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Sacred Spaces - i suppose all space on earth is sacred, although we seldom treat it as such. In this gallery i include some of my favourite things i have ever actioned on behalf of God.

i usually store this gallery in AA - Artists' Anonymous - a Smug Communities repository that I think is appropriate. i assume that is why artists use pen (painting) names. A man or woman's faith is their own business...

A lot of my work employs collage - it allows me to use modern media and ancient techniques of painting. It is, in essence, image making nonetheless. Paint, silver gelatin, pixels, cardboard, bytes - all form the canvas - the end result is image of a single moment in a succession of moments. One foot after the other...

For a good view of much of the subject matter in this gallery go to - and beyond -http://www.sacred-texts.com
inanga
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inanga > The irenicon Acrylic, oil, gouache, spray paint, henna, glitter, collage trees, biro, pencil, greenstone (pounamu) and paua on canvas (framed by Artworks, Johnsonville), 2007 For a more detailed description and the poem of the same name - please see 'The irenicon' gallery in hog. 'My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.' Henry David Thoreau (1817-62), US Transcendentalist Author For more on this enlightened man see http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Henry_David_Thoreau/ 1160mm x 1520mm
inanga > Tarawera 1886 a collage of three of my originals on the floor in Jville inanga
inanga > The Yogi This was painted some time ago – say 2006 – so I am not that sure of its full evolution although it was intended to portray a Jnani yogi in the lotus position. Cernunnoss is a Gallic and Celtic antlered stag god much in vogue with new-Age pagans – he became the model sans antlers; appropriate, as he is seen in other guises as a woodland giant, Actaeon, Green Man or soliptic forest-dwelling yogi. In his right hand is an ouroboros armband depicting a snake chasing its tail. A live snake is in his left hand signifying one of the two snakes that winds around the hermetic staff ie. the od and the ob around the Aour; the ida and pingala around the sushumna, etc. The blood seeping from his third eye indicates that he is enlightened. The blue eyes are those of the pre-Maori Celts of New Zealand. This is a detail of a much larger and symbolic painting. Acrylic, oil, gold, collage on paper 2006 210mm x 300mm
inanga > Yogi NOT FOR SALE "Spiritual Enlightenment Enlightenment is such a difficult term to use today. It has been used by so many and means so many things. It can mean anything from positivist 18th century "enlightenment" to moksha (liberation from rebirth). So I have generally chosen to focus on Self-realization. Self-realization is of course spiritual enlightenment in its true sense. The spiritual enlightenment project Getting enlightened is a project of a lifetime. It is not something you just do at a spiritual weekend seminar and then forget about. You will know, when you are stuck onto this project, because you will intuitively know that there is a Pure self, that is really you, and you will not rest, ever, until you realize it. Ecstatic glimpses of love or bliss are not spiritual enlightenment Initially as you meditate, you will experience glimpses of love or bliss, perhaps even supreme love-bliss. This state will hang on and you wil be full of great love. It can hang on for weeks, even years. But it will eventually go away. You are bound to lose it as long as the identification mechanism is intact. So how do you break the identification mechanism? The only way is to enter nirvikalpa samadhi; in other words to merge so completely with the Self, that you lose consciousness and go into a state that could be called no-mind. When you come out of this samadhi you will realize that something is missing, and you will feel great joy. As you progress deeper and deeper into oneness with the Self, trance states will become less frequent because you don't lose consciousness. Eventually... ... You will not have them any more and will simply emerge in love-bliss - while active or passive. It will make no difference. Since nirvikalpa samadhi is the only way, you will have to practice meditation every day in order to make the glimpses of love-bliss more and more frequent, until finally you slip into nirvikalpa and lose consciousness and awaken free. But it may take many nirvikalpa samadhis to get there. This state of freedom comes in a flash. It is either there or it is not; there is no in-between. You are not more or less free; that is not how it works." Anonymous, www.lovebliss.eu/Enlightenment.htm
inanga > The Monkey and the Artisan kaitiaki: Callum "Freedom from the small self without oneness with the love-bliss of the Self. Witness state. Cosmic Consciousness. The now Once the identification mechanism breaks down, you are free from the fetters of the small self since you have become one with the pure being. This is what Bucke called Cosmic Consciousness in 1902. Now this does not mean you have got rid of the small self; you have just got out of it. On the contrary, it will feel all the more present as an empty shell and you will probably want to work hard to get rid of it. On the other hand you might be content to simply live in the Now. One of the nicest ways to work on getting rid of residues of ignorance is to manifest love or bliss. I chose to manifest bliss since it was my natural disposition. But eventually love and bliss will merge into one, so when I say bliss I also mean love, and vice versa; that's why I began to call it love-bliss. At this stage, if you want to move on, you simply have to awaken and arouse kundalini. It is insignificant whether you do that through surrenderring to the love or the bliss that fills you in your meditations. This stage is actually Self-realization, though an inferior form since you have not merged with the love-bliss nature of the Self, but rather merged with it as nothingness-being. If you have not experienced any love-bliss at this point, you will probably be quite content with this state and live happily with it for many years. If, however, you have experienced supreme love-bliss, you will soon feel an emptiness and a very strong longing to merge with the supreme love-bliss. You may project this longing for supreme love-bliss onto God and thus long intensely for God, but in reality it is a longing for the supreme love-bliss of the Self. Nevertheless, devotion to God and devotion to love-bliss is an essential part of your spiritual life at this point if you want to move on." Anonymous, www.lovebliss.eu/Enlightenment.htm
