A crowdfunding project by G.E. Gallas about "a darkly humorous graphic novel about a doctor grappling against the Black Death." See link below for more info!
https://unbound.com/books/the-plague-and-doctor-caim/
Thursday, October 31, 2019
THE PLAGUE AND DOCTOR CAIM by G. E. Gallas
A crowdfunding project by G.E. Gallas about "a darkly humorous graphic novel about a doctor grappling against the Black Death." See link below for more info!
https://unbound.com/books/the-plague-and-doctor-caim/
Friday, October 25, 2019
CARRION @ MONUMENT NATIONAL
Présenté par le MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels) au Monument-National du 30 octobre au 2 novembre 2019, ce solo magnétique de Justin Shoulder présente la figure de Carrion, sorte de spectre post-humain capable de se métamorphoser en une multitude de formes et de parler une multitude de langues.
Dans cette œuvre de science-fiction qui élabore une figure de la multiplicité, le corps de Justin Shoulder et sa collaboration avec le costume, la lumière, le son et l'espace sont utilisés pour animer une série de créatures ancestrales nées d'antécédents de diasporas queer et de généalogies imaginaires.
Affrontant les affres de l'accélération évolutionniste forcée, il vagabonde au milieu d'un site archéologique et se transforme en fantôme venu de l'Ouest, en virus, en trickster, en oiseau préhistorique. Mêlant spectacle de club à la dramaturgie de Victoria Hunt sur l'exploration corporelle brute, Carrion est le point culminant de l'histoire de la performance de Justin Shoulder.
Dans cette œuvre de science-fiction qui élabore une figure de la multiplicité, le corps de Justin Shoulder et sa collaboration avec le costume, la lumière, le son et l'espace sont utilisés pour animer une série de créatures ancestrales nées d'antécédents de diasporas queer et de généalogies imaginaires.
Affrontant les affres de l'accélération évolutionniste forcée, il vagabonde au milieu d'un site archéologique et se transforme en fantôme venu de l'Ouest, en virus, en trickster, en oiseau préhistorique. Mêlant spectacle de club à la dramaturgie de Victoria Hunt sur l'exploration corporelle brute, Carrion est le point culminant de l'histoire de la performance de Justin Shoulder.
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Thursday, October 24, 2019
EMERGE ART • The Mystery of Man's Quest For Knowledge
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| The image on the left was taken July 23, 2013. The image on the right was taken May 6 2019. These images have been filtered with enhanced contrasts to reveal the subtle profiles that appears to cover me, the figure that is obscured in the center of the bowl where I am taking the photos. I wondered why one was looking to the right and the other to the left? They are both facing North-West. I am the one who is in a different place. © -LENA GHIO |
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NOTE The images are dark so click on them to look closer
A response to:
Postdoctoral Researcher of the Philosophy of Science, Ghent University
« Empirical evidence is the information received by means of the senses, particularly by observation and documentation of patterns and behavior through experimentation. » Wikipedia
« Researchers gather empirical evidence through experimentation or observation. Empirical evidence is information acquired by observation or experimentation. Scientists record and analyze this data. The process is a central part of the scientific method. »
• Before I get on with this article I wanted everyone to recognize that what I call Emerge Art is also empirical evidence as per the rules of science defined above by the scientific community.
I decided to write a response to the brilliant article "Human intelligence: have we reached the limit of knowledge?" by Maarten Boudry because in it he raises the same questions I believe Emerge Art answers about the Theory of Everything and how consciousness arise in matter?
" Human brains are the product of blind and unguided evolution. They were designed to solve practical problems impinging on our survival
and reproduction, not to unravel the fabric of the universe. " - M.B.
