Seeing through Stone: Image Montage

Throughout the development of this volume, there has been mention, many times, especially by people stumbling on Peter Whitehead's work for the first time, about the variety it embodies—the extreme changes that seem to have occurred, in so many different disciplines.

But Whitehead has always insisted that he sees his life to be the pursuit of a single idea rather than many. In a November 2010 e-mail conversation, the editors suggested he might write something to explain this central recurring "idea," which is not immediately obvious.

He replied that he had tried hard to explain this "entangled singularity" in words but kept "falling into a black hole while trying." He often pointed out that running around cities, the man filming with his movie camera was using the camera as an "all-seeing eye." This just happens to be the occult meaning behind the Horus name and mythology in Ancient Egypt: the Udjat magic eye, the opening of the third eye, and so on. After only a few years of filming, he spent more than twenty years with his beloved falcons. "I merely swapped one all-seeing eye for another! ... An outsight-looking camera to an insight-seeing camera."

Any suggestion to him of writing an autobiography gets the instant reply: "It would have to be a graphic novel!"

Finally, he came up with this ...

HORUS the FALCON

Son of ISIS and OSIRIS

ISIS as a hovering Falcon

ISIS hovering symbolises SIMULTANEITY. Uniting the fragments of the Osiris body.

Rosetta Stone

The Novel: THE RISEN

Princess MERITATEN

The Shamanic Call to the Holographic vision. Fitzwilliam Museum: Cambridge

Making a Hologram: 1995

Making a Hologram: 4500BC

Moiré Patterns

Invisible Interfering Wave fields

Haemoglobin Molecule

X-Ray crystallography: 3 Dimensional data created from two dimensional photographs, as in Holography.

THE RISEN: A Holographic novel

The inner story of HORUS the falcon

Me

Heart of Conglomerate stone

Priestesses of ISIS

DERRIDA: The CRYSTAL IMAGE

Film: the ultimate betrayal

Virtual Girls, Lost Girls, Dead Girls

Assassination

The man of the mountains shoots himself out of the city

Holographic Consciousness

NEURONES using PHOTONS in crystal modules

Through the NOHZONE TREE

Becoming the CERAMIC TREE

... a tree in life becomes a leaf in stone ...

GRANITE Rock Slice: Scrying

Oil paint on paper: paper from pulped trees

Oil colours: minerals and clays.

Dissolving back into NUIT ... Dark Matter

X-rays: Interference reveals the lattices of a crystallised human molecule

Lake Coniston, Cumbria, the Snow Country. Where Michael Schlieman goes to die.

Michael Schlieman watching his Khu leaving his body ... erasing all memories of his wanderings and his life and loves. Peace at last.

A translucent body in its limestone tomb. Stone body and mind seen as pure crystal, in the Holographic minds of the Gods.