/r/Heavymind
"Heavy" art: imagery, film, music, poetry, whatever.
The definition for "heavy" is entirely up for interpretation; still, let's please keep the kaleidoscopes, "trippy" GIFs and notebook doodles to a minimum.
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The goal here is to capture the darker side, the no limit to the possibilities side... the going completely out of your mind side.
Thought provoking, rich in symbolism.
Heavy.
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Done with oil paint
Top on 16 by 20 inches Middle one 13 by 30 Bottom one 36 by 48
Approximately 12 by 30 inches. Oil on board
Graphite on paper 11.7x16.5
If animals like salmons with their tiny brain use the earth magnetic field like a compass and their highly developed sense of smell to go back to their birthplace or bats use a sonar system to travel at night and not hit things or dolphins communicate telepathically through echolocation, is it so hard to believe that we were also given ''supernatural'' abilities?
Many countries and cultures (that existed before the Americas) all documented, acknowledged, and witnessed human beings like you and me use a type of psychic energy that allowed them to do "supernatural" things.
Fast forward to today, there has been a controlled narrative, on this subject in the educational system, media and the mainstream web, so that you can't see past the box that was created to keep people on earth from breaking free from the illusion of life that would come from accessing these abilities.
10 years and counting of research, bridging gaps between different cultures, practice and experiments helped me discover a "Life force/Vital Energy" that is behind the supernatural abilities any human can do.
Abilities that, with the use of that same vital energy, helped me learn how to, lift my consciousness out of my body (breaking the illusion of life and death), develop and access psychic abilities, see through my closed eyelids or even manifesting physical buildings, people and desired life situations through its conscious activation and more.
The closest our society came to uncover this truth on its own was when the term Frisson and Spiritual Chills started to be used to describe people experiencing, physical goosebumps at times accompanied with a euphoric/ecstatic feeling. This was quickly manipulated and swept under the rug as 1. Something we can't all experience and only a few ''Open to experience'' people could do and 2. As it being a sign of a confirmation from "non-physical beings"
If you google the term "spiritual chills" or ''Frisson'' those are the main results out there that will come up. What I discovered after all these years was that that is only the tip of the iceberg with what you can experience with the conscious control of your Vital energy.
The best way you can recognize your Vital energy in action in you is when you feel a blissful wave that can most easily be felt/recognized as present while you get goosebumps from positive situations/stimuli. This is what people experience as ''Frisson'' and during an ''ASMR'' session.
Eventually, you can learn how to bring up this wave of euphoric energy without the physical reaction of goosebumps, feel it over your whole body and increase its duration. This is the euphoric feeling that people experience during the ''Runner's High'', in meditation, when practicing Tai-Chi, with specific breathwork like the Wimhoff method or pranayama, after cold showers and on drugs.
If you are interested in learning more about this energy, it has been researched and documented under many names like Bioelectricity, Life force, Prana, Chi, Qi, Runner's High, Euphoria, ASMR, Ecstasy, Orgone, Rapture, Tension, Aura, Mana, Vayus, Nen, Intent, Tummo, Odic force, Kriyas, Pitī, Frisson, Ruah, Spiritual Energy, Secret Fire, The Tingles, on-demand quickening, Voluntary Piloerection, Aether, Chills, Spiritual Chills and many more to be discovered hopefully with your help.
Here are three written tutorials going more in-depth about your vital energy and how you can begin your mastery of it to later use it for incredible feats.
P.S. Everyone feels it at certain points in their life, some brush it off while others notice that there is something much deeper going on. Those are exactly the people you can find on r/spiritualchills where they share experiences, knowledge and tips on it.
Ink on paper. Part of a suite of paintings commissioned by the composer Kirk Whipple for his Choral Fantasy "The Macabrifesto".