deviantART: by:theseus

Just Dropped In To Take A look Around And Look In

~theseus — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:29:25 PST

The seven year itch must be hitting me because this summer that's how long I will have been a member of this website for.

I wish you all a happy new year for 2009.

The Season And The Turning

~theseus — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:22:42 PST

A couple of weeks ago a friend told me not to forget to set my clocks back one hour. I thought she was being funny because as everyone knows I am a Sidereal Astrologer and thatÂs the kind of thing you might expect me to say to you, but not necessarily vice versa.

I laughed: Are you joking?
She: What? No. DonÂt forget.
Me: But YouÂre wrongÂ
She: I am not wrongÂhow can I be wrong about a thing like that?
Me: Well you are wrong, because they changed it.
She: Oh yeah? What are we up to now?
Me: Up to nothing, really nothing, its been moved.
She: It has not! You are so full of it sometimes, everybody knows Spring forward Fall back and BACK is the last Sunday in October. So there!
Me: ItÂs the first Sunday in November nowÂ at 02AM thoughÂlike always. The crazy Americans did it, last year I think.
I could see the suspicion begin to dawn in her eyes as she struggled to remember something forgotten by never being fully known.
She: Really?
Me: Yeah.

She: Well you just cant drive.

And you know its true I just cant drive.

Returning Soon.

~theseus — Thu, 17 May 2007 22:32:38 PDT

When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of.........timeless_eternity.

Well I guess I am going to put some psychic juice back into reactivating my involvement with this inspired and totally insane place.

why?

If you are one of my old and neglected friends and have dropped bye to see how the flowers are growing on this grave, then it's because of you that I am returning soon.

Happy days!

Follow The Thinking Heart

Trying To Return

~theseus — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 19:37:09 PDT

When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of.........timeless_eternity.

I could give you all sorts of reasons for why I haven't been around much or at all for a long time.

The fact remains that the senior level crisis on this site had a deeply de-motivating impact on me as it did on a lot of other people.

I don't want to start a new discussion about those website wide events I am only giving an account of why I have not been around much.

Diminished as it is in scope and quantity there is still a lot that I enjoy here.

I will know I am back if and when I post new work.

Hello to my neglected friends.

Follow The Thinking Heart

Devious Journal Entry

~theseus — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 23:41:46 PST

The Hawk and the Dove.

~theseus — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 10:21:02 PDT

When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of.........timeless_eternity.

Mood: Calm Inside

What is the notion of "community?" in one way it is something ridiculous like "the greatest good of the greatest number" or some such other high faulting nonsense.
Down on the cyber ground of deviantArt it manages to carry some weight and that is part of the extraordinary exceptional nature of this place. We are all pioneers here pushing the frontiers of the possible in cyber space. If you stop and think there is a spiritual aspect to it. Oh don't get worried I am too sophisticated to believe in gods/ess with names and all that.

STILL

It's not like the physical world where I look into your eyes and you look into mine. Where we get to smell each other like the spiritual animals that we are and arrive at survival conclusions. No it's all on the fly it's all based on hunches and feelings about people.

I love you in cyberspace

This is partly what I love about it. But this is also the difficulty of cyber space. Yet in the weirdest way I do know who you are and can even love you. And oddly and wonderfully you talk to me like you know who I am. Isn't that wonderfull?

We all agree that the recognition
of co-founder °jark is a good first step by $spyed in the reunification of deviantArt inc. and the community.

A Celebration:

Journal:$spyed
[link]

Scott Likes It But Not Really

Scott has expressed his acceptance and even satisfaction at this gesture by Angelo, but it is still a qualified acceptance,apparently there are other issues that remain unresolved. A legal battle continues to rage behind the scenes. \

"illuminating Thy Monument":
Journal: co-founder °jark [link]

The optimists amongst us take this gesture of good will as a positive promise that the remaining problems can be worked
out to the adequate satisfaction of all concerned. I am not sure under tjhese circumstances that I am a real optomist. $lolly and
'justthorne acting as a diplomatic bridge are without doubt the facilitators of this turn away from the abyss of corrosion and attrition that has been undermining the very existence of this website and community for the last month.

But yah know who gives a f**k ?

I feel reassured by the new forthrightness that has been displayed by $spyed : it just goes to show that new skills can be learned and problems no matter how apparently intractable, can be faced and dealt with. I believe that Angelo can be congratulated by all of us for taking this first step towards a management style that works positively with the balance between deviantArt inc. and the community.

We have been promised by $lolly 'justthorne and $spyed that the contentious issue of the Submissions Agreement will be addressed this month.

litmus Test look it up.

From my point of view the Submissions Agreement will be the make or break issue for everyone. It has become perfectly clear over the last month that many people who reserve judgement about the goings on between °jark and $spyed still hold the strongest views about the Submissions Agreement.

My Lawyers are going to report within the first few days of next week. I will of course share their findings. I want you to know something about the quality of the lawyers I am using in this instance.

When the meter starts ticking it costs $800.00 an hour.

Enough said?

It is still in the nature of a crucial necessity that we go on educating ourselves and as many other members as we can reach about the meaning and implications of the Users Agreement. I think of the Users Agreement as the contractual and fin...

Book Of False Arguments

~theseus — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 17:48:00 PDT

When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of.........timeless_eternity.

Mood: Calm Inside

In my beginning
July 08 2002 I joined this community and simultaneously subscribed. This was after lurking around for about six months. That first summer and fall here was an absolute love affair. I was delighted with the deviantart community. Every-time I logged on I felt happy. Now I mostly feel sad. More and more great people keep withdrawing from this community. Yet the paradox is that by witnessing and participatipating in, the pro-jark and matteo, pro-community movement here, my own sense of engaged belonging is being restored. The ethical substance, intelligence and good will of some of the members I have become more aware of recently is truly heartening.

I am worldly wise enough to have known all along, that deviantArt inc would need to flourish as a fair and equitable business, in an atmosphere of justice and trust, where an authentic art community and honest commerce could thrive.

Realisation and Well-Being
I have realised that one of my motivations for writing these recent journals about the 'situation' is to make a record, however inadequate, of these events, both for myself and to help others to gain an overview of the meaning of what is actually going on.
It is important that we go on discussing these issues. Every conscious voice is valuable. I carefully read what each serious Journal writer has to say and the comments too, because this is an effective way to gain a balanced understanding of what is going on. It is also a way of keeping the big picture in perspective even as we become engaged in the details.

I have no desire whatsoever to cause trouble but I am troubled. I have always been suspicious of the Submissions Agreement, but it was the unexplained firing of co-founder °jark and the disrespect for °matteo brought a real feeling of trouble into my meagre life in this art community.
It turn out that °matteo was pushed out months ago by °jark at the instigation of $spyed. There must be a revealing story there.