MEANING
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| The image of the beautiful girl looking right is so overpowering that I had not noticed the motif of a large face looking calmly towards the northern window that I highlighted on the image above right. Emerge Art does Google News © 2019 -LENA GHIO |
My experiments with clouds, plants and water demonstrate that evolution is not blind or random, but rather it is a complex tale being told by the forces of the world we want to understand. Our brains evolved as a result of observing the universe. Furthermore, our ancestors learned and created knowledge by observing the phases of the Moon, the motions of the Planets and the positions of the Stars; they learned about hunting, agriculture and medicine by observing nature. They used shamanic journeys, drumming and scrying (reading water) to gain access to unseen information that would help them survive and developed spirituality.
What contemporary scientists cannot figure out is that our ancestors were witnessing the unified field from the middle perspective where we live everyday, the place of MEANING. They did not build rocket ships but they got us here. As today's scientists struggle to find the unified field, they still pay no attention to phenomena like scrying; they have dismissed the knowledge they could gather with astrology because they could not read the stars so they called astrology stupid, eliminated MEANING from it altogether instead of observing the evolution of MEANING.
I attended a conference by Hubert Reeves , a world renowned astrophysicist, where he explained MEANING thus: "for us to understand that the word b-l-a-c-k means the color black depends on how the letters are sequenced to form the word we recognize." His analogy applies in all dimensions, think DNA. Astrology speaks with geometric figures that form sequences that have MEANING.
Many scientists have boldly announced God does not exist without ever proving that last statement scientifically. They came to their conclusion by arguing with old books written by old men, searching for relics in the old countries but they ignore expressions of the living forces except to industrialize and commercialize them. MEANING is often lost on them. Nature is always responding to us, if they decided there is no wonderful, wonderful will not show up. To conclude this line of thought, imagine all there has been left behind by science that is there to explore.
What contemporary scientists cannot figure out is that our ancestors were witnessing the unified field from the middle perspective where we live everyday, the place of MEANING. They did not build rocket ships but they got us here. As today's scientists struggle to find the unified field, they still pay no attention to phenomena like scrying; they have dismissed the knowledge they could gather with astrology because they could not read the stars so they called astrology stupid, eliminated MEANING from it altogether instead of observing the evolution of MEANING.
I attended a conference by Hubert Reeves , a world renowned astrophysicist, where he explained MEANING thus: "for us to understand that the word b-l-a-c-k means the color black depends on how the letters are sequenced to form the word we recognize." His analogy applies in all dimensions, think DNA. Astrology speaks with geometric figures that form sequences that have MEANING.
Many scientists have boldly announced God does not exist without ever proving that last statement scientifically. They came to their conclusion by arguing with old books written by old men, searching for relics in the old countries but they ignore expressions of the living forces except to industrialize and commercialize them. MEANING is often lost on them. Nature is always responding to us, if they decided there is no wonderful, wonderful will not show up. To conclude this line of thought, imagine all there has been left behind by science that is there to explore.
Today science is shattered in thousands of specialties that look at the microscopic quantum field and the macrocosmic universe while scientists ask themselves how to prove the unified field, that place where we live in the middle, where the microscopic and macroscopic meet! What is even more mystifying is that they cannot recognize their blind spot!
CONSCIOUSNESS & THE BRAIN
In the article Boudry discusses a group of philosophers that call themselves Mysterians who cannot grasp the link between mind and body as they tackle the question of consciousness. When I observe what can happen in a bowl of water, with just the right light, I see the answer clearly. The great physician Galen in ancient Rome had determined that the liquid in the brain was the person's intelligence. When you see Emerge Art you understand what he means. We are made of 70% water! Our solid bodies are made of mostly water. There have been documented cases of people living normal lives with half a brain while the other half of their head is composed only of fluid.
Scientists are looking at which part of the brain gives rise to consciousness. The flaw in their approach is that they have dismissed Galen's observations about where consciousness and intelligence comes from because until now, we could not document the evidence that water has awareness, sentience. If consciousness resides in the fluids around the brain, this solves the question about where consciousness comes from. The brain then becomes an object that deciphers what consciousness tells it. There have been documented cases of people leading normal lives with half a brain. There is a well documented case studied by neurologist Marina Anikina. So while studying the complexities of the human brain it is well to know more about the role of fluids in the rise of consciousness.
