The History of Jeffrey Milburn and Omni Art
Art Salons in the past were a means for demonstrating a new artistic viewpoint that expressed the emerging zeitgeist of the times. In the advent of the 20th century this activity occurred in art galleries catering to the urban cultural elite. Omni Art, created by artist Jeffrey Milburn in 1988, was first seen in a one man museum installation in New York in March of 1991. The first exhibition in 1988 was attended by only a few close friends of the artist, and then in 1991 members of the downtown art crowd came to the museum to see the first openly public exhibition. At the time the mainstream art scene was still quite enmeshed in the last days of Pop Art and was not quite ready for the dramatic departure that Omni Art represented. Indeed it was not until the late 1990’s that the ideas of Omni Art which is based in advanced physics and a multi-dimensional understanding of the Universe, began to emerge into the mainstream public consciousness and show up in writings, films and media that dealt with a more comprehensive view of the Universe.

On September 24th, 2000, ABC News reported:
"In one of the most religious countries in the world, more and more people are seeking spiritual enlightenment in the same manner as monks, rabbis, and priests have done for centuries . . . Last year, religious book sales hit an all-time high of $2.15 billion . . . accounting for 16 percent of all books sold. According to the Book Industry Group…sales are likely to climb to $2.74 billion by 2004. Just last week, the New York Times best-seller list included such titles as Life on the Other Side, a psychic's guide to the afterlife: The Art of Happiness by his Holiness, The Dalai Lama and psychologist Howard C. Cutler; and Oprah Winfrey spirituality expert Gary Zukov's, The Seat of the Soul".

In the last decade of the 20th century, something profound was occurring unacknowledged by mainstream media. Artist Jeffrey Milburn saw humanity reaching a "gateway" or "entrance" into an era of spiritual awakening―an awakening that transcended every pathway of spiritual exploration, and Milburn called this phenomenon "The Global Age of Omni Art.” At the root of global culture, individuals at every level of society were experiencing a quickening of interest in all things spiritual.

In the fall of 1988, the United States was in the throes of exiting the Reagan era, Andy Warhol, the "Pope of Pop" had died a year earlier, and the economy was entering a recession. A feeling of completion was in the air when artist Jeffrey Milburn published a small ad in the back of the Village Voice signifying the foundation of Omni Art, a new kind of Art. The ad simply read “Omni Art," and it was a small beginning of a very big idea, something that would take mainstream media a decade to acknowledge.

In March of 1991, Milburn exhibited a one-man museum installation of his creation, The Universalist Group: Language of Consciousness to celebrate the beginning of a spiritual awareness that would transform social consciousness at every level of society. And indeed, there was an explosion of media dealing with multi-dimensional awareness from Hollywood and Europe, which has continued unabated.

Technology and the Five Dimensions
The imagination of the western mind was awakening to significant revelations of a universal cosmology. These revelations were derived from ancient Hindu and Buddhist texts, which detailed concepts about the nature of the soul, the universe, and the spiritual journey of man in great intellectual detail. In short, western civilization was experiencing a cross-fertilization of eastern thought with advancing western technology. This commingling of ideas and technology fomented a perfect groundwork for a wholistic, "inclusive" thought that viewed the universe as a sort of "quantum soup." As could be expected, the art of the times was an important part of this tremendous shift in awareness, and artist Jeffrey Milburn called it Omni Art.

According to Milburn’s Omni Art, human experience falls within five dimensions, each with vibratory patterns of expression that can be identified in the physical world in a descending order of density. As a cosmology, the five dimensions encompass the aspects of a complete universal consciousness and human experience. Individuals, groups, and whole societies respond to and strive to express these vibratory patterns in a continually upward-spiraling vortex of self-actualization or evolution.

Expanded View of Life
Evolution extends beyond physical phenomenon, as discovered and expounded upon by Darwin. Evolution is the cosmic releasing of the old for the new, or the continual reshaping of primal energy. Meta-structural evolution identifies consciousness itself as the beginning of all manifestation, that as human consciousness expands, so too does the divine proportion of the universe. It is this divinity in action that creates the play of what can be observed as the expanding physical cosmos.

Profound Change
Omni Art was born out of a desire not to contain an idea, but out of a recognition that human consciousness was experiencing a subtle, yet profound shift. Mainstream consciousness today is more exposed to different views on the nature of health and well being than ever before. The concepts of Karma, reincarnation, past lives, subtle energy work, and quantum physics are now a part of daily conversations for the average American when only 10 or 15 years ago, it was merely esoteric jargon.

Omni Art, like Pop Art before it, is an art style that embodies the zeitgeist of the times. Where Pop Art focused on the surface of popular culture, Omni Art focuses on inner universal truth. Warhol’s art generally depicted in one-dimension painter surfaces, cultural objects and personalities that expressed the popular culture of the times. Milburn’s art depicts his expression of the five dimensions of reality in a three dimensional assemblage art. As Warhol came to be known as the "Pope of Pop," Milburn has come to be known as the "Oracle of Omni".

Heart of the 21^st Century
Throughout the 1990’s, Milburn continued to develop his art with musical performance installations, which included his innovative artworks, original lush musical pieces, and phenomenal Kabuki-style costuming that electrified and exhilarated audiences aged 5 to 95.

