Haiku Ellipses...Invitation...Response...

KABBALAH snow flake if all white kabbalah interior or crystal space craft with a little imagination, i can see three different things emerging from this image...if i paint the lines white and put them on a black background, a snow flake emerges...if i focus on the interior of the image, i see part of the kabbalah tree of life...and if i imagine traveling, i see a crystal space craft. what do you see? more broadly, when you look at the things that make up your life (yourself, others, objects, places...), for any given object of  your attention, can you "see" more than one thing? for fun, try picking out one thing that stands out to you today, and play in your imagination for a few minutes, see what this might be, could be, let it morph a little, change colors, put in a different context...see what emerges in your imagination...for inspiration, watch and listen to Willy Wonka's song, "Pure Imagination":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIYNk4ARUR8.

WHO KNOWS WHERE? strange angles appear  from a central spiraled shape leading who knows where?   easy to get caught up in the sharp angles of the outer edges of this image...harder to maintain the focus on the inner spiral in the middle of the shape...the outer edges lead nowhere, but where does the inner spiral lead? easy to get caught up in the periphery of our lives...sometimes feeling like we're going nowhere...go to the center of life, inside, into the inner spiral, there is no end to the depth one can explore here...

OVER & OVER starting at the middle over and over again brings forth a flower my notes for creating this mandala read: i had no idea this would emerge until the very end...trusting the process, making sweeping movements with gusto even though i have no idea where it is going...thrilled and joyful to see the flower emerge i wonder if there's an approach to life embedded in this process that created this image? can we go at life with wild abandon, with gusto, dancing with sweeping movements, not really knowing where we're going, and trusting that the process will create something beautiful...maybe it's not a thing we're creating, it is us...we are a beautiful flower! for awhile, go at something you do everyday with gusto, with abandon, without knowing where the movements will lead...see what happens...did something beautiful emerge...perhaps it was the beautiful feeling of__________________(fill in the blank).   

CYCLING IMAGES there are many ways to cycle one's images playful practice key cyclying images is part of a healing method called the Bengston method named after William Bengston and his many experiments of healing mice with cancer published in peer review journals (he also heals and has taught others to heal people, but these are anecdotal cases since it would be unethical to put people into randomized clinical controls for healing or not). The cycling part of the method involves listing 20+ personal selfish desires/wishes, providing an image or word for each, and then cycling thorough them, building up speed until they blur together into a feeling...for practice, one can place the images on a film strip, the hand positions of a clock, an old fashioned rolodex, a powerpoint slide presentation, or a spinning paper plate (i've tried all of them). if interested in this healing method, obtain Bengston's set of audio training cd's from Sounds True and try out the method for ...