…animals and creatures that they painted. Just as you might see, something in a Rorschach Blot and then they brought it out. Leonardo Da Vinci spoke of his using his imagination on a dirty old wall in which he could see landscapes and battles and all…

…And then he'd take his brush and just fill in a few necessary details and immediately there was this magnificent landscape. Leonardo Da Vinci did the same thing. He'd look at dirty old walls and watch them until his eidetic vision brought out an extremely…

…fisherman, a very all around man like you know the great characters of the Renaissance men like Pico Della Mirandola and Leonardo Da Vinci man of this stature and his book the dance of shiva is a discussion of various aspects of Indian Culture. It's…

…he saw these trigrams by heating the shell of a tortoise until it cracked and then studying the cracks. In the same way Leonardo Da Vinci used to go to a filthy old wall where there were all sorts of bird droppings and scratches and markings, and he…

…at a chintz curtain or lying in hospital and looking at patterns on the ceiling you start to pick out designs and themes. Leonardo Da Vinci used to look at dirty old walls where there's moisture and damp and mold, and see in those walls all kinds of…

…perfectly ordinary state of consciousness and see pictures in it, and you can see trees and people and all sorts of things. Leonardo Da Vinci used to make a regular practice of looking at a dirty old wall and find paintings in it. That's, of course how…

…that state where you are receptive to seeing images and you will begin to see all kinds of faces and trees and landscapes. Leonardo Da Vinci did this. He used to go out and look at a wall which was weathered, made of bricks, covered with bird shit and…