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Fregon South Australia

This is where i am living and where all of the A.P.Y lands photographs are taken; Kaltjiti (Fregon Community) far northwest corner of South Australia.

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Do you think that this Poll is Meaningless? 

83%
5 deviants said No
17%
1 deviant said Yes

illuminating quotes

If you’re holding on and afraid of dying, you’ll see demons tearing your life apart. If you’ve made your peace, then the demons are really angels freeing you from the world.

excerpt from the movie: Jacobs ladder.

“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. If the mind is clear, what ever we do or say the mind will bring happiness that will follow you like your shadow.
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. If the mind is polluted, what ever we do or say leads to suffering which will follow you as a cart trails a horse.”

the first two verses from The Tibetan Dhammapada:


Self importance and indulging can only plunge you into boredom

excerpt from 'Tales of Power' by Carlos Castaneda.


I say that because of this metaphor, this is the difference between the power of our creator and anything else, particularly evil. That you can go into a pitch black room full of evil, full of darkness, and light a little candle and instantly that darkness flees. But you can’t do the opposite. You can’t go into a well lit room full of truth and wisdom and righteousness and joy and health and harmony with the universal power, you can’t take any amount of darkness and go into that well lit room and have any effect whatsoever. That is the metaphor which I frequently think of when I think that I’m not empowered. It is the greatest lesson for me, and I think for everybody else to know that we’re on the winning side and that we will win in the end."

Ron Sekley, Department Chairman chemistry University of California Berkley


‘In this manner, one can learn how to perceive the essential nature of each thing. The Sepher Yetzirah says, “make each thing stand on its essence” so as to parallel the next phrase “make the Creator sit on His base.”
The Sepher Yetzirah is also indicating here that when a person perceives the true spiritual nature of a thing, he also elevates that thing spiritually. “Standing” refers to such elevation. The expression “make each thing stand” therefore says that when one “ probes from them”, he elevates the thing that he probes.’

Jewish scholar Aryeh Kaplan



If humanity wishes to
Save itself from bio-spheric destruction,
It must return to living in natural time.

Pacal Votan (7th century Mayan Prophet).


the love we give away
is the only love we keep

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"It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe."

Thomas Carlyle

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After travelling Europe and walking faraway streets, i discovered a bittersweet yearning to understand the land of my home Australia more deeply. Upon returning, my gaze drifting up to the middle of Australia's map and to red Desert Heart of Australia.
I concluded that i would teach in a remote Aboriginal Community.

In 2008 i embarked upon a year contract in Fregon (Kaltjiti) community. It is situated in the far northwest corner of South Australia in the Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands; it is approximately 1300kms from Adelaide by road.

In October 2009, I have returned to that Centre.
There was a pull, a feeling of things unfinished...
maybe of things not even begun...

Similiarily to my Pathworkings in the South East of Australia,
most of these images are taken on walks with my dog friend
Maxi Jazz. It is a meditation of dusk and dawn.
The path i choose is simple.
What i seek is subtle.

These are my pathworkings in this land...
With Love, Alexander.



To Healing! To whatever may come out!
To every dark corner inside of us! Oogelidieboogely!
To give voice to the frightening, freedom to the immense,
and song for the many.
To scattering the puzzle down
and letting what will, fly!
To faith enough to dive the unknown
in this very moment now.

To Courage enough to seize this moment and turn the knife without hesitation upon ones own heart.
To vulnerability and seeking surrendering with will.
To untying each knot,
both inside and out.
To letting it all go,
now with each breath.

To seeking new ways of understanding.
To understanding deeper understandings.
To finding opportunities of relinquishing your understandings.

To graces of Love and gestures
of opening that welcome your light.
To guides on our path
who move us with the Wind.

To unexpected masterpieces.
To reverence in unknown workings.

lets try an experiment...

Fri Nov 13, 2009, 4:40 PM
Lets try an experiment...
It seems to me, that the collection of fave's is a double sided sword.
Positively, it gives us the opportunity to feast ourselves upon a limiltess
bounty of ever changing deviations from all across the world. We can grab and
collect and consume and move on...

Whatever happened however to the reverential adoration of the 'one' piece of art.
One piece that, no matter how many times you look into it, offers more.
A piece that enchants and delights and challenges and leaves the viewer to so
much speculation, adoration, and contemplation.
Do these pieces exist anymore?

In my way of thinking, of course these pieces exist!
What has changed however, is our attitude towards them.
Perhaps the world is speeding up, and perhaps the frantic need to accumulate
is serving some unknown purpose.
Who knows.

What i do know however, is that we are immensely powerful human beings
who are akin to sleeping giants. Familiarity and ';popular' modes of communication
ie. emoticon happy faces and expressions such as 'thanks for the fave'
have now become meaningless.

What i propose is this...
Choose one piece of art that you believe has depth and resonance.
Favourite it, and comment on it every day for a week.
Really contemplate it...and explore it like its the great work of
one of the Masters in the National Mueseum.

Believe in the work, and offer the art real time.
And even if its not worthy of such attention,
recognize that you have pushed the
envelope just a little...

Are you up for the challenge?

  • Mood: Neutral
  • Listening to: trying to reconclie psychedelic trance.
  • Reading: 'the spell of the sensous' by david abram.
  • Watching: for signs upon my way...
  • Playing: with assumed unconscious autorities

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Comments


:iconknotty-inks:
wonderful gallery!

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..........................................................................magic happens........
:iconfarhadb:
thansk for the fave alex :salute:

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We're required to look at it!
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:iconrain2river66:
To healing!!!!!!!!!!!! I raise my glass to you! And to all the unforgiven, and all the blasted and blighted souls of the world. We are all Brothers and Sisters of the same Earth, and must do what we can to heal the injustices of the ignorant actions that have preceded us.

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Mild mannered Supermen are held in Kryptonite
and the wise and foolish virgins giggle with their bodies glowing bright
through the door a harvest beast is lit by candlelight
it's the bottom of a staircase
that spirals out of sight
:iconrain2river66:
:boogie:

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Mild mannered Supermen are held in Kryptonite
and the wise and foolish virgins giggle with their bodies glowing bright
through the door a harvest beast is lit by candlelight
it's the bottom of a staircase
that spirals out of sight
Hidden by Owner
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here's a direct transcript of an email sent from my dear friend and artist Chris Mulhearn.

HEY YOU FUCKIN SEXY BITCH, CHECK THIS OUT------THEO----JANSEN
STOP EVERYTHING...CHECK THIS MANBITCH..REINVENTING THE WHEEL!‏

[link]
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