https://extensiveconversations.com
2024-09-11T11:43:12+00:00
always
0.5
https://extensiveconversations.com/home
2026-02-13T03:31:05+00:00
always
0.5
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C1696891113843076232461883930622/FROM WATER AND SPIRIT
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q1696919445736130441119472154622/231025_EC_Logo.png
https://extensiveconversations.com/selected-works
2024-09-11T16:49:11+00:00
always
0.5
https://extensiveconversations.com/composition-music-direction
2025-02-17T18:18:38+00:00
always
0.5
https://extensiveconversations.com/selected-works-
2025-07-04T06:53:47+00:00
always
0.5
https://extensiveconversations.com/wales-bonner--1
2025-07-25T15:14:38+00:00
always
0.5
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J1700173580112112954225211602942/FROM WATER AND SPIRIT
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2351395486817377216296627599358/Twilight Reverie (2023) A film by Wales Bonner
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2469798841982869954366694881278/Screenshot-2025-07-25-at-16.07.30.png
https://extensiveconversations.com/intentions-1
2025-07-25T15:14:38+00:00
always
0.5
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J1700173580112112954225211602942/FROM WATER AND SPIRIT
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2441271566770816716205134313470/Garden Nights: Intentions, The Crescent Moon
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2469804410427716508774202996734/20240905_London24_IntentionsCamden_OT_475.jpg
https://extensiveconversations.com/from-water-and-spirit
2025-07-25T15:14:38+00:00
always
0.5
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J1700173580112112954225211602942/FROM WATER AND SPIRIT
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C2295953221209111552154637563902/FROM WATER AND SPIRIT by Maxine Pennington
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z2469806053516104642231384537086/IMG_6991.jpg
https://extensiveconversations.com/baney-clay
2025-05-26T14:23:48+00:00
always
0.5
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J1700173580112112954225211602942/FROM WATER AND SPIRIT
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R1700175485125820190284316538878/FROM WATER AND SPIRIT
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2218105966903661947448073254910/0000043-R1-19-20.JPG
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2218116370295470453350188578814/0000043-R1-03-4.JPG
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2218116729490471056622577645566/0000043-R1-12-13.JPG
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G2218116877544038992215438915582/0000043-R1-04-5.JPG
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2218117030725801780299555534846/0000043-R1-18-19.JPG
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2218117354798201667228958324734/0000043-R1-15-16.JPG
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2218117417517131517841433819134/0000043-R1-27-28.JPG
https://extensiveconversations.com/sixteen-world-
2025-02-28T12:43:38+00:00
always
0.5
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J1700173580112112954225211602942/FROM WATER AND SPIRIT
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J1964598978156436644055723407358/SIXTEEN_VOL_6_PP_23.jpg
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X1964601996062213847012077336574/JACK_DAVISON_SIXTEEN_JOURNAL_VOLUME_6_13.jpg
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z1964602605081469440532923938814/JACK_DAVISON_SIXTEEN_JOURNAL_VOLUME_6_1.jpg
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L1964603620777644883054545467390/JAMES_BRODRIBB_SIXTEEN_JOURNAL_VOLUME_6_10.jpg
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z1964604414411915166260584642558/SIXTEEN_VOL_9_56.jpg
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J1964604828854914270293080799230/SIXTEEN_VOL_9_112.jpg
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H1964605875762980685531263662078/JACK_DAVISON_SIXTEEN_JOURNAL_VOLUME_6_20.jpg
https://extensiveconversations.com/carhartt-
2025-02-17T18:18:38+00:00
always
0.5
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J1700173580112112954225211602942/FROM WATER AND SPIRIT
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J1964604828854914270293080799230/SIXTEEN_VOL_9_112.jpg
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D1967625428317920590084284741630/Makaya McCraven Sixteen Live Session
https://extensiveconversations.com/by-far-
2025-07-04T08:08:17+00:00
always
0.5
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J1700173580112112954225211602942/FROM WATER AND SPIRIT
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J1964604828854914270293080799230/SIXTEEN_VOL_9_112.jpg
https://extensiveconversations.com/ancuta-sarca-
2025-02-28T12:43:38+00:00
always
0.5
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J1700173580112112954225211602942/FROM WATER AND SPIRIT
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C1964322000109702454401113651198/as.jpg
https://extensiveconversations.com/intentions
2025-02-17T18:18:38+00:00
always
0.5
https://extensiveconversations.com/intentions-
2025-02-28T12:44:11+00:00
