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Faces of Earth

In this gallery we look at our identifier, the face (unless we are twins), the faces of some of our animal companions, and the art of iconography.

A lot of work has yet to be completed on this gallery, so please bear with the artist (who has to also paint to live).

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inanga > The Clown

Thoughts of the Clown:

When you wake up tomorrow look at how much you own. If you own little, your path has been successful; if you are wealthy, while those around you are poor, you are destined to suffer the most hideous of Betweens. All the money you accumulate is at the expense of true glory and creativity. The more wealthy (in a material sense) you become, the more your soul dies. There comes a point where your soul is useless and cannot be used in any further incarnations. This is full devolution to worthlessness.

acrylic and oil on paper, wall paper backing unframed 2009

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inanga > Jagadguru and the Dream of Brahma

Jagadguru is no longer with us. One day he implored a young child to let the sand out of his head so that he could meditate, kundalini-style, on the Dream of Brahma. Unfortunately, the absence of sand hastened the operation of his pineal gland and he enlightened, straight to 5-D. He promised me he was sticking around until 21 December 2012. I'll have to trust my sadguru on that one.

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inanga > Jagadguru with Ouroboros and Serpent

...obviously before Jagadguru's toroidal implosion and out of control EKG coherence... [the kids emptied the sand out of his head!]

The writings of Pak Hardjanto, an Indonesian trance adept and murshud, now 'gone to the far shore', can be found here: http://www.sahasraadhipura.org/Articles/About%20Yoga/Aims%20of%20yoga.html 

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inanga > Yogi with Ouroboros and Serpent

The yogi has lost his head.

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inanga > Heart Chakra

When I embarked upon the path of Siddha Yoga I realized that I would have to sublimate my ‘i’ in the wisdom of some earthly related gurus. I read and read, exploring Sufism, Native American spiritualism, Maori wisdom, Celtic practicality, Taoist philosophy (Qi Gong) and good old Kiwi ingenuity.

It not take me long to realize that all of these were a curious amalgam of the wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita, especially the interpretation of the yoga sutras of Patanjali and the overwhelming presence of the divine voice of the Godhead through the poesy of Krishna.

The Bhagavad Gita became everything for me – the most divine of the divine books of wisdom. Everything I had studied – the Holy Bible of the great prophets, the Holy Qu’ran of All'ah, the Compassionate and the Merciful, the poetry of the Sufi, the astronomy of the Dogon, the 'Tibetan Book of the Dead', the Prophecy of Masa’wu and the Songs of Waitaha – everything, yes everything came back to me in the minutest atom of the greatest density in each line of the Bhagavad Gita.

When I understood the nature of the kundalini awakening, the union of Shakti and Shiva in the sahasrara, and that Almighty God had created in us the mechanism by which we free our souls from material 3-D existence and continual rebirth, I realized that I much needed the aid of some guides to the unification with Godhead. 

The Siddha Yoga of Blessed Nityananda most appealed as a roadmap to the inner self. As I read Nityananda’s words of wisdom – the wisdom of old as there is nothing new in this universe – I understood that this remarkable, humble soul would hold my hand when I journeyed to the Between state of 4-D, to the Nirvana of 5-D. I painted Nityananda and Muktinanda, his Blessed pupil, on a piece of cardboard and placed it next to Jagadguru, a painted head with intertwined ida and pingala coiled around the sushumna (another painter’s story). 

Phil gave me two frames and I cut the cardboard and placed Nityananda – one of my sadguru – in one frame and Muktinanda, another of my sadguru, in the other. 

Miles from Nowhere turns my paintings from bits of cardboard and canvas into digital wizardry with his superb photography. He was photographing Nityananda (with La Giaconda peering over his shoulder) when this beautiful moth landed on his heart charka for the briefest instant.

Gouache, spray paint, oil, watercolour, acrylic, collage of Nityananda and Mona Lisa, live moth on cardboard (framed by the artist), 2007

Dedicated to John Major Jenkins for inspiring 'A Portal into the Heart of Creation'. YOU are the treasure hunter the Mexican most admires - do you know any tortilla recipes.

For more on a treasure hunter try this feed:

http://www.earthportals.com

And if you get time please read the article: 'The Sacred Time of 2012: Vedic astronomy in a comparative perspective', Part I of IV: The Sacred Universe by Willard G. van de Bogart.

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inanga > Gurus in all too familiar landscape

Original: 'Gurus' in Faces of Earth gallery in hogproductions

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inanga > Whitebait and the Rat on Easter Island Detail

Original: Property of President of the ACNZ for Life Mr Rat

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inanga > Just Passing Through 

detail from scroll 'Just Passing Through'. When you realise the difference between the container and the content (or the shite from the Shinola) check out Scrolls and Boxes of Wisdom in hogproductions.

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inanga > Elvis Lives!

I saw him at the Warehouse in Jville recently and I snapped this shot for this painting. Ms P will back me up!

gouache, acrylic and photograph on paper 2008

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The Clown

Thoughts of the Clown:

When you wake up tomorrow look at how much you own. If you own little, your path has been successful; if you are wealthy, while those around you are poor, you are destined to suffer the most hideous of Betweens. All the money you accumulate is at the expense of true glory and creativity. The more wealthy (in a material sense) you become, the more your soul dies. There comes a point where your soul is useless and cannot be used in any further incarnations. This is full devolution to worthlessness.

acrylic and oil on paper, wall paper backing unframed 2009

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 > The Clown

Thoughts of the Clown:

When you wake up tomorrow look at how much you own. If you own little, your path has been successful; if you are wealthy, while those around you are poor, you are destined to suffer the most hideous of Betweens. All the money you accumulate is at the expense of true glory and creativity. The more wealthy (in a material sense) you become, the more your soul dies. There comes a point where your soul is useless and cannot be used in any further incarnations. This is full devolution to worthlessness.

acrylic and oil on paper, wall paper backing unframed 2009

inanga

FOR SALE
The Clown

Thoughts of the Clown:

When you wake up tomorrow look at how much you own. If you own little, your path has been successful; if you are wealthy, while those around you are poor, you are destined to suffer the most hideous of Betweens. All the money you accumulate is at the expense of true glory and creativity. The more wealthy (in a material sense) you become, the more your soul dies. There comes a point where your soul is useless and cannot be used in any further incarnations. This is full devolution to worthlessness.

acrylic and oil on paper, wall paper backing unframed 2009

inanga

FOR SALE
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