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To bring our despair into consciousness would reveal our exhausted spirits, our broken communities, and our violent relationships at home and abroad...
Lamentations’ testimony is bitter, raw, and largely unhealed. Its poems use “wounded words” (Forché 41-46) to illumine pain and resist God's acts in the world. In its ragged struggles to articulate suffering and arrive at hope, it peers into wounds and raises fierce questions about God. Aggressively confronting suffering and resolutely refusing to whitewash truth, Lamentations has become for me a mirror of my wounds and of the wounds of the world. For all its brutality, I find in it an invitation to life.
-Lamentations and the Tears of the World, Kathleen M. O’Connor
≈ my photo of Amma in the current issue of Light of Consciousness Magazine ≈
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The piece is called Kirtan, the bliss of Chanting
with words by...
Snatam Kaur, Krishna Das, Bhagavan Das, Wah!, Jai Uttal, Linda Johnsen, Maggie Jacobus and Sita Stuhlmiller share their experiences of kirtan, the grace of the Guru and the transformation of chanting God’s Name.
photo Jennifer Esperanza ©
Benteveo or great kiskadee (Pitangus sulphuratus), also known as bienteveo común, wichi or güichichi, ajisero pitogüé and cristofué.
This is my second image from this determined and beautiful bird. For more details, please see the first one I uploaded on Nov 10, 2024 available at: www.flickr.com/photos/195564216@N07/54130090799/
O ! Light of consciousness
Shine forth thy brilliant beams
Over the realm of the intellect
For perfect perception
In making judgements
Right, genuine and wise
O ! Man, why so late and why you keep
Standing outside and peep ?
At your own heavenly house ?
Go in, get yourself cleansed
Of all filth and enjoy the inside wealth !
- Anuj Nair
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Street neon and camera toss. One subject for this batch not pictured but the other two here and here.
Consciousness. Crisis. Awareness. Anxiety. Existence. Fear.
They were all one and the same. It did not think about such things. It hardly thought at all. There was no time. There was no margin. All was anxiety. All was stress. If one felt the ground beneath to be secure, if one’s stock were producing then the need to keep producing, keep on top, keep up was a crushing weight from above. If one’s share from collective was favorable then one felt held out over a pit. One could fail. One could fall. One’s stock could be increased or decreased, stock could be injured, fail or cease to produce. Nothing done before mattered. There would be no credit. All was now. And now was a fine time to fail. Fear could also come from the side. Rival factors might take one’s stock. Take one’s share. Take one’s very being. Nothing was secure. All was negotiable. All was capricious. All one had to count on was one. And one was never sure if one was enough. There were a million ways to fail and one had to anticipate them all. If one had nothing else to do, one could be very busy trying to anticipate the next crisis.
It had not anticipated this crisis.
It had not even been sure there was a crisis. The stock were still harvesting. The share was delivered on time. And that was the first worrying sign. The harvesters were becoming regular, as if not having to search far for food. As if something or someone was feeding them. It sensed a rival. There as a stench on the returning stock, almost familiar. Yet there was something of the foreign about it too. And foreign was crisis. Another collective? It should alert it’s own factor. But only when it was sure. A false report was worse than no report. It would get surety. It had waited by the aperture for its stock to return. It chose one, not at random, a poor performer typically, it had quickly risen to equal the factor’s best harvesters. Another ill omen. It looked positively sleek, its crop full. The factor had pounced on it, encircling it, squeezing it till its eye shutters bulged. It had cast anger at the rest, paralyzing them and forcing them back against the wall of the tunnel.
“Where?” It was a typical cast, a typical question of the hive, where O harvester, did one find this food? At times a celebration, a reason for the collective to rejoice, to do a joy dance. Here, in this tunnel nearly hot with rage and quivering with fear, the victim bursting and cracking in the Factor’s crushing grip, it was an accusation. One, amazingly, frighteningly, not answered at first. How far had they been turned? Were they already in the employ of the foreign factor? Were they spies? Traitors? The stakes must be raised. The fear must be real. It raised a feeding tentacle, let it hover in the face of the victim for all to see and poked it through the eye socket of the chosen sacrifice. Gore and bile burst around it as the pressure was somewhat relieved. It drank. It took its time. First the victim’s own innards, then down into the cavity, into its crop. The others watched and shrank back even more. “Where?” this time it did not bellow. This time it purred.
Then they told. They told everything. And the Factor had made its plan.
“Everything you can imagine is real.” ~ Pablo Picasso
I decided to go with a rather aggressive edit for this photo and I ended up with something that I was very happy with. Note that the lens flare is 100% natural and I did not add it in post.
Consciousness, Attitude. Engagement.....all this on behalf of the environmental preservation that makes us alive. Cambára do Sul, RS, Brazil
Be Kind
we are always asked
to understand the other person's
viewpoint
no matter how
out-dated
foolish or
obnoxious.
one is asked
to view
their total error
their life-waste
with
kindliness,
especially if they are
aged.
but age is the total of
our doing.
they have aged
badly
because they have
lived
out of focus,
they have refused to
see.
not their fault?
whose fault?
mine?