always
0.5
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q1700131062617525830701302020094/231025_INT_Symbol_White.png
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y1700139582467637202342230489086/Screenshot-2024-03-29-at-17.05.49.png
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X1700139582356956737899973179390/Screenshot-2024-03-29-at-17.08.24.png
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H1700139582375403481973682731006/Screenshot-2024-03-29-at-17.08.13.png
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S1700139582264723017531425421310/Screenshot-2024-03-29-at-17.09.01.png
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q1700139582486083946415940040702/Screenshot-2024-03-29-at-17.05.40.png
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J1700139582320063249752554076158/Screenshot-2024-03-29-at-17.08.41.png
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M1700139582541424178637068695550/Screenshot-2024-03-29-at-17.04.44.png
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V1700139582430743714194811385854/Screenshot-2024-03-29-at-17.06.15.png
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z1707819016037589136501538420734/231025_INT_Symbol.png
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R1966276275994561307453316528126/20240905_London24_IntentionsCamden_OT_470.jpg
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S1966282543497221279157992683518/20240905_London24_IntentionsCamden_OT_422.jpg
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W1966283147425175508335003039742/20240905_London24_IntentionsCamden_OT_511.jpg
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W1966284369448183415297959393278/20240905_London24_IntentionsCamden_OT_547.jpg
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G1966290883270217003246278277118/20240905_London24_IntentionsCamden_OT_400.jpg
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K1975676658892370215755103205374/5.jpg
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T1975676870531864973424788895742/6.jpg
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E1975682508852978079044078532606/7.jpg
<div style="text-align: left"><span class="text" style="--font-scale: 0.68;">Art Direction: NA Service</span></div>
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H1975682604739153774186327832574/8.jpg
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U1990210198060509700253430970366/Garden Nights: Intentions, The Crescent Moon
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2007303378770076831589351684094/DSC01621.JPG
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R2007306025453576295214688892926/DSC01681.JPG
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2007307877764935712685604861950/Screenshot-2024-10-08-at-11.46.13.png
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2007308023309746454253967112190/DSC01691.JPG
https://extensiveconversations.com/contributions-1
2026-02-13T03:26:53+00:00
always
0.5
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W1696951063953534869281099872254/Defense.gov_News_Photo_020514-A-6418B-043.jpg
<br />
<h2 style="--font-scale: 0.5; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">‘This is a wonderful day. <br />
I've never seen this one before.’<br /><br />
Maya Angelou
</h2>
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q1696951793264008567461932562430/waiting-for-happiness-2002-001-mohamed-mahmoud-ould-mohamed.jpg
<br />
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M1696986064953314278374012483582/studio-mumbai.mov
<div style="text-align: left"><h2>Bijoy Jain, <br />
Studio Mumbai</h2></div>
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R1696995236988062376016138336254/9780140194968.jpg
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="line-height: 1.15; --font-scale: 1.16;">“It is my belief that the present state of restlessness that traps the modern individual has its roots in a dysfunctional relationship with the ances-tors. In many non-Western cultures, the ancestors have an intimate and absolutely vital connection with the world of the living. They are always available to guide, to teach, and to nurture. They represent one of the pathways between the knowledge of this world and the next. Most impor-tantly—and paradoxically-they embody the guidelines for successful living—all that is most valuable about life. Unless the relationship between the living and the dead is in balance, chaos results. When a person from my culture looks at the descendants of the Westerners who invaded their culture, they see a people who are ashamed of their ancestors because they were killers and marauders masquerading as artisans of progress. The fact that these people have a sick culture comes as no surprise to them.”</span></div>
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X1697003759992566984261400131582/Screenshot-2024-03-27-at-18.05.47.png
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="line-height: 1.3; --font-scale: 1.16;">"Silence has a sound, it may be quiet, but we do hear it within ourselves; that is the sound of our breathing. It is synchronous in all of us. Silence, time, and space are eternal, