http://www.siriperera.com/eecore/index.php/site/index/ en siriperera2000@yahoo.com Copyright 2012 2012-04-29T15:20:00+00:00 http://www.siriperera.com/eecore/index.php/site/is_painting_just_a_trigger_word/ http://www.siriperera.com/eecore/index.php/site/is_painting_just_a_trigger_word/#When:15:20:00Z or Art should be a ¿ If painting is just a trigger word then how can you go beyond it.  Does this build a case for discovering what is new in Art.  To define a trigger word: a word that causes a silent big bang in memory.  It creates a reaction in yourself.  Not to make you jump out of your chair as the stimulus is silent and brought forward in memory to make you react.  Trigger words work only because they stir your past in memory. I was watching a program on capital punishment on TV and there were those for life for life and the those for not.  Both the groups sat opposite to each other.  And interestingly both argued their space confidently.  Both had very good reasons for what they said.  So it was from their experiences that they decided for or against severe capital punishment.  I guess we can say that it all was as a result of where in memory it comes from or the ulterior motives for arguing a subject one way or another. Advertising plays with trigger words.  They know the strings to pull to get you to their shops.  So is it possible that Art is just a ‘higher’ form of advertising.  With respect to the viewer, its form, its composition, the title with the narrative aspects of the composition, its colour all act as a trigger to the work.  It depends on ones experiences, one’s memory and past to make an impact.  The purpose of the work to the artist can never be met because the artist has no control of how the trigger in his work will function as per the viewer’s experiences.  Large malls in big cities could employ trigger words to its casual visitors just looking for a cup of coffee, but later seen walking out with bags of goods they wonder why they purchased.  Trigger words can be made in silence, subliminally induced, to create an action in the ‘listener’.  Today’s technology allows for this.  The work of one artist can trigger further ideas in another artist which will never be conceived by the originator of that idea because of his particular experiences.  Trigger words is only the beginning of the process that triggers a torrent of thoughts in ones mind.  And today, soon, with high technology science, the mind might soon be able to be read by others.  It is the way of the human mind to be captured by another.  There is no way around it but perhaps only through observation and understanding of the process.  The concept of the ‘meme’ gene from Richard Dawkins strengthens this idea.  The meme gene is a non existent gene where an idea is passed on from one to another by word of mouth, or a painting perhaps, which when repeated enough times, is adopted by the society as true, good, well done, fantastic, brilliant, magic.  That is why you see yourself dressed like your neighbour, your bola hat, ok yesterday, but perhaps not today – the gene not hard-wired is malleable and changes with time.  It is a wireless gene where the mind is easily hacked into.  It is transmitted wirelessly from one mind to another mind and another and adopted as true. So there is no such thing as privacy.  We might soon come to accept this.  You can see how Rupert Sheldrake’s morphogenetic field is just an extension of the mind in how it works.  It is proof that we are all one and connected?: sharing what we discover.  Triggering one to be the other. In understanding how it works will trigger evolution of the mind.  It will bring about the new.  So to the viewer, how does the new come about in a painting.  Perhaps it does by not acting as a trigger to the past in the mind.  That means that its form, its mark making, its content does not allow the past in ones mind to play a part in seeing the art work.  The work does not start a narrative process in the mind.  There is no movement or action in the mind towards a corner but allows it to remain in the centre to only observe the work.  It could remain in the wow factor: only as an observation.  No history to distort the feeling.  There can be no form that is intelligible.........that is new art will always be a: ? As J. Krishnamurti says, “.......And with those as screens (desires, prejudices, daily worries, fears etc), we listen” And nothing new comes of it but just patterns of the past. 2012-04-29T15:20:00+00:00 http://www.siriperera.com/eecore/index.php/site/speak_thinking/ http://www.siriperera.com/eecore/index.php/site/speak_thinking/#When:08:55:00Z Hear what you think This might be the straight jacket for me if I don’t get it right.  Thinking is reflected in your breath.  Your breath carries your thoughts like the air around you carries sound waves from your brain through your breath and to the listener.  Think of your breath and the air that carries the sound external to you as the same thing.  But then how is thinking translated into sound?  I think I ‘speak’.  What I am saying is that even if I don’t speak my thinking can be heard in my chest cavity and then through my breathing.  It is difficult to prove that it resonates in your chest cavity but it can be heard in your breathing.  Extra sensory perception is not necessary to know what you are thinking.  Thinking and speaking same as thinking and not speaking – I can still hear you.  The process is the same whether you speak or not. Here I must point out that when the mystics of the past had emphasised the importance of breathing they did not go into the science or the specifics of the process.  They had the big picture through practice.  They knew that certain things happened and they knew how it was all connected and they knew the benefits of the practice and they went about their thing.  So at times when we mortals look at what they had to say, we say: crazy.  Lets see what one mystics said about breathing and the breath: From: The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan Vol. 4 - HEALING AND THE MIND WORLD PART III MENTAL PURIFICATION Chapter XV The Secret of Breath Breathing is a great secret’, the reaction is, ‘Why, I have never thought about it. What is it really? In reality the breathing itself is voice, and the whole voice-construction depends upon breathing. For the mystic breath is that current which carries the air out and brings the air in. Naturally, breath being the self, it is not only the air which one exhales but it is a current which, according to mystics, runs from the physical plane into the innermost plane; a current which runs through the body, mind, and soul, touching the innermost part of life and also coming back; a continual current perpetually moving in and out. breath runs through all three: body, mind, and soul. http://www.sufimessage.com/mental-purification/The%20Secret%20of%20Breath.html Ok so enough of this: mysticism still jingle jangle for some.  We want to find some facts to see if thinking is connected to breathing because if thinking is really reflected in breathing then I can know what you are thinking, right?  I can listen in to your breathing and it will tell me what you are thinking.  I can record it, tape it and play it back.  Imagine a life time of thinking saved on tape for family and friends.  E-mail hacking and privacy who cares.  I know what you are thinking because you are breathing and thinking is carried along with your breathing.  I can see the straight jacket partially on me already.  But lets stop here with the mysticism and look at facts. Above are a set of PET scans on the parts of the brain that are affected by speaking and thinking. Hence today scientist have the means to locate parts of the brain that control speaking or even thinking (and language) There were experiments that were carried out to confirm the areas that controlled speaking. The area that controls speaking was discovered by Paul Broca a French neurologist, who had a patient who could not speak.  After the patient died an autopsy showed “that an area of the frontal lobe, just ahead of the motor cortex controlling the mouth, had been seriously damaged. He correctly hypothesized that this area was responsible for speech production.” This part of the brain was then called the “Broca’s area” This part controlled the muscles of the mouth. (http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/speechbrain.html) Now thinking: When we want to speak, we formulate what we are going to say in Wernicke’s area, which then transmits our plan of speech to Broca’s area, where the plan of speech is carried out. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receptive_aphasia) The diagram above shows these areas clearly. So in the brain there is that area that formulates language before you speak.  It is formulated in the Wernicke’s area in the brain.  The signals are then sent to the Broca’s area in the brain to get ready to create sound and hence speech.  So now you have to see how the larynx and the muscles in the mouth are controlled to create speech.  Breathing sits on top of this.  This is important that you keep in mind that breathing runs simultaneously with this process of first thinking then speaking.  Just to remind you that what I am trying to do here is to show you that thinking is also ‘heard’ in breathing.  Extra sensory perception is not the only way that you can read a persons mind.  You can also do this by listening to his breathing.  So how is sound controlled by the larynx and what is the function of the tongue in all of this. The larynx which houses the vocal cords only controls the pitch of sound.  To keep it all concise from here.  The pitch is like the from high pitch Michael Jackson to low pitch Louis Armstrong.  That is all the vocal cords can do.  Your language is created by your tongue, lips and palate on the back of this.  Speaking itself is made by the muscles of the mouth: tongue, back of your palate and lips.  “Some consonants are called labials (Latin labia, lip) because they are formed by the lips; it is impossible to say b, p, f, m, or v with your mouth alone. Others (d, t, l, n, r, s, z, ch, j) are linguals, requiring the use of the tongue (Latin lingua, tongue). G, q, and k are gutterals, made with the back of the palate (Latin gutter, throat).” http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/L/larynx.html Your chest cavity, your breathing tubes, your diaphragm all help to make the sound louder: “amplifies the sound just as the body of a violin does.” It is more difficult to prove to a reader that the chest cavity is another source to listen to thinking.  The chest cavity amplifies the sound and with careful listening can ‘hear’ thinking.  But as the sound is ‘carried out’ by breathing it is proof that it happens in the chest cavity too as muscles in the larynx and cavity resonate to the stimulus from the brain to create sound.  This is probably a better source to listen into and with a better quality sound. It takes observation on your part to know that thinking only (with no speaking) is carried along from your brain right up to your mouth whether you speak or not.  Try this: your are at your ATM.  You want some money.  Just think it out: pin number: 1,2,3,4: now watch your tongue movements while you key these numbers in your mind: can you feel your tongue move like you are speaking?  Yes. While you are writing an essay, silently, your tongue moves quietly with every word.  The only anatomical part of speech that is silent are your lips.  But the lips create the clear word.  Without your lips words are still clear enough to understand what is being thought.  You can try this by opening your mouth (or keeping it shut), keeping your lips still and talk what you are thinking: you can still be understood.  What you hear is what can be heard with your breath.  The tongue and your back palate and other muscles in the mouth that is involved in speech move with thinking and the movement of the air of breathing over the tongue and the shape of the space it creates inside your mouth creates words that can still be understood.  You can also try this: pull your thermals over your face and place both palms on your face to keep the thermals in place and listen to your breathing while you think.  The modulation of sound/language heard through the process of breathing is your thinking.  And another experiment: put a finger spatula in your mouth and keep your tongue down and from moving: you can see that the words are less clear.  The process of thinking and speaking is separated only by the use of the lips.  So you know that if you are reading a letter silently, or writing an e-mail (watch your tongue while you do this) somebody might be listening.  It is only language that is carried in the breath.  Image making and pictorial thinking that are not translated into words do still remains safe in the brain or maybe not....... “This is so cool it’s almost creepy: Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, reconstructed movies that test subjects had watched, using functional MRI scans to convert brain activity into fuzzy but eerily accurate moving images.” The future is here today.  (http://www.radiologydaily.com/daily/neuroradiology/brain-mri-can-picture-what-youre-thinking/) ps: About listening devices in use today to do the job? Firstly i must point out to you that if there is any such devices that is in existance you are not going to know about it.  Also the scientist in ‘Palermo’ is going to know about this new technology before you do. But if you troll the net you might see that it is not impossible.  i will leave you with the best of wiki: http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_listening_device on listening devices and how they are used. And you might be interested in this one if you live in a newly built apartment: The United States Embassy in Moscow was bugged during its construction in the 1970s by Soviet agents posing as laborers. When discovered in the early 1980s, it was found that even the concrete columns were so riddled with bugs that the building eventually had to be torn down and replaced with a new one, built with U.S. materials and labor.[12] For a time, until the new building was completed, embassy workers had to communicate in conference rooms in writing, using children’s “Mystic Writing Tablets”. Also look at ‘Array Microphones’ if you are interested.  