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If you would like to support an independent artist, Now is the time. When we support art, it's not necessarily about hanging a pretty picture up on the wall to make ourselves feel better (although this is a great bi-product), we are supporting Creativity. When we buy artwork we are saying, not only to ourselves but to the Universe, that Creativity will always be supported and will always remain a priority in our culture... even if that culture tends to focus most of it's energy on destruction, war, violence, and ego. We can help each other out of the trenches. We can do this by being creative and expressing our views through art, this is a very powerful process... more powerful then I think most people realize.
The Art Galleries, the Museums, the Institutes, all have their place, but honestly they have hijacked creativity and art. Over the years art has been made into this "Esoteric" expression, that only certain people "get it". I say forget that. Art is creativity and creativity is the expression of imagination and imagination is the glue that holds this whole reality together.
As an independent artist I would like to survive off of my art. No art galleries, no museums, no clubs or initiations... just Me, You and Creativity!!!
Each Item comes with infinite affirmations of Love, Health and Creativity. I guarantee that you if you hang this artwork up around your house, or give it to a friend, that it will start to not only change specific things in your life but it will transform those around you as well. I have seen the healing power of art and I put all of this intention into my work. I do not want to sell you a "pretty picture" to hang on your wall. I want to sell you the opportunity to expand your awareness... expand your consciousness and to open up the creative potential that is this infinite reality! Thank You!
A friend posted this video and I thought it was really relevant to the Hundredth Monkey Effect. I know a lot of family members and friends who are teachers who might find this clip interesting. It's kind of funny, when I talk to people that identify themselves as administrators, teachers, or even students, everyone, for the most part (when they are being open and honest), will admit that the system is completely failing. Yet, because it is their "job" or position, they will defend it to their death... Our educational system is not educational. It is a socializing, indoctrinating, and an assimilating system. It turns children into automats who turn into adults that have very little capacity for free thinking. And I didn't get this information from a book... I didn't read it somewhere... this is just my observation... if you need "facts" I can point you in the directions of some books. Although my ideas aren't, necessarily original, I have thought about them freely, without ideology. If you took the time you would observe a similar thing.
If children are going to learn we need to get out of state control... and start to teach our kids how to grow their own food, make their own clothes, make their own shelter, find their own water, and teach them the most we can about their bodies, their minds, and their spirit. We can help them find that creative passion inside and let that drive them through their lives, intuitively. Once you know all of this, the Earth becomes a huge playground with infinite possibilities... instead of a war zone, where who knows where the next bomb will drop? Often if you just let kids guide you in what they want to learn, you would probably find them a whole lot more free thinking and intelligent. I have met kids who are raised out of the state indoctrination, these kids seem to be the most bright, the most intuitive and the most free thinking (attributes that are rarely seen in the "Adults" in our lives).
And I would like to remind everyone that Albert Einstein dropped out of school at a young age. Granted, he contributed to the atom bomb but we all have our faults. Also there's a really brilliant mathematician, his name is Nassim Haramein, my friend Cory pointed him out to me. Nassim has actually, accurately modeled the structure of the Universe, with the Unified Field Theory amongst other things. He is one of the most brilliant people I've ever heard... he bridges all sorts of gaps... and he dropped out of school as welll. He recognized, from an early age, that school was limiting him. There are countless examples of the most brilliant human beings, leaving "school" and discovery things on their own. It's not just limited to a handful of people... it's just not something they broadcast on Fox News, CNN or the Times.
I remember being in school as a child and thinking how absolutely absurd it was. I was a fatkid (at least that's what people told me) but I wasn't lazy, I was driven... I did my homework, I was an "A" student... I just was aware that the adults around us were dumbing us down. Following bells, and standing in line for lunch. Sitting at our tiny desks, listening to mostly-insecure-humans drone on about some pre-determined curriculum. Even private schools or "alternative" schools, they are just different levels of indoctrination. The kids aren't "smarter" they are just indoctrinated to be the future leaders or a to be a different class of human. Public school kids, for the most part, will become the burger-flippers, the road-makers, the widget-producers, Teachers, Nurses, Congressman, Small Business Owners, or Tradesman. Private school kids, for the most part, will become Accountants, Doctors, Lawyers, Senators, Engineers, Corporate Executives or Scholars. Alternative school kids, for the most part, will become Advertising Executives, Writers, Artists, Musicians, Poets, Creative Directors, Small Business Owners. I'm not saying that this is what happens all the time, I've seen public school kids become the most brilliant philosophers, scientists, or artists and I've met private-school kids who are now crack-heads (not that there is anything "wrong" with being a crack head, I mean if you are a crackhead you are destroying your body and mind, but you aren't "evil"). Some of us slip through the cracks and surprise everyone, but It's all systematic. It's a systematic way to control society.
Look into who funds what. Follow the money trail and you will most likely come to similar ideas as the man in the video above. This is not information that you have to "read in a book" either. Most likely if you think back to your own experience, you can come to similar conclusions... or if you are having a hard time looking at it objectively then go sit-in on a classroom for week. It's not about the Intentions of the individual teachers, administrators... They are not intentionally trying to dumb kids down, they have just fallen into the same trap and they are abiding by the same System... if you want a good idea of the what the System is, just google "System" and don't ever stop asking the question "why?". And if you think you are changing the System from the inside, think again... the current model for education was created in the early 19th century, probably even before that, in Prussia... we are now in the 21st century... have things changed? The mask has changed a tiny bit, but it's the same ol' indoctrination. And where are we as a species? Facing destruction... on all levels, it's not really limited to one particular form of destruction at this point. But have no fear... We are here... and We know who we are.
