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Like the Virgin, his point is that he is pierced but pure. Far from being homoerotic, Reni's Sebastians are anti-erotic — a cancelling out of sexuality by a man who seems to have liked neither men, women nor good red herring. None of this, though, explains the saint's transformation in painting from a Byzantine daddy to a Baroque twink.
Here, Reni was only a follower of fashion. Piero della Francesca's Misericordia polyptych, painted two centuries earlier, already shows Sebastian as young, willowy and lightly rouged.
But why? In , Europe had been ravaged by the Black Death: up to half of the entire population of the continent died in a torment of bloody flux. In their terror, Romans prayed to Sebastian — he'd survived those arrows, after all — and the epidemic lifted. Willy-nilly, he became the hottest plague saint in Christ-endom. It is incumbent upon plague saints to look as though they haven't got one foot in the grave or, come to that, in the sewer.
So by the end of the 14th century, the middle-aged Sebastian had had a makeover, his beard, wrinkles and actual cause of death neatly airbrushed from the picture. Obvious answers to the question of just why Sebastian should have spent the past years as gay saint du jour don't seem to add up. There are as many explanations for his appeal as there are people doing the explaining.
To Yukio Mishima, the Japanese writer and keen sado-masochist, his martyrdom symbolised the erotic pleasure of pain. In his autobiographical Confessions of a Mask, the lightly disguised author has his first ejaculation over a reproduction of a Reni Sebastian. Just which, it is hard to say. Guess for yourselves. Mishima later had himself photographed as the saint before ritually disembowelling himself.
Derek Jarman's film Sebastiane uses the loin-clothed youth to look at the overlap between sexual and spiritual ecstasy, while Oscar Wilde and Tennessee Williams see him as a late-antique rentboy.
A decade later, German gays such as Mann were being rounded up and gassed. All of which is to say that the secret of Sebastian's success may lie in his ability to be all things to all men. Along with the famous arrows, the symbol of his martyrdom is the rope that binds his hands; yet the shape-shifting Sebastian just won't be tied down.
The novelist and political activist Susan Sontag pointed out that his face never registers the agonies of his body, that his beauty and his pain are eternally divorced from each other. This made him proof against plague in , and, in these ungodly times, it still does. A recent book devoted to the martyr includes Aids-related work by artists including Wolfgang Tillmans and Louise Bourgeois.
Typha plants are conspicuous and hence have many common names. They may be known in British English as bulrush, or reedmace, in American English as cattail, catninetail, punks, or corn dog grass, in Australia as cumbungi or bulrush, and in New Zealand as raupo.
Typha leaves are alternate and mostly basal to a simple, jointless stem that eventually bears the flowering spikes. Typha plants are monoecious and bear unisexual, wind-pollinated flowers, developing in dense spikes. The numerous male flowers form a narrow spike at the top of the vertical stem.
Each male staminate flower is reduced to a pair of stamens and hairs, and withers once the pollen is shed. The very large numbers of tiny female flowers form a dense, sausage-shaped spike on the stem below the male spike — in larger species this can be up to 30 centimetres 12 in long. When ripe the heads disintegrate into dense cottony fluff, from which the seeds disperse by wind. You can find me on Facebook Instagram PX.
It's really embarrassing I work in the same building as our local music school, My intentions was to sneak in and take some pics Not much fancy about my music taste When you listening to music, your brain releases dopamine. It's rewarding and makes us happy :o Music also excrete oxytocin, which increases the feeling to make social bonding and reduces stress.
It helps with birth, bonding with the baby, and milk production. Is also secretes when hugging in more than 30 seconds, that's why it is called the cuddle hormone or love hormone.
It has been proven, that the hormone in large quantities influence people's trust and generosity :o Men don't have as much oxytocin as women. Science Illustrated described a case where oxytocin nasal spray morning and evening gave a man greater sex drive.
The man's doctor prescribed it to improve his social skills, and it helped. After treatment both the man and his colleagues experienced, how he began to flirt with female colleagues; a behavior that was previously totally unknown Well music is powerful stuff :o There is a lot to benefit for listening to music beside it making you happy This position would be especially logical if one believed that the fluids themselves were being recycled to nourish body tissues.
The future has always been surprising. Both systems present a picture which is not entirely comprehensive by the methods and assumptions of modern science. Yet these types of traditions may have something useful to teach us, if we can analyze their beliefs and practices within the historical and cultural context in an effort to understand them as they were, and as they are, within their individual cultural framework.
