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Evocation in Ruins of Abandoned Temples - The Rovingian Evocation by Daniel Arrhakis (2026)
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Evocation in Ruins of Abandoned Temples - The Rovingian Evocation
Performing an animistic attunement meditation in a ruined space or in nature serves to establish a relationship of respect, reciprocity, and communication with the non-human agency of the place. The main objective is not to extract energy or impose human will, but to attune one's own consciousness to the frequency of the elements present. There is also an initial inner Rovingian evocation of presentation and permission to enter to demonstrate respect; this, like all Rovingian evocations and prayers, is personal and varies from monk to monk.
The Animistic Perspective of Ruins
The collapse of structures and the encroachment of nature transform the meaning and spiritual experience of these sacred spaces through specific dynamics:
Non-Human Agency: The space ceases to respond only to the will of priests or devotees and begins to actively interact with the ecosystem.
Ecological Reclamation: Roots, lichens, trees, and shrubs are not only destroying the masonry but merging with the stone in a living process of healing and transforming the landscape.
Memory of Materials: Worked stones retain the echo of ancient human intentions, acting as receptacles of accumulated memories.
Spirits of the Place (Genius Loci): The original spiritual entity of the temple is freed from institutional dogmas, integrating and responding directly to the forces of the earth itself.
Evocation Practices in Abandoned Spaces
The ritualistic or meditative approach to a ruined temple from an animistic perspective focuses on listening and communion, abandoning the idea of spiritual domination or control:
Deep Listening: The first step of evocation is silence, allowing one to perceive the wind in the cracks, the play of light and shadows in the forms, textures, and silhouettes, the growth of vegetation, and the historical weight of the stone. The mist that crosses the place on foggy days. Birds or other animals that inhabit it.
Offerings of Reciprocity: Instead of egoic petitions, natural elements (water, seeds, flowers or dried leaves, sacred Rovingian pebbles or white sand) are left to nourish the ecosystem and demonstrate respect for the guardians of the place. In any case, always respect the cultures, adapting to local or regional rites and recommendations. The Rovingian monk adapts, with reverence, respect and humility, to the traditions and cultures with which he comes into contact and visits.
Interspecies Dialogue: Recognizing that the new inhabitants of the temple—such as mosses, birds or insects—are the current legitimate caretakers of the sacred space.
Communion and Darśan (1): Visual and tactile contact with the dilapidated walls or sculptures promotes a direct and immediate affective connection with the living sacredness of matter. In the case of relics or ancient paintings, we do not advise contact, but rather reverence, even for the structural and sacred protection of the spaces.
The Rovingian Anathra and Sandhara Evocations
There is also an initial Rovingian inner evocation of presentation and permission to enter to demonstrate respect - Anathra; this, like all Rovingian evocations and prayers, is personal and varies from monk to monk. There is an exit, and in the outer procession there is an evocation of gratitude, which is done by exiting backward in a position of reverence - Sandhara.
(1) Darśan or Darshan (from the Sanskrit darśana, meaning "vision" or "apparition") is the sacred act of contemplating and receiving the blessing of a deity, idol (murti), spiritual master, or sacred place in Indian religions.
In the case of Rovingian monks, the term is used in the act relating to the Genius Loci of the place or its spiritual guardian.
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Evocação Em Ruínas de Templos Abandonadas - A Evocação Rovingiana
A realização de uma meditação de sintonização animista num espaço em ruínas ou na natureza serve para estabelecer uma relação de respeito, reciprocidade e comunicação com a agência não humana do local. O objetivo principal não é extrair energia ou impor a vontade humana, mas sim sintonizar a sua própria consciência com a frequência dos elementos presentes. Há. Também uma evocação rovingiana interior inicial de apresentação e de permissão de entrada para demonstrar respeito; esta como todas as evocações e rezas rovingianas são pessoais e variam de monge para monge.
A Perspetiva Animista das Ruínas
O desabamento das estruturas e a invasão da natureza transformam o significado e a vivência espiritual destes espaços sagrados através de dinâmicas específicas:
Agência Não Humana: O espaço deixa de responder apenas à vontade dos sacerdotes ou devotos para interagir ativamente com o ecossistema.
