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Redo of Where do I begin. I cleaned up the spots off of the lens but left the in-camera processing.
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This sheet of HP5+ had stayed in my darkslide for more than 2 years. It'd travelled with me around the world and gone through countless security X-Ray machines.
I finally managed to expose the film with my pinhole camera during my recent trip to Hong Kong. To my pleasant surprise, the negative didn't seem to have fogged by those numerous scans at all!
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Haunted, if nothing else, by the memories of those who came before and are no longer walking the earth.
After months of happy happy and social consciousness raising, I felt the need to turn to themes I'm more comfortable with.
I have no notion of death, the closest glimpse encountered is during rest.
A motionless struggle unfolds whilst i watch myself.
My surroundings dissipate leaving me somewhere unknown.
i'm left with the solitary feeling of uncertainty, am i asleep yet?
Mirit Ben-Nun paints women, who are called nowadays “career women”; independent women, who are not dependent on men or husbands, who havetheir own room, their own office, own studio (their own bank account) and their own dream. The writer Virginia Wolf believed that it all begins with “your own room”, a defined space, even a small one, that has four walls and a door and is all yours; there you can recognize the dream, and be who you are. The women Mirit chose to paint also have a key phrase that leads them in life: “Go your way and leave the doubters behind” (Lior Finkel-Perl); “Put an anchor of ability within you” (Imi Eiron) and also more concise messages like that of Tamar Ish-Shalom: “Do not forget to breathe” or of the economist Karnit Flug, former governor of The Bank of Israel: “Economy is not everything.” How true. Mirit Ben-Nun dizzyingly integrates all of this into her private career, a colorful and spectacular painting, which ranges from Aboriginal diligence to feminist consciousness. Ben-Nun adorns the successful women with a tremendous abundance of colors and patterns, generously and with joy of life she wraps them with ‘mandorlas’ (almond-like shape), which surround each other and create “Babushkas”. Like the women, so do Ben-Nun’s models split unexpectedly, creating intersections and overpass withing the painting, implying new paths. These successful, independent, opinionated women receive a gift from Mirit: they are raised to a level of energy rich in particles, but one that plants them in the heart of it all, they are both the citron and the nucleus. They are the smallest babushka, the princess.
Mirit Ben-Nun, an independent woman, who embarked without support nor formal education, on stubbornly making her own way, her own dream. She does that accompanied by a parade of women, who similarly to Einat Paz think “better things happen to those who do”.
Tali Tamir
‘Your Own Dream’ is a modern Pop art style exhibit of paintings of women, by the feminine spirit of the artist, Mirit Ben-Nun. The painting series of the women was created and inspired by the book “Presence. Impact. Leadership”, and the majority of the women painted in the exhibit participate in this book by Dr. Efrat Liani, published by Kineret Zemorah Dvir.
Consciousness / Common language of all admirable beings (series)
Olympus OM-D E-M5-Mark III + Schneider 45mm / 4 (enlarger lens)
Mexico City / CDMX
November 15, 2020.
The sun is my King
I follow his light into a new day
The darkness is over
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Sun and Moon are fighting against each other
Two forces – Yin and Yang – affect my life
They change like day and night
In fact they do not fight
Things just change
This is the diamond
Consciousness
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Der Weg durch die Nacht führt in die Gleichgültigkeit.
Sobald du den Weg zu innerem Frieden gegangen bist, bist du frei. Was könnte diesen Frieden stören, wenn alles, was dir begegnet dir im Gleichgewicht erscheint, das heißt zwei gleichwertige Seiten hat? Hier liegt die wahre Bedeutung des Wortes: Gleichgültigkeit. Sobald du den Sinn hinter ihm verstehst, kannst du es nicht mehr negativ gebrauchen, vielmehr wirst du es ehren und in einem bewussten Zusammenhang verwenden.
Gleichgültigkeit ist die Krönung des Selbsterfahrungsprozesses, sie ist die Erlösung aus Wertung, Bewertung, Ablehnung und damit Kampf. Der Weg des inneren Friedens ist äußerst wichtig!!
