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A photo of the Victorian Leadenhall Market with the City of London skyscrapers dominating the background. It's contrasts like this that make London such a fascinating city to wander around. Talking of which.......
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From Wikipedia : "Between 1990 and 1991 the market received a dramatic redecoration which transformed its appearance, enhancing its architectural character and detail. The redecoration scheme received a special mention in the Civic Trust Awards in 1994. The market is a Grade II* listed building, being listed in 1972.
It was used to represent the area of London near The Leaky Cauldron and Diagon Alley in the film Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and is featured in the films The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Hereafter, Brannigan, and Love Aaj Kal."
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I'm not all that certain of the here :-)
Robert Brault
HPPT!!
Echinacea, coneflower, j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, Raleigh, north carolina
C&S 831, an SD9, is sandwiched between a pair of GM switchers that are lettered on the cabs for C&S and AT&SF. This is in Rice Yard, which was closed soon hereafter and I'm sure there is no sign of it anymore as this area has been completely re-developed as part of "LoDo", or lower downtown Denver. The Colorado & Southern maintained a separate identity from the BN at this time, and of course the two railroads shared operations all the way from Denver to Pueblo.
Model: Jaimie.
Location: Casa de Lobo, Albuquerque, New Mexico. USA
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Snapped : Craggy Island - A Wee Bit Of Ireland
Found : maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Mathair/155/78/33
"Galway Bay"
If you ever go across the sea to Ireland
than maybe at the closing of your day
you can sit and watch the moon rise over Claddah
or watch the sun go down on Galway Bay
Just to hear again the ripple of the trout stream
the women in the meadow makin' hay
or to sit beside a turf fire in a cabin
and watch the barefoot gossoms as they play
Oh the breezed blowing o're the sea from Ireland
are perfumed by the heather as they blow
and the women in the uplands diggin' praties
speak a language that the strangers do not know
Oh the strangers came and tried to teach us their ways
they blamed us just for bein' what we are
but they might as well go chasing after moonbeams
or light a penny candle from a star
And if there's going to be a life hereafter
and something tells me sure there's going to be
I will ask my God to let me make my Heaven
in the dear old land across the Irish Sea
- Old Irish Folk Song, credit unknown
As observed from Washington DC on 11/23/2025 from about 6:30 pm to about 10:30 pm ET, 573x20s subs (total exposure time = 191 mins) of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) were acquired using a Seestar S50 telescope in equatorial mode and Seestar’s light pollution filter turned on. Since Seestar’s own stacked final image showed very little, if any, color or any significant fine structural details it was decided to preprocess and post process the raw FIT files generated by Seestar using PixInsight Core Version 1.9.3 Lockhart (hereafter PI).
Preprocessing of the 573x20s subs was done using Fast Batch Preprocessing (in PI’s Scripts) with Drizzle Integration enabled. This resulted in a Master Image. Postprocessing of Master Image involved the following steps: Applied a Fast Rotation to reorient Andromeda. Applied Gradient Correction. Did Color Calibration using the Spectrophotometric Color Calibration tool. Delinearized the resulting image by transferring its parameters from Screen Transfer Function to Histogram Transformation. After masking the background using the Range Selection tool, processed Andromeda using Local Histogram Equalization tool to enhance the image. Applied Curves Transformation to boost saturation and applied Color Saturation to enhance color in Andromeda. Used Histogram Transformation to adjust midtones and shadows in the background.
“Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
Just thought I'd post a closer look of my face....
Intricately crafted wooden models in tombs represented scenes from the deceased's life on Earth. Like tomb paintings, they were idealised depictions of what the deceased wished to attain in the hereafter. Ranging from miniature boats to scenes of production, they ensured that the tomb owner would forever be supplied for after death.
Wood, string linen
Early First Intermediate Period
Sedment
VM 347, VM 355, VM 356, VM 357, VM B228, VM 176
Gustavianum, Uppsala University Museum
The Mediterranean Sea and the Nile Valley
Uppsala Sweden
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You laugh when there is still time
not knowing whats instore for you
In the hereafter only you will find
Hagia Triada Sarcophagus (1370-1300 BC.) - Archeological museum of Heraklion - Crete
Il sarcofago in pietra calcarea raffigura delle cerimonie rituali in onore del defunto e scene associate a credenze sull'aldilà.
Le scene sono dipinte su intonaco con la tecnica dell'affresco.
Sul lato lungo, a destra, l'uomo morto è rappresentato con una lunga tunica di fronte a un edificio, forse la sua tomba, mentre riceve l'offerta di una barca e di animali. Le sacerdotesse accompagnate da una lira, versano le libagioni in un vaso, tra le colonne sormontate da doppie asce, sulle quali sono posati uccelli che simboleggiano la presenza della divinità.
Nell'altro altro lato lungo è rappresentato il sacrificio di un toro L'animale sacrificato è steso su un tavolo, il sacrificio è accompagnato da un suonatore di doppio flauto e da una sacerdotessa che porta le offerte sull'altare.
Sui due lati stretti sono raffigurate dee in carri trainati da cavalli e grifoni (o capre selvatiche) e una processione di uomini.
Il sarcofago è stato rinvenuto in una tomba di forma rettangolare ed apparteneva ad un sovrano che dopo la sua morte, come le immagini raccontano, è stato splendidamente onorato con una cerimonia sontuosa da sacerdoti e dèi sulla terra e nell'aldilà.
Limestone sarcophagus depicting ritual cerimonies in honour of the dead and trascendental scenes associated with afterlife beliefs regarding the deceased.
the scenes are painted on plaster using the fresco technique.