Earlier this year I stood in deaths doorway and underwent radical emergency surgery, which is why I had not been here much, except to log on and look around. I could not even find the motivation or energy to let my friends here know what was going on. But there was more to my absence than that, there was a deeper more intuitive sense of disquiet, a sense that there was something not quite right or wholesome going on in the background. That feeling of intuitive disquiet had been there for quite some time. On the surface that sense of increasing alienation was being confirmed, by the growing numbers of truly great artists and deviants who kept leaving.

And then last December the peculiar and disturbing journal: [link]
by +mkinne that raises the question of how we would all feel if °jark was no longer with us.That journal really caught my attention, and I commented on it, obviously in a very pro°jark way. That journal has accumulated nearly a thousand responses, one of which comes from $spyed [link]
+mkinne's latest journal: [link]
Of course this confirmed my feeling. that all was not well.

In times of crisis new leaders emerge

One of the problems with a controversy of the type that has developed here since the pre-emptive firing of jark°jark is that it takes on a life of its own. This process is both natural and dangerous.
°jark's demotion has produced an inevitable crisis in trust. This in turn has called the Submissions Agreement into renewed question. This too is natural, after all the TOS/SA on this website is a one sided abomination.

Many more people are aware of this now. Yes indeed aware, aware to the point where $lolly recently announced that$spyed 'justtho...

The Founders War. (update)

~theseus — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 19:36:28 PDT

When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of.........timeless_eternity.

Mood: Calm Inside

This From The Weekly Report By $lolly

The User Agreement
"In the very near future we will be addressing this point by point with the assistance of the senior community and specifically represented by'justthorne We know this subject is very important to you. We feel these discussions will help to lead to clarification of this agreement and if it is deemed necessary modifications considered necessary will be made to help further benefit you as a community. So please, take a minute to go say thanks to'justthorne for having the patience and dedication to follow this through to this level."
[link]

This just announced by 'justthorne
[link]
First and foremost, here's the most important thought right now. If you want a message to spread, paste this:

When someone puts their best foot forward, do not stomp on it.

Let's use Angelo as an example. Let's say, theoretically, he wants to announce something really fantastic and positive. He's in a position now where he knows he'll be yelled at for it.

We would not consider this ideal.

So here's a train of thought to consider very carefully:

When the threat
Of outrage and suspicion
Creates a counter-incentive
To announcing progress,
Then outrage and suspicion
Have become self-defeating.

We really need to absorb this, if we're to create the least resistance to progress.

When someone puts their best foot forward, do not stomp on it.

Second, $lolly
caught me flat-footed last night, not with his news, but by announcing it.

People are already asking me, is that real progress, or just more smokescreen?

Let me promise you, it is absolutely the progress we want. We couldn't ask for better, within any near-term timeframe.

Despite the logistic hassles of overhauling the Agreement, despite the costs of overhauling the Agreement, despite any inertia that would rather the Agreement stayed the same...

We are being given our shot to make it the best it can be.

It's a project that $lolly and I will be leading, with input from all concerns, and we've got a strategy plan that will launch in about ten days (once I've caught my breath, basically).

Here's an attitude that's been heard and embraced by the powers that be.

It's not that either side is going to win this battle,

It's that we're all going to win by cooperation.

Third, some are already asking me, but what about everything else we've been asking for?

Let me admit that we've shot for the moon in our position, and I've never expected our entire wishlist to come true.

Rather, we've pressed a case for community healing and the need to trust the business that runs this place.

On trust, the Agreement project is exactly the most important step.

I think at least one other plank is going to make more gradual progress, but on its own timetable, and our point has been made.

On healing, we're still working. My hope is that by this weekend, we're either going to get something good, or something great.

No, don't expect Scott °jark to get his job back, but I'm hopeful for a much better resolution than we've had to date. One that allows our community to move on, and feel that all parties, top to bottom, have done the best we could do.

Fourth, in case it's not obvious, you have put me in a fantastic position to jockey for progress.

I mean, I obviously hope to be a pretty fair, sensible, and cooperatively imaginative guy, who cares a lot about this community, and the values we represent.

You have put me in a position to go behind the scenes and represent all of you who are fair, sensible, cooperative, and all of you who care about this community and know that all of us, top-to-bottom, can do better.

I can't report more until this weekend, but we are being listened to. We are ma...

What Value Art Now?

~theseus — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 05:09:30 PDT

When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of.........timeless_eternity.

Mood: Calm Inside

YOUR ART IS THE CORPORATIONS MONEY

What is the value and meaning of Art?

A vexed and complex question indeed, but in the context of discussing this current crisis we can say that there are two primary definitions of Art.

(1)The Artists definition of Art:

The Artists definition of the value and meaning of Art can be simply summed up in the statement; Art is whatever the Artist thinks it is and its value is inherent in its very creation, in whatever way or form.
Artists seek recognition of the meaning and intent of their work, from other Artists and the public at large.
This process of creative recognition can alter the meaning of an Artists work.

(2) The corporate and collectors definition of Art.
Art is a transferable object and has whatever meaning the market chooses to give to it.
The value of Art is at all times determined by how much an individual, corporation or public institution is willing to pay for it.
The purpose of Art is to add value and produce profit.

=newepoch has something insightful to add to this:[link]

Balance is everything

These two distinct definitions of Art are not irreconcilable.
Artists should make money, truly committed and talented Artists should be able to do art full time and make a good living at it.
In these times this can partly or wholly mean promoting ones art on websites like this one.
But this would also mean a mutually fair and equitable agreement between the Website/Corporation and the Artist.

Now look at these two sections from the revised and current deviantART submissions agreement:

Now isn't this a source of worry?

"In the event that we have sublicensed your materials to another website, it is your responsibility to have your materials removed from that website and you will not hold us responsible or liable if the other website refuses to remove your materials."

The Artists worry compounded in the extreme by this!
Section 3.5
"Artist hereby disclaims any and all right, title, or interest in any and all material with which Artist Materials may be combined or into which all or any portion of Artist Materials may be incorporated. As used in this Agreement, the term "Artist Materials" means Artist's name(s) (including professional names), trademarks, trade names, likenesses, photographs, biographical materials, artwork, liner notes, and other graphical or textual materials that Artist uploads to deviantART, and any and all "skins," computer-generated images or other artwork or images that Artist submits to deviantART."

Hardly fair and equitable; It is obvious that deviantART already adheres in a totally one sided way to the corporate and collectors definition of Art as defined in number (2) above.

I like so many others have extended this egregious degree of trust to deviantART based solely upon my faith that deviantART is a good and trustworthy organisation and community.

But in the light or should I say murk of recent events, that degree of trust seems unwise in the extreme. This naturally leads me to the following proposal for how the submissions agreement may be revised to the benefit of Artists.

revised submissions agreement: rough draft

deviantArt will seek specific and written permission from the Artist for every instance of the use of the artists work outside the website here called deviantArt.
[I see the need for a flexible third party clause for promotion purposes, but the existing third party clause is way too open-ended]
The Artist will in every case be free to refuse such permission without penalty.

