About 2 weeks ago I started publishing the “Images of Synthesis” on Facebook and Flickr, commenting how they were done (you find them on the Good-Will website up to the recent month, I try to keep a rhythm of publish one new picture per month).

These images started in November 2009, after a painting pause of 19 years, after the end of the “Early Paintings” in 1990, where I thought I would never paint again. You can read here how the Images of Synthesis started from out of an inner opening during a deep crisis. I will go on re-publishing the pictures on Flickr and Facebook with comments over the next months.

“The Hidden Flower – Born Nine Months Later”, 18 Dec. 2009. You can read here and here more about the origin of this painting.

Last Saturday evening there was a beautiful light over the mountains. I took some pictures from our balcony – a bright space opening up towards the sky, looking like one of Nicholas Roerich‘s paintings.

When you zoom out it’s like unbound space becoming more concretized – seeing the chimneys of the nearby food factory and the neighbour’s house.

And finally the picture shows the house which is nearly covering the view and the trees of the nearby church.

So when you focus your look more to the details you might miss the beauty of the vastness around.

I took some more pictures where you see the beauty in the close-up view: three pictures taken from our kitchen window showing greenfinches enjoying their meal. Little visitors, messengers of the deva world.

Last Friday, Good Friday and Aries Full moon day, the weather report announced an interim high with good weather in the mountains. So we went to see the Ballenberg open air museum, where I had been 3 years ago for the last time. In a beautiful valley they have collected and restored over 100 historical buildings from all over Switzerland. A stroll through the past, where you encounter different styles of architecture and different ways of living and working – farm houses, mills, a pharmacy, a hairdresser, charcoal burners… And plants and farm animals.

What fascinated us most was a last residence room where they presented how a person was laid out, with a decorated young lady dummy, candles burning, prayer songs in the background, and in another house a birth room with the midwife equipment of the 19th century – birth and death in the midst of everyday activities…

When we started in the morning there were still the raindrops of the night glittering on the grass in front of our house and the clouds hanging deep.

But in Ballenberg, 75 km away, the sky had cleared up.  Friday was the first day after their winter pause and many families were enjoying the excursion.

A ram greeting for Aries full moon!

Relaxing in the sunlight

A view from the balcony of an old pharmacy

Picture of an old drug book showing Mandragora (mandrake) in the form of a woman.

There were two herb gardens where first flowers were sprouting. Here: Adonis flowers

Fresh mountain water

Producing easter eggs

A fairy’s meadow

On both sides of the valley – high mountains covered with snow

Waterfalls coming down the cliffs

Walking through”Ticino”

Looking up

An old merry-go-round in the forest with children enjoying the ride

A little chapel from Ticino. Inside it was clean but old astral clouds seemed still to hang around.

St. Michael fighting at the altar, with the balance of justice, of karma, in his left hand

Some old Alpine houses – with a lot of “open air” and very little comfort inside

An old mill – inside two millstones were grinding the grain – which was for sale. And an old man explained us how they used to operate the mill.

The old mill wheel moving around with the noise of the mill stones

Not torture instruments of for Easter bunnies, but chocolate moulds. In the Chocolaterie you could cast your own bunnies.

Yesterday we had a brilliant spring day. My wife was visiting an old friend, my eldest son was clearing and cleaning his room with a friend – he just moved out to live together with his girlfriend – and I took my camera to go for a walk in the nearby Elfenau park (Elfenau means meadow of the elves and that’s how it is…).

I somehow felt my senses turned on to high reception, at the beginning even irritatingly intense. One beauty drew me to the other – colours, shades, silent celebrations of new life – all around. For a while I sat on a bench, observing the people walking by. And when listening to the inner side, there was like and orchestra singing a choral in the air, deva vibrations penetrating the atmosphere carrying me away. There is a selection of pictures I took during the walk – enjoy the colours of spring.

This Nasa Video of the oceans seems like a picture of Van Gogh. The visualization shows ocean surface currents around the world during the period from June 2005 through December 2007. It reminds us of the movements of the ethers which continuously circulate around our Mother Earth, vivifying and stimulating all life.

