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[oncanvas]

January, Biren De, 1992

Oil on canvas 44 x 38 in. (111.8 x 96.5 cm)

[thunderstruck9]

Biren De (Indian, 1926-2011), September '73, 1973. Oil on canvas, 128 x 102.5 cm.

[myfairynuffstuff]

Biren De (1926 - 2011) - January. 1992. Oil on canvas.

[chainsawpunk]

Biren De, January '77, 1977, oil on canvas, 52 x 52 in (132.1 x 132.1 cm)

[terminusantequem]

Biren De (Indian, 1926-2011), July '70 (a), 1970. Oil on canvas, 106.7 x 106.7 cm

[nununiverse]

Biren De  Sans titre 

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archivo de margenes portada e intro

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[mybeingthere]

Prabhakar Barwe (Indian, 1935–1995), Yantra III, 1964 Watercolour, ink and silver paper on paper 51.8 × 77.2 cm.

Prabhakar Barwe (1936 - 1995) was a pioneer of Modern Indian painting. He was active in Mumbai, India from the 1959 until his death in 1995 (December 6). Influenced by the esoteric tradition of Tantric painting. Barwe along with G. R. Santosh, P. T. Reddy, K.C.S. Paniker, Biren De, Om Prakash, K. V. Haridasan, Prafulla Mohanti and Mahirwan Mamtani was considered part of the modernist movement Neo-Tantra.

He was awarded the Academy of Fine Arts Award in Kolkata in 1963, the Bombay Art Society Award in 1964 and 1968, the Maharashtra State Award and the prestigious Lalit Kala Akademi Award in 1976.

[polymorphousculturevulture]

Biren De - Untitled - 1974.

source: architecturaldigest.in

[medium-observation]

OCTOBER RELEASE

Beetlejuice - First US National Tour

September 26, 2023 - Medium Observation

Video

Cast:

Justin Collette (Beetlejuice), Nevada Riley (u/s Lydia Deetz), Megan McGinnis (Barbara Maitland), Abe Goldfarb (u/s Adam Maitland), Jesse Sharp (Charles Deetz), Kate Marilley (Delia Deetz), Danielle Marie Gonzalez (Miss Argentina), Matthew Michael Janisse (u/s Otho), Brian Vaughn (Maxie Dean), Kris Roberts (Maxine Dean/Juno), Jackera Davis (Girl Scout), Michael Biren, Juliane Godfrey, Jesse Jones, Kenway Hon Wai K. Kua, Katie Lombardo, Sean McManus, Lee N Price, Trevor Michael Schmidt

Notes:

Absolutely beautiful recording of Nevada Lydia, Abe Adam and Matthew Otho!! Some washout is seen in wideshots and such. Absolutely no obstruction. Overall a great capture of great understudies.

NFT Date: April 1, 2024

Screenshots: <https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAWh4Z>

Video is $20

Hamilton - Broadway

April 27, 2023 - Medium Observation

Video

Cast:

Miguel Cervantes (Alexander Hamilton), Stephanie Jae Park (Eliza Hamilton), Marc delaCruz (s/b Aaron Burr), Jennie Harney-Fleming (Angelica Schuyler), Jimmie JJ Jeter (s/b George Washington), Kyle Scatliffe (Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson), Ebrin R. Stanley (Hercules Mulligan/James Madison), Daniel Yearwood (John Laurens/Philip Hamilton), Julia Estrada (Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds), Euan Morton (King George III), Trey Curtis (James Reynolds/Philip Schuyler/Doctor), Thayne Jasperson (Samuel Seabury), Preston Mui (George Eacker)

Notes:

Very nice capture of Marc as Burr and Jimmie as Washington. Some head obstruction at the very bottom of the screen in wideshots, but it never takes away. This cast is absolutely Incredible together, Miguel continues to shine as the best hamilton we've ever had, While Marc plays off him and the rest of the cast insanely well. The chemistry is off the charts in this video.

