This beautiful “Medicine Painting” is the work of Danny Frank, also known as COSMOCTO. Danny’s spiritual and mystical experiences enrich and energize all of his work. Here, you’ll follow him from his background in Eastern mysticism to his upcoming show opening at the Sala Diaz Gallery in San Antonio, Texas in May. See one of his traditional mandalas below, and be sure to tune into his “Stop Motion Mandalas” movie.

How did mandalas become a part of your life?

I started making Mandalas in October 2005. Up …

There is no right or wrong. There is no spiritual way that you must understand. There is no spiritual teaching, teacher, book, experience you can have that will ever entirely show you the size of yourself.

~Lee Harris

(A little visualizing required here!) What kind of food would you serve on a dinner plate with this design? It would have to be something bright, maybe salmon, or white fish, with a baby greens salad. And bread. Always good to have a vehicle for butter. I’m sure Ivan at The Wine List of Summit can recommend a fabulous wine to go with this meal. And after dinner, have your cappuccino in a matching …

Have you ever stared into the face of what appears to be certain disaster and felt absolutely liberated? All the asking and reading and listening and studying and visualizing… it eventually brings you face to face with all your stuff. The choice then, is to hang on for dear life to everything you think you know, or to completely let go and experience true freedom.

I never used to understand the concept of completely letting …

It sure does cause a stir when you don’t want to live in a box.