Maybe you are also interested in seeing this life wind map of the USA – fascinating:

Last week Sri Kumar invited me to meet him on his stop-over from the seminar in Miami back to India. So last Sunday I went to Hergiswil at the Lake of Lucerne. There is now the new location of the seat of WTT-Global at the new apartment of a friend. I took the route via a mountain pass to enjoy beautiful views of the Alps. And the apartment was at a location with a fantastic panorama over the lake surrounded by mountains. The house is still a bit under construction – the door bell wasn’t yet working. I luckily had my mobile with me.

Sri Kumar had just arrived from the airport a few hours ago. I asked him if he was tired and he said, it’s ok – the others were sleeping. After some exchanges I showed him my albums with photos of the paintings I had done in the 80ies and recently digitally restored. With great interest he went through all the pictures and took much time for it. I was very happy about it – at a moment 9 years ago he had saved the photos. And now he said that such gifts of light should never be destroyed but given free.

Looking at the photos

We later turned to administrative questions I wanted to clarify – while the other members of the Executive Board dropped in. It wasn’t planned like this, but it turned out to be a good organisational meeting.

At the end Sri Kumar spoke some inspiring words about relating to each other through communication. I quickly took some notes – they are not literal:

“It is good to stay in a regular contact. It can be a phone call. It should not just be a mental relation, but expressing on the physical plane. When it stays in the mental it can easily become the illusion of a contact.
All we do to the others is done as an offering. Through this a chemistry in the psyche happens, an adjustment. Unless you go through this process there is no transformation. If you escape from it, that chemistry stops.
Our working is semi-physical, semi-etheric. Striving is working beyond what you think you can work. Unless you stretch, you don’t create the fire. Striving is important. Striving, striving, striving. The mind says, I can’t do it. To say I can’t do is refusing transformation. I can do as much as I can do. We have to strive as long as we have breath. To say, it is not possible, is very easy.
Keep contact with each other. It is the easiest thing. If we don’t keep contact, we unconsciously build strong walls around us. Asking, Who should communicate with whom? is ego. To communicate with the others is an act of good will, of expressing love.

Two weeks ago I visited friends near the Lake of Constance. They had organised a seminar with Anton Styger on working with a biotensor, a kind of working with a pendulum, but more balanced. I have been using a biotensor from time to time as a means to amplify the inner sense and for testing the digestibility of food. My wife is more sophisticated in this work; it is of a good help, if you use it with discrimination and in a non-manipulative way. It is a way of interacting with the subtle energies emanating from objects, be they physical, emotional or mental “objects”.

There were about 35 persons at the seminar. We had brought different foodstuff or remedies for testing. Anton explained the differences between a physical or mental use of the biotensor. At first we learned how to calibrate the biotensor and how to prepare oneself. There are quite some things for which you should not use this instrument in order not to get caught in the cobweb of illusion. Best you start by aligning to your soul or the divine through a prayer and work with an attitude of observation.

It was an intense instruction with the help of a script. First we tested the foodstuff – the results were quite definite and with a few surprises for me. Then we learned how to text minerals and vitamins, whether there were shortages, and a lot of different health factors. Then we went into more subtle topics of energetic encumbrances.

In the afternoon we went outside to test zones of geopathic stress, also with the help of dowsing. I’m not at all a specialist in this, but the results were quite obvious. It was interesting to observe that others tested the same way. The seminar gave me a more differentiated way of working with these energies.

But this was just the one half of my journey, the other was the visit of my friends, in whose house Anton also lived. We had a beautiful time together, with deep talks and an evening walk along the Lake of Constance.

Anton explaining the use of the biotensor for outside use

An Argentinean friend sent me today the link to this beautiful synthetic video with the words: “It is Time to be One”. The video contains the simple and direct message of an Israeli to the Iranians: “We love you.” Very good!

A superb video!! Read by Thich Nath Hanh, chanted by brother Phap Niem. Let the sounds and images transport you to another dimension…. You can download the audio here as MP3.

The Great Bell Chant (The End of Suffering) from R Smittenaar on Vimeo.

Here are three impressive videos which I would like to share. They show a great control of the body – either by animals or by humans.

A slow-motion video of a hawk flying through small spaces:

A breath-taking free climbing woman, Catherine Destivelle, in Mali – risking life for a kick of fast climbing.

“Way back home” – A bicycle riding clip from Danny MacAskill, it follows him on a journey from Edinburgh back to his hometown Dunvegan, in the Isle of Skye. Beautiful landscapes and incredible acrobatics.