On the long side, on the right, the dead man is depicted wearing a long tunic in front of a building, perhaps his tomb. He receiving offerings of a boat and animals. On the left priestesses accompanied by a lyre are pouring libations into a bucket between columns surmonted by double axes, on wich perch birds symbolising the presence of the deity.
On the other long side is a bull sacrifice. The animal trussed to a table, is being sacrificed to the accompaniment of a double flute and offerings by a priestess at an altar, in front of a sanctuary crowned with horns of consecration and enclosing a tree. Between the sanctuary and the tree is a pole with a double axe, on which sits a bird indicating the epiphany of the deity.
on the two narrow sides are depicted goddesses in chariots drawn by griffins and horses (or wild goats) and a procession of men.
The sarcophagus was found in a rectangular built tomb and belonged to a ruler who, as the images narrate, was splendidly honoured after his dead by the palatial priesthood and the gods on earth and in the hereafter.
These are the flowers that were on my son John's coffin. They were his favourite flowers and I hope they bring him sunshine and happiness away y from his depression in the hereafter. XXX
Photo shoot in Albuquerques Old Town..
Model: Johnnah.
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To all my Flickr Friends I want to wish you a happy holiday season, a happy day-after-solstice (with longer daylight hereafter!) and a wonderful New Year. I hope the new fees and restrictions on Flickr won't deter any of you from coming back. Sometimes I look through my contacts' photos and some group photos with little time to do anything but appreciate your photos - and I DO appreciate each and every one of them. I really hope to see all of you in 2019.
“Purifying the soul is serious: the hereafter is ahead, the world is behind, death is near, the journey is far and the provisions are light.”
---Al-Ghazali
Angalaamman is a name given to the Tamil village deity.Mayana Kollai is the main function of Angalaamman festival where people disguise themselves as Kaali and roam in the streets.Once by the order of parvati, Shiva as "Rudra" removed one head of Brahma so Brahma now with four heads cursed Shiva that his fifth head(Kabala) must be attached to his hand itself and hereafter Shiva must be affected having hunger, having no sleep.Lord Vishnu advised parvati to goto thandakarunyam graveyard with shiva and serve food to kabala and then throw the food everywhere in the graveyard.The kabala will come down, leaving Shiva's hand, to eat the food and unable to find Shiva's hand it gets itself attached to parvati hand.She takes The fiercest form Angalaamman which destroyed the kabala
Kaveripattinam | Tamil Nadu | Feb 2015
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Does the afterlife exist? Mystics like Padre Pio, Natuzza Evolo spoke with the souls of the deceased, not knowing that they were “deceased”, they did not distinguish them from normal people (they understood it later). The Marian apparitions to Bernadette, to the three shepherds of Fatima, those of Medjugorje, were they real? And how much have they influenced the history of humanity? My profession has led me to meet people who have told me about their “uncommon experiences”. A few years ago, a young man of about 30 years old, reported his “near death” experience, hospitalized in very serious conditions in our intensive care unit, he told of when he saw doctors and paramedics from above, busy around his body, he then found himself inside a tunnel, at the end there was a light. Now “Francesco” is fine. A couple of months ago, still in intensive care, I talked with a patient of about 50 years old, who survived three almost consecutive cardiac arrests, after that event, he told me, he had unexpectedly discovered a deep faith; discharged, he is now in good health. A few days ago, again for professional reasons, I met a lady in her 60s, accompanied by her 26-year-old son, she told me that, in her troubled life, in addition to having undergone numerous surgical operations, she had been subjected to numerous cycles of chemotherapy, during one of these sessions, she had a cardiocirculatory arrest (probably caused by anaphylactic shock), at that moment she could clearly see the whole scene from above, everyone was doing their best to revive her, she saw a nurse pushing a trolley in the corridor, unable to enter the room where her body was, because half of the door was blocked by a latch, preventing the passage of the trolley, she kicked the door violently which opened thus managing to pass; she saw a doctor who, in the grip of excitement, was unable to put on her coat (these events, the lady told me, had a positive response); the story continued, she rose higher, light, as if floating on the waves of the sea, she saw a cone of light that fell on her like confetti, she felt a sensation of well-being, she saw her grandfather, who held her head and caressed her hair, she looked up and saw some figures, they seemed to have wings, she thought that perhaps they were angels, suddenly she felt herself being “sucked and banged” inside her body. Now the lady, after that experience, no longer fears death. She put her hand on mine, without touching it, just a few seconds, she began to talk about some of my personal facts, at that moment, they seemed to me to be a bit banal and obvious observations, but then, looking me in the eyes, she stated with certainty that in my family, there was a person called Angelo (in reality her name is Angela), she was not wrong. She told me that, months before Eros Ramazzotti's song "Un angelo disteso al sole" came out, she was singing that tune, including the lyrics. She showed me on her smartphone, a selfie of her taken in the car, on the windshield you could clearly see a “luminous face”, she said that her Guardian Angel, Saint Michael the Archangel, had appeared to her. (The lady was also hospitalized in the “La Maddalena” clinic in Palermo, she met the mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, she told me an anecdote of hers, but that’s another story). This story, like the one told by Francesco, are part of those numerous cases defined as “pre-death” or “NDE” acronym derived from the English, Near Death Experience. A scientific hypothesis interprets these phenomena as the result of chemical reactions that are triggered in the brain in moments of deep psycho-physical stress, in oxygen deficiency, with the release of endorphins (they generate sensations of euphoria and well-being) and other neurotransmitters, which can determine overall a hyperfunctioning and strengthening of the senses in the cerebral cortex. I am fascinated by the story of when the physicist Albert Einstein, while discussing with Gustavo Adolfo Rol (a famous Italian psychic), placed his hand between the lamp and the table, saying "you see, when matter manifests itself, it casts a dark shadow, because it is matter, whereas God, being pure spirit, when he materializes cannot manifest himself if not through light: light is nothing other than the shadow of God". I have posted a series of photographs taken in November and December of this year, the first part are shots taken according to the dictates of street / beach photography, some examples of earthly reality, to then enter into the "hypothesis of that otherworldly and parallel reality, not perceptible by our senses" accompanied by the presence of Angels, Beings of Light, who "should" always be close to us throughout our existence, after all the mystic Natuzza Evolo recognized the "plainclothes priests" by the presence of their Guardian Angel, because he was placed on their right.