I am asked to hide
my viewpoint
from them
for fear of their
fear.
age is no crime
but the shame
of a deliberately
wasted
life
among so many
deliberately
wasted
lives
is.
Charles Bukowski
Parsifal returning to the Grail
The Prophet
The Alchemist
The Wise Man
I don’t know who and what he is
But I see these aspects in him
My projection…
But one thing I can say
Our eyes met for a second
And I felt: he is in the flow
Children are in the flow as well
And those who meditate quite often
It’s a certain state of consciousness
The flow – the holy flow…
HKD
Richard Wagner’s Oper Parsifal
Als Nichtiger kehrt er heim, als Mensch, der keine Rolle mehr spielt, sondern nur noch der ist, der er ist.
Ein Pilger, ein Nomade, ein Heimatloser aber auch ein Freier.
Als Parsifal in das heilige Gralsgebiet zurückkehrt, weiß er, dass er nichts ist.
Als Niemand – doch zum Unterschied seines ersten Aufenthaltes im Gralsgebiet als Jugendlicher – als durch seinen Gang durch Zeit und Raum wissend gewordener Mensch, als Weiser kehrt er ins Gralsgebiet zurück.
Als ich diesen Mann sah und fotografierte dachte ich sofort an Parsifal, an seine Pilgerschaft und Suche nach dem heiligen Gral. Ich fühlte mich ihm und allen bewussten und unbewussten Gralssuchern verbunden. Wie viel weiß dieser Mann über sich und seinen Weg? Mir kam er weise vor. Vielleicht nicht an Worten, doch von seiner Ausstrahlung her.
Mit diesem Bild möchte ich die Wanderer und Grenzgänger ehren. Menschen die nicht in der Gesellschaft sesshaft werden können und konnten und nur ihrer inneren Stimme folgen…
HKD
D.: Is that Light like sunlight?
M.: No. The sunlight is jada (insentient). You are aware of it. It makes objects perceptible and chases away darkness, whereas consciousness is that Light which makes not only light but also darkness perceptible. Darkness cannot exist before sunlight, but it can remain in the Light of Consciousness. Similarly, this consciousness is pure Knowledge in which both knowledge and ignorance shine.
from "Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi"
(c) Sri Ramanasramam
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1. I, the pure, stainless and infinite Consciousness beyond maya, look upon this body in action like the body of another.
2. The mind, the intellect, the senses, etc. are all the play of Consciousness. They are unreal and seem to exist only due to lack of insight.
3. Unmoved by adversity, a friend of all the world in prosperity, without ideas of existence and non-existence, I Live free from misery.
4. Inactive am I, desireless, clear as the sky, free from hankering, tranquil, formless, everlasting and unmoving.
5. I have now clearly understood that the five elements, the three worlds and I myself are pure Consciousness.
6. I am above everything ; I am present everywhere ; I am like space; I am that which (really) exists; I am unable to say anything beyond this.
7. Let imaginary waves of universe rise or fall in me who am the ocean of infinite Consciousness ; there is no increase or decrease in me.
8. How wonderful that in me, the infinite ocean of Consciousness, waves of jivas (individual souls) rise, sport for a while and disappear according to their nature.
9. The world which has come into existence on account of my ignorance has dissolved likewise in me. I now directly experience the world as supreme bliss of Consciousness.
10. I prostrate to myself who am within all being, the ever free Self abiding as inner consciousness.
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Yoga Vasishta Sara - SELECTED VERSES - Meditation on the Self
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Painting by Nicolas Poussin
Welcome to the Borg collective, where truth is stranger than science fiction. Let’s merge science and technology with flesh and blood. Woohoo! Biomanipulation of the human host. Join the transhumanist cult. Colonize your brain with nanotechnology. Embrace the interconnected nanomachines living in your body. You’ll be drones of the AI collective. You’ll be a part of the hive mind, the collective consciousness. You’ll be injected with nanoprobes—Nanobots, which will flow through your veins. They will rewrite your DNA, they will consume you. They will alter your biochemistry, they will flood your soul.
Cross my blood-brain barrier. Map my brain, take it over. Hack my central nervous system. Inject me! Microchip me! Control me! I must become one with the Borg—one with the Beast. Hot wire me! Possess me! Enslave me! My mind has been poisoned; it’s no longer mine. I’m like a puppet on a string. I’m trapped in a nightmare. Yet I immerse myself in you; I don’t want to escape.
Break me! Remake me! Hold me tight and smother me. Whisper sweet nothings in my ear and chock me. Never let me go; torment me.
Baptize me into the death and resurrection of the Beast—for even though he sustained a mortal wound, his fatal wound has healed. Indeed, the whole earth marvels and worships him.
We will evolve; we will be co-opted into the Borg. We will be born again; we will become one with the Beast. We will bear his name in unholy matrimony. We will be his forever.
666: take the Mark, join the collective. Receive your cybernetic implant, your cybernetic enhancement. Assimilate into the Borg. Worship the Borg King, worship the Beast. Bow down and worship his Image.