NFT Date: April 1, 2024

Screenshots: <https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjABPEv>

Video is $20

Videos can be purchased through me at

mediumobservationtrading@gmail.com

[supersatisfyer]

Einstein on politics : his private thoughts and public stands on nationalism, Zionism, war, peace, and the bomb David Rowe Robert Schulmann 2007 Princeton University Press

Preferiría ver un acuerdo razonable con los árabes sobre la base de la convivencia en paz que la creación de un Estado judío. Mi conciencia de la naturaleza esencial del judaísmo se resiste a la idea de un Estado judío con fronteras, un ejército y una medida de poder temporal, por modesta que sea. Temo el daño interno que sufrirá el judaísmo, especialmente por el desarrollo de un nacionalismo estrecho dentro de nuestras propias filas, contra el que ya hemos tenido que luchar fuertemente, incluso sin un estado judío. ... Si la necesidad externa nos obliga, después de todo, a asumir esta carga, llevémosla con tacto y paciencia.

Claude Lazman

Pourquoi Israël 1973 3h 5m

Le dernier des injustes 2013 2h 20m

Shoah 1985 556m

L.F. CELINE Mea Culpa, 1936

 Le nettoyage par l'Idée...

[eurekadiario]

Biden excluye a China de más chips Nvidia y amplía las restricciones a otros países

La administración Biden planea detener los envíos a China de chips de inteligencia artificial más avanzados diseñados por Nvidia y otros, parte de una serie de medidas publicadas el martes que buscan impedir que Beijing reciba tecnologías estadounidenses de vanguardia para fortalecer su ejército.

Las reglas, que entrarán en vigor en 30 días, restringen una gama más amplia de chips avanzados y herramientas de fabricación de chips a un mayor número de países, incluidos Irán y Rusia, y ponen en la lista negra a los diseñadores de chips chinos Moore Threads y Biren.

Las nuevas medidas cierran lagunas en las regulaciones publicadas en octubre pasado y probablemente se actualizarán "al menos anualmente", dijo a los periodistas la secretaria del Departamento de Comercio, Gina Raimondo, el lunes por la noche.

El objetivo es limitar el acceso de China a "semiconductores avanzados que podrían impulsar avances en inteligencia artificial y computadoras sofisticadas que son críticas para las aplicaciones militares (chinas)", dijo, enfatizando que la administración no buscaba dañar económicamente a Beijing.

Dijo que China seguirá importando cientos de miles de millones de dólares en semiconductores estadounidenses.

Un portavoz de la embajada china dijo que "se opone firmemente" a las nuevas restricciones, añadiendo que "colocar restricciones arbitrariamente o buscar por la fuerza una desvinculación para servir a una agenda política viola los principios de la economía de mercado y la competencia leal (y) socava el equilibrio económico y orden comercial."

INFORME ENCUENTRA QUE LA IA DE EE.UU. ALIMENTA A LOS MILITARES DE CHINA

Las nuevas medidas demuestran que la administración Biden está luchando por frenar el flujo de chips y herramientas de fabricación de chips hacia China, incluso cuando aumentan las preocupaciones sobre el papel que está desempeñando la tecnología estadounidense en la modernización del ejército de Beijing.

Reuters informó en junio que los mismos chips de IA prohibidos por regulaciones anteriores podían comprarse a proveedores en Shenzhen, China.

El Centro de Seguridad y Tecnología Emergente de la Universidad de Georgetown descubrió en un informe de junio de 2022 que de 97 chips de IA individuales adquiridos a través de licitaciones militares chinas durante un período de 8 meses en 2020, casi todos fueron diseñados por Nvidia, Xilinx, Intel (INTC. O) y Microsemi.

Las capacidades de inteligencia artificial, con la ayuda de supercomputación y chips avanzados, mejoran la velocidad y precisión de la toma de decisiones, la planificación y la logística militares, según las regulaciones publicadas el martes.

CHIPS EXCLUSIVAMENTE GOLPEADOS EN CHINA

En una declaración posterior a la publicación de las reglas, el principal diseñador de chips de inteligencia artificial de EE. UU., Nvidia (NVDA.O), dijo que cumple con las regulaciones y no espera un impacto significativo en los resultados a corto plazo.

El negocio de Nvidia se ha disparado desde la imposición de las reglas del año pasado porque sus chips exclusivos de China siguen siendo mejores que las alternativas. Actualmente, la empresa está vendiendo casi todos los chips que puede adquirir, ya que la demanda mundial supera la oferta, pero se vería perjudicada en el largo plazo a medida que las empresas chinas de chips busquen en otros lugares para llenar los vacíos dejados por las empresas estadounidenses.

La compañía ha fabricado chips como el A800 y el H800 que siguieron la línea de las reglas anteriores para continuar vendiéndose a China, y AMD (AMD.O), también afectada por las reglas, ha dicho que planea una estrategia similar.

