I today came over a nice website called “The World Garden“. There are photos from gardens from many countries, you can send them a picture of your garden to be added to the site. On the page there is an nice intro by Barbara Wolf:

“Long ago Mother Earth was a perfect garden. There was a perfect blueprint for her. Then, fragmentation began and today the garden is far from perfect. Let us turn the imperfect to the perfect.
We begin small; each of us making one piece of a world garden of perfection. We overlay our efforts, our tapestry, on the energies of imperfect Mother Earth. That is how we change the imperfect to the perfect.”

The site made me think of the book “Leaves of Morya’s Garden” from 1924. Here is an extract from the aphorism No 229:

Yes, yes, yes, each word of unity is as the seed of
some fair flower.
To cultivate a garden of beauty is permitted to all.
But where are the gardeners who can judge which seed is best?
We shall teach them to gather the fertile stalks.
We shall pluck out the blighting weeds.
And the ground where God has manifested Himself
We shall adorn with flowers.
But where the flowers of unity are—guard their petals.
Yes, yes, yes!

View from out of our living room

Here are three beautiful videos by Terje Sorgjerd. The first is a sublime film done of a sandstorm at El Teide, Spain´s highest mountain (3718m), where he wanted to capture the beautiful Milky Way galaxy, but a large sandstorm from Sahara Desert came over, and the result were incredible photos of night sky.
 

The second is a fantastic film of the Aurora Borealis shot in Alaska at Kirkenes and Pas National Park bordering Russia, temperatures around -25 Celsius. By the way, here is a short extract from H. P. Balvastky’s Secret Doctrine about the Aurora Borealis:
“Sound is the characteristic of Akasa (Ether): it generates air, the property of which is Touch; which (by friction) becomes productive of Colour and Light.” . . . . . . (Vishnu Purana.) Perhaps the above will be regarded as archaic nonsense, but it will be better comprehended, if the reader remembers the Aurora Borealis and Australis, both of which take place at the very centres of terrestrial electric and magnetic forces. The two poles are said to be the store-houses, the receptacles and liberators, at the same time, of Cosmic and terrestrial Vitality (Electricity); from the surplus of which the Earth, had it not been for these two natural “safety-valves,” would have been rent to pieces long ago.

The third is a video of a market in Thailand, where the Maeklong Railway line passes through – 8 times a day. A beautiful flow, also with boats of market people.

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.

A very beautiful YouTube video story about a beggar and an unconventional help with the power of words.

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.

Last weekend we went together with a friend to Ticino in the Southern part of Switzerland to visit another friend whom I had come to know via the web. The lady has been one of the first persons from the West to go to India in the early 1980ies to meet Master EK. She is now working with horses as a therapy of integration – besides her professional activity: “Ipsi-E, Centre for human-horse relationship and self-empowerment through the horse”.

She has three horses from the Pyrenees which never were used for riding, but for expressing their equine energies in the dialogue with humans. Thus they didn’t develop fear, but trust, curiosity and an intense presence. It was fascinating to touch and feel them, sensing their different qualities and observing their reactions. Saturday I only had little time with them, but Sunday morning I just stood for quite a while with two of them in silence, and there was an intense inner communication.

Later our friend took us to Ascona to the Monte Verità, the Mount of Truth, a very beautiful power spot above the Lago Maggiore, where in the early 20th century there was a “new age” community experimenting with new forms of life. Many artists, philosophers and theosophists had been attracted there. Our friend, who had lived nearby for many years and very often been at Monte Verità told us that also Blavatsky, Steiner and Hermann Hesse had lived there for a while and that a mayor with a theosophical background had attracted many spiritually oriented people.

We went through the Japanese tea garden to the Tower of Utopia, then followed the lines of a Feng Shui serpent leading to a colourful mandala, which Tibetan Buddhists had installed after a ceremony.

The Japanese garden

A little shrine

Stairways to the Tower of Utopia – leading into the light of life

Feng Shui serpent

The Mandala at the end of the serpent

Artwork in the garden

Beautiful Magnolia trees in full bloom

A house on the compound

Everywhere bushes with Camellia flowers

After dinner in the historic hotel / seminar centre our friend brought us to an old-fashioned b&b house, a villa in Art Deco style surrounded by a little park overlooking Locarno. The landlord gave us a warm welcome. and showed us the house with historical chandeliers and painted walls.

Sunday morning there was a splendid sunrise over the mountains and the lake. While I was meditating I couldn’t but open my eyes here and then to take a shot of the rising sun. Very special sounds of a nearby old pilgrimage church reverberated through the air.

A pine and a huge magnolia tree

Golden dawn

The old church looking through the palm trees

After breakfast I walked up the road along villas with their gardens, traversed by little stairways.

The road went along a little forest where a brook came down the hill with some waterfalls

I breathed in the fresh spring air – it was a great surprise to be at that place with so much natural beauty. We only had arranged to be there 24 hours ago…

Later we met again with our friend and the horses before, after lunch, we set out to our way back through the Gotthard tunnel and some pass roads back home.