Scientific methods such as neurobiology can give us some insight into the basic underlying causes of human experience, yet will never be able to fully explain the phenomenological idiosyncrasies of religious ritual. With this in mind, we can apply the knowledge of modern science to the study of ancient religious in a responsible and realistic way.
Taoist and Tantric sexual practices conserve and utilize the precious energy within the genital fluids. The vital forces energies that sustain life are ojas and prana.
One particular type of prana is kundalini or shakti. The Taoist equivalent is ching. By murmuring this energy, life is enriched and preserved. By squandering it, health suffers and death results, Yogys believe kundalini energy is coiled up like a serpent at the base of the spine to the pineal gland in the brain, and enlightenment is attained. The kundalini energy flows through the chakras, energy centers in your subtle body related to the endocrine glands.
If that center is weak, you entire system is weak. If that center is functioning optimally, the body can survive indefinitely. Taoist and Tantric techniques strengthen the sexual chakra. Their methods conserve its precious fluids and also pump these nourishing fluids back into the body, directing them to the endocrine glands.
This technique stimulates the production of ojas and soma. The male is cautioned to never let semen leave his body, to practice coitus reservatus, stopping short of ejaculation. Yet he is advised to bring his partner to orgasm repeatedly. With his sperm held in check and his vital energy pumping back into his system continually, he invigorates and rejuvenates his body.
Also pumping the energy and fluids of the female into his body at the time of her climax, he obtains her vitality as well. Practitioners are advised to engage in this female-draining activity a dozen or more times a day with several to 19 year old virgins.
Innocent females are victims of this crime against their health, driving them to early grave. On other hand, when both partners ate fully knowledgeable and experienced in Taoist or Tantric sexual practices, a mutually beneficial, enriching, elevating relationship can growth is only possible with mutual respect, love, honesty, commitment, and trust.
When partners recognize and worship each other as divines beings, there can be an exchange of divine energy in both body and Spirit. How does this move in the body? If we cannot see it, does it really exist? Science is only just getting a few tests going that prove energy is in the body and around it.
Is it real what the Ancient wisdoms teach us? Can it guide us to oneness and conscious awakening? It has been a long road for those in the energy field of health getting the message across to the general population that energy is everywhere, particularly in the body. With proof, barriers seem a lot easier to free up. Oriental medicine and Ayurvedic medicine are the clearest and longest standing observational sciences that describe and fully believe that energy exists as long as years ago.
Both have movement medicine in the forms of Yoga and Qigong. As I already discussed in the previous article Bring the energy home, there is a cycle called the Microcosmic cycle which when experienced connects the front and back energy meridians.
Also called the Governing and Conception channels, in Oriental medicine a further 12 major channels exist that run up and down the body through the limbs, arms and legs 6 Yin and 6 Yang. These energies connect to the sun yang and moon yin influences. Predominantly yang energy in the morning and more yin energies in the afternoon, changing again after midnight.
Then more yang energies developing until we awake and the body starts to function optimally again in the awakened state. Baxter and Laurent Sagart. The earliest texts that speak of qi give some indications of how the concept developed. In the Analects of Confucius qi could mean "breath". The [morally] noble man guards himself against 3 things. When he is young, his xue—qi has not yet stabilized, so he guards himself against sexual passion.
When he reaches his prime, his xue—qi is not easily subdued, so he guards himself against combativeness. When he reaches old age, his xue—qi is already depleted, so he guards himself against acquisitiveness. The philosopher Mozi used the word qi to refer to noxious vapors that would in eventually arise from a corpse were it not buried at a sufficient depth.
He reported that early civilized humans learned how to live in houses to protect their qi from the moisture that troubled them when they lived in caves. He also associated maintaining one's qi with providing oneself with adequate nutrition. In regard to another kind of qi, he recorded how some people performed a kind of prognostication by observing qi clouds in the sky.
Mencius described a kind of qi that might be characterized as an individual's vital energies. This qi was necessary to activity and it could be controlled by a well-integrated willpower.
It could also be augmented by means of careful exercise of one's moral capacities. Living things were not the only things believed to have qi. Zhuangzi indicated that wind is the qi of the Earth.