In the event of the Artists agreement to a financial transaction involving the Artist deviantArt and any third party the Artist will be offered a financial reward commensurate with the said transaction
to be agreed upon in each instance by the Artist or the Artists Agent and deviantArt.

The Artist may employ deviantArt as an agent at a commission to be negotiated by the Artist or the Artists Agent and deviantART, for a term to be agreed upon.

Justice is essentia...

Who can this help? Who can this harm? Why now?

~theseus — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 02:32:50 PDT
When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of.........timeless_eternity.

Mood: Calm Inside

Who can this help? Who can this harm? Why now?

The latest most revealing Journal is:
Greed and Avarice at deviantART
By: nsfbr
Journal Entry: Mon Aug 8, 2005, 5:06 PM
[link]

The Phantom Menace by 'justhorne is essential reading.
[link]
And Just for the record:

Things are moving very quickly now as this devart crisis comes to a head.

Right from the first moment of jarks demotion we have all been searching for the truth.

There are quite a few people of the play-it-safe 'pragmatic' 'neutral' variety, who either have not been paying attention, or are simply hedging their bets in the vain belief that it is always best to end up on the side that is 'winning'.
Even if it means being unjustly exploited.

Then there are all the people who claim to be "apolitical" as if such a state of mind can ever really exist.

But then many shallow people manage to go through life without ever actually looking into themselves. I must say I have never met an actual original artist in this state of self-induced unconsciousness.

Still freedom is the freedom to say "yes" "no" or "maybe" and to change ones mind in the light of further thought or new information.

It is absolutely imperative that no member of this community attack any admin or senior member regardless of where they may stand at any given moment in this unfolding crisis.

We absolutely do not want an "us or them" mentality to take hold, because some admins and senior members may well be changing their minds right around now.

Some members of this community have expressed their outrage in the crudest most violent and immature terms.
I say "some" because the majority of the protest that I have seen, is a civil and justified demand for the truth. But then some people really are angry.

What it comes down to is this: If jark and matteo can be treated in this unjust manner then so can any member of this community.

But still we should all be extremely wary of that minority of ill-willed deviants who are attempting to fan the flames of all-out-war.
These war mongers do not "love the community" in all probability such people do not love anything or anyone.

It is possible that there is a dark conspiracy led by Angelo to steal devart from jark and matteo.

A mounting body of evidence both direct and inferential point directly to this possibility/probability.
It is also possible that there are admins and senior members in on the conspiracy, but how can anyone
really tell 'who is who' at this point? There may be admits and senior members who are simply in the dark as so many of them repeatedly maintain, in the face of persistent flaming.

There have been several "leaks" some of them authenticated and thus believable and all of them
damning evidence against Angelo: $spyed.

Isn't it peculiar in the extreme that no leak that I have thus far seen produces any kind of justification for why jark was so abruptly terminated as an admin
of his own website?

In the "battle of the leaks", there must be leak and counter leak but thus far no counter leak.

Something tells me that $spied and his 'inner circle' did not anticipate this tidal wave of support for jark and matteo.

Of course it may come down to something as petty as $pied and his 'inner circle' harbouring an extreme personal dislike for jark and matteo; as this particular leak reveals: [link]
I'm not sure that this explanation would be Machiavellian enough for some of our more imaginative deviants.

Jark by authenticating a particular leaked email has openly accused $spyed of attempting to steal devart from himself and matteo. [link]

We all know how serious unfounded liable and character assassination can become in an American court room.

Unless Angelo: $pyed has a veritable atomic bomb of damning evidence to drop on jarks case, then he should send the best diplomat-lawyer he can find to negotiate a speedy out-of-court settlement.
This should already be going on behind the scenes before any mor...

$spyed's not so secret plan.

~theseus — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 17:04:36 PDT
When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of.........timeless_eternity.

Mood: Calm Inside

The ouster of jark: [link]
and matteo: [link]
happened for a really specific reason.

It is obvious that no one can sell a
"free community"
but you can sell a commodity.

scaling the deviants:
[link]
$spyed: journal: Scaling the deviants part deux.
[link]

The central theme of $spyed's: [link] plan
is to commodify DeviantArtists
to the point were it becomes a saleable corporation.
It is even possible that he has sold it already
with the condition for the sale to become final
that he deliver a completely commercialized entity.

Obviously neither $jark: [link]
or $matteo: [link]
would ever agree to such a thing.

$spyed's problem is even worse which is why he wont level with us.
a response:journal: [link]

If too many people catch on to what he is really up to before it becomes a 'fact on the ground' then it will become extremely difficult to carry out.
All the talk in his journals about 'scaling' and 'group leaders' is a market test to see if the popular deviants will buy into a totally commercialized devart.

I think a lot them might for two simple reasons:
artists often have huge egos and it must irk some of them to be lumped in with so many 'stick drawing wannabees'.

The other reason is money and power pure and simple, nothing wrong with the money part of that as we all know most artists struggle every day just to put food on the table.

By making the popular deviants "group leaders"
it will give them the illusion of control, but I am willing to bet that there is going to be a lot of fancy legal foot work in that "group leader agreement".
I would also further suggest that there will be a
non-competition clause combined with a copyright lock-in.

There is nothing inherently wrong with this business plan as such,
provided all parties fully understand what they are getting into.

But it is wrong to deviously usurp the entierly different vision of Jark Matteo and their thousands of co-visionaries.
On good days I too like to think that I share in the devart vision.

Financial adminstrative and bandwith issues nevertheless remain.
I believe perhaps naively that these issues can be addressed and solved by the dedicated and intelligent community motivated members of this extraordinary websit.

I have been reading the recent journals of jark and I can see a way forward for all of us both in the changes he is exploring and in his ethical motivation for those changes.
[link]

What ever changes are made in the future must come about out in the open light of this community where everyone can see them.

In the absence of a clear response from $spyed
this is the only scenario that makes sense to me,
If I am wrong I would really like to be shown how and why.
additional important links.
jark spin the yellow saucer:
[link]
DevDeepThroat:
[link]
matteo email.
[link]
matteo and jark in the beginning:
[link]
bookdiva:
[link]
arc:
[link]
DeviantART/DA-Links:
xybre:
[link]
onestar:
[link]
justthorne:
[link]
krash:
a day of yellow august 07 2005:

Stab Jark in the Back.

~theseus — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 11:07:51 PDT
When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of.........TIMELESS-ETERNITY.

Mood: Calm Inside
Listening to: Land Of Justice

The whole of this website is in community thraldom over the ouster of $jark [link]
and [link]
$mateo two of the much beloved founders of this deviantartists.

I am recovering from a serious illness and surgery
combined with over work and a lot of pressure which
is why I have not been around much of late.
I still love all my devart friends even though I have not beeen able to come out to play.

But I cannot sit still for this treachery and betrayal
of the founders of this once amazing community and artsite.

I had been 'lurking' for about six months before I joined and simultaneously subscribed on July 08 2002.
You know that devart won the webby award (now defunct) in the summer of 2002.