Scientists are looking at which part of the brain gives rise to consciousness. The flaw in their approach is that they have dismissed Galen's observations about where consciousness and intelligence comes from because until now, we could not document the evidence that water has awareness, sentience. If consciousness resides in the fluids around the brain, this solves the question about where consciousness comes from. The brain then becomes an object that deciphers what consciousness tells it. There have been documented cases of people leading normal lives with half a brain. There is a well documented case studied by neurologist Marina Anikina. So while studying the complexities of the human brain it is well to know more about the role of fluids in the rise of consciousness.
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| Sade © 2014 -LENA GHIO |
My experiences with water demonstrate that the forms it will make are a response to words and meanings that surround it. This is also what Dr Masuru Emoto witnessed at the microscopic scale. This suggests consciousness is activated by meaning and responds in kind.
said: " Yes, there are electrical currents produced in the brain, but there is an electric current in a light bulb and no one calls it conscious or explains how electric currents invent the music of Mozart or the plays of Chekhov. " YET Emerge Art, that IS created as light is compressed in water, uses electrical light to form images or pictorial messages that we do understand! My first Emerge Art have my old living room lamp in the center of many images(Sade).
said: " Yes, there are electrical currents produced in the brain, but there is an electric current in a light bulb and no one calls it conscious or explains how electric currents invent the music of Mozart or the plays of Chekhov. " YET Emerge Art, that IS created as light is compressed in water, uses electrical light to form images or pictorial messages that we do understand! My first Emerge Art have my old living room lamp in the center of many images(Sade).
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This is an astonishing study I have used often to illustrate the extraordinary and complex response of water. I had a written note asking water to tell me who was the Nagual Don Juan Matus? I placed a print of images from book covers by Carlos Castaneda who is the author whose entire book collection is primarily about his relationship with a Yaqui Indian shaman named Don Juan Matus. The books I placed the bowl of water on were by followers of Carlos Castaneda who now write about their own experiences with the type of practices described in Castaneda's books. One of the singularities the writers use to describe their meeting with Don Juan is that nobody saw the same man. People describe a man in an elegant suit while others see him in kaki pants and sandals. Look carefully inside the bowl at what water did! A perfect analogy to the written word! This is an example of how a "state of consciousness" connects with its contents: thoughts and experiences. Meaning is part of any equation that makes scientific sense.
The Nagual © -LENA GHIO
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BIG BANG
Finding the roots of consciousness takes us all the way back to the Big Bang that is perfectly aligned with the Theory of Everything. When an unexplainable image pops up in water, it is a little Big Bang but also a Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena. Emerge Art shows us how gravity bends light because when you look at the sequences of images that lead to magnificent ones like those in this article you see the light being shaped and bended as if the water were hands kneading dough.
When you understand astrology, you recognize that it is like a language that evolves through geometric designs and relationships between celestial bodies, their motion, their mass and their own schedules. These celestial bodies create time, space and move gravity, like water kneading light to produce Emerge Art, that scoops up and shapes smaller things like atoms, as they move through the heavens. Gravity created light by compressing atoms until they ignited into stars and then created water by compressing the stars until they cried. It is a merciless creator.
Finding the roots of consciousness takes us all the way back to the Big Bang that is perfectly aligned with the Theory of Everything. When an unexplainable image pops up in water, it is a little Big Bang but also a Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena. Emerge Art shows us how gravity bends light because when you look at the sequences of images that lead to magnificent ones like those in this article you see the light being shaped and bended as if the water were hands kneading dough.
When you understand astrology, you recognize that it is like a language that evolves through geometric designs and relationships between celestial bodies, their motion, their mass and their own schedules. These celestial bodies create time, space and move gravity, like water kneading light to produce Emerge Art, that scoops up and shapes smaller things like atoms, as they move through the heavens. Gravity created light by compressing atoms until they ignited into stars and then created water by compressing the stars until they cried. It is a merciless creator.