In recognition of his work, Milburn was invited to speak at The Young presidents Organization Western Regional Conference in Aspen, Colorado in 1998, where he spoke on "The Creative Arts of the 21st Century" and the need for a common language that would extend dimensional thinking into every aspect of society. He stated that evolution is both material and spiritual―they cannot be separated―and as such, they always accelerate in tandem. The ground upon which untold dreams of human success could be played out would evolve from the expansion in the arts and sciences, informing the most basic assumptions about the material universe. And with these new understandings, humanity could experience accelerated evolution.

Early Years
Jeffrey Milburn started his experiments in artistic expression as a young man growing up in the forward intellectual community of Boulder Colorado in the 1960’s. It was here that he was exposed to the brilliance of the late Buckminster Fuller, whom many consider the most brilliant thinker/philosopher/scientist of the 20th century. Buckminster Fuller was the resident philosopher at The University of Colorado in Boulder and made frequent visits and lectures throughout that remarkable decade of gigantic social change. While many still clung to the past and a Newtonian Physics based model of reality, Buckminster Fuller was inventing a completely new language to describe what he saw occurring for humanity in a new era of humanity:

"Humanity is moving ever deeper into a crisis-a crisis without precedent. First it is a crisis brought about by cosmic evolution irrevocably intent upon completely transforming omnidisintegrated humanity from a complex of around-the-world, remotely-deployed-from-one-another, differently colored, differently credoed, differently cultured, differently communicating, and differently competing entities into a completely integrated, comprehensively interconsiderate, harmonious whole. Second, we are in an unprecedented crisis because cosmic evolution is also irrevocably intent upon making omni-integrated humanity omnisuccessful, able to live sustaining at an unprecedented higher standard of living for all Earthians than has ever been experienced by any; able to live entirely within it’s cosmic-energy income instead of spending it’s cosmic-energy savings account (i.e. the fossil fuels) or spending it's cosmic-capital plant and equipment account (i.e. atomic energy)-the atoms with which our Space-ship earth and it's biosphere are structured and equipped-a spending folly no less illogical than burning your house-and-home to keep the family warm on an unprecedented cold midwinter night". -From Critical Path Introduction pg. Xvii

Buckminster Fuller traveled extensively throughout the world lecturing and speaking in this new language his entire life before his death in 1985. In his extraordinary 85 years he left an indelible mark on minds and hearts of thousands of people around the world. Jeffrey Milburn was one of those people and at a young age learned how to look at the world with an insight open to the invisible structure of the universe. In ancient times, the great Greek philosopher Plato spoke about this ability to see with an inner insight as well:

"I quite admit the difficulty of believing that in every man there is an eye of soul, which when by other pursuits lost and dimmed is by these purified and re-illumined: and is more precious than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen". -Plato’s Republic Book VII

Inner Worlds
This inner capacity of insight was practiced by the ancient Egyptians, Hindu’s, Buddhists, Jews, Muslims, Native Americans, and many others.  The most important feature about the capacity to see with the eye of soul is how completely universal it is.

In his extensive research, UFO expert, David Sereeda has discovered that the structure of the UFO’s that have been photographed by NASA scientists while working on the space shuttle exhibit forms that have been recorded throughout human history from ancient times to cutting edge nano-technologies.  These sacred geometries appear extensively throughout the universe and are endemic to all animate and inanimate life form material.

The Universe is completely and extensively coordinated within itself within these sacred geometries.  Humanity has known this throughout its history, and today is re-discovering this feature of the oneness of all things.

Zeitgeist of Now
Omni Art is the art of our time.  It is a reflection of the consciousness of the best of the human experience of seeing, knowing, and being.  Because of this it is not experienced by all humans in the same way any more than one human experiences life in the same way as another.  Yet in its complexity and completeness, the consciousness that is the life of humanity is non-reversible.  This means that all new explorations in thought which follow the law of cause and effect to become physical things are first laid in the cosmic ether, or what is sometimes referred to as Prana. These impressions can be reviewed in the causal dimension where these impressions are retained. The causal dimension is sometimes referred to as the akasha where the akashic records are stored.  It is incredible to realize that every thought and exploration of every individual in the human and other sensate life forms is recorded.  This allows for the greatest learning experience of all time – life itself. As each individual progress's, they contribute to the progress of the whole of all of life since each individual and their experience are essentially divine in nature.

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Omni refers to several aspects of this new art:

• Firstly, it expresses the oneness of the flow of creation - that all things are manifested through the dual flows of light and sound vibrations through the etheric dimension into the matter dimensions - taking shape according to thought forms conjoined with divine essence.

• Secondly Omni refers to all the forms of artistic expression.  In the case of Milburn’s art it can be experienced in 3 dimensional installation artworks, dance movement, music and theater integrated through montage for site specific performance installations.

• Thirdly, it is represented in a comprehensive model of 5 dimensions that all humans experience. The Physical dimension, the Astral Dimension, the Causal Dimension, the Mental Dimension, and the Etheric Dimension (for a more complete description please see the section titled ART. These are the dimensions where duality or opposites dominate.

Buckminster Fuller used the word Omni to describe the unity that exists within all of life.  Milburn uses the word Omni to describe a universal model of consciousness and universal structure.  In essence it is quite the same.

It is a great time to be alive because of the unprecedented opportunity to explore an ever expanding experience of life on all dimensions. You are invited to dive in with the rest of those of us who are willing to open up even further to experience an even greater expression of livingness than we have ever known.

Welcome to Omni Art!