I have always supported this website, they can have my personal money and the money I spend to give a member subscription status to other members.

The summer and autumn of 2002 was an inspiring and heady time for me as I became linked to a wonderful community of creative and highly individualized people, deviants in the best sense of the word.
Unfortunately most of them have left and try as I may I am unable to get some of my favourite people to come back.
The thing that kept me comming back was thepalpable sense of "community".
What a rare and precious thing it is!

I put both $jark: [link] and $mateo: [link]
on my devwatch pretty quickly and put other admins in my private favourites list just to keep a watch on/over them.

So many of those admins have left. What does that mean?
There is [link] spyed, now what questions may he be made to answer?

When you watch people with a vision and passion
namely $jark: [link] and $mateo: [link]
it enlivens your life force it inspires you and uplifts you. all the more so, in these all too dark times where negative forces run amok.

We absolutely must not tolerate this subversion of our art website.

Apparently $spyed is the CEO of DevArt none of this could have happened without his consent and authorisation .
You think you are fooling us?
No you are just fooling yourselves!
[link] $pyed

This is all extremely disturbing.
Why would any ethical individual
give their support to an organisation
that stabs its founders in the back?

my emai is ablair0519(@)rogers.com

I would like to be in touch with you and anyone

else willing to help $jark: [link]
and $mateo: [link]
build a new art community in line with the
true original Founders vision of DeviantArtists.

If $jark and $mateo decide to start a new art website
it will have extensive financial and artistic support.

And also dont miss this because it is valuable:
justthorne:
[link]

I will be adding other important links throughout the day.

Follow The Thinking Heart Like $mateo and $jark

Blue Afternoon

~theseus — Tue, 23 Nov 2004 22:10:34 PST
When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of.........TIMELESS-ETERNITY.

Mood: Calm Inside
Listening to: Land Of Justice
Reading: Dreamweaver mx2004 The Missing Manual.
Watching: Twelve Monkeys

The problems all the problems with the problems causing problems talking problems analyzing problems and finding more problems to add to the problem of the problems. Drag down dead weight bad energy toxic atmosphere soul destroying negative self indulgent perverse evil minded cynical death talking grave worshiping death wishing spinner of ever more problems.

The ATM machine doesnt work and thats a real problem the broken tooth aches and thats a real problem the infant has gas crying out in pain, now thats a real problem. The streets are full of the homeless and broken now thats a real problem.

Look here there is no center filled with artificial problems the silent mind knows nothing of psychological problems. There is immense space calm vibrant tender volatile unpredictable restless fierce creative and free. This self is no self enclosed entity. This Self is awareness space pure and simply complex where the world and all its beings light up in presence here now always here now. Living fresh undiscovered feeling felt once lasting forever and gone in a time stretch moment leaving no trace or call me back message. Passion indescribable moves where my heart breaks always for the first time and the raw stroke of gratitude profound heals in an instant. And too is gone and too is gone free gone into absolute releasement. Here now and I we-am.

The afternoon skies clean as the dawn of light blue with white clouds. And there the vicious vulture seagull soars high and away I am this seagull. And the traffic noise is the unbidden machine music and cacophony of the dying world its roar lost in this silent welling up more deeply silent mind.

And the faces peeling masks that flutter and sweep away where the wind is rustling through everything the crowd, their pain and torpor dull oppressed and sullen averting their darting eyes or staring with the glare of daemons there sudden a beam of light in a face shinning in instant we-awareness and the bleeding fracture of the world is for an instant healed and made whole gathered in time and affirmed in original spontaneous spoken unspoken love.

Look I am the whole afternoon and everything in it this child gives a startled look of joy holding my eyes in wonder and throwing its arms out for my embrace while a hearse drives by. The mature child now sees me see the hearse and is looking at it with me.

What about dying here where will I go to what will I come from there is no dying of I this organism heart stop fall down fall off like a shoe while dancing. And the I too am falling up spreading out to fill the sky and dying here-there at the end of a perception of oneness. I am formless.

Immeasurable real and objective here now is all life is all movement is all a vast giving of the great breath breathing life out and inbreathing life in. Form is in love with formlessness and formlessness is in love with form.

COPYRIGHT © A. BLAIR-EWART.

Follow The Thinking Heart

THE PAGAN CHRIST AND A BAD MOVIE

~theseus — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 02:39:14 PDT
When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of.........TIMELESS-ETERNITY.

The vortex of controversy over Mel Gibsons The Passion has all but stopped spinning. But now the DVD of The Passion is being launched on Tuesday August the 31st perhaps people can start quarrelling about it again. On sober reflection one wonders what all the fuss was actually about.
And are people really going to go on arguing about this mediocre movie?

As a movie, it is average, the kind of thing you might watch on the
Space Channel late at night when there is nothing else on with an alternative reality or Science Fiction theme.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel, Stigmata, and a host of other T.V. Series and Movies make a much better job of dramatizing the complexity and depth of the struggle between good and evil.

Clearly, Movies, T.V. Series and Websites that address the struggle between good and evil, and the nature of the paranormal, represent part of an electronic cyber religious or mystery school culture that has been emerging for years.

Because The Passion is supposed to make visible what is in the
Christian New Testament and in particular the last twelve hours of
Jesus Christs pre-resurrection life, we are expected to afford this
movie special consideration. Apparently millions of people have been
moved in some deep and peculiarly religious way by The Passion.

Obviously its a case of cultural conditioning. We latter day post
Christian Westerners, whether practicing true believers or secularists
living in Arnold Toynbees afterglow of Christianity, are almost
genetically predisposed to react to the Gospel narrative.It is a bizarre and troubling theological narrative. Even as a devout Christian child I had a lot of problems with the notion that some entirely innocent long ago Son of God had died for all the evil in the world, past present and future. I learned all about the Man of Sorrows who must bear the sin and pain inherent in mankinds rejection of His eternal sacrifice and gift of eternal life".

I felt spiritually compromised and undermined by the whole
arrangement. I intuited that there was something deeply wrong with
the whole He died for your sins thing, but it was only later in my
teens that I became capable of thinking really clearly about it.

Yet as a child Christ was definitely in my heart and in my life. The awareness that an undying flame of spiritual being animates the core of every truly human being has never left me.
In fact this conviction has grown deeper, clearer and more intensely present, as my all too strange and uncommonly blessed spiritual life has unfolded.

What kind of individual would accept the literalist Jesus arrangement of vicarious atonement:
(He died for your sins) without a feeling of profound spiritual shame? That may in fact be the whole point: to make people feel ashamed spiritually and make them vulnerable to control by the priests of organized religion.

Many years ago I ran across a brilliant short story by Ursula LeGuin
that highlights the he died for your sins clause called:
The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas. It is from her book of stories: The Winds Twelve Quarters. Harper & Row 1975, Bantam 1976:
[link]
In this story, we meet the people of Omelas on a bright sunny festive
day in summer. Everyone in the city of Omelas is happy, prosperous
and well.

