When confronted with an illness such as cancer that really has no magical pill but is at the mercy of trial and error by contemporary medical people, you begin to see what life is really all about. ​ And you realize that we all have a “Rendezvous With Death” at some point sooner or later in life. That we are just another aspect of Nature like the trees and birds and our bodies will return to the earth. We are in fact “Earthlinks”. But since you can’t believe that is all there is, as you have tasted Love and Soul then you realize whatever more there is, it is all “Hidden In The Eyes”. The bad ..read more

“Wonderland is a place of madness. ‘We’re all mad here,’ states the Cheshire cat.” Through the eyes of society, one who questions, and perhaps especially the seemingly basic things may be labelled mad. And society is in fact ripe for questioning, between the extreme inequality of wealth distribution and lack of real movement on Climate Change. Global Warming is causing floods, fires and brimstones and yet the Oil Industry is untouched preferring to pray rather than quit mining. It is the White Rabbit who leads Alice down the rabbit hole. It is he who woke her up from her daze since the hot da ..read more

To me the problem of perception is that we try to make analogies of our way of seeing with machines, cameras, etc...all based on playing around with information until something interesting emerges. But in reality seeing is a function of our inherent co-dependence on Nature. Seeing is related to our Intuitive abilities of that 90% brain capacity that has nothing to do with information or intellect. It is immediate and visceral and void of analysis. In fact the miute you name a thing you stop seeing it. That is why thinking and painting don't go well together at the same time ..read more

 The purpose of AI is not to help you make your workload better and faster but to stop you from thinking and challenging your brain. When we all start using AI there will be no need for critical thinking or creative thought. Techno-Billionaires will be telling us what to do every step of the way. Regular humans will no longer be free. Visual artists will stop existing giving birth to techies that can talk to an app about what they wan to see and it will appear on the screen. Some artists say that the creativity lies in editing algorithms. Sorry but visuals were always related to intuitio ..read more

The fastest dumbing down of our society is happening on instagram reels, podcasts and workshops. People have learned a bit about electromagnetic energy and all they want us to do is to start controlling our mind so only positive thoughts supposedly related to positive energy are created by us. Ridiculous assumption overlooking years of academics like Jung, Freud and Wise men that showed us how being unaware of what we truly feel and acknowledging it, leads to suffering and mental illness ultimately. Not to mention ignoring Zen masters that teach about being with what is and leaving things alo ..read more

How do we pass the time between the first cup of coffee in the morning and the last glass of wine at night?  We go about our daily life trying to suck out the most juicy morsels of happiness we can with a bit of thought that we need to stay fit and healthy for as long as we can.  Occasionally a spark of purity of thought occurs, squelched quickly by insistent emails and instagram and facebook friends sharing their last meal. No time to purify anything because we are on overdrive to not miss the possibility of another moment of happiness.  And who dictates  what it is to be ..read more

The role of art critic is flushed down the toilet along with critical thinking in our era of positivity, not positivity of doing just thinking. The more we try to be positive it seems the worse our world gets. Why? Ego is always motivated by desire for oneself, of happiness, money, beauty, fame, success etc. Ego thinks it is God. But in fact it is a recipe for spiritual death. Doing positive acts towards others brings us out of our ego and closer to God. As does being able to scrutinize ourself realistically and change what needs to go. So in the art world when we stopped being critical of ..read more

Who are the artists who sell well? Generally we would like to believe it is the artist that has the best art that sells well. And maybe that was true a few centuries ago when traditional art was the norm. Art that had great technique and also evoked emotions and had something to say. Artists produced their art and someone else looked after publicity, exhibitions, and putting together bios as well as marketing. Usually a number of people. Then there were art critics who wrote about their work  and established its validity in the marketplace. Now art needs not be technically accurate, say ..read more

Katia Grubisic, a poet and writer for The Walrus a canadian magazine wrote that..”In the early days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, many of us were in shock and were doing whatever we could to help. A number of cultural organizations—orchestras, arts councils, museums—reacted by withdrawing support for Russian artists and arts organizations. But does cancelling artists do more harm than good?” And she concludes it is “knee-jerk wartime discrimination.”​ I now know for sure why I have stopped reading The Walrus a longtime ago. First of all to say that watching thousands of women and childr ..read more

We all know now that we are star material, proven by physics. Energy knows no boundaries and when people meet in person their energies mingle and create a form of communication that is new each time. When people face each other instead of FaceTime, there is an acknowledgement of a force greater than just worldly existence, matter. Touching hands brings joy and confirmation of our existence, not because it is just a sensual act but also because it intertwines our energies. For where two or three are gathered in the name of love, there is a force activated that is greater than the sum of its pa ..read more