Inspiring, Awakening, Healing… through Art

December 28th, 2009
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Cuneiform

Gabriel

before sunrise

February 23rd, 2010

before sunrise

If there’s any kind of magic in this world, it must be in the attempt of understanding someone, sharing something… I know it’s almost impossible to succeed but, who cares really? The answer must be in the attempt.

Celine, played by Julie Delpy, Before Sunrise

Ed Note: check out the Linklater follow-up, Before Sunset, made approximately 10 years later, for a sense of completion, and closure!

the creative word

February 21st, 2010

‘The infinite potencies of sound derive from the Creative Word, Aum, the cosmic vibratory power behind all atomic energies. Any word spoken with clear realization and deep concentration has a materializing value. Loud or silent repetition of inspiring words has been found effective in Coueism and similar systems of psychotherapy; the secret lies in the stepping-up of the mind’s vibratory rate.’

Paramahansa Yogananda, footnote from Autobiography of a Yogi

I suspect most of us underestimate the power of the spoken word. We don’t think twice about giving words of encouragement to a friend or loved one when required, and yet how often do we take the time to encourage ourselves? The technique of remembering a name or word on the tip of the tongue when consciously stating ‘it will come back to me in a minute’, is the same technique that can be applied to instructing our mind, body & spirit to self-mastery.
Likewise, negative thoughts or suggestions, whether about the self, or aimed at another, has the potential for real harm. When one ponders the true power of the word, that it carries a vibration, an energy, the realization dawns that being present in the moment, being super-conscious of our every thought and spoken word is creation at its most potent.
Think inspiring thoughts.
Say something nice to yourself, and keep saying it.

V

the art of improvisation

February 13th, 2010

THE ART OF IMPROVISATION

Two albums I find myself listening to almost compulsively are Paris/London – Testament and the sublime La Scala, jazz piano by the master of improvisation, Keith Jarrett. From waterfall to abstract, every note is profoundly transformational, as it proceeds to seep into the fabric of my own work. The random and chasing La Scala Part 2 lends itself perfectly to increasingly abstract improvised creative moments with a brush, with achingly romantic sections that pull every heart string. The art-jazz influence is not new, but continues to be a great inspiration.
YouTube hosts some great footage of live Jarrett, as well as the documentary, The Art Of Improvisation. While watching this fascinating overview of Jarrett & The Trio speaking about their approach to making music, the parallels to certain forms of art creation and abstract painting, in terms of  process, are striking.
What is also notable is the legendary telepathic ability that operates between Jarrett, DeJohnette and Peacock, that allows them to synchronize during improvised sets; it is impossible to not be inspired by art creation of such mastery.

‘There’s never been a time when improvisation was given the respect that it deserved. By the virtue of the holistic quality of it, it takes everything to do it, it takes real time, no editing possible, it takes your nervous system to be on alert for every possible thing, in a way that cannot be said for any other kind of music.

One of the biggest fallacies I think in art circles, and in music circles maybe, when people talk about it, is that music comes from music… It’s like saying babies come from babies, that it’s not true, it isn’t what happens, music is the result of a process that the musician goes through, especially if he’s creating it on the spot.’ Keith Jarrett

‘What we do as a trio is, is we have a canvas in front of us, and you know intuitively this goes, and the thought process and the intuitive process all happen in that one action.’ Jack DeJohnette

‘First the music enters us, and if the music enters you then you’ve not have to worry so much about what to play, the music is telling you what to play… you just ride along, flow through it… when we are playing something in time and we get a lock, that’s not us! I mean how is that possible? How can that happen?’ Gary Peacock

Exerts borrowed from the documentary Keith Jarrett – The Art Of Improvisation

a compass

February 1st, 2010

a compass

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not a novelty hat or a painted picture
I give you a compass

a directional pocket watch
it gives you hope
when in solitary confinement
battling the elements
directing you home

hear
it will take you on adventures
over rolling hills
and treacherous peaks
essential to your survival

take it
it will never fail you
no matter how warm
or cold
dry or wet
it will point you wherever you want to go

consistent
whatever journey you take
this compass will be there
a slice of me guiding you home