Many people are culturally and intellectually gifted. Visitors admire the
talent of the citizens and the beauty of their city. Omelas is a veritable
garden of innocent earthly delights.

Yet behind this world of joy lurks a dark and terrible arrangement with a supernatural force.

In a dirty closet in a deep cellar an innocent child subsists in the most abject neglect and misery. It is the suffering of this single innocent child that makes the whole wonder and joy of Omelas possible.

All the children of Omelas are introduced to the knowledge of the
innocent sacrifice in the closet in the cellar when they are between
ten and twelve years old. This is when the children learn the terms of
the arrangement without which all the beauty and splendor of Omelas
would wither and die. The children are made to understand that not
even a kind word may be spoken to that solitary child sacrifice.

Naturally the children are horrified, enraged, grief stricken. They rail
against t...

I am still here

~theseus — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 17:39:57 PDT
When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again.
It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of.........TIMELESS-ETERNITY.

I have been absorbed by many things for over a year.
And I am still as busy as can be.

The Canadian winter broke my left arm back in February.
Ended up with a swatch of paper C-clamped to the edge
of the table so I could keep on writing.

I find myself dropping into this site to look at my Devwatch.
I am really glad that I built my Devwatch up when I had the time
because now when I start to browse in the regular pages
I find myself giving up pretty fast.

Though I do love to browse, I find that a good though not always
perfect way to catch up on good new artists that I have missed
is to check out the devwatches of my existing list of great artists.
Duh?

I am on a deadline for a book that has to be in this fall
and I have been getting into a bit of webdesign and stealing
time to have fun with ps7.

These are indeed the
Dog Days of Summer.

Follow The Thinking Heart

Devious Journal Entry

~theseus — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 15:05:22 PDT
When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again.
It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of.........TIMELESS-ETERNITY.

When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again.
It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of.........TIMELESS-ETERNITY.

I have been absorbed by many things for over a year.
And I am still as busy as can be.

The Canadian winter broke my left arm back in February.
Ended up with a swatch of paper C-clamped to the edge
of the table so I could keep on writing.

I find myself dropping into this site to look at my Devwatch.
I am really glad that I built my Devwatch up when I had the time
because now when I start to browse in the regular pages
I find myself giving up pretty fast.

Though I do love to browse, I find that a good though not always
perfect way to catch up on good new artists that I have missed
is to check out the devwatches of my existing list of great artists.
Duh?

I am on a deadline for a book that has to be in this fall
and I have been getting into a bit of webdesign and stealing
time to have fun with ps7.

These are indeed the Dog Days of Summer.

Follow The Thinking Heart

Follow The Thinking Heart

Devious Journal Entry

~theseus — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 15:01:27 PDT
When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again.
It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of.........TIMELESS-ETERNITY.

Follow The Thinking Heart

I Am Still Here

~theseus — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 15:07:01 PDT
When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again.
It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of.........TIMELESS-ETERNITY.

I have been absorbed by many things for over a year.
And I am still as busy as can be.

The Canadian winter broke my left arm back in February.
Ended up with a swatch of paper C-clamped to the edge
of the table so I could keep on writing.

I find myself dropping into this site to look at my Devwatch.
I am really glad that I built my Devwatch up when I had the time
because now when I start to browse in the regular pages
I find myself giving up pretty fast.

Though I do love to browse, I find that a good though not always
perfect way to catch up on good new artists that I have missed
is to check out the devwatches of my existing list of great artists.
Duh?

I am on a deadline for a book that has to be in this fall
and I have been getting into a bit of webdesign and stealing
time to have fun with ps7.

These are indeed the Dog Days of Summer.

Follow The Thinking Heart

Devious Journal Entry

~theseus — Tue, 17 Jun 2003 23:07:24 PDT
When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again.
It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of.........TIMELESS-ETERNITY.

I have been totally absorbed
by a superhuman work load
and family matters for months..
And missing my time and friends
on devart really really a lot.

So much of what I have been
doing is working on a website
for seriously interested and
emancipated spiritual people.

The url is at the top of this page.

Looking forward to getting out
there on your pages to comment
and posting some of my own efforts.

So as you see the rumors of my death
are greatly exaggerated.

Devious Journal Entry

~theseus — Thu, 13 Mar 2003 15:52:44 PST
When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again.
It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of.........TIMELESS-ETERNITY.

Devious Journal Entry

~theseus — Mon, 06 Jan 2003 22:55:38 PST
When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again.
It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of.........TIMELESS-ETERNITY.

I am alive
I am here
some of the time every day.

I strive to live in Love
I strive to live in Wisdom
I strive to live in Freedom

These three awareness states
take no effort beyond the simple
fact of being actually present now.

Devious Journal Entry

~theseus — Sun, 29 Dec 2002 20:56:33 PST
When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of.........TIMELESS-ETERNITY.

At 05Hours and 04Minutes am Universal Time
on the 4th of January 2003 this Earth reaches its
(Perihelion) closest point to the Sun.
This is the actual moment of the new year.
Just thought you might like to know.

Devious Journal Entry

~theseus — Sun, 29 Dec 2002 19:28:21 PST
When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of.........TIMELESS-ETERNITY.

At 05Hours and 04Minutes am Universal Time
on the 4th of January 2003 this Earth reaches its
(Perehelion) closest point to the Sun. This is the actual
moment of the new year.
Just thought you might like to know.

Devious Journal Entry

~theseus — Wed, 18 Dec 2002 03:55:21 PST
When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of.........TIMELESS-ETERNITY.

Being a man of the north I love this time of year.
Throughout the whole northern hemisphere we are being plunged into the long dark night of midwinter. Since ancient time immemorial this season has had profound spiritual meaning. It is the step into darkness and the void, that place where we are thrown back upon our innermost qualities of being and the truth of our relationships.
At the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere we enter the longest night of the year and a cycle of life in time ends. Three days later the increase of new light becomes perceptible. In ancient Egypt the divine boy child Horus is born to Osiris and Isis at the winter solstice. Horus is the Son of the Sun the initiator of a new cycle of light and life. Interestingly Horus is the result of an immaculate conception in that his father is in heaven or the spiritual world when he is conceived. Even a cursory examination of the Osiris Isis Horus myth proves beyond a shadow doubt that what we call Christmas and Christianity originated in ancient Egypt.
All over the ancient Keltic, Nordic, Greek and Hindu world of Europe, Russia and India we find the same tradition. Christmas is a wonderful universal ancient Pagan tradition. At midwinter, the Son of the Sun is born. It is very good news it is cause for celebrations and joy it is the happiest time of the year. The messiah is born and what makes him the messiah is that he brings the divine order of a new cosmos out of the chaos of darkness. And this annual restoration of cosmos out of dark chaos is a cosmic and solar rhythm the beating of the heart of the spiritual Sun. The threefold spiritual Sun the Logos in ancient Egypt is called by several names Atum Ra, Atum-Ra-Ausar (Osiris). The Logos is universally understood to be the threefold creative ordering and presencing manifestation of the Spiritual Sun. Horus, Jesus and all the other divine incarnations of the spiritual Sun are the messiah. But where is this divine child really born. In Egypt Horus is born secretly in the rushes of the Nile River Delta where his mother Isis is hiding from Seth the lord of chaos and darkness who is seeking to murder Horus. In Christianity the divine child Jesus is born in an animal stable hiding from the dark Herod who seeks to murder him. Other divine incarnations are born in caves. The meaning of these humble birthplaces is that the divine child the Logos the spiritual Sun is born in the human heart.
AS WE USED TO SAY
IN ANCIENT EGYPT:
FOLLOW THE HEART

Here comes the Winter Solstice on Saturday December 21 2002 at 08h 16m pm EST in Toronto. And 05h 16m pm PST. Which is also 01h 16m GMT on the 22nd in London.

