Joseph Szimhart
Joseph Szimhart began research into cultic influence in 1980 after ending his two-year devotion to a large New Age sect. As a cult interventionist since the early 1980s, he has assisted in over five-hundred interventions in America and abroad. He was chairman of an interdenominational, cult information organization in New Mexico for seven years. Since 1998, he has worked as a mental health professional at a psychiatric emergency hospital. He maintains a cult informational website, lectures, consults for the media, and has published articles, book reviews, and papers related to the cult problem. His novel, Mushroom Satori: The Cult Diary, was released in 2013. His memoir of how he became a cult interventionist, Santa Fe, Bill Tate, and me, appeared in 2020. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from International Cultic Studies Assoc. in 2016. He graduated from the University of Dayton and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He maintains an art career in his private studio. Website: http://jszimhart.com/ Email: jszimhart@gmail.com Phone: (484) 529-1936. Pennsylvania
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Big Hatch
Some ideas are too grandiose for us to hatch.
Black Swan on Edge
Before a big decision.
Faith Red Cat
Desperately holding on to something that has no source.
Fate of a Planet
A commentary on apocalyptic phobia.
Finch in Cage
Caging natural beauty is trapping freedom.
G-Raven
Symbolic of human nosiness into the nature of God, and a pun on a graven image.
God's Dice
God plays dice with a raven in the universe.
Phoenix Rising
When we rise again, even our demons dance.
Puzzled Bird
This piece combines a chickadee with my interest in crossword puzzles blended with Piet Mondrian's style. Mondrian was heavily influenced by occult ideas in Blavatsky's Theosophy as I was in my youth. You can find his name in the crossword. I borrowed his style from his piece Victory Boogie Woogie (1944) Victory Boogie-Woogie, 1944 by Piet Mondrian (piet-mondrian.org)
The bird could be me or anyone tangled in the puzzles of the occult world at one time!
Trust
The other may appear frightening.
Unchained Bird
Free but carrying chains of history.
Weapon Inspector
Inspired by inspectors sent to Middle East to find and disarm explosives
What Mouse Said
Does a cat care?