Camillas in front of the house of our friends

With the Aquarian age the boundaries between the physical and the subtle are becoming more and more fluid. Art and laser technology are used in this outstanding “Hyper Facade” projection show in Berlin. Enjoy:

Here are some beautiful animated movies by the Spanish artist Cristóbal Vila. The first one, Nature by Number, is inspired by numbers, geometry and nature . You find more information about it on his website of Etereastudios. There he writes:

“Artists and architects have used since ancient times many geometrical and mathematical properties: we could take some examples simply by observing the refined use of the proportions by architects from Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome or other Renaissance artists like Michelangelo, Da Vinci or Raphael.
But what is more surprising for me is that many of these properties and mathematical developments are also present in Nature. We could find countless cases, but I wanted to refer only three of them on this short animation: The Fibonacci Series and Spiral / The Golden and Angle Rations / The Delaunay Triangulation and Voronoi Tesselations.”

Cristobál Vila has realised other fantastic videos, for example Isfahan, an animated film inspired by Persian architecture:

or “Snakes“, an animated film based on a woodcut of M. C. Escher

or the video “Fallingwater“, an animated film about a house designed by the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935. The construction began in 1936 and was completed in 1939.

In Cristobál Vila’s blog I found the link to another artist, Todd McLellan. Please go to the page >> New Work. It is about “Disassembling” machines like computers and rearranging the details to an aesthetic ensemble. Enjoy!

Picture from the movie “Disassembling” by Todd McLellan

This morning we were at a sublime exposition of orchids and ikebana art in the Elfenau Park, Berne, with a rare presentation of thousands of orchids and many exquisite flower compositions.

I arranged a powerpoint (10.1 MB) with a selection of photos I took there. Though the exposition was very crowded, the flowers radiated such an extraordinary beauty, delicacy and silence which may bring you inspiration.

A friend sent a collection of YouTube-links to Indian mantrams, songs and videos, which I would like to share (didn’t yet find time to go through all… Since we are leaving to India in half an hour, a good tuning in…

OM RAM RAMAYA SWAHA (DEVA PREMAL)

OM NAMAH SHIVAYA
peaceful
by Jagjit Singh
Siva Sahasranama Mantra

VISHNU MANTRA

THE FLUTE OF LORD KRISHNA

The Flute of Krishna (1925)

Hey Ram Hey Ram (JAGJIT SINGH)
Another version

Hey Govind Hey Gopal (JAGJIT SINGH)
live

Jai Radha Madhav (JAGJIT SINGH)

Saanwariya Mann Bhaya Re (JAGJIT SINGH)

Bolo Ram Jai Jai Ram (JAGJIT SINGH)

Jai Ragunandan Jai Siya Ram (JAGJIT SINGH)

Hare Krishna Hare Rama (JAGJIT SINGH)

Tum Meri Rakho Laaj Hari (JAGJIT SINGH)

Deenan Dukh Haran Dev (JAGJIT SINGH)

Hari Tum Haro Jan Kee Peer (Jagjit Singh)

Prathameshwaraa Ganadheeshwaraa (Jagjit Singh)

Jai Jai Ganapatti Bhaktan Hitkaaree (Jagjit Singh)

Pratham Sumir Shri Ganesh (Jaggit Singh)

Ram Simar Ram Simar (Jagjit Singh)

Bisar Gaee Sab Taat Paraaee (Jagjit Singh)

Megh Barse Subanee Thaaeen (Jagjit Singh)

Kavan Gun Praanpat (Jagjit Singh)

He Krishna Gopal Hari (Jagjit singh)

Gaaiye Ganapati Jagavandan (Jagjit Singh)

Vande Ganapati Vighnavinaashan (Jagjit Singh)

Hay Shiv Shankar Hey Karunakar (Jagjit Singh)

Guru Manyo Granth (Jagjit Singh)

Ganapati Bappa Moriya (Jagjit Singh)

Om Shreem Hreem Shreem Kamale Kamalaleyi Praseed Praseed Om Shreem Hreem Shreem Mahalaxmiyei Namaha

Om Mahalakshmyai cha vidmahe Vishnu patnyai cha dhimahi Tanno Lakshmihi prachodayat

Aum Hrim Shri Lakshmi Bhyo Namah

Mahalakshmi Stotram
(Hrīm Tám ma ávaha játevedó lakshmím anapa gáminím yasyám Hiranyam prabhūtam gávó dásyó aśván vindeyam purushan aham|| (15)
Śrīm Ǒm mahá-devyai cha vidmahe, vishnu-patnaiya cha dhímahi Tanno Lakshmíh prachódayát || (16)
Ǒm Shántih, Shántih, Shántih

Mahalakshmi Manosthute
Another version

Gayatri Mantra
Another version
DEVA PREMAL

Om Jai Jagadish Hare

Instrumental

Music of the Soul -Full Moon