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This site has notes from various classes taught by Lorin Roche - The Radiance Sutras, Syzygy training classes, Instinct and Intuition.

Fabulous Bollywood Parody Music Video

I have to admit this video has me chuckling. Natalie Portman and her boyfriend, Devendra Banhart appear in this music video which is a takeoff of a Ramayana-type epic. The song is Banhart's single "Carmensita." Natalie Portman appears in the video as a princess who is rescued from an evil king by a prince, played by Banhart.


If you click somewhere on the bottom right, you can expand the video to fill the screen, or go to YouTube.

Talk about Fusion! A Hindu epic told in the style of Naturalismo, in Spanish, by a Texas-born guy raised in Venezuela who went to the San Francisco Art Institute. Thank God - or rather, Thank All Gods, that someone is really making sport with the alchemy of East and West. (See also Devendra on Wiki).

Magnetism

Syzygy means, “the union or marriage of opposites” and is from the same root as Yoga. In Syzygy training, we notice the opposites that are at play in our life, and play with them. We dance them, breathe with them, meditate with them. Electricity and magnetism flow between the opposites.

Visualizing Magnetism

One of the dynamics we become aware of as we tune our senses by yoga, tantra and meditation is that our bodies are continually generating magnetic fields. So is everyone else. So is the Earth. As we play with the forces of life, the physical body and subtle bodies shimmer with alivenesss and electricity. We are also immersed in oceans of magnetism emanating from the Earth and the interaction of the Sun’s rays with the Earth’s own field.

This movie, by
Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt, uses computer animation to create visualizations of electromagnetic signals from the earth's ionosphere and magnetosphere.
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Here is the same
movie in slightly higher resolution at Vimeo

Magnetic Movie from Semiconductor on Vimeo.


Bio-Magnetism

I think that electromagnetism and the magnetism living beings generate are separate forces. In other words, our auras are not affected by our iPods. Our magnetic emanations will be modulated with the emotions we feel while listening,

The Sacred Art of Alex Grey

For many years, Alex Grey has been painting the human body as the intersection of forces, flesh and divine energy co-mingling.
Alex Grey the Chakras

Alex has also done some movies, and interesting clips are available on YouTube. This is the trailer for a feature length documentary:


Here is a preview of a television show about Alex:


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Amazon link to books of Alex’s art.

Hidden Majesty of Everyday Phenomena


These high-speed photographs of milk droplets hitting coffee remind me of meditation. Sometimes in the midst of a breath, thinking a thought, listening to a sound, everything pauses. Or perception speeds up and the majesty is revealed.

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Link to
TECH BLOG
Found by
Mark Frauenfelder at BoingBoing.net - thanks, Mark and TechBlog!

For me over the years, the most reliable side-effect of meditation is enhanced perception, especially visual and kinaesthetic. I can count on meditation enriching the way I see the world and enjoy colors. I do not experience "stop-motion," but something akin to it, and it's enchanting.

Cat-Cam


A guy in Germany attached a tiny camera to his cat's collar. The cat's name is Mr. Lee. The camera is set to take photos at intervals, so we can see what Mr. Lee does all day. These are the pictures, taken at intervals through a day.
Link. I love the glimpse we get into the CAT WORLD.
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The Trip Begins . . . (seeing through Mr. Lee's whiskers)

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An unknown backyard.

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One of his friends?

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Watching the birdhouse.

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Is there a cat meeting under the car?

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Seems to be a pleasant place!


How it is done:
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Mr. Lee with his camera

Click
here for more of Mr. Lee's adventures.


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Fritz, one of Mr. Lee’s spy-cat allies

What is Your World?

We each have our own version of the cat world. You have your world, the one you see, listen to, touch, and taste and smell as you move through your world. As an exercise, pause every hour or so as you move through your day and open up all your senses. Take a multi-sensory, feel-o-vision snapshot. Move on.