{"id":13724,"date":"2017-05-01T01:10:14","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T06:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=14399"},"modified":"2017-04-08T11:33:59","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T16:33:59","slug":"sacred-art-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2017\/05\/01\/sacred-art-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacred Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-14402\" src=\"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/sacredart.jpg\" alt=\"sacredart\" width=\"772\" height=\"625\" \/><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t<!--\n\t\t@page { margin: 0.79in }\n\t\tP { margin-bottom: 0.08in }\n\t-->\n\t<\/style>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>DISMEMBERMENT<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">This painting was inspired by a passage in the Bible.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #242729;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">In Judges 14, Samson kills a lion and leaves the body there. When he returns a swarm of bees has taken over and he now finds honey there:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">A key concept in shamanism is Dismemberment. It means being taken apart. Our spirit allies will often do this during a dream or shamanic journey and it is a great form of spiritual cleansing because it reaches all &#8216;forgotten dark corners&#8217; so to speak.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">Tribal shamans are put through severe ordeals and initiations by their shaman elders in the community. This completely changes their energy signature. If they survive, they become shamans for their tribe. They have lost their fear of death and learned to walk between the worlds. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">In any human life periods occur where we face a great crisis or ordeal that is ultimately transformative and life-changing. For me the honey in this painting represents that process, the evolution of human consciousness. Given time and support, we can <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><i>make honey<\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"> even from our greatest mistakes and disappointments.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><b>Imelda Almqvist<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shaman-healer-painter.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><b>http:\/\/www.shaman-healer-painter.co.uk\/<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b>Imelda Almqvist teaches shamanism, sacred art and internationally.\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b>Imelda\u2019s book \u201cNatural Born Shamans: A Spiritual Toolkit For Life\u201d,<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b>Using shamanism creatively with young people of all ages<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b><em>was published by Moon Books in August 2016.<\/em>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DISMEMBERMENT This painting was inspired by a passage in the Bible. In Judges 14, Samson kills a lion and leaves the body there. When he returns a swarm of bees has taken over and he now finds honey there: A key concept in shamanism is Dismemberment. It means being taken apart. Our spirit allies will often do this during a dream or shamanic journey and it is a great form of spiritual cleansing because it reaches all &#8216;forgotten dark corners&#8217; so to speak. Tribal shamans are put through severe ordeals and initiations by their shaman elders in the community. This completely changes their energy signature. If they survive, they become shamans for their tribe. They have lost their fear of death and learned to walk between the worlds. In any human life periods occur where we face a great crisis or ordeal that is ultimately transformative and life-changing. For me the honey in this painting represents that process, the evolution of human consciousness. Given time and support, we can make honey even from our greatest mistakes and disappointments. &nbsp; *** &nbsp; Imelda Almqvist http:\/\/www.shaman-healer-painter.co.uk\/ Imelda Almqvist teaches shamanism, sacred art and internationally.\u00a0 \u00a0 Imelda\u2019s book \u201cNatural Born Shamans: A Spiritual Toolkit For Life\u201d,\u00a0Using shamanism creatively with young people of all ages\u00a0was published by Moon Books in August 2016.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}