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Thinking made Visual

March 24, 2011 Kristi Leave a comment

Image source:Do you know what is design? 41 answers to one simple question

So some of you may be confused as to what my artistic vision is, or why I obsessed with symbols, glyphs, hieroglyphs, etc. Basically it boils down to two things the first the Chinese philosopher, Confucius, having said, “Symbols rule the world, neither words nor laws” and secondly the definition of Qabbalah, which a mystic school teaching originally taught to the Sumerian figure Enoch. In the legend Enoch was handed the language of light which he called Hiburu (or Hebrew), the language that Qabbalah is in. SO therefore Qabbalah is the language of light explained…

and this is how it is explained:

Subliminals are constructed through such techniques as simple shapes, sounds and colours, and then more complex, multi-layered methods, such as reverse imagery, reverse symbolism, distorted symbolism, reverse speech patterns, neuro-linguistic programming techniques, and the elaborate use of the language and number systems, among other devious modes of manipulation.

To me that is design in the most fundamental voice. Design is thinking made visual and thinking are thoughts which is a word, is sound, is vibration, is energy, that glows, which is light and as light passes through our brain, it diffracts and creates shapes, sounds and colors.

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Aton, the Sun and the Holy Spirit – Sun Symbolism

March 23, 2011 Kristi 1 Comment

Warning: Long.

Source: http://www.williamhenry.net/art_sun.html

2010’s most important celestial story may have been about another celestial disk, our Sun, waking up. To paraphrase astrophysicist Dr. Paul LaViolette, ‘Earth is under fire’ from our restless Sol. This is big news.

Scientists warn that from 2011 till mid 2013 we will see more and potentially destructive stellar activity as the Sun enters the most active part of its cycle known as “solar max.” Noting that this activity coincides with the end of the Mayan calendar, prophets warn this period will see dramatic signs in the sky (coinciding with even more tyrannical governance in the name of fighting terrorism, even louder high-pitched ringing in our ears, more body ache from scaling the new frequency or tone as we morph into a new species and, generally, more cosmic wonderment or weirdness).

Could the Sun’s awakening and light show be a ‘just in time’ cosmic anointing in tides of light and the prelude to fulfillment of Mayan and Christian End Time prophecy?

It’s beginning to look that way.

Here’s what’s happening.

A full-disk multi wavelength extreme ultraviolet image of the sun taken by SDO on March 30, 2010. (Credit: NASA/Goddard/SDO AIA Team)

Increased solar activity could give residents of the continental U.S., southern Europe and Japan the chance to see the northern lights for the first time in several years

‘SUN, SON, SUN, HERE IT COMES…’

After an unusually long period of low activity, a series of powerful solar events took place on August 1, 2010, where nearly the entire Earth-facing side of the Sun erupted in a tumult of activity, with a large solar flare, a solar tsunami, multiple filaments of magnetism lifting off the solar surface, radio bursts, and half a dozen coronal mass ejections (CMEs).

SUN STORMS: NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory snapped this multi-wavelength extreme ultraviolet image of the sun, showing the Aug. 1, 2010, solar eruption that blasted charged particles toward Earth. The Class C3 solar flare triggered stunning aurora displays and geomagnetic storms on Earth that lasted about 12 hours. (Photo: NASA)

As the Sun awakens, NASA is keeping a close eye on space weather (and wondering what’s going on in our solar system and, indeed, the galaxy?!!!). Some are warning of potentially catastrophic events to come between now and mid-May 2012-2013. Others say they’ve been hearing this solar “kill shot” BS for years and nothing’s happened.

Richard Fisher, head of NASA’s Heliophysics Division, explains what it’s all about: “The Sun is waking up from a deep slumber, and in the next few years we expect to see much higher levels of solar activity. At the same time, our technological society has developed an unprecedented sensitivity to solar storms.” The intersection of these two issues is foremost on the minds of space scientists.

