Showing posts with label shamanic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shamanic. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

The promise of a shaman




The promise of a shaman

If you come to me as a victim I will not support you.

But I will have the courage to walk with you through the pain that you are suffering. 

I will put you in the fire, I will undress you, and I will sit you on the earth.

I will bathe you with herbs, I will purge you, and you will vomit the rage and the darkness inside you.

I'll bang your body with good herbs, and I'll put you to lay in the grass, face up to the sky.

Then I will blow your crown to clean the old memories that make you repeat the same behavior. 

I will blow your forehead to scare away the thoughts that cloud your vision. 

I will blow your throat to release the knot that won't let you talk.

I will blow your heart to scare fear, so that it goes far away where it cannot find you.

I will blow your solar plexus to extinguish the fire of the hell you carry inside, and you will know peace.

I will blow with fire your belly to burn the attachments, and the love that was not.

I will blow away the lovers that left you, the children that never came.

I will blow your heart to make you warm, to rekindle your desire to feel, create and start again.

I will blow with force your vagina or your penis, to clean the sexual door to your soul.

I will blow away the garbage that you collected trying to love what did not wanted to be loved.

I will use the broom, and the sponge, and the rag, and safely clean all the bitterness inside you.

I will blow your hands to destroy the ties that prevent you from creating.

I will blow your feet to dust and erase the footprints memories, so you can never return to that bad place. 

I will turn your body, so your face will kiss the earth.

I'll blow your spine from the root to the neck to increase your strength and help you walk upright.

And I will let you rest.

After this you will cry, and after crying you will sleep, 

And you will dream beautiful and meaningful dreams, 

and when you wake up I'll be waiting for you.

I will smile at you, and you will smile back

I will offer you food that you will eat with pleasure, tasting life, and I will thank you.

Because what I’m offering today, was offered to me before when darkness lived within me.

And after I was healed, I felt the darkness leaving, and I cried.

Then we will walk together, and I will show you my garden, and my plants, and I will take you to the fire again.

And will talk together in a single voice with the blessing of the earth.

And we will shout to the forest the desires of your heart.

And the fire will listen and whisper the echo, and we will create hope together.

And the mountains will listen and whisper the echo, and we will create hope together.

And the rivers will listen and whisper the echo, and we will create hope together.

And the wind will listen and whisper the echo, and we will create hope together.

And then we will bow before the fire, and we will call upon all the visible and invisible guardians.

And you will say thank you to all of them.

And you will say thank you to yourself.

And you will say thank you to yourself.

And you will say thank you to yourself.


~ author unknown

Thursday, January 18, 2018

"The Wicker Man" and "The Last Wave" – favorite movies from the 1970s | pagan, masks, ritual, aboriginal magic

bought a couple of things online last week – a book, and 2 DVDs – 


– i really want to get the book that the movie The Wicker Man was inspired by (Ritual, by British actor and author David Pinner), but this time i got one based on the movie, just curious/ i hope its a good read anyway; and, will still be getting Ritual!


– Two movies are the top of my must have list: "The Wicker Man" – this is the original (1973), not the newer one with Nicolas Cage!; and, Peter Weir's "The Last Wave" (1977) with Richard Chamberlin.


THE WICKER MAN



• "The Wicker Man" – a 1973 British mystery horror film directed by Robin Hardy. The screenplay by Anthony Shaffer, inspired by David Pinner's 1967 novel Ritual, centres on the visit of Police Sergeant Neil Howie to the isolated island of Summerisle, in search of a missing girl. Howie, a devout Christian, is appalled to find that the inhabitants of the island have abandoned Christianity and now practise a form of Celtic paganism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wicker_Man








a couple of Wicker Man videos on Youtube –
Wicker Man Highlight Musical Picks - May Pole
Procession The Wicker Man 1973


THE LAST WAVE


• "The Last Wave" – a 1977 Australian mystery drama film directed by Peter Weir. It is about a white solicitor in Sydney whose seemingly normal life is disrupted after he takes on a murder case and discovers that he shares a strange, mystical connection with the small group of local Australian Aborigines accused of the crime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Wave





see also: whats more: "Walking in Dream" from "The Last Wave" (video)


Thursday, September 8, 2016

"Shaman Here" | art by Na Wei


i like these a lot!



by Na Wei
Beijing, China

Na Wei on Facebook




more 

The profound significance not from an idea, but in the grinding and fit.
116x273cm. China ink on the silk ,oil color on canvas,screen color,acrylic

New feeling is hard to achieve as communism.
The death of a bamboo
200*150cm China ink on the silk ,oil color on canvas,screen color,acrylic



Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Николай Бурцев is building me a custom Komus!



Николай Бурцев (Burtcev, Nikolai) is building me a custom Khomus!
– i can't wait! smile emoticon
the one in this photo is described as "shamanic" low-frequency* and the sign represents shamanism + scientific knowledge (perfect!). made with a sign of ancient Tengrianism,2 it is used for healing. just looking at it you can feel the magic, and it inspired me to reach out and find out how to get one. this one was sold some time ago, and Nikolai is now only taking custom orders. the one he makes will be his design based on my customary sign, a "medicine wheel" 1
the master craftsman will develop a design based on my customary sign
special thanks to Khomuschut (Хомусчут Андрей) for helping me get hooked up with the master builder, and introducing me to Yakut culture!


