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Day: October 30, 2018

A CONVERSATION WITH STEVE MCCURRY IN INDIA

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A CONVERSATION WITH STEVE MCCURRY IN INDIA

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𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐁𝐎𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐀𝐍𝐃

𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐁𝐎𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐄𝐒

We used to think that genes created disease and that we were at the mercy of our DNA. So if many people in someone’s family died of heart disease, we assumed that their chances of also developing heart disease would be pretty high.

But we now know through the science of epigenetics that it’s not the gene that creates disease but the environment that programs our genes to create disease—and not just the external environment outside our body (cigarette smoke or pesticides, for example), but also the internal environment within our body: the environment outside our cells.

What do I mean by the environment within our body? As I said previously, emotions are chemical feedback, the end products of experiences we have in our external environment. So as we react to a situation in our external environment that produces an emotion, the resulting internal chemistry can signal our genes to either turn on (up-regulating, or producing an increased expression of the gene) or to turn off (down-regulating, or producing a decreased expression of the gene).

The gene itself doesn’t physically change—the expression of the gene changes, and that expression is what matters most because that is what affects our health and our lives.
- Joe Dispenza

Photographer 📸 Ren Hang

𝐁𝐄 𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐄𝐍𝐎𝐔𝐆

𝐁𝐄 𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐄𝐍𝐎𝐔𝐆𝐇 𝐓𝐎 𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐌𝐒

Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.

Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.

Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.
- Roy T. Bennett

Photography 📸 @rankinarchive

𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐑𝐆𝐘 𝐃𝐈

𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐑𝐆𝐘 𝐃𝐈𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐒 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐄

Surrender deeper into intelligent love; Trust in the unknown; Continuously surrender some aspect of the limited self to join the greater self; Lose yourself in nothing to become everything; Relax into an infinite deep sea of coherent energy.

Keep unfolding deeper and deeper into oneness; Continuously let go of control; Feel greater and greater degrees of wholeness, and finally;

As a consciousness, moment by moment become aware, pay attention to, experience, be present with, and feel more and more of this unified field all around you—without returning your awareness back to three-dimensional reality.
- Joe Dispenza

Photographer 📸 @eastlando_photography

AFRICA. ASIA. LATIN AMERICA. THE ARAB WORLD. 2023-

AFRICA. ASIA. LATIN AMERICA. THE ARAB WORLD. 2023-2027 LIBERATUM Festivals and World Summits 🪷🤍🙏🏽✨🐞🦋 To connect cultures and champion global voices of change. 🇳🇬 🇰🇷 🇪🇬 🇧🇷

𝐒𝐂𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐌𝐘

𝐒𝐂𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐌𝐘𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐒𝐌

Ancient spiritual traditions remind us that in each moment of the day, we make the choices that either affirm or deny our lives. Every second we choose to nourish ourselves in a way that supports or depletes our lives; to breathe deep and life-affirming breaths or shallow, life-denying ones; and to think and speak about other people in a manner that is honoring or dishonoring.

We’re “part of a universe that is a work in progress.” In this unfinished creation, “we are tiny patches of the universe looking at itself—and building itself.

Both science and mysticism describe a force that connects everything together and gives us the power to influence how matter behaves—and reality itself—simply through the way we perceive the world around us. - Gregg Braden

Photographer 📸 @dacefer

The LIBERATUM original artwork and specially creat

The LIBERATUM original artwork and specially created trunk for Louis Vuitton to mark the 200th anniversary of Monseiur Vuitton is currently on display at the ‘200 TRUNKS, 200 VISIONARIES’ exhibition at 600 Madison Avenue, New York. Ends on December 31st, 2022. For more information please visit the @louisvuitton website

𝐀 𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐈𝐁𝐋𝐄 𝐀𝐂𝐓

𝐀 𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐈𝐁𝐋𝐄 𝐀𝐂𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐕𝐈𝐎𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐈𝐍 𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐍

Acid throwing is a specific and horrible act of violence which, according to official statistics, is on the rise in Iran. (2016)

This kind of violence is mostly against women and children. These attacks are often done with the intent to disfigure, maim, torture and destroy the social life and future of their victims.

