KARMA IN FAMILIES

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Until the human soul reawakens to its true nature and the purpose of finding itself of this level of life; until it rediscovers that all life, not only that of the Earth is ruled by Cosmic laws, its present existence hardly ever amounts to a bed of roses. While the soul still lacks the awareness of these things its life often seems cruel, dark and threatening, as if it had somehow been placed in a cold and uncaring Universe, which it fails to understand. The pain of life’s sorrows, limitations and hardships hits such souls hard and is felt by them intensely. This is accentuated by sneaking feelings that an impersonal and unloving providence permits all these ‘bad’ things and inflicts them upon all and sundry, without purpose, rhyme or reason.

A certain amount of relief comes straight away when the soul finds out about the Divine law of Karma and that because of this law a justice of a very special kind is at work in every life, a Divine justice that is so perfect and fair that human consciousness finds it very hard to grasp. But now that our race is at last moving onto higher levels of consciousness to many there now comes a renewed understanding of spiritual concepts like the above. However, for a long as any knowledge remains merely of the head, it will do us no good whatever. But as it sinks into the deeper levels of our consciousness we begin to realise the necessity for applying our learning to real life situations.

The more our awareness increases, the easier becomes to forgive and to find compassion for our own suffering, as well as that of anyone who ever hurt and wounded us in the past. Forgiveness is essential because its gets the healing process going and brings ever more peace to our soul. Knowing that everything that is in our life is and always was only there because it is intended to teach us something, helps us to let go of the notion that there is such a thing as good or bad fortune. Whether we like it or not, one way or another, we ourselves once set the wheels in motion for everything that our life now presents to us. Accepting this makes finding forgiveness surprisingly easy.

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INSPIRATION by Richard Barriball

- so where does it come from exactly?

“Inspiration - the process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something, especially to do something creative”, (Oxford English dictionary).

If I said that I created this music on my own, then I would be lying, and yet I could not identify my invisible collaborator, until I asked my spiritual development circle leader Elizabeth Daly, if she could figure out the source of my inspiration. After asking spirit she replied “a Buddhist monk of the highest order is working through you.” Which begs the question, where exactly does inspiration come from?

Just by chance (or not), when the oriental feel of track 2 “Eternal Knowledge” was created, a couple of days later I was invited on a group trip to visit the Samye Ling Buddhist temple in the Scottish borders. Just a few months earlier a psychic artist drew me as an oriental in a previous lifetime. In fact, the first three tracks of this relaxation album were inspired after reading a set of affirmations and exercises in a book called “How To Develop Your Sixth Sense” by David Lawson.

The day before the trip, I found myself dancing to an energy in the shower, though I had no idea what I was dancing to. Then in the temple the following day as I listened to the chanting with the bass drum and finger cymbals, my body felt exactly the same as when I was dancing the day before and I then knew what I was dancing to!

Also, from “The Oracle of Illumination” by Vicky and Philip Argyle, I drew a card saying that spirit was eager to co-create with me. So I sat at the piano and out flowed track number 5. And on another morning, I woke up with the main theme of track 9 in my head. That is as far as my conscious awareness knows about the collaboration involved, but I can’t help but feel that the titles have been “given” to me as well as they just seem to pop into my head.

Richard was born on April 26th 1967 and was brought up in the town of Callington, Cornwall. A professional musician, who has arranged and performed wind band music with the actress Carley Stenson (from “Hollyoaks”), Jane McDonald and Katherine Jenkins and has had a number of arrangements used in the Royal Albert Hall and the Edinburgh Military Tattoo.

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Edited by Mel Alexenberg, Intellect Books
Book Review ©Jade Ashcroft 2008

This is the first book, to my knowledge, which considers the future of our Arts and Media Culture in the wake of the explosion of digital and technological Arts with such depth and rich diversity of content.

From the point of view of an Esoteric Artist out in the field, the different subjects discussed herein have given me considerable food for thought, as well as insight and knowledge into disciplines that I had not previously encountered.

The reoccurring theme of Scientific Research-based Art and Technology is examined in great detail and with energetic enthusiasm, neatly interspersed with personal experiences from each author ,dissecting and describing activities and projects in their chosen field.

Subjects such as “Syncretism”, “Afferent and Efferent Education” and “Transgenic Art” are terms with which I was unfamiliar, but were explained by each Author with eloquence and coherence.
I particularly enjoyed the chapter “New Media Art as an embodiment of the Tao”, “Muliti-cellular creatures with sensors, joints and a neural network, living in a simulated environment”, would have been categorized as Science in my understanding, and therefore separate from Art and Artists, prior to reading this fascinating book.

I would highly recommend that anyone who intends to produce images of a symbolic nature, read the chapter about “Media Literacy: Reading and Writing Images in a Digital Age”. The different levels of meaning in Art and Photography, discussed in the narrative, explores the successful production of meaningful, thought provoking and powerful imagery.

The links between Science and Art, severed so long ago, have not only reunited into a collective but are mutating into new and exciting dimensions. For Artists/Teachers/Researchers, and anyone interested in expanding their knowledge of post digital media “Learning at the Intersections of Art, Science, Technology and Culture, is the perfect companion for navigation . Delving into the different sections of this text reveals a wealth of information regarding proposed and already successful course structures in Art and Technology. From cross-cultural and multi disciplined perspectives, the pathway is illuminated resulting in omni-directional destinations. You are guaranteed to find inspiration by the bucket-load whether you are an artist, designer, tutor, or student of Multimedia and the Arts.

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