The National Academy of Sciences framed the problem two years ago in a landmark understatement entitled “Severe Space Weather Events—Societal and Economic Impacts.”

It noted how people of the 21st-century rely on high-tech systems for the basics of daily life. Smart power grids, GPS navigation, air travel, financial services and emergency radio communications can all be temporarily knocked out (or even wiped out) by intense solar activity. In other words, basically everything upon which our lives now depend is at risk in the coming years.

A century-class solar storm, the Academy warned, could cause twenty times more economic damage than Hurricane Katrina. That would be a two trillion dollar disaster!

Much of the damage can be mitigated if managers know a storm is coming. Putting satellites in ‘safe mode’ and disconnecting transformers can protect these assets from damaging electrical surges. Preventative action, however, requires accurate forecasting – a job that has been assigned to NOAA.

ATON ATONATIUH

Several prophetic traditions, including the Inca, foretell of immense changes during our time. As Kathy Doore observes, the Inca prophecies say that now, in this age, when the eagle of the North and the condor of the South fly together, the Earth will awaken. The eagles of the North cannot be free without the condors of the South.

The Aztecs also paid very close attention to the movement of the Sun and their calendar is second only to the Mayan in accuracy. For Aztecs, Tonitiuh was the god of sun and Tollan, the Aztec heaven. Interestingly, the original Mayan name homeland was called Tollan or Tula and it was from Tula where Quetzalcoatl ruled. Mayan prophecy says he’s expected to return in 2012.

The Aztec Calendar and the Sun. At the center of the Aztecs’ calendar stone is the sun god, Tonatiuh. He is surrounded 20 day symbols. Tonatiuh’s Face is the face of the sun, Lord of Heaven, around which takes place all daily and periodic phenomena

The face of Tonatiuh is in the center circle of the solar stone. Around the face are four squares called Nahui- Ollin, or Four Movement. According to Aztec legend, these squares represented the different ways that the four previous suns (or worlds) had come to an end: first by wild animals, then by wind, by fire, and by floods. The Aztecs believed they were living in the fifth and last world

I am fascinated by the similarity between the names and meaning of the names Tonatiuh (tona = to the sun and heat, tiuh = ir) and Aton, the name of the Disk during the reign of Akhenaton. This revolutionary thinker asserted that the Aton, “the Heat or Energy within the Disk” – also interpreted as the light that illuminates the Sun — transcended and comprehended all other images of Divinity.

A disk with rays extending from it symbolized the Aton. The rays culminate in delicate hands that offer the “ankh” or key of life symbol. No other image was allowed in the temples. It reminded worshippers that the Essence of the Sun – the “heat” or the “heat and light” within the Disk – is not confined to the Disk itself, but is present and active, and life giving wherever the rays of the Sun reach. In the Hymn to Aton, Akhenaton wrote that these rays even penetrate deep within the sea.

Akhenaton, Nefertiti and family are anointed by the rays of the Aton

The Aton disk with downward beams ending in hands

Pentecost by Duccio di Buoniseqna. The eternal force of the Aton reappears in the Christian concept of Pentecost. While the disciples of Jesus were indoors praying, a sound like that of a rushing wind filled the house and tongues of fire descended and rested over each of their crown chakras. The Holy Spirit manifests as flames atop the disciples heads. Pentecost marks the birth of the Christian church

“Suddenly a sound came from heaven like the rush of a mighty wind, and it filled the house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them tongues as of fire, distributed and resting on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit” (Acts 2:2-3)

As I discuss in SOUL RISING, Christian art portraying the Pentecost, or the anointing of the disciples by the Son in that cosmic energy called the Holy Spirit, is virtually identical to the Amarna depictions of Akhenaton and Nefertiti receiving the rays/keys of the Aton.

In these depictions it is possible to see the connection between the Key of Life and the Holy Spirit. So clear is the correspondence that one wonders if the Pentecost is a revival of an ancient Gnostic ceremony or mystery school teaching?

