First published: “THE LANGUAGE OF COLOR & LIGHT: The Liminal-exhibition-artists reveal palette & setting secrets!“by Jennifer Gillia Cutshall One day, I took a picture of my wife and cat asleep on our sofa. I showed the photo to my wife, and she said, “If you’re ever looking for inspiration, there it is.” She was right.…
The Painting Turquoise Spider Eggs utilizes vivid colors and expressionistic brush strokes to explore the autonomous creative impulse while also attempting to create a celebration of Nature and a heightened awareness of the need to preserve our habitat. The result feels dreamlike and somewhat ambiguous, as is our tendency to mystify global threats and blur…
One of the first mentions of a blue flower came in the unfinished novel “Heinrich von Ofterdingen” (1802) by Friedrich von Hardenberg (aka Novalis). In it, the character Heinrich has a dream about a “blue flower” representing desire and unfulfilled love. The “blue flower” became a key symbol of inspiration in Romanticism, which stressed emotion,…
All of life appears to be a clashing of opposites. As Heraclitus said, “Every beast is driven to pasture by a blow.” In the story of Danaë, her blow came in the form of being locked up in an underground bronze chamber by her father, King Acrisius, because the oracle of Delphi said his daughter…
This is the first painting I completed after arriving to Brazil. It bridges a long journey I have taken since first discovering Carl Jung’s writings about alchemy when I was in graduate school. Alchemy was a language I understood from my early studies of Eastern philosophy. The purifying and transformative process of alchemy, i.e., the…
My interested in mythology, the journey of the hero, and particularly of Psyche and Eros eventually brought me to Peter Paul Rubens and his painting titled “The Andrians” (a rendition of Titian’s earlier painting “The Bacchanal of the Andrians”). Bacchus is the Roman equivalent of the Greek Dionysus, the god of harvest and winemaking. The…
If we think of God as a power, then we can say that creation is Its manifestation. We can also infer that creativity is an essential attribute of that Power. As an expression of that creativity, we exist by our connection to it in the way drops of water are ultimately one with the ocean.…
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakens. ~ C.G. Jung[1] Carl G. Jung referred to the higher intelligence of Universal Consciousness when he asked us to “consider synchronistic phenomena, premonitions, and dreams that come true.”[2] He explained that Infinite Intelligence has other…
Fear, worry, guilt, shame, and low-self esteem are all learned behaviors. They are emotions born from acquired and negative/incorrect thought patterns. Our beliefs arise from the ways our ancestors responded to the challenges of their time. Our parents reinforce those patterns as do our teachers, friends, and culture. What we should be asking ourselves is…
After doing the Ask Your Heart App several times and repeatedly being told by her heart that she was ‘faint-hearted,’ Lena decided it was time to do the longer version to get to the bottom of her faint-heartedness. She was experiencing tightness and pain around her heart and was becoming anxious to find a solution.…
Scalar Heart Connection – Second Edition; The Art of Synchronicity and Family Constellation. Scalar Heart Connection is a process that connects us to the source of synchronicity and thereby helps us tap into the innate knowing of our heart. The process utilizes the concepts of quantum mechanics, the archetype of Number as well as the heart’s scalar field of unlimited potentiality.
Case Study: Claudie wanted a Scalar Heart Connection session to ask her heart what was behind her recurring headaches and high blood pressure. Her husband recently passed away and she was confronted with decisions about what to do with her house and creating a means of income. Friends and family were giving her contradictory advice, adding to…
Of Earth and Sky is a two-person exhibit by Stephen Linsteadt and Cindy Rinne at the Claremont Community Foundation. The exhibit is an exploration of the Jungian notion that our outer world is a reflection of our inner state. The intention of Stephen Linsteadts’ paintings is to stimulate conversation and awareness to a deeper inner connection…
[First published in Seattle Awakenings] Author and speaker Stephen Linsteadt has announced a weekend Healing Circle in Seattle August 27-28, 2016. The workshop will introduce Scalar Heart Connection as a powerful healing modality in conjunction with Family Constellations. According to Linsteadt, our negative mind-brain conditioning is often deeply rooted in ancestral patterns stemming from unresolved…
The Heart of the Hero, by Stephen Linsteadt, shows readers how to ask their heart for guidance during periods of emotional unrest and uncertainty. It is based on sacred geometry and the heart’s connection to number as the pervasive language of the heart. In addition to being a practical self-help tool, this book examines the…
