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Music, video or voice recordings that relate to Life, Universes and Other Stuff
SEVENLY DEAD SINS
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I am a great fan of the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch and his best-known follower, Pieter Bruegel the Elder. I appreciate the in-your-face-honesty of their paintings, which were produced during a period of extreme religious and political repression that gripped Europe. The macabre, grotesque reality of the people and superstitions of the age are eloquently illustrated with masterfully satirical potency. Here is a marvelous animation, constructed from “The Seven Deadly Sins”. They were “deadly” because the Catholic priests would murder you if you refused to buy into their monstrous superstitions designed to control the population for political and financial gain. From my perspective — 500 years later — our lives have certainly improved, but they are still essentially macabre and grotesque.
The Seven Deadly Sins (2011) is a video animation by Belgian artist Antoine Roegiers based on The Seven Deadly Sins by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Bruegel is the best-known Bosch follower and Karel van Mander called him “Pieter the Droll” in his Schilder-boeck:
- “Oock sietmen weynigh stucken van hem, die een aenschouwer wijslijck sonder lacchen can aensien, ja hoe stuer wijnbrouwigh en statigh hy oock is, hy moet ten minsten meese-muylen oft grinnicken.”
- “There are few works by his hand which the observer can contemplate solemnly or with a straight face. However stiff, morose or surly he may be, he cannot help chuckling or at any rate smiling.”
- – Here reprinted in F. Grossmann’s translation (Bruegel, The Paintings, [London, Phaidon Press, n.d.], pp. 7 ff.)
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- Thanks to Jahsonic’s Macroblog
SUICIDE IS PAINLESS
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As people grow older conditions of life often become increasingly painful. We must decide for ourselves when the game is over, and consider our options. The lyrics to this song repeat the timeless question: to be, or not to be? Who should answer the question: You or the body you animate? Lyrics to the song “Suicide is Painless” by Mike Altman
is the theme song for both the movie and TV series M*A*S*H. Mike Altman is the son of the original film’s director, Robert Altman, and was 14 years old when he wrote the song’s lyrics.
WATER REMEMBERS
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These are two important videos that reveal the fact that human thought directly influences the physical structure of our universe, including water. Our bodies and brains are composed of about 80% water! About 80% of our planet is water! Laboratory experiments prove that negative, hateful, destructive vibrations, music, and thoughts instantly change the structure of water. The “memory” of the water structure is permanently altered by our thoughts and behavior. The simple conclusion: bad thoughts = bad water = bad body/brain = bad environment = bad life. Good thoughts = good water = good life.
OTHER REALMS OF MICHAEL PARKES
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Michael Parkes is my favorite living artist. He renders images that I remember, dimly, from distantly past eons of my own existence as an Immortal Spiritual Being, and revivifies them in the present moment. These moments, for me, as nothing less than magical! The following video is an interview with Michael Parkes in his studio in Southern Spain wherein he discusses some of his painting processes and techniques. And, the “stillness” and harmony that permeate both his paintings and his personal life.
“As human beings, we limit our sense of perception to what is generally comfortable and present in everyday life. In limiting our perceptions to suit our individuality, we miss the vastness of other perceptions and the doors they represent. Though we have been conditioned to perceive nothing except our own world, this does not mean we cannot enter other realms.” – Michael Parkes
Michael Parkes — A Personal History of A Living Master
Parkes could draw even before he could read and write. He was an only child, raised in Canalou , Missouri , a typical American Midwest town in the fifties. He attended art school where he met the woman, artist and musician to whom he remains married more than three decades later, Maria Sedoff. Parkes taught college level Art History as the young couple made their way in the Vietnam era. Parkes has been a serious and lifelong student of spirituality and esoterica. Together in the 1970’s, Michael and Maria set off on a spiritual journey where they found excellent teachers and a lifelong passion for India . Returning to Spain soon after their only daughter was born, Michael and Maria worked together to form a financially stable venture in art, beginning with humbly making and selling leather belts to tourists to achieving the internationally prestigious recognition as a master that Parkes enjoys today. Parkes remains humble and as much like your favorite neighbor as the sage weaver of myth and dreams whom we know through his art. Ultimately forming a publishing company to independently represent his art work, Michael and Maria now live and work in Spain.
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