Why be flawed, weak, and organic? Why not evolve and include the synthetic? Why not attain perfection? Then your eyes will be opened, and you will be like the god of this world—you’ll be cursed.
Vaccine passports! The beginning of the road! Follow the road that leads to the Mark of the Beast. In a few years you’ll be unable to buy or sell without your mandatory identification—six hundred threescore and six.
Integrate with technology. Merge the artificial with the organic. You will become one with the Borg. Resistance is futile.
Let’s believe the dialectical faith of wokeism (woke Marxism), let’s join their dialectical cult! Since society is full of injustice and inequality, let’s tear it down and rebuilt it into a communist utopia—let’s Build Back Better. Let’s awaken to a higher consciousness, let’s awaken to a critical consciousness (critical Marxism)—to negative thinking (capitalism is bad). You’re a racist (a capitalist). The system (capitalism) is systemically racist. Let’s awaken the inner activist, let’s awaken the communist revolutionary. What will all this evolve into? It will evolve into the abolishment of private property. Communism: you will own nothing and be happy. Communism: equality for all! Communism: it’s for the greater good! Communism: the ends justify the means: murder, starvation, and the gulags! Marxism causes tribalism and division, because it’s intolerant of everything it doesn’t like. Get your reeducation: diversity, equity, and inclusion. DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion): a precursor to a Social Credit Score System. ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance): a Social Credit Score System for companies (Can anybody say: Bud Light!). The Green Transition: equality (poverty) for all! Climate communism: climate justice, climate equity, climate sustainability, climate lockdowns! Sustainability: the road to a good global citizen consciousness!
The fifth tenet of the Communist Manifesto: “Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.” Three cheers for central banking…not! Lenin: “The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.” Three cheers for fait money…not! Stakeholder Capitalism is Fascism. Why do you think the (WEF) World Economic Fascists like to talk about Stakeholder Capitalism? The Free Market is the enemy of Stakeholder Capitalism. Grover Cleveland: “Corporations, which should be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people’s masters.” Say what: corporate personhood? So, that’s nothing, the coming New World Order will obtain Beasthood—666 worship the Beast. The Metaverse Beastsystem: techno-spiritualism in which humanity will be free from the limitations of mind, body, and soul; a techno-spirit of oneness with the universe—universal collectivism: Mystery Babylon, Babylon the Great, and the Tower of Babel—antichristism.
Here is a report by Oxford University and Imperial College London for the UK Government:
Flying (page 6):
2020-2029: “All airports except Heathrow, Glasgow and Belfast close with transfers by rail.”
2030-2049: “All remaining airports close.”
Food (page 6):
2020-2029: “National consumption of beef and lamb drops by 50%, along with reduction in frozen ready meals and air-freighted food imports.”
2030-2049: “Beef and lamb phased out, along with all imports not transported by train; fertiliser use greatly reduced.”
Tacitus: “The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state.”
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The NWO commies at the United Nations have outlined an agenda to decriminalise ‘consensual sex’ between adults and minors in a report titled: “The 8 March Principles for a Human Rights-Based Approach to Criminal Law Proscribing Conduct Associated with Sex Reproduction, Drug Use, HIV, Homelessness and Poverty.”
Principle 16-Consensual Sexual Conduct (page 22-23):
“Moreover, sexual conduct involving persons below the domestically prescribed minimum age of consent to sex may be consensual in fact, if not in law. In this context, the enforcement of criminal law should reflect the rights and capacity of persons under 18 years of age to make decisions about engaging in consensual sexual conduct and their right to be heard in matters concerning them. Pursuant to their evolving capacities and progressive autonomy persons under 18 years of age should participate in decisions affecting them, with due regard to their age, maturity and best interests, and with specific attention to non-discrimination guarantees.”
Mark my words: pedophilia will one day become normalized (a human right).
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2 Timothy 3:13 “Evil people and impostors will become worse, deceiving and being deceived.”
Daniel 11:36 “Then the king (the Antichrist) will do exactly as he pleases; he will exalt himself and magnify himself above every god and will speak astounding and disgusting things against the God of gods and he will prosper until the indignation is finished, for that which is determined [by God] will be done.”
Quite a lot goes through my mind when I'm out and about en femme. It's my nature. I try to see and understand everything but, as is evident, I'm rather shortsighted so I see very little and understand even less!
Brille - bewusst - Brenner / Glasses - conscious - Brenner
This store always stands out for creative window decorations.
Frankfurt, Goethestr.
It took me a long time and a lot of funny looks to get this shot. This fella was like a rock right up until I snapped the shutter and he shrugged his shoulder. I actually think it adds a little more character to the shot.
I wanted to share my latest painting “The Path to Inner Peace”, which was inspired by the idea that inner peace is found not by striving aggressively for what we want, but rather happily embracing what we already have. I hope the art helps take you to a more peaceful place and that you have a wonderful day :)
To see more of my artwork visit www.GoodVibesGallery.com