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inanga > San Galgano Treated photograph of my 'wwwsangalganoorg' painting. See the Tuscany gallery for colour pics of that painting. How it came to be is described in probably far too much detail in the Tuscany gallery. I labelled the painting in the Tuscany gallery as wwwsangalganocom to avoid people being fed out directly to that site. Put the dots in the San Galgano web address and you can learn all about the ruined abbey. courtesy of Picasa 3, Smugmug, Google and Mozilla Firefox 2009 inanga
inanga > Monkey's Tail Swirl (Gold Leaf) detail from my 'The Monkey and the Artisan' '83 In a human being, there are four bodies, one within the other: physical, subtle, causal and supracausal. [8] As the Shakti works in all four bodies, She gives rise to various amazing experiences. This is the knowledge of the Siddhas. 84 It is a philosophical premise that the microcosm is identical to the macrocosm. The great Shakti, the mother of the world, lives in the body as the microcosm. The entire universe exists in the seed of the heart, the inner Self. 85 In the heart, there is a sublime and miraculous center. When the work of the Kundalini begins there through the grace of a Siddha, a person can perceive distant objects and sounds. He [or She] acquires the knowledge of higher planes, of past lives, and of others' minds. 86 Initiation, or Kundalini awakening, gives a person complete knowledge. In the final stage of meditation, the awareness of 'So'ham' [9] and "I am perfect' arises spontaneously within. In happens because the awakened Shakti is the embodiment of perfect knowledge. This is the indisputable experience of the Siddhas. 87 A simple and powerful means of depeening meditation is to focus the mind on those great beings that are beyond attachment. Then meditation progresses very quickly. This is the remarkable effect of remembering the Siddhas. 88 There is no doubt that the sublime and divine Shakti dwells in every human being. Even if one cannot meditate deeply on one's own, by receiving Shakti from the Guru one will automatically experience all yogic 'kriyas'. This is the wisdom of the Siddhas. 89 The mighty Kundalini Shakti is the vital force. As fire, She gives heat; as the sun, She gives light; as rain, She brings showers; as wind She blows everywhere. She is the earth. She exists in the form of all material objects. 90 No words can describe Her. She is a woman; She is a man. She is everything in the world. She is that which exists and that which does not exist.' 8. The physical body is experienced in the waking state. The subtle body (which includes mind, senses, and other subtle instruments) is the vehicle for the dream state. The causal body is experienced in deep sleep as blissful nonawareness. The supracausal body is made of pure Consciousness; it is the body of transcendental experience. 9. Literally, "I am He [or She]" or 'I anm That." from 'Kundalini and Shaktipat' from the Yoga of the Siddhas'. acrylic, gouache and gold leaf on paper from memory 460mm x 600mm unframed Kaitiaki: Callum, Australia
inanga > The 'i' Scroll Rolled It wasn't until i unraveled it that i learnt the eight-fold path of a Sufi. 'Kindness to the young; Generosity to the poor; Good counsel to friends; Forbearance with enemies; Indifference to fools [me included]; Respect to the learned; and Faith in yourself. The eighth - find that out for yourself - it's part of the journey of life. This is a condensation of the Wisdom of Sheikh Abdullah Ansari, translated by the distinguished Sikh, the Sardar Sir Jagendra Singh. acrylic, oil, watercolour, spray paint, gesso, coloured beads, glitter, paua and collage on paper, 2006 inanga 300mm x 3100mm (painted both sides)
inanga > Desert Gallery I often ask my God for forgiveness for my acts of artistic vandalism. Inspired by a painting of the great Australian Realist Jeffrey Smart, 'Corrugated Giaconda', I began with a copy of an ad from the Yellow Pages telephone directory that featured a vandalized Giaconda/Mona Lisa – that is her covered in tattoos (moko) in the foreground. The imagination then went wild and I sought to detect the nanosecond that I rounded a corner in the Arizona desert and saw this gallery evolving instantaneously. The swirl lends itself to this. I had painted a big canvas sometime earlier called 'The irenicon'; it is a painting that sums up many of my influences. The gallery slowly began to evolve from the aether and the swirls of infinitely small moments became the four paintings seen in the gallery – a Rajasthani scene, a photograph turned Industrial Minimalist, La Giaconda and 'The irenicon'. Acrylic, oil, gouache, gold spray paint and blood on canvas board, 2007 Original: [Ed: To be gifted to the person responsible for SmugMug's multiple captioning system. Pure, explosive, editing genius.]
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. inanga
inanga > Hopi Indian Reservation (detail Spider Grandmother) 'Life is a paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it. If we would, we should have heaven on earth the next day.' Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 'The Brothers Karamazov' 'LOGIC 23 Postulate - the human mind and inventions of the human mind are capable of resolving any and all problems which can be sensed, measured or experienced directly or indirectly. Corollary - the human mind is capable of resolving the problem of the human mind. The borderline of solution of this science lies between WHY life is surviving and HOW life is surviving. It is possible to resolve HOW life is surviving without resolving WHY life is surviving. LOGIC 24: The resolution of the philosophical, scientific and human studies (such as economics, politics, sociology, medicine, criminology, etc) depends primarily [up-on] the resolution of the problems of the human mind.' Thoughts of L Ron Hubbard First things first, i am not a Scientologist. All paths to God are worthwhile, and the Wisdom of this path helped me find mine. Some of my most treasured precepts come from the considered words of L Ron Hubbard, and he had a great part in my learning to understand the concept of individuation. I have only one comment to make - the video feeds in the Scientology site are slow loading. i particularly enjoyed this: http://scientology.org/#/videos/love-and-hate-what-is-greatness. And thanx to Tom Cruise for using the backdrop of our beautiful Mount Taranaki (aka Egmont) in 'The Last Samurai'. Great movie and some of the best battle scenes i have ever witnessed. inanga
inanga > Red Phi La Seine, Paris (detail)
inanga > Talking to God: Abbadia di San Salvatore, Tuscany "The modern media has become the complicit curtain-droppers of the veil; look behind their moralistic broadcasts in 'the name of truth' to see the veil lifted - the truth itself will be revealed, as will their lies." - inanga Acrylic, gouache, gold leaf on art paper, 2006 420mm x 600mm Kaitiaki: Elodie, France
inanga > Jade the Art Assistant, Heath Street Flats, Johnsonville, NZ Jade's not for sale but he may have a 'hidden profile' for sale. Jade is in charge of greenstone or jade or pounamu. He likes other people's cigarettes. He is also one of the nicest guys you would ever meet. And boy, does he know how to get hold of art materials! Kaitiaki of Original: R & W and kids, Churton Park, Whanganui-a-Tara inanga
San Galgano