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Esiste l’Aldilà? Mistici come Padre Pio, Natuzza Evolo parlavano con le anime dei defunti, non sapendo che erano dei “trapassati”, non li distinguevano dalle normali persone (lo capirono successivamente). Le apparizioni mariane a Bernadette, ai tre pastorelli di Fatima, quelle di Medugorje, erano reali ? E quanto hanno inciso nella storia dell’umanità? La mia professione mi ha portato a confrontarmi con persone che mi hanno raccontato di loro “esperienze non comuni”. Qualche anno fa, un giovane di circa 30 anni, riferì una sua esperienza di “premorte”, ricoverato in gravissime condizioni nella nostra terapia intensiva, raccontò di quando lui vide dall’alto medici e parasanitari, indaffarati attorno al suo corpo, si trovò poi dentro un tunnel, in fondo vi era una luce. Adesso “Francesco” sta bene. Un paio di mesi fa, sempre in terapia intensiva, ho conversato con un paziente di circa 50 anni, sopravvissuto a tre arresti cardiaci quasi consecutivi, dopo quell’evento, mi riferiva, aveva scoperto inaspettatamente, una profonda fede; dimesso, adesso è in buona salute. Pochi giorni fa, sempre per motivi professionali, ho conosciuto una signora sui 60 anni, accompagnata dal figlio di anni 26 anni, mi raccontò che, nella sua travagliata vita, oltre ad aver subito numerosi interventi chirurgici, è stata sottoposta a numerosi cicli di chemioterapia, durante una di questa sedute, è incorsa in un arresto cardiocircolatorio (probabilmente causato da uno shock anafilattico), in quel momento vedeva distintamente tutta la scena dall’alto, tutti si prodigavano per rianimarla, vide una infermiera spingere un carrello nel corridoio, non riuscendo ad entrare nella sala dove si trovava il suo corpo, poiché mezza anta della porta era bloccata da un chiavistello, impedendo il passaggio del carrello, lei diede un calcio violento all’anta che si aprì riuscendo così a passare; vide una dottoressa che in preda alla concitazione non riusciva a mettersi il camice (questi eventi, mi riferì la signora, ebbero un riscontro positivo); il racconto continuò, lei salì più in alto, leggera, come galleggiando sulle onde del mare, vide un cono di luce che scendeva su di lei come fossero coriandoli, lei percepiva una sensazione di benessere, vide suo nonno, che le teneva il capo e le accarezzava i capelli, guardò in alto e vide delle figure, sembrava avessero delle ali, pensò che forse erano gli angeli, improvvisamente si sentì “risucchiare e sbattere” dentro il suo corpo. Adesso la signora, dopo quella esperienza, non teme più la morte. Mise la sua mano sopra la mia, senza toccarla, solo qualche secondo, incominciò a parlare su alcuni miei fatti personali, in quel momento, mi sembrarono osservazioni un po’ banali e scontate, però poi, guardandomi negli occhi, affermò con certezza che nella mia famiglia, c’era una persona che si chiama Angelo (in realtà si chiama Angela), non si era sbagliata. Mi riferì che, mesi prima che uscisse la canzone di Eros Ramazzotti “Un angelo disteso al sole”, lei cantava quel motivo, incluse le parole. Mi mostrò sul suo smartphone, un suo selfie fatto in auto, sul parabrezza si vedeva distintamente un “volto luminoso”, lei disse che le era apparso il suo Angelo Custode, San Michele Arcangelo. (La signora fu ricoverata anche nella clinica “La Maddalena” di Palermo, fece la conoscenza del boss mafioso Matteo Messina Denaro, mi raccontò un suo aneddoto, ma questa è un’altra storia). Questa storia, come quella raccontata da Francesco, rientrano in quei numerosi casi definiti di “premorte” o “NDE” acronimo derivato dall’inglese, Near Death Experience. Una ipotesi scientifica interpreta tali fenomeni come il risultato di reazioni chimiche che si scatenano nel cervello in momenti di profondo stress psico-fisico, in carenza di ossigeno, con rilascio di endorfine (esse generano sensazioni di euforia e di benessere) ed altri neurotrasmettitori, potendo determinare nell’insieme un iperfunzionamento e potenziamento dei sensi nella corteccia cerebrale. Sono affascinato dalla vicenda, di quando il fisico Albert Einstein discutendo con Gustavo Adolfo Rol (famoso sensitivo italiano) frappose la sua mano tra lampada e tavolo, dicendo “vedi, quando la materia si manifesta, proietta una ombra scura, perché è materia, invece Dio essendo puro spirito, quando si materializza non può manifestarsi se non attraverso la luce: la luce non è altro, se non, l’ombra di Dio”. Posto una serie di fotografie eseguite nel novembre e dicembre di quest’anno, una prima parte sono scatti realizzati secondo i dettami della street /beach photography, qualche esempio di realtà terrena, per entrare poi nella “ipotesi di quella realtà ultraterrena e parallela, non percepibile dai nostri sensi” accompagnata dalla presenza degli Angeli, Esseri di Luce, che “dovrebbero” starci sempre accanto durante tutta la nostra esistenza, d'altronde la mistica Natuzza Evolo riconosceva i “sacerdoti in borghese” dalla presenza del loro Angelo Custode, perché messo alla loro destra.
