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Three Part Lecture Series on the Physical and the Spiritual Body

 

          


In the main gallery on the elevated stage a Black & Decker workbench served as gallows for the flagellation ritual.


The artist in full body paint and marked with 7 numbers on his back kneeling on the workbench read the text of the lecture.  Afterwards recited  his sins 7 times and was hit with a ritual baton each time by the gallery director Sabine Gebser on the corresponding numbers.


From the gallery’s bathroom live video feed showed a lesbian couple in sadomasochistic action.

In Mahayana Buddhism, the 6 paramitas (highest conditions) practiced by Bodhisativas are:  generosity, moral conduct, patience, courage, meditation, and wisdom.


MY SINS ARE:



  1. ✦    aggression


  1. ✦    fear


  1. ✦    greed


  1. ✦    intolerance


  1. ✦    vanity


  3. ✦    and breaking the silence of

  4.     AIN - SOPH - AUR,

  5. ✦    the  ultimate,

  6.     unmanifested potential


The numbers are representations of the 7 chakra centers of the human body according to the Kundalini system.


All things are made out of particles vibrating in various frequencies. 

Our reality is a resonating symphony of wave forms; a continuous interconnected field.  A hologram, holo-movement, MAYA.


According to Dr. Kenneth Ring (1980), psychologist, University of Connecticut, near-death experiences could be explained by the holographic model of the universe.  He is the president of the International Association for Near-Death Studies, believes such experience as well as death itself, are really nothing more than the shifting of a person's consciousness from one level of the hologram of reality to another. 


In his book, entitled "Synchronicity: The Bridge Between Matter & Mind", (1987)

Dr. F. David Peat. a physicist at Queen's University in Canada, explained that synchronicity can be explained by the holographic model.  Peat believes such coincidences are actually, "flaws in the fabric of reality". They reveal that our thought processes are intimately connected to the physical world.

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THE BLOWS:



1   MULADHARA


2   SVADISHTANA


3   MANIPURA


4   ANAHATA


5   VISHUDDHA


6   AYNA


7   SAHASRARA

David Bohm, physicist at the University of London, in his book, "Wholeness and the Implicate Order" (1980)  introduced the notion of the implicate order in which any element contains enfolded within itself the totality of the universe.  His concept of totality includes both matter and consciousness.


All things are made out of particles vibrating in various frequencies, the shorter the wavelength gets, there is more energy stored.

Every cubic centimeter of empty space contains more energy than the total energy of all the matter in the known universe.  This infinite ocean of energy is the empty space. 


What we think is empty is full: This is AIN SOPH AUR, the Ultimate Un-manifested Potential.  This is the ground for the existence of everything.



  1. 1.        I AM CREATING MY OWN REALITY.



  1. 2.        IT IS FEAR THAT PREVENTS ME TO FULFILL MY POTENTIAL.



  1. 3.        OUT OF VANITY, I AM CREATING THIS PERFORMANCE TONIGHT.



  1. 4.       I AM DISTURBING THE SILENCE OF AIN SOPH AUR, THE ULTIMATE, UN-MANIFESTED POTENTIAL.



  4. 5.       HUMAN ACTION CREATES MISERY. THE ULTIMATE MORAL IS THE NON-DOING, NON-ACTION. 

  5.         ONE SHOULD CALM THE BODY AND STILL THE MIND TO CONNECT WITH THE OCEAN OF EMPTINESS.



  1. 6.       I AM CREATING THIS PERFORMANCE TO PUNISH MYSELF. 



  4. 7.       I PUNISH MYSELF BECAUSE I HAVE CREATED THIS PERFORMANCE.



Dr. Nosek ©1995