Las acciones de Nvidia cayeron un 3,7%, mientras que las acciones de AMD y de otro fabricante rival de chips de IA, Intel, cayeron un 0,6% y un 1% respectivamente.

Las nuevas reglas eximirán a la mayoría de los chips de consumo utilizados en computadoras portátiles, teléfonos inteligentes y juegos, aunque algunos estarán sujetos a requisitos de licencia y notificación por parte de funcionarios estadounidenses.

ADOPTAR LA TECNOLOGÍA CHIPLET

Banderas de China y Estados Unidos se muestran en una placa de circuito impreso con chips semiconductores, en esta fotografía ilustrativa tomada el 17 de febrero de 2023. REUTERS/Florence Lo/Ilustración/Foto de archivo Adquirir derechos de licencia

Las reglas anteriores imponían una prueba doble que medía tanto el rendimiento informático de un chip como su capacidad para comunicarse con otros chips, una medida importante en las supercomputadoras de inteligencia artificial donde miles de chips se unen para procesar enormes cantidades de datos.

Nvidia e Intel crearon chips especiales para el mercado chino que conservaban potentes capacidades informáticas pero limitaban las velocidades de comunicación para mantenerse dentro de las reglas anteriores.

Las nuevas normas imponen límites a la cantidad de potencia informática que un chip contiene en un determinado tamaño, una medida diseñada para evitar soluciones alternativas utilizando la nueva tecnología "chiplet" que China ha dicho que será fundamental para el futuro de su industria de semiconductores.

Las empresas chinas Biren y Moore Threads, cuyos proveedores estadounidenses ahora enfrentarán un estricto requisito de licencia antes de enviarles productos, son empresas emergentes fundadas por ex empleados de Nvidia y apuntan a competir con el gigante estadounidense de chips de inteligencia artificial.

Biren dijo que se opone firmemente a su inclusión en la lista negra y apelará al gobierno de Estados Unidos para que reexamine la decisión. Moore Threads dijo que está totalmente en desacuerdo con su inclusión en la lista negra comercial.

LICENCIA AMPLIADA Las nuevas medidas también amplían los requisitos de licencia para las exportaciones de chips avanzados a más de 40 países adicionales que presentan riesgos de desvío a China y están sujetos a embargos de armas de Estados Unidos.

Esa medida parece basarse en una carta recibida por Nvidia en agosto que describió como una restricción de los envíos de sus chips A100 y H100 más allá de China a otras regiones, incluidos algunos países de Medio Oriente.

Según un informe de Reuters, se prohibirá el envío de chips a unidades de empresas ubicadas en cualquier parte del mundo si sus empresas matrices tienen su sede en China, Macao y otros países bajo embargo de armas.

La administración Biden también impuso a 21 países fuera de China el requisito de licencia para herramientas de fabricación de chips, por temor a que el equipo pueda desviarse a China y otras preocupaciones de seguridad nacional.

También agregó a la lista de equipos que tienen prohibido ingresar a ese país para incluir algunos sistemas de litografía ultravioleta profunda (DUV), yendo más allá de las recientes regulaciones holandesas para evitar que la ASML de los Países Bajos envíe modelos DUV más antiguos y repuestos a algunas fábricas de chips chinas avanzadas. , confirmando otro informe de Reuters.

DUV es un equipo de fabricación de chips menos avanzado que el equipo ultravioleta extremo (EUV) de última generación, que ya ha sido retenido en China, pero que puede fabricar chips casi tan avanzados a un costo mayor.

ASML dijo en un comunicado que las nuevas medidas probablemente tendrían un impacto en "la división regional de nuestras ventas de sistemas" a mediano y largo plazo, pero la compañía no esperaba ver un "impacto material" en sus perspectivas financieras para 2023. o a más largo plazo.

Las acciones de los fabricantes de equipos estadounidenses rivales Lam Research se mantuvieron estables, mientras que Applied Materials subió un 0,6% y KLA bajó un 1,3%.

"No creemos que las restricciones incrementales a los equipos semiconductores tengan efectos significativos a largo plazo" en los proveedores de equipos, dijo Wolfe Research en una nota a un cliente.

El KLA declinó hacer comentarios. Lam y Applied no respondieron de inmediato a las solicitudes de comentarios.