The disciples experienced the Radiant Energy of the Sun in the Upper Room at Pentecost

Mary receives the mystical rays of the Holy Spirit from a brilliant light at Pentecost (L). Akhenaton and Nefertiti bask in the rays/keys of the Aton (r)

Jesus/Lord/Sun/Son beams Aton-like rays of light to the disciples at Pentecost

Qabbalah states that the Son of God, RA, or RAY, who is Jesus, the Light of the World.

If we substitute the Sun for the Son as the transmitter of this energy we can imagine a vibration coming from our star and illuminating the consciousness of the disciples, energizing and empowering them. Christian prophecy says it will be poured out on all flesh in the Last Days (Acts 2:16-21).

Part 2 coming soon….

Source: http://www.williamhenry.net/art_sun.html

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Hyperspace & The Spiritual World

March 23, 2011 Kristi Leave a comment

Some fans of science fiction may wonder why we haven’t reached to the far edges of the Galaxy. Its most likely not because of the lack of technology, I do believe we have all the technology we could ever need to explore the galaxy and physical universe. Its more about understanding the spiritual half of life. As a society our understanding of the spiritual world is almost absolute.

We worship a God even though we don’t know for sure if he exists. Through written and oral tradition we’ve been told that there is a God, but through thorough research in the right places, one will see that the Christian idea of God is a complete misunderstanding. The Bible are words written by MAN who appeared to be God. This is almost an undeniable fact if one is willing to accept and read the books that have been eliminated from the original scriptures.

One of the most peculiar scriptures from the eliminated books of the original Bible is from Apocrypha of the Book of Enoch, Enoch is a Sumerian figure who is also Noah’s Great Great Grandfather. And the etymology of heaven literally means SKY. The following excerpt literally describes the exit of the Earth’s atmosphere. The thinker can’t help but ask, How on EARTH could a being from 4th millennium BC describe the exit of the atmosphere!?

And they lift me up into heaven … (14:9)
And it was hot as fire and cold as ice… (14:13)
I saw the places of the luminaries … (17:3)
And I came to a great darkness… (17:6)
I saw a deep abyss. (17:11)
…-Apocrypha, Book of Enoch

To the Rosicrucians, the ‘God’ in the Book of Genesis is the Elohim. The direct translation of Elohim from the Hebrew (Sumerian: Hiburu) language “is those who came from the stars”. Directly from the Rosicrcuian Cosmo-Conception, it states;

In addition to the creative Hierarchies, which worked voluntarily in our evolution, there are seven others which belong to our evolution, and are co-workes with God in the formation of the universe. In the first chapter of Genesis these Hierarchies are called “Elohim”. The name signifies a host of dual or double-sexed Beings. The first part of the word is “Eloh”, which is feminine noun, the letter “h” indicating the gender If a single feminine Being were meant, the word “eloh” would have been used. The feminine plural is “oth,” so if the intention had been to indicate a number of Gods of the feminine gender the correct word to use would have been “Elooth”. Instead of either of those forms, however, we find the masculine, plural ending, “im,” added to the feminine noun, “eloh,” indicating a host of male-female, double-sexed Beings, expressions of the dual, positive-negative, creative energy.

Stewart Swerdlow, a clairvoyant and participant of the Montauk Project published a book about the Language of Hyperspace. His definition of Hyperspace is that it holds together all realities astral and physical, intelligence behind all of it.

I haven’t read Swerdlow’s book, so I don’t know the his exact definition of his “T-Bar” or the Tau, but I wrote about the T-Bar, Tau, or Pi symbol – double-tau – as being the Intersection of Linear and Non-linear reality. The fact that the Pi and Tau symbols mirror and relate to Gates to the Spiritual World make a lot of sense. In the Japanese Shinto tradition, torii gates mark the boundary between the physical and spiritual worlds. And then the tau – or double-tau – is repeated again in the Lake Titicaca gate – Stargate Aramu Muru.

