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A friend just shared this beautiful “Hogmanay“, a Scottish word for New Year Celebration. It is a drone ballet filmed due to Covid19 restrictions on locations in the Scottish Highlands and partly placed into shots taken around Edinburgh. The Hogmanay is a farewell to the old year and a welcome to the new one, accompanied with poetic words spoken in Scottish and Gaelic and subtitled. Sublime!
Already in the past, I had blogged about drone ballets such as “Weightless“.
We are in the time of spring equinox (autumn equinox in the Southern hemisphere) and it is the time of inner and outer equilibrium. On the planet, this balance fluctuates greatly at the moment. So, it is all the more important to keep it inwardly.
The following contribution was intended to be a part of a presentation at the “CVV Sharing” group life in Germany during this equinox. It had to be cancelled due to the present extraordinary situation.
“Transitions – Meditative morning walks over a field, between 7:30 and 8:30 am” contains 93 photos taken during these morning walks in the neighbourhood over 6 months. It shows the beauty and the dynamic transitions in nature – and that partly drastic changes often come nearly unnoticed. We often do not remark where a change begins and when the new quality is emerging.
At irregular intervals, I share via a “Friends List” some “digital gifts” – things I have come across on the web over the last months. In time for Christmas – here are some digital gifts found in the last 5 months:
Best Christmas Campaigns 2019 – some commercials are really well done (only if you want to spend time…..)
A friend sent me the link to a new video of Cristóbal Vila: Infinite Patterns (here on YouTube). Cristobal is a graphic designer, illustrator and art director in Zaragoza, Spain. His website Etereaestudios consists mainly of a gallery showing the outstanding work done by Cristóbal Vila within the field of 3D and digital imaging. I already had done a blogpost about some of his video works in February 2011. See here links to his work.
On his website, he writes about Infinite Patterns – Connecting geometry, nature and architecture:
“This is a new personal project that seeks to establish connections between various fields that interest me deeply: geometry, and how it appears linked to nature, on the one hand, and to art and architecture, on the other; raising relations between all of them. Somehow it would mean the fusion of the interests of two of my previous works: Nature by Numbers and Ars Qubica.”
Have also a look at another of his works, “Lux Aeterna” (Eternal Light) – a journey of light, from distant galaxies to small drops of water. Fascinating!
The video Infinite Patterns cannot be seen on other websites, please click on this link to see it on YouTube.
Picture (c) from the video “Infinite Patterns” by Cristóbal Vila
A friend sent me this well-done and urgent video of children from around the world addressing the adults about their destroying the planet through greed and a call for the Global Climate Strike 20 – 27 September. (I could not find out from where it comes, I didn’t find it on YouTube or elsewhere, so I upload it here without giving due credits.)
Creation is compared to a wheel. The movement is greatest at the periphery; the point of stability is at the centre. The formation of the globe of space happens through a process of radiation: objectivity comes out of subjectivity. Dissolution is through a process of contraction: the creation merges again into subjectivity. The centrifugal and centripetal forces are kept in balance by the Libra principle.
In the human body, Libra is located at the navel. Its higher counterpart, Aries, is found in the head. Libra represents the equilibrium between the outgoing horizontal movement towards objectivity and the inward vertical movement towards subjectivity. When the fulcrum is stable, there is an ascent of consciousness to higher planes.
At the centre of the image you see a human silhouette with the nervous system representing the lines of force permeating the body. There is a centre of light around the navel and a higher centre of light at the head – the human brain representing the head centre. It is linked by the central vertical column of consciousness. The Libra principle at the navel is also the centre of the horizontal movement through space illustrated by expanding waves, and spheres of transparent globes representing the planes of creation.
Virgo represents the “womb of time” wherein the spiritual seeker is slowly matured through profound crises. He needs to grow into the light of knowledge and learn to use his free will in a responsible way. When nature considers him mature she leaves him to himself for further evolution to higher consciousness. Our earth is also in a slow process of ripening in the womb of the Mother Nature.
Virgo stands for the virgin nature of the Divine Mother. She is depicted with an ear of corn in one hand and a light in the other. They symbolise the spiritual food for the souls and the spiritual light which lightens the way.
For the illustration of the Virgin I reworked a photo (by Sailko, Wikimedia) of a statue of Hera, the Greek queen of the gods. In her womb I placed a human silhouette on the globe surrounded by a field of light. The goddess is walking on a forest path. In her right hand she carries two ears of corn and in her left hand she carries a flame lighting the way. The ears are pointing to the Pleiades, the Seven Sisters, the mothers of the seven aspects of form life. In esoteric astrology, this constellation is deeply linked to Virgo.
Who would not like to fly over the mountains like an eagle, looking around over icy peaks? The following video has been done with a 360° camera mounted on the back of an eagle flying over the Dolomites. Awe-inspiring perspectives – and you can zoom around, in all directions. (You don’t need to log in with Facebook, just click on “Not now”.)
It is not by chance that the eagle is a symbol of our consciousness lifted up to the peaks of awareness, rising from the Ajna centre into the vastness of space, beyond the bodily limitations.
Click on the picture to see the video
Picture capture from the video (c)
In meditation, the awareness is raised from the heart to the head, linking the personality to the soul and finally the soul to the super-soul. The head centre is the point of the highest illumination. A yogi meditates on the correspondences to higher centres: in relation to the planet, the head centre corresponds to Shamballa; in relation to the sun it corresponds to the cosmic sun. The other dimensions of the sun are the heart of the sun and the physical sun. With the planet, the corresponding other dimensions are the Spiritual Hierarchy and the humanity.
For this image, I used the picture of the head of a Buddha statue as the head of a yogi. I placed the symbol of sun at the Ajna centre, which is governed by the sun. I visualised the meditative ascent with a stair leading to a gateway of light (using elements of a photo by Till Krech, Wikimedia) in the form of a lingam symbolising Shamballa. I fused two images of the planet, depicting the Himalayas and beyond, Shamballa. They are shining through the head of the yogi. The crown of hair of the yogi is like a receptacle for the downpour of light. I created the flow with a picture of the physical sun (photo: Nasa), visualising the heart of the sun and the cosmic sun with other photos of the sun.
To represent THAT which cannot be portrayed – the inexpressible Oneness expressing into trinity and multiplicity – I positioned the three heads of a statue of Lord Dattatreya at the place of the spiritual sun, at the top, and surrounded them with an array of multi-coloured rays on a starry background.
In their camplaign “Nature Is Speaking” they aim at raising awareness that people need nature in order to survive: “Our goal is simple: It’s time to change the conversation about nature to focus on what we all have in common: Our shared humanity.” The voice of Nature is Julia Roberts.
The video contains sublime images and a touching message.
Picture from the video “Nature is Speaking” (c) Conservation International