Los funcionarios estadounidenses dijeron que Raimondo, el asesor de seguridad nacional Jake Sullivan y la secretaria del Tesoro, Janet Yellen, advirtieron a sus homólogos chinos que las reglas vendrían, confirmando un informe de Reuters.

La Asociación de la Industria de Semiconductores dijo en un comunicado que estaba "evaluando el impacto" de las nuevas reglas e instó a la administración a trabajar con aliados. "Los controles demasiado amplios y unilaterales corren el riesgo de dañar el ecosistema de semiconductores de Estados Unidos sin promover la seguridad nacional", dijo el grupo.

Información de Alexandra Alper, Karen Freifeld, Stephen Nellis, David Shepardson y Max A. Cherney; Edición de Chris Sanders, Jamie Freed y Daniel Wallis

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It took a viral video for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to finally break his silence on ongoing ethnic violence in the northeastern state of Manipur. The footage, which became public only last month, sparked outrage far beyond the state: Filmed on May 4, it shows a mob assaulting two women from the Kuki minority—stripped naked—before pushing them into an empty field. Reports citing the survivors’ families revealed the complicity of the state police. Ironically, the police station a few hundred yards from the site of the crime was awarded the “Best in the Country” title in 2020.

Violence between the Meitei ethnic majority and the Kukis has hounded Manipur since May, when a court order reserving some government jobs for Meiteis exacerbated tensions over land rights, poppy farming, and religious freedoms. Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh has carved out a role for himself as the Meitei community’s de facto leader. More cases of sexual assault have come to light in the past two weeks, but Singh—a member of Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)—now denies that the women in the May 4 video were raped. His state government imposed an internet shutdown for weeks, hindering the spread of information.

The crisis has not subsided, and thousands of weapons stolen from police armories are still circulating among mobs. On Tuesday, India’s Supreme Court described the violence as “an absolute breakdown of law and order.” The presence of federal forces in Manipur hasn’t improved the situation: New Delhi’s strategy has instead divided the state, burning bridges between the Meiteis and Kukis. This apparent political ineptitude falls in line with the BJP’s Hindutva ideology, which identifies Hindus as India’s rightful inhabitants, justifying violence against religious minorities. In Manipur, the Meitei community sees itself as the state’s original inhabitants, replicating the use of violence against Kukis and others that it perceives as outsiders.

The use of state machinery to aid the majoritarian project in Manipur recalls the 2002 Gujarat riots targeting the state’s Muslim population, which occurred while Modi was chief minister. (An opposition politician has even invoked dark parallels to the Rwandan genocide, where the role of the state is well documented.) Manipur’s internet ban, now partially lifted, underlines institutional paranoia about controlling the narrative. Tensions have already spread into other Indian states as well as neighboring Myanmar, where the Kuki community shares ties with the Chin minority. The crisis raises serious questions about Modi’s governance model and his political ability to deal with India’s diversity and the tensions it raises.

In Modi’s statement about the viral video in Manipur, he invoked examples of sexual violence in opposition-led states, diminishing the specificity of the crime and seeking to deflect public outrage. His comments did not lead to any shift in national policy. And while sexual assault against women has captured attention, the scale of overall violence in Manipur is startling. More than 160 people are dead, and another 60,000 people are displaced. More than 4,500 weapons are missing from state armories, with officials estimating that almost all of them are with Meitei militias. More than half of these weapons are automatic—a stunning comparison with the situation in Indian-administered Kashmir, where New Delhi has fought a three-decade-old insurgency in which many militants are armed with pistols.

Manipur’s state police force is not incompetent or careless; its inaction amid the violence borders on complicity. A bulk of the weapons stolen in Manipur have not been returned to or recovered by security forces, and it is not for a lack of personnel in the state. In addition to the 29,000-strong state police, New Delhi has sent 124 federal companies—each with between 80 and 100 troops—to Manipur. Then there are 164 columns of similar strength from the Indian Army and the Assam Rifles, a paramilitary affiliate. For a state with a population of 3.2 million, this comes out to an average of nearly one security person for every 55 citizens.

In May, Modi’s government sent its army chief to Manipur and brought in a new police chief from another state to restore order, but both officials have failed to overcome the partisan state government. The state police forces are split vertically, with the new police chief asking cops to report to duty in areas where their ethnic group is in the majority. New Delhi also issued directions that cleave the state with a federally manned buffer zone between the Meitei-dominated valley and the Kuki-dominated hills. Rather than bringing the violence under control, this approach has cemented the divide between the ethnic groups. The Kukis now demand a new administrative structure separating them from the Meiteis, which is vehemently opposed by the majority community.