* Шаманский низкочастотный хомус "Билгэ" с Тенгрианским знаком "Танца" = Shamanic Low-frequency guimbarde (Bilge?) with "tengrianskim familiar tankha"

khomus, vargan, guimbarde – these are all names for what we call Jew's Harp

links are to Facebook


(facebook) Николай Бурцев is building me a custom Komus! | Robert Cherwink
Николай Бурцев is building me a custom Khomus!– i can't wait! :)the one in this photo is described as "shamanic"...
Posted by Robert Cherwink on Tuesday, February 16, 2016


UPDATE (27 Feb): i have now received the design, based on my traditional sign –



see also: whats more: Khomus (Jew's Harp) | Мастер: Николай Бурцев | videos


my "wheel" –
with the four cardinal directions, and the balancing between all of the worlds. --- the center point of the cross being where horizontal (physical) and vertical (spiritual) meet; and, then the outer four elements of the quadrants which must remain in balance within the circle. the circle then, again connects all within the universe. also: the points in the quadrants are designed to create movement, begging one to enter into that point in the middle, suggesting meditation and revelation, a shamanic journey which encompasses all.


whats more: Vajrapani 100514
an artwork of mine, using the color gradients version


2 a Central Asian religion characterized by features of shamanism, animism, totemism, both polytheism and monotheism, and ancestor worship. wikipedia.org/wiki/Tengrism

Thursday, March 3, 2011

The Old Ways






The Old Ways - yes.





in memorium

R.I.P. Mark Stackhouse
"Now those who recite this Sutra and then try to put it in practice will accumulate merit as countless as the sands of Arizona and Nevada; will help save the planet Earth from total oil slick; will enter the age of harmony of man and nature; will win the tender love and caresses of men, women, and beasts; will always have ripened blackberries to eat and a sunny spot under a pine tree to sit at; and, in the end will win highest perfect enlightenment."
~ Gary Snyder, Smokey The Bear Sutra





- - cover of Gary Snyder's book "The Old Ways" ...or, rather, my version of the cover of Gary Snyder's book (still need to find out who did the original artwork - Thomas H. Pohrt?) These renditions have been created from a photograph of a 30-year old, wrinkled and stained photocopy of the bookcover.
re Snyder: "His work, in his various roles, reflects an immersion in both Buddhist spirituality and nature."







"The Bear Sutra" - Video montage based on the Gary Snyder classic (in Polish; special thanks to Wojciech Jacob Jankowski [see also - whats up: Dumki Jacoba & A Carnival of Revolution])



SMOKEY THE BEAR SUTRA
by Gary Snyder

"Once in the Jurassic about 150 million years ago, the Great Sun Buddha in this corner of the Infinite Void gave a discourse to all the assembled elements and energies: to the standing beings, the walking beings, the flying beings, and the sitting beings--even the grasses, to the number of thirteen billion, each one born from a seed, assembled there: a Discourse concerning Enlightenment on the planet Earth...


"In some future time, there will be a continent called America. It will have great centers of power called such as Pyramid Lake, Walden Pond, Mt. Rainier, Big Sur, Everglades, and so forth; and powerful nerves and channels such as Columbia River, Mississippi River, and Grand Canyon. The human race in that era will get into troubles all over its head, and practically wreck everything in spite of its own strong intelligent Buddha-nature...


"...And if anyone is threatened by advertising, air pollution, television,
or the police, they should chant SMOKEY THE BEAR'S WAR SPELL:
DROWN THEIR BUTTS
CRUSH THEIR BUTTS
DROWN THEIR BUTTS
CRUSH THEIR BUTTS

And SMOKEY THE BEAR will surely appear to put the enemy out with his vajra-shovel."
(...more)






(2009) Fifty years ago this Fall a small press in Kyoto, Japan published an English language book of poems, Riprap, by an unknown, first-time poet and UC Berkeley graduate student, Gary Snyder. It was, along with Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Jack Kerouac's On the Road, one of the books that launched the Beat Generation. It was also the most important book of American nature writing since John Muir's The Mountains of California in 1890, a pioneering work in the brief history of the American Buddhist sensibility, and a set of poems that combined freedom and elegance in a way that opened up new pathways in modern poetry. Join us in celebrating this landmark in American literature and in the cultural life of California.





Dedicated to Mark






...AND IN THE END WILL WIN HIGHEST PERFECT ENLIGHTENMENT

* Mark Douglas “Stack” Stackhouse, 55, lost his battle with cancer Aug. 12, 2010.



this post inspired by a photo and comment on Facebook by Wojciech Jacob Jankowski, and his also sending me the Polish video "Sutra Szarego Niedzwiedzia 2nd Hand Beatnix."

[Sonoma Mountain Zen Center, Feb. 26 2011]

"Teraz, wczoraj, sto, tysiąc czy więcej lat temu - tak to właśnie wygląda. Nauczyciel i uczniowie. SMZC, zimowe sesshin, foto - Barbara."

Now, yesterday, a hundred thousand or more years ago - that's how it looks. Teacher and students. SMZC, winter sesshin)



LINKS - -

GARY SNYDER: @Wikipedia | Google search | @YouTube
Department of English, UC Davis
@sites.google.com (American Nature Writing)

SMOKEY THE BEAR SUTRA
by Gary Snyder

Video: Sutra Szarego Niedzwiedzia 2nd Hand Beatnix

Video: Gary Snyder: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Riprap

Mark Stackhouse obituary

Wojciech Jacob Jankowski (english [see also - whats up: Dumki Jacoba & A Carnival of Revolution]))

Thursday, July 9, 2009

historic artworks (previously posted to WHAT IT IS)



SOS logo (South of Sanity ~ insanely awesome high school hardcore rock band, my son Nik the drummer)


phoenix - watercolor / glass print on paper



center of the earth | pencil, pen and crayon

"flying" | crayon