Pablo Picasso said, "Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."On that I feel I must agree to a certain extent. As a sporadic painter I most often feel driven to pick up a brush when I am at my most sensitive and vulnerable. Most of the time I am not quite sure what I want to express until after it's already out there and on the paper/canvas/board. And as this quote of Picasso's jumped out at me from the tag on a bag of tea this afternoon(Good Earth brand, Black Tea "Tropical Peach" YUM!) it has stayed in my heart the rest of the evening.As I dug through my files of art I tripped across this old painting and I wanted to share it with you. I think it would be closest to what Picasso is talking about, at least for me personally.When I was a toddler I drowned in a pool. I lay there on the bottom staring up at the sky. This is what I saw(click on it for a better view):
This watercolor painting/collage on board was done in 2007. I don't have the original any more. Once I was done with it I scanned it and then destroyed the actual painting. I felt free. So here you go. Here's a page out of my 'diary.'
Victor Zammit is an interesting character I've discovered online through a fellow gnostic. I completely forgot about our conversation until I tripped across Zammit's website in a round-about way. *shrug* All's well that ends well. In gnosis you're bound to find what you need when you need it.Here's his website. Zammit is a retired Australian lawyer with a zeal for exploration and truth. His specialty? The afterlife. More specifically: Near Death Experiences, also known as "NDE's"Zammit offers a book he wrote called "A Lawyer Presents The Case For The Afterlife" for free if you download it in PDF form off his site OR you can click on links and read it chapter by chapter. The physical paper book is $10.This guy is offering a ONE MILION DOLLAR reward for anyone who can offer a logical argument against any of his own which are presented in his book making the case for the afterlife. What I find so ... magical... about this is the fact that Houdini and other magicians have done the same concerning proof of psychic abilities and nobody ever won. Why? Because the magician always holds the cards and controls the experiment. So does Zammit hold all the cards here? Is he scheming or scamming anyone? He appears to be a very well learned gent and open to conversation. Zammit made his case, printed it, and is giving it to the masses to refute. So far nobody has taken the bait. And yet Dawkins continues to sell books endorsing fundamentalist atheism. I suppose it's so much more productive to refute something in theory(in your head!) than show physical proof of your argument. Dawkins, nor any of his disciples, will ever win that million dollar prize.Zammit's site is a treasure trove of reading material. He has dozens of links on articles talking about debunking magicians, skeptics of all kinds, and his talks with serious scientists who show proof of what happens to the body and brain during death. Amazing stuff. I plan to get lost in it for a few hours today.