There is another gate called Tiwanaku, the Gateway of the Sun, which is again by Lake Titicaca. On the Tiwanaku gate there is a SUN god called Hombre-Sol:

Perhaps what the ancients knew of the spiritual world may actually be Hyperspace, and because we aren’t socially involved yet to fully understand the spiritual part of life we can’t go into space since in space and hyperspace there is a sense of peace and order.

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Artifice Design

March 23, 2011 Kristi Leave a comment

Good inspiration for my blog… love his work.

Artifice Design

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The Earth Without the Moon

March 20, 2011 Kristi Leave a comment

Source: The Earth Without the Moon

The period when the Earth was Moonless is probably the most remote recollection of mankind. Democritus and Anaxagoras taught that there was a time when the Earth was without the Moon.(1) Aristotle wrote that Arcadia in Greece, before being inhabited by the Hellenes, had a population of Pelasgians, and that these aborigines occupied the land already before there was a moon in the sky above the Earth; for this reason they were called Proselenes.(2)

Apollonius of Rhodes mentioned the time “when not all the orbs were yet in the heavens, before the Danai and Deukalion races came into existence, and only the Arcadians lived, of whom it is said that they dwelt on mountains and fed on acorns, before there was a moon.” (3)

Plutarch wrote in The Roman Questions: “There were Arcadians of Evander’s following, the so-called pre-Lunar people.”(4) Similarly wrote Ovid: “The Arcadians are said to have possessed their land before the birth of Jove, and the folk is older than the Moon.” (5) Hippolytus refers to a legend that “Arcadia brought forth Pelasgus, of greater antiquity than the moon.”(6) Lucian in his Astrology says that “the Arcadians affirm in their folly that they are older than the moon.”(7)

Censorinus also alludes to the time in the past when there was no moon in the sky.(8)

Some allusions to the time before there was a Moon may be found also in the Scriptures. In Job 25:5 the grandeur of the Lord who “Makes peace in the heights” is praised and the time is mentioned “before [there was] a moon and it did not shine.” Also in Psalm 72:5 it is said: “Thou wast feared since [the time of] the sun and before [the time of] the moon, a generation of generations.” A “generation of generations” means a very long time. Of course, it is of no use to counter this psalm with the myth of the first chapter of Genesis, a tale brought down from exotic and later sources.

The memory of a world without a moon lives in oral tradition among the Indians. The Indians of the Bogota highlands in the eastern Cordilleras of Colombia relate some of their tribal reminiscences to the time before there was a moon. “In the earliest times, when the moon was not yet in the heavens,” say the tribesmen of Chibchas.(9)

There are currently three theories of the origin of the moon:

1) The Moon originated at the same time as the Earth, being formed substantially from the same material, aggregating and solidifying.

2) The Moon was formed not in the vicinity of the Earth, but in a different part of the solar system, and was later captured by the Earth.

3) The Moon was originally a portion of the terrestrial crust and was torn out, leaving behind the bed of the Pacific.

All three theories claim the presence of the Moon on an orbit around the Earth for billions of years. Mythology may supply each of these views with some support (Genesis I for the first view; the birth of Aphrodite from the sea for the third view; Aphrodite’s origin in the disruption of Uranus, and also the violence of Sin—the Babylonian Moon—seems to support the second view).

Since mankind on both sides of the Atlantic preserved the memory of a time when the Earth was without the Moon, the first hypothesis, namely, of the Moon originating simultaneously with the Earth and in its vicinity, is to be excluded, leaving the other two hypotheses to compete between themselves.

We have seen that the traditions of diverse peoples offer corroborative testimony to the effect that in a very early age, but still in the memory of mankind, no moon accompanied the Earth.(10) Since human beings already peopled the Earth, it is improbable that the Moon sprang from it: there must have existed a solid lithosphere, not a liquid earth. Thus while I do not claim to know the origin of the Moon, I find it more probable that the Moon was captured by the Earth. Such an event would have occurred as a catastrophe.(11) If the Moon’s formation took place away from the Earth,(12) its composition may be quite different.