In his article, Boudry questions whether we can finally learn the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything and still not be able to make sense of it. What I have observed as I share my humble discoveries is that the universe and the mysteries of Spirit have been mansplained. This leads to deep prejudices where insight that are not governed by past mansplanations cannot be accepted by contemporary brains who still bow to the male authority archetype. Men are still the voices of scientific knowledge and the only ones allowed gravitas to express absurd theories like string theory, for example, that has yielded no empirical evidence at all so far. We have lost the female perspective so far and that is a vast field of scientific exploration. I hope women will have a chance to voice their knowledge and not have it mansplained back tom them! The truth would prevent men from playing ego games among themselves with science and religion where everyone wants to be right. Men love to sit around with other men enjoying their cocktails and cigars and showing off what they know, they will never give that up. I believe people will continue to argue regardless of the truth and all manners of hypothesis will continue to be generated regardless of evidence.
My argument responds to the question in this title: "Human Intelligence: Have We Reached The Limits Of Knowledge." No, we have not. Emerge Art, for example, opens endless opportunities for research in endless fields from science to art to Artificial Intelligence.
My argument responds to the question in this title: "Human Intelligence: Have We Reached The Limits Of Knowledge." No, we have not. Emerge Art, for example, opens endless opportunities for research in endless fields from science to art to Artificial Intelligence.
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| Same images as above but I drew a dark contour around the figures to make them pop out. © -LENA GHIO |
LANGUAGE
Emerge Art also raises fascinating questions about the evolution of language. Water and light create symbols that scryers have interpreted as oracles, messages from the Gods. This fits perfectly with Carl Jung's work on the universal unconscious. In his quest to understand the totality of the mind, he also studied the symbols in dreams, ancient religious scripts and alchemy. He noted the recurrence of motifs that still exist in the dreams of modern men like the mandala. Noam Chomsky asks why language developed at all. For me this is simple. The word creates, Emerge Art proves that! We are a manifestation of meaning, of language, of stories woven in the fast moving designs of the universe all the way down to our DNA. We are language embodied. Think about DNA. Each of us grows into the tale encoded in the microscopic contents of living cells, evolving until the moment we are disengaged from life and die.
Emerge Art also raises fascinating questions about the evolution of language. Water and light create symbols that scryers have interpreted as oracles, messages from the Gods. This fits perfectly with Carl Jung's work on the universal unconscious. In his quest to understand the totality of the mind, he also studied the symbols in dreams, ancient religious scripts and alchemy. He noted the recurrence of motifs that still exist in the dreams of modern men like the mandala. Noam Chomsky asks why language developed at all. For me this is simple. The word creates, Emerge Art proves that! We are a manifestation of meaning, of language, of stories woven in the fast moving designs of the universe all the way down to our DNA. We are language embodied. Think about DNA. Each of us grows into the tale encoded in the microscopic contents of living cells, evolving until the moment we are disengaged from life and die.
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| From Amaryllis experiment 2012 |
To conclude this part about language and answer Chomsky's question: 'What's the nature of the combinatorial and generative system that yields an infinite array of structured expressions, each of which expresses a thought with a finite base?' I propose my equation for the Unified Field that I have proven with clouds, plants and water : E = MC squared / G + RF = T + S
THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING
The above equation will help find solutions to deal with the climate crisis. In my experiment Amaryllis Sculpted by Gravitational Modulations I discovered that Time and Space of seeding impacted the size of the plants that grew, the speed of their growth and the quantity of water they needed. I am not talking of Time Space as planting a seed in China in the summer and the other seed in Canada in winter. I am talking about the Alignment Geometry of Celestial Mechanics (AGCM) and how they are positioned relative to the planted seed. I believe we will eventually prove that AGCM created the DNA from which life on Earth emerged from the known forces. That is another endless field of knowledge to explore right there.
