My first experience with angels was in 1990-1991 and I'll never forget it: I remember deciding to snack on a bit of cheese and crackers 2 one night while listening to the "smooth" jazz playing on the radio. After finishing the snack, I laid belly down - head resting on raised arms - and stared straight ahead at the bare wall in front of me. For the jazz on the radio switched to what could be called "space age" or "new age" music 3 and had already put me into one of those involuntary trances. I lost track of time, place, who I was, and I didn't care. The music playing on the radio was so unique and beautiful - it was nothing like I had ever heard! And then I was there!

I had no sensation of leaving my body and I wasn't able to track the thoughts that might have led me to this place. But all of a sudden, I was seeing people with wings! And they were flying, walking, sitting... above the clouds. I couldn't believe my eyes! They looked just glorious. Perfect. Content. But... nude? I must have pondered the nudity for a millisecond until it just wasn't important and apparently became perfectly natural to me. And then I became concerned. It was as if my logical mind reminded me that the only way I could possibly see nude people flying above clouds was if these things were angels and I was... d e a d. Talk about your wake up call! "I didn't want to die! What did I do to die?!?" I believe it was this small amount of panic that alerted one particular male angel to my presence, which before hand went undetected. This angel was not (and I repeat) not friendly at all! In fact, he was rather rude and blankly told me through telepathy, "You don't belong here. Get out." I felt like a kid in a candy store - caught trying to leave without paying for the candy. This feeling of embarrassment is what I think snapped me out of this wondrous place and there before my eyes was my bare wall again. Curiously, the song on the radio that started at the same time the experience started was fading off so I suspect the trip lasted about 1-2 minutes. In this short amount of time I saw about 10 different scenes.

More concerned with my own sanity than what others may have thought about me, I kept this experience a secret for a little more than a decade. But I couldn't let such a fantastic event lie dormant - not even for this long stretch of time. So two years ago I decided to research the subject under the impression that I couldn't be the only one who had experienced this phenomena. Perhaps there was an explanation out there, waiting to put my concerns to rest. Researching the subject on the internet turned up very little, but enough to make me believe this is a topic worth pursuing, since there had indeed, been others 4 who had seen not only angels, but Naked Angels. The manner 5 in which these angels were seen (by others and myself) prompted me to investigate the workings of the mind and eventually, spirituality as a whole. But the information I was getting didn't provide the definitive explanation I needed, but instead, ambiguous suggestions toward this possibility. Instead of getting answers, I found myself asking more and more answer-less questions.

So instead of continuing along a massive web of intertwined question marks, I decided to go back to the source, which is myself, or correctly, my mind - from whence I witnessed these Naked Angels in the first place. For reasons unknown at this moment, I just can not let this phenomenon rest.

I have such an unexplainable compulsion to investigate the matter until I arrive at one of two conclusions: (1) Naked Angels do exist and deserve observation, or, (2) I have lost all mental sensibility. This article is my public announcement to prove one of these two conclusions, and I plan to prove them through the workings of introspective mind work, while recording my findings in artwork. I will either re-discover what I and a few others have witnessed to be true, or, I will create a bizarre memoir of an adventure into my own mind.

Within this manifesto, Section 1 details the problems with what I call "angelic ambiguity," and how the Naked Angel Project attempts to eradicate it. Section 2 describes my goals and objectives, and explains what I hope to accomplish. Section 3 outlines how I intend to meet these goals and objectives, while Section 4 comments on the evaluation process of this self-inflicted adventure. Section 5 introduces my artistic/spiritual qualifications and support for this specific adventure.

I wish to thank Shiva for nearly a year of online discussion regarding spirituality; my family for supporting my talent as a young artist; and Auggie who introduced me to the tarot and the power of the mind. I also wish to thank the many who have taken the time to encourage my plight, especially John and Carol for their stimulating comments which prompted me to write such a manifesto as this.

The Importance Of Definitions
Biased Interpretation
Separation Vs Unity
Brewing Even More Ambiguity
Angelic Ambiguity Vs The Naked Angel Project

Interaction

An Invitation
The Project's Longevity

Project Benefits
Skill, Objectivity, and Artistry

Demanding Skill
Demanding Objectivity
Demanding Artistry
Independent Artwork

Signs Of Success

Activities

Acquiring The Images
Producing The Drawings

Reasons For Activities

Meditation/Remote Viewing Over Anything Else
Art vs. Written Material

Sequence Of Activities

Evaluation Plan

Qualifying Validations
Qualifying Invalidations
Quantifying Both

The Evaluators
Data Processing