The administrative incompetence on the part of both the national government and the state government led by Singh reflects the majoritarian nationalism espoused by the BJP. The embrace of Hindutva in states led by the ruling party has led to the lynching of young Muslim men for the flimsy excuse of smuggling cows and to the creation of laws that seek to criminalize interfaith marriages. In Manipur, the same ideology is tailored at a subnational level: The majority Meiteis have found resonance between their indigenous Sanamahi faith and Hindutva, targeting the largely Christian Kukis. Although the fault lines of the conflict are not drawn explicitly around faith, there are religious undertones to the violence.

New Delhi’s failure to stop the violence in Manipur has not yet affected Modi on the international stage. In the wake of the Gujarat riots, which began after a fire in a train compartment killed 58 Hindu pilgrims traveling from Ayodhya, Modi described the ensuing attacks against Muslims as “a chain of action and reaction.” India’s Supreme Court at the time called Modi a “modern-day Nero,” and he was denied a visa to the United States on the grounds that he was responsible for violations of religious freedom. The ban was reversed only after he became prime minister in 2014. By contrast, in June, with violence escalating in Manipur, Modi chose to travel to Washington for an official state visit. French President Emmanuel Macron welcomed him to Paris in July.

All the while, he remained silent. In the three months since the violence began, Modi has not publicly chaired a meeting on Manipur nor issued an official statement for the victims, let alone traveled to the state. In a rare press conference for Modi following his meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden, the Indian leader responded to a question—only one was allowed—about the status of religious minorities in his country. Despite the question coming while churches were burning and women were being assaulted in Manipur, Modi blurted out meaningless paeans to Indian democracy. At the time, complaints to state police and federal authorities were still awaiting a response.

For New Delhi, hoping that the fires in Manipur will be doused on their own has not worked. India’s government was long able to pacify the state with support from friendly neighbors in Bangladesh and Myanmar. But as tensions spread beyond Manipur, it is at risk of losing those gains. India’s federalism is already under strain, driven by calls for “Hindi, Hindu, Hindustan,” the ominous idea of one language, one religion, and one nation defining India. States in the country’s south, where the BJP is relatively weak, have cited the decay of India’s federal structure to rally supporters, raising the possibility of some states demanding more autonomy—a demon thought to have been buried in the early years of India’s independence.

The situation in Manipur has also raised alarms about the capacity of the Indian state to clamp down on violence. Whether unable or unwilling to restore order in Manipur, the national government finds its credibility and authority frayed by the crisis. The state’s internet ban suggests a government that fears the free flow of information, using the suppression of violence as a pretext for broadly curtailing freedom of expression and depriving the citizens of their rights. No modern state can function in such digital darkness—and especially not as Modi boasts on the global stage that India’s digital public infrastructure is “highly secure, highly trusted, and highly efficient.”

In fact, the violence in Manipur is putting India’s desire to be recognized as a global power to the test. Apathy on the part of top leadership, targeting of minorities, and internet shutdowns are not the hallmarks of a country that hopes to be respected as an important player on the world stage—as much as Modi would like to avoid mentioning the issue. Furthermore, the violence in Manipur only draws attention to the fact that India has not held local legislative assembly elections in Muslim-majority Kashmir for more than a decade. The country christens itself as the “mother of democracy” and others hail it as the world’s largest democracy, but such hypocrisy overpowers any public relations campaign by New Delhi and its cheerleaders in foreign capitals.

India is no longer the world’s fastest-growing economy; Saudi Arabia is, followed by Vietnam and the Philippines. Unemployment is a serious concern, as is widening inequality  and weak rural demand. Modi and the BJP head into national elections next year with an economic record that they cannot boast about. The Ladakh border crisis with China has stripped the prime minister of national security talking points. Amid the Manipur crisis, he cannot brag about his ability to make tough calls. If the BJP decides to double down on religious polarization ahead of the elections, as it has regularly done under Modi, it could render India’s minorities even more vulnerable.

India’s leaders once stressed that the country embodied the idea of unity in diversity, allowing it to manage social and ethnic differences without pandering to majoritarian impulses. The violence in Manipur serves as warning of just how far the BJP’s pursuit of such politics could drag India down.