These are 360 degree directional microphones that follow you around your home for covert listening - http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microphone_array If you still think that that mind of yours is saying that it is impossible, because you have’nt been there, then this: Gold nano ‘ears’ set to listen in on cells 13 January 2012 by David Shiga Magazine issue 2847. NewScientist MOVE over microphones, nanophones have arrived. A gold sphere just 60 nanometres in diameter is the most sensitive listening device ever created, paving the way for soundtracks to formerly silent movies of bacteria and other single-celled organisms. Alexander Ohlinger at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich (LMU), Germany, and colleagues suspended gold nanoparticles in a drop of water. They trapped one sphere in a laser beam and then fired rapid pulses of light from a second laser at others a few micrometres away. The pulses heated the nanoparticles, which disturbed the water around them, generating pressure, or sound, waves. The single laser-trapped nanoparticle then began to jiggle back and forth, as if it were reacting to the sound waves. To make sure the jiggling was not due simply to the random motion of water molecules, the researchers varied the frequency of the sound waves. The trapped particle matched the frequency every time, and the direction of its movement lined up with the sound waves’ direction, providing further evidence that it was reacting to the waves (Physical Review Letters, DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.108.018101). The tiny microphone picked up sounds down to some minus 60 decibels - a level one-millionth of that detectable by the human ear. That makes it more sensitive than any other listening device, says team member Andrey Lutich, also at LMU. “We could not find any other sound detector capable of detecting acoustic waves with such a high sensitivity,” he says. The technique could one day let us listen in on the tiniest living structures, including cells and viruses, according to the team. Changhuei Yang of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, who was not a member of the team, agrees. He says living cells have been seen vibrating under the microscope, but no one has yet set up a microphone to record their sounds. “It would be interesting to try to build upon the technology along this direction,” he says. Doing that could also tell us more about the mechanical properties of cells and how they change as a result of disease. In 2008, researchers led by YongKeun Park and Monica Diez-Silva of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that red blood cells vibrated less when they were infected with the malaria parasite, apparently because the infection made the cells stiffer than normal (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0806100105). The gold-nanoparticle technique might eventually allow us to probe such changes, Yang says: “The novelty of the technology holds promise that it can open new ground.” ****************************************** pps: some new research on brain activity: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2137178/Teenagers-binge-drinking-drug-abuse-linked-way-brain-wired.html 2012-04-26T08:55:00+00:00 http://www.siriperera.com/eecore/index.php/site/very_surely_clearly/ http://www.siriperera.com/eecore/index.php/site/very_surely_clearly/#When:19:42:00Z Thinking in breathing I went for a talk to the Rajneesh’s ashram in Pune, India around 1980.  It was a long time ago.  I did not understand anything he said and sat there crossed legged for about 2 hours hoping that I could get up and go.  But they had told us at the start of the talk that we could not leave while the talk was on.  All his devotees wore yellow robes.  I remember this lady from Africa there, probably African American, but I don’t remember any of the Indian faces or the rest of the European faces there.  I remember Rajneesh came in his Rolls Royce.  It was white in colour.  But he had a few of them in his garage I was told – all gifts, mostly from rich Americans.  Also this I remember: All devotees and me had to go through a metal detector, before taking our seats on the floor.  The kind of detector that you find at airports.  The reason for this was that someone had once thrown a knife at him.  Vaguely I think his talk was on love: but not sure of the rest – most of it was like water off a ducks back, to me, then.  But I remember his voice: softly softly, spoken clearly - like he saw everything he said.  He was surely sure of what he was talking about.  Once Jiddu Krishnamurti was asked: who interprets best what he says and his reply was Rajneesh.  But I think he said it in jest.  From what you are about to read: you can see how he says it like he sees it: very surely clearly.  About a couple of years ago I did go back to the Ashram and had a meal at the German bakery outside the Ashram.  You might not find the bakery there now as it got bombed.  The Ashram had all changed and people are business like and Ashram Plc.  Not like before: if you came you got to get in and listen and also to some of his jokes.  When i was there about 30 years ago I remember the 2 jokes he said like it was said yesterday.  Remember he spoke softly softly (and this is a true story): Joke no: 1 - Jesus arrived at a hotel reception threw some nails onto the reception desk and said , ‘put me up’. Joke no: 2 - 2 Italian men sitting in front of an Italian cafe: one was a young male and the other an elderly man.  It was a bright sunny day and lots of people were out and about walking past them. Elderly man asked the young man: Do you like fat women? and the younger man said: No. Elderly man: Do you like women with big breasts? Young man said: No. Elderly man: Then why you fucking my wife? I don’t usually swear but i am saying it as it was said.  I did not make up the swear words. In this article Rajneesh talks of breathing and concentrating on breathing and if you concentrate on breathing then your thinking stops: both he says cannot exists together at the same time.  Then you progress to concentrating on thinking itself – and thinking stops.  Both being aware of thinking and thinking itself cannot exists together at the same time.  Then you watch your feeling and feeling...... He died in 1990. Art can be made from different spaces in your mind.  Osho - Just go on watching your Breathing Osho - People go on doing things almost in a sleep. Just become a little more alert. Do whatsoever you are doing, but bring the quality of consciousness to your actions—there is no other method. And you can bring that quality to small things and that is helpful. Sitting, just watch your breathing. The breath goes in, watch; the breath goes out, watch. Just go on watching your breathing. And it is of great help because if you watch your breathing, thinking stops. This is something to be understood. Either you can think or you can watch your breathing. You can’t do both together. Breathing and thinking are such processes that only one can exist in you—in awareness. In unawareness, both can continue: you can go on breathing and you can go on thinking. But if you become aware, either you can think or you can breathe; and when you breathe with awareness, thinking disappears. Your whole consciousness becomes focused on breathing. And breathing is such a simple process: you need not do it, it is already happening. You can just bring your consciousness to it. Buddha became enlightened through this simple method. He calls it vipassana, insight. Breathing brings great insight and when you are aware of breathing, the whole thought process simply comes to a stop—and great stillness arises. After watching your breathing, it will be easy to watch your thinking directly, because breathing is a little gross. Thinking is more subtle. Thoughts have no weight, they are weightless; they can’t be measured, they are immeasurable. That’s why the materialists cannot accept them. Matter means measure—that which can be measured is matter. So thought is not matter because it cannot be measured. It is, and yet it cannot be measured; hence it is an epiphenomenon. The materialist says, “It is only a by-product, a side effect, a shadow phenomenon”—just as you walk in the sun, a shadow follows you. But the shadow is nothing. You walk in life and thinking arises, but it is only a shadow. If you watch this shadow, this epiphenomenon, these thoughts and the processes of thought… it is going to be a more subtle phenomenon because it is not as gross as breathing. But first, learn the process of awareness through breathing and then move to thinking. And you will be surprised: the more you watch your thinking… again, either you can watch or you can think. Both cannot be done simultaneously. If you watch, thinking disappears. If thinking appears, watching disappears. When you have become alert enough to watch your thoughts and let them disappear through watching, then move to feeling—which is even more subtle. And these are the three steps of vipassana. First breathing, second thinking, third feeling. And when all these three have disappeared, what is left is your being. To know it is to know all. To conquer it is to conquer all. Source: from Osho Book “Dhammapada Vol 6” And if you want to know about how thinking is heard in your breathing please read the next article on “speak thinking”. 2012-04-23T19:42:00+00:00 http://www.siriperera.com/eecore/index.php/site/now_where_that_come_from/ http://www.siriperera.com/eecore/index.php/site/now_where_that_come_from/#When:20:35:00Z Like water off a ducks back if you not watching your mind, if you don’t know, where it coming from, then you nothing, now where that come from, I hear this voice ask me, whenever i am bored. I was reading the Metro, a local free paper that I picked up from the White City tube station and came across this about JK Rowling.  It is about the ideas she got about her Harry Potter books: The ideas for the stories came to her in 1990 as she sat on a delayed Manchester to London train. The article ended with: She once said, “I really don’t know where the idea came from.” I gather these days nobody reads past the first 10 paragraphs so it makes no sense to write a whole lot and perhaps better to just summarise.  Maybe even a diagram as an introduction, the whole thing in a flash just right there at the beginning so you don’t need to read the whole article.  Lets face it what is it that any of us has to offer.  Our own experiences incomplete as to what the Truth really is.  When the Truth stands before you, one day – you will find that you got it all wrong.  The universe only allows you a peak from time to time – but when they come true to your experiences – you are hooked and there is no turning back from them.  It is as if the direction is set, you cross the earthly line, and you walk the path and from time to time it gives a little bit more – you put a picture together but it will never be complete.  It teases you just a bit at a time.  If It gives you all of it at once then you might not appreciate it and then it is just - like water off a ducks back. Firstly there is new and there is new: new to you and perhaps not to others, then it is not truly new; and then there is that which is universally new – new to all when it arrives.  whenever i am bored. My studio is only a stone’s throw away from where I live.  It is not an effort to get to it.  The effort is in the mind.  I live in a deterministic universe.  That is the force first and last.  It has its own laws.  It is vast and engulfing.  Its burden on me is heavy with its rules as it does not allow me space to move.  It is made to stay in equilibrium and you with it.  You are given free will to discover and at the same time your mind exists with limitations – advertising, induced thinking etc.  “At Absolute zero (-273.15 degrees Celsius) the deterministic universe still has zero-point energy, the energy of its ground state. The kinetic energy of the ground state cannot be removed. (wiki)”.  It always is just that all the time.  But when you remove all else at absolute zero, zero-point energy is still there. The energy at that temperature is unchanging. Constant. Stable.  It is not going anywhere even if you want it too.  Your free-will cannot make it move.  Us and all the illusions we created together with the Morphogenetic field and everything else you can think off sits on top of this.  When all the illusions disappear, and the big mechanical cleaners come along and spray the universe with all the water it contains: whats left is Zero-point energy – constant. Stable.  Everything else is an illusion: nothing is real. And you sit in your studio and you are looking for what’s new.  Your mind is full of limitations and the scientist tells us that there is only one thing that is constant: the deterministic universe with its zero-point energy.  Short walk to studio. Beautiful building. Ana banana. Lights on. Coffee. Sunny day. Seated.  Fresh eye on yesterdays work on the wall.  No thinking. Silence.  Epiphany comes from nothingness.  It comes from no knowledge , through spontaneity or chance or through a mistake made.  It comes along as nothing that is now in existence.  The studio: now where that come from, I hear this voice ask me, whenever i am bored. 2012-04-15T20:35:00+00:00 http://www.siriperera.com/eecore/index.php/site/natural_perpetrators/ http://www.siriperera.com/eecore/index.php/site/natural_perpetrators/#When:12:10:00Z New technology perpetrators have their equivalent in the natural world.  Perception and limitations of the mind. (’Becoming’ 2008, acrylics) Perception 2: Natural Perpetrators I created a scenario for you in perception 1.  I tried to show with examples and links how the new technologies could manipulate the individual to ‘become’ something he is not.  I think I put a good case across with examples and links to suggest how technologies today could be used to influence us through our natural sensors – sight, sound, smell, and touch – to influence us with all the emotions that can be conjured up with these natural sensors.  A convincing case can be made up to seem that it is real and it becomes real.  Hearing is a particularly interesting sensor as there is the audible and the inaudible aspect of it ( further perpetuating the idea.) Subliminal messages on ‘silent mode’ can be transmitted to where there might be ‘no’ audible sound to the individual but it is no different to that of what you can hear.  The subliminal message still gets across.  They bounce off what’s around you and arrive in a muffle.  You see I am still trying to convince you and the more I do it the more it becomes believable, like writing fiction.  Today science and technology has got closer to manipulating the ‘self’.  To the artist who wants to cross-the-line for the new, to manifest that which is not there, he has yet, as seen above, another obstacle to overcome.  But then you want to ask: has the individual ever been free to create the ‘new’ or is he really ever was always shackled to the structure of the process: from the big bang of zero consciousness to the created morphogenetic field (Rupert Sheldrake) that evolved as a result of us being creative.  We created our past and we are at present living off it.  We are not living in an absolute world.  Not that there is not the Truth of things: the laws of nature is the bottom line: you look towards it for inspiration.  This is even more relevant today: we created a Disney land of ideas as to how best to live our lives, feeding off a collection of ideas, piling one of top of each other, well off the path of the Truth of the natural laws of the universe and we have reached the tipping point for those set of ideas and it is crumbling off the top.  So the artist and his ideas: no different. Might it just be that the new is just not possible: it is all only a permutation of the ‘Disneyland of ideas’ that we created for ourselves and we are living off it and in that illusion, while feeding off the morphic field created from the past.  As has been said and with good reason: one has to see, ‘what is’ (J. Krishnamurti) and live with those limitations for nothing new is ahead of us but just a crumbling of old ideas and making of another off the old past and the cycle is repeated.  So how does one come off this circle, where the ‘beginning is the ending’ and for ever doomed to repetition of social cycles spanning time that is too long for one to remember when the last one ended.  