Reclamação Ecológica: Raízes, líquenes, árvores e arbustos não estão apenas a destruir a alvenaria, mas a fundir-se com a pedra, num processo vivo de cura e transformação da paisagem.
Memória dos Materiais: Pedras trabalhadas mantêm o eco das intenções humanas antigas, atuando como recipientes de memórias acumuladas.
Espíritos do Lugar (Genius Loci): A entidade espiritual original do templo liberta-se dos dogmas institucionais, integrando-se e respondendo diretamente às forças da própria terra.
Práticas de Evocação no Espaço Abandonado
A aproximação ritualística ou meditativa a um templo em ruínas sob uma ótica animista foca-se na escuta e na comunhão, abandonando a ideia de domínio ou controlo espiritual:
Escuta Profunda: O primeiro passo da evocação é o silêncio, permitindo perceber o vento nas frestas, o jogo da luz e das sombras nas formas, texturas e silhuetas, o crescimento da vegetação e o peso histórico da pedra. A bruma que atravessa o lugar em dias de nevoeiro. Os pássaros ou outros animais que a habitam.
Oferendas de Reciprocidade: Em vez de petições egoicas, são deixados elementos naturais (água, sementes, flores ou folhas secas, seixos sagrados rovingianos ou areia branca) para alimentar o ecossistema e demonstrar respeito aos guardiões do local. Em todo o caso, respeitar sempre as culturas, adaptando aos ritos e recomendações locais ou regionais. O Monge rovingiano adapta-se, com reverencia, respeito e humildade às tradições e culturas com que contacta e visita.
Diálogo Interespécies: Reconhecer que os novos habitantes do templo—como musgos, aves ou insetos—são os atuais zeladores legítimos do espaço sagrado.
Comunhão e Darśan (1): O contacto visual e tátil com as paredes ou esculturas degradadas promove uma ligação afetiva direta e imediata com a sacralidade viva da matéria. No caso de antigas relíquias ou pinturas não aconselhamos o contacto, mas uma reverência, até pela proteção estrutural e sagrada dos espaços.
As Evocações Rovingianas Anathra e Sandhara
Há também uma evocação rovingiana interior inicial de apresentação e de permissão de entrada para demonstrar respeito - Anathra; esta como todas as evocações e rezas rovingianas são pessoais e variam de monge para monge. Há saída, já no exterior há uma evocação de gratidão que se faz saindo de costas em posição de reverencia - Sandhara.
(1) Darśan ou Darshan (do sânscrito darśana, que significa "visão" ou "aparição") é o ato sagrado de contemplar e receber a bênção de uma divindade, ídolo (murti), mestre espiritual ou lugar sagrado nas religiões indianas.
No caso dos monges rovingianos, o termo emprega-se no ato relativo ao Genius Loci do lugar ou ao seu guardião espiritual.
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Transformed pinhole shot of a film scene (Berlin, Checkpoint Charlie, Glienicker Brücke, Bridge of Spies)
Jonas Daniel Meijerplein 09/12/2015 19h52
This colorful installation on the waterside of the Jonas Daniel Meijerplein can photographed in different ways. According to the artist the best point of view are to look through the rings. I chose to do this in conjunction with another light scultpure next to the Hortus Botanicus garden, Friendala. Both part of the Water Colors boat tour but also part of the Illuminade walking route.
Amsterdam Light Festival
The fourth edition for this Winter event in the city of Amsterdam. No longer do we have to dread the dark winter months in Amsterdam. Thanks to Amsterdam Light Festival, Amsterdam is transformed every year into a true city of lights with the help of contemporary (inter)national light artists. During this annual festival for young and old, both the residents of Amsterdam and the city’s many visitors are treated to a spectacle of light. At the same time, the festival offers talented (young) light artists a platform to present their latest work.
