_Ode to the Deep Sea_

Dark depths of mystery,
Ancient and true,
Nimble consciousness,
In the creature soup,
Energy and light,
Light made matter,
Waves rise and fall,
Atoms rotate,
Kinesis directs,
Evolution shapes,
Under this life,
Pulsates another.

(by Sarah Janes from her Sex Dream Diary)

Wed, Jan 9, 2008  Permanent link

_Guerrilla Gardening_

Have a green thumb? Want to spread the love and plant some yummy-licious fruit, green veggies, sunflowers, or a pretty lilac tree? Don’t have a garden though? Even better - just plant it in the parking lot of your nearest supermarket … on the sidewalk near your bus stop .. Or at the park near by ..
In 1649 Gerard Winstanley, one of the first Guerrilla gardeners, said “earth is a common treasure for all.”
Now looked as an ‘urban adventure at the threshold of nature and culture’ .. Richard Reynolds inspires us to partake in Guerrilla gardening: “we do it because we cannot resist the satisfaction of turning a dilapidated patch of land into something more delightful. In a place of compacted mud, rampant dandelions, and empty smoothie bottles we dig in manure, and plant hardy shrubs and luminous bedding.”
And the green-loving guerrillas who commit ‘senseless acts of beauty by planting up roundabouts, verges, and shopping centres, .. the land earmarked for development .. corners of parks .. are technically only guilty of illegal trespassing .. but the spectacle of prosecutions would do little other than highlight officialdom’s own lack of commitment towards providing urban environments fit for the people they claim to serve’ (Graham Burnett)
.. this land is my land … this land is your land ..
So go ahead … spread the love ..



+ www.guerrillagardening.org

Sat, Jan 5, 2008  Permanent link

Do you dream of a vacation at the bottom of the ocean?

+ more www.deepseaphotography.com/galleries.html

Wed, Jan 2, 2008  Permanent link

Happy New Year

… may our humanity beautify and experience ecstasy in knowledge and light in 2008 .. I wish everyone pure love ..
An insightful book I just finished, “it’s not how good your are, it’s how good you want to be” by Paul Arden, has beautiful advice from his own experience on how to be better .. I want to share some of these passages with everyone:
The past is … out of date .. Opposite of originality … always keep moving forward .. Let go of your ego - It’s right to be wrong. Being right may be like walking backwards proving where you’ve been. Being wrong isn’t in the future or in the past. Being wrong isn’t anywhere but being here. The best place to be.
Get unblocked .. Lose your inhibitions and stop worrying about being right ..
If we don’t get lost, we’ll never find a new route … Make your vision of where you want to be a reality.
Ideas are open knowledge. Don’t claim ownership. They’re not your ideas anyway, they’re someone else’s. they are out there floating by on ether ..
.. High creativity is responding to situations without critical thought (playfulness)
… and on that note, on being playful … always stay playful … as our children .. And from another book I received from my beautiful friends, “The Daring Book for Girls” .. something fun I can’t wait to play is ‘Amoeba Tag’ - one person is It. But instead of being able to tag someone and no longer be It, the person who is tagged then has to link arm with the tagged, the link of taggers grow, looking like an amoeba .. doesn’t that sound fun? .. looking forward to trying this game out with friends and strangers at Vondel park soon …
Happy New Year lovely beings!!

Tue, Jan 1, 2008  Permanent link

Do you see human features in these photos? Do you see faces and recognizable shapes in clouds? Or religious figures in nature? Then you are experiencing a psychological phenomenon called Pareidolia; it was first termed in 1994 by Steven Goldstein.
These images are not the best of examples of pareidolia, but I connected with them. Their forms made me sympathize with them … they seem to be hugging, loving each other … The photographs are the collaboration between nature, and photographer Carl Warner.
Why do humans have these tendencies to sympathize with objects and connect with them by discerning human features? Carl Sagan (great scientist / astronomer) believed this is caused from our instincts to recognize human features, to be able to discern and connect with other humans even under harsh weather conditions and in the dark. The Rorschach inkblot tests used Pareidolia to have insight into a person’s mental state by dissecting the perceptions of the one being tested. But is it only our own psychological making or does nature manifest in a sort of “re-incarnation” of humans .. maybe both?