Durch diesen Weg wirst du dir selbst zur letzten und höchsten Autorität, aber nur bezogen auf deine inneren Belange. Solange du mit anderen Wesen die Außenwelt teilst, kann die Autorität von außen auf dich zukommen. Auf den Raum deiner inneren Welt, deiner Psyche bezogen aber treffen folgende Worte zu: „Sei dir selbst das Licht.“ Diese Aussage gehört der Überlieferung nach zu den letzen Worten Buddhas an seinen wichtigsten Schüler – der bist du.
Für mich bedeutet das: wende deine Aufmerksamkeit auf dein Bewusstsein (Emitter) und nicht auf die Ablenkungen die nur die vorübergehenden Inhalte des Bewusstseins (Holodeckobjekte) sind.
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Falls Psychologie interessiert:
Hier steht der Baum (des Lebens) in der Morgenröte.
Der Pilger geht der Morgenröte und damit dem neuen Tag (Lebensabschnitt) entgegen.
Die Morgenröte war schon immer das mystische Zeichen für den Aufbruch des erwachenden Bewusstseins und für die Hoffnung, aus der Dunkelheit erlöst zu werden. Dunkelheit, Nacht, Verwirrung, psychisches Chaos und anschließende Neuordnung. Dieser Pilger hat die Nacht hinter sich. Für ihn bricht ein neuer Tag an.
Der Mystiker Jakob Böhme veröffentlichte Teile seiner Erläuterungen unter dem Titel Aurora.
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Anmerkung:
This is digital art work, not reality.
Das Bild ist ein digital hergestelltes Werk.
Jede Ähnlichkeit mit realen Gegebenheiten wäre rein zufällig.
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“Consciousness is a mystery that faces the mystery of potential and transforms it into actuality. We do that with every choice we make. Our choices determine the destiny of the world. By making a choice, you alter the structure of reality.” ~Jordan B. Peterson
Starting the day in Iceland.
Model: Jamie Rose
Taken for a photochallenge, I made Jamie hike about a mile with me and change into this dress, in the middle of Griffith Park. I had originally envisioned this to be a very bright, high-key image. Instead, I turned day into night :-)
One Decision Away
by Mark Batterson, from All In
Meet Mark Batterson
Joshua 3:5
Few Americans have stamped the collective consciousness of our country like Jonathan Edwards. He was an intellectual prodigy, entering Yale University at the age of twelve. And he is buried at Princeton University, where he served as president until his death in 1758. Edwards was the author of dozens of volumes, both theological and inspirational. His biography of David Brainerd has inspired countless missionaries to go all in with God. And it was Jonathan Edwards who sparked America’s First Great Awakening with his sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” But his greatest legacy may be his progeny, which include more than 300 ministers and missionaries, 120 university professors, 60 authors, 30 judges, 14 college presidents, 3 members of Congress, and 1 vice president.
That legacy, like every spiritual genealogy, traces back to a defining moment.
It was Jonathan Edwards’s all in moment.
On January 12, 1723, Jonathan Edwards made a written consecration of himself to God. He wrote it out longhand in his diary and revisited it often over the years.
I made a solemn dedication of myself to God, and wrote it down; giving up myself, and all that I had to God; to be for the future, in no respect, my own; to act as one that had no right to himself, in any respect. And solemnly vowed, to take God for my whole portion and felicity; looking on nothing else, as any part of my happiness, nor acting as if it were.
Along with his solemn consecration to God, Edwards formulated seventy goals or resolutions that would become the foundation of his faith and practice. Edwards would revisit them once a week throughout his life.
Nothing has changed.
If you don’t hold out on God, God will not hold out on you.
There is nothing God cannot do in and through a person who is fully consecrated to Him. We want to do amazing things for God, but that isn’t our job. That’s God’s job. Our job is to fully surrender all that we have and all that we are to the Lord Jesus Christ. And if we do our job, God will most certainly do His.
So we stand on the same three-thousand-year-old promise the Israelites did:
Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do amazing things among you. — Joshua 3:5
God wants to do amazing things. He’s simply waiting for us to consecrate ourselves. So what are you waiting for? You are one decision away from a totally different life. It’s now or never. It’s all or nothing. It’s time to go all in and all out for the All in All.