This year, the 55-day festival is dedicated to theme 'Friendship' and can be visited from 28 November 2015 to 17 January 2016. Water Colors will take place from 28 November 2015 to 17 January 2016 and the walking route Illuminade will take place from 10 December 2015 to 3 January 2016. Let's celebrate the winter together with art, light and water!
www.amsterdamlightfestival.com
Bands of Friendship
Artist: Vikas Patil & Santosh Gujar [ Light designer & architect ]
Location: Jonas Daniel Meijerplein
Bands of Friendship, created by the two Indian architects Vikas Patil and Santosh Gujar, is a nice reflection of how people from outside the EU look at this continent, i.e. with hope and appreciation. The project is based on a typically present-day phenomenon: the colourful bands of friendship girls and boys (and also many men and women) wear around their wirsts to confirm their friendship or to show that they’re supporting a good cause. These are the bands of friendship the title refers to, nine of them in as many colours.
Bands of Friendship symbolizes endless friendship and has been positioned in such a way that the spectator may look at them from different angles with changing meanings from every perspective. If you look at them sidelong, the rings are still separate, individual and unattached, independent like the countries within the European Union. But move aside, and slowly but surely the rings become attached; the Union gains form. A few more steps bring you right in front of the entrance to the rings and you look into the multicoloured tunnel of progress and prosperity, the ideal Europe stands for. The artists, both architects, hope that this work, abstract and figurative at the same time, will incite people on the one hand, to enlarge their own circle of friends as much as possible, and on the other hand to remain positive about Europe’s ideals.
Vikas Patil is an architect and light designer from India. After obtaining his Master’s degree from the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan, he worked on several projects in India, Europe and various Arabic countries. Patil has continued to develop his passion for lighting design while working as the director of the Mumbai-based Studio ALBA Lighting Design since 2011.
The Indian architect Santosh Gujar studied architecture at the Sir JJ College of Architecture in Mumbai. In his current position as consulting architect, he often works with small architecture firms, enabling him to share his knowledge on design issues and regional development. Gujar and Patil complement each other with regards to aesthetic and technical matters.
Saturday 11th February, 2012.
It's funny how my work has just transformed over night isn't it? It's like my creative thoughts and dreams are suddenly being projected into my work, which is exciting! Who knows what tomorrow will be like, we'll see! I hope I can keep this streak up.
Slept in until 12:30 p.m. woops! Someone stayed up too late the night before. I went downstairs and said good morning, well good afternoon to everyone then came back upstairs to come on flickr and the internet! Had a shower and then had lunch :) I watched Private Practice with my Mum and my gosh, so stressful! That episode was full on.
Afterwards, I uploaded yesterday's photo and then waited around until about six and went to the park with my brother. I took him to a new section that I had been to with Nataly. There was amazing light and I just couldn't stop taking pictures! Christian took some too, so go check them out! :)
Dad picked us up in the mustang and we drove around the industrial areas to look for more cool photo locations. We got out at one point and looked at this one area which I'll be using in the future! We listened to green day really loud and enjoyed the afternoon :)
Explored.
Dear Friends:
For some reason, my last post (see below), although interlocked, brought "distance" with it in a way I was unable to respond to every person or answer questions. Ironically, right before my eyes, the pepper transformed and became more "colorful" ~ the other *green* pepper, alone in the veggie basket, remained unchanged.
Hopefully I'll be back on track and up for more visits. Thanks for all your comments and faithful friendship. Although we are all separated by distance, the bond we have formed will be forever in my heart.
“Human beings, vegetables, or comic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player. ~ Albert Einstein ~
“A part of you has grown in me. And so you see, it's you and me together forever and never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart.” anon
“I am in You,You are in Me,There is no distance or distinction.” ~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba ~
“I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.”
~ Roy Croft ~
“Distance never seperates two hearts that really care, for our memories span the miles and in seconds we are there. But whenever I start feeling sad cuz I miss you I remind myself how lucky I am to have someone so special to miss.” ~ anon ~
“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~
note: the title is a quotation by Diogenes
The other columbine was originally pink and white. Both have been transformed by DDG [Google's Deep Dream Generator].