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K-27 #463 is rolling downgrade off of Cumbres Pass with a photo freight bound for Chama. Shortly hereafter, a summer shower would breakout.
To touch the cup with eager lips and taste, not drain it;
To woo and tempt and count a bliss, and not attain it;
To fondle and caress a joy, yet hold it lightly;
To watch the sunset in the west without regretting;
To hail its advent in the east, the night forgetting;
To smother care in happiness, and grief in laughter;
To hold the present close, not questioning the hereafter;
To have enough to share, to know the joy of giving;
To thrill with all the sweets of life -- that's living.
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The Who Live at Leeds 1970 1995 and 2017 such a classis.
Just did a comparison of the 1970 OG U.S. Gloversville Pressing vs The 2017 Europe 1/2 speed master and have to say the OG was much more dynamic with a much better high end than the 2017 reissue, remastered version. Not sure what source material was used during the remaster at Close to the Edge studio but if tape, it was 47 years old at the time. Glad I was able to find a clean OG!
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"Itumeleng", a female kalahari leopard remains focussed on an African Wild Cat that had managed to escape after a brief chase across the Auob riverbed. Shortly hereafter she pulled another Wild Cat from a tree and killed it. See here.
Auob riverbed, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa.
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Wisdom is like that, it seems. She comes alive in the dance itself, in the pregnant spaces between speech and silence, solitude and community, delighting in God’s creation and in the simplest acts of presence, vulnerability, and love between people.
-“Christopher Pramuk, At Play in Creation
“We do not hear the soft voice, the gentle voice, the merciful and feminine. . . . We do not see the Child who is prisoner in all the people.”
-Thomas Merton, Hagia Sophia, in Emblems of a Season of Fury (New York: New Directions, 1963), 61, 63; hereafter ESF.
MODEL PHOTOGRAPHED BY CWEICK
[45] (Remember) when the angels said: "O Maryam (Mary)! Verily, Allâh gives you the glad tidings of a Word ("Be!" - and he was! i.e. 'Isâ (Jesus) the son of Maryam (Mary)) from Him, his name will be the Messiah 'Isâ (Jesus), the son of Maryam (Mary), held in honor in this world and in the Hereafter, and will be one of those who are near to Allâh."
The best story about this particular boneyard is that I snuck into it on a hot night in 2008 and got caught, red-handed a couple hours later, when the caretaker came home. He was seriously pissed at me for ignoring all the "No Trespassing" signs and threw me out, but not before telling me the owner would sue me if I ever went public with the images. After most of 3 years, sitting on the work, I inadvertently found out who the owner was (while researching another site) and contacted him with the images I shot in 2008. Now a fan of my work, he's given me access and has let me show the old and new work, with the provision that I not release his name or the location of this truly amazing place, hereafter known as "The Secret Boneyard."
North American B-25 Mitchell, a WWII medium bomber. The site contains at least 8 of these aircraft, all disassembled, and most of them in much worse condition than this example.
Shot September 2008 on a sweltering night, 2-minute exposure. Full moon, red LED flashlight and red-gelled strobe.
The (only) Creator of the heavens and the earth! You are my Walî (Protector, Helper, Supporter, Guardian, etc.) in this world and in the Hereafter, cause me to die as a Muslim (the one submitting to Your Will), and join me with the righteous.”
Model: Erin Bell.
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winged thoughts... a different perspective hereafter
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We are made to persist. That is how we find out who we are.