Excerpted from All In by Mark Batterson, copyright Mark Batterson.
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And to add - our HOPE is in Christ alone.
The politics of man is riddled with holes bored into by the adversary who resides in ALL political camps and within the heart of mankind, for which Christ came to redeem. :-)
Can’t say I’m very good at the art of witnessing, but one time when my mind was especially turbulent, and my thoughts seemed to whirl by at 100 miles per minute, I suddenly found myself as if inside a golden bubble, and able to watch my thoughts go by without being attached to them, as if I were someone else. It was incredibly peaceful to watch these thoughts, as if my thoughts were a movie, not part of me. Seeing my thoughts, but not being yanked by them, not judging them. Wish I could make this happen when I want it to, but, unfortunately it was a one-time event, pure grace. But it got me thinking about practicing watching my thoughts…
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"The mind and its thoughts come and go. They are unreal and impermanent. They are like the ephemeral clouds of the sky and the waves of the ocean. They cannot touch your consciousness. Beyond the surface, your consciousness remains pure and untouched. That Pure Consciousness, which is eternally aware of all that happens, is the Witness, the Sakshi, of everything."
—Amma, “Awaken Children, Vol. 7”, p. 56
“Don’t chase after your thoughts as a shadow follows its object. Find joy and peace in this very moment.”
—Thich Nhat Hanh
Name & Location:
Church of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness
243 Avenue Road, Toronto Annex
Year Completed: 1899
Alternate Name:
ISKCON Toronto; Hare Krishna Centre; Hare Krishna Temple; Govinda's; Church of the Covenant; Avenue Road Church
Notes:
This church was altered in 1906. A fire gutted it in 1944, and it was subsequently restored. The International Society for Krishna Consciousness acquired it in 1976.
Syle: Gothic Revival'
This photo was so fun to shoot! The weather was so warm that i could wear shorts outside and the atmosphere was really beautiful. I got my face really dirty and bruised and cut myself for this quite a bit, but I think the end result was worth it. Hope you like it.
Glowing in the light of a golden new day, Star assumes the Upavistha Januparivrttasana posture (or so she tells me...for all I know it could be a poor imitation...not to mention that I had to accept her word for it on the spelling) to maximize the contemplative and meditative benefits that she so vigorously maintains only yoga provides.
I tend to believe her, since she has effectively argued that the concept of a cat having nine lives is not really a myth, but a confused view of the fact that the cat is the only species who long ago attained the highest levels of evolutionary spiritual enlightenment, pointing out that one never hears reference to a dog having more than one life...or a clam...or even a human. Thus, having reached this stage, a cat can of its own volition choose to return to earth (or not) and show not the slightest distress or concern with its surroundings or situation, whatever they may be.
Certainly explains a lot to me...
'God created your soul so that you can reach God through your soul and you come to know God.' - His Divine Eminence RA Gohar Shahi
The fashionable trend of turning reserves and zakazniks into parks has a systemic character. Birds and animals and residents are not interested in plans ... Consciousness of many types of erectus is limited to the functioning of the most ancient sections of the brain, and does not allow to detect connections that the network device can already make! By launching mechanisms that destroy the symbiosis of living beings, an individual receives destruction where his feverish mind cannot imagine in the most terrible dream ... Tranquil NIGHT!
Lakhta. This small village on the northern shore of the Gulf of Finland, about 15 km north-west of the city, is the birthplace of human settlements on the banks of the Neva. It was in the territory of Lakhta that the remains of a man’s camp of three thousand years ago were found.
In official documents, the settlement named Lakhta has been dating since 1500. The name is derived from the Finnish-language word lahti - "bay". It is one of the few settlements that has not changed its name throughout its 500-year history.
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Taking pictures a tool (camera), not a photographer.
The choice of tool limits the limits.
Experience allows him (instrument) to reduce their capabilities.
When the observer is allowed
The moment of observation is the real find ...
Training and mastering it defies. Training leads to imitations of the original.
Often the result should ripen like wine. Although it is very speculative.
This is the process!
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It can be a mistake! This is the path to the heart. It is a pity that you can always use it.
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Taking pictures a tool (camera), not a photographer.
The choice of tool limits the possibilities.
