Nature has the cure for every disease, we only need to be aware and open to accepting the cure. I came across a heart-rending story of a three-year old boy, Cashy Hyde, who successfully fought his second bout of Terminal cancer after his father, Mike Hyde, started giving him Cannabis oil without the knowledge of the doctors. Here are several cases of the astounding benefits of Medical marijuana in treating diseases.
When Cashy was 20 months old, radiologist’s discovered a 4.5 cm, stage 4 Brain Tumor. When they tried to perform a surgery to remove it, they could get out only 10%, since it was wrapped around his optic nerve. They diagnosed Cashy with a Malignant and Aggressive Cancer classified as a PNET Brain Tumor.
At first glance, ‘Red’, looks like a huge blob of red smoke rising from the ground, but a closer look and, the image transforms into 3D space where the colour is objectified.
This is a unique technique developed by David Spriggs, a British-Canadian artist, to paint on multiple transparent sheets which are stacked together to create an illusionary experience.
Each form he creates looks suspended in space and the viewer’s perception changes as he navigates around the installation. Its an interesting technique, which seems simple and not hidden from the viewer, yet, it exudes a sense of mystery and wonder.
Crystal skulls have always been fascinating; legend says that these are ancient tools to connect with the universal consciousness. This time I had the opportunity to be part of a shamanic gathering, organised by Anahata Foundation, with Star Johnsen Moser – a powerful spiritual healer who has been the keeper of many ancient crystal skulls and has worked with Mayan Elders and international groups at sacred sites in Central America for 16 years. It was a revelation of sorts and a very inward journey for me.
Here’s more about it. The setting:
The altar was set up in the center of the room, its the sacred space to place the crystal skulls – Amakua and Xamaku – the 4 Stargates, which are very powerful Atlantean Light and energy enhancement tools utilizing double-terminated quartz crystals, rotating wheels inscribed with sacred symbols and sacred geometric figures, bowl of water, and sacred objects placed at the altar by participants.
“Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.” ~ says Thich Nhat Hanh, the renowned Buddhist Zen master.
Thich Nhat Hanh, the Buddhist Zen Master
His key teaching is that, through mindfulness, we can learn to live in the present moment instead of in the past and in the future. Dwelling in the present moment is the only way to truly develop peace, both in one’s self and in the world.
Originally from Vietnam, the 86-year old peace activist, poet, writer and teacher, has been an apostle of peace from the age of 16 when he became a monk. During the Vietnam War, he faced the question of whether to remain hidden in the monastery and follow the contemplative life of a monk or to go out and help the villagers suffering under bombings.
Nhat Hanh chose to do both, which gave rise to the ‘Engaged Buddhism’ movement – which means to apply Buddhist teachings to bring social and political reform. He opposed his own government during the war, due to which he was banned from his own country, for 39 years.
Prior to that in early 60s in Saigon, Vietnam, Nhat Hanh started a relief organisation that rebuilt bombed villages, set up schools, medical centers and resettled homeless families.
Nhat Hanh also founded a Buddhist University, a publishing house, and a peace activist magazine in Vietnam, all this led to his ban. He traveled to the US to encourage peaceful activism, persuaded Martin Luther King, Jr. to oppose the Vietnam War publicly, and in a way helped to galvanize the peace movement. In 1967, King nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Mindfulness can help you to be happy in the here and now
Subsequently, Nhat Hanh led the Buddhist delegation to the Paris Peace Talks. He eventually settled in Southern France, and founded Plum village, a Buddhist meditation practice center and monastery where he conducts retreats on mindfulness, attended by people from around the world.
Nhat Hanh’s teaching of Mindfulness
Nhat Hanh exudes a sense of peace and calmness, something which is quite evident in his talks and teachings, and his thoughts, are simple, but yet profound.
In the video above, ‘Awakening the heart,’ Nhat Hanh talks about being happy with the way things are and to cherish the small wonders of life, many are still running because we haven’t got what we wanted, happiness is possible at any time.
