aspirations towards the achievement of sublime experiences.
Ai Weiwei | Collective Imagineer
A multifaceted contemporary Chinese artist who has used his large-scale installations, architectural projects, photographs, social media posts, and videos to draw attention to social injustices and challenge hegemonic ideologies.
Alan Watts | Cosmic Entertainer
A British philosopher and mystic who delighted and illuminated audiences with his existential leactures, talks and writings communicating the essence of Zen Buddhism.
Albert Einstein
Aldous Huxley
Alphonse Mucha
Anaïs Nin | Sensuous Diarist
French diarist who shared her intimate feelings and existential musings in diary entries written throughout her life - most of which would come to be shared publically and illuminate readers through their authentic insights.
Andrew Wyeth
Anna Halprin
Anna Lurchenko
Anne Lamott
An American writer who embraces the imperfections of being a human being and offers humorous insights into life, relationship and authentic expression.
Annie Albers
Anton Chekhov
Antoni Gaudí
Antony Osler
Arthur Erickson
Arthur Koestler
Hungarian-born polymath who recognized the visionary role played by the artistic mind in social evolution, and who sought ground-breaking insights by stepping across existing intellectual thresholds and boundaries.
Arthur Maslow
Arthur Rimbaud
Ashkan Honarvar
Bayo Akomolafe
Beth Hunt
Blake Plante
Blossom Goodchild
A high-spirited 'Direct Voice' channeller and author who shares intuitive insights and messages of Love, Light and Laughter through a multiplicity of platforms.
Boyzie Cekwana
South African-born embodiment practitioner using performance as a tool for social change, inviting personal and collective transformation through multidisciplinary explorations of identity and expression.
Brian Eno
Brother David Steindl-Rast
Bruce Garrabrandt
An American visual artist who uses witty and lyrical illustrations of personified pigs to entertain and enlighten.
Buckminster Fuller
Carl Jung
Swiss-Austrian psychologist who staunchly advocated the value of individuality and understood the human psyche to be far more expansive and mysterious than commonly perceived.
Carl R Rogers
Carroll Dunham
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Burchfield
Charles Faulkner
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chogyam Trungpa
Criss Jami
Cynthia Ozick
Daniel Siedell
David Grayson
David Lynch
Dawn Langdown
Doris Humphrey
Dorit Schwartz
Dorothy Parker
Douglas Adams
E E Cummings
Eileen Agar
Elbert Hubbarb
Elen Flügge
Elie Wiesel
Ellen Langer
Ellen Parr
Emily Dickinson
Eric Maisel
Erik Exe Christoffersen
Ernest Becker
Ernest Flagg
Eugenio Barba
An Italian theatre director, author and theatre anthropologist who explores forms of devising theatre in liminal contexts, and uses performance as a tool for bridging cultural divides and exploring deeply rooted cultural hierarchies.
Francis Bacon
Frank Lloyd Wright
An American architect who viewed form and function as unified, and designed buildings in harmonious resonance with their immediate surroundings, utilizing resources and materials integral to the environment.
Frederick W H Myers
Friedrich Nietzsche
George B. Leonard
An American writer and editor whose insight into the complexities underlying social and cultural fabrics led him to propose innovative theories for understanding humanity and inviting global change.
Georgia O'Keeffe
Gertrude Stein
Greg Bennick
Gregory Bateson
Harry Owen
Helen Frankenthaler
Helen Keller
Henri David Thoreau
Henri Facillon
Henri Matisse
Herbert E Read
British philosopher, critic and writer with a deep understanding of the nature of the artist in contemporary society, and who celebrated the artist's role as integral to the health of a flourishing culture.
Herman Hesse
Hetti Perkins
Iain McGilchrist
Isadora Duncan
Free-spirited dancer and choreographer who followed the organic impulses of the human body in alignment with the rhythms and cycles of nature, and to elevate Dance as a form of authentic soulful expression.
J Krishnamurti
James Cairns
James Hillman
Jeanette Winterson
Jenny Odell
Jerzi Grotowski
Jill Badonsky
Joel Spring
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
John Cage
A light-spirited American composer whose sound creation was informed by Zen principles of non-duality and non-linearity, and who invited chance enounters and improvisational strategies into his sound designs.
John Dewey
Jorge Luis Borges
Josef Albers
A German-born visual artist and educator who placed the immediacy of colour at the centre of his artistic explorations and teachings.
Joseph Campbell
Joseph Conrad
Julia Cameron
Julian Klein
Julyan Davis
Kate Bush
Katherine Paterson
Ken Turner
Konrad Fiedler
Lanon Prigge
Laura Huxley
Lawrence Durrell
Laxmi Prasad Devkota
Léon Bloy
Leonard Bernstein
An American composer who embraced art's capacity to unite people, spread harmony and goodwill, and bring about social change through personal transformation.
Leonard Cohen
Lesley Sutton
Lewis Thomas
American physician, poet, etymologist, essayist and researcher who recognized the beauty of life through studying organic patterns and organisms, and was able to effectively communicate scientific concepts through his lyrical writing.
Louise Bourgeois
Lyall Watson
A South African polymath, adventurer and author who sought to ground supernatural phenomena within the natural dynamics of biological interactions, and celebrated the Mystery at the heart of Life.
M C Escher
Marcel Proust
Margaret Atwood
Margot Fonteyn
Marilyn Ferguson
Marina Abramović
A Serbian conceptual and performance artist who has used collective performative environments to access deeply personal levels of stamina, endurance and tolerance thereby inviting the possibility for revelation and transformation in audience members.
Mark Rothko
Mark Twain
Marvin Minsky
Mary Oliver
Massimiliano Gioni
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Maxine Greene
Maya Angelou
Maya Kulenovic
Maya Lin
Meredith Monk
A trailblazing multimodal artist who has used sound as an integral component in her diverse practises and performances, and become a role-model for many in her dogged pursuit of authentic expression.
Méret Oppenheim
Michael Mead
Michael Talbot
Mies van der Rohe
Neil Gaiman
Nicolas Galanin
Nora Bateson
Oliver Lee Jackson
Oscar Wilde
Osho
Indian philosopher and mystic who acknowledged creative rapture as a state of awareness, presence and receptivity available to all, and espoused sovereignty and authentic expression as the most direct path to spiritual enlightenment.
Otto Rank
Owen Barfield
Pablo Picasso
Patrick Swift
Paul Valéry
Percy Walker
Poklong Anading
Rafel Bestard
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Raoul Hausmann
Ray Bradbury | Champion Imagineer
American writer with the capacity to expand horizons and delve into the mysterious with the creation of far-out characters and exotic locations.
René Magritte
Richard Artschwager
Richard T Scott
Robert Bly
Robert Fulghum
Robert Henri
Robert Pinsky
Rogan Brown
Rupert Spira
Ryan Gattis
S J Norman
Sami Maseko
Sara Morsey
Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah Morsey
Seamus Heaney
Sevdaliza
Søren Kierkegaard
Susan Vreeland
T X Huxley
Ted Falconar
A British philosopher and mystic who proposed 'nous' as the ultimate wisdom capable of transporting the ordinary mind into states of heightened attention, creativity and interconnectedness.
Thomas Merton
Tom Robbins
Ursula Le Guin
Veda Austin
Virginia Woolf
Walt Whitman
Walter Horatio Peter
Wendell Berry
William Faulkner
William Irwin Thompson
An American social philosopher, cultural critic, and poet often referred to as the 'jazz mythologist', who recognized the integral role played by unconscious aspects of the human mind in sense-making through stories and symbols.
William Kentridge
William Rowlandson
Yvette Kaiser Smith
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