The motivation to commit this type of violence is cultural destitution and intolerance. It most often happens in situations of family conflict: whether rejected marriage proposals, divorce requests or revenge.

In addition to physical and psychological damage, the victims face the experiences of social stigma and blame.

Across Iran, such victims are in dire need of medical and financial support as well as counseling services. Unfortunately, there is no governmental or even non-governmental organizations who attend to these issues in the country. Thus, burn victims have to treat themselves with recourse only to public aid and charitable donations.

—Asghar Khamseh

Photographer 📸 @khamseh1

𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐁𝐎𝐑𝐍

Psychologists tell us that by the time we’re in our mid-30s, our identity or personality will be completely formed. This means that for those of us over 35, we have memorized a select set of behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, emotional reactions, habits, skills, associative memories, conditioned responses, and perceptions that are now subconsciously programmed within us.

Those programs are running us, because the body has become the mind. This means that we will think the same thoughts, feel the same feelings, react in identical ways, behave in the same manner, believe the same dogmas, and perceive reality the same ways.

About 95 percent of who we are by midlife is a series of subconscious programs that have become automatic—driving a car, brushing our teeth, overeating when we’re stressed, worrying about our future, judging our friends, complaining about our lives, blaming our parents, not believing in ourselves, and insisting on being chronically unhappy, just to name a few.
- Joe Dispenza

Photographer 📸 @joselynbphotography

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐇𝐎𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐍𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐇 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐒𝐄𝐋𝐅

Ancient spiritual traditions remind us that in each moment of the day, we make the choices that either affirm or deny our lives. Every second we choose to nourish ourselves in a way that supports or depletes our lives; to breathe deep and life-affirming breaths or shallow, life-denying ones; and to think and speak about other people in a manner that is honoring or dishonoring.

We’re “part of a universe that is a work in progress.” In this unfinished creation, “we are tiny patches of the universe looking at itself—and building itself.”

It’s all about our power to focus consciousness, which is the great secret of some of our most ancient and cherished traditions.
- Gregg Braden

📸 Photographer @kevinoux for @dendezeiro @hisandeverdade @prazerbatalha 👩🏾👦🏽 @willymontenegro_ @alefmendes_s @alanrodney_

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐒𝐓

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐅

William Shatner on his Blue Origin flight to space:

I had thought that going into space would be the ultimate catharsis of that connection I had been looking for between all living things—that being up there would be the next beautiful step to understanding the harmony of the universe. In the film “Contact,” when Jodie Foster’s character goes to space and looks out into the heavens, she lets out an astonished whisper, “They should’ve sent a poet.” I had a different experience, because I discovered that the beauty isn’t out there, it’s down here, with all of us. Leaving that behind made my connection to our tiny planet even more profound.

It was among the strongest feelings of grief I have ever encountered. The contrast between the vicious coldness of space and the warm nurturing of Earth below filled me with overwhelming sadness. Every day, we are confronted with the knowledge of further destruction of Earth at our hands: the extinction of animal species, of flora and fauna . . . things that took five billion years to evolve, and suddenly we will never see them again because of the interference of mankind. It filled me with dread. My trip to space was supposed to be a celebration; instead, it felt like a funeral. - @williamshatner

Photographer 📸 @kennylemes

𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐖𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍.

𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐖𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍. 𝐖𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐘𝐎𝐔

Iranian women burn their hijabs as hundreds protest death of Mahsa Amini.

Women have been at the forefront of escalating protests in Iran sparked by the death in custody of a woman detained for breaking hijab laws.

Crowds cheered when women burned their hijabs on a bonfire in Sari on Tuesday, the fifth successive day of unrest.
Activists said a woman was among three protesters shot dead by security forces in Urmia, Piranshahr and Kermanshah.

Authorities accused protesters of killing two civilians in Kermanshah as well as a police assistant in Shiraz.
At least seven people are now reported to have been killed since protests against the hijab laws and morality police erupted after Mahsa Amini's death.

Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurd, dies after ‘violent arrest’ for infringing hijab rules amid Iranian crackdown on women’s dress.

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐎 𝐁𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐔𝐒 𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄

All human life on the planet is born of woman. The one unifying, incontrovertible experience shared by all women and men is that months-long period we spent unfolding inside a woman’s body.

Because young humans remain dependent upon nurture for a much longer period than other mammals, and because of the division of labor long established in human groups, where women not only bear and suckle but are assigned almost total responsibility for children, most of us first know both love and disappointment, power and tenderness, in the person of a woman.

Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other. The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.

- Adrienne Rich

Photographer 📸 @robwoodcoxphoto 👩🏽👩🏻 @whitneymixter @whitneymixter

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐑

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐑𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐈𝐎𝐍

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the brain, the body, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, and this is the way great spiritual giants are produced.

All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. You can do any thing and everything, without even the guidance of any one. Stand up and express the divinity within you.

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.
- Swami Vivekananda

Photographer 📸 @aart.verrips 👩🏾 @graobe_noelle

𝐈𝐌𝐀𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐅𝐄𝐀𝐑 𝐅𝐀𝐓𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐒, 𝐁𝐑𝐎𝐖𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐒, 𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐒

I believe that we are in an imagination battle, and almost everything about how we orient toward our bodies is shaped by fearful imaginations. Imaginations that fear Blackness, brownness, fatness, queerness, disability, difference. Our radical imagination is a tool for decolonization, for reclaiming our right to shape our lived reality.

People try to shame me for being fat. When I am walking down the street, men lean out of their car windows and shout vulgar things at me about my body, how they see it and how it upsets them that I am not catering to their gaze and their preferences and desires.

I try not to take these men seriously because what they are really saying is, ‘I am not attracted to you. I do not want to fuck you and this confuses my understanding of masculinity, entitlement, and place in this world.’ It is not my job to please them with my body. - Adrienne Maree Brown

Photographs 📸 @shooglet

𝐈 𝐇𝐀𝐃 𝐀𝐍 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍

Florence Rice, 86 (at the time the first photo was taken), was raised in the foster care system in NYC. She saw her mother only a handful of times throughout her childhood. When she got pregnant as a young single woman in the 1930’s she decided to have the baby.

A few years later as a working single mother, she found herself pregnant again and knew that she didn’t want to be like her mother, unable to take care of the child, so she had an abortion. She got a serious infection afterwards from her illegal, unclean abortion. In 1969 when feminists began speaking out about their abortions, Florence was one of the first to do so.

Her story underscored a class divide: richer women got safer abortions, poorer women were more likely to end up at a butcher. - Tara Todras-Whitehill @taratwphoto

Photographer 📸 @taratwphoto From her series I HAD AN ABORTION

𝐌𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐔𝐍𝐀

𝐌𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐔𝐍𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐃 𝐅𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐓𝐘

When the Blackbird Sings (2016-2017) focuses on the female body and its links with nature.

The compelling works depict naked women of all ages as well as poetic shots of flowers in water. The subjects are family, friends and acquaintances of the artist, always posing outdoors and at twilight. Honey shot the fascinating images over the course of a whole year, exclusively on every full and new moon, starting at the October 2016 Supermoon. When the Blackbird Sings is named after the bird which signals twilight with a song; while shooting the series Honey was stricken by the song’s memento mori-undertones.

The resulting photographs unveil lyrical still lifes alongside delicate moments of tenderness and unashamed femininity, and celebrate the beauty of the female form at any age. While some of the sitters are smiling directly at the camera, others are looking away from it, almost blending into the surrounding setting of moss and trees. The colourful flowers, including daisies and passion flowers, are captured resting on the surface of Edinburgh’s Water of Leith. Honey shot across Scotland and Sweden to illustrate her attachment to both her adoptive and home countries. - @jannicahoney

Photographer 📸 @jannicahoney @whentheblackbirdsings_

𝐎 𝐅𝐔𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐎 𝐄 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐈𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐀 / 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐔𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄 𝐈𝐒 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐈𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐎𝐔𝐒

Since colonization began in Brazil, Indigenous peoples have been silenced. Therefore, we have had to constantly speak up and make our voice heard—to share our stories, to highlight our lives and our struggles. Photography and film have both been fantastic tools to raise awareness amongst non-Indigenous peoples, and educate white people about our culture so we can work together to preserve our territories and sacred biomes.

