(Cristobal Casillas)

I was born in Tenochtitlan, the Aztec Capital (Mexico City) in the cristian age of 1972. 

I grew up in Guadalajara and left at the age of eighteen, for Paris to study in the famous Graphik Art School “Met de Penninghen” ESAG  (Ecole Supérieur des Arts Graphiques) in 1990. Succeeded brilliantly and concluded the third year in only two, then decided I had learned enough technique and was risking to get trapped by the professionalism of Art, I wanted to go to the roots of Art, the Art of Living !

The Big Adventure started...

So I flew away like the smoke to the sky and landed in the exotism of Bali at the end of 1992, where i got the first essential Spiritual experience.

Everything changed; I had awakened to my Path! And what supposed to be a painting trip became also a spiritual quest, inside and outside; the alchemy of both. The Revolution of the Self made me move around the world for answers. Too much knowledge and wisdom from the Ancient Cultures remained hidden to the ordinary world. Painting became my means to get there, and not a proffession.

Art, spiritual experience and entheogen plants from all cultures around the world became the food of my soul. I was now in the Magic World, there where everything is possible...

I was a trip haunting for the Ultimate Truth!

Eight long years always moving, learning, changing social positions and places, thirsty for new experiences, pushing the limits, always higher, always deeper.

Luckily thanks to a few wealthy good friends who supported me buying my paintings when I passed through Paris and Mexico, so that a month later I was flying to the next novelty.

I wanted Knowledge, but I had to go find it.

Here is a chronological account of an 8 years trip around the world, a trip of consciousness, deep social and cultural studies and profound experiences:

1992  INDONESIA   Bali, Gili Trawangan (Lombok)

1993  MALASYA   Pulau Tioman, Pulau Peranthian

          THAILAND   Krabi, Koh Phangan, Koh Tao, Koh Phangan, Bangkok

          NEPAL   Kathmandu, Nagarkot, Pokhara, Sarangkot.

          THAILAND   Bangkok, Koh Tao, Koh Phangan.

          FRANCE  Paris, Marseille, Cassis, Nice                   (Exibition GALERIE 50A Nice)

          MEXICO   Mexico city, Guadalajara, Huautla, San Mateo, Tenango, Oaxaca, Zepolite,

                             Ajijic.

          FRANCE  Paris.                                                       

1994  INDIA  Delhi, Manali, Dharamsala, McLeod Ganj, Jaipur, Pushkar, Goa, Gokarna,  

                        Hampi, Bangalore, Ooty, Kodaikanal, Panbanpuram, Kumili,  Mahabalipuram       

                        Varanasi.

          NEPAL Kathmandu, Pokhara, Gorepani, Sarangkot

          THAILAND  Bangkok, Koh Tao…

          MALASYA Penang

          INDONESIA  Pulau We, Lake TobaSumatra

          SINGAPORE

          MALASYA Pulau Tioman

          SOUTH AFRICA Johanesburg, Krugger Park, Lesotho

          ZIMBABWE  (hitchhiking)

          ZAMBIA  (hitchhiking) Mwami, Lusaka.

          MALAWI  Senga Bay, Cape Mc Lear, Mangochi,  Nkata Bay, Livingstonia…

                           Lilongwe, Mzuzu, Likoma island.

          TANZANIA Dar es Salam

          KENYA Mombasa, Malindi, Lamu, Nairobi

          FRANCE Paris, Montpellier                                     (Private Exhibition)

          HOLLAND Den Haag

1995 MEXICO  Mexico, Guadalajara, Chapala,  Ajijic, San Miguel Allende, Quatorze, Wirikuta, Guadalajara,          

          Mexico city                                                                (Private Exhibition)

          GUATEMALA  Antigua

          HONDURAS   Tela, Triunfo de la Cruz, La Ceiba, Utila.

          MEXICO   Mexico City

          USA   Los Angeles

          INDIA  Delhi, Jaipur, Pushkar, Laxman Joolha, Uttarkashi, Gangotri, Bhoghsan,

                        Gangnani

          THAILAND Bangkok, Koh Tao.

          MALASYA   Pulau Tioman.

          SINGAPORE

          MALASYA    Pulau Tioman, Penang.

          THAILAND    Bangkok, Kanchanaburi                                   

1996  INDIA  Calcutta, Laxman Joolha, Jimil Gufa, Neelkanth,  Goa, Gokarna, Philaur, Lax.

FRANCE   Paris, St Tropez                                       (Private Exhibition)

          MEXICO    Mexico city                                            (Private Exhibition)

                             Guadalajara, San Andres Coameata, Mezquitic, Guadalajara,

                             Ajiic, Huautla, Oaxaca, Cholula, Pto. Vallarta, La Boca, San Miguel A.,

                             Real de Quatorce, Zacatecas, Mezquitic, Queairiuwitia (Huichol).

