People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a nonlinear, non-subjective viewpoint, it’s more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey… stuff. The Tenth Doctor Who This month’s Ten Minute meditation is all about slowing down time…so you have more of it! Its a playful meditation (a shorter version of the 20 minute weekly meditation) and is aimed at loosening your restrictions about how you perceive and move through time. If you think you have more of it, then you will probably feel more relaxed about things! We all know time is relative. Sometimes it drags ,sometimes it speeds along. We also (supposedly) operate in a 3D world negotiating TIME which is (supposedly) 4D. No wonder it gets away from us! I have been using the imagery in this meditation for years and its my go-to if I’m feeling overwhelmed by simple day to day stuff: It’s a good lunch-break meditation! I hope you enjoy the extra space it gives you. Steve Stephen Fearnley is an award-winning filmmaker, artist and composer. He composes transformational soundscapes for the meditation journeys of One Mind Live – a unique worldwide online group meditation community. To sample One Mind Live, go HERE
Evolving Circles by Stephen Fearnley
When I was composing this music I was surprised to see a flock of King Parrots arrive to have a listen. Im not sure if it was the high bell-like sounds or the rainforest birds I’d mixed in. Sometimes the parrots turn up when I play the piano (hopefully as an appreciative audience – but then again my poodle Edith occasionally starts howling when I sing- so Im really not sure… ) Calligraphy circles, spiralling DNA as well as water vortices, are the images I had in mind for this composition. Ive definately been influenced by a doco I saw on Youtube recently on Viktor Schauberger and his largely unknown work in studying water and how his systems are being used for ecosystem rehabilitation. Fascinating and deeply inspiring. This is definately a headphone-listen as there are some delicious low notes – deep resonating cello sounds (They come in after about 10 minutes and continue on and off throughout the rest of the track.) Enjoy Steve Stephen Fearnley is an award-winning filmmaker, artist and composer. He composes transformational soundscapes for the meditation journeys of One Mind Live – a unique worldwide online group meditation community. To sample One Mind Live, go HERE
The Heart of Da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi
Nice frame ! Astonishing painting ! Outrageous price tag ! Da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi (Saviour of the World), if you havent heard, just sold for a record sum– an amount that doesn’t phase me in the slightest. After all, it’s already priceless, so $450M sounds like a bargain! I just hope the undisclosed buyer gives the public a place to see it somewhere, in real life, so they can be shocked at how relatively small it is for something so famous (and so remarkably painted). Of course, in this case the size of the image, if you are to ascribe to David Hockney’s controversial ‘camera obscura’ theory, suggests that Da Vinci may have used lenses to create such photo-realism (the size of the lens determines the size of the picture). Having worked with photography for 40 years I think Hockney is on target and it certainly explains why Da Vinci’s ‘Salvator Mundi’ has such depth of field: The face of Christ is slightly soft and the raised hand and the crystal ball is sharp. The softness of the face also makes the portrait so enigmatic. Lenses or not, with only 20 paintings known in existence, DaVinci’s artistic legacy is beyond mind boggling. Da Vinci’s SalvatorThe Heart of Da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi
The Wine Dark Sea by Stephen Fearnley
‘And now have I put in here, as thou seest, with ship and crew, while sailing over the wine-dark sea… ‘ (Homer, Odyssey, Book 1, line 178) I had fun with this composition. I was needing inspiration and Naomi Janzen said “ …just do some tapping (EFT) and ask even though I currently have no idea for a composition etc…” and of course instantly the enigmatic phrase from Homer jumped into my head “ the wine dark sea”. Ok, I thought, that’s pretty random, I can certainly work with that! ‘The Wine Dark Sea’ is enigmatic because so many commentators over the years have pondered what the heck Homer was getting at .Was the sea really a dark red wine colour ? I remember a history teacher at art school saying that what Homer really revealed was the ancient Greeks didn’t see the colour blue ! – that the rods and cones in their eyes were still evolving and all they saw was a burgundy sea and a claret sky! Of course he failed to mention that the ancient Egyptians were throwing about lapis lazuli in the bucket loads. Of course if you get the chance to cross the Mediterranean theThe Wine Dark Sea by Stephen Fearnley