This is why we get together every year during the first two weeks of April for the Acampamento Terra Livre (ATL) in Brasilia. Deemed the biggest Indigenous mobilization in the world, this year’s event saw more than 6,000 people from 160 Indigenous nations come together to discuss politics and strategize together, because our futures are connected by joint struggle.

All across the country, many Indigenous territories are locked in longstanding struggles to demarcate our lands and register titles; protect ourselves against illegal loggers, land-grabbers and wildcat miners; preserve the integrity of our territories; and reclaim stolen land for Indigenous peoples that have been displaced. Everything comes down to land rights—vast Indigenous territories across the country remain under litigation, and the processes for demarcation and registration of the land titles have been completely halted by the Brazilian justice system. We have to fight constantly against systemic racism and demeaning notions that infantilize us, framing us as incapable of sensible decision-making and self-determination.

Indigenous peoples are the stewards of the Earth’s most critical biodiversity. The world’s largest interconnected communities of species live in our ancestral territories, and it’s our job to protect them.

When our bodies are under threat, so too is the collective body of the Earth and, consequently, the future of both humanity and the rest of the Earth’s community. -
Eric Terena @ericterena

Photographers 📸 @ericterena @aliceaedy From their series ‘The Future is Indigenous’ presented by @wetransfer @wepresent To support please visit donate.chooseearth.co

𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐇 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐎

𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐇 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐔𝐒 𝐀𝐋𝐋

It all happened so fast........one minute I have liver cancer....the next, we have cleared the cancer...and now.....a transplant is possible. Zap....my organs start to fail, my lungs....my kidneys......chest tube, vent....delirium from pain medication.......all within a year..the doors opened , the path was clear.......I had to stay in the light, my body was dying.......I felt this. Never once did I feel my spirit dying, only strength, and light. My family needed me.......wanted me alive........did I ? Ultimately it was my path......they needed to be on it with me......death comes to us all, I was not afraid....I felt it near at times, waiting for a liver to come......some one dies, is not a easy wait. The warmth I laid in was a godly warmth, hard to explain, facing mortality sums up life quite quickly. Close to 3 months in UCSF ICU........air lifted once ...vented 3 times. Delirious 3 times...dialysis...... heart failure .....oh my ......emotional, yet feeling light and love constantly..........

We are firecrackers.......We are! We light each other up. We come into each others life and ignite one another. We are powerful ...I insisted we stayed on the path.......in the light.......At time things and everyone glowed......it's hard but it's real, face our destiny, listen to your heart, let the messages come.....

"Nothing but light", actually gave me light strength last year when I sat for Anastasia for the project. It made me light strong. I opened a door with Anastasia which helped me heal and love the planet more...

July 9th will be 3 months since my transplant.....I am thankful and bathing in the compassionate gift I received.....I am healthy at 65 with energy I haven't felt in many years. I feel new to life and in awe of the power we have stored in the human body, and the life of the soul....I was immersed in prayer and love from many......my family was with me at all times .....I felt God everywhere and in everyone that touched me. - Wendy

Photographer 📸 Anastasia Kuba @anastasiakuba ‘NOTHING BUT LIGHT’ series

𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐈𝐍

𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐄

Can you accept the notion that once you change your internal state, you don’t need the external world to provide you with a reason to feel joy, gratitude, appreciation, or any other elevated emotion?
- Joe Dispenza

Photographer 📸 @saneseven

👩🏾 @kyrajaye Kyra is a singer, a dancer, a performer, a model and my friend. When I first met her she seemed shy, but when she stood in front of the camera, I could tell she was a true performer. Her beautiful skin patches are created by vitiligo. They remind me of a starry sky, predicting that she was born to be a star herself. - @saneseven

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𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐁𝐎𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐀𝐍𝐃

𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐁𝐎𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐄𝐒

We used to think that genes created disease and that we were at the mercy of our DNA. So if many people in someone’s family died of heart disease, we assumed that their chances of also developing heart disease would be pretty high.

