By Rev. Wilma
02/07/2010 07:48a [Reply]

What was your experience of worship with Hildegard's art?

By Dwight Dirks
02/08/2010 01:05a [Reply]

 I sit here on a cold snowy dark night, with a hot cup of milk, and five cats scattered about the house in their favorite snoozing spots.  It's going to be a sleepless night unless I take a tranquilizer, a muscle relaxant and a pain pill.  LOL.  Sound like a druggy, don't I?  It may be sleepless anyway, even though I've just taken these meds:  it may be a Night of Epiphanies, like last night, like other nights.
Bill, I didn't answer your question properly:  You asked if epiphanies were "Connections".  I safely and carefully said that certainly, they could be considered that, if it is your inclination to call them such.
That was a safe, and as such, noninformative answer.  I wanted to clarify, but sometimes my thinking is now a bit muddled, and the right words wouldn't come to me at the time.
Epiphanies are Awakenings, Revealings, Unveilings, the flash of deep insight, the "EUREKA!" moment, the At-One-ment where the drop merges into the ocean, rises as a vapor into the clouds, and falls to the earth as rain or snow, to begins its journey anew to the ocean.
These are "connections", yes, but not as in a smooth continuous flow.  Epiphanies may build up over years, or even decades; they may be sub-, un- and/or consciously prepared for (as, for example, ES, nach meiner Meinung) -- or, more often, they are sudden and unprecedented.  For me, it is quite a mystical experience, usually of a metaphysical or intellectual nature, though sometimes of a visionary nature.  Either way, I usually can find no adequate words to express them, so I do not share them with others.  I simply acknowledge the True Source, and worship this True Source by sending, as it were, a "confirmation of delivery prayer" back to the True Source.  In this sense, the True Source and I do "connect".
If this makes no sense, please blame the drugs and the late hour. LOL.
Dwight

By Rev. Wilma
02/10/2010 01:22a [Reply]

Dwight,  As always -- you make complete sense!  Thanks for sharing your late-night reflections with us.

By Bill Peters
03/03/2010 09:52p [Reply]

Dwight,
Yes, those "peak moments" one has, when a soul feels "connected"!
That is what drives me for "understanding", "answers" and "being"!
Bill

By Page Morahan
02/11/2010 10:18p [Reply]

I appreciated seeing some of her paintings, and the combination of her art and her music. I'd like to hav elinks to more. Her art seems to come from the Eastern tradition, and to include some of the new mystic concepts, as well as Native American. I'm thinking of the painting in the video that had a circle with four areas for Aqua, Terra, Ignis, and I couldn't see the other and assume its for air. Very intriguing, and whets my interest in seeing more...

By Bill Peters
03/03/2010 09:56p [Reply]

Wilma,
Familiar with her sayings, but Blown Away, with her art!
Did not know of this!
Thanks!
Bill

By Rev Wilma Wake
03/04/2010 03:44a [Reply]

Page and Bill,

Her art is just stunning.  Matthew Fox wrote a book with many of her paintings in it, and is helping to start a revival of interest in her.