CRYPTIK MOVEMENT | Huffington Post

CRYPTIK MOVEMENT | Huffington Post
"There is a message behind this concept: peace, love, truth, wisdom and universality. The artist known as Cryptik doesn't want you to focus on the idea of the cult of personality, rather the message that we are all a united people, a collective consciousness of peoples moving in similar paths intertwined for purpose. His artwork tells a narrative of following the greater mysteries of the world that can unfold before your very eyes if you pay close enough attention. His artwork is "The Hero With A Thousand Faces," the journey of the transformative process within ourselves as we go out into the world with different experiences and return as the archetypal character with a global source and share amongst our circle. The hero's journey is always the same: common man goes on an adventure of epic proportions, internal or external, sometimes one can be a metaphor for the other, then battle zones are encountered, confronted headstrong and the hero reigns victorious, then the hero returns to common man and bestows meaning in everyday tedium. Great stories are told this way -- think Don Quixote, Jesus Christ, Zoroaster, Confucius, Buddha, Luke Skywalker, all of whom tapped into this thread..."

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Written By: Rodrigo Ribera D'Ebre

NEW 'MANI' SCROLLS | Available Now

NEW 'MANI' SCROLLS | Available Now

- 100% Hand-Made
- Printed w/Metallic Gold Ink
- W: 15.5" H: 27.75" (Not including dowels & rope)
- Edition of 30

AVAILABLE HERE.

TIBETAN SAND MANDALA | Healing the Earth

Chenrezig Sand Mandala from Dropbear on Vimeo.

TIBETAN SAND MANDALA | Healing the Earth
From all the artistic traditions of Tantric Buddhism, that of painting with colored sand ranks as one of the most unique and exquisite. In Tibetan this art is called dul-tson-kyil-khor, which literally means "mandala of colored powders." Millions of grains of sand are painstakingly laid into place on a flat platform over a period of days or weeks. Formed of a traditional prescribed iconography that includes geometric shapes and a multitude of ancient spiritual symbols, the sand-painted mandala is used as a tool for re-consecrating the earth and its inhabitants. Traditionally most sand mandalas are deconstructed shortly after their completion. This is done as a metaphor of the impermanence of life. The sands are swept up and placed in an urn; to fulfill the function of healing, half is distributed to the audience at the closing ceremony, while the remainder is carried to a nearby body of water, where it is deposited. The waters then carry the healing blessing to the ocean, and from there it spreads throughout the world for planetary healing.

'EARTHRISE' | Feb. 1, 2014

'EARTHRISE' | Feb. 1, 2014
This image, captured Feb. 1, 2014, shows a colorized view of Earth from the moon-based perspective of NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. The Earth rises spectacularly as a tiny blue marble above the moon in a new NASA photo that hints at the fragility of humanity and the vastness of space.

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam." - Carl Sagan

NEW 'MANI' SCROLLS | Release Date

NEW 'MANI' SCROLLS | Release Date
Peace Movement. We've been getting a lot of requests to bring the scrolls back, so here you go! These new scrolls are emblazoned with the all-powerful 'Mani' mantra, AUM MANI PADME HUM, which most of you are familiar with by now. Each scroll is HAND-MADE and built from scratch, so we put a lot of love into creating these just for you. There are ONLY 30 SCROLLS AVAILABLE and once they're gone, thassit!

RELEASE DATE:
Monday, May 12th 2014 @7AM pst

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