But we now know through the science of epigenetics that it’s not the gene that creates disease but the environment that programs our genes to create disease—and not just the external environment outside our body (cigarette smoke or pesticides, for example), but also the internal environment within our body: the environment outside our cells.

What do I mean by the environment within our body? As I said previously, emotions are chemical feedback, the end products of experiences we have in our external environment. So as we react to a situation in our external environment that produces an emotion, the resulting internal chemistry can signal our genes to either turn on (up-regulating, or producing an increased expression of the gene) or to turn off (down-regulating, or producing a decreased expression of the gene).

The gene itself doesn’t physically change—the expression of the gene changes, and that expression is what matters most because that is what affects our health and our lives.
- Joe Dispenza

Photographer 📸 Ren Hang

𝐁𝐄 𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐄𝐍𝐎𝐔𝐆

𝐁𝐄 𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐄𝐍𝐎𝐔𝐆𝐇 𝐓𝐎 𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐌𝐒

Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.

Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.

Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.
- Roy T. Bennett

Photography 📸 @rankinarchive

𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐑𝐆𝐘 𝐃𝐈

𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐑𝐆𝐘 𝐃𝐈𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐒 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐄

Surrender deeper into intelligent love; Trust in the unknown; Continuously surrender some aspect of the limited self to join the greater self; Lose yourself in nothing to become everything; Relax into an infinite deep sea of coherent energy.

Keep unfolding deeper and deeper into oneness; Continuously let go of control; Feel greater and greater degrees of wholeness, and finally;

As a consciousness, moment by moment become aware, pay attention to, experience, be present with, and feel more and more of this unified field all around you—without returning your awareness back to three-dimensional reality.
- Joe Dispenza

Photographer 📸 @eastlando_photography

AFRICA. ASIA. LATIN AMERICA. THE ARAB WORLD. 2023-

AFRICA. ASIA. LATIN AMERICA. THE ARAB WORLD. 2023-2027 LIBERATUM Festivals and World Summits 🪷🤍🙏🏽✨🐞🦋 To connect cultures and champion global voices of change. 🇳🇬 🇰🇷 🇪🇬 🇧🇷

𝐒𝐂𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐌𝐘

𝐒𝐂𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐌𝐘𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐒𝐌

Ancient spiritual traditions remind us that in each moment of the day, we make the choices that either affirm or deny our lives. Every second we choose to nourish ourselves in a way that supports or depletes our lives; to breathe deep and life-affirming breaths or shallow, life-denying ones; and to think and speak about other people in a manner that is honoring or dishonoring.

We’re “part of a universe that is a work in progress.” In this unfinished creation, “we are tiny patches of the universe looking at itself—and building itself.

Both science and mysticism describe a force that connects everything together and gives us the power to influence how matter behaves—and reality itself—simply through the way we perceive the world around us. - Gregg Braden

Photographer 📸 @dacefer

The LIBERATUM original artwork and specially creat

The LIBERATUM original artwork and specially created trunk for Louis Vuitton to mark the 200th anniversary of Monseiur Vuitton is currently on display at the ‘200 TRUNKS, 200 VISIONARIES’ exhibition at 600 Madison Avenue, New York. Ends on December 31st, 2022. For more information please visit the @louisvuitton website

𝐀 𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐈𝐁𝐋𝐄 𝐀𝐂𝐓

𝐀 𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐈𝐁𝐋𝐄 𝐀𝐂𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐕𝐈𝐎𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐈𝐍 𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐍

Acid throwing is a specific and horrible act of violence which, according to official statistics, is on the rise in Iran. (2016)

This kind of violence is mostly against women and children. These attacks are often done with the intent to disfigure, maim, torture and destroy the social life and future of their victims.