[futuroprimordial]

"Where Stars Meet"

"Untitled", Biren De

"As part of my ritual, I address the worlds above and the worlds below, the fifth and sixth directions… and here is where it gets interesting. In acknowledging the worlds below, I extend my conscious awareness to connect with the World Soul—with the great being whose physical body is our planet Earth. Her spirit enlivens our Earth, streaming her energy upward to empower all those elemental forces with the universal Life Force. In my moments of vision, I perceive this force in the planet’s core as a star, as a green star. . . In turning my focused concentration toward this star within our world, the green light streams upward and into me… and then, with my blood hissing in my ears, I turn my attention to the golden star above from which all of us are sourced—our Sun, at whose core all of the carbon in our bodies was forged. I always do this as a way of honoring and connecting with these two god-like beings (in a mythic sense) that fill us and our world with the Life Force. In response, several years ago, a vision occurred. It happened while I was opening a workshop at the Esalen Institute on the Big Sur coast of California… As my attention turned toward the golden radiance of our star and I rattled its power into our circle, my vision of the sun was suddenly disrupted as something emerged from its surface like a projectile and headed right for me. As I continued to rattle and hold my focus, the projectile appeared to me as a bird, flying on golden wings, and then suddenly it was within me, inside me. As the contact was made, I was filled with the most amazing feeling. Perhaps the only word that can describe it is ‘grace.’ I was filled with grace… and I stood entranced as my whole body was imbued by it until even my fingertips glowed in response." - Hank Wesselman PhD., Message from the Stone Clan *** "I found myself immersed in verdant life, surrounded with varying shades of green. It was like being in the middle of a green fog and in the midst not of living creatures but of the power and vitality of life itself. I had a sense of an immense presence, a bit like being at the base of a mountain, only more so. I felt a multitude of impressions and images pressing in on me, more than I could process or interpret. Then the fog parted, and I gained a different perspective. Things began to fall into place, or at least, my mind began to fashion an image it could comprehend and use to organize what I was experiencing. I was seeing the world from a distance, but it did not at all resemble the images of the planet from space. Everything remained green, and there was no differentiation between oceans or continents. It was like looking at the biomass of the earth presented as a collage of images of various life-forms, from microbes to moose, from protozoa to pinewoods, with fish, birds, animals, humans, plants all represented. This was very impressionistic, with a few sharp details, including landscapes such as forests and mountains. And underneath the green light was a deeper core of light that to my sight was a reddish gold, conveying a sense of love. Quite beyond the imagery, however, was a sense of presence. It felt vast, but at the same time it felt intimate. I did not feel diminished by its vastness. I felt that whatever this was, I was part of it, and it was part of me. 'This,' John said, 'is the World Soul. It is the life and consciousness that infuse the world, giving of itself to support all the other lives that are evolving on this planet. Humanity is helping it to incarnate, but its gift back is to enable you to develop a planetary consciousness. This is an essential part of your destiny as a species, a destiny which you are confronting at this time in history.' " - David Spangler, “Apprenticed to Spirit: The Education of a Soul

*** Where Stars Meet Imagine a spiritual star at the center of the earth. It’s a green star radiant with the power of planetary life. Imagine the light from this star rising up through the earth, surrounding you, bathing and nurturing the cells of your body and forming a chalice around you. Imagine a spiritual star within the sun in the sky. It’s a golden star radiant with the power of cosmic life. Imagine the light from this star descending from the heavens and pouring into the chalice of earthlight that surrounds you and fills your cells. Where the light of these two stars meet in you, a new star emerges, a radiant star of Self-Light, born of the blending of the individual and the universal, the planetary and the cosmic, the physical and the spiritual. This Self-Light surrounds you and fills you, radiating back down deep into the earth and out into space, connecting with the star below you and the star above you. You are a Chalice of Self-Light within a pillar of spiritual energy rising from the earth and descending from the cosmos. Take a moment to feel this Self-Light within and around you, your connection to the earth, your connection to the cosmos, your connection to your own unique and radiant Self. Take a deep breath, drawing this Light into and throughout your body; breathe out, sending this Light out into your world. Filled with this Light of Self, attuned to heaven and earth, go about your day. - David Spangler, Journey into Fire

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J-J.E.B (Joan E. Biren)