Memory in mind might be erased on passing, but the past is something that the living continues to carry around with them.  There is 2 sides to all of us: the visible and the invisible.  I hope with today’s advancements in quantum mechanics we can say this without having to make excuses.  Programs on TV today put across the facts quiet simply for anyone to see science today as it is.  Each atom I gather on each individual can radiate out about a kilometre around that individual.  So unless you are alone in the desert, that energy is going to interact with the energy of the 100’s that are walking past you and with a possible discovery of the Higgs Boson, we are all living in a sieve of treacle as we interact with each other.  (something to think about is that isolation, like the recognised prophets have done in the past, does allow for a clear uninterrupted field of ‘vision’ from individuals) There are no individuals in the cities: there are groups of people creating their collective morphogenetic fields in the ether and collectively living off it and these fields probably cross oceans and people are affected by what goes on in places they do not even know about.  The properties of the field is organic: not the same from one moment to another as new ideas are added to it.  A good example for this is today’s financial crises: I gather a new idea by the investment bankers of creating a certain kind of derivative that was not easy to quantify and money was borrowed on these derivatives – great idea at the time, create something that looks like something which turned out to be nothing and lets borrow money on it pretending that it is something.  Sounds like a great painting idea – after it is conceived, make it and set a value for it after the idea has been manifested.  It will be valuable if the idea is ‘new’ but what if the ‘new’ comes off the old.  The human being as an entity is not going anywhere but into itself.  It is held in place by the limitations of its sensors that make up its visible world and also by its invisible world by being held in its place by the energies that surround it.  The individual can only make itself of itself and of the collective entity (the morphic field).  It makes an illusionary world that it then inhabits thinking that it is real.  It only takes a derivative trader with a good ‘new’ idea to show you how vulnerable the system can be and you want to consider that the good ‘new’ idea of the last century, carefully building on itself, has reached its tipping point and it might be just too close to us for us to see its end.  It has been said that they come in stages of dips and plateaus.  A dip is corrected temporarily to a plateau and then the next dip comes along until there are no more resources to contain it any more.  You must think of it as a whole entity of a big idea this thing called ‘society’.  Every big idea will have its tipping point as you can push it only so far before it runs dry.  Art and creativity I think is not sitting tall outside of all of this but is actually the driving force behind this illusion, creating the unreal and perpetuating the illusion.  It is the engine of the Morphogenetic field.  A natural perpetrator of the illusion. New ideas do turn up at times.  Something might look like a new idea and it might look like it is coming from outside the energy field that keeps the past, but then is it possible that field itself generates these so called new ideas from itself.  One must remember that the morphogenetic field is an energy field with an array of patterns and forms: like that in a painting. Shapes and things and patterns and colour.  In these energy fields the information is stored in patterns of energy, forms and shapes.  According to Swedenborg, “the uninterrupted creativity of the universe comes from, in which there an endless multiplicity of forms of which none resembles the other”.  So how then does the new idea arise.  Rupert Sheldrake: “New fields (morphic fields) start off as insights, intuitive leaps, guesses, hypotheses or conjectures.  They are like mental mutations.  New associations or patterns of connections come into being suddenly by a kind of Gestalt-switch”. I can understand that a set of patterns put together can form new associations and patterns but if you put a bunch of tomatoes together and jumble it up and look at it again you are not going to get asparagus.  You cannot get away from that which you have created in the first place.  The truly new has to come from outside of the limits of the ‘what is’ to be truly new.  If we live of what we create and cannot come off it then there is no going anywhere but only to where disorder prevails.  Even the ever expanding universe cannot escape this as nothing stands still.  One second is different from the next.  And society as an idea of the human mind that came off the past and from the generating of ideas from within itself for ever evolving from the desires of the mind, getting more complex and expanding might find that what it sits on was not made to hold up what it has become. Hopefully in the circle, it is not getting close to the beginning of where the end is. So just as Society is an idea of the mind as all Art is in its forms is a thing of its collective past or a mutation of it.  (Ursula Groll in “Swedenborg and New Paradigm Science”) describes Swedenborg in his visionary work how the spirit works on the body and how all changes in the body are caused by perception.  For people are, above all, “spiritual figures,” to whom the “inner world” lends form. Humanity is linked through the inner world to the whole cosmos, in morphic resonance to use Sheldrake’s words.  Each human being is connected with every other human being and thereby subject, consciously or unconsciously, to all good and evil influences.  Swedenborg: nothing in the universe can “ arise and exist without ordering itself within a collective.” Sheldrake’s hypothesis also suggests “that the entire history of the human spirit that derived from a unified immaterial common spirit, which then took form in the development of the different arts, cultures, religions and sciences.” The Arts might not show us what the Truth is if it only deals with its own content, but the process does have one thing going for it: it does naturally take you into the inner world and gives you inner sight for understanding your invisible world.  IF you would allow me to say this: too many material beings are living with only a part of themselves in existence: they see only what their sensors tell them.  You meet the Truth with both your visible and the invisible worlds.  Art can make you do this because the process allows for it.  But can it manifest from outside its past and create the truly ‘new’ is doubtful.  Perhaps it can only go round in circles, feeding off what it has already created, until we find a way out of our limitations. AS with the new technologies that can alter our perception, so can the natural perpetrators of the invisible processes of the ‘self’.  Boom and bust is not only a trait for the financial world but possibly also tied up with the social cycles of the past and with the limitations of the mind and its processes.  Until the day, the mind, can find a way to work outside its limitations and free itself from its past then perhaps creativity can find a way to create the truly new. I end this wth a quote from J.Krishnamurti: “The known can never know the Unknown. Sirs, this is not just a statement; but if you listen to it, if you listen to the real meaning of it, you will know the truth of it. But the man of vanity, the man of knowledge, the scholar, the man who is pursuing a result, can never know the Unknown; therefore he cannot be a creative being. And at the present time it is the creative being—the man who is creative—that is essential in our daily life, not a man who has a new technique, a new panacea. And there can be no creativeness if there is already a residue of knowledge. The mind must be empty to be creative. It means the mind must be totally and completely humble. Then only is there a possibility of that creativity to come into being.” - J. Krishnamurti 2012-01-23T12:10:00+00:00 http://www.siriperera.com/eecore/index.php/site/perception_november_2011/ http://www.siriperera.com/eecore/index.php/site/perception_november_2011/#When:03:41:00Z The natural perceptive self.  What if on top of this sits todays 21st century’s invented technologies?  How does this add to the interpretation and perception of the individual?  Can perception be altered so it is no longer the product of the particular mind.  How does this affect the artist?. OR Voice-To-Skull electronic harassment and the artist. and, In the London cyberspace security conference (1st and 2nd Nov. 2011) they describe the perpetrators’: “We’re seeing a migration of traditional organised crime groups over into cyber, exploiting a new type of person engaged in crime who tends to be young, technically sufficient, very good at maths and physics, but perhaps not your traditional criminal figure in the outside world.” Crime groups enticing the nerds to come out of their computer screens and do some crime.  A case of playstation with real people and places. [Robert Fludd’s depiction of perception 1619).] ‘transformation’ Perception The information on perception is subjective.  Hence the subject is as free and confusing as Art itself.  So though we can look at this from different angles, I want to look at it with a new purpose of how the 2 century’s technological influences can affect an artist until one can almost say that he is no more responsible for the work he produces.  Can I start with the entry points to the self: old natural sensors of sight, smell, touch, sound.  Then there are the invisible sensors that create the extrasensory perceptions: the body as an atomic sieve that receive electromagnetic energy all the time passing through this sieve and creating data and images that the body creates in the mind: so you ‘see’ in your mind, something that is normally invisible.  These are the natural possibilities.  What if on top of this sits the last 20 hundred years of invented technologies?  How does this add to the interpretation and perception of the individual?  Is it possible that it becomes altered so much by this incursion that it is no longer the product of the particular mind.  How does this affect the artist?. The 2nd century has bought on some new technological inventions that have piggy backed on the old sensors.  Technology today is able to change the perception of an individual sometimes so subtle that one does not ‘recognise’ the tools being used.  Wireless technology can get close enough to your skull and into it to alter the way you think.  But the fascinating aspect of all this is that wireless technology does get close enough into the skull to perceptively alter your reasons for doing things and that is already doing a lot.  I am also interested here to see how this influences the artists so he makes work that is not of his or her interest but rather that of those of the perpetrators of the technologies (to be discussed further along).  And one can go about doing work, creating works of art, thinking that it is of one’s own, but rather perceptively altered and influenced (initially without one knowing) by ‘voice to skull’ technologies, seeing through walls, synthetic voice playback or speech synthesis: synthetic voice play back with voice recognition probably through a keyboard.  When used in conjunction with ‘voice to skull’ inventions perpetrators’ can playback the voice of a person who you know is saying things you don’t want to hear or would not be normally said by the friend.  So today there are sufficient tools about and in their different combinations can alter the perception of a person: an artist to make work that is controlled by an external force.  The mind, for some reason, with these new toys seem to find the worse it can do and does it: like tagging an individual and following him, invasion of privacy, blackmail and when seeing through walls, as you might have in some airports these days: an individual can find no place to hide.  Working tagging units can set themselves up in different countries where the individual is tagged from country to country, where groups operate through a central master mind.  These groups might not know each other, but pass on jobs from country to country.  They operate like some other units do in the world today, only that here the work is done silently and the perpetrators’ are ‘invisible’.  In operating in this way, the net that is cast can be widening every day in the world.  Though I am discussing this in a general way, trying to organise the big picture first, I would like to go into some detail as to how the invisible technology operates.  Lot of it is driven by universities that are doing some ground breaking research on ‘perception’ (like Reading university say and will come to it later) but are picked up by individuals, groups etc and modified and used for shenanigans, spying, tagging etc.  I don’t have to remind you of the smart phone spy software that is discussed openly in the news and how ones every movement can be followed.  Like from this link: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/spy-smartphone-software-tracks-every-move-050242556.htm ‘Software designed to completely mine every secret on a smartphone can track its users, record their calls, copy their emails, read their text messages and bug the rooms the phones are sitting in.’ and how do they do it: It starts with a little ‘social engineering’. ‘By hacking the phone of someone the victim might trust, and learning something about them from reading their Tweets and Facebook page, the attacker will send a personalised email from a known account. The user opens an email and a document, a picture, letter or pdf file. A programme can be embedded in the attached document which takes the hacked user’s phone off to a secret website site which covertly downloads spying software onto the smartphone.’ AND ‘"There is no way that a victim would know his phone had been comprehensively hacked.” Attacks on smartphones shot up by 46% last year, and this year the percentage is likely to be in the thousands.’ But don’t bother dumping your smartphone as you look really cool with it, while you follow the tag. The smart phone adds a very powerful tool to the perpetrators’ as a whole.  The smart phone is useful when the tagged individual is on the move, eaves dropping, listening to conversations, spyware software switching phones on when the owner thinks that the phone is off and listening in to conversation, GPS, that is on-the-move-matters of spying etc.  But voice-to-skull perpetrators are more invasive.  They do get into your skull and this new aspect of tagging is to GET closer to you.  They are not just satisfied in following you with your mobile phone: they have to cover that space between you and your mobile phone and get INTO you.  The reason they do that is so they can now hear you THINK.  And they can.  And I think here my information can start becoming a bit fuzzy BUT they CAN hear you think.  Because they can hear you think there is no place for you to hide. And if they can control an individual this way, then they can control a small group of people and which then becomes a bigger group of people and bigger ……with aims of changing the world or bringing down a government.  But remember with me I am only interested in the individual and the artistic process.  How is an artist affected or influenced by all this so that his work is not made by him anymore.  You understand I am not interested in how in using such a technology an individual can be investigated through his mobile, spy ware in his computer, spyware to read his computer screens so his banking data is known and then blackmail.  I am not interested in any of that understand.  Or how such technology can be used to organise groups to protest and bring down governments, kill undesirable leaders.  All this of course is bringing on a new world.  Desperate governments might use the technology to keep an eye on its people, or different groups of people vying to protect their own interests.  These are just suggestions: the artist mind following the stream of thoughts: getting connected to the Rupert Sheldrake’s morphogenetic field and thinking at a certain frequency, watching how your tongue speaks when all you are doing is just thinking.  The implications of this is that when you are at an ATM trying to remember your PIN number and think as you type (your mouth closed and not a word said) in your PIN number: voice-to-skull perpetrators can know your pin.  They don’t need any technology close to you: they only need to ‘read’ your mind and I think they are doing this indirectly by this thing of ours or ‘talking’ when we think.  Try it: pretend that you are in front of an ATM machine and think that you are typing 1,2,3 and 4 and watch your tongue move as you do this.  Yes Human thing we all do it.  They either monitor the pressure alterations in your mouth or the movement of the tongue muscles – like how the keyboard logger virus works, that transmits everything that you have typed to the perpetrators’ when the virus is in your hard disk having got there through an innocent e-mail of a friend say – not through Spam e-mail anymore.  The keyboard logger software recognisers the characteristics of all the keys on the keyboard and they know what you type – e-mails read and search engine research: that is anything you type is read etc.  So from the computer hardisk to your mind.  Research has already been done on how a magnetic sensor placed under your tongue can read what you think.  It sure ain’t Bingo this thing, but the perpetrators’ don’t need a magnetic sensor under your tongue but they can read your mind and possibly indirectly through your tongue.  UNLESS the target is transmitting through a frequency that can be picked up which I think is unlikely.  The ‘center’ of the mind is the processing unit: it gets all its information from the external sensors, including your invisible sensors.  It then transmits after processing during the thinking process.  If you understood how data is transmitted from this center during thinking then you can acquire data from that process.  If Professor Kevin Warwick can implant a chip in his arm and that of his wife’s and sense a kind of ESP experience, then you can read thinking.  All you need is that chap walking past you to have a chip in his arm and he picks up the information that comes out of your thinking mind. Not impossible this thing of reading off your mind.  Try it as an experiment, nothing to lose: Next time you are out and about just repeat a phrase in your mind, just keep repeating it, with no other kind of thinking, and see if somebody will tell you what you are repeating.  Just an experiment.  Then you might find out, as an experiment you understand, just how many of Professor’s Kevin Warwick’s chips are up and about and modified to smartphone status, quickly quickly fast and modified to be even more precise: that is now possibly the future of the mind: new technologies on top of the old natural sensors.  Why wait for evolutionary development of the mind and ESP to catch up, when you can get it right now with new technologies. http://www.kevinwarwick.com/ (Kevin Warwick is Professor of Cybernetics at the University of Reading, England, where he carries out research in artificial intelligence, control, robotics and biomedical engineering.) OK some info on reading your tongue. Patent application title: TONGUE OPERATED MAGNETIC SENSOR SYSTEMS AND METHODS http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20090309747 ‘A method of tracking movement, position, or both of a tongue of a subject. The method includes positioning a tracer unit on the tongue of the subject in a non-obstructively manner; positioning a sensor system in proximity to the tongue carrying the tracer unit; calibrating the sensor system relative to the tracer unit; and detecting the position of the tracer unit. An assistive system/apparatus can track movement, position, or both of the tongue. The system/apparatus includes the tracer unit; the sensor system for detecting position of the tracer unit and adapted for non-obstructive placement proximal the sensor system; and a control system for transmitting to a processing system.’ Read more: http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20090309747#ixzz1cQTiKoNX ‘In an alternative approach, i.e., the wireless approach, the USB wireless receiver on laptop side can be split into at least two parts, one of which is a dedicated wireless transceiver with USB interface to communicate with laptop and the other of which is a wireless receiver without USB connection combined with the interface circuitry and sitting at PWC side, as illustrated in FIG. 20B. The wireless transceiver 2065 can be connected to the laptop 2015 and thus firstly configured as a receiver. The wireless transceiver 2065 can receive the sensor outputs from the system 2005 and forward them to laptop 2015 for processing. After the laptop 2015 extracts the command(s) from this data, the same transceiver 2065 can be configured as a transmitter and wirelessly send out the control command at a different frequency to the PWC 2075 side receiver. On the PWC 2075 side, if a valid control command is received, the local MCU 2025 can start the same process as explained in previous approach to convert the command to a set of square waveform to control the PWC.’ Read more: http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20090309747#ixzz1cQRE9qKu One thing is for sure: it is not the story of Pocahontas, right. But coming soon to a cinema screen near you if you also consider that any speech form might generate a pressure speech wave but perhaps having a shape different to the spectrogram seen below of the words, ‘I owe you’: Spectrogram of the words: ‘I owe you’ Just to quickly summarise again: in any closed unit, like if you had a plane load of perpetrators, one is easily targeted.  Voice to skull synthetic speech can be very precise that only you hear and not others.  It has a synthetic element to it, played back from perhaps a keyboard speech; maybe even in the voice of someone you know, speaking in a detrimental manner which can confuse you: put neighbour against neighbour in conflict, friend against friend.  I need to summarise the structure of the operation before I proceed: so you see how it works clearly.  Remember I am only interested here in how it affects the artist and his work, his form in composition that he peddles as his own.  Also remember voice to skull can be as subtle as it wants to be or as loud as it wants to be.  If it remains in subtle mode it can go on for years and you would not know.  When they are loud and if they want your money, blackmail you, drive you out of your homes so your property could then be bought cheap.  They could clear out large areas as branded voice-to-skull affected areas so property prices would fall as people would not buy them in those areas, and then the perpetrators’ would come in and buy them cheap in areas that they blighted themselves.  I am not sure (I know I have to do the summary drawing first but just a minute…) if the authorities’ are involved or not.  I think information that is collected through these means by the perpetrators’ are passed on to the authorities (that is their fun if the blackmail does not work or a target refuses to accept the position he is in……) and the establishment does look at them and use them.  That is the real scandal: the protectors have become the perpetrators’.  Sad state of affairs but I think this is true.  All this is lower middle management levels.  Depending on the countries you go to.  I think if the upper level management knew that this was happening: it would all end very quickly.  But really it is the PEOPLE who can STOP it now: who are the uses of the technology.  If you put your foot on your smartphones and then in your bin, you can stop half the problem right now and maybe even all of it.  If they don’t have anybody to share their info with, then it all ends.  Talking of sharing all your info by the perpetrators’ with the public: I must add here that not all the information is streamed out to the public.  Remember they are having some fun with you, while at the same time blackmailing you: they make sure they make you look really detre-mental before they collect the money.  Making you look really detre-mental is their job and then when you had enough, after they investigated all your worldly matters, then hands out: Bojangles, money please, is the name of the game.  But I am not interested in all this and I am serious about this.  I just want to know how much of the work of an artist is really his own.  Knowing that such technology exists today. And also I am interested in what the 2 century new world in the Horizon is going to look like.  If you don’t stop it now while the technology is just beginning what happens when the day comes when the structure widens and they don’t need to be sitting in your neighbours’ homes to do this: that is when they don’t need to be close to you anymore to spy on you.  If you don’t stop it now then you will never stop it when it gets out of control.  Below is the structure of close up tagging of an individual, an artist, a politician, a banker, a teacher etc.  This structure is perhaps how they do it: Remember outside your home they will follow you with your smartphone, ‘siri’ iphone application or Google’s ‘latitude’.  But when you are at home it is a little more difficult for them to tag the artist.  First they have to get into your home, then they have to get into your mind.  Of course this is all also possible in your office, in an aeroplane etc.  the set up can take some time to be in functional mode, but I am beginning to think it does not have to be very elaborate as it can happen in an aeroplane – not many places in there you can hide very sophisticated large surveillance equipment. The process involves acquiring of thinking data and then transmitting.  Can we look at the home set up.  Remember that is the only place you cannot run away from very quickly, especially if you own the place. You have to go back there every day.  Outside of your front windows there is the possibility of planting wireless bug cameras, some very small to be seen easily and solar powered.  Other possibilities are: they can be developed to be as light as dust, hence you carry it in your eyes, your mouth, ears?.  The smaller bugs can be hidden in the bark of trees.  This practice is already rife in the city.  In large shopping malls in London and elsewhere it can be used to spy on shoplifters etc.  They watch you from a central surveillance point.  And even voice-to-skull technology can be used in this way by subtle messages to ‘tell’ you to enter a particular shop.  All this to stay on top of the competition.  I was surprised to see this used in big shopping malls around the world.  BUT partly it is this technology that has been hijacked by the perpetrators’ and used to intimidate and blackmail etc.  if I am allowed to go through the setup in the diagram then I can show you on the net how all this is starting to be discussed.  Somewhat difficult for the perpetrators’ when they have to be so close to the target at the present moment.  But I don’t doubt that if allowed to progress the situation can be more difficult to control in the future.  One other thing I like to point out here is that this technology first used perhaps for good reasons have now been discovered by the chap next door and probably the process has become user friendly.  Sometimes it is difficult for the perpetrators’ to control their excitement.  They have new powers at their disposal.  Their work can stay in memory after it is experienced, and can be quickly ‘spotted’, especially when you have been in the space before.  Synthetic speech can be easily recognised.  For targets this is a very good tool to remember, sentences are short and curt, not a natural spoken form but coming out of a keyboard.  I also like to point out before the point is lost in the ether that you will find these problems in big cities, big city shopping malls, more developed countries, their advances in technology coming back to haunt their citizens.  Ok going back to the diagram: the neighbours who are employed are usually recruited as a result of need rather than permanent employment.  They don’t belong to the main set-up of CEO’s of the high office spying Ltd.  Neighbour recruits are usually threatened by the same people who they worked for to get some of their money back.  They could offer large amounts to start with to new recruits but then turn on them later for ‘some money back’ like they do at the supermarkets in the UK: “do you want some money back”. These neighbourly recruits are not wanted as permanent perpetrators’, big money to recruit them then intimidation.  The spying network is wide and from country to country where ‘jobs’ are passed on.  The higher more established perpetrators’ who owns the spying companies are sophisticated clean shaven with beautiful women by their sides – happy to take your money and your homes when it is offered to them.  In a closed system like an aeroplane on flights between countries it can be difficult to get away from them.  I suspect that if you ever come across them they don’t give up easily because they feel being invisible makes them invincible and this is why when they act they think nobody is watching.  (The installation and photographic study was preparation for the painting, ‘Transformation’.  The object is life size and purchased from an antique shop in Portobello Market in London). Mandala, 2010, 150cm x 180cm, oil on linen Back to the diagram: neighbours spying on you can video you through their walls when you are in your shower room, toilet, what else do you do that you don’t want people to see or know at home.  They capture all this or at least they make sure you know that they are doing all these things.  Also you do not know how much of what they capture is streamed.  But as an example: small camera’s capturing images by your neighbour above you (possible recruits are neighbours on either side and above you too) can be seen in the latest movie, ‘it is not about the money’: ‘Killer Elite’.  And also the bingo bottle.  You can find camera detectors from ‘Maplin’ in London, a major chain of electronic shops selling electronic gadgets.  They sell camera detectors, both the cheaper ‘pro hunter’ and the more sophisticated ones that can pin point the position of a bug camera: cameras so small that they are difficult to locate with the naked eye.  