The motivation to commit this type of violence is cultural destitution and intolerance. It most often happens in situations of family conflict: whether rejected marriage proposals, divorce requests or revenge.

In addition to physical and psychological damage, the victims face the experiences of social stigma and blame.

Across Iran, such victims are in dire need of medical and financial support as well as counseling services. Unfortunately, there is no governmental or even non-governmental organizations who attend to these issues in the country. Thus, burn victims have to treat themselves with recourse only to public aid and charitable donations.

—Asghar Khamseh

Photographer 📸 @khamseh1

𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐁𝐎𝐑𝐍

Psychologists tell us that by the time we’re in our mid-30s, our identity or personality will be completely formed. This means that for those of us over 35, we have memorized a select set of behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, emotional reactions, habits, skills, associative memories, conditioned responses, and perceptions that are now subconsciously programmed within us.

Those programs are running us, because the body has become the mind. This means that we will think the same thoughts, feel the same feelings, react in identical ways, behave in the same manner, believe the same dogmas, and perceive reality the same ways.

About 95 percent of who we are by midlife is a series of subconscious programs that have become automatic—driving a car, brushing our teeth, overeating when we’re stressed, worrying about our future, judging our friends, complaining about our lives, blaming our parents, not believing in ourselves, and insisting on being chronically unhappy, just to name a few.
- Joe Dispenza

Photographer 📸 @joselynbphotography

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐇𝐎𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐍𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐇 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐒𝐄𝐋𝐅

Ancient spiritual traditions remind us that in each moment of the day, we make the choices that either affirm or deny our lives. Every second we choose to nourish ourselves in a way that supports or depletes our lives; to breathe deep and life-affirming breaths or shallow, life-denying ones; and to think and speak about other people in a manner that is honoring or dishonoring.

We’re “part of a universe that is a work in progress.” In this unfinished creation, “we are tiny patches of the universe looking at itself—and building itself.”

It’s all about our power to focus consciousness, which is the great secret of some of our most ancient and cherished traditions.
- Gregg Braden

📸 Photographer @kevinoux for @dendezeiro @hisandeverdade @prazerbatalha 👩🏾👦🏽 @willymontenegro_ @alefmendes_s @alanrodney_

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐒𝐓

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐅

William Shatner on his Blue Origin flight to space:

I had thought that going into space would be the ultimate catharsis of that connection I had been looking for between all living things—that being up there would be the next beautiful step to understanding the harmony of the universe. In the film “Contact,” when Jodie Foster’s character goes to space and looks out into the heavens, she lets out an astonished whisper, “They should’ve sent a poet.” I had a different experience, because I discovered that the beauty isn’t out there, it’s down here, with all of us. Leaving that behind made my connection to our tiny planet even more profound.

It was among the strongest feelings of grief I have ever encountered. The contrast between the vicious coldness of space and the warm nurturing of Earth below filled me with overwhelming sadness. Every day, we are confronted with the knowledge of further destruction of Earth at our hands: the extinction of animal species, of flora and fauna . . . things that took five billion years to evolve, and suddenly we will never see them again because of the interference of mankind. It filled me with dread. My trip to space was supposed to be a celebration; instead, it felt like a funeral. - @williamshatner

Photographer 📸 @kennylemes

𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐖𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍.

𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐖𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍. 𝐖𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐘𝐎𝐔

Iranian women burn their hijabs as hundreds protest death of Mahsa Amini.

Women have been at the forefront of escalating protests in Iran sparked by the death in custody of a woman detained for breaking hijab laws.

Crowds cheered when women burned their hijabs on a bonfire in Sari on Tuesday, the fifth successive day of unrest.
Activists said a woman was among three protesters shot dead by security forces in Urmia, Piranshahr and Kermanshah.

Authorities accused protesters of killing two civilians in Kermanshah as well as a police assistant in Shiraz.
At least seven people are now reported to have been killed since protests against the hijab laws and morality police erupted after Mahsa Amini's death.

Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurd, dies after ‘violent arrest’ for infringing hijab rules amid Iranian crackdown on women’s dress.