Moreover, cosmic yin and yang "are the greatest of qi". He described qi as "issuing forth" and creating profound effects. When it accumulates there is life. When it dissipates there is death There is one qi that connects and pervades everything in the world. The highest Yang is the most exuberant. The restrained comes forth from Heaven. The exuberant issues forth from Earth. The two intertwine and penetrate forming a harmony, and [as a result] things are born. The essay was probably composed at the Jixia Academy in Qi in the late fourth century B.
Xun Zi, another Confucian scholar of the Jixia Academy, followed in later years. Grasses and trees have life but do not have perceptivity. Fowl and beasts have perceptivity but do not have yi sense of right and wrong, duty, justice. Men have qi, life, perceptivity, and yi. They accounted for this phenomenon by claiming "qi" radiated from fire. Among the animals, the gibbon and the crane were considered experts at inhaling the qi. The Confucian scholar Dong Zhongshu ca.
His forearms being long, he lives eight hundred years, because he is expert in controlling his breathing. Fleeting, fluttering, penetrating, amorphous it is, and so it is called the Supreme Luminary. The dao begins in the Void Brightening. The Void Brightening produces the universe yu—zhou. The universe produces qi. Qi has bounds. The clear, yang [qi] was ethereal and so formed heaven. The heavy, turbid [qi] was congealed and impeded and so formed earth. The conjunction of the clear, yang [qi] was fluid and easy.
The conjunction of the heavy, turbid [qi] was strained and difficult. So heaven was formed first and earth was made fast later. The pervading essence xi—jing of heaven and earth becomes yin and yang.
The concentrated zhuan essences of yin and yang become the four seasons. The dispersed san essences of the four seasons become the myriad creatures. The hot qi of yang in accumulating produces fire. The essence jing of the fire-qi becomes the sun. The cold qi of yin in accumulating produces water. The essence of the water-qi becomes the moon. The essences produced by coitus yin of the sun and moon become the stars and celestial markpoints chen, planets.
This Kundalini shakti energy moving systematically when ready to the top most Chakra Sahasara and then connects to the Supreme shiva and universe. This energy is also affected by our emotions, the food we eat, and how we move this energy i. Learning these skills help develop and refine this energy and maintain a storage where we can then start to develop longevity and preserve our inherited energy from our family.
We are also affected energetically by our environment, particularly magnetic waves, microwaves sonic waves, radio waves, TV signals, mobile phones and so on. Managing our bodies and its needs sometimes can feel overwhelming but with the correct help and attitude we can soon feel the benefits of repeated Qi flow and awakened consciousness. Yoga also uses movement to connect ourselves to the universe.
We can learn so much from these practices about our bodies and how to get into a flow that benefits mind, body, and spirit. My experience when studying Kundalini Yoga was a very powerful one. Kundalini is known as the mother Yoga and when followed by its principles and ancient wisdom, allows for natural movement of the Kundalini. This is a simple but effective Yoga, often postures being held and breath sequences and Bhandas used to help move energy.
Meditations and Mantras with Mudras further help reconnect the spirit and open us to the universal oneness. Both Qigong and Yoga have deep understanding of our energetic connections and make use of techniques and principles that guide us safely back to our spiritual home and beyond.
Prana is often referred to as the "life force" or "life energy". This life energy has been vividly invoked and described in the ancient Vedas and Upanishads. Indologist Georg Feuerstein explains, "The Chinese call it chi, the Polynesians mana, the Amerindians orenda, and the ancient Germans od. It is an all-pervasive 'organic' The ancient concept of prana is described in many early Hindu texts, including Upanishads and Vedas.
One of the earliest references to prana is from the 3,year-old Chandogya Upanishad, but many other Upanishads also make use of the concept, including the Katha, Mundaka and Prasna Upanishads. Prana is typically divided into multiple constituent parts, in particular when concerned with the human body. While not all early sources agree on the names or number of these subdivisions, the most common list from the Mahabharata, the Upanishads, Ayurvedic and Yogic sources includes five, often divided into further subcategories.
This list includes: Prana inward moving energy , apana outward moving energy , vyana circulation of energy , udana energy of the head and throat , and samana digestion and assimilation. This can be seen in the proto-yogic traditions of the Vratyas among others. His grandfather and parents engaged in wood carving business. During the s, Poren Huang's father, Mingde Huang, had a successful wood carving industry and huge export volume.