Experience allows him (instrument) less and less to limit their capabilities.
The ability to see is given only when the observer allows ...
The moment of observation is the real find ...
Training and mastering it defies. Training leads to poor imitations of the original.
Often the result should ripen, like wine. Although time is the understanding of the mind, therefore it is very speculative.
The meaning of all this is the process!
Find someone who inspires shooting the camera!
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Often we are visited by thoughts that may reveal something unknown ... Our mind many times tries to solve a problem with known methods ... This is its main mistake! The path of the heart opens the doors that appear in our path. It is a pity that not everyone has the courage to insert the keys that are always with us ...
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Ansichtssache
Thema Nr. 11
Was sind meine Ansichten über Tod, Transzendenz und Erlösung?
Alle Erscheinungen finden – man denke an einen Traum – im Bewusstsein statt. Alle Phänomene sind vom Bewusstsein abhängig, denn der träumende Geist erzeugt alle Erscheinungen, den Träumer und die um ihn erscheinenden Objekte. Alles sind bedingte und vorübergehende, sich wieder im Bewusstsein auflösende Dinge. Alles verschwindet schließlich im Nichts des nicht mehr träumenden Geistes.
Der Geist an sich (analog zu Gott) ist der Erzeuger und dieser ist ohne Anfang und ohne Ende, unabhängig. Er ist vergleichbar mit dem Buddha-Geist, Allah, dem Geliebten, dem Tao, dem Heiligen Geist und zahlreicher weiterer Begriffe, die versuchen, das Höchste zu umschreiben.
Der zu einer menschlichen Existenz verdichtete Geist, der sich in der Realität (der Matrix) davon überzeugt hat, dass er ein bedingtes und beschränktes Wesen ist, verlässt diese „Vorstellung“ oder „Illusion“ und kehrt zurück in den Zustand, der vor der Geburt (des Lebenstraumes) herrschte.
Ich bringe meine Ansichten noch einmal auf den Punkt, um aus dieser Perspektive das Thema Tod und Transzendenz zu bespiegeln:
Die alltäglichen Erfahrungen oder das Alltagsleben beruhen auf einem spezifisch eingestellten Bewusstseinszustand und dieser lässt die Realität als das erscheinen, was man gerade wahrnimmt. Diesen Bewusstseinszustand bezeichne ich auch als Inkarnation. Das Ende einer Inkarnation ist für mich der Tod.
Aus meiner Sicht bedeutet Erlösung des Menschen die Rückkehr in den unbedingten oder göttlichen Zustand des Geistes. Keine Träume. Keine Objekte. Alles vereint. Vollkommene Bewusstheit, reines Bewusstsein oder „weißes Licht“.
Ich sehe den Tod als das Ende der Illusion der Matrix. Man mag das auch als Erlösung, Befreiung oder je nach heutigem Standpunkt bezeichnen.
Geburt ist für mich Inkarnation und Hineintauchen in die Matrix – das Alltagsleben.
Bewusstsein kreiert eine „Traumfigur“ und Bewusstsein löst die „Traumfigur“ wieder auf. Geburt und Tod sind vom Bewusstsein (Gott, Buddha, Tao etc.) hervorgebrachte Phänomene. Aus der Perspektive des höheren Bewusstseins (Selbst, Gott usw.) gibt es weder Geburt noch Tod.
Für mich ist Transzendenz der Weg vom Ego ins Selbst. Das Selbst (analog zu Gott) ist das Transzendente. Das Ego-Leben ist der persönliche Lebensfilm – die Matrix.
Das Transzendente steht hinter dem Leben und den Dingen.
Aus dem Transzendenten werden alle Erscheinungen geboren.
Das Transzendente ist für mich eine Umschreibung für Gott.
Es werde Licht…
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Digital Art – own resources
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Wireless Consciousness.
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引数は有毒な質問を考えリテラル通訳サイエンス適合倫理を誘惑神学.
Steve.D.Hammond.
"A new chapter in the life of the planet has been opened.
Humanity has attained its maturity,
and the race consciousness has awakened to
the fact that it must put away the childish things
which seemed necessary in the day of the ";survival of the fittest.";
This day ";wherein the feet of the people deviate";
is to be followed by a glorious to-morrow;
for -- ";This is a new cycle of human power.
