Reflections on the Infra-thin
Duchamp thought of the infra-thin as representing a space beyond the world of solid things and beings—higher modes outside our ordinary experience.
IONS – Los Angeles Presents Scalar Heart Connection
The Institute of Noetic Sciences (Los Angeles Community Group) presents Stephen Linsteadt and Scalar Heart Connection.
There is a moving session about opening up to our creative expression at the end of the presentation:
Dionysus and the Leopard
The Egyptian goddess, Bastet, has a human body and the head of a cat. The feline head contains the feminine aspect with its innate preponderance of thinking of fantasy, festivity, emotions, sense of community, music, magic, and about spiritual activity. This is in contrast to the rigid scientific and mechanistic thinking mode of the male.…
Drowning Nymphs in Paint
Drowning Nymphs in Paint Water nymphs lurking beneath pools of paint shape-shift into images of my paranoia and the foolishness of flesh. If my mind could glimpse my soul it would not return, mesmerized by the radiance of essence. Yet it remains vacant behind blobs of paint laid out on my disposable palette. Anticipation is…
Oxyrhynchus and Osiris
The power of the Oxyrhynchus to stop the largest ships gives us a visualization of the paradoxical nature of the process towards ‘wholeness.’
The White Crane
Cranes are said to carry souls to Paradise at death and represent the ability to enter higher states of consciousness – heart consciousness.
Tapping Into the Wisdom of Our Heart
A Sufi poem says the human heart is the spiritual organ or the interface between the body and the “other world.
Eros and Psyche
The story of “The Golden Ass” by Apuleius of Madaurus is essentially a hero’s journey inside a hero’s journey.
Woman in Metaphor
Twenty-seven poets from around the world share their vision of the feminine spirit, inspired by the paintings of Stephen Linsteadt. Editor, Maria Elena B. Mahler has collected twenty-seven poems from twenty-seven accomplished, published, and award winning poets. She invited them to write a poem based on one of Stephen Linsteadt’s paintings; paintings he created over…
Gabrielle Without Her Sister
I saw the painting “Gabrielle d’Estrées et une de ses soeurs,” by an unknown artist, painted c.1594, for the first time at the Louvre in May 2012. Gabrielle is taking a bath, accompanied by her sister, who is lightly pinching Gabrielle’s right breast. It is such an odd scene that one is simultaneously stimulated and…