As a major wood carving factory in Taiwan,the factory employed more than craftsmen to produce wood handicrafts during peak seasons. Mingde Huang expected his son Poren Huang to inherit the family business, but Poren Huang preferred artistic creation to wood handicraft production, resulting in years of differences between the father and son.
Although he and his father held different viewpoints, he highly values family interaction. He focused on mending his family relationship before pursuing his personal ambition, and some of his works in The Dog's Notes strongly convey enlightenment and morality. After World War II, with the recovery of the global economy, prosperity and focus on human rights, the hard work of the previous generation is often reciprocated with the disregard, self-centeredness, mockery and impiety of the next generation.
In The Dog's Notes, Poren Huang added the quality of loyalty and kindness to purify the human heart and create positive influence. Using the dog as a creative starting point, each piece of work is suggestive of the "human". Modern people generally feel kindly toward dogs because of their ability to soothe. Therefore, Poren Huang uses the dog as his creative theme to convey positive traits such as self-confidence, courage, loyalty or innocence, and to provoke in people deeper thoughts as they come in contact with his work.
Many people are first attracted by the amusing forms; however, after a period of contact and interaction with the pieces, they seem to sense the deeper significance and remain inspired by positive ideas and thoughts.
There are primarily two types of animals that appear in The Dog's Notes, the dog and the panda. They share a common characteristic of being humanized. These animals do not appear completely animal-like under Poren Huang's sculpting, but instead, they appear to have the scent of a human.
That is why viewers tend to stand in front of the artwork and stare for quite a long time, unwittingly; perhaps it is because they did not get an affirmative answer as to whether the artwork is human or animal? When the dog and the panda enter the human's environment, they naturally learn to cohabitate with humans.
They lose the wild nature of being wild animals, and become more humanized. People are the same way. Poren Huang wishes that humans can be more inspired by the dogs, and to learn the positive characters found in dogs, such as innocence, loyalty, kindness, bravery, and being passionate.
Much like the Chinese proverb, "The son does not despise the mother for being ugly, and the dog does not blame the owner for being poor"; the dog will not despite the owner, and will not leave the owner, instead he will spend the rest of his life by his owner's side. Humans, on the other hand are different.
They might look down on others or alienate others. They might even become disrespectful toward parents. The selfishness of humans causes wars and unrest in the world. Therefore, Poren Huang is not just creating artworks of animals, but instead, he is making his sculptures more humanized, so that the viewers can naturally reflect and be inspired.
In addition, Poren Huang's humanized works of art also have a little bit of the "Oriental Literati" essence. Although these artworks will have various emotions, but they are never too intense, and are never over the top. Just like Ang Lee, Xi Jinping, Yo-Yo Ma, Jeremy Lin, as well as other generally well-known Chinese, whose personalities are perhaps the same way, which is gentle and refined, and with the modesty of a gentleman.
Much like the Eastern literai who are well read of poetry and literature, their emotions are not easily shown; they are more restrained, and are full of character and depth. Francois Gachon is an advertising agent of the By Chance agency and a watercolourist graduated from the school of applied arts, he painted this subtle body that I have inlaid in the photo. Poren Huang considered this collage to be very artistic. The wallpaper is a painting by Paul Gauguin named Delightful Land Te nave nave nave nave fenua, But these giants were evil.
Having been born of corrupted, Satanic angels they dominated the Earth and filled it with violence. In addition to causing violence and sin in the world, the Nephilim were also corrupting the human bloodline. Thus God judged the Earth with the flood.
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise. We also know there had begun to be offspring on the earth with mixed. What was so wrong with the mixing of humans and Nephilim, other than this? The reason? A number of genetic disturbances developed because of it. Some of these mixed offspring could have turned out normally - similar to other human beings; many others did not. There were a number of those either. Many were giants, physical giants: On the earth there once were giants.
The ancient genomes, one from a Neanderthal and one from a different archaic human group, the Denisovans, were presented on 18 November at a meeting at the Royal Society in London. They suggest that interbreeding went on between the members of several ancient human-like groups living in Europe and Asia more than 30, years ago, including an as-yet unknown human ancestor from Asia.
The first Neanderthal and the Denisovan genome sequences revolutionized the study of ancient human history, not least because they showed that these groups interbred with anatomically modern humans, contributing to the genetic diversity of many people alive today.
