50 years ago today I was a 21 year-old deeply depressed atheist artist. Waking up on the last day of art school (May 30) I asked a God that I did not believe existed to show me a sign not to kill myself. Later that afternoon, after school was out, I was on a street corner for two minutes, saying goodbye to my art professor, and a lady named Allyson drove by and asked us if we would like to come to her end of the year art school party that night? It was there I had my first LSD journey, May 30, 1975.
Behind closed eyes, I was in the dark, rotating inside a curving, conch-like, iridescent mother of pearl surfaced tunnel spiraling towards an incredible light. This brilliant radiance was “God” answering my prayer as I was going through a spiritual rebirth canal. The light was infinite love and divine wisdom, it felt like God was revealed through a visionary symbol. In the dark, but going toward the light, now I had a direction. The Polar Unity Spiral showed me that the opposites were connected by all the different shades of grey. Grey brought the opposites together, and that was what I wanted to do with my art, so I decided to change my name based on that journey.
Allyson, in whose apartment I was tripping, had also seen the transcendental light but I didn’t find that out til the next night when I invited her out on a date. 💙🙏
I think most of life is trying to return to that place of safety, warmth and wholeness we felt from our earliest days in this world. Everything we do after are indirect attempts to return to that state of complete bliss, which exists inside us now, and can be accessed anytime. ॐ
Every 24 hours we need to re-up:
1. Sleep
2. Morning Sunlight
3. Exercise
4. Nutrients (even if from body stores)
5. Water
The fact that we can survive >24hrs without one or several of these, is irrelevant. Health flourishes when we make getting all 5 of these a daily priority.
.@NASAHubble’s observations of M74 revealed bright areas of star formation in visible and ultraviolet wavelengths. Webb’s infrared vision is helping to pinpoint these regions, accurately measure the masses and ages of star clusters, and gain insight into interstellar dust.
Webb is on a roll! 🤸
This new @NASAWebb near and mid-infrared composite image highlights the Cartwheel Galaxy, the result of a high-speed collision that occurred about 440 million years ago, along with two neighboring galaxies. Get the details: https://t.co/c8lEVBBlub
Y’all, @nichelleisuhuru.
Heartbroken at the news of her passing, however, I am comforted in the knowledge that she illuminated the way for so of us many with her grace, beauty, talent, intelligence and her commitment to humanity going boldly to the stars! #godess#queen
🙏🏾♥️🌹🖖🏾
Here's my conversation with @brian_armstrong, CEO of @Coinbase, who are an important part of helping cryptocurrency define how money, power, energy, information, freedom, and government function in our modern world. https://t.co/AehRfWOEC5
It's here–the deepest, sharpest infrared view of the universe to date: Webb's First Deep Field.
Previewed by @POTUS on July 11, it shows galaxies once invisible to us. The full set of @NASAWebb's first full-color images & data will be revealed July 12: https://t.co/63zxpNDi4I
Pro-lifers don't like complexity. At 17 weeks my placenta detached and he was much too small. I thought I felt my baby's frantic attempts to breathe. My OBGYN advised me to terminate the pregnancy, there wasn't much time. But I couldn't.
Here's my conversation with @Grimezsz, a fascinating musician, artist, and human being. We talk about life, history, technology, consciousness, and the role of AI in the future of humanity. https://t.co/n4UauaCWla
@AnneRiceAuthor I just finished reading "Blood Communion" the latest (and now final) book in the Vampire Chronicles. I am deeply saddened by her loss. She was among the finest writers of her time. Her books and writing style inspired me in ways that few others come close too.
This is Anne’s son Christopher and it breaks my heart to inform you that earlier tonight Anne passed away due to complications resulting from a stroke. Below is the statement I shared on her Facebook page moments ago.