My story
So more my identification shifts from the personal to the transpersonal, so more rises a inner need to share. Until now I believe that the personal story has no importance, and I still believe it, the work of become conscious, is about transcending the personal, and to go beyond it. So more conscious you are the less personal life is. But on the other hand the personal story can be a useful tool for other people which share the path of Consciousness. Thats the reason why I like to share my story, may it will be useful from someone.
I will write it in the third person perspective, from the transpersonal point of view, to me it seems the most adequate, because my work and my life is moving around this level of consciousness.
Karsten Ramser was born in Hamburg, Germany, in the year 1.963. He was an unwanted child, with a strong stomach disease which marks his whole childhood. The family structure was dysfunctional, the father had a mental disorder and was an alcoholic, but he also was the person which introduce Karsten in the world of art and who teach him to believe in himself. Since very young he was painting in private studio of his father. The mother was a very violente and abusive person.
The environment was a kind of conflictive working class suburb. He was a high sensitive [HSP] and physical weak child.
To survive in this hostile environment he learned one of the most fundamental roles of the egocentric society; hit first and you don't get hurt. He choose to become a perpetrator instead of a victim [both behaviour pattern are a pathological consequence of the way our our society is).
With 15 years, tired of the violence, he starts live on it's own, leaving home. Travelling around Europe, become an Artist and 1.982 settling down in Berlin. It was the time of the drugs [abuse] and the discovering of different realities. In 1.983 in a trip to Indonesia he realised his egocentric structure and it was the beginning of a depression which lasted more than 30 years. The depression pushed him more deeply into the drugs and into the creation. He start to become a known painter, exposing regularly and being represented by the gallery Paranorm.
First travel to Asia.
In 1.987 settling down in Gran Canary.
In 1.988 first trip to Africa which marks another turning point, because he became very ill [Malaria Tropical] and almost died. This experience was the theme of his last exhibition The near death experience, his auto destructive behaviour and the falsehood of the art business inspire him to break with his actual life, he choose to go to the mountain in Gran Canary. There he lived for years alone in a little house with no modern comfort and almost no social cultural relation.
This time marks the beginning of this conscious work. Getting in touch with the concept of Transpersonalty [Ken Wilber, Alan Watts], the teachings of Buddhism [specially the Mahayana Buddhism], Advaita-Vedanta and Sufism [Agha Omar Ali Shah and Rumi]. Meditation became a regularly practice.
In 1.992 he left the loneliness of the mountains, starting a relation, becoming father and living a very simple country life, which broke down with the death of his daughter. The impact was so strong that the relation broke down, he became seriously ill [Rheumatoid arthritis], and was forced to return to the Germany for treatment. The pain and the guilt for the death of its daughter was so overwhelming, that he was unable to handle it, escaping for into drugs for a long period of time. As the consequence of this period, Karsten decided to clean up the emotional garbage of the past, making different types of therapies [Psychoanalysis, Bioenergetic, Family Constellations, Shamanic rituals and Puja's]. It was a very painful time, accompanied by various serious diseases. His painting was an expression of the suffering, but it was a private painting not destine to be exhibited, a part of the cleaning up process.
Various journeys to India and extend study of the Advaita tradition.
2.001 return to Spain and the begin of the relation with its actual partner, Maribel Rosado. In 2.007 the creation of the big format paintings Gewahrsein as a consequence of hiswork, non-dual experiences.
Karsten starts to work as a Therapist and Life Coach.
In 2.011 he publish his first book El Camino Sabio [publish only in Spanish]. All through the book had good resonance among readers, the Editor negates to promote it and to translate it into English. This experience of dependency of a third party over his artwork, confirms Karsten experience of the negative side of art business, where the artist is exploited and deprived of its right to decide over his own artwork. As a consequence Karsten is now going the new ways of distribution and sharing, where the artist has fully control over his artwork.
Around this time he discovers the digital world and its amazing artistic potential, the first result of this discovery was a series of short videos, where he joins art with the conscious work, it is the beginning of his actual work ART OF CONSCIOUSNESS and CONSCIOUS ART.
"After all there years of travelling towards self realisation, I have came back to my origin, Art. For a long time of my evolution I needed to denied that I am an Artist, for the simple reason of my egocentric and auto destructive behaviour. First I had to clean up my traumatic past and discover the transpersonal and non-dual aspect of consciousness to not get lost in the egocentric artist labyrinth. Now has come the moment in my life to share again my artwork, it is essential in the process itself of creation. It is my believe that Art makes only sense in the interaction and interconnectedness."
Right now Karsten is publishing his new book
The Tao of the 21st century, working with sculpture series Becoming and just starting the new work PhotoPainting. A part of his Artwork, he gives support in the process of how to realise our true nature, as a Nondual Teacher and Coach of Consciousness. 