The cave contains remains deposited there between 30, and 50, years ago. Those conclusions however were based on low-quality genome sequences, riddled with errors and full of gaps, David Reich, an evolutionary geneticist at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts said at the meeting.
The high-quality Denisovan genome data and new Neanderthal genome both come from bones recovered from Denisova Cave. The new Denisovan genome indicates that this enigmatic population got around: Reich said at the meeting that they interbred with Neanderthals and with the ancestors of human populations that now live in China and other parts of East Asia, in addition to Oceanic populations, as his team previously reported.
Most surprisingly, Reich said, the new genomes indicate that Denisovans interbred with another extinct population of archaic humans that lived in Asia more than 30, years ago, which is neither human nor Neanderthal. The meeting was abuzz with conjecture about the identity of this potentially new population of humans. He speculates that the population could be related to Homo heidelbergensis, a species that left Africa around half a million years ago and later gave rise to Neanderthals in Europe.
It was built during the third dynasty, BC and the pyramid and its surrounding complex are said to have been designed by Imhotep. Not the scary figure from the Mummy-movies but the architect and vizier of pharaoh Djoser. Imhotep was skilled in all areas of administration and royal enterprises and he was also a priest, writer, a doctor and the founder of the Egyptian studies of astronomy and architecture. Imhotep was also seen as a god, the God of Healing, and he was called the son of Ptah.
The name Imhotep means "the one that comes in peace" but where he came from is unknown. From statues of him we can see that he had Caucasian features and the long head of the pharaohs even if he was not a pharaoh. Djoser's mummy has not been found, but what is remarkable about his pyramid is all the storage rooms plus a large maze of corridors and chambers dug beneath it. Massive amounts of seeds like wheat, barley, grape, tomato and figs - along with Egyptologists claim this to be for the king's afterlife but would he need such a large amount of seeds in a theological heaven?
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, made by the government of Norway deep inside a mountain on the remote and cold island of Svalbard, is a "doomsday" seed bank that stores backup copies of millions of different crop varieties in case of a worldwide catastrophe.
Is it possible that also all the seeds in Djoser's storage rooms were meant to be in case of catastrophe - to restart the Egyptian civilisation? Imhotep diagnosed and treated over diseases; he performed surgery and practiced some dentistry. He has a remarkable degree of medical knowledge. The prescriptions in his ancient documents not only can compare with pharmaceutical preparations of today but many of the remedies also had therapeutic merit, Yes, many of his ancient remedies survived into the 20th century and some remain in.
Semen and ejaculation are actually a strong part of ancient Egyptian god myths: there's an extended episode in which Set and Horus, two male gods, have what's essentially a semen-battle. Set tries to seduce Horus, but Horus throws Set's semen in the river, and then tricks him into eating lettuce smeared with Horus's semen.
When the other gods try to figure out who "won" this particular fight, they summon both bits of sperm, and Horus wins, because he got Set to "swallow". Horus's semen becomes a lovely gold disc of shame around Set's head.
The Horus and Seth story ends with the father, Osiris, declaring his son, Horus, his legitimate heir. The way the words are written, the sexual act is implied, but not expressly stated. The sun-god nevertheless emerges from his depression with satisfaction.
Perhaps someone can come up with another example where laughter is a euphemism for orgasm. The point here is that Hathor used her sexuality here not for reproduction, but for entertainment, or, perhaps healing, in the sense of curing a depression.
Did Imhotep also have knowledge of genetics? Is it possible that he with his superior medical skills tried to restore the pharaoh's dwindling power and knowledge? Had interbreeding with local people changed the divine pharaohs mental capacities, did their long skulls get shorter and shorter and the brain capacities smaller and smaller? Did he try to recreate the former race that once had come from the north - the race that he himself most probably had inherited his impressive brain capacities from?
Is that why the pharaoh Akenaten not only had a long skull but also female features like breasts and a wide hip? And Akenaten's daughters had even longer skulls and that his son Tutankhamun's DNA from his mummy has revealed that he was not an Egyptian but had come from the north? The world, thanks to Cain and the Serpent, was now on the slow pathway to self-destruction. Adam had fallen a long time before this. The whole working world of the Garden had forever changed.
The other fallen, corporeal angels of the Garden probably felt vindicated, at least in their minds. Cain began to influence the developing societies around him with these anti-God religious beliefs. Young pretty magnificent shy brunette young woman posing on paris street, elegant lady look, summertime, beige colors, travel experience.
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