There is no evidence to suggest whether the Moon was a planet, a satellite of another planet, or a comet at the time of its capture by the Earth. Whatever atmosphere it may have had(13) was pulled away by the Earth, by other contacting bodies, or dissipated in some other way.

Since the time the Moon began to accompany the Earth, it underwent the influence of contacts with comets and planets that passed near the Earth in subsequent ages. The mass of the Moon being less than that of the Earth, the Moon must have suffered greater disturbances in cosmic contacts. During these contacts the Moon was not carried away: this is due to the fact that no body more powerful than the Earth came sufficiently close to the Moon to take it away from the Earth for good; but in the contacts that took place the Moon was removed repeatedly from one orbit to another.

The variations in the position of the Moon can be read in the variations in the length of the month. The length of the month repeatedly changed in subseqent catastrophic events—and for this there exists a large amount of supporting evidence. In these later occurrences the Moon played a passive role, and Zeus in the Iliad advised it (Aphrodite) to stay out of the battle in which Athene and Ares (Venus and Mars) were the main contestants.

References

Hippolytus, Refutatio Omnium Haeresium V. ii.
2.

Aristotle, fr. 591 (ed. V. Rose [Teubner:Tuebingen, 1886] ). Cf. Pauly’s Realencyclopaedie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, article “Mond” ; H. Roscher, Lexicon d. griech. und roemisch. Mythologie, article “Proselenes.”
3.

Argonautica IV.264.
4.

Plutarch, Moralia, transl. by F. C. Babbit, sect. 76.
5.

Fasti, transl. by Sir J. Frazer, II. 290.
6.

Refutatio Omnium Haeresium V. ii.
7.

Lucian, Astrology, transl. by A. M. Harmon (1936), p. 367, par. 26.
8.

Liber de die natali 19; also scholium on Aristophanes’ Clouds, line 398.
9.

A. von Humboldt, Vues des Cordillères (1816), English transl.: Researches Concerning the Institutions and Monuments of the Ancient Inhabitants of America, (1814), vol. I, p. 87; cf. H. Fischer, In mondener Welt (1930), p. 145.
10.

[In addition to the sources cited above, cf. The Nihongi Chronicles of Japan (I.ii, in Transactions and Proceedings of the Japanese Society, vol. I [1896]) which recount how “Heaven and Earth . . . produced the Moon-god.” The Kalevala of the Finns recalls a time “when the Moon was placed in orbit.” (Rune III.35)]
11.

[Cf. the effects of such an event on the Earth’s rotation calculated by H. Gerstenkorn in Zeitschrift fuer Astrophysik, 36 (1955), p. 245; cf. idem, in Mantles of the Earth and the Terrestrial Planets, S. K. Runcorn ed., (New York, 1967); also idem in Icarus 9 (1968), p. 394.]
12.

[Cf. H. Alfven and G. Arrhenius, “Two Alternatives for the History of the Moon,” Science 165 (1969), 11ff.; S. F. Singer and L. W. Banderman, “Where was the Moon Formed?” Science 170 (1970), 438-439: “ . . . The moon was formed independently of the earth and later captured, presumably by a three-body interaction, and these events were followed by the dissipation of the excess energy through tidal friction in a close encounter.” More recently, a study of lunar paleotides has shown that “the Moon could not have been formed in orbit around the Earth” (A. J. Anderson, “Lunar Paleotides and the Origin of the Earth-Moon System,” The Moon and the Planets, 19 [1978], 409-417). Because of a certain degree of instability in the Sun-Earth-Moon system, “the planetary origin and capture of the Moon by the Earth becomes a strong dynamic possibility.” (V. Szebehely and R. McKenzie, “Stability of the Sun-Earth-Moon System,” The Astronomical Journal 82 (1977), 303ff.].
13.

