Extremely beautiful videos by John Banks – like dancing through the Deva world. Autumn Architecture Energy “strives to visualize all the interior energy and forms that I sense while experiencing the forest at the peak of Fall. I was not thinking this when making it, but it owes a nod to graphic novel techniques for showing energy as light and lines coming off of objects. I try to utilize the technologies in a way that brings out the character of a scene. It’s obvious, but I like to visualize that essence that I feel in a place. There is a sense of being inside a cathedral or an old castle when walking deep in the Autumn woods….”

Another video, Glow Temple “is the last in a series entitled the Journey Cycle. These short films loosely follow a dreamlike continuum of travels through a lost book. … Ancient alchemical writings move us along to find the key. The goal was to create an experience that would transport you without being specific, hence the unknown language.”

See also his other videos on Vimeo.

I just came across the beautiful video: “Musical Rapture…A Healing Gift for Humanity”, by Joao Cota-Robles. A free mp3 download of this sacred music is available on Frederic Delarue’s website: www.eraofpeace.org. The complete CD of Musical Rapture is 62 minutes long and can be downloaded at the website of the mother of the author: www.FredericDelarue.com

On the website you can read more about the background of the music, it starts:
“At the age of 13, a year after my first Near-Death Experience when I encountered Angels and Beings of Light in the tunnel reaching to the Bright Warm Light, I was guided to start playing people’s soul songs… On December 29, 2010 Joao Cota-Robles made his transition to the Light, from a sudden pneumonia. I did not know him personally but know his dad, Dick and his mother, Patricia Cota-Robles, whom invites me to perform my music each year to a big Spiritual Conference she organizes in places high in frequency, or ‘vortexes’.” Enjoy

The Gayatri mantram is age-old. Its use has become global in the last decennies. Here is a very beautiful rendering of the mantram with sublime pictures – from an unknown source.

Picture from the video

An inspiring prayer song by Maher Zain, a Muslim Swedish R&B singer, songwriter and music producer of Lebanese origin. The video also contains the English lyrics.

Sometimes you might feel at your wit’s end and don’t see a way out of a problem. As soon as you come again into contact with your inner potential you can rise again and continue your striving. The video with the song “Dear Father” by Neil Diamond, from the famous movie Jonathan Livingston Seagull just visualises this crisis. It is very inspiring. You find on YouTube more extracts / music from the film.

Picture from the video

Though the precise moment of the Wesak (or Vaisakh) Festival is over since 2 hours I would like to post a Spanish video from YouTube showing scenes of the festival in a valley near Mount Kailash. For long times this festival related to Taurus full moon and the reception of sublime spiritual energies had been regarded as a mythological event reported about only by clairvoyants, but here you see Tibetan people celebrating it very much like described by Leadbeater or Master DK.

A friend also sent me the link to a film, “Journey to the Wesak Valley in Tibet“; the author who made the video describes his journey to the Vaisakh Festival, there are nice pictures on the site. Here are extracts on YouTube.

I only came to know later that at Vaisakh full moon this year there was the celebration of 2600 years of the Buddha’s enlightenment, with world-wide festivities.

Painting after a drawing in a book of Charles Leadbeater:

Vaisakh Full Moon at about 5 am seen from the veranda

A very impressive rap video-clip (in German), by “Thomas D.”: “Gebet an den Planeten 11.0 – Lektionen in Demut” (Prayer to the Planet 11.0 – Lessons in Humbleness). Even if you don’t understand German, there are fantastic scenes with animals and nature. The album was published yesterday.

I came across a very impressive video created by the Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto, which has gained a special importance through the reactor accident in Fukushima, Japan.

Hashimoto has done a time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998, beginning with the Manhattan Project’s “Trinity” test near Los Alamos and concluding with Pakistan’s nuclear tests in May of 1998. This leaves out North Korea’s two alleged nuclear tests in this past decade (the legitimacy of both of which is not 100% clear).

The film is based mainly on the data of “Nuclear Explosions 1945 – 1998″ co-published by the Swedish Defence Reserach Establishment (FOI) and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) in 2000.

Each nation gets a blip and a flashing dot on the map whenever they detonate a nuclear weapon, with a running tally kept on the top and bottom bars of the screen. Hashimoto began the project in 2003; he created it with the goal of showing”the fear and folly of nuclear weapons.” It starts really slow — if you want to see real action, skip ahead to 1962 or so — but the buildup becomes overwhelming.

Hashimoto says about his map:

“This piece of work is a bird’s eye view of the history by scaling down a month length of time into one second.  No letter is used for equal messaging to all viewers without language barrier.  The blinking light, sound and the numbers on the world map show when, where and how many experiments each country have conducted.  I created this work for the means of an interface to the people who are yet to know of the extremely grave, but present problem of the world.”

And this problem increases with the nuclear reactor accidents…

Hashimoto is currently working for Lalique Museum, Hakone, Japan as a curator.

A friend sent the link to the very impressive video “Home” by photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand. The comment for the environmentally conscious documentary says:

“Shot in 54 countries and 120 locations over 217 days, Home presents the many wonders of planet Earth from an entirely aerial perspective. As such, we are afforded the unique opportunity to witness our changing environment from an entirely new vantage point. In our 200,000 years on Earth, humanity has hopelessly upset Mother Nature’s delicate balance. Some experts claim that we have less than ten years to change our patterns of consumption and reverse the trend before the damage is irreversible.
Produced to inspire action and encourage thoughtful debate, Home poses the prospect that unless we act quickly, we risk losing the only home we may ever have.”

I have earlier posted an article about photos of Yann Arthus-Bertrand: The Earth Seen from Above.

An inspiring initiative for creating a better future for mankind:
The Transition Towns Movement is a movement coming from England and Ireland and has spread over many countries. They say about themselves: “Transition Network’s role is to inspire, encourage, connect, support and train communities as they self-organise around the transition model, creating initiatives that rebuild resilience and reduce CO2 emissions.”

Here are two links to very interesting YouTube-videos about the Transition movement: What is Transition? (with German sub-titles)

and Visions of Transitions (also with German sub-titles). Constructing new realities begins with visions of change.