Originally Published in The Third Eye, Issue 01, 2012.
Ignited in 2012, The Third Eye magazine evolves at the crossroads of different alternative, indigenous, grassroots and underground movements from around the world.
The Third Eye is all at once
A Spirit,
A Dream,
An Adventure,
Uniting a wild and colorful spectrum of
Voices, Visions and Energies,
From the global North and South.
Now based in the Amazon Rainforest following its initial foundation in the concrete jungle of London, The Third Eye unites voices and stories of individuals and communities at the forefront of imagining, dreaming, and actively creating alternatives and solutions to the spiritual and ecological crisis we face on our planet in the 21st century.
Contributors to The Third Eye come from all walks of life, from the global North to the South, indigenous and non-indigenous. Contributors to date include the likes of pioneering artists and avant-garde personalities such as Alejandro Jodorowsky and Yoko Ono, to inspiring indigenous activists and leaders such as Chief Raoni Metuktire of the Kayapo tribe in the Brazilian Amazon and Huichol shaman and leader Don José Ramirez 'Uxamuire' from Mexico.
Published around Infinity O’Clock
The magazine is distributed worldwide across independent art bookshops, concept stores and influential galleries including the Tate Modern, Palais de Tokyo and MOMA as well as spontaneous distributions along the road throughout Planet Earth.
The Third Eye’s magazine is an irregular publication. It is free-form and free-paced. It is published whenever possible and with whatever means possible. Click here to see the latest issue. Issue 03 will be a great new flaming journey!
DIGITAL EXHIBITION CELEBRATING EXPERIMENTAL, AVANT-GARDE & NON-COMMERCIAL FILM Presents independent films from the past and present. Inspired by the visionary works of filmmakers and artists as varied as Jack Smith, Sergei Eisenstein and Maya Deren, The Third Eye Cinema explores the power and revolutionary potential of moving images, documentary and visual art as vehicles of change.
The Third Eye curates exhibitions and installations. In December 2012, The Third Eye held a special exhibition in the heart of the jungle of Chiapas in Mexico, near the ancient Mayan city of Palenque. In 2013, The Third Eye was invited to Berlin to create and curate the exhibition ‘Manifestations: An Exhibition by The Third Eye’ at AKA Galerie.
The Third Eye is a space for independent voices and visions, thirsty for radical ideas and bold movements. With a penchant for the surreal, the fantastical, and the flamboyant, The Third Eye is nevertheless rooted in the Earth. We are not separate from Nature, we are part of it. The dominant capitalistic, patriarchal and extractivist system and its materialistic, individualistic, reductive worldview has put us out out of alignment with the natural balance of our planet, our host – the Living Mother Earth, or “Pachamama”, as she is called with great reverence by many indigenous people in South America – and in so doing, it has placed us out of alignment with ourselves. Yet around the world, an ever increasing momentum of movements are building and calling forth models, ways of living, being and seeing that synthesise both new and ancient knowledge, in harmony with the Earth.
The world speaks of revolution, but we can no longer pretend that only the system must be changed. The mutation of the seed starts with our minds, the centre from which action emanates.
As artist ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY says in the first issue of The Third Eye, we are working for 'MUTATION'!
The Third Eye works to re-infuse and manifest a sense of Magic and Mythos into the world. In other words, The Third Eye invites you to celebrate Dream, Spirit, and Consciousness as essential forces in the creation and construction of our reality, society and world. Without these, any alternatives will be difficult, if not impossible, to adopt or imagine.
Join us, as we translate dreams into actions!
Let us welcome the immaterial, the invisible, the irrational, the impossible and the infinite!
CONTACT
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The Third Eye is open to Collaborations, Contributions and the Cosmos!
We Are One.
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ABOUT THE FOUNDER
Sophie Pinchetti is the Spirit-in-Chief, Founder & Publisher of The Third Eye.
Currently based in the Amazon rainforest, Sophie is French-American and grew up between Paris, New York and London. She graduated with First Class Honours from Central Saint Martins in 2012 specializing in journalism and visual arts, and began working in in the contemporary arts and fashion industries, in parallel to which she launched The Third Eye magazine with the intent to fuse art and environmental issues, and explore alternative movements throughout the world. In 2013, The Third Eye was awarded the Ideas Fund Innovators by the Arts Council England. In 2014, Sophie and French journalist Dora Moutot co-founded the media The Other: Home of Subcultures & Style Documentary, exploring dress cultures, style tribes, communities and subcultures around the world.
After dreaming of the Amazon for so long, Sophie moved from London to the Peruvian jungle in 2016. Since 2018, Sophie lives in the Ecuadorian Amazon, where she works full-time as Communications & Development Coordinator with Amazon Frontlines and Alianza Ceibo, defending indigenous rights to land, life and cultural survival in the Amazon rainforest. Sophie has also worked as a Journalist, Photographer, Producer and Consultant for the likes of The Guardian, Truthout, Purple Fashion Magazine, Reve en Vert, Survival International and Amazon Watch.
Amazon Spirit & Pachamama Defender
THE TEAM
Spirit-in-Chief, Founder & Publisher : Sophie Pinchetti
Web Developer : Sébastien Garciaz
CONTRIBUTORS, FROM AMAZONIA TO BERLIN...
Guillermo Alarcon (Mexico) • Amazon Watch • Camilla Coutinho (Brazil) • Celestial Twins (Chile) • Noam Chojnowski (Israel) • Fabrice Knecht (Swizerland) • Eriberto Gualinga (Ecuador) • Felipe Jacome (Ecuador) • Alejandro Jodorowsky (Chile) • Fuck For Forest (currently: Mexico) • Janine Beachle (Germany) • Kate Bellm (Spain) • Mariana Maia (Brazil) • Sara Mapelli (USA) • Pascale Montandon (France) • Benoit Paille (Canada) • Indigenous Environmental Network (USA) • Catriona Rainsford (UK) • Don Jose & Luis Ramirez (Mexico) • Hernan Vilchez (Argentina) • Tashka Yawanawa (Brazil) • Benny Wenda (West Papua)
Discover more contributors & special collaborations, check out The Third Eye magazine printed editions.
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IT'S LIKE MUSIC TO THE THIRD EYE'S EARS
“Be the change that you want to see in the world.” ― Gandhi
“For me they are no different, reality and dreams.” ― Alejandro Jodorowsky
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ― Buckminster Fuller
“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” ― Yoko Ono
“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.” ― Dalai Lama
“Those who lose dreaming are lost.” ― Aboriginal Proverb
“Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.” ― Salvador Dalí
“Be humble, for you are made of Earth. Be noble, for you are made of Stars.” ― Serbian Proverb
“Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.” ― Joseph Campbell
Blood Piece / Use your blood to paint / (a) Keep painting until you faint / (b) Keep painting until you die. ― Yoko Ono
“We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.” ― Dakota Indian Proverb