[Cf. Yu. B. Chernyak, “On Recent Lunar Atmosphere,” Nature, 273 (15 June, 1978), pp. 497ff. The author found “strong theoretical evidence of a considerable atmosphere on the Moon during the greater part of its history.”]

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The Mysterious Sun Symbolism

March 19, 2011 Kristi Leave a comment

According to Qabbalah the Son of God, RA, or RAY, who is Jesus, is the Light of the World.

Could the Sun’s awakening and light show be a ‘just in time’ cosmic anointing in tides of light and the prelude to fulfillment of Mayan and Christian End Time prophecy?

A full-disk multi wavelength extreme ultraviolet image of the sun taken by SDO on March 30, 2010. (Credit: NASA/Goddard/SDO AIA Team)

Increased solar activity could give residents of the continental U.S., southern Europe and Japan the chance to see the northern lights for the first time in several years

‘SUN, SON, SUN, HERE IT COMES…’

The National Academy of Sciences framed the problem two years ago in a landmark understatement entitled “Severe Space Weather Events—Societal and Economic Impacts.”

A century-class solar storm, the Academy warned, could cause twenty times more economic damage than Hurricane Katrina. That would be a two trillion dollar disaster!

ATON ATONATIUH

Akhenaton, Nefertiti and family are anointed by the rays of the Aton

The Aton disk with downward beams ending in hands

The disciples experienced the Radiant Energy of the Sun in the Upper Room at Pentecost

Mary receives the mystical rays of the Holy Spirit from a brilliant light at Pentecost (L). Akhenaton and Nefertiti bask in the rays/keys of the Aton (r)

Jesus/Lord/Sun/Son beams Aton-like rays of light to the disciples at Pentecost

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Black Sun = Black Hole

March 18, 2011 Kristi Leave a comment

The Neo-Nazi Germanic black sun symbol depicts black hole. The doctrine of the Black Sun, reaching back to ancient Sumer and Akkadia, is that there are two suns, the “white” sun, the sun that we see at the center of our physical solar system, and the “black” sun, a “hidden” sun of (spiritual) illumination. In some versions of the myth, it is thought to reside at the center of our galaxy. Other embellishments place it as one of the causes of the immortality and reincarnation of the soul.

More information on the Third Reich and the Black Sun: http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/reichblacksun/chapter11.htm

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Pi: The Intersection of Linear and Non-Linear Reality

March 18, 2011 Kristi Leave a comment

Earlier this week I posted as my status as “卐” the swastika, because I thought it was cool that I could computer generate a swastika icon lol.

Anyway, my friend Lauren commented how the counterclockwise swastika represented shrines on maps in Japan, specially the torii gates – gates to the spiritual world. I remembered that the counterclockwise represented all the waves and the spiritual half of the Universe. The clockwise swastika represent all that is materialistic, physical. We then got into a discussion about the T motif, or the Tau. I realized that there were a lot of similarities and subliminals to the Tau all over the world that also represented the spiritual world, or more like a bridge, or connection or gate INTO the spiritual world.

For example there is that 12,000 year old archeological site in Gobekli Tepe (dates back BEFORE Christ which is 2,000) and that site is covered with T motifs, or Tau symbols:

Here is a torii gate:

Then here is ta more famous example on Lake Titicaca in peru whic eerily resembles the torii gates:

Even more famous is Stonehenge

The star wars TIE (sounds like PIE) fighter eerily looks like the large “H”: in the above picture:

And finally a hieroglyphic picture of abzu,

Enki walks out of the water to the land.

Here’s a treatise on the significance of pie.

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Contemplating the Carbon Atom

March 16, 2011 Kristi Leave a comment

In sculpture class a.k.a, 3D design class, I was contemplating the carbon atom and its Vedic name, “ANU” or at least that’s what the Vedic mystics named THE atom, not specially the carbon atom. I was also contemplating the asymmetric universe and how Tom Bearden proved that it is a proven broken symmetric universe.