~Tobias Wolff
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Jagi dum vaare, dum dum vaare
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Does the afterlife exist? Mystics like Padre Pio, Natuzza Evolo spoke with the souls of the deceased, not knowing that they were “deceased”, they did not distinguish them from normal people (they understood it later). The Marian apparitions to Bernadette, to the three shepherds of Fatima, those of Medjugorje, were they real? And how much have they influenced the history of humanity? My profession has led me to meet people who have told me about their “uncommon experiences”. A few years ago, a young man of about 30 years old, reported his “near death” experience, hospitalized in very serious conditions in our intensive care unit, he told of when he saw doctors and paramedics from above, busy around his body, he then found himself inside a tunnel, at the end there was a light. Now “Francesco” is fine. A couple of months ago, still in intensive care, I talked with a patient of about 50 years old, who survived three almost consecutive cardiac arrests, after that event, he told me, he had unexpectedly discovered a deep faith; discharged, he is now in good health. A few days ago, again for professional reasons, I met a lady in her 60s, accompanied by her 26-year-old son, she told me that, in her troubled life, in addition to having undergone numerous surgical operations, she had been subjected to numerous cycles of chemotherapy, during one of these sessions, she had a cardiocirculatory arrest (probably caused by anaphylactic shock), at that moment she could clearly see the whole scene from above, everyone was doing their best to revive her, she saw a nurse pushing a trolley in the corridor, unable to enter the room where her body was, because half of the door was blocked by a latch, preventing the passage of the trolley, she kicked the door violently which opened thus managing to pass; she saw a doctor who, in the grip of excitement, was unable to put on her coat (these events, the lady told me, had a positive response); the story continued, she rose higher, light, as if floating on the waves of the sea, she saw a cone of light that fell on her like confetti, she felt a sensation of well-being, she saw her grandfather, who held her head and caressed her hair, she looked up and saw some figures, they seemed to have wings, she thought that perhaps they were angels, suddenly she felt herself being “sucked and banged” inside her body. Now the lady, after that experience, no longer fears death. She put her hand on mine, without touching it, just a few seconds, she began to talk about some of my personal facts, at that moment, they seemed to me to be a bit banal and obvious observations, but then, looking me in the eyes, she stated with certainty that in my family, there was a person called Angelo (in reality her name is Angela), she was not wrong. She told me that, months before Eros Ramazzotti's song "Un angelo disteso al sole" came out, she was singing that tune, including the lyrics. She showed me on her smartphone, a selfie of her taken in the car, on the windshield you could clearly see a “luminous face”, she said that her Guardian Angel, Saint Michael the Archangel, had appeared to her. (The lady was also hospitalized in the “La Maddalena” clinic in Palermo, she met the mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, she told me an anecdote of hers, but that’s another story). This story, like the one told by Francesco, are part of those numerous cases defined as “pre-death” or “NDE” acronym derived from the English, Near Death Experience. A scientific hypothesis interprets these phenomena as the result of chemical reactions that are triggered in the brain in moments of deep psycho-physical stress, in oxygen deficiency, with the release of endorphins (they generate sensations of euphoria and well-being) and other neurotransmitters, which can determine overall a hyperfunctioning and strengthening of the senses in the cerebral cortex. I am fascinated by the story of when the physicist Albert Einstein, while discussing with Gustavo Adolfo Rol (a famous Italian psychic), placed his hand between the lamp and the table, saying "you see, when matter manifests itself, it casts a dark shadow, because it is matter, whereas God, being pure spirit, when he materializes cannot manifest himself if not through light: light is nothing other than the shadow of God". I have posted a series of photographs taken in November and December of this year, the first part are shots taken according to the dictates of street / beach photography, some examples of earthly reality, to then enter into the "hypothesis of that otherworldly and parallel reality, not perceptible by our senses" accompanied by the presence of Angels, Beings of Light, who "should" always be close to us throughout our existence, after all the mystic Natuzza Evolo recognized the "plainclothes priests" by the presence of their Guardian Angel, because he was placed on their right.
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Esiste l’Aldilà? Mistici come Padre Pio, Natuzza Evolo parlavano con le anime dei defunti, non sapendo che erano dei “trapassati”, non li distinguevano dalle normali persone (lo capirono successivamente). Le apparizioni mariane a Bernadette, ai tre pastorelli di Fatima, quelle di Medugorje, erano reali ? E quanto hanno inciso nella storia dell’umanità? La mia professione mi ha portato a confrontarmi con persone che mi hanno raccontato di loro “esperienze non comuni”. Qualche anno fa, un giovane di circa 30 anni, riferì una sua esperienza di “premorte”, ricoverato in gravissime condizioni nella nostra terapia intensiva, raccontò di quando lui vide dall’alto medici e parasanitari, indaffarati attorno al suo corpo, si trovò poi dentro un tunnel, in fondo vi era una luce. Adesso “Francesco” sta bene. Un paio di mesi fa, sempre in terapia intensiva, ho conversato con un paziente di circa 50 anni, sopravvissuto a tre arresti cardiaci quasi consecutivi, dopo quell’evento, mi riferiva, aveva scoperto inaspettatamente, una profonda fede; dimesso, adesso è in buona salute. Pochi giorni fa, sempre per motivi professionali, ho conosciuto una signora sui 60 anni, accompagnata dal figlio di anni 26 anni, mi raccontò che, nella sua travagliata vita, oltre ad aver subito numerosi interventi chirurgici, è stata sottoposta a numerosi cicli di chemioterapia, durante una di questa sedute, è incorsa in un arresto cardiocircolatorio (probabilmente causato da uno shock anafilattico), in quel momento vedeva distintamente tutta la scena dall’alto, tutti si prodigavano per rianimarla, vide una infermiera spingere un carrello nel corridoio, non riuscendo ad entrare nella sala dove si trovava il suo corpo, poiché mezza anta della porta era bloccata da un chiavistello, impedendo il passaggio del carrello, lei diede un calcio violento all’anta che si aprì riuscendo così a passare; vide una dottoressa che in preda alla concitazione non riusciva a mettersi il camice (questi eventi, mi riferì la signora, ebbero un riscontro positivo); il racconto continuò, lei salì più in alto, leggera, come galleggiando sulle onde del mare, vide un cono di luce che scendeva su di lei come fossero coriandoli, lei percepiva una sensazione di benessere, vide suo nonno, che le teneva il capo e le accarezzava i capelli, guardò in alto e vide delle figure, sembrava avessero delle ali, pensò che forse erano gli angeli, improvvisamente si