Devious Journal Entry

~theseus — Mon, 16 Dec 2002 09:10:13 PST
When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of.........TIMELESS-ETERNITY.

Here comes the Winter Solstice on Saturday December 21 2002 at 08h 16m pm EST in Toronto. And 05h 16m pm PST. Which is also 01h 16m GMT on the 22nd in London.
Throughout the whole northern hemisphere we are being plunged into the long dark night of midwinter. Since ancient time immemorial this season has had profound spiritual meaning. It is the step into darkness and the void, that place where we are thrown back upon our innermost qualities of being and the truth of our relationships.
At the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere we enter the longest night of the year and a cycle of life in time ends. Three days later the increase of new light becomes perceptible. In ancient Egypt the divine boy child Horus is born to Osiris and Isis at the winter solstice. Horus is the Son of the Sun the initiator of a new cycle of light and life. Interestingly Horus is the result of an immaculate conception in that his father is in heaven or the spiritual world when he is conceived. Even a cursory examination of the Osiris Isis Horus myth proves beyond a shadow doubt that what we call Christmas and Christianity originated in ancient Egypt.

Devious Journal Entry

~theseus — Fri, 06 Dec 2002 02:15:21 PST
When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of.........TIMELESS-ETERNITY.

Devious Journal Entry

~theseus — Thu, 28 Nov 2002 01:18:47 PST
When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of.........TIMELESS-ETERNITY.

Devious Journal Entry

~theseus — Thu, 28 Nov 2002 01:15:56 PST
When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of.........TIMELESS-ETERNITY.

Peace and Blessings. Follow the Heart.

Devious Journal Entry

~theseus — Thu, 28 Nov 2002 01:06:23 PST
When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of..........

Peace and Blessings. Follow the Heart.

Devious Journal Entry

~theseus — Wed, 20 Nov 2002 23:55:31 PST
When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of..........

I am alive, well, living in Akashic Fields....
In meditation vast silence enters in and
I can hear what the Voice Of The Silence
says in deep-awakened-we-awareness
I am connected to all of life.
My world is small. My world is vast.
I am mortal. I am eternal. I love.

NEW WEBSITE:
WORKING IN IT
EVERY
DAY AND NIGHT

TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE
.
AS THE SUN BEGINS TO GROW
PALE IN THE SKYS OF AUTUMN
IT MUST RISE PASSIONATE
FILLED WITH ARDENT LIFE
WITHIN THE GLOWING HEART

I do not believe in a God/ess with a name.

Peace and Blessings. Follow the Heart.

Devious Journal Entry

~theseus — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 02:41:35 PST
When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of..........

I really must put a new picture up...
I am alive, well, living in Akashic Fields....
In meditation vast silence enters in and
I can hear what the Voice Of The Silence
says in deep-awakened-we-awareness
I am connected to all of life.
My world is small. My world is vast.
I am mortal. I am eternal. I love.

NEW WEBSITE:
WORKING IN IT
EVERY
DAY AND NIGHT
ARE ANY DEVIANTS
EXPERT ASP CODERS?

TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE
.
AS THE SUN BEGINS TO GROW
PALE IN THE SKYS OF AUTUMN
IT MUST RISE PASSIONATE
FILLED WITH ARDENT LIFE
WITHIN THE GLOWING HEART

I do not believe in a God/ess with a name.

Peace and Blessings. Follow the Heart.

Devious Journal Entry

~theseus — Fri, 08 Nov 2002 00:39:07 PST
When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of..........

Thanks to all my good friends for
bothering to take any notice of me
at all, during this time when my ability
to communicate, is so ....you know?

NEW WEBSITE
A WONDERFUL NEVER ENDING
CREATIVE MENTAL CHALLENGE

TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE
.
AS THE SUN BEGINS TO GROW
PALE IN THE SKYS OF AUTUMN
IT MUST RISE PASSIONATE
FILLED WITH ARDENT LIFE
WITHIN THE GLOWING HEART

I do not believe in a God/ess with a name.

Peace and Blessings. Follow the Heart.

Devious Journal Entry

~theseus — Sun, 03 Nov 2002 02:15:57 PST
When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of..........

NEW WEBSITE
A WONDERFUL NEVER ENDING
CREATIVE MENTAL CHALLENGE

TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE
.
AS THE SUN BEGINS TO GROW
PALE IN THE SKYS OF AUTUMN
IT MUST RISE PASSIONATE
FILLED WITH ARDENT LIFE
WITHIN THE GLOWING HEART

I do not believe in a God/ess with a name.

Peace and Blessings. Follow the Heart.

Devious Journal Entry

~theseus — Fri, 01 Nov 2002 22:05:15 PST
When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of..........

NEW WEBSITE
A WONDERFUL NEVER ENDING
CREATIVE MENTAL CHALLANGE

TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE
.
AS THE SUN BEGINS TO GROW
PALE IN THE SKYS OF AUTUMN
IT MUST RISE PASSIONATE
FILLED WITH ARDENT LIFE
WITHIN THE GLOWING HEART

I do not believe in a God/ess with a name.

Peace and Blessings. Follow the Heart.

Devious Journal Entry

~theseus — Fri, 01 Nov 2002 12:37:32 PST
When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of..........

NEW WEBSITE
IT IS A WONDERFUL NEVER ENDING
CREATIVE MENTAL CHALLANGE

TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE
.
AS THE SUN BEGINS TO GROW
PALE IN THE SKYS OF AUTUMN
IT MUST RISE PASSIONATE
FILLED WITH ARDENT LIFE
WITHIN THE GLOWING HEART

I do not believe in a God/ess with a name.

Peace and Blessings. Follow the Heart.

Devious Journal Entry

~theseus — Sat, 19 Oct 2002 00:03:57 PDT
When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of..........