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| I filtered the image even more. As the two face each other they are facing North-West windows. © -LENA GHIO |
In my opinion the confusion that exists today at the cutting edge of theoretical physics is that too many fields of inquiry from our ancestors were arbitrarily dismissed because modern scientists who dismissed things like astrology or scrying did not know how to formulate adequate experiments and ambitious men destroy knowledge constantly. One only needs to look at what the Republican leadership has done to decades of scientific inquiry during Donald Trump's presidency right in front of our eyes. If today's scientists reexamined their position they would not feel the task so daunting. If you cannot find water in the desert, go to the lake. - a Lena Ghio proverb October 2019
Early humans were observing plenty and this made their brains and knowledge grow. They could read the language of nature and began our ambitious quest to know the universe. Paradoxically, Emerge Art proves intelligence, even genius, exists independent of the physical human brain.
Early humans were observing plenty and this made their brains and knowledge grow. They could read the language of nature and began our ambitious quest to know the universe. Paradoxically, Emerge Art proves intelligence, even genius, exists independent of the physical human brain.
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
GUEST OF HONOUR
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A father and his daughter try to come to grips with their haunted past in this latest Atom Egoyan film that opens tonight 48th FNC in Montreal.
David Thewlis is fascinating to watch as Jim a man who inspects restaurants for the city in his later life. He is obsessively fastidious, checking every corner, every crumb, every pot and pan. Veronica, played by Laysla De Oliveira, is planing Jim's funeral with Father Greg played by Luke Wilson when the movie begins.
Like most Egoyan films time moves back and forth from present to past as the psychology of the main characters is drawn out. Don't expect definite answers to some anecdotes about the past that are suggestive of very bad behavior by Victoria. There are intriguing questions that are never addressed like why did Jim become a restaurant inspector when in the past he owned his own restaurant.
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
EGYPTIAN MUMMIES @ MMFA > February 2, 2020
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| Objects you would find in an affluent household: statuettes of Gods and Goddesses, amulets and small scale pyramids with hieroglyphs. Photos © -LENA GHIO , 2019 |
Egyptian Mummies / Exploring Ancient Lives takes us where no other exhibition about Egyptian life has taken us before. On the one hand, we visit with mummies of ordinary people, albeit people in important social roles, that are not royals. On the other, we explore their thoughts and beliefs with artifacts of their daily lives and we witness an extraordinary exploration of their bodies using the latest CT scan technology.
We get to meet six mummies:
Nestaoudjat, a married woman from Thebes whose name means «she who belongs to the eye of Horus».
Tamout, a singer of Amun whose mummy is covered with amulets placed onto her body by high priests that you will see thanks to CT scan and 3D printers.
Irthorrou, a high priest of Akhmim temple and master of secrets.
An anonymous priestess who was probably a singer in the Amun temple.
A child from Hawara who died around age 2.
A young man from Thebes who died between 17 and 20 years of age.
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| The curators from left to right: Laura Vigo, curator of archeology and asian art; Daniel Antoine, curator of bioarchaeology department of Egypt and Sudan, British Museum; Marie Vandenbeusch, curator and Nathalie Bondil Director and curator in chief of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Photo © -LENA GHIO , 2019 |
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| Mummy of a singer/priestess from Thebes. Photo © -LENA GHIO , 2019 |
On this link you can see Marie Vandenbeusch introducing the same exhibition in Britain. This is a clear insight into the heart of this fascinating and exquisite exhibition.
I have always been fascinated by the extraordinary craftsmanship found in the artifacts of ancient Egypt. I loved that there are magical amulets in the exhibition that belonged to ordinary citizens of that historic time. I could only repeat "MAGNIFICENT" over and over.
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| Ex Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre with Nathalie Bondil at the opening. Photo © -LENA GHIO , 2019 |
There are many activities associated with this historic breakthrough exhibition in Egyptology: guided tours, art activities and so on. You can access the full schedule of events HERE.
There are many advantages to becoming a VIP Member of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Among them the opportunity to participate in many openings.
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