Friends have noted that this looks like fun. It is a powerful mix of fun, frustration, excitement and satisfaction. I recommend it to anyone who wants to spend hours and hours fooling around with it. Beware - I think it is addictive.
Looks like I don't have time again :( Hope you like these small guys, two of them weren't shown before.
Yay, it my first Flickr year gone into the past...
Hopefuly I'll be able to make a comeback in december!
A discarded cup on the beach caught my eye during sunrise. The sun had cast a shadow that had turned the short fat cup into a tall mug or even a blender :-)
As in the world of fashion modelling, how you use lighting can totally distort what the eye can see.
OK, maybe an over active imagination on this shot, but it was taken after a night out on the town with a few vodkas ;-)
"My healed chest wound
Transformed into a gate
Where I receive love from
Where I give love from…"
*Björk*
transform, 2001, 60"w x 40"h, mixed media painting on canvas
transform = transformation = transmute = transubstantiate = metamorphose = translate = convert = change = mutate = reform = modify = revolutionize = tweak
*Exhibited at Sandra Goldie Gallery, Montreal, Canada, group show. Nov15-26.05.
A quick hand held shot whilst walking our dog in the Gwydir Forrest, recent very heavy rains had transformed this small stream into a pleasant river scene.
Alva Noto
CD :
Lou Reed
Transformer
RCA Records
1972
Design . Ernst Thormahlen
Photography . Mick Rock
Postcard :
Koen Van Den Broek
New York
Oil On Canvas
2007
Use Hearing Protection
GMA
1. The wall itself from top to bottom,
2. The wall tilts to the diagonal,
3. The wall stretches like a cat,
4. The wall here has triangular shadows,
5. The wall appears in a puddle,
6. The wall does a disappearing act,
7. The wall dances around and around,
8. The wall has lost its wallishness!,
9. The wall is now a furry animal! Her thick fur keeps her warm.
Taken and created at The Regency, Laguna Woods, Orange County, California.
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My images are not to be used, copied, edited, or blogged without my explicit permission.
Please!! NO Glittery Awards or Large Graphics...Buddy Icons are OK. Thank You!
Many thanks for every kind comment, fave, your words of encouragement, and the inspiration of your fine photography,
my friends! You make my day every day!
Back in 1959-60 this was part of the last 1/3 of my High School Cross-Country course. It was just barren rolling hills of hard-packed adobe clay.
Frossay (Le Carnet)
I.C.I.! Instant Carnet Island
Rassemblement de micro-architectures et habitats légers
I.C.I. est un refuge temporaire en bord de Loire pour expérimenter des micro-architectures en bois, en terre, en résine, sous terre, dans les arbres, posées au sol ou sur pilotis. Un lieu pour se ressourcer et se restaurer en admirant les tourbillons de la Loire.
I.C.I. fait référence à “Instant City”, projet de ville nomade imaginé par les architectes anglais Archigram à la fin des années 1960. Métropole itinérante, Instant City préfigure une société devenue réseau d’informations et transforme l’architecture en événement.
I.C.I. propose une dizaine d’expérimentations esthétiques, formelles, conceptuelles, fonctionnelles, inspirées des utopies des années 60 et 70, ou issues des situations d’urgence (catastrophes naturelles, guerres…) où l’ingéniosité, le besoin d’inventer des objets à habiter, de promouvoir l’autoconstruction, permettent une cohabitation entre humains et avec la nature. Construites par des artistes, des architectes ou des inventeurs soucieux des populations sans toit, ces “modules habitables” sont visitables le jour ou vous accueillent pour une nuit.
Autobots transform.
I really loved the color of this 458, so much that I think I made the owner uncomfortable by following him so much. I don't like the sticker though.
Through one of the alternate plain glass windows in the Round Church (1185) - Temple Church, London. Built by the Knights Templar, the soldier monks who protected pilgrims to the Holy Land during the crusades.
The cold, grey and windy day outside was transformed by the random ripples in the old glass.
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