sentì “risucchiare e sbattere” dentro il suo corpo. Adesso la signora, dopo quella esperienza, non teme più la morte. Mise la sua mano sopra la mia, senza toccarla, solo qualche secondo, incominciò a parlare su alcuni miei fatti personali, in quel momento, mi sembrarono osservazioni un po’ banali e scontate, però poi, guardandomi negli occhi, affermò con certezza che nella mia famiglia, c’era una persona che si chiama Angelo (in realtà si chiama Angela), non si era sbagliata. Mi riferì che, mesi prima che uscisse la canzone di Eros Ramazzotti “Un angelo disteso al sole”, lei cantava quel motivo, incluse le parole. Mi mostrò sul suo smartphone, un suo selfie fatto in auto, sul parabrezza si vedeva distintamente un “volto luminoso”, lei disse che le era apparso il suo Angelo Custode, San Michele Arcangelo. (La signora fu ricoverata anche nella clinica “La Maddalena” di Palermo, fece la conoscenza del boss mafioso Matteo Messina Denaro, mi raccontò un suo aneddoto, ma questa è un’altra storia). Questa storia, come quella raccontata da Francesco, rientrano in quei numerosi casi definiti di “premorte” o “NDE” acronimo derivato dall’inglese, Near Death Experience. Una ipotesi scientifica interpreta tali fenomeni come il risultato di reazioni chimiche che si scatenano nel cervello in momenti di profondo stress psico-fisico, in carenza di ossigeno, con rilascio di endorfine (esse generano sensazioni di euforia e di benessere) ed altri neurotrasmettitori, potendo determinare nell’insieme un iperfunzionamento e potenziamento dei sensi nella corteccia cerebrale. Sono affascinato dalla vicenda, di quando il fisico Albert Einstein discutendo con Gustavo Adolfo Rol (famoso sensitivo italiano) frappose la sua mano tra lampada e tavolo, dicendo “vedi, quando la materia si manifesta, proietta una ombra scura, perché è materia, invece Dio essendo puro spirito, quando si materializza non può manifestarsi se non attraverso la luce: la luce non è altro, se non, l’ombra di Dio”. Posto una serie di fotografie eseguite nel novembre e dicembre di quest’anno, una prima parte sono scatti realizzati secondo i dettami della street /beach photography, qualche esempio di realtà terrena, per entrare poi nella “ipotesi di quella realtà ultraterrena e parallela, non percepibile dai nostri sensi” accompagnata dalla presenza degli Angeli, Esseri di Luce, che “dovrebbero” starci sempre accanto durante tutta la nostra esistenza, d'altronde la mistica Natuzza Evolo riconosceva i “sacerdoti in borghese” dalla presenza del loro Angelo Custode, perché messo alla loro destra.
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Does the afterlife exist? Mystics like Padre Pio, Natuzza Evolo spoke with the souls of the deceased, not knowing that they were “deceased”, they did not distinguish them from normal people (they understood it later). The Marian apparitions to Bernadette, to the three shepherds of Fatima, those of Medjugorje, were they real? And how much have they influenced the history of humanity? My profession has led me to meet people who have told me about their “uncommon experiences”. A few years ago, a young man of about 30 years old, reported his “near death” experience, hospitalized in very serious conditions in our intensive care unit, he told of when he saw doctors and paramedics from above, busy around his body, he then found himself inside a tunnel, at the end there was a light. Now “Francesco” is fine. A couple of months ago, still in intensive care, I talked with a patient of about 50 years old, who survived three almost consecutive cardiac arrests, after that event, he told me, he had unexpectedly discovered a deep faith; discharged, he is now in good health. A few days ago, again for professional reasons, I met a lady in her 60s, accompanied by her 26-year-old son, she told me that, in her troubled life, in addition to having undergone numerous surgical operations, she had been subjected to numerous cycles of chemotherapy, during one of these sessions, she had a cardiocirculatory arrest (probably caused by anaphylactic shock), at that moment she could clearly see the whole scene from above, everyone was doing their best to revive her, she saw a nurse pushing a trolley in the corridor, unable to enter the room where her body was, because half of the door was blocked by a latch, preventing the passage of the trolley, she kicked the door violently which opened thus managing to pass; she saw a doctor who, in the grip of excitement, was unable to put on her coat (these events, the lady told me, had a positive response); the story continued, she rose higher, light, as if floating on the waves of the sea, she saw a cone of light that fell on her like confetti, she felt a sensation of well-being, she saw her grandfather, who held her head and caressed her hair, she looked up and saw some figures, they seemed to have wings, she thought that perhaps they were angels, suddenly she felt herself being “sucked and banged” inside her body. Now the lady, after that experience, no longer fears death. She put her hand on mine, without touching it, just a few seconds, she began to talk about some of my personal facts, at that moment, they seemed to me to be a bit banal and obvious observations, but then, looking me in the eyes, she stated with certainty that in my family, there was a person called Angelo (in reality her name is Angela), she was not wrong. She told me that, months before Eros Ramazzotti's song "Un angelo disteso al sole" came out, she was singing that tune, including the lyrics. She showed me on her smartphone, a selfie of her taken in the car, on the windshield you could clearly see a “luminous face”, she said that her Guardian Angel, Saint Michael the Archangel, had appeared to her. (The lady was also hospitalized in the “La Maddalena” clinic in Palermo, she met the mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, she told me an anecdote of hers, but that’s another story). This story, like the one told by Francesco, are part of those numerous cases defined as “pre-death” or “NDE” acronym derived from the English, Near Death Experience. A scientific hypothesis interprets these phenomena as the result of chemical reactions that are triggered in the brain in moments of deep psycho-physical stress, in oxygen deficiency, with the release of endorphins (they generate sensations of euphoria and well-being) and other neurotransmitters, which can determine overall a hyperfunctioning and strengthening of the senses in the cerebral cortex. I am fascinated by the story of when the physicist Albert Einstein, while discussing with Gustavo Adolfo Rol (a famous Italian psychic), placed his hand between the lamp and the table, saying "you see, when matter manifests itself, it casts a dark shadow, because it is matter, whereas God, being pure spirit, when he materializes cannot manifest himself if not through light: light is nothing other than the shadow of God". I have posted a series of photographs taken in November and December of this year, the first part are shots taken according to the dictates of street / beach photography, some examples of earthly reality, to then enter into the "hypothesis of that otherworldly and parallel reality, not perceptible by our senses" accompanied by the presence of Angels, Beings of Light, who "should" always be close to us throughout our existence, after all the mystic Natuzza Evolo recognized the "plainclothes priests" by the presence of their Guardian Angel, because he was placed on their right.