Rory Devlin (age 12)

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#107

December 30th, 2009

#107

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#107 by Vesna Milinkovic

#107 © vesna milinkovic 2009

Blu & David Ellis

December 29th, 2009

PRESS PLAY

One of my favourite YouTube vids this year, check it out…

Blu & David Ellis, YouTube

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intelligent design ~ comment

December 28th, 2009

In reference to the Kryon exert from The Great Scientific Bias (Vlog: Intelligent Design), a few things struck me;

Φ The idea of twin energies, or polarities in the middle of our galaxy, reminds me of the spiraling yin~yang symbol… I’m not a believer in coincidence.

Φ The concept that every galaxy is connected to every other via its center further reminds me of a Buddhist concept describing all life everywhere strung together like a string of beads.

Φ I had a dream some years ago of tentatively observing Palestinian trucks driving through the center of Israel in celebration, with sprayed-on messages of peace daubed across the vehicles in Arabic script. While the atmosphere still remained delicate, the dream presented images of the beginning of lasting peace. This dream has begun to make more sense in the light of Kryon’s information with regard to the potentials for peace on earth; ‘as go the Jews, goes the earth’.

Φ Kryon’s concept of the Wild Card is an important one, expecting the unexpected. Our traditional concept of time is linear, because it is the way that we have been experiencing it, and yet the reality may be that we exist in ‘folded space-time’. The significance being that as we shift into a quantum way of being, we may well have a clearer sense of future potentials, and the ability to jump folds to tweak the past and present for an outcome that is in greater alignment with our personal journeys. This would give us enhanced creative control over our experiences while incarnate, potentially making miracles an everyday phenomena.

V


intelligent design

December 28th, 2009

The new shift that is upon you is one of quantumness.

It is going to require the Human Being to understand more about what is around them, which is invisible to them, but which is very real. They must come to an understanding, and therefore a belief, that not all things are viewable and understandable within 3D thinking, and that there is so much more that is actually part of their world, but requires a logic beyond what they are used to in order to comprehend it.

From the smallest atomic structure to the largest, there is always polarity. You also see this in magnetics. It’s also hiding in gravity. It’s a staple of energy everywhere, everywhere. There are always two kinds of energy, and they work against and with each other to create dimensional reality. Matter itself is one polarity of reality, and anti-matter is the other. Always look for the push and pull, for it will show the way to the answers to the most perplexing issues of physics.

At the center of every galaxy there are “the twins.” The twins are in the middle of the Milky Way as well. You’ve got two energies: One pushes and one pulls. However, you see it in your perception as one giant Black Hole. You assume the gravity of the Black Hole is somehow gripping that spiral and making it spin together in an unusual fashion which violates all the laws of Newton. It’s not so. What’s happening in the center of your galaxy is beautiful. It is an elegant interdimensional force that is not gravity, which spreads through the entire region of your entire galaxy, a force that glues it together in a way that you do not have laws to explain… yet. In addition, there is something hiding that science is only now beginning to wrestle with.

All this explanation, to get to a place of logic for you that will broach a very big issue. Simply stated it is this: When you step into interdimensional physics, and this includes the energies of what you call spirituality, you will find something you didn’t expect: Consciousness… physics with an attitude. The interdimensionality of your galactic center has consciousness. It has to. Anything interdimensional is aligned with creation. When you break the linear logic wall down from what you expect in linear physics, you’re going to run up against things that don’t make sense to your bias. They won’t make sense… not just because they’re in a quantum state, but they contain something else that “consistent 3D science” does not wish to accept… intelligence in physics.

The center of your galaxy spit out the matter that is you. Science has it backwards. The twins in the center of your galaxy lead to the twins in the center of all the other galaxies. Millions of them, billions of them. They’re all connected in a way you cannot fathom outside of space, outside of time, like strings between friends who have consciousness. Not the kind of intelligence and consciousness that you see in your brain, no. Instead it’s a benevolence, an intelligent glue that postures the universe in love.

