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PROPAGANDA
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“On Earth, the propaganda taught and agreed upon is that the gods are responsible, and that human beings are not responsible. You are taught that only a god can create universes. So the responsibility for every action is assigned to another Is-Be (Immortal Spiritual Being) or god. Never oneself.”
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(Painting by Michael Parkes — http://theworldofmichaelparkes.com)
INSTANT KARMA
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Karma is the law of cause and effect. Karma is action, whether physical or mental, individual or performed by a group, and each action has a consequence.
Mass Karma
Karma can also affect a group of people, such as a religion, country, or even a planet depending on the karma of the majority of the group. A country can be conquered, or have droughts or famine, because that was the overall karma of the group, even if a few did not have that karma. If those who do not have that karma have strong magnetism for the opposite occurrence, they might be spared.
How Do We Become Free of Karma?
Very few people realize how many of their actions and desires are generated by past karma. They believe they are acting on free will, but instead they are acting out habits buried deep in their subconscious mind from many past lifetimes.
The way out of this cycle is to renounce the false notion that one demonstrates freedom by giving free reign to one’s desires. By attuning oneself with the infinite wisdom behind karmic law, one accepts God and His guidance from within, rather than being guided by desire. The more one lives guided from within, the greater one’s control over outer events in life. As long as one is acting on divine guidance rather than ego, one accrues no more karma, and it is eventually dissipated.
Source: https://www.ananda.org/yogapedia/karma/
GIRL IN THE VERMEER PAINTINGS
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This picture is a modern spoof on the world famous painting by the 16th century Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer. The girl in the legendary painting (as well as in several other of his paintings) is his second daughter, Elizabeth! Vermeer never hired models — he painted only family and friends. It doesn’t take a cosmetic surgeon to compare the features of the women in the majority of his paintings to observe that the same women are being painted in their own home, again and again in different poses, settings, lighting and clothing. Most of his paintings feature his wife, Catharina, who was not only his constant accomplice in creating a family, she was his foremost ally in his life as an artist!
The painting named (by others), “Girl with a pearl earring“, as well as “The girl with a red hat”, and “The girl with a flute”, and others, are all of his second daughter, Elizabeth, who was a teenager when they were painted. He used her as the model for a series of very small “tronie” or facial portraits, which were popular at the time.
These miniature “head shots” were especially well suited to the use of the camera obscura to create what we know now to have a photographic quality, rendering the light and perspective differently than the unaided lens of the human eye perceives it.
To learn all of the details about the women who posed for Johannes Vermeer in all of his famous paintings, read the book VERMEER: PORTRAITS OF A LIFETIME, by Lawrence R. Spencer.
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NOISE IS NEEDLESS
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I just returned from 3 weeks without TV and other needless noise…. I realized how wonderful silence can be…. Serenity, Joy and Peace are a few benefits I experienced.





