Countdown

 

Merry Christmas

 

Check

 

Christmas songs in my head

 

Waahoo doris, waahoo doris

I almost walk around drunk to this one

Christmas presents, check

 

Joyology to the World!

 

I love it!

I love it!

I love it!

For the bums

 

Christmas tree, check

 

Christmas card, check

 

A new tradition for me

How did I not know about either of these?!!

 

Open your portal

 with ecstatic trance!

Next time you go to your local art museum, make sure to stop by the ancient statues and make some notes on the postures.  You never know if one of those postures will open a portal into the spirit world.  Ecstatic trance was founded by Felicitas Goodman, an anthropologist originally interested in the intonations of speaking in tongues when in trance.  She wanted to know if there was some type of language in what appears to be gibberish.  Later, she made some type of a connection between the ancient statues postures and its use for a portal into the spirit realm for either healing or divinitory work.  She tried it on volunteer students and noticed that there were similar effects or themes with certain postures.  She also added rattling to to the ritual for better affect.  She set up the Cuyamungue institute in New Mexico, where you can try to experience ecstatic trance for yourself.  One of her students, Belinda Gore, has a tarot deck of different postures for different experiences.  Dr. Goodman also got interested in a true case of demonic possession of Anneliese Michel and wrote the book about it.  Check out this Yoga Journal article for a few postures. 

An ecstatic trance practitioner

Ecstatic example

Ecstatic Goodman

Ecstatic Jimmy

Francis Picabia

Never heard of him.  He was a Dadaist, then he renounced it for Surrealism.  He does multieyes and multimouths, I didn't realize there was such a thing when I was working on them.  Now, I'm considering doing a study on Picabia's work and get back to it, at least until the next shiny thing catches my eye.  Wiki

 

Ursula origin story

She was a happy mer-child.  Her mother and father doted on her.  Until one fateful night they were taken while she was sleeping.  She searched for them but only found her mother's haircomb or locket lying on the bottom of the ocean.  

She went to live with her aunt.  We see her in high school as an overweight, gothic teen. She is shy and keeps to herself, but gets bullied for her look and her weight anyway.  Trident and his girlfriend are the most popular and latently cruel.

She makes friends with the shrimps and a few other mer kids, she gets into magic and tarot and starts to find ways to empower herself.  she is looking for a pendulum and remembers her mother's locket— The pendulum locket starts moving in a mysterious way, so Ursula follows it.  She ends up at her old house, looks through all of her stuff, isn't it neat?  And then the finds something in her parent's treasure box, a map.

She follows the map and the pendulum to a great cave.  Something grabs her and then goes to black.

Her parents were interested in the great mystery of the ocean.  A mystical being that was said to have untold power.  Her parents were taken by the henchmen of a powerful merman.  He knew they had found the map and the secret and wanted it for himself.  Something happened to his treasure seekers and ursulas parents in the depths, meanwhile the powerful merman is still top of the food chain.

Ursula finds herself in a cage of some sort, tinkling around with bottles of odd stuff and other shiny bits of trash.  She hears an odd thump.  Black tentacles reaching into the cage frighten her.  

Fraktur Thanksgiving

 

She’s your art Healer

 Emma Kunz was an outsider artist and healer. She used a pendulum and radiesthesia.

Book I need

Hilma AF

 More visionary, spiritual work from the theosophical view, Hilma af Klint:

Portrait by Natalia Koren Kropf

Playing cards I need

Well that was quick

 Bloody knuckle season arrived early.  

Or did it?  I'm going to have to check my back logs.

Medieval Psychedelic

 Hildegard of Bingen and her cosmic egg

Another vision or a migraine


More visions in this Visual Melt article.

Happy Hallowe'en!

 

Devil's night

 

Dare to enter

 

Glyptodonts

doedicurus