We are so often, caught in sorrow, regret, fear, concern for future, anger, that our mind is not there with our body, we aren’t truly present, but once we bring our mind home to our body, then we are fully present. The way to achieve this, Nhat Hanh says, is by mindful breathing. Mindfulness is the capacity to be aware of what is going on.
It gives the energy of being in the present; breathing in and out mindfully can bring a lot of joy and freedom. In the video above, Nhat Hanh shows the ten mindful movements practiced at Plum village, it focuses on breathing in and out.
There are also videos available of the teachings taking place at the Plum village that you can watch, here’s the link to videos of the monastery.
The message from Nhat Hanh is similar to every other spiritual person or ancient tribe like the Kogis, to avert catastrophe we have to reconnect with Mother Earth, because we are all part of the universal consciousness!
What is visionary art? It is difficult to find the apt words to explain something that lies beyond our realm of imagination and time. Here’s my attempt ~
Visionary art is about elevating one’s state of consciousness to paint a vision, dream or a revelation that transcends our regular modes of perception. It opens our mind to different realities which can be accessed in an altered state of consciousness. The images, colours, patterns, sacred symbols, are all captivating, in most cases, have been witnessed/experienced by the artist.
In my quest to explore this sacred space, I stumbled upon an inspiring, young visionary artist from Queensland, Australia – Adam Scott Miller. His work often explores transcendental energy fields, light fused with diverse perspectives like sacred geometry, mythology, science, esoteric and so on.
As an artist, he has this sense of being an explorer – sailing into unknown territory to bring back maps to share of lands we are not yet in, or aware of.
In an interview with Fractal Enlightenment, Miller explains, “I choose to be an artist because it is the path of great mystery, novelty, realization, and translation into beautiful vocabularies that I can offer the world.
Creating my art is how I process what I am learning, and my art are artifacts of what I have learned. It is the by-product of the experience of my consciousness.”
Many powerful events throughout his life brought him on this path where he recognises the universal force and occult dimensions; it was like rewiring of the brain.
At the age of around 10, for a year Miller regularly experienced night terrors where he would wake up in the middle of a dream and the experience would be merged with the waking reality.
“Often, or perhaps each time, I felt confused, and panicked amidst the surrealistic place in which I found myself, awake. This life stage of perceiving dream worlds superimposed over the ‘real’ world had a major impact on my psyche and sensitivity to the subtle. When I was fifteen years old, I suffered an impact to my head resulting in a concussion and damage to my optic nerves. Obvious to me afterwards, my memory and vision was affected.”
“Mysteriously, I began seeing subtle forms throughout all space, within my immediate vicinity – wispy strands that transfer between my fingers when held palm facing palm; snakelike currents of tendrils moving along floors, up walls and around corners; and perceiving things within a person’s ‘auric’ field that move in immediate accord to that person’s movement. This ‘shamanic wound’ marked my life as a formative causal factor in how and what I see.
It was the way in which I healed also, that opened this latent gift. I had already consciously begun my spiritual search, artistic self-styling, and the occasional phenomena of recognizing etheric forms… so it seems my intention directed this rewiring,” says Miller.
The ability to portray that which is intangible requires some effort and the state of mind to achieve that is ‘flow’. “Typically, it takes a few hours of ardent effort before my mind becomes translucent enough during the action of painting until it is a channeling of something cosmic to the art itself, in an art of ‘flow’.
I am tuned to have some relative ease in perceiving particular frequencies of subtle perception when my mind has sufficiently ‘let go’… I sense that the clarity with which I perceive around me has a direct correspondence to how clear I am within myself, like a sentient crystal.” Various psychedelic experiences also has influenced his art, as Miller puts it, “Through whatever process necessary for the experience of numinous gnosis, and from that precious space comes the vision for the greatest and truest art.”
Images or visionary art is the doorway into the hidden realm, something you might lose yourself in, empowering us with new possibilities and ways of perceiving reality. he concludes, “The visionary artist is both a shamanic hero on the mythic journey and a journalist who as witness, records the journey to share with the community.”