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Esiste l’Aldilà? Mistici come Padre Pio, Natuzza Evolo parlavano con le anime dei defunti, non sapendo che erano dei “trapassati”, non li distinguevano dalle normali persone (lo capirono successivamente). Le apparizioni mariane a Bernadette, ai tre pastorelli di Fatima, quelle di Medugorje, erano reali ? E quanto hanno inciso nella storia dell’umanità? La mia professione mi ha portato a confrontarmi con persone che mi hanno raccontato di loro “esperienze non comuni”. Qualche anno fa, un giovane di circa 30 anni, riferì una sua esperienza di “premorte”, ricoverato in gravissime condizioni nella nostra terapia intensiva, raccontò di quando lui vide dall’alto medici e parasanitari, indaffarati attorno al suo corpo, si trovò poi dentro un tunnel, in fondo vi era una luce. Adesso “Francesco” sta bene. Un paio di mesi fa, sempre in terapia intensiva, ho conversato con un paziente di circa 50 anni, sopravvissuto a tre arresti cardiaci quasi consecutivi, dopo quell’evento, mi riferiva, aveva scoperto inaspettatamente, una profonda fede; dimesso, adesso è in buona salute. Pochi giorni fa, sempre per motivi professionali, ho conosciuto una signora sui 60 anni, accompagnata dal figlio di anni 26 anni, mi raccontò che, nella sua travagliata vita, oltre ad aver subito numerosi interventi chirurgici, è stata sottoposta a numerosi cicli di chemioterapia, durante una di questa sedute, è incorsa in un arresto cardiocircolatorio (probabilmente causato da uno shock anafilattico), in quel momento vedeva distintamente tutta la scena dall’alto, tutti si prodigavano per rianimarla, vide una infermiera spingere un carrello nel corridoio, non riuscendo ad entrare nella sala dove si trovava il suo corpo, poiché mezza anta della porta era bloccata da un chiavistello, impedendo il passaggio del carrello, lei diede un calcio violento all’anta che si aprì riuscendo così a passare; vide una dottoressa che in preda alla concitazione non riusciva a mettersi il camice (questi eventi, mi riferì la signora, ebbero un riscontro positivo); il racconto continuò, lei salì più in alto, leggera, come galleggiando sulle onde del mare, vide un cono di luce che scendeva su di lei come fossero coriandoli, lei percepiva una sensazione di benessere, vide suo nonno, che le teneva il capo e le accarezzava i capelli, guardò in alto e vide delle figure, sembrava avessero delle ali, pensò che forse erano gli angeli, improvvisamente si sentì “risucchiare e sbattere” dentro il suo corpo. Adesso la signora, dopo quella esperienza, non teme più la morte. Mise la sua mano sopra la mia, senza toccarla, solo qualche secondo, incominciò a parlare su alcuni miei fatti personali, in quel momento, mi sembrarono osservazioni un po’ banali e scontate, però poi, guardandomi negli occhi, affermò con certezza che nella mia famiglia, c’era una persona che si chiama Angelo (in realtà si chiama Angela), non si era sbagliata. Mi riferì che, mesi prima che uscisse la canzone di Eros Ramazzotti “Un angelo disteso al sole”, lei cantava quel motivo, incluse le parole. Mi mostrò sul suo smartphone, un suo selfie fatto in auto, sul parabrezza si vedeva distintamente un “volto luminoso”, lei disse che le era apparso il suo Angelo Custode, San Michele Arcangelo. (La signora fu ricoverata anche nella clinica “La Maddalena” di Palermo, fece la conoscenza del boss mafioso Matteo Messina Denaro, mi raccontò un suo aneddoto, ma questa è un’altra storia). Questa storia, come quella raccontata da Francesco, rientrano in quei numerosi casi definiti di “premorte” o “NDE” acronimo derivato dall’inglese, Near Death Experience. Una ipotesi scientifica interpreta tali fenomeni come il risultato di reazioni chimiche che si scatenano nel cervello in momenti di profondo stress psico-fisico, in carenza di ossigeno, con rilascio di endorfine (esse generano sensazioni di euforia e di benessere) ed altri neurotrasmettitori, potendo determinare nell’insieme un iperfunzionamento e potenziamento dei sensi nella corteccia cerebrale. Sono affascinato dalla vicenda, di quando il fisico Albert Einstein discutendo con Gustavo Adolfo Rol (famoso sensitivo italiano) frappose la sua mano tra lampada e tavolo, dicendo “vedi, quando la materia si manifesta, proietta una ombra scura, perché è materia, invece Dio essendo puro spirito, quando si materializza non può manifestarsi se non attraverso la luce: la luce non è altro, se non, l’ombra di Dio”. Posto una serie di fotografie eseguite nel novembre e dicembre di quest’anno, una prima parte sono scatti realizzati secondo i dettami della street /beach photography, qualche esempio di realtà terrena, per entrare poi nella “ipotesi di quella realtà ultraterrena e parallela, non percepibile dai nostri sensi” accompagnata dalla presenza degli Angeli, Esseri di Luce, che “dovrebbero” starci sempre accanto durante tutta la nostra esistenza, d'altronde la mistica Natuzza Evolo riconosceva i “sacerdoti in borghese” dalla presenza del loro Angelo Custode, perché messo alla loro destra.
