My notes from this class on the day it releases, May 29.
Don’t turn your head.
Keep looking toward the hidden place.
That’s where the light enters you.
~Rumi
Her Voice Recording Lecture of 13 minutes: Looking Inward
I’m not trying to give full, accurate summaries of these little lectures, but just an idea of what she said from my kind of detached self. This one was both philosophical and psychological with quotes from several people. She suggested we go to a quiet place, relax, and think about who we are inside and then make a “SELFIE” photo with our cell phone. Maybe I will. In all of these lessons she also summarizes her lecture and all shared in the online lesson at the end, which I always copy to the end of my reports, the last thing below.
We recommend the work of Tatiana Parcero to enhance your inspiration (Her suggested photographer for this lesson)
If you are allowed into their online lesson page, click the above title or the photo below. And by now I think it is obvious that most of the artists & photographers she prefers and uses are women and Spanish-speaking (Spain & Latin America), but I think that would be the same kind of tendency that a man teacher would have from any language or country, so no big deal to me. 🙂
I’m not sure how a nude emphasizes the “internal self” she talks about, but maybe. 🙂
Since you probably can’t get to the lesson web page, read about her on Wikipedia or go to her website: www.tatianaparcero.com OR her Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/universustatianaparcero/ She does photography in both Mexico and Argentina.
I invite you to practice this Guided Meditation I’ve called Looking Within.
A 5+ minute vocal recording, inward-looking stillness, quietness, meditation, which is good and maybe should be repeated.
Recommended music: Sia – Unstoppable.
Not exactly my kind of music, but I guess it sort of illustrates her looking inside yourself concept or more about accepting yourself as you are, then she gave this quote:
I am immense…
And I contain multitudes.
~Walt Whitman
HER SUMMARY: What you heard today:
In this pause, we open ourselves to a more intimate, more honest gaze. A gaze that goes beyond what is visible.
Virginia Woolf writes, “within us there is a world more vast than anything we could ever see outside.” This inner world is boundless, profound, and worthy of exploration.
Read more about Virginia Woolf
From the field of science, psychiatrist Jeffrey Schwartz speaks to us about self-directed neuroplasticity—the ability we have to change our brains through attention and awareness. What we look at… shapes us.
More on self-directed neuroplasticity – Schwartz’s book
The philosopher Byung-Chul Han reminds us that when we contemplate beauty, the self dissolves. We become part of it. “When contemplating beauty, the will withdraws… In the presence of the beautiful, seeing has reached its destination.”
Byung-Chul Han – Saving Beauty
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