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Woman who spent 23 years on US death row cleared (Photo: dpa)



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"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Western esthetics meet eastern symbolism

The Jakarta Post, Wayan Sunarta, Contributor, Ubud | Thu, 09/02/2010 9:09 AM

German-born painter Peter Dittmar combines western esthetic skills with eastern symbolism in his ongoing solo exhibition New Colour Windows.

Colour Window No. HHH, by Peter Dittmar.
JP/I Wayan Sunarta
The displayed works are a vivid testament of the artist’s incessant journey to reach the state of emptiness so revered by eastern philosophy.

Held at Tony Raka, a gallery in Mas, Ubud, known to support contemporary and avant-garde art, the one month-long exhibition is curated by noted art critic Jean Couteau.

Dittmar’s works are the visual equivalence of haiku, the short and spontaneous traditional Japanese poetry, a revealing condensation of the true nature of experience.

Haiku is commonly associated with reclusive poets mesmerized by the solitary serenity of Mother Nature.

His works offer such meditative tranquility with geometric shapes, such as circles, squares, and rectangles placed in beautiful composition upon layers of colors. He used rice paper, common in Chinese religious rituals, as the primary medium.

The squares and rectangles frame the colors and guide the spectators to look at what Dittmar has to offer. To some extent, the squares and rectangles are the windows of colors, thus, hence the title of the exhibition.

The arrangement of the geometric shapes brings to mind the Mandala, sacred geometric shapes and spatial structure used in esoteric Hinduism and Buddhism teachings at the center of a meditator’s attention. In several works, Dittmar played with shades and hues to create the illusion of depth and space. In other works, he worked his brushes in uninhibited strokes and powerful splashes, creating a visual calligraphy.

Dittmar is no stranger to eastern philosophy and spirituality. He had travelled to India to quench his thirst at the springs of Hinduism and Buddhism cosmology.

He studied and practiced Zen Buddhism, a school of thought that often defies logic and places the emphasis on direct and spontaneous enlightenment.

Dittmar also immersed himself in the study of Japanese and Chinese calligraphy, searching the secret behind conveying messages with the least strokes.

Born in 1945 in Munich, Dittmar was educated at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. Later on, he juggled his time between creating art works and teaching arts. His teaching stints included Jakarta Institute of Art (IKJ) and Federal University of Para in Belem, Brazil.

On a spiritual quest: Peter Dittmar is a respected artist
 in his country of origin, Germany, and in Australia as well
as in Bali, where he spends half of his time since 1982.
 JP/I Wayan Sunarta
He has participated in joint and solo exhibitions at numerous cities across the world, including New York, Tokyo, Basel, Berlin, Hong Kong and Melbourne, and has lived in Bali since 1982.

Dittmar said most of his works were about spiritual soul-searching and contemplation on the nature of cosmos. He believes the cosmos was constructed by two different elements that complement and harmonize each other, be it nature-culture; male-female; the Balinese’ Rwa Bhinneda and the Chinese Yin-Yang.

The exhibition’s curator, Jean Couteau, said the displayed works were quite different from Dittmar’s earlier paintings. The latest works show a higher level of control and order as well as minimum color processing.

“Dittmar has continuously explored the essence of colors and space, to find a totally different form of abstraction. Surely, that exploration is closely connected to his spiritual search,” he said.

— Photos by Wayan Sunarta

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