So, it is not as if they don’t know that the problem is around.  It is just that YOU don’t know.  The thinking data, the intimate data, from the neighbourly recruits, are then passed on to the controlling unit who then sifts through the data and chose what they want to stream.  The controllers behave like ‘kids’ who find it hard to hide their excitement, but well versed in matters of data acquisition and streaming of data.  A ‘mile away’ sit the more sophisticated, steam pressed uniforms of the CEO’s…..  I doubt if each group knows who their bosses are and they operate like some independent groups around today: yet together they can be a big force for intimidation and badness and also goodness if they are so inclined at times.  They chose what they want to do, sometimes giving away classified information to be more friendly hoping to recruit. ‘London has begun a two-day international conference focused on the threat from cyber-security attacks.’ 1st and 2nd of November.  please see link below. Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales had said that ‘hackers are running Hub nets of computers they have hacked into.’ It was suggested that a break in into personal details should warrant the same punishment as a physical break-in into a home - the cime should be of equal stature. Also in the link below:“Ross Anderson, professor of security engineering at Cambridge University, said there had been a “great growth” in cybercrime over the past six years. As many as 5% of PCs are infected with malware - short for malicious software - Prof Anderson said, and there was a one in 20 risk that any given computer was sending spam without the owner’s knowledge. “If you want to defend against this kind of threat it’s not enough to just shoot a few crocodiles, you have to drain the swamp,” Prof Anderson told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. “We need action against the whole ecology of cybercrime, not purely defensive measures to protect, for example, the Foreign Office."” So it is not like it is tea time in London.  But cyber burglars are now starting to come out of their screens with their keyboards and physically going after individuals for the purpose of blakmail and murder.  i did not hear any of this mentioned.  The world really has become 1 with its new technologies and network of mobiles.  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15533786 Like i said earlier that the technology has been around for a while, used in shopping malls: voice-to-skull, synthetic voice playback, to keep an eye on shoplifters and for some fun at the mall.  Bug cameras are a little more serious, and video capture through walls, they are starting to play ‘dirty’.  The perpetrators are dangerous people involved in blackmail and murder.  Some of their scams, just to repeat, is to drive people out of their homes by blackmail, home after home in an area, and then to buy out properties in the area blighted by them cheap while their targets are still on the run.  I suspect that the perpetrators of the property scams are probably people who would move into the areas where they target for a scam.  They would then study their neighbours, collecting information: facebook, this book and that book. Then twitter to see what he say.  Observation.  They would start to recruit similar minded householders who have lived in the area for a long time.  Big money to be made from driving away householders by tagging and then buying properties cheap in blighted areas.  After they have watched you they now need some information about you that they can throw back at you before you start running: blackmail then murder.  They need to read some of your e-mails to get closer to you.  The keyboard logger virus comes in NOT through spam e-mails anymore.  They know you know that you have to stay away from spam e-mails.  So they will send you the virus through a friend of yours.  The virus comes in unknowingly when you open the e-mail of your friend.  The virus is not detected by any of the major virus softwares.  Now anything you type on your keyboard is transferred wirelessly.  All your new e-mails are easily read.  Your old e-mails will be soon read as from the keyboard logger, they will know all your passwords.  Even if you are hardwired directly to your ISP for broadband, they can soon read your e-mails again with a little bit of jingle jangle.  You have a solution for your passwords if you use a ‘virtual keyboard’: the software keyboard on your screen if you have it.  Remember the keyboard logger recognises the way your different keys on your keyboard sound when you tap on them: each of them sound different when pressure is applied to them.  You can say that they each have a personality of their own.  They keyboard logger virus is programmed to recognise these ‘different personalities’ on your keyboard.  You open up your bank account and they probably can screen print that page so they can see the details.  They start to look out for your weak points.  They will first rattle you by showing you what they know about you.  They might ‘voice to skull’ you a password of yours to start the final stage of execution.  Then your friendly neighbours start to begin work.  Monitoring sound across the walls, video surveillance and passing the information to the nerd controllers who is driving the mission and taking advice from the CEO’s.  Information captured and information discovered about you is then streamed along to mobile smartphones as it cascades thorough the city, with cool people and their smartphones switching them on and wondering whats happening.  ‘somebody is following him/her’.  If that is not enough to stop the target and collect the money, then some serious investigation is required to stop the individual.  Local controllers will take advice from CEO’s to end projects or to continue.  There can be pauses in surveillance when they are deciding.  But perpetrators don’t like losing.  So they keep going taking the risk of exposing their methods further from a target that has been in the space for too long.  The longer a target is in the space the better he understands and recognises the process. It is virtually entering a new space to live in and you get used to its ‘flavour’.  And you know there is a new world out there.  The mind expands to start seeing differently. In the London cyberspace security conference (1st Nov. 2011) they describe the perpetrators’: “We’re seeing a migration of traditional organised crime groups over into cyber, exploiting a new type of person engaged in crime who tends to be young, technically sufficient, very good at maths and physics, but perhaps not your traditional criminal figure in the outside world.” So that is the reason why cyber burglars are now starting to come out of their screens with their keyboards and physically going after individuals for the purpose of blackmail and murder.  The crime groups enticing the NERDS to come out and do some crime: blackmail and murder for the sake of monetary gain.  Cyber Killer Elite’s: not with the gun, boom boom bang bang, but with a bagfull of software, smartphones, and some gadgets. They are a creative expanding group, like the artist they invent new form or new patterns to exploit. i just need now to add links for this article to add weight to what has been said here.  i did think of adding them as i went along but i though the streaming summary was probably easier reading.  but lots of what was said can be backed up with today’s research.  This has to be experienced to be enlightened by it.  It is a different normal space when the technology is taken away.  When you have lived in both spaces you realise what a fantastic artistic idea this can be: to walk into a gallery room and to be inflicted by all the technologies that is used by the perpetrators’ and to have the individual live in that space for a moment and to see what it is like to switch spaces by stepping into and out off a room.  Perhaps feel what ‘becoming’ and ‘silence’ can feel like.  But todays Cyber Nerds are starting to become criminals by being enticed by criminal gangs to get out of their computer screens and onto the street (yes from london cyber security conference 1st nov 2011 - not me). your neighbourly gang stalking spy equipment ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://uk.news.yahoo.com/two-arrests-over-anti-terror-hotline-access-231309828.html - Two Arrests Over ‘Anti-Terror Hotline Access’ - don’t say i did’nt tell you, “I TOLD YOU SO!”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFP0XTYuI0o - Two Arrests Over ‘Anti-Terror Hotline Access’ - interview with hackers by sky news. http://www.onlinespyshop.co.uk/product.php/178/listen-through-walls-standard - listen through walls - when neighbours get together then you will see the whole system working at its fullest. http://www.spygadgets4u.co.uk/spy-gadgets/audio-listening-device-listen-through-walls.html - listen through walls gadgets http://www.onlinespyshop.co.uk/section.php/25/1/internet-spy-cameras - hidden internet cameras - perpetrators come in all types, many have access into your home by appointment. http://content.met.police.uk/Site/specialistoperations - metropolitan complains specialist operations http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=OO0_CmhMF9k - a police gadget makes its way to the public - whole communities could turn out to be a gang stalking community http://www.qccglobal.com/casestudies/keystroke-loggers/index.php - your computer is hacked into easily through your keyboard. http://www.qccglobal.com/casestudies/invasion-of-privacy/index.php - invasion of privacy http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2131932/The-REAL-X-Ray-spex--new-terahertz-scanner-lets-mobile-phones-walls.html - tomorrows world. _______________________________________ some links: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-did-it-for-the-lulz - I DID IT FOR THE LULZ TOO! - LOL.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=PEBQoxHh1uU#! - LOL! you so funny http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAFf-9ohNJo - your friends/neighbours could do this to you with todays technology. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/stalking-criminal-offence-000521185.html - stalking to be made a criminal offence UK - 8 march 2012 Gangstalking - i think government here has no idea what so ever.  It is their biggest security threat and they are doing nothing. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/9620723.stm - how useful is Siri? http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=119297&page=1 - wearable technology for spying - yipee!!! http://www.cnngo.com/explorations/life/chinas-covert-spy-pads-834714?hpt=C2#ixzz1AD8qo76b -spy pad technology - the next time you take your weight on your bathroom scales think of this. http://targetedindividualscanada.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/voice-to-skull/ -subliminal voice-to-skull - already being used in London(must see) http://targetedindividualscanada.wordpress.com/2011/11/12/electronic-harassment-devices/ - electronic harresment devices http://targetedindividualscanada.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/implants/ - nano technology implants http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/02/us-britain-brown-hacking-idUSTRE80109N20120102 - Gordon Brown’s e-mails hacked while finance minister http://uk.news.yahoo.com/grant-evidence-privacy-041807918.html - Hugh Grant to give evidence on phone hacking.  But it is not only the phone. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/paul-mccartney-shown-phone-hacking-evidence-133922814.html - paul-mccartney-shown-phone-hacking-evidence http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/11/reasons-to-wear-tinfoil-hats/ - Warrantless Wiretapping, Warrantless GPS Tracking etc. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15867858 - Leveson Inquiry: Actress Sienna Miller gives evidence - tagging and hacking evidence. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCJjcS-WcOo - annoying people with sound http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N87kNv50W_Q&NR=1 - voice to skull are now in millions of people http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obLsJEK9mi0&feature=related - Countermeasures for Gang Stalking http://voicetoskull.com/ - voice to skull quick read http://ezinearticles.com/?GPS-Bug-Detectors---Todays-Surveillance-Bugs-and-How-You-Can-Detect-Them!&id=2359343 - GPS Bug Detectors.Surveillance Bugs and How You Can Detect Them! http://uk.news.yahoo.com/spy-smartphone-software-tracks-every-move-050242556.htm - “Track every text, every call and every move your spouse makes...” http://en.wiki.org/wiki/The_Killer_Elite_(2011_film) - Movie (its not about the money). http://www.amurgsval.org/shadowrun/espionage.htm - Mission Impossible espionage http://technofriends.in/2008/04/30/email-spoofing-and-how-to-protect-your-online-identity/ - Email Spoofing and How to protect your online identity http://gangstalking.wordpress.com/category/voice-to-skull/ - High Tech Harassment http://www.eyespymag.com/prohunter.htm - Lipstick Size Wireless Camera And RF Detector http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2007/0706-seeing_through_walls.htm - Computer scientists and engineers have developed a new technology for the purpose of seeing through walls. http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20090309747 - A method of tracking movement, position, or both of a tongue of a subject Read more: http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20090309747#ixzz1cY0dT4rC http://www.voicetoskull.com/Per.htm - “We will not stop. Till PERPETRATORS are brought to Justice” http://blogs.reuters.com/jackshafer/2011/09/27/you-got-a-license-for-that-keyboard/ - you got a licence for that keyboard http://edge.org/ - Harvard and Princton professors not afraid to discuss edgy stuff. http://www.sherlockinvestigations.com/index.php?page=tscm-order - diy bug finder http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/siri.html - ‘Siri’ on iPhone 4S http://uk.news.yahoo.com/smartphone-security-risks-and-how-to-beat-them.html - Smartphone security risks and how to beat them http://uk.news.yahoo.com/stalking-victims-let-down-system-045931223.html - Stalking Victims ‘Let Down By The System’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_sensing - Remote sensing is the acquisition of information about an object or phenomenon, without making physical contact with the object (wiki) http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/P/passive_satellite.html - passive monitoring (and if technology is modified and advanced it could be used for distant monitoring and distant ‘voice to skull’ matters). http://uk.news.yahoo.com/facebook-users-hit-porn-attack-133455867.html - facebook users hit by false malicious images. (17 Nov 2011) http://www.thesundaily.my/news/212574 - Your modem used against you - hacking probe by the USA against China. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15786743 - Hacking through your modem: “The fact that our critical infrastructure could be used against us is of serious concern”. (18th November 2011). http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/42559/find-my-friends-wife-cheating - questions over privacy with ‘find my friends’ application or,”....maybe Siri will be able to offer some marriage guidance advice.” (17/Oct/2011) http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rowling-miller-media-inquiry-025749262.html - Actress Sienna Miller told the Leveson Inquiry:"I felt like I was living in some sort of video game and people pre-empting every move I made, obviously as a result of accessing my private information.” http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15881297 - Cybersecurity: Ministers seek help from business http://au.news.yahoo.com/technology/mobile-technology/article/-/12213799/android-app-that-spies-on-your-phone/ - Android-app-that-spies-on-your-phone http://news.yahoo.com/smartphone-spying-204933867.html - smartphone spying http://www.abuse.ch/?p=3130 -Rogue ISP’s - make sure yours is not letting you down http://www.brickhousesecurity.com/hiddencameradetector-spycamerafinder.htm? -Pocket Sized Wireless Camera Hunter Finds All Wireless Cameras No Matter How Hidden… CMPID=PD_Google_%5bpro+hunter+camera+detector%5d&utm Watch the cameras watching you! Scan the airwaves from 900MHZ - 2.7 GHzfor _source=Bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=%5bpro+hunter+camera+detector%5d wireless video cameras and view the footage directly on the Camera Hunter’s 2.5” LCD Screen. Perfect pocket device for covert counter surveillance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMxX-QOV9tI&ob=av3e END. youtube song ‘Price Tag’. ps http://www.kevinwarwick.com/ and http://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/content/articles/2007/11/28/kevin_warwick_interview_feature.shtml “Kevin Warwick is Professor of Cybernetics at the University of Reading, England, where he carries out research in artificial intelligence, control, robotics and biomedical engineering.” If you need clarification on voice to skull matters and need to see how in the future it can develop (and become more dangerous) by some of the work that is now done in Universities.  Like the university of Reading.  You want to look into the work of professor Kevin Warwick.  Just to summarise he has implanted a chip in his hand connected to his nerves and he then uses this to control the hands of a robot - wirelessly.  The robot was not given precise commands but rather ‘learned’ to move its fingers from the Professors by studying the wireless signals going from the professor to the robot.  Wicked or what.  and he did not stop there: i gather he connected a similar device to his wife’s hands and, ‘experienced a kind of ESP experience’.  And i think the world is coming to an END! pps: I would not have been this precise with a diagram if i had not come across Professor Kevin Warwick’s research.  Here you have physical reality of a chip implanted into the nerves of your hands which can send signals out wirelessly to a robot that learns to imitate the living person in the experiment.  Professor Kevin was recently featured in BBC’s ‘Horizon’, featuring cutting edge ideas on science etc.  They ran this programe close to the Cyber security meeting of world leaders in London on the 1st and 2nd of November.  Also BBC World Wide news channel on satellite TV featured short clips of Professor Warwick explaining how adaptive the mind is with his mind working the fingers on his Robot arm: he explains that the mind adapts to the signal that is returning from the robot arm and through the chip in his arm and into his mind and back again to the robot arm.  The mind senses the signals coming back from the robot arm and when it sees what the fingers on the arm does and it remembers this and then sends that particular signal back to the fingers to mimic the same action.  Its on the spot programming by the mind that is done wirelessly.  No programmer or program in between i assume.  The mind is such a magic organ that it senses what is needed and sends out the signals that is required for the action to be repeated in the fingers of the robot.  Then it was also said he had ESP like experiences with his wife after both were fitted with chip implants, data transfered wirelessly between husband and wife.  I think wireless monitoring of a person’s thoughts is already here and working quiet efficiently.  I suspect that it also does not need a closed controlled environment for it to work well.  It monitors thinking, not necessarily directly from the thinking brain, but possibly through speech.  I said earlier: a persons talks (silently) when he thinks.  That is why thinking out pin numbers is not secure.  We can’t help it, we silently talk when we think.  Tongue muscle movements or pressure pulses in the mouth can be monitored to translate thinking.  This new world 21 century living ain’t Bingo anymore. We have already created the big clever toys which can pat us on our backs and start playing with us.  You want to also consider Rupert Sheldrake’s Mophogenetic Field as a very strong possibility where data stored digitally in the ether by individuals can now be retrieved and used.  Digital data in a hard disk with a storage structure and digital data in the ether also with a natural organised storage structure - both same thing, functional.  What’s that? not possible for nature to have an organised digital data base: the universe is not naturally organised enough for you?.  So that person walking past you down a busy shopping mall wants to know what you are thinking and he has this chip like Professore Kevin Warwick has implanted in his hand and into his nerve cells, then the perpetrator knows where you are going right.  He knows which ATM you are going to use and what is your pin number.  Then you thinking i want to go home after this, catch the tube from the Victoria line in London and go north as far as i can and he already know how far you going.  You go home and you think you safe but your neighbour now has to start work.  What a great way to earn some work at home cash.  Your neighbour click click on his toys and you are ready to have your shower and you neighbour is ready: all awake to start work.  Then maybe he like to share what he got with his friends, over the fence, behind your garden.  They all buddies since they young and they like some jolly time watching.  Your equipment so easy to use now that you have no trouble operating them.  Your neighbour pass data over to his friend at the back over the garden and you think they such angels and clever with what they can do and you probably right.  The nerd who came out of his computer and join a criminal gang and now play playstation for real with real people.  The criminal gang needs somebody who can ‘read’ the new inventions, so he looks to the nerd to help him.  This is what the Cyber Security Conference in London said when all the countries met on the 1st and 2nd of November 2011. See link below for big bells alarm ringing: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/01/expert-at-london-internet-security-conference-warns-cyber-war/ LONDON – A leading Internet security expert warned Tuesday that a cyber terrorist attack with “catastrophic consequences” looked increasingly likely in a world already in a state of near cyber war. Speaking outside a global conference on Internet security in London, Eugene Kaspersky, a Russian math genius, told Sky News the threat was a real and present danger. “I don’t want to speak about it. I don’t even want to think about it,” he said. “But we are close, very close, to cyber terrorism. Perhaps already the criminals have sold their skills to the terrorists—and then ... oh, God.” Kaspersky, who founded an Internet security empire with a global reach, said he believed that cyber terrorism was the biggest immediate threat confronting nations as diverse as China and the U.S. “There is already cyber espionage, cyber crime and hacktivisim [when activists attack networks for political ends]—soon we will be facing cyber terrorism,” he said. THIS GUY kASPERSKY: I DON’T THINK HE CRAZY.? 90cm x 122cm ‘easy peasy lemon squeezy’ 2011 by siri perera 5th November 2011. 2011-11-02T03:41:00+00:00 http://www.siriperera.com/eecore/index.php/site/art_creativity_and_all_that_by_or_rao/ http://www.siriperera.com/eecore/index.php/site/art_creativity_and_all_that_by_or_rao/#When:13:07:00Z ‘Art, Creativity and All That’ by O. R. Rao Krishnamurti Foundation India, Chennai, India “The Journal of the Krishnamurti Schools has been in existence since 1995. It began with the intention of providing a forum for the teachers of Krishnamurti schools all over the world to share their educational experiences and insights. Over the years, keeping the same primary intention, the Journal has expanded in terms of both contributors and readers. There has long been a divide between those who teach, and those who research and write about school education. Thus when a teacher can find the time to reflect and record his or her own discoveries, it has a special significance and value. The Journal of the Krishnamurti Schools is a unique response to the need for teachers writing on school education.” ( from their website: http://journal.kfionline.org/about.php) “The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life or of the work And if it take the second refuse A heavenly mansion raging in the dark.” (Yeats) Art, Creativity and All That ‘Painting harnesses eternity’ —Van Gogh ‘All the achievements of the great painters, poets and composers are the activity of thought: the composer, inwardly hearing the marvellous sound, commits it onto paper. That is the movement of thought… Thought is responsible for all the cruelty, the wars, the war machines and the brutality of war, the killing, the terror, the throwing of bombs, the taking of hostages in the name of a cause, or without a cause. Thought is also responsible for the cathedrals, the beauty of their structure, the lovely poems...’ —J. Krishnamurti Does the statement of Krishnamurti completely demolish the statement of Van Gogh? At first sight, it would indeed appear so. If the creations of art have the same origin in thought as the most destructive actions of war and terrorism, then indeed art stands condemned. In that case do we stop looking at and appreciating great paintings and other works of art, stop reading poetry and other great literature? If indeed we do that we may have to take out a funeral procession for the arts, as the musicians of Delhi are said to have done when Aurangazeb issued a ban on music in that city. Hence we need to examine what exactly is going on here. By ‘thought’ we ordinarily mean ideation, abstract thinking, as opposed to emotion or volition. Thinking is supposed to be logical, abstract, representational, explanatory, ‘objective’, free from our subjective wishes, desires, fears etc. At least, thinking which claims to be truthful has to have these qualities. The sense in which Krishnamurti uses the word ‘thought’ is however, as we know, entirely different. By that word he means the entire content of consciousness, which is, all our memories, our sense of identity derived from these memories, all our emotions, our volitional impulses, projections of ourselves into the future, fears, hopes, desires and so on. Thought so described includes abstract, logical, explanatory and representational thinking but also includes much more. In fact thought is the entire content of that which we call our personalities, including our psychosomatic states—conscious and unconscious. And what Krishnamurti asserts is that both of what are usually called creative, and destructive activity have the same origin in the conflict-ridden content of human consciousness and psychosomatic states. Now, is art indeed the product of this conflict-ridden personality of the artist, or does it have an ‘impersonal’ source which is truth or reality and which is free from the conflicts, idiosyncrasies and imperfections of the artist’s personality? And are artists, great writers, musicians, great scientists and other creative persons in touch with such a reality or truth? We know that in traditional societies such as classical Hindu-Buddhist India, ancient China, Medieval Western Christendom or Byzantium, art had, or was supposed to have an ‘impersonal’ origin in religious truths. What emanates from the great landscape paintings of classical China is the peace and harmony of the union of Heaven and Earth, the unheard music of the skies. The artist is nowhere to be seen; he has completely effaced himself. He had meditated, perhaps for years, before considering himself to be in tune with the Tao, to be able to produce the painting. In India too, the sculptor of the Sarnath Buddha would have meditated in order to free himself of the dross of his own personal impulses before considering himself to be in a fit state to envision the qualities of the Buddha and to embody them in stone. Somewhere in an obscure corner at the base of the Kailasanatha at Ellora is inscribed the wonderstruck question of the sculptor-architect who completed the structure: ‘Did I indeed make all this? How did I do it?’ The art of Western Christendom, of classical Islam, and of Byzantium too had an impersonal aspect. We do not know the biographies of the sculptors and architects who built Chartres Cathedral or of the painters of the Byzantine Madonnas and Christs. They were merely artisans and builders in the service of the truth of Christ. Who and what they were otherwise (even if they were master builders) and what the details of the personal drama of their lives were, was not of much importance even in their own eyes. What was sought to be expressed in all these works of art was not the individual personal vision of the sculptor or painter, but the Christian, Buddhist, or Taoist religious vision into which the individual personality of the artist is merged. However, with the advent of modern times, generally understood as the ‘coming of the Renaissance’ in Europe, especially in Italy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, all this changes rapidly. We are in the age of humanism, of the expansion of the individual who desires to explore the outer world and to express his personal experience of it. This is the age of the individual genius, the age of Leonardo, Michaelangelo, Raphael—those larger-than-life figures. We know who painted the Last Supper, the Creation of Man in the Sistine Chapel, who sculpted the Pièta in St. Peter’s and so on. We know the life stories of these artists in considerable detail—about their conflicts with their patrons, and with other contemporaries, and their personal peculiarities. Interest begins to focus on the personal dramas of the artists’ lives and biographies of artists begin to be written. Even though the themes of art are still Christian, the stamp of the individual artist in them is now much more evident than in Medieval times. And the Mona Lisa is not a Christian painting at all, but is among the first of the great ‘non-Christian’ paintings that will be produced in Europe from now on. As we come down the centuries from the sixteenth to the twentieth, art more and more becomes art which has the stamp of individuality. In each case it is an individual unique vision that is presented, not as in traditional societies, the vision of the religious faith of the society as a whole. The fact that art becomes more and more individualistic does not necessarily mean, however, that it loses in power and depth. We only have to glance at the great company of European painters down the centuries to realize this. Individually and considered as a whole, they, like that impulse from the vernal wood: Can teach us more of man Of moral evil and of good Than all the sages can. The canvasses of Rembrandt in his Biblical paintings take us into the heart of the Christian religious and ethical vision. His self-portraits are searing lessons in self-knowledge. Goya’s depiction of the horrors of the Napoleonic wars in Spain tells us more about the violence of man against man than all the tomes of history can. His painting ‘The Dream of Reason Brings Forth Monsters’, seems to detect the monsters lurking in the shadows behind the serene light of the eighteenth century European age of Enlightenment, Reason and Science— monsters that show themselves openly in the mass destruction and violence of the twentieth century. Coming down to the nineteenth century, from the Impressionist paintings of Monet, Renoir and Pissarro, and from the Pointillism of Seurat we learn, as if for the first time, to enjoy the great gifts of light, colour and translucent space. And Van Gogh does indeed harness eternity for us. In his paintings of the cornfields of Provence we feel that the transcendent is indeed made immanent in those golden yellow fields in harvest. His ‘Starry Night’ shows us the nocturnal face of eternity. The energy of being rooted in an authentic life speaks to us in his paintings of humble objects such as a chair or a pair of shoes, and in his painting of his simple living room containing only a cot, a table and a couple of chairs. Coming nearer to our own times, we find in Rouault’s ruined kings and tragic clowns symbols of intense spiritual suffering. Munch’s depictions of envy, jealousy, loneliness and fear confront us with our own shadow sides. Chagall’s gentle ironic spirit is a soothing balm. For all these gifts we should be grateful and we could go on singing paens of praise. But here as we pause and take our bearings, we notice that along with the growing intense interest in the personal lives of the artists, there is another development taking place — a marked split between their lives and their art. Whereas in earlier, traditional societies, artistic expression is supposed at least in theory, to flow from the disappearance of the artist’s personality in his vision of the impersonal truth—of Christianity, Taoism Buddhism etc.