I then remembered that the Sumerian cuneiform for ANU (which is sky; heavens in sumerian) is a proven broken symmetric symbol.

Either the cuneiform for ANU is actually a really old symbol depicting the proven broken symmetric universe or there is another side of the carbon atom we have yet to discover but the Sumerians knew long before us….

Perhaps the triangles represent matter and the other virtual subquantal energy in the vacuum that proves that its’ a broken symmetric universe?!

EDIT: Another subliminal I found was that Carbon has 8 electrons… I was reading an article about the Science of the Dogon (which is a tribe in West Africa) and they were obsessed with the electron structure of water and carbon; water, 2 and Carbon, 8….

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The Federation of Damanhur

March 12, 2011 Kristi Leave a comment

I’ve been meaning to post about this for awhile.

The Federation of Damanhur sounds like something out of a science fiction movie, but in reality is is a small country/spiritual community in Northern Italy. They are a social example of bringing back the sciences from the Atlantian period. They built a huge underground temple called the Temple of Mankind. It has been nicknamed the “eighth wonder of the world”.

This Temple acknowledges ALL ‘mainstream religions’ and the beauty and spiritual significance of art.

About: But the ‘Temples of Damanhur’ are not the great legacy of some long-lost civilisation, they are the work of a 57-year-old former insurance broker from northern Italy who, inspired by a childhood vision, began digging into the rock.

It all began in the early Sixties when Oberto Airaudi was aged ten. From an early age, he claims to have experienced visions of what he believed to be a past life, in which there were amazing temples.

Around these he dreamed there lived a highly evolved community who enjoyed an idyllic existence in which all the people worked for the common good.

More bizarrely still, Oberto appeared to have had a supernatural ability: the gift of “remote viewing” – the ability to travel in his mind’s eye to describe in detail the contents of any building.

“My goal was to recreate the temples from my visions,” he says.

Oberto – who prefers to use the name ‘Falco’ – began by digging a trial hole under his parent’s home to more fully understand the principals of excavation.

But it was only as he began a successful career as an insurance broker that he began to search for his perfect site.

In 1977, he selected a remote hillside where he felt the hard rock would sustain the structures he had in mind.

A house was built on the hillside and Falco moved in with several friends who shared his vision. Using hammers and picks, they began their dig to create the temples of Damanhur – named after the ancient subterranean Egyptian temple meaning City of Light – in August 1978.

As no planning permission had been granted, they decided to share their scheme only with like-minded people.

Volunteers, who flocked from around the world, worked in four-hour shifts for the next 16 years with no formal plans other than Falco’s sketches and visions, funding their scheme by setting up small businesses to serve the local community.

By 1991, several of the nine chambers were almost complete with stunning murals, mosaics, statues, secret doors and stained glass windows. But time was running out on the secret.

‘They are to remind people that we are all capable of much more than we realise and that hidden treasures can be found within every one of us once you know how to access them,’ says Falco.

Ceiling of the Temple. YES that is a CEILING.

What is known as the Earth Hall.

Hall of Mirrors

Materials, Science

Cheap pseudo-plastic

March 7, 2011 Kristi Leave a comment

So I’m always on the look out for cheap DIY materials that you can make at home, and found this nice video on how make a pseudo-plastic. Pseudo-plastics are plastics that are almost like a plastic but aren’t exactly like one.

Styrofoam is pretty cheap. You can probably find some in your house, in neighbors houses or pick some up at your local recycling center…

Though a simple google shopping search finds me acetone and packaging peanuts… though I’m sure you can find either at home depot or packaging store. Acetone is in nail polish remover, but you can buy a quart Rust-Oleum acetone for $5.

The end result as you can see makes an interesting clay substance. Though, I’d highly recommend using gloves when working with it, acetone burns.