Treated photograph of my 'wwwsangalganoorg' painting. See the Tuscany gallery for colour pics of that painting. How it came to be is described in probably far too much detail in the Tuscany gallery.

I labelled the painting in the Tuscany gallery as wwwsangalganocom to avoid people being fed out directly to that site. Put the dots in the San Galgano web address and you can learn all about the ruined abbey.

courtesy of Picasa 3, Smugmug, Google and Mozilla Firefox 2009

inanga
inanga > San Galgano Treated photograph of my 'wwwsangalganoorg' painting. See the Tuscany gallery for colour pics of that painting. How it came to be is described in probably far too much detail in the Tuscany gallery. I labelled the painting in the Tuscany gallery as wwwsangalganocom to avoid people being fed out directly to that site. Put the dots in the San Galgano web address and you can learn all about the ruined abbey. courtesy of Picasa 3, Smugmug, Google and Mozilla Firefox 2009 inanga
San Galgano

Treated photograph of my 'wwwsangalganoorg' painting. See the Tuscany gallery for colour pics of that painting. How it came to be is described in probably far too much detail in the Tuscany gallery.

I labelled the painting in the Tuscany gallery as wwwsangalganocom to avoid people being fed out directly to that site. Put the dots in the San Galgano web address and you can learn all about the ruined abbey.

courtesy of Picasa 3, Smugmug, Google and Mozilla Firefox 2009

inanga
See photo in original gallery.
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