Astronomers are starting to talk about Intelligent Design. Now we’re getting somewhere, since they’re starting to understand that the quantumness of the universe might indeed have consciousness. Against all odds, you live in a parameter, an attribute in space that statistically continues to be “against all odds.” You are in a universe created for life! If you could throw the dice of physics and create a universe, it would never come up this way. Never. Statisticians have said that it’s out of the possibility of chance… yet you sit in an earth teeming with life. You sit in a universe teeming with life. There is life on the planets around you, but you just haven’t found it yet. Microbial it is, and it represents the beginning attributes of single-celled life… Take a trip to Europa (moon of Jupiter), and look around a little in the ocean. You’ll see. Life is absolutely the way of the universe… everywhere. And it’s against all odds that it happened, and science is now seeing that. It is so out of the statistical model of the creation of any universe, that they have labeled it Intelligent Design. There has to have been a plan.

In the middle of your galaxy, the twins exist, pushing and pulling interdimensional energies that literally have an intelligent complement to them. All of the stars move together in unison with it. Forces that are way beyond gravity are involved. It’s an interdimensionality that glues the galaxy together…

The futurists of your society have a tendency to look at what was, and then project what will be. Do you see the straight line thinking? In a bias of consistency, they say, “Because of this, therefore, there will be this.” They’re looking at a consistent model of old energy, and in their projections, never giving it a chance to change. They are denying the very ability of Humanity to move past what was.

What is it that has been consistent on the planet regarding consciousness? Let’s name the attributes: War, poverty, suffering, drama, a repeat of the same, a repeat of the same, a repeat of the same. Fractals of time that come and go and come and go, which create a consciousness that repeats and repeats and repeats.

Now you can see the bias, and why it’s there. For anything that stays in the same cycle is expected to stay in it forever. This is also echoed in your physics. The more quantum you become, the less consistent you will be in thinking this way. That is to say, eventually you will expect things to happen that have never happened before. You are in a shift that is allowing for it, and all around you, things are changing. Listen: You cannot apply last year’s rules to peace on earth. Is it possible? Yes… more than possible, it’s the most probable outcome that we can give you.

What do last year’s rules tell you about the fear that is being generated over the shift you are in? Does it tell you that you’re going to be covered by water. Well, if you apply the rate at which things are melting and then you project all this into the future, you apply the discourse of poor science… then of course you will be! But that’s awfully consistent of you, isn’t it? You see what I’m saying? You’re not giving any allowance for the wild card. You’re not giving an allowance for the fact that this planet is moving into an entirely different magnetic attribute. The sun is cooperating; the universe is cooperating; it’s almost like the twins can see who you are!

The twins are physics, a magnificent pushing and pulling of an interdimensional attribute… The twins are not God. The twins are a result of a God-biased universe, and an interdimensional physics that you are only just beginning to discover and question. Your science is only beginning to see it. The Gaia effect, Intelligent Design, the way the earth was put together, the way there were no accidents that you’re here, against all odds… that ought to add up to something in your logic.

You are in the middle of a tremendous shift that you’ve asked for, that it’s time for, that I came for! It’s not one that’s going to destroy you! You don’t have to fear it. It’s one you’re in control of as you’re becoming more quantum. You’re starting to understand that the consistency of life as you have seen it is truly an old paradigm. The consistency of fear, of hate, of disappointment… is beginning to change.

We told you to expect the wild card. Expect things that have not happened before. Change history by thinking about future things which may be evolutionary and represent wild cards themselves. Can you recognize some of those wild cards in your very immediate past? None of the quatrains of Nostradamus are accurate today. Books have been written about the tremendous upcoming war with Islam. Well, someday you can read them and laugh, because it’s not happening that way. That entire scenario is based upon a consistent, unchanging consciousness on earth, where everything repeats in an expected old pattern, and it isn’t!

Are you the expected pattern on earth, or are you the wild card?

You see, there are things coming that you didn’t expect. I know these things for I see the potentials that are not openly available to you. It’s the consciousness which is “baking in the oven” that is working right now in ways that you do not expect.

You cannot apply last year’s rules to peace on earth.