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As an end-of-year creative project, I challenged myself to do the poem “Desiderata” with images.
Hope you enjoy! : - )
-bran10
Full "Desiderata" prose and images in Flickr Album: www.flickr.com/photos/23202286@N03/albums/72157705067078225
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I had forgotten how much I enjoyed this prose by Max Ehrmann, until I happened upon a coffee table book from many years ago in my collection. Credit to Max Tauss for his original table book.
First penned in 1927, this poem has been an inspiration to many, and equally fits in current day.
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A B O U T " D E S I D E R A T A "
Max Ehrmann wrote his most famous poem, "Desiderata," in 1927, while living in his hometown of Terre Haute, Indiana. He shared it with friend s as part of a Christmas greeting in 1933. Sometime r hereafter, a Boston psychiatrist discovered the poem. When he was on active duty with the U.S. Army in the South Pacific during World 'War II, he wrote to Ehrmann, “I think you should know that nearly every day of my life I use your very fine prose poem ‘Desiderata ' in my work." He also obtained Ehrmann’s permission to distribute copies of "Desiderata" to the soldiers.
In 1948, three years after his death, Ehrmann’s widow had "Desiderata," along with other works, published, in The Poems of M ax Ehrmann, edited by Bertha K. Ehrmann. In the 1950’s, a Maryland pastor copied "Desiderata " from page of a small booklet of inspirational writings he had put together for his congregation. It was printed on the church letterhead, which read: "Old Sr. Paul’s Church, Baltimore, A .D. 1692." From there, the e poem must have passed from hand to hand , and along the way, the founding date of the church, I692, was confused for the copy right date of the poem. "Desiderata" was falsely believed to be age-old wisdom preserved from an anonymous author.
Soon after, the poem gained enormous popularity, albeit without proper accreditation. It was reprinted in books, on posters, and on card s throughout the world; recorded as a narrative song; and became a mantra during the sixties "peace and love" movement. Perhaps it even fulfilled Max Ehrmann' s own wish , which he wrote in his diary in 1921 : "I should like, if I could , to leave a humble gift - a bit of chaste prose that had caught up some noble moods. . . ."
Certainly "Desiderata" secures for Max Ehrmann a place among the canon of visionary writers who have bestowed the gift of revealing a simple, enduring truth with clarity and grace.
-From Marc Tauss photograph book, Desiderata words for life, 2003
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Public domain.
See reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desiderata
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" D E S I D E R A T A "
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
Desiderata by Max Ehrmann.[1]
Hagia Triada Sarcophagus (1370-1300 BC.) - Archeological museum of Heraklion - Crete
Il sarcofago in pietra calcarea raffigura delle cerimonie rituali in onore del defunto e scene associate a credenze sull'aldilà.
Le scene sono dipinte su intonaco con la tecnica dell'affresco.
Sul lato lungo, a destra, l'uomo morto è rappresentato con una lunga tunica di fronte a un edificio, forse la sua tomba, mentre riceve l'offerta di una barca e di animali. Le sacerdotesse accompagnate da una lira, versano le libagioni in un vaso, tra le colonne sormontate da doppie asce, sulle quali sono posati uccelli che simboleggiano la presenza della divinità.
Nell'altro altro lato lungo è rappresentato il sacrificio di un toro L'animale sacrificato è steso su un tavolo, il sacrificio è accompagnato da un suonatore di doppio flauto e da una sacerdotessa che porta le offerte sull'altare.
Sui due lati stretti sono raffigurate dee in carri trainati da cavalli e grifoni (o capre selvatiche) e una processione di uomini.
Il sarcofago è stato rinvenuto in una tomba di forma rettangolare ed apparteneva ad un sovrano che dopo la sua morte, come le immagini raccontano, è stato splendidamente onorato con una cerimonia sontuosa da sacerdoti e dèi sulla terra e nell'aldilà.
Limestone sarcophagus depicting ritual cerimonies in honour of the dead and trascendental scenes associated with afterlife beliefs regarding the deceased.
the scenes are painted on plaster using the fresco technique.
On the long side, on the right, the dead man is depicted wearing a long tunic in front of a building, perhaps his tomb. He receiving offerings of a boat and animals. On the left priestesses accompanied by a lyre are pouring libations into a bucket between columns surmonted by double axes, on wich perch birds symbolising the presence of the deity.
On the other long side is a bull sacrifice. The animal trussed to a table, is being sacrificed to the accompaniment of a double flute and offerings by a priestess at an altar, in front of a sanctuary crowned with horns of consecration and enclosing a tree. Between the sanctuary and the tree is a pole with a double axe, on which sits a bird indicating the epiphany of the deity.
on the two narrow sides are depicted goddesses in chariots drawn by griffins and horses (or wild goats) and a procession of men.
The sarcophagus was found in a rectangular built tomb and belonged to a ruler who, as the images narrate, was splendidly honoured after his dead by the palatial priesthood and the gods on earth and in the hereafter.