—in modern times the personality of the artist becomes more emphatic and idiosyncratic. Earlier, art flowed out of, or was ideally supposed to flow out of, the union of the personal with the Divine, with which the artist was in harmony. In modern times however, the life of the artist is one thing, the work of art, another. There is not a unity but dissociation between the two. The work of art could express a great depth of feeling and vision, but the life could be, and many times was, anything but harmonious or serene. Often it was ‘scandalous’ with wild chaotic swings ending in disaster. Van Gogh led a ‘disreputable’ life, which ended in his cutting off one of his own ears with a razor and not much later, in his suicide by shooting himself. Picasso was ruthless in his ‘using’ those close to him for purposes of his art, and he told them clearly where they stood with him. Among writers, Dostoevsky’s life showed wild erratic swings of which compulsive gambling was only a minor symptom. It has now been revealed that the youthful Einstein was by conventional standards quite ruthless in his relationships with those close to him, while being single-minded in the pursuit of his scientific passion. We could multiply many such instances in the cases of a host of writers, artists and scientists, instances of a ‘contradiction’ between the life and the work. And in fact according to some psychological and psychoanalytical theories, art emerges through and as a result of these contradictions and tensions as a process of sublimation. And one of the great poets of the twentieth century, William Butler Yeats, seems to ‘legitimize’ this state of affairs. The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life or of the work And if it take the second refuse A heavenly mansion raging in the dark. Van Gogh confesses that the intensity with which he paints does not in any way alter the ‘melancholy thought you yourself are not in real life… It is more worthwhile to work in flesh and blood itself than in paint and plaster.’ Still, he cannot abandon art: ‘Even this artistic life, which we know is not real life, appears to me so alive and vital that it would be a form of ingratitude not to be content with it.’ In 1897, the eighteen-year-old Einstein trying to foresee the future course of his life, saw it thus: ‘Strenuous intellectual work and looking at God’s nature are the reconciling, fortifying, yet relentlessly strict angels that shall lead me through all of life’s troubles… And yet, what a peculiar way this is to weather the storms of life—in many a lucid moment I appear to myself as an ostrich who buries his head in the desert sand so as not to perceive the danger.’ Both Van Gogh and Einstein seem to choose perfection of the work, not of the life. The depth of their perceptions and their single-minded passion for bringing the perception to fruition often, it seems, make creative persons oblivious to all things that are not relevant to this aim. It is here that Krishnamurti’s challenge confronts us. ‘Who is that person whom you call an artist? A man who is momentarily creative? To me he is not an artist. To me, the true artist is one who lives completely, harmoniously, who does not divide his art from living, whose very life is that expression, whether it be a picture, music or his behaviour, who has not divorced his expression on a canvas or in music or in stone from his daily conduct, daily living. That demands the highest intelligence and highest harmony. To me the true artist is the man who has that harmony… But all this demands that exquisite poise, that intensity of awareness and therefore his expression is not divorced from the daily continuity of living.’ Speaking about the ‘creativity’ that comes out of tension and not out of harmony Krishnamurti says, more scathingly: ‘The greater the tension and the greater the capacity to express yourself—as a writer, as an artist, as a politician —the more misery you create not only for yourself, but for the public also… Being in a state of contradiction, if one has the capacity to write or to paint, then one creates greater misery for man and also for oneself.’ It is here that Krishnamurti’s challenge confronts us. ‘Who is that person whom you call an artist?’ Now what is one’s response to a statement of this kind? Since politicians have been mentioned in the statement, let us take the case of one who has been considered to be one of the most significant and creative figures in modern times in the field of politics — Mahatma Gandhi. Now, Gandhiji was a person whose tensions, both external and internal, were monumental in extent. And his internal contradictions were well known as he chose to live them out in public. However, can we talk of him as a person who created ‘misery for man and also for himself’? He clearly said: ‘I am not a saint but a politician trying to be a saint.’ For Krishnamurti, this is a contradiction. For him both the person who is actually a politician, and the ideal of sainthood he is trying to achieve are tarred with the same brush. The potential saint who is trying to observe the actual politician in himself and who is trying to control him belong to the same movement of thought. The observer is the observed and the controller is the controlled. The ideal of non-violence, which is expected to prevail over the actuality of violence, is not, says Krishnamurti, psychologically different from the violence. Only when the bipolar unity of this pair is seen through an act of perception will the tension inherent in it collapse, and a truly creative awareness be born. That alone is total freedom. Otherwise, the essentially noncreative movement of thought will continue. What was sought to be expressed in all these works of art was not the individual personal vision of the sculptor or painter, but the Christian, Buddhist, or Taoist religious vision into which the individual personality of the artist is merged. Now, on account of this can we afford to bypass Gandhi as a creative figure in politics? Surely that would be too facile a move on our part. Such a move would show scant respect for his revolutionary introduction of human encounter in the place of amoral power as the main principle in politics. The practice of politics in essence has meant the use, manipulation, control and domination of the opponent through the exercise of power. To this, Gandhi opposed the power of genuine human encounter, dialogue, engagement and persuasion—perhaps for the first time in history—and towards this effort he was prepared to ‘swallow the poison’ as Shiva did when the poison and ambrosia emerged out of the churning of the ocean by the devas and asuras. He was prepared to give up his life for it. This goes much beyond the principles of liberal democracy which involves toleration of or adjustment to the opponent. And here we need to remember that unlike in the case of many great artists, Gandhi’s daily living was all of a piece with his work, in his case, in the field of politics and ethics. For these reasons, the principles introduced by Gandhi in politics need to be understood and applied as they were for instance by Martin Luther King in his movement for the rights of the blacks in the United States, and will surely be continued to be applied creatively in future. They cannot be ignored on the ground that according to us they do not belong to the field of ‘total freedom’, which in any case is unknown territory. To come back to art, let us ask, along the same lines, can we afford to ignore the great works of art, literature and so forth on the grounds that they do not belong to the field of ‘total freedom’? Surely that would be too facile a move. That would be to show scant respect for the perceptions and the passion which drive the artist. ‘The emotions are sometimes so strong that one works without being aware of working… and the strokes come with a sequence and coherence like words in a speech or letter.’ said Van Gogh about the way he painted. Surely this is an instance of a perception that is also an action about which Krishnamurti speaks. Krishnamurti however demanded not just such a perception in the field of the visible, out of which comes painting, or a perception in any other ‘special’ field such as music, or science or mathematics, but a perception in the totality of life. However, we cannot afford to devalue these creative movements for falling short of some ideal or fail to respect great creative persons on the grounds that they are not creative in the sense that Krishnamurti means. That would be just too presumptuous. Again we may benefit from listening to Krishnamurti: ‘Great artists and great writers may be creators, but we are not, we are mere spectators. We read vast numbers of books, listen to magnificent music, look at works of art, but we never directly experience the sublime, our experience is always through a poem, through a picture, through the personality of a saint. To sing we must have a song in our hearts, but having lost the song we pursue the singer. Without an intermediary we feel lost; but we must be lost before we can discover anything. Discovering is the beginning of creativeness; and without that creativeness, do what we may, there can be no peace or happiness for man.’ Here, in a gentler mood, Krishnamurti says that artists may be creative, but he questions our relationship to them. If it is one of dependence, then there is no creative movement in us. We are not doing the work we need to do for ourselves. We cannot look at the paddy fields of the Kaveri delta with the eyes of Van Gogh looking at the Provençal cornfields nor at the Vindhyas with Cézanne’s eyes looking at the Provençal mountains. Everyone needs to be his or her own artist. Instead of merely depending on great artists, writers, and other creative persons, we should acknowledge our immense debt to them for awakening us from our spiritual slumber, and for making us aware that it is possible to be open to reality. And from there we need to move on. 2011-07-04T13:07:00+00:00 http://www.siriperera.com/eecore/index.php/site/the_theosophical_society_international_headquarters_adyar_india/ http://www.siriperera.com/eecore/index.php/site/the_theosophical_society_international_headquarters_adyar_india/#When:04:12:00Z The Theosophical Society was formed at New York on 17 November 1875, and incorporated at Chennai (Madras) on 3 April 1905.  Its three declared Objects are : •To form a nucleus of the Universal Brotherhood of Humanity, without distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or colour. •To encourage the study of Comparative Religion, Philosophy and Science. •To investigate unexplained laws of Nature and the powers latent in man. For the society’s influence in the arts, music and literature please see the article by Prof John Algeo. http://www.austheos.org.au/tsia-article-theosophy-and-the-zeitgeist.html Madam Blavatsky, the founder of the Theosophical Society, lived her art.  She was a complete individual who saw further than most, sensed both the material reality and the unseen world.  She was this that and the other, all of all, who in creating the Theosophical Society, created her perfect ever functioning permanent artistic installation which is part of the fabric of society today.  And the ‘Exhibition’ that is held every year end, that they call the ‘Convention’ is a performance piece, celebrating her with, talks, music(this year, one to watch, Nirali Kartik, up and coming contemporary Indian classical singer) and dance, depicting the future world in miniature and credit given to all the ‘actors’ of Adyar, including those who come from across the world to play their part in making it happen. The existence of a reality that transcended the material world was precisely the selling point of Madame Blavatsky’s ‘secret doctrine’: ‘In the 21st century this earth will seem a paradise compared to what it is now,’ she wrote. Literature, music and art are the first and most sensitive spheres in which the spiritual revelation will be felt.’ She should know: as she was an artist extraordinaire, not only in the visual arts, but an artist of all life: both the tangible and intangible worlds. (siri) Below is a snapshot of the 2010/2011 celebrations. 2011-03-19T04:12:00+00:00 http://www.siriperera.com/eecore/index.php/site/the_journey_of_i_and_form_in_art/ http://www.siriperera.com/eecore/index.php/site/the_journey_of_i_and_form_in_art/#When:09:19:01Z It’s all about ME, What else can it be, Me is my middle name, born before me............... “I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.” (Copyright 2010 The Associated Press) — J.D. Salinger (author of the ‘Catcher in the Rye’) The journey of the Ego and form in art One can propose that there is a correlation between what your place is in the universe and form in art and between the fragmented ego-self and the unified-self.  If you paint from the ego-self and am ignorant of the unseen-intangible-self then you are likely to be a docu-artist: you only make art of what you can see and know, of memory which is of time and hence a lie.  Anything of memory is a lie.  Look at it this way: there are facts which are true, unaltered by the mind and others which are altered by the mind and hence false.  