NEW WEBSITE
NEW THOUGHTS
NEW FEELINGS
NEW ACTIONS
NEW CREATIVE LIFE

TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE
.
AS THE SUN BEGINS TO GROW
PALE IN THE SKYS OF AUTUMN
IT MUST RISE
FILLED WITH ARDENT LIFE
WITHIN THE GLOWING HEART

I do not believe in a God/ess with a name.

Peace and Blessings. Follow the Heart.

Devious Journal Entry

~theseus — Fri, 18 Oct 2002 23:54:11 PDT
When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of..........

NEW THOUGHTS
NEW FEELINGS
NEW ACTIONS
NEW CREATIVE LIFE

TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE
.
AS THE SUN BEGINS TO GROW
PALE IN THE SKYS OF AUTUMN
IT MUST RISE
FILLED WITH ARDENT LIFE
WITHIN THE GLOWING HEART

I do not believe in a God/ess with a name.

Peace and Blessings. Follow the Heart.

Devious Journal Entry

~theseus — Tue, 08 Oct 2002 12:56:47 PDT
When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of..........

I AM BACK.
STILL BUSY BUT
YOU MY FRIENDS WILL
READ MY COMMENTS SOON

TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE
.
IT IS A WONDERFUL LIFE

I do not believe in a God/ess with a name.

Peace and Blessings. Follow the Heart.

Devious Journal Entry

~theseus — Fri, 04 Oct 2002 23:14:04 PDT
When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of..........

TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE.
.
I am not around as much as I would
like to be these days up to my eyebrows
in a lot of work that I love to be doing.
Catching up as much as I can untilllll......
Website is almost up up up
.
I do not believe in a God/ess with a name.

Peace and Blessings. Follow the Heart.

Devious Journal Entry

~theseus — Fri, 27 Sep 2002 17:32:06 PDT
When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of..........

TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE.
.
I am working really hard on my website
and I love it.............I am avoiding Flash.
I am writing a book and my editor likes it!

My meditation is getting deeper and deeper
and deeper and deeper and deeper.
And it is all true we are beings of
Eternal Light
In Love In Wisdom In Freedom
.
I do not believe in a God/ess with a name.

Peace and Blessings. Follow the Heart.

Devious Journal Entry

~theseus — Mon, 16 Sep 2002 12:51:17 PDT
When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of..........

TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE.

New work comming.
New website almost up and running.
Thanks to all you great people who
continue to surprise and delight me.

Nudity Eroticism and
Pornography in Art continues
At Journal entry: Thu Sep 05 2002
with 14 entries so far.
.
I do not believe in a God/ess with a name.

Peace and Blessings. Follow the Heart.

Devious Journal Entry

~theseus — Thu, 05 Sep 2002 02:37:52 PDT
When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of..........

TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE.

Of late the subject of Nudity and Eroticism in Art has been on my mind. What makes one piece of work mere "Soft Pornography" (which I am against) and another Art (which I am for) is of deep interest to many people.
There is a larger Cultural and even Political issue here.
There is a widespread tendency to merge these two things and to use one to justify the other.

I am working on a piece of writing copiously illustrated with actual examples from the Artists and Photographers here on Deviantartists.
I am very interested in hearing from anyone who has something to say and contribute to this issue.

I do not believe in a God/ess with a name.

Peace and Blessings. Follow the Heart.

Devious Journal Entry

~theseus — Mon, 02 Sep 2002 03:38:07 PDT
When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of.........

.

TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE.

.How do you know it's me?
(see previous journal)

I do not believe in a God/ess with a name.

.Peace and Blessings. Follow the Heart.

Devious Journal Entry

~theseus — Fri, 30 Aug 2002 16:04:17 PDT
When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of.........

To Thine Own Self Be True.

How do you know it's me? See previous Journal.

I do not believe in a God/ess with a name.

Peace and Blessings. Follow the Heart.

Devious Journal Entry

~theseus — Wed, 28 Aug 2002 16:52:52 PDT
When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of.........

New things comming tonight.
I am enjoying what I am learning.
There are truly surprising and inspiring
people around here.

How do you know it's me? See previous Journal.

I do not believe in a God/ess with a name.

Peace and Blessings. Follow the Heart.

Devious Journal Entry

~theseus — Sun, 25 Aug 2002 20:12:02 PDT
When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of.........

An Amazing Week
Discovering New:
Artists
of all kinds.
New friends and new conversations.

The fundamental good will to be found all over this
DeviantArt community is a rare and wonderfull thing.
A living World.

How do you know it's me? See previous Journal entry.

I do not believe in a God/ess with a name.

Peace and blessings. Follow the Heart.

Peace and Blessings. Follow the Heart.

Devious Journal Entry

~theseus — Sun, 25 Aug 2002 20:08:57 PDT
When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of.........

An Amazing Week
Discovering New:
Artists
of all kinds.
New friends and new conversations.

The fundamental good will to be found all over this
DeviantArt community is a rare and wonderfull thing.
A living World.

How do you know it's me? See previous Journal entry.

I do not believe in a God/ess with a name.

Peace and blessings. Follow the Heart.

Peace and Blessings. Follow the Heart.

Devious Journal Entry

~theseus — Tue, 20 Aug 2002 18:35:23 PDT
When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of......... .

How do you know it's me?

Read previous journal entry
for an amazing story about
this question.

I do not believe in a God/ess with a name.

Follow the Heart.Peace and Blessings. Follow the Heart.

Devious Journal Entry

~theseus — Sun, 18 Aug 2002 21:31:53 PDT
When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of......... .
.
DEVIANT ART JOURNAL Sunday, August 18, 2002

Not that Im saying anything that everyone
doesnt already know, but it really is an amazing
experience submitting artworks and then,
reading your comments.
Here we are in the vastness of cyberspace
and yet there is an extraordinary intimacy to this art community.

When you meet someone new you are of course
looking at their physical form listening to their voice
sensing their immediate energy and life force.
You get to see what they are wearing,
how they cut their hair, attend to their finger nails,
the pallor of their skin.
Thousands of particles of information and energy
stream into your senses and extra-senses.

But here on Deviant Artists its different, or is it?
Here we see visual art, poetry, prose, Dev ID cards, comments, notes, sometimes personal photographs,
and also how others respond in comments.
Based upon this information alone none of us would ever actually get to know each other.

Work with me here because Im either trying to explore something that is obvious to everyone except me, or we are exploring something that may turn out to be really interesting.

Let me try to get into this by telling you a story that some of you have heard before.
It is a story about the crazy wisdom master Nasrudin.
It goes like this: One day Nasrudin was visiting a large city for the first time. He went into a very busy corner store and walked up to the store owner who was a big bright man taking care of his successful business.
Nasrudin smiled and asked the man
have you ever seen me before?
The man instantly said no
Then Nasrudin said youre absolutely sure?
The man replied Absolutely and added
I have a perfect memory for both names and faces,
thats one of the reasons my business is so successful
So you are sure beyond the merest shadow of any doubt that you have never seen me before?
Thats right said the big bright man maintaining
his happy disposition.
Then Nasrudin asked
In that case how do you know its me?
Thats the question isnt it How do you know its me?
I wonder if anyone is interested in going into this question.

