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LittleNinja

LapSiLap, yea i just realized that they are now requiring that you become a subscriber to use the search engine.  Before, it wasn't like that.  I guess they needed money.  

But anyways, in answering to your question on who created that image, it's Magna Dragon.  This is just the alias.  I have no idea what the artist's name is.

Okay, have a good day.:)

Kodemaster

Heard about this guy when he called the Art Bell show:

http://www.vx1.net/nightgallery/index.html#

Enjoy,

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Neo Schiavo

I really love the picture bellow, and I'd just to know if anyone knows it's illustrator and where I may find an enlargement.



Thank you.

LittleNinja

Sorry Neo Schiavo, i dont know the person whom painted that picture.

But in the meanwhile, here are some pictures that i have to show you guys.











Enjoy.[:)]

SmileySpirit14

hmm....do clouds have to do with astral images or something...[?][?][?]
live forever or die trying

Squeek

Hmm... over 150 posts and not a single one from Digital Blasphemy.  Well, that's why I'm here!

www.digitalblasphemy.com














These are incredible digital images made by a great artist.

~Squeek

LotusLegs

These pictures are inspirtional.  It makes me want to spend all day trying to project.
If you want to view paradise, simply look around and you will.

-Willy Wonka

LotusLegs


Hey, I found a real picture of Robert (the) Bruce!:

HEY! my friends and I call him THE BRUCE too...is that you Mark?
If you want to view paradise, simply look around and you will.

-Willy Wonka

des Jardins

¡¡¡Insert!!!
I lost my breath...
Natalie des Jardins

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Sometimes I think about the "real appearance of things". If the astral body is only a point of conciousness, and all into this universe doesn't more than condensed energy, ¿what appearance would have things beyond its apparent volume, its geometrical appearance, its apparent colour, its apparent physical properties, given by scientific measurement tools, those that, surely are as unreal as the things object of their study?

The answer to this speculative question I've found at: http://www.cleargreen.com/
There I've found and fascinating description of real things. Allow me to share with you this topic:

What Is Tensegrity?

     Tensegrity is the modernized version of some movements called magical passes developed by Indian shamans who lived in Mexico in times prior to the Spanish Conquest.
     Times prior to the Spanish Conquest is a term used by don Juan Matus, a Mexican Indian shaman who introduced Carlos Castaneda, Carol Tiggs, Florinda Donner-Grau and Taisha Abelar to the cognitive world of shamans who lived in Mexico in ancient times -- which, according to don Juan, was between 7,000 and 10,000 years ago.
     Don Juan explained to his students that those shamans discovered through practices that he could not fathom, that it is possible for human beings to perceive energy directly as it flows in the universe. In other words, those shamans maintained, according to don Juan, that any one of us can do away, for a moment, with our system of turning energy inflow into sensory data pertinent to the kind of organism that we are. Turning the inflow of energy into sensory data creates, shamans affirm, a system of interpretation that turns the flowing energy of the universe into the world of everyday life that we know.
     Don Juan further explained that once those shamans of ancient times had established the validity of perceiving energy directly, which they called seeing, they proceeded to refine it by applying it to themselves, meaning that they perceived one another, whenever they wanted it, as a conglomerate of energy fields. Human beings perceived in such a fashion appear to the seer as gigantic luminous spheres. The size of these luminous spheres is the breadth of the extended arms.
     When human beings are perceived as conglomerates of energy fields, a point of intense luminosity can be perceived at the height of the shoulder blades an arm's length away from them, on the back. The seers of ancient times who discovered this point of luminosity called it the assemblage point, because they concluded that it is there that perception is assembled. They noticed, aided by their seeing, that on that spot of luminosity, the location of which is homogeneous for mankind, converge zillions of energy fields in the form of luminous filaments which constitute the universe at large. Upon converging there, they become sensory data, which is utilizable by human beings as organisms. This utilization of energy turned into sensory data was regarded by those shamans as an act of pure magic: energy at large transformed by the assemblage point into a veritable, all-inclusive world in which human beings as organisms can live and die. The act of transforming the inflow of pure energy into the perceivable world was attributed by those shamans to a system of interpretation. Their shattering conclusion, shattering to them, of course, and perhaps to some of us who have the energy to be attentive, was that the assemblage point was not only the spot where perception was assembled by turning the inflow of pure energy into sensory data, but the spot where the interpretation of sensory data took place.
     Their next shattering observation was that the assemblage point is displaced in a very natural and unobtrusive way out of its habitual position during sleep. They found out that the greater the displacement, the more bizarre the dreams that accompany it. From these seeing observations, those shamans jumped to the pragmatic action of the volitional displacement of the assemblage point. And they called their concluding results the art of dreaming.
     This art was defined by those shamans as the pragmatic utilization of ordinary dreams to create an entrance into other worlds by the act of displacing the assemblage point at will and maintaining that new position, also at will. The observations of those shamans upon practicing the art of dreaming were a mixture of reason and seeing energy directly as it flows in the universe. They realized that at its habitual position, the assemblage point is the spot where converges a given, minuscule portion of the energy filaments that make up the universe, but if the assemblage point changes location, within the luminous egg, a different minuscule portion of energy fields converges on it, giving as a result a new inflow of sensory data: energy fields different from the habitual ones are turned into sensory data, and those different energy fields are interpreted as a different world.
     The art of dreaming became for those shamans their most absorbing practice. In the course of that practice, they experienced unequaled states of physical prowess and well-being, and in their effort to replicate those states in their hours of vigil, they found out that they were able to repeat them following certain movements of the body. Their efforts culminated in the discovery and development of a great number of such movements, which they called magical passes.
     The magical passes of those shamans of Mexican antiquity became their most prized possession. They surrounded them with rituals and mystery and taught them only to their initiates in the midst of tremendous secrecy. This was the manner in which don Juan Matus taught them to his disciples. His disciples, being the last link of his lineage, came to the unanimous conclusion that any further secrecy about the magical passes was counter to the interest that they had in making don Juan's world available to their fellow men. They decided, therefore, to rescue the magical passes from their obscure state. They created in this fashion, Tensegrity, which is a term proper to architecture that means "the property of skeleton structures that employ continuous tension members and discontinuous compression members in such a way that each member operates with the maximum efficiency and economy." This is a most appropriate name because it is a mixture of two terms: tension and integrity; terms which connote the two driving forces of the magical passes.


