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PLEASE VIEW ON UTUBE SITE IF THIS DOESN'T PLAY CORRECTLY....SHOWN AT RIGHT....MINDJAZZ1


I compiled a book a few years ago which was a combination of pictures of the Universe from the Hubble Telescope....My Artwork and words that I called NEO-ILLUMINATIONS.

The book is called Neo-Illuminations, Galaxies and me

I sent out 7 copies to book publishers over a year and a half, from 2003 to 2004 and received 7 extremely nice rejection notices. An extremely nice rejection note is one that has a hand written message along with the form rejection letter.

7 is not enough rejections....but they took the wind out of my sails and after carefully looking at self-publishing and rejecting for various reasons....I simply put the project on hold.

I have decided to start sending the book out again.

It is intended to be a coffee table sized publication.

I had posted a version of it, without my artwork, about a year ago on U TUBE. I just noticed the other day that there was a comment left, at the time of posting, from a very dear friend... ...and I've decided to post the comment. I had not noticed the comment until three days ago.

"Who, what, when, where and why?
Of all the people I know....I would think you might know those answers.....as far as anybody else wondering.....well that's the beauty of Neo-Illumination....obviously it's not intended for the masses....or the masses would have it.....and from what I can tell....not only do the masses not have it.....but IT is not even being looked into."

This comment helped to reinvigorate the effort that would allow a small portion of the masses to HAVE IT.

There is always the chance that no sizable portion of the masses will ever HAVE IT or GET IT or
WANT IT....but I'm hoping that those who might NEED IT will eventually stumble across it.

I realize that the words by themselves are the NEO-ILLUMINATIONS so I've decided to post them in my handwriting, which was a friends suggestion five years ago that I ignored.

THE GALAXY pictures were selected because my brother didn't like my artwork and my father didn't think I should mess up my artwork with all the silly writing....so instead of just my personal artwork I figured adding pictures of the Universe made sense.

At the time of complying the book....I had read that only 5% of the world's population had seen pictures from the Hubble Telescope

BYTHEWAY.......The amount of writing within artwork today is beyond common place and indeed quite prevalent.

When I started my first NEO-ILLUMINATION piece of ART (11th commandment)in 1995
there was very little artwork being done that incorporated phrases with abstract artwork.

That's the beauty of being open to Universal INPUT....thousands of artists got the word from that MOIS..... magical orbital information supplier....WHOEVER THAT MIGHT BE...and we started doing our versions of the information.

The price I paid to receive NEO-ILLUMINATIONS is way beyond any price that I wanted to pay and given a choice in the matter would gladly return for a full refund and no FEBRUARY 3rd 1994 moment.

I'm considered an Outsider Artist because I have not received my BA from a University and my AA degree just doesn't pass the mustard.

Hopefully the NEO-ILLUMINATIONS that were sent to my soul and then slipped to my brain and then escaped through my fingers...have no regard for levels of completed education.

Thus the above video with Jeff Buckley's version of Leonard Cohen's song "Hallelujah" shows the words by themselves.

The words obviously stand by themselves...but they do appear naked without the artwork...but then again that's just one outsider's opinion.

I realize the words will be rather small on your screen but then again maybe they are suppose to be hard to get!

Michael Timothy McAlevey