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐎 𝐁𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐔𝐒 𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄

All human life on the planet is born of woman. The one unifying, incontrovertible experience shared by all women and men is that months-long period we spent unfolding inside a woman’s body.

Because young humans remain dependent upon nurture for a much longer period than other mammals, and because of the division of labor long established in human groups, where women not only bear and suckle but are assigned almost total responsibility for children, most of us first know both love and disappointment, power and tenderness, in the person of a woman.

Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other. The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.

- Adrienne Rich

Photographer 📸 @robwoodcoxphoto 👩🏽👩🏻 @whitneymixter @whitneymixter

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐑

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐑𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐈𝐎𝐍

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the brain, the body, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, and this is the way great spiritual giants are produced.

All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. You can do any thing and everything, without even the guidance of any one. Stand up and express the divinity within you.

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.
- Swami Vivekananda

Photographer 📸 @aart.verrips 👩🏾 @graobe_noelle

𝐈𝐌𝐀𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐅𝐄𝐀𝐑 𝐅𝐀𝐓𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐒, 𝐁𝐑𝐎𝐖𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐒, 𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐒

I believe that we are in an imagination battle, and almost everything about how we orient toward our bodies is shaped by fearful imaginations. Imaginations that fear Blackness, brownness, fatness, queerness, disability, difference. Our radical imagination is a tool for decolonization, for reclaiming our right to shape our lived reality.

People try to shame me for being fat. When I am walking down the street, men lean out of their car windows and shout vulgar things at me about my body, how they see it and how it upsets them that I am not catering to their gaze and their preferences and desires.

I try not to take these men seriously because what they are really saying is, ‘I am not attracted to you. I do not want to fuck you and this confuses my understanding of masculinity, entitlement, and place in this world.’ It is not my job to please them with my body. - Adrienne Maree Brown

Photographs 📸 @shooglet

𝐈 𝐇𝐀𝐃 𝐀𝐍 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍

Florence Rice, 86 (at the time the first photo was taken), was raised in the foster care system in NYC. She saw her mother only a handful of times throughout her childhood. When she got pregnant as a young single woman in the 1930’s she decided to have the baby.

A few years later as a working single mother, she found herself pregnant again and knew that she didn’t want to be like her mother, unable to take care of the child, so she had an abortion. She got a serious infection afterwards from her illegal, unclean abortion. In 1969 when feminists began speaking out about their abortions, Florence was one of the first to do so.

Her story underscored a class divide: richer women got safer abortions, poorer women were more likely to end up at a butcher. - Tara Todras-Whitehill @taratwphoto

Photographer 📸 @taratwphoto From her series I HAD AN ABORTION

𝐌𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐔𝐍𝐀

𝐌𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐔𝐍𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐃 𝐅𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐓𝐘

When the Blackbird Sings (2016-2017) focuses on the female body and its links with nature.

The compelling works depict naked women of all ages as well as poetic shots of flowers in water. The subjects are family, friends and acquaintances of the artist, always posing outdoors and at twilight. Honey shot the fascinating images over the course of a whole year, exclusively on every full and new moon, starting at the October 2016 Supermoon. When the Blackbird Sings is named after the bird which signals twilight with a song; while shooting the series Honey was stricken by the song’s memento mori-undertones.

The resulting photographs unveil lyrical still lifes alongside delicate moments of tenderness and unashamed femininity, and celebrate the beauty of the female form at any age. While some of the sitters are smiling directly at the camera, others are looking away from it, almost blending into the surrounding setting of moss and trees. The colourful flowers, including daisies and passion flowers, are captured resting on the surface of Edinburgh’s Water of Leith. Honey shot across Scotland and Sweden to illustrate her attachment to both her adoptive and home countries. - @jannicahoney

Photographer 📸 @jannicahoney @whentheblackbirdsings_

𝐎 𝐅𝐔𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐎 𝐄 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐈𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐀 / 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐔𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄 𝐈𝐒 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐈𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐎𝐔𝐒

Since colonization began in Brazil, Indigenous peoples have been silenced. Therefore, we have had to constantly speak up and make our voice heard—to share our stories, to highlight our lives and our struggles. Photography and film have both been fantastic tools to raise awareness amongst non-Indigenous peoples, and educate white people about our culture so we can work together to preserve our territories and sacred biomes.

