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Unfolding Images of Life Project
for Co-Evolutionary Exploration and Practice

Ver. 1.0 for Web, May, 2003

This  Gallery of the Unfolding Images of Life project is a digitized collection of items that depict unfolding of ascension and/or how it can be fostered by means of many different types of media:  pictures,  music, sculpture, architecture, fictional and non-fiction stories and articles, and other works of art.

Due to reasons of storage and access, we list here only those items we have thus far identified as potentially part of the Gallery. 

When feasible to upload project materials to a website on the Internet, the items in the gallery will be cited in various project documents, with “hot-links” for ease of access.

Presentations

Writings

  • Cosmic Law: Patterns of the Universe, by Dean Brown. A synthesis of the wisdom literature of all cultures which describes some eight “invariances” that govern “metatronic” manifestation at all levels of reality.
  • Changing Images 2000: Integral Approaches to Re-Imagining and Re-Making Ourselves and the World, A First Sketch of Questions, Perspectives, Possibilities, a 1999 essay written for the Fetzer Foundation by Thomas Hurley.
  • My Work with Nature Spirits (Devas), by Oliver Markley.  A draft working paper based on personal journal entries describing the experiential origins of the Unfolding Images of Life Project on which this website is based.
  • Love & Money: Our Common Work , by Rob Lehman (NOETIC SCIENCES REVIEW # 47, PAGE 20, Winter 1998), is based on a talk which states in a most eloquent way, the essence of the co-evolutionary dialog process chosen for this project.  Excerpts from this article are included in the project Dialog document.
  • An Excerpt from The Human Rights Guide: A Comprehensive, Up-to-date survey of the human rights records of 104 major countries throughout the world, 3rd ed., by Charles Humana
  • The Spiritual Heart of Service ,  by Arthur Deikman  (Noetic Sciences Review, # 44, P. 30, Winter 1997)  One form of consciousness supports the survival self, says psychiatrist Deikman, another supports the spiritual self. "Problems arise when one crowds out the other.
  • Excerpts from Love Without End: Jesus Speaks . . . , by Glenda Green.
  • A Paradox of Our Time, by George Carlin
  • “Declaration of All-Out Peace,”  by Swami Beyondananda
  • “William James and Shared Consciousness,”  by Sylver Quevedo
  • “Are We All Butterflies?” by Raul Grajeda
  • “The Forgotten Act of Compassion,” an excerpt from Walking Between the Worlds: the Science of Compassion by Gregg Braden

Pictures

  • The slip cover of Methods of Knowledge according to Advaita Vedanta (Satprakashananda, 1965), which depicts OM as the outflowing radiance of manifestation from Nirguna Brahman.
  • An image of Ouroboros (Escher, 19XX), which connotes the self-recursive property of evolutionary ascension
  • The Churning of the Sea Milk (Purce, 1974), is  a 19th Century painting that depicts an ancient mythic image of how good and evil together empower the process of evolution
  • The Tree of Life (Purce, 1974), is an illustration for Raymond Lull's 15th Century Opera Chemica, depicting Kundalini, the serpent of wisdom (élan vital), that empowers ascension.
  • The cladistic tree of life (Gould, 2002), that maps the evolutionary emergence of life on this planet
  • A graph of punctuated equilibrium (Gould, 2002), that depicts the pattern of how species come and go with evolution
  • The Five Kingdoms (Margulis and Schwartz, 1982), are depicted as a hand with five fingers holding “the Blue Pearl” in space, illustrating the interrelationship of life and the planet, Earth.
  • Blake's water color, Jacob's Ladder (Raine, 1970), symbolically depicts the path of ascension to God.
  • Blake's water color, The Ancient of Days (Raine, 1970), which depicts the creation of material reality (three fingers on one side of the divider symbolizing space, and one finger on the other side symbolizing time, and the wind blowing his hair symbolizing the flow of the Dharma)
  • The Lion and The Lamb, a portrait of Jesus painted by Glenda Green.  (Reproduced here in Excerpts from Love Without End: Jesus Speaks . . . )