There are a few new submissions coming through
onto this page.
I want to encourage you to say what you really see,
feel, and think when you comment on my pieces.
Thank you.

I do not believe in any God/ess with a name.

Follow the Heart.

Peace and Blessings. Follow the Heart.

Devious Journal Entry

~theseus — Sun, 18 Aug 2002 21:23:17 PDT
When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of......... .
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DEVIANT ART JOURNAL Sunday, August 18, 2002

Not that Im saying anything that everyone doesnt already know,
but it really is an amazing experience submitting artworks and then,
reading your comments. Here we are in the vastness of cyberspace
and yet there is an extraordinary intimacy to this art community.

When you meet someone new you are of course looking at their physical
form listening to their voice sensing their immediate energy and life force.
You get to see what they are wearing, how they cut their hair, attend to their finger nails, the pallor of their skin. Thousands of particles of information and energy stream into your senses and extra-senses.

But here on Deviant Artists its different, or is it?
Here we see visual art, poetry, prose, Dev ID cards, comments, notes, sometimes personal photographs, and also how others respond in comments. Based upon this information alone none of us would ever actually get to know each other.
Work with me here because Im either trying to explore something that is obvious to everyone except me, or we are exploring something that may turn out to be really interesting.
Let me try to get into this by telling you a story that some of you have heard before.
It is a story about the crazy wisdom master Nasrudin.
It goes like this: One day Nasrudin was visiting a large city for the first time. He went into a very busy corner store and walked up to the store owner who was a big bright man taking care of his successful business.
Nasrudin smiled and asked the man have you ever seen me before?
The man instantly said no
Then Nasrudin said youre absolutely sure?
The man replied Absolutely and added I have a perfect memory for both names and faces, thats one of the reasons my business is so successful
So you are sure beyond the merest shadow of any doubt that you have never seen me before?
Thats right said the big bright man maintaining his happy disposition.
Then Nasrudin asked In that case how do you know its me?
Thats the question isnt it How do you know its me?
I wonder if anyone is interested in going into this question.

There are a few new submissions coming through onto this page.
I want to encourage you to say what you really see, feel, and
think when you comment on my pieces. Thank you.

I do not believe in any God/ess with a name.

Follow the Heart.

Peace and Blessings. Follow the Heart.

Devious Journal Entry

~theseus — Tue, 13 Aug 2002 02:06:32 PDT
When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of......... .

At last the Images were extracted from the quirky digital camera. They were useless!

Took the paintings outside shot them all by my poor little self, well not really, had the assistance of Guitarboy.

To my total and I do mean total amazement
the images thus rendered looked quite like my paintings!

Hope you find some merit in my efforts.
Thank you all for your kind paitience with what I imagine is possibly the most cyber obfuscated deviant artist ever.
I wonder if there is a prize for this.
Please let me Know.

More submissions to follow.

. Peace and Blessings. Follow the Heart.

Devious Journal Entry

~theseus — Mon, 05 Aug 2002 23:24:33 PDT
When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of.........
This Day:
The First Elegy:
Who if I cried, would hear me
from among the order of Angels?
And even if one suddenly held
me to his heart: I would dissolve
there from his stronger presence.
For beauty is only the beginning
of a terror we can just barely endure
And what we so admire is its calm distaining to destroy us.

[The Duino Elegies. R. M. Rilke][trans: Stephen Garmey and Jay Wilson][Harper Colophon Books. c. 1972]

Electronic Saga: Continued:
So now the System is working like a dream.
Well almost.
It goes something like this:
Plug in peripherals. U.S.B. Ports. Firewire etc etc.
Boot up.
Drive;/C. Drive:/A. Drive:/D. Drive:/E.
Scanner? Yes Scanner.
CD-RW? Yes Burner.
Printer? Yes Printer.
Digital Camera? Digital Camera? What Camera?
It's a Cannon PowerShot S20. A pretty O.K. Camera I'm told.

Now, yes at this very moment, as I write, the very images of my paintings, drawings, and other stuff, that I want to share with you, are inside this Camera. It is definately not the Camera's fault.
I know what you are thinking:
How did the images get into the Camera?
Then youre going to say:
"If you can get them in there, you must know how to get them out". Youve probably just thrown your hands in the air and lost all patience with me. Or on the other hand (no pun intended) you are sadly shaking your head, thinking what a pity-full creature I am.

Ah! Well...you see I didn't put them in there. Jerry Riley did.
And who is Jerry Riley? Just before we go any farther it's not his fault either. Jerry Riley is only one of the very best photographers and color Labmen alive! He rescues professional photographers from reshoot calamity for a living.
Jerry and I have been friends for a long time. And as I'm none too sure of my Digital Camera skills...he offered to help. I cant remember if that was before or after I bribed him.

I am persuading him to join DA so that he can meet you all and you can meet him likewise.

But the main thing is, the images are in this Camera, playing hide and seek. And I'm after them. Hunting them down, like the Minotaur in some Cyber Labyrinth. Dont forget I am Theseus and I will catch them, and just as soon as I have them, so will you. Oh Yes!

My new Website is only days away from springing into life.

Deviant Art is I suspect, with every passing day. far too interesting.
I have a lot of work to do of various kinds, not the least of which involves getting my new web site up and running by the first week in August.

Then there is the crucial task of getting this going before people start to think that:
(A) there is no or
(B) I am an incurable procrastinator
(C) I prefer to look at your art, than show my own.
(D) I am an art-coward.
(E) There is no Theseus and I am simply a software malfunction.
...

Devious Journal Entry

~theseus — Sun, 28 Jul 2002 04:59:13 PDT
When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of.........
Deviant Art is I suspect, with every passing day. far too interesting.
I have a lot of work to do of various kinds, not the least of which involves getting my new web site up and running by the first week in August.

Then there is the crucial task of getting this going before people start to think that:
(A) there is no or
(B) I am an incurable procrastinator
(C) I prefer to look at your art, than show my own.
(D) I am an art-coward.
(E) There is no Theseus and I am simply a software malfunction.

There is a fatefulness to things and I am currently working with the insight that my malfunctions (solved finally) have helped me to have the time to range far and wide throughout and discover just how many great artists and people (often the same individual!) there are here, and I have hardly even begun.

There is a election going on and I intend to vote. Isn't that brave of me? But I have been looking carefully and often. Only three positions and so many great artists to choose from......

When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of.........When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of........

The good news is that the technical hitch is pretty well fixed. The bad news is that now you will have to bump into my submissions on the thumbnail page.

Mostly I paint and draw and Ive been getting into photo things and a bit of manip.

See you soon.

I do not believe in any god with a name:

Peace and Blessings Follow the Heart

.When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is heard you will never be the same again. It is the end of the self-sameness, of the self-same-self and the beginning of.........

When the VOICE OF THE SILENCE is...