Throughout history, the evolution of art can be traced through the works of visionary artists who pioneered a new form of artistic expression. One such artist, who is busy livening up the beaches around San Francisco, is Andres Amador; beach artist extraordinaire.
Inspired by fractals, the building blocks of life, and organic patterns, his art literally comes to life during the couple of hours he races against the tide to create one of his larger than life pieces of art. Using the entire beach as a canvas, he carefully turns the sand with nothing but a garden rake, stick and a sketch for reference, to create intricate and beautiful designs.
Crystal skulls have been a source of mystery and awe for a long time. Some believe that crystal skulls are mystical tools for connecting with higher dimensions and they have the power to aid healing. While archaeologists, scientists, who don’t support these claims, think that these skulls are nothing more than interesting artifacts skilfully carved by humans!
The ancient and rare crystal skulls are in shape of a human skull and made from various types of quartz crystals, and interestingly, its the same material which is used to make micro chips. Believers say that the crystal skull is like a computer that records frequency and energy surrounding them, stores information and knowledge of people who’ve worked with them in ancient times.
The Crystal Skulls have found mention in many tribal indigenous communities in North America, the Mayans, the Incans and even Tibetan Himalayan shamanism.
We are conditioned to think that hair styling is important and how it makes a cool fashion statement. But in olden times it was a different story.
An interesting find revealed that long hair in men was actually related to consciousness or the sixth sense. Does that sound alarming? Lets delve a bit more into this topic.
During the Vietnam war, special forces in the war department had sent undercover experts to look for talented recruits among Native Americans, who were blessed with special supernatural and tracking abilities.
A couple of American Indians were selected and what happened after that is surprising. Once they were recruited, their natural skills and ability to access their sixth sense just disappeared.
On conducting a test to find out what went wrong, the older native American recruits said that after undergoing military haircut they could no longer sense the enemy, they lost their intuition power and couldn’t access subtle extrasensory information.
So more native Indians were recruited and this time they were allowed to keep their hair long and on comparing performance of men with military haircut and ones with long hair, they found out that long-haired men were far better and skillful.
The results stated that the Native trackers should be allowed to keep their hair long. A special thanks to Indian in the Machine for the truth on Native Indians and long hair.
While reading about this I also realised that Sikhism requires men to keep their hair long and is considered a symbol of spirituality.
Lord Shiva statue in Bangalore
One of the five physical symbols of faith for Sikhs is, “The Kesh (or hair) reminds a Khalsa to behave like the Guru’s. It is a mark of dedication and group consciousness, showing a Khalsa’s acceptance of God’s will.”
Long hair has long been a common element of many spiritual prophets such as Jesus, Moses, Buddha, Shiva, or the story of Samson and Delilah from the Bible, when Samson lost his strength with the loss of his hair.
Hair is an extension of the nervous system and it emits energy from the brain into the outer environment. Its an information highway reaching the brain, so when hair is cut, receiving and sending transmissions to and from the environment is hampered.
The 60’s were quite hairy and on a ending note, you may like the musical called Hair!
The Amazon jungle teeming with life This is the second part of the interview with spiritualist Anahata Menon about her experience with Ayahuasca deep in the Amazon jungles of Peru, healing nature of this sacred plant and alternative healing as compared to modern interventions.
How has it transformed your life?
I have tried to portray the essence of an Ayahuasca ceremony in one of the chapters in my book Song Journey Home, and I encourage people to read it. If I were to look at Ayahuasca in context of my life and spiritual growth, it has addressed parts of me that weren’t comfortable with, a growing new-age ‘religion’ with its own deities and dogmas.
After having written about the sacred Amazonian plant Ayahuasca and its healing properties, I was always drawn towards finding out more about it and knowing people’s experiences with this Spirit Vine.
I spoke with Mumbai-based Anahata Menon, who began her journey as a healer and spiritualist after a series of powerful experiences in 2004, about her vision that led her to the Amazon jungles to study Ayahuasca and its healing properties.
Under the guidance of Shamans from the Shipibo tribe, Anahata was initiated into this new spiritual dimension. Here she shares with us her experience, the transformation and her path to spreading awareness about Ayahuasca in India through The Anahata Foundation.
