(Cristobal Casillas)
I was born in (Mexico City) or Tenochtitlan, (the Aztec Capital) in the cristian age of 1972.
I grew up in Guadalajara and left Mexico 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 into 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.
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, 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 Huena-
caxtle, Guadalajara, Mexico city (Private Exhibition)
INDIA Four years without going out , finding out how far the rabbit hole goes…
2004 IBIZA (Private Exhibition)
(ExibhitionGALERIA Transgresion)
2006 INDIA Parvati Valley, Laxman Joolha, Goa
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 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 unfortunately the rest of the world was falling into complete loss of consciousness, always going faster, harder, tighter.
Then I was ready and found my Teacher, first inside of me and then a few months later outside. 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.
I came to the top of my 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).
Finally in the beginning of the new Century I met Natacha. The Love of my Life. 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 in us, the human destiny.
In 2004 we sailed to the White Island (Ibiza).
In the explosion of this magical 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.
Our trip continues in very strange ways, but our purpose is clear, the solution can only be Peace, Freedom and Love!
To Peace, Freedom and Love !
Thank you…
For personal contact please
email kailasarts@gmail.com
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