KRYON, channelled by Lee Carroll, an exert from The Great Scientific Bias, Nov 2009

pigeon enlightenment

December 28th, 2009

Pigeon Enlightenment 2009 by Vesna Milinkovic

This morning in Finsbury Park while running off Christmas, I passed the same guy (I’m calling him Frank) still polishing his very shiny black car and joyfully blasting tunes from his car stereo. Really makes me smile. I also ran passed a woman in a black cloak trying to enlighten a pigeon by repeating ‘Spirit’ to the bird. I think the pigeon was on the verge of an awakening.

V


Future Glow 2010

December 27th, 2009

Future Glow

Our Christmas project, pondered on the afterglow of way too much booze; a New Year’s poster illustration titled Future Glow 2010, designed in conjunction with furniture designer John Barnard. The egg-shaped portal represents a vision of new growth for the coming year, while the sun symbol is our source of light, sustenance and inspiration for the months ahead.

Wishing you all a spiritually uplifting and prosperous 2010 from VA!

Future Glow 2010, by John Barnard & Vesna Milinkovic

Future Glow 2010 by John Barnard & Vesna Milinkovic © 2009

www.johnbarnard.co.uk

John Barnard is one of the UK’s leading furniture designers,

the last great artisanBen Barnard, Habitat

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happy birthday

December 24th, 2009

Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday Mr.President
Happy Birthday to you

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Gomez~style crimbo

December 24th, 2009

Barbara Ana Gomez, illustrator extraordinaire, thanks Barbara!

Merry Christmas by Barbara Ana Gomez

lifequake

December 18th, 2009

"Anyone feel that power surge?"

"Anyone feel that power surge?"

Like many of us around the UK this morning, I woke up to snow flakes fluttering past my window and a view that’s whiter than usual. There’s an air of optimism that arrives with snow which prompts reflection, and we are in that time of year already with only two weeks left of 2009.
This has been a tough year. Now there’s an understatement. It’s been a tough year for everyone I know, in every conceivable way. 2009 carries 11 energy, the energy of illumination, of dismantling. This is the year that shook our foundations with might, and we now look about us to survey the rubble. Some things were so out of kilter they were begging to be pulled down, just breath gently and it collapses before our very eyes. Other things have taken something a little stronger on the Richter scale, and we’ve all felt it’s vibrations. Organizations, jobs and relationships are the three big ones that have taken a hammering this year.
If you’ve surfed through it all, wondering what all the fuss is about, it’s probably because you’re one of those rare individuals that follows your heart; you were already in the right place, at the right time. The rest of us? Well, there’s a sliding scale of carnage, from a mere graze to outright destruction. The pain we experience is conversely proportional to how much of our truth we have been living over the past few months and years. If you’re in victim mode, know one thing, it ain’t over. However, if you’re asking the right questions of yourself, and taking responsibility for what you have created in your life, rest assured that help is on it’s way, and the cavalry will appear from the most unexpected places, and in the most magical of ways. The more in harmony we are with our own personal truth, the easier the ride.
In the meantime, let your hair down, relax, we’ve made it through another year in one piece… kinda. Know that 2010, energetically speaking, is one of divine organization; in layman’s terms we are receiving a divine helping hand to re-organize our lives in such a way that will bring us a greater feeling of joy and fulfillment. Do yourself a favour if you haven’t done so already, get consciously co-creating. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, google it, read about it, put it into practice; conscious co-creation… it’s time to take responsibility for our own happiness.

V

the morning post no.5

December 18th, 2009

Ghandi, because he had renounced the outer trappings, couldn’t be grabbed anywhere in the usual places. Those in power couldn’t threaten him with losing his job, house, family, or even with imprisonment and death… detachment renders the use of power impotent… At this stage of inner growth, the power of going inward is veiled; there is darkness and a cloud of unknowing. Yet somehow the pull toward spirit is real. For all the outer sacrifices, something seems to have been gained. What that something is becomes clear later; at this moment there is a period of adjustment as the person accommodates to a new world so different from that of every day.

Deepak Chopra, How To Know God