1997  USA  Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tiburon, Oakland, Sedona, Wakeeney, Frisco,

                     Cortez (Mesa Verde), Kearny, Tucson…

MEXICO Mexico city.                                              (Private Exhibition)

                  Tulum, Chetumal (worked with Archaeologists in pyramids

                  site drawing treasures from the tombs in Oxtankah).

GUATEMALA    Flores (Tikhal), El Remate. 

MEXICO   Chetumal, Mexico city.                                   

          ECUADOR   Quito, Puyo, Amazon Jungle (Holavida, Pitirisca, Indi Churis)

          MEXICO   Mexico city, Cholula, Huautla de Jimenez, Guadalajara.

          USA    Tucson, Kearny, Sedona, El Paso…

          FRANCE  Paris, Haute Savoie, Nogent,                  (Private Exhibition)

          SWITZERLAND   Geneva, Col des Mosses, Riveo, Verzasca, Schaffhaussen,

                                          Matzingen

          ITALY   Milano.

          FRANCE   Haute Savoie, Montauban, Lot et Garonne, Gers, Paris.

          ENGLAND    London

          SWITZERLAND    Schandital, Schaffhaussen, Singen, Zurich.

          FRANCE   Haute Savoie, Paris                                  (Private Exhibition)

          SINGAPORE

          MALASYA   Pulau Tioman, Penang.

          THAILAND   Bangkok, Koh Tao, Koh Phangan.      

1998  INDIA   Delhi, Pushkar, Goa, Gokarna, Pushkar, Laxman Joolha (Great Kumba Mela)

          THAILAND   Bangkok, River Kwai

          INDIA  Laxman Joolha, Kasol, Jari Parvati Valley, Pushkar, Delhi.

          FRANCE    Paris, Gers, Biarritz, Irazein.

          INDIA    Delhi, Jari, Pushkar, Delhi.

1999  SPAIN   Barcelona, Algeciras, Tenerife, Malaga, Sevilla,  Tarifa.

          (CANARIAN ISLANDS)    La Gomera,

           FRANCE    Paris                                                         (Private Exibhition)

           MEXICO   Cuernavaca,  Mexico, Guadalajara, Chapala,  Pto. Vallarta,  Boca de

                              Tomatlan, La Cruz de Huanacaxtle.

           SPAIN    (CANARIAN ISLAND)  Tenerife, La Gomera.

          GERMANY   Munich

2000  INDIA  Delhi, Goa, Gokarna, Varka,  Goa, Pushkar, Laxman Joolha, Delhi.

          FRANCE   Paris                                                          

          MEXICO  Cuernavaca, Chapala, Pto. Vallarta, Boca de Tomatlan, La Cruz de Huenacaxtle,

                             Guadalajara, Mexico city                (Private Exhibition)

          INDIA    Four years without going out                                                                                                                      

2004  IBIZA                                                                            (Private Exhibition)

                                                                     (ExibhitionGALERIA Transgresion)

We reached the end of the Century. The old Hippie movement had resurrected from the underground in the Free Parties! Thousands of people gathering to celebrate the ecstasy of Life. All of us looking for a new world. We where living so intensely and so profoundly that we found the lost Paradise, we where living “in the moment” so that “time” became eternal, but the rest of the world was falling into complete loss of consciousness, always going faster.

Then I was ready and found my Teacher, first inside of me and then outside a few months later. My search ended and my studies started.

The first Darshan with Kalki Avatara was in the Great Khumba Mela of Haridwar in 1998.

From here I entered into the marvellous mysteries of Yoga, the University of Life.

Most of the secrets of Creation where revealed to me, I came to the top of the Mountain.

I thought the world was ready for Realization, to conclude the Evolution proclaim the Kingdom of Love in this world and to go out of the Illusion (Maya). But it was not as easy as I thought. Not because it is difficult, because people are not ready, they still believe it is impossible. (Not to change the people but the situation of the world)

>It is a revolution of the Soul and not of power<

Finally in the beginning of the new Century I met Natacha. We went in Love and forgot the world; we went high in the mountains of the Himalaya, to our refuge and went in deep meditation trying to solve the magic formula that will change the human destiny.

5 years passed, 4 people went up the mountain and 7 came down. 2 couples and 3 children challenging a world gone crazy.

In these last years the Indian situation got harder by the pressure of International control.

So we decided to go back to the anonymity of the West.

Ibiza appeared as the western melting pot. In 2004 we sailed to the White Island.

In the explosion of this place we reached the hard core of Life experience, the extreme limits of Life in combination. It took two long years to break out the code and finally flew out to India in Nov 2005, alive and kicking. After all India is still the last oasis for the free spirit.

I continue to paint because I love it.

Our trip continues in very strange ways, but our purpose is clear, the solution can only be Peace, Freedom and Love!

Here we are in 2006 and I wanted to open this website to make a point and find opportunities for to continue our great adventure and reach our final destination.

To Peace, Freedom and Love !

Thank you…

For personal contact please email  kailaspati@hotmail.com