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Pictures taken on the occasion of the "Functions of Consciousness" inaugural meeting, Berlin, July 19th, 2007
From the discourses of inner awakening (www.innerawkening.org), in this phenomenal discourse, Paramahamsa Nithyananda speaks on Krishna consciousness and how great a avataar (incarnation) Krishna was. An avataar can only exhibit compassion but not romance. But Krishna is the only avataar who brought himself down to a state where he exhibited romance and not just compassion, which is very difficult for any avataar. He also throws light on what is a paramahamsa. In the next video, Paramahamsa Nithyananda describes Krishna as a conflict free body and mind.
I'm using my head, my "shiney dome" so to speak, because it is the part of my physical self that I am most self-conscious about,---so why not just take that "head on' as a metaphor for a shell of a nut, a seed pod, a container of potential energy. By putting the Haikus on it , I am suggesting that the head contains the seeds of thought that both protect and nurture, the way a hard shell protect a nut and allows it to grow. I also thought about the fruit in my orchard and how at the center of the peach is the pit, within the fruit, carrying the seed for a next season of growth. I was also comparing the head with reason, which tends to overbear, to protect, and to allow ideas to incubate. And when that resaon is deconstructed, it allows for emotion and intuition to flow.
Dzata: The Institute of Technological Consciousness is a creative research project by South African artists Russel Hlongwane, Francois Knoetze, and Amy Wilson. In fabricating a fictional institute and its archive, the artists imagine vernacular technological practices operating across the African continent. The artists embed archival footage and 3D scanned elements within game-engine and AI-generated pixel landscapes to traverse new geopolitical imaginaries: with portable ‘backpack laboratories,’ the crop field, smelting furnace, forest or river becomes a mobile laboratory, a workshop.
Credit: Knoetze Hlongwane and Amy Louise Wilson
Taken in a small photo shoot I did with some of my friends :) I contoured her face and changed her eye color in photoshop.
Pictures taken on the occasion of the "Functions of Consciousness" inaugural meeting, Berlin, July 19th, 2007
Consciousness and Conscience
The body is made up of five elements and is bound to perish one day or the other. But in such a transient body there exists the eternal divinity in the form of the Atma (Self). The all-pervasive divinity is known as consciousness, the limited form of which exists in the body as conscience. Consciousness and conscience are the same in terms of quality, only the quantity differs. You may collect water from the ocean in a cup, pot and a big tank. The water in these three differs only in quantity, the salinity is the same in all of them. The body may be compared to a pot. The all-pervasive consciousness exists in it as conscience.
Dzata: The Institute of Technological Consciousness is a creative research project by South African artists Russel Hlongwane, Francois Knoetze, and Amy Wilson. In fabricating a fictional institute and its archive, the artists imagine vernacular technological practices operating across the African continent. The artists embed archival footage and 3D scanned elements within game-engine and AI-generated pixel landscapes to traverse new geopolitical imaginaries: with portable ‘backpack laboratories,’ the crop field, smelting furnace, forest or river becomes a mobile laboratory, a workshop.
Credit: sele nthane