This is why we get together every year during the first two weeks of April for the Acampamento Terra Livre (ATL) in Brasilia. Deemed the biggest Indigenous mobilization in the world, this year’s event saw more than 6,000 people from 160 Indigenous nations come together to discuss politics and strategize together, because our futures are connected by joint struggle.

All across the country, many Indigenous territories are locked in longstanding struggles to demarcate our lands and register titles; protect ourselves against illegal loggers, land-grabbers and wildcat miners; preserve the integrity of our territories; and reclaim stolen land for Indigenous peoples that have been displaced. Everything comes down to land rights—vast Indigenous territories across the country remain under litigation, and the processes for demarcation and registration of the land titles have been completely halted by the Brazilian justice system. We have to fight constantly against systemic racism and demeaning notions that infantilize us, framing us as incapable of sensible decision-making and self-determination.

Indigenous peoples are the stewards of the Earth’s most critical biodiversity. The world’s largest interconnected communities of species live in our ancestral territories, and it’s our job to protect them.

When our bodies are under threat, so too is the collective body of the Earth and, consequently, the future of both humanity and the rest of the Earth’s community. -
Eric Terena @ericterena

Photographers 📸 @ericterena @aliceaedy From their series ‘The Future is Indigenous’ presented by @wetransfer @wepresent To support please visit donate.chooseearth.co

𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐇 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐎

𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐇 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐔𝐒 𝐀𝐋𝐋

It all happened so fast........one minute I have liver cancer....the next, we have cleared the cancer...and now.....a transplant is possible. Zap....my organs start to fail, my lungs....my kidneys......chest tube, vent....delirium from pain medication.......all within a year..the doors opened , the path was clear.......I had to stay in the light, my body was dying.......I felt this. Never once did I feel my spirit dying, only strength, and light. My family needed me.......wanted me alive........did I ? Ultimately it was my path......they needed to be on it with me......death comes to us all, I was not afraid....I felt it near at times, waiting for a liver to come......some one dies, is not a easy wait. The warmth I laid in was a godly warmth, hard to explain, facing mortality sums up life quite quickly. Close to 3 months in UCSF ICU........air lifted once ...vented 3 times. Delirious 3 times...dialysis...... heart failure .....oh my ......emotional, yet feeling light and love constantly..........

We are firecrackers.......We are! We light each other up. We come into each others life and ignite one another. We are powerful ...I insisted we stayed on the path.......in the light.......At time things and everyone glowed......it's hard but it's real, face our destiny, listen to your heart, let the messages come.....

"Nothing but light", actually gave me light strength last year when I sat for Anastasia for the project. It made me light strong. I opened a door with Anastasia which helped me heal and love the planet more...

July 9th will be 3 months since my transplant.....I am thankful and bathing in the compassionate gift I received.....I am healthy at 65 with energy I haven't felt in many years. I feel new to life and in awe of the power we have stored in the human body, and the life of the soul....I was immersed in prayer and love from many......my family was with me at all times .....I felt God everywhere and in everyone that touched me. - Wendy

Photographer 📸 Anastasia Kuba @anastasiakuba ‘NOTHING BUT LIGHT’ series

𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐈𝐍

𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐄

Can you accept the notion that once you change your internal state, you don’t need the external world to provide you with a reason to feel joy, gratitude, appreciation, or any other elevated emotion?
- Joe Dispenza

Photographer 📸 @saneseven

👩🏾 @kyrajaye Kyra is a singer, a dancer, a performer, a model and my friend. When I first met her she seemed shy, but when she stood in front of the camera, I could tell she was a true performer. Her beautiful skin patches are created by vitiligo. They remind me of a starry sky, predicting that she was born to be a star herself. - @saneseven

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