False in the sense that it has been altered from the fact by the mind, manipulated, changed, top side down, upside down and then stored in memory as real.  To you it is real.  You live with it thinking it is real.  You make all your future decisions using this altered fact in memory, hence creating more illusions.  How did it happen again?  You mean I am surrounded by everything that is not real, false, an illusion?  The whole of society a playground of make up things, the mind which cannot give out anything that is real, has made this world I live in? So what is real in the mind and what makes it unreal.  First remain with the facts.  The mind: you get an insight in silence and it downloads itself into your mind.  This insight (the fact) is then manipulated with time.  One second later, in mind, the insight is turned over, two seconds later turned over even more, and a minute later, an hour later, it does not quiet look like the fact that it was when your mind ‘saw’ it: and finally the altered fact stored in memory.  Then you use this to make other things.  In memory with time, nothing is stored that looks like the original true thing.  The tree outside your window is more true that anything in your memory.  The tree is a fact: it always has been what it is, unmanipulated.  Hence in your mind what is real: if insight is real when it comes to you, still untouched by time, in its first instance , then one has to ask: how do I keep time out of my mind and from changing what is true and making it unreal.  To keep time out of your mind you have to always live in the present: from now to now again, and now and now.  TIME has no time to change things and if you are always in the now, then you don’t become because of the Ego-self memory.  You don’t fill your memory with all things false and keep it only for everyday technical no nonsense facts. Then there is something about Ego. An unreal memory sits on your shoulders and the I-Ego drives the illusion forward.  More trouble ahead.  You can take time out of your mind by living in the now.  But then the Ego, still there, waiting, I must, me only, that is only me and I only Ego. The Ego that J.D. Salinger talked about. “I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.” (Copyright 2010 The Associated Press) — J.D. Salinger But I gather he never stopped writing, just never published his works.  Rumours that neighbors have observed a safe being lowered into his home after the roof was removed temporarily. ‘So what about the safe? The death this week of J.D. Salinger ends one of literature’s most mysterious lives and intensifies one of its greatest mysteries: Was the author of ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ keeping a stack of finished, unpublished manuscripts in a safe in his house in Cornish, N.H.? Are they masterpieces, curiosities or random scribbles?”(Copyright 2010 The Associated Press) “There is a marvelous peace in not publishing,” J.D. Salinger told The New York Times in 1974. “Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.” ( Copyright 2010 The Associated Press).  In the present, NOW, I do for now, not tomorrow or for some mischief in the future.  So the Ego, how do you put it under your foot: squisss (my website, I-make-any-word-I-want to-Ego, OK)?  So how do you diminish the influence of the Ego?  Summary up to now: everything about you is externalized; you live by your senses only; your memory is of time and hence factually incorrect; with your Ego holding you upright: you think you are the coolest thing on the planet with your hair dyed all blue: yet nothing about you is real.  You are living in an environment created by a memory made of time and hence a fragile idea of a playground and you go on thinking it is real.  You can deal with time-based memory, by living in the now: “this is a table, and that is a cup, and this is a chair and that is it, and when I am thinking I know I am thinking” a typical comment by Jiddu Krishnamurti when friends ask him of the process.  You have to know when you are thinking, because thinking is a lie-creator.  You got to know when you are creating lies and not be ignorant of it.  And you got to know how to do without it (psychological thinking as to technical thinking) when you are living in the present.  One present to the next with no judgment: choiceless awareness, call it what you want but you only observe with no judgment.  Now what happens when you take out the Ego, or at least squisss him down to when he is no trouble anymore and then put it all back together: living in the present, observation with no judgment, and the Ego under control.  But how does one get the Ego into control.  One knows how to sideline time based memory but the Ego how do we control it.  The process of controlling the Ego had brought about one of the main transformations to society during the turn of the last century in the Arts.  What brought about the advent of abstraction was when artist dissatisfied by realism then started to internalize their search for the Truth.  They started to look inwards.  So now the Ego previously only satisfied by making sense of the external world (and hence form in art only depicted what they understood externally) now travelled inwards into a spiritual quest of the self.  So now the new question arises when the Ego is internalised: really ‘who am I’.  The internal language now is completely different and the artist and spiritual seeker had to create their own inner language.  Now, thinking is of no use.  Insight, perception, spontaneity, chance becomes better tools for understanding the self and as more of the Truth is revealed there comes an understanding of the place in the universe of the seeker.  And this brings about the demise of the Ego to ego. And also can you PERHAPS see why the Truth of things might lie only in Abstract art.  The seeker seeks a new language to understand his new environment and only the ‘new’ can come out of this.  Abstract art is the manifestation of the Truth that is realized by the artist and the spiritual seeker as he internalize his search of ‘who am I’ and where is his place in the universe.  The whole person is now complete.  The seeker who seeks now ‘looks’ differently.  A transformation has come about in him.  He is hardwired differently in the process.  The seeker himself is ‘new’ and only the ‘new’ can come from him/her/her/him.  The ego now under control he does things only for the sake of doing it, as it helps him look better at the self and its place in the happenings of things.  The external world and its workings he now sees it for what it is: a game out of playstation made of memory and of the Truth modified by time.  The artist lives and works as the universe is for itself, as he is part of it, and not for himself. He/she puts the work out there if she/he wishes too, or not: it is not a priority for her/him.  With this can come only the ‘new’ and not just an interpretation of the past: as she/he is free do what he/she wishes. The frontline of the arts goes in leaps and bounds, rather than a slow progression of what has gone before.  Big Ego’s won’t see this as they only know the external world and hence true form in art comes from first knowing your place in the universe.  If there is such a thing as ‘Higher Art’ in today’s accepted art language, then there can also be such words as, ‘True Form’.  The Ego not internalized is blind to the Truth. And so it is all.  But I must finish with this, a poem by Geetha Subramanium, a writer in Chennai: “Let me share my anthem with you. You can sing to the nice and easy style of the singers of the 50’s and 60’s. It’sallaboutME, Whatelsecanitbe, Meismymiddlename, bornbeforeme, It’sallaboutME, Whoelsecanitbe, NoticethenumberonMycar, ItproclaimsME, Mylifeissowondrouslyfull, ..ofMe,ofcourse, NoplaceforanyonebutMe,ofcourse! NobaggageforMe, Notmine,noranyoneelse’s! It’sallaboutMe, Whoelsecantherebe! It’sallaboutMe,Me,MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE “Hope you get the picture.” I like to thank Swami Ramanananda for a lecture on the journey of the Ego when I had visited Tiruvannamalai in southern India. And Dr Ravi Ravindra whose lectures I had attended in Chennai in January/February 2011 and from his book, ‘Whispers from the Other Shore. Spiritual Search – East and West’ 2011-03-02T09:19:01+00:00 http://www.siriperera.com/eecore/index.php/site/krishnamurti_foundation_chennai_india/ http://www.siriperera.com/eecore/index.php/site/krishnamurti_foundation_chennai_india/#When:08:09:00Z ‘....timeless insight brings about a deep, radical mutation in the mind.’ The state of one’s mind creates the state of society today and Krishnamurti’s teachings will carry itself into the new world order as it unfolds itself in the new millenium. ***********************Group discussion**************************** ********Krishnamurti with friends:’looking together’******** As an artist, Krishnamurti had showed me how my mind turns. He had reminded me that the thinking mind only deals with what is not new and is all based on time and memory. That the new comes from chance and spontaneity rather than reason.  The process of painting is a good tool to remind you that the Truth of things lies in the Kalichakra mind, a mind that uses thinking only for practical needs and that progress comes from the timeless ‘downloads’ from the unmanifest universe.  Painting will allow you feel this and hence ‘see’ it through your paintings.  To allow chance to help you see the unmanifest world, your mind has to sit in a certain way: being silently aware in ‘choiceless observation’, where time is not, and the mind silent and only looking but without thinking: the one-pointedness in the process of painting and the silence that comes with it can then allow insight ‘downloads’ to occur that help you ‘see’ the new in Art. The new does not come from thinking which is from time based memory and hence from the past.  J. Krishnamurti is an artist’s best friend.  And below in his own words is a summary of K’s direct observations. ‘The core of Krishnamurti’s teaching is contained in the statement he made in 1929 when he said, “Truth is a pathless land”. Man cannot come to it through any organization, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual, not through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through the mirror of relationship, through the understanding of the contents of his own mind, through observation and not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection. Man has built in himself images as a fence of security—religious, political, personal. These manifest as symbols, ideas, beliefs. The burden of these images dominates man’s thinking, his relationships, and his daily life. These images are the causes of our problems for they divide man from man. His perception of life is shaped by the concepts already established in his mind. The content of his consciousness is his entire existence. The individuality is the name, the form and superficial culture he acquires from tradition and environment. The uniqueness of man does not lie in the superficial but in complete freedom from the content of his consciousness, which is common to all humanity. So he is not an individual. Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not choice. It is man’s pretence that because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward. Freedom is without motive; freedom is not at the end of the evolution of man but lies in the first step of his existence. In observation one begins to discover the lack of freedom. Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence and activity. Thought is time. Thought is born of experience and knowledge, which are inseparable from time and the past. Time is the psychological enemy of man. Our action is based on knowledge and therefore time, so man is always a slave to the past. Thought is ever limited and so we live in constant conflict and struggle. There is no psychological evolution. When man becomes aware of the movement of his own thoughts, he will see the division between the thinker and thought, the observer and the observed, the experiencer and the experience. He will discover that this division is an illusion. Then only is there pure observation which is insight without any shadow of the past or of time. This timeless insight brings about a deep, radical mutation in the mind. Total negation is the essence of the positive. When there is negation of all those things that thought has brought about psychologically, only then is there love, which is compassion and intelligence.’ Copyright ©1980 Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd. . Vasanta Vihar Study Centre, Chennai The centre of life in Vasanta Vihar is The Study-a library housed in a spacious, elegantly designed hall on the first floor of the main building. It has a range of materials: •Books by Krishnamurti, translations of his works, copies of out-of-print materials, biographies, evaluative studies of the teachings, bulletins and newsletters of the Foundations, select books on religion, philosophy, psychology, literature, and arts, and journals of a serious nature. •A large video collection, with synopses of each programme, and video-consoles for individual viewing. •Audio collections and CDs. •A separate Lending Library enables people to borrow books and tapes. The Study organizes dialogues, weekend retreats, video programmes, and lectures from time to time. This Study Centre is also responsible for the dissemination of the teachings in India and the neighbouring countries. It therefore encourages local initiative of individuals in different parts of the country to start small study centres which have reading rooms and library facilities and hold dialogues from time to time. KFI supports such ventures with initial donations of books and tapes and interacts with them. From their website: http://www.kfionline.org/studycentres/vv.asp There is decent accomodation provided and wholesome vegetarian meals are served.  The center has a quiet environment suitable for study and reflection. Visitors are reminded that the place is a study center for Krishnamurti’s teachings and not to be used as a base for sightseeing etc. This place exists for the sole purpose of studying Krishnamurti’s teachings. Those seeking accommodation here are, therefore, requested not to treat it as a convenient lodging house or as a base for sight-seeing or transacting business. ’. (http://www.kfionline.org/studycentres/vv.asp). The center sits on about 6 acres of landscaped grounds and makes a pleasant place to ponder on the state of one’s thinking mind. Group study sessions can be organised for those staying at the center.  These sessions will be follow up discussions after time has been spent at the library to clarify some of the points that Krishnamurti makes in his teachings.  The center is run by staff that will make your stay as comfortable and pleasant as possible.  Please check the website for further information on week-end retreats and for other events. The state of one’s mind creates the state of society today and Krishnamurti’s teachings will carry itself into the new world order as it unfolds itself in the new millenium. Contact: Krishnamurti Foundation India, Vasanta Vihar, 124 Greenways Road, Chennai--600028. Tel: (044) 24937803 / 24937596. E-mail: kfihq@md2.vsnl.net.in Yesterday Today 2011-01-18T08:09:00+00:00