inanga > Augrabies Falls, Republic of South Africa detail "Dark night of the Soul after spiritual enlightenment When you move on, you will go through such pain you have never imagined. This is because now the forward is the dissolution of everything that stands between you and consciously merging in the love-bliss of the Self. Here kundalini is your greatest ally. Some may fear kundalini because it to them at first seems to be a destructive energy. But what it destroys is ignorance, and as its process progresses, kundalini will manifest love-bliss. When kundalini finally settles in the brain, you will be living in perpetual love-bliss. God-consciousness During the dark night of the Soul, you will gradually develop God consciousness. God consciousness does not mean that you achieve a god-like state but that you become conscious of God in everything. You enter a love relationship with God. The dark night will be lifted by a growing love of God. You may not yet realize that this love of God is the love of the Self and the nature of the Self manifesting in you. So you project it onto God. It is important "not to get stuck in some religion during this period", but rather expand one's love to encompass everything and everyone by seeing God in all. God consciousness is not seeing everything as if it were divine, you actually sense divinity in everything and that it fills you with love. God consciousness is not a definite state, it is fluctuating and in periods it is there, at others it is gone. When the heart opens, you may love everybody and you may think and feel about everything as divine, but that is not God-consciousness. True God-consciousness comes when kundalini rises above the throat chakra. Only then do we see God in everything as a vibrant, living presence of pure-love consciousness. But remember, you will also be in the dark night of the Soul, so periods of love-bliss will interchange with periods of depression and extreme spiritual loneliness. In fact they are likely to co-exist. In reality the love-bliss interacting between you and divinity is the Self recognizing itself in the other - but that may only dawn upon one later." Anonymous, www.lovebliss.eu/Enlightenment.htm
inanga > The way to heaven [No we did not descend from apes Charles! Evolution is not like that at all. inanga] "Full Self-realization Just as suddenly as freedom from the small self came about, you will suddenly find your kundalini does not leave the brain and you are constantly in a state of love-bliss. This can come as a major breakthrough or it can come rather unnoticed since kundalini may havebeen in the brain most of the time anyway, so you will only realize after some time that it is a permanent change. But one thing will not go unnoticed and that is the flash of energy in the brain as kundalini makes the brain it's new abode. You will feel the crown chakra opening and as if a million bubbles are exploding inside the brain. When you open the eyes after that meditation, you will see the Self in everything around you. So it comes in a flash, but since you may be so used to love-bliss by now, and so used to losing it again, you may expect to lose this also. But one sweet day, it will not leave you anymore. Towards moksha, Final enlightenment Here I write from what I have been told. Apparently you have to get rid of all karma in order to attain this. I can confirm that this is the process that goes on after Self-realization. You feel the residues of ego and personality being burnt away in the fire of the love-bliss that permeates your mind and body. It is a very rapid process and it is very delightful, quite unlike what went on in the dark night of the Soul, though it was also a period of disintegrating ignorance. The difference between the two is that during the dark night of the Soul, there is no permanent love-bliss after Self-realization, the process is one of merging more and more into a more and more intense love-bliss." Anonymous, www.lovebliss.eu/Enlightenment.htm
inanga > Kiwi on Easter Island (Waitangi-ki-roto) - France (The French Connexion) I met a nice lady in New Caledonia - her name was Elodie. She spoke English, French and was learning Te Reo (Maori). At some stage in her life she had acted as an interpreter for a group of Maori on a hikoi (journey) to korero (chew the fat) with some Kanaks in the north of New Caledonia at a place called Hiengiene. After we had both returned to Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington) by separate means we met up again at Simply Paris in Cuba Mall for a birthday dinner with some of her friends. One of her French Embassy friends took a liking to the Kiwi on Easter Island and asked if she could have the painting. As an artist, with no attachment nor desire for any object, i handed the painting over without hesitation. acrylic, oil and photographic collage on A4 paper 2006 300mm x 210mm Kaitiaki: A rather forward French mademoiselle, somewhere in France
inanga > Seven Summits Mountains have always been part of my life. I grew up in their shadow on the West Coast of the South Island, New Zealand. Forever since I can remember the Seven Summits, the Seven Pillars of Wisdom if you like, have fascinated me to the very core of my Being. When I think of that depth of Being, I think of the angular, stark geometric structure of the West Coast of the South Island. It is a crisscross of diamond facets with the crosscut saw tooth backdrop of the Southern Alps. The centre of the picture shows a small scroll suspended from a small kauri branch. The original kauri branch used as the hanging frame of the scroll in my window at the Heath Street Flats in J-ville, was scrounged from outside the largest wooden building in the southern hemisphere, the Government Buildings (now part of the Vic Uni Law Department). On the parliament house side of If you asked any Dallie from up north what sort of kauri where the Baha’i and Mormon faiths of the worship of God are hung with piety and adoration, and the Phi-spiral Acrylic, oil, metallic spray paint, and paua on canvas, 2007 EDIT TXT - reminder to inanga
The irenicon