+ Links that have imagery of Pareidolia:
 http://cloudappreciationsociety.org/gallery/index.php?x=browse&category=20&pagenum=1 
 http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&q=&t=k&om=1&z=16&ll=50.010525,-110.113242&spn=0.010673,0.019956 
 http://maps.google.com/?ll=17.986897,-99.807014&spn=0.156741,0.21286&t=k 
http://www.forteantimes.com/community/photos/685/bottom_mushroom.html
 http://www.yoism.org/?q=node/129 

Sat, Dec 29, 2007  Permanent link

eat your heart out

.. I've always dreamed of walking in a landscape where the mushrooms stood hundreds of feet above ... when just a mouthful from it's "bark or roots" would send you to heaven ... as T. McKenna said the spores to mushrooms may have come from "alien" planets to teach us ... maybe these planets have other "varieties"of shrooms .. shrooms that grow as high as red wood trees ... I want to go there ...


foodscapes created by Carl Warner
+http://www.carlwarner.com

Thu, Dec 27, 2007  Permanent link

. let there be light .

the play on light .. this new find has really inspired me : a beautiful environment of soft light designed by architect Jean Nouvel and Corian Nouvel Lumieres. The project explores qualities of sensory light on solid surfaces.. from the wall which lights a city 'skyline', the bedroom in a forever soft-changing dreamy ambiance, to the table in the dinning room, it is all lit ... diffusing soft images of clouds and other light formations ... a feeling of lightness ... he describes it as a "sweet diffuser which enlightens the hosts like spotlights on the stage." ... beautiful mind, beautiful world, once again

more + www.jeannouvel.fr

Thu, Dec 27, 2007  Permanent link
Categories: light, Jean Nouvel, Corian Nouvel Lumieres, architecture, future homes, dreamy

being water

What if we drank ourselves into water? Anything is possible ..
There is more than plenty of water embodying 71 % of our planet. If we all drink more water maybe over time … we will begin to form into the liquid form. our body will pour water from all our pores … Our movement will become fluid, softer, flexible, easy going .. And then all together, just completely become water … a new state of form …imagine being a body of water … all together, flowing into each other, on top of each other, forever kissing, forever making love …

Wed, Dec 26, 2007  Permanent link

a few nights ago, tasting the elixir of a shroom ..

... I saw invisible fields of energy - of everything , and the past, present, and future .. And all the exists beyond these time intervals and is in a constant ‘forever’ state. I experienced this present reality in every other reality - I saw all versions, all possibilities, of the now. And everything was possible, nothing impossible.
There was never darkness, only light, with information so intricate it is beyond words. These sentences cannot describe the experience. I spoke to ‘beings’ in a speech which was non-verbal. We as people have created words in this world which we embody now, but in these ‘other’ worlds vocabulary doesn’t come into play. It is simply all a mutual understanding, everything is clear. I don’t know their names, or even if they would have names, but they were information. Their beauty unworldly, intricate, electrical, and they were enveloped in layers of information which constantly unfolded. They seemed to be forever dying and forever re-born again at once. When I looked into it’s ‘eyes’ and ‘skin’ I saw it infinitely. In him/her, there were others inside, forever flowing with all life and information, as I looked at him with my eyes closed in the other dimension, I felt becoming that being .. I was him/her … we were all .. My consciousness became lit with over-flowing information.
People have taught ourselves that we must touch, smell, see, taste, etc, in order to experience, whatever it may be - whether travelling to a new land and seeing the sunset of a new sky, feeling a woman’s skin in order to enjoy it … but it is all possible, even more beautiful, when simply concentrating and listening to the information source. It will show you all which you desire. You are the creator of all experiences. I travelled to unknown cold lands and saw snowflakes fall, I touched green grass somewhere a few hundred years ago, I felt dead in this existence, and I felt alive with all. It was incredible. My GOD, you are, I am.
Scientists are currently searching for ‘other’ planets beyond our galaxy which has life. We don’t need to search far beyond our galactic reaches, everything we seek is right here with us, in us, now. We’ve been looking for features such as water and green landscapes concluding that is the answer to life, and yes it is on our planet, but there may be planets which exist with abundant life and contain other gases and liquids which we don’t know of … But even beyond the physical this other planet which I have travelled to so briefly is none of that. It is untouchable in physical matter, but it simply is. I feel beautiful knowing it is right here, in reach, and soon, perhaps in the year 2012 or after-death, we will join deeper together, in a state of indescribable beauty and love forever. For now though, this reality is as beautiful as any other possibility of existence.

Wed, Dec 26, 2007  Permanent link
Categories: shrooms, other beings, experience, information, reality, other dimensions