As excerpted from Carlos Castaneda's Readers of Infinity, Number 1, Volume 1, 1996. Published by Cleargreen, Incorporated, (c) Copyright 1996-2003, Laugan Productions, Incorporated. All rights reserved.  


At another site I found following image related to tensegrity topic:



I cannot gather info related to the fact if previously attached image comes from a tensegrity practitioner artist. May be, you do it.

NEZabaleta





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Another image related to previous post...



NEZabaleta



jayselect

Dear squeek, you kinda ripped digital blasphemy off a bit don't cha think lol. www.digitalblasphemy.com.

Anyways, here's what i got














__--nezabaleta--__

Dear Jayselect...
As you can see at lower right corner of pictures posted by me, they are firmed by Maia Norkov. From Google finder you can gather following address data:
http://activeblue.norkov.com/art/
They are copyrighted to "Norkov Designs".
Then, I think you are wrong with your suspicion of falseness.
Furthermore, there exists the possibility that digitalblasphemy be a repository of affine images.
Sincerely and cordially
NEZabaleta

__--nezabaleta--__

Dear Jayselect...

Please, access to
http://activeblue.norkov.com/pr-como.html
and doing click on its images you'll access to Norkov pictures.
There, too, you can gather info about tensegrity.
See you later..!
NEZabaleta

tdd

LittleNinja:

Thanks for the beatiful link (the flash trailer) - really awesome.

TDD

Aidin


Aidin




here are a few more good ones

catmeow

I think this should be a sticky.... great collection of images
catmeow
The bad news is there's no key to the Universe. The good news is it's not locked. - Swami Beyondananda

PeacefulWarrior

Yes, it should be a sticky.  I will look into making it one.  

What's interesting about this post is that when I created it I intended finding images that related directly to AP but now I see that this has changed.  It has helped me to understand that what is "astral" is completely subjective.  In other words, the astral means something different to everyone.  The main thing I see is that the images are always surreal, or otherworldly.  

Anyhow, I hope people will link more images...altough I am not sure how much Adrian appreciates having some much more bandwith being used up with this and other image laden posts![;)]
We shall not cease from our exploration, and at the end of all our exploring, we shall arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
T.S. Elliot
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fides quaerens intellectum

DarkOne

hot chicks, next time im out of body im picking up a fairy girl, its settled.

Kodemaster



Found this on the web...an alternate design for the back cover perhaps?
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Kodemaster

And who could leave out screen shots from Zelda 64, The Ocarina of Time???

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