Acrylic, oil, gouache, spray paint, henna, glitter, collage trees, biro, pencil, greenstone (pounamu) and paua on canvas (framed by Artworks, Johnsonville), 2007

For a more detailed description and the poem of the same name - please see 'The irenicon' gallery in hog.

'My life has been the poem I would have writ,
But I could not both live and utter it.'

Henry David Thoreau (1817-62), US Transcendentalist Author

For more on this enlightened man seehttp://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Henry_David_Thoreau/

1160mm x 1520mm
> The irenicon Acrylic, oil, gouache, spray paint, henna, glitter, collage trees, biro, pencil, greenstone (pounamu) and paua on canvas (framed by Artworks, Johnsonville), 2007 For a more detailed description and the poem of the same name - please see 'The irenicon' gallery in hog. 'My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.' Henry David Thoreau (1817-62), US Transcendentalist Author For more on this enlightened man see http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Henry_David_Thoreau/ 1160mm x 1520mm
The irenicon

Acrylic, oil, gouache, spray paint, henna, glitter, collage trees, biro, pencil, greenstone (pounamu) and paua on canvas (framed by Artworks, Johnsonville), 2007

For a more detailed description and the poem of the same name - please see 'The irenicon' gallery in hog.

'My life has been the poem I would have writ,
But I could not both live and utter it.'

Henry David Thoreau (1817-62), US Transcendentalist Author

For more on this enlightened man seehttp://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Henry_David_Thoreau/

1160mm x 1520mm
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