Manifest Equality
Outlaws, from the Manifest Equality Gallery in Los Angeles
9th Place Winner of art contest
6th Place: Define Difference by Hilary Carey
From the Manifest Equality Gallery opening on Tuesday, March 2nd at 1341 Vine St., LA, CA 90028, the former Big Lots on Vine.
Show runs from March 3rd to March 7th. Check it.
in search of the spiritual loophole?? Universal Love? whuh?
As one raised in a Catholic school system and household, the three parts I enjoyed in church were
- The singing,
- The sermons (if they were worldly and spoke of universal love), and
- Shaking peoples’ hands, wishing them well with a “Peace be with you.”
But after significant experiences that alienated me from the Catholic church I have gone on a spiritual journey. I think anyone who grows up with a somewhat religious background may–at one point in their lives–come to question the authenticity of one’s own faith, questioning whether it is their own or a complacent continuance of tradition. Perhaps my own faith journey was also propagated by finding the loophole in comparative religions that accepts a fluid sexuality.
I can hear Palin’s former pastor saying it now…“everybody’s got a guilty conscience, that’s why homosexuals want laws of the land to justify their sins”.
As Rachel Maddow said on MSNBC with Keith Olbermann in response
to Palin’s church converting gays to heterosexuals, “When you say that you can pray away the gay, what that does is that it terrorizes gay people, and it makes people who hate gay people feel better about hating gay people. Because really all they’re doing is hoping for the salvation, which could be so-easily-achieved by just the right titrated amount of prayer.”
In my spiritual explorations for said loophole, I have discovered in the Bible, ECCLESIASTES 3:14, 15
“I recognized that whatever God does will endure forever;
there is no adding to it,
or taking from it.
Thus has God done that he may be revered.
What now is has already been;
what is to be, already is;
and God restores what would otherwise be displaced.”
This alone gave me the courage to write what I write. In certain hermeneutic interpretations, this passage reveals the insignificance of life, how we really are infinitesimally small particles of galactic dust, that what we do cannot really have a major influence on the big picture. If we consider that the number of molecules in one grain of sand is equivalent to the number of grains of sand on the entire planet, that gives us a rough estimate of just how small we are in the grand picture.
And although the Ecclesiastes passages gave me permission to boldly write what I write, paint what I paint, create what I create with the idea that ‘it’s been done before. Nothing I do, or anyone else, will really be a unique idea.’ That was a relief in the sense that I do not need to carry the burden of being this original thing. I’ve just got to get my ideas down on paper and OUT there.
French poet, Comte de Lautréamont, once said that “Plagiarism is necessary. Progress demands it.” This is also a relief, contributing to the idea that uniqueness is overrated. (Though I find topping a great idea far more progressive than simply imitating, which is why I take great measures to always credit ideas I have added upon).
I digress…the search for loopholes in spiritual literature that protect universal love and acceptance, for strength in trekking ‘uncharted’ territory have lead me to Ecclesiastes, and the Shvetashvatara Upanishad.
“All this is full. All that is full.
From fullness, fullness comes.
When fullness is taken from fullness,
Fullness remains.
OM shanti shanti shanti.”
The parallels between these two passages from the Bible and the Upanishads are quite uncanny. I have found my universal love message in comparative religions and I have also accepted my own gayness, as I actually fully came out to my own mother last week as a woman who fell in love with her best friend from college, and therefore no longer carry the burden of pretending my feelings didn’t count. Yay i’m queer! (And Thank you, mom, for accepting and loving me, just as I am.) In these passages, I have also found the encouragement to create and create. I have also an opening to my faith.
I just want the tranquility that comes after manifesting my ideas into fruition.
‘You are what your deepest desire is.
As you desire, so is your intention.
As your intention, so is your will.
As is your will so is your deed.
As is your deed, so is your destiny.’
- Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, Chapter IV [4] 5
Cartesian Grid of Chemtrails NOV 5th
Wednesday, November 5, the day after Barack Obama was elected the 44th President of the United States of America by with 52% of the votes I woke up feeling alive and excited to face a new world. But when I walked out my front door in the middle of the Californian desert to walk my dog at around 7 AM I was immediately shocked to find the clear sky marred by a Cartesian grid of chemtrails! That pilot must have been working for at least an hour before I even got up that morning to cover such ground. NOT COOL!!!!
I’ve lived in Los Angeles for years and seeing daily chem trails was a normal sight. But I live in a VERY remote rural town in California and to see this many is significant. Even if I saw this type of work in LA would be a bit much. The occurrence of this anomaly brought a bit of a downer to this historic day (which is why I held off on putting this up).
Here are a few photos an hour after I first saw them, slightly faded and blurred by a few natural clouds that had developed after fetching my camera post-dog walk.
Chem trails 1, 11/05/2008
Chem trails 2, 11/05/2008
Chem trails 3, 11/05/2008
Chem trails 4, 11/05/2008
Chem Trails 5, 11/05/2008
Chem Trails 6, 11/05/2008
Chem Trails 7, 11/05/2008
Chem Trails 8, 11/05/2008
Chem Trails 9, 11/05/2008
Chem Trails 10, 11/05/2008
I know that America made the right choice on Tuesday, November 5th.
Perhaps these chemtrails are to make sure we don’t party too hard about it…
- gD
Faith Restored
Earlier this evening I prayed for my faith in many things to be restored and today is a beautiful day. God bless America. nuff said.
Keep your ear to the ground…
WHERE is Dan Rather? SNL’s viewership is at its highest since 2001. Thanks to the easy material provided by Palin and the empty presidential debates, there is a smorgasbord of fresh elective material to simply reiterate with timing shifts.
But serious coverage of these elections has been relegated to the outskirts of pretty CNN readers, and the BIG SCOOPS are now in the hands of Katie Couric and a distant Charles Gibson. The present economic crisis at this time, ameliorated with a $700 billion RESET button, is only a precursor to STRONGER government regulation. Is this turning towards a socialist or fascist future? We will find out. But please, ask questions, find answers. Discuss.
Where is Dan Rather these days? Keith Olbermann has been relegated to the ‘extremist’ liberal progressive slant due to his passionate deliveries. Stephen Colbert, as intelligent as he is, is almost TOO intelligent for the masses to understand his subtle mockery. Jon Stewart is often spot on but is on way too late for the masses and and only available on the Comedy Network. Bill O’Reilly is difficult to watch and listen to, being very loud and and a respected pundit for FOX viewers.
I’ve known for some time that the media (if it ever has been close to being unbiast and free to report the truth) is no longer a source of what is really happening. Sad. Very sad.
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