I do want to point out, that if you shift your awareness and you come into a "higher" state of consciousness, through meditation, breathing techniques, etc., then you can live inside the system and use all of it's tools... you don't have to abide. This sounds hypocritical, contradictory, or maybe it sounds like a paradox. "How can one live in the System and use all of it's tools, but not be a part of the system?" This is a great question... and my answer is open yourself up. Open your self up to the possibility that everything you were taught was a lie, but not an intentional lie, it's not anyone's fault per-se. Open your self up to all information, no matter what the source. Do not judge a book by it's cover, or a person by their credentials. In a world that is completely ass-backwards, which if you don't think it is, step outside and open your eyes but in a world that is ass-backwards, a "bum" could be the most intelligent person you have ever met and a "scholar" could be the most indoctrinated of them all.
There is no real authority. Really... I promise. You, the individual, are your own authority. If we really educated not only ourselves but our brothers and sisters, and we helped them see the abundance that is all around us, we would probably see a lot less violence, a lot less aggression, a lot less war, and we might see the most innovative inventions start to pop up all over. In fact there is much evidence of all of this already existing... personally I have experienced it and I have seen it to be true. Some of the "smartest" people throughout history have seen that any attempt to "normalize" children is in fact indoctrination. This indoctrination seems to flow two ways. You have the "Haves" and the "Have-Nots"... and each one thinks they are better than the other. It's kind of like the Democrats and the Republicans (this is on purpose). Which one are you? If you asked me, I would say that I have stepped back from this polarization and I am Free... you can be too. There is no One that is better than Another. There are people who decide to take responsibility for their reality and there are those who choose to live by someone else's but even this polarization is an illusion.
I urge the teachers in our school systems to help the children wake up to this. It's not about replacing one ideology for another... It's not about learning the Right English, or the Right Math or the Right History. It's about opening your self up to all information equally and deciding, for your self, which information best suites the reality that you want to create. When we teach children, even in a state institution, we teach them to make the connections... if we want to understand anything, we have to make connections between ideas. What has happened is the System limits the amount of possible connections. It's like thinking you made a choice in the grocery store when you bought Heinz ketchup instead of Kraft... the truth is the ketchup is made by the same corporation... and distributed by the same corporation. If you want to see an example of this, go to any commercial street or place that has a handful of gas stations... watch when the gas truck, that replenishes the supply, goes from one gas station to the next. It's the same gas! But one place will charge 2.49, the other 2.53... it's the same gas? The illusion is that you had a choice... we do have choices, but when you have "bought-in" to the system you have relinquished all of your autonomy, all of your liberation, all of your freedom.
How can we even pretend to be free when we haven't even recognized our slavery. We have all been enslaved to this System, even the Elite Authority... most of us are the pawns, some of us are knights, bishops and such, and then we have a King and a Queen... but all of those pieces are confined to the Same Game. Slavery is a mindset, a mode of being and an illusion. I stay near the Chess board because I recognize that I can never, no matter how hard I try, live "out-side" of the system. Fundamentally I am a co-creator in the system. So I have created my own piece... I widdled it out of wood and I painted pretty (haha). And my position in the game is to get all the pieces to Wake Up and see that it's just a game and We can decide where to go from here.
*** Note: To the reader... if you are trying to box in my ideas. Don't. I am not a 'hippie', a 'new-ager', a 'communist', a 'capitalist', you don't need to call me anything or compare me to anyone other than me. If the information is solid, it is solid, and it doesn't matter what I call myself or what you call your self. Not everyone has to become the same either... just because we each recognize, that fundamentally we are the same, we can all express this differently... in fact that is why there is not One Single Human Being that repeats itself... we are all innately, inherently unique.
I go One place to get all of my information... I go inside and when I do this the information will reflect itself in other people, places or things. If we really want to "change" things I have an idea. It's very simple. Just stop what you are doing... right now! Just stop! Please Stop! If we took a global day to just Stop, we would see that the Earth still spins, that things still get done, that people go on living and that this reality that we experience is infinite. There are really infinite possibilities, and if you want proof, just start researching everything. Have you ever heard that saying " you are your own worst enemy" well it's right on.
When we know our self, we know our enemy and we quickly come to the realization that there is only ever Peace.
This is a tattoo design I completed for a young lady from Kansas. She feels really connected to the Hundredth Monkey Effect, not this website per-say, but the Theory or the Story of the Hundredth Monkey Effect. She has seen it's effect in her own life experience and she wanted a tattoo to represent that. We are going to change the hand to the Abhaya Mudra, which I think is a great idea. I can't wait to tattoo this one, it's going to be full color!
"Female Studies" 14" x 17" Graphite on Drawing Paper
These Drawings are Female studies for up coming series of the Hundredth Monkey Effect. I just started the first painting of the new series... it's going to be really colorful and a lot different then anything i've done yet... painting-wise. I'm working with acrylic on canvas and I'm taking my technique a little further, with attention to more detail and coloring... I've been drawing the most I ever have and I feel like this new series is going to pretty sweet. I've been working a bunch on female sketches and I feel like I'm coming to a decent proportion. I'm really looking forward to the oil series I'm eventually going to paint, if I don't it's cool too because it's already in my head. The series is going to be a combination of everything I've experienced, in my short existence on this planet, thus far.
