Biomorphic Skrying

by David Chaim Smith

“Biomorphic Skrying” is a rare visionary practice that projects the mind deep into the field of perception to derive strange and beautiful images from the journey. The term is derived from two “bio” (life or living) and “morph” (form). The method trains inner exploration and records its passage through obscure psycho-aetheric territories. As the trajectory is released the logic of ordinary representation is overcome, and pure organic and geometric patterns can be gathered into visions and transferred to drawings on paper. Along with this liberated patterning, torrents of esoteric symbols spontaneously arise (but only if the mind is inextricably bound to that symbology through contemplative work). As this evocatory practice is articulated the greater context of mystical work is examined, which gives new meaning to the miracle of vision itself. The account can benefit anyone who wishes to consider the imagination beyond its range of conventional function, which enriches an appreciation of its power and scope. (52 images)

136 pages, Hardcover

Published September 1, 2025

About the author

David Chaim Smith was born in 1964 in Queens, New York. His early career was as a visual artist throughout the 1980s. In 1990 he began an immersion into the root sources of Alchemy and the Hermetic and Hebrew traditions of the Kabbalah. In 1996 he abandoned visual art for a total dedication to spiritual practice, from which came a unique blend of practical mysticism and creative innovation. This blend coalesced while working with an obscure thirteenth-century text called The Fountain of Wisdom, which he mapped out diagrammatically in notebooks during his ten-year hiatus from visual art. The resulting symbol vocabulary served as the basis for his 2006 return to art, generating the content for several books. He currently lives in the suburbs of New York City with his wife, Rachel.