Thursday, March 23, 2006

my favorite.

~ "The Baptism of Christ" ~ Fitzwilliam Musuem, Cambridge, England Painted in 1710 by Flemish artist Aert De Gelder depicts a classic, hovering, silvery, saucer shaped UFO shining beams of light down on John the Baptist and Jesus.
What could have inspired the artist to combine these two subjects?

5 comments:

Dr.Alistair said...

i have experienced the beam of light, not in any romantic sort of portrayal like that, but you have to realise context of that painter`s filtering system. the artist was seeing the experience through christian eyes. if i had been a devout catholic for instance, my experience would have sent me to church for answers.......however my training was centered more in mysticism and ancient achetypes and from studying traditional shamanism and healing rituals so i saw the beam as empowering my ability to heal. from there i go forward. i will never question the mystical experiences, no matter what the filter the experiencer uses to relate the experience. at the end of the day it`s all one thing.

Dr.Alistair said...

that beam of light is the essense of what i call the divine. it is for all of us to experience . i don`t consider myself special so much as blessed or perhaps lucky. when i relate the experience and help people to know this as a part of human existance.......i believe that it wakes something deep within us all. something basic. i resist the urge to name the experience something other that to relate what happened to me and how i have come away from it in my life. the experience tells me that we are divine and infinitely powerful, if we wake up to it.
that`s what all these depictions of the same lights and beams and energy and mysticism and power are about. our divinity.

Dr.Alistair said...

i think the ufos are an interpretation of this infinite energy that is all around us and that we are all a part of. occasionally someone, for whatever reason, will catch a glimpse of something out of the corner of thier eye and want to put a name to it........i have resisted to name my experiences other that in terms of what my senses gave me. i will also say that it`s not reasonable to say that other people haven`t experienced direct contact with aliens or jesus or seth or god himself. i wasn`t in thier head when they saw what they saw.

Dr.Alistair said...

we begin to recognise what we have at different stages in our lives and due to the realities of circumstance. i was too energetic when i was younger and didn`t have the quiet to listen inside. i was always able to give energy but i wasn`t confident about the process and it wasn`t important to me then.
my feelings after waking from the energy experience were no different than any other time. i didn`t remember the event for a while after it happened. weeks or months maybe. it has only been recently, twenty or more years later that i have really began to focus on what the event meant. it was a reminder, i suppose........to remind others of what we have inside.
my dad always said i was good with animals. animals are a big part of my life now and my sister in england raises dog breeds and trains animals for t.v.
i don`t think animals are much different than humans in thier needs..........love, compassion, non-judgement.......and a bowl of food occasionally.

Dr.Alistair said...

much like people.