All the horizons of the world are luminous
and the world will become indeed as a garden
and a paradise. It is the hour of unity of the sons of men
and of the drawing together of all races and all classes".
";The gift of God to this enlightened age
is the knowledge of the oneness of mankind
and the fundamental oneness of religion.
War shall cease between the nations
and by the will of God the most great peace shall come;
the world will be seen as a new world
and all men will live as brothers."
Abdu'l-Baha, Divine Philosophy, p. 12
Happy New Year to all my dear dear friends...thank you for all your support and love...
My life is in full swig at present ...off down south for a couple of days...so when I return my priority is to come and visit you all...
Happy Equinox also...
Gudmund drifted in and out of consciousness as he lie on that beach. The events that led him to that point flashed before his eyes – his fellow vikings scrambling about the longboat, their frantic yelling drowned out by the howling winds and pounding waves.
He remembered looking out over the side of the vessel and seeing jagged rocks careen out from the dense fog. He and his comrades had mere seconds to correct their course, and before Gudmund knew it a thunderous crash had sent him flying over the edge.
He swam as best he could, delirious and half-drowned, but the rough currents took their toll. Each stroke of his arms sapped away his strength, until he could only drift wherever the waves took him.
Barely conscious, he silently lamented that he would never see Valhalla or Fólkvangr. He and his kin were sailors and navigators of great renown. Most importantly of all, they were warriors who lived and died by the sword - drowning to death in a storm was hardly a fitting end.
Suddenly, he felt sand run up against his body. Approaching the shallows, the waves dumped him on a small stretch of beach, flanked on either side by jagged rocks. Before finally losing consciousness, he saw an older man with black robes and a strange staff approach him…
Part I: The Wreck
Part II: The Vow
Part III: Wind from the North
Part IV: The Blood That Stains
My entry for the Friends or Foes Collaborative Category as part of Summer Joust 2023. Huge thanks to my parters - MkJosha, Exetrius, and MagnusW!
Watercolor, pen and gold pen.
Made today 02/15/22, while talking on the phone w/ my brother-in-law.
Sometimes it's nice to make something while speaking on the
phone; I'm not conscious of what I'm doing, just letting the
hand meander.
There it was… a geological marvel, an inspiration by any definition. Standing in awe, my ears heard the summer wind whistle through Navajo Mountain canyons and the eyes saw how rocks were carved for ages to form what now crosses over the little creek leading to the mighty Colorado River. But it is not only the creek that it bridges. It bridges time, traditions, cultures, emotions, beliefs and above all, it bridges opposites. Sitting beneath its sacred presence, I felt that these opposites are our own and are often paired in vain. There is flickering anxiety with every hope, an apology for every prejudice, a dash of disdain for every bow in front of weird whims, a silent laughter of renouncement for every tear… I could go on. Our consciousness is captivated in opposites. We are hypocritical in the sense that we manifest ourselves taking every care to hide the internal dichotomy. We smile but hide the pain. We talk but speak nothing of the silence. We yell but look away when eyes tear up… never will you find a moment when opposites don’t define it. Perhaps our consciousness would not appear so enigmatic if we did not disown our dilemmas so fastidiously.
In all my thoughts, I did not notice when the canyon wind had picked up a distant Navajo tune and the clouds had broken to let the midday sun through to those holy rocks. And it was then I felt the rainbow… or, as the young Navajo lady on the boat had said, I felt Nonnezoshe, the rainbow that had turned stone. Perhaps long ago it was a big boulder of sandstone… like us, rigid and pretentious. Years of sorrow flowing as a tiny river deep within has carved those contradictions away leaving it in harmony with its opposites. Perhaps, if I let my pain run its course, I too will find my Nonnezoshe… my peace.
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This was shot with Canon EOS Ti on Kodak Chrome 200 in 2004 and was recently digitized. We do not have written accounts of how native Indians feel about this monument, but my brief interaction with few locals left me in no doubt that this place means a lot to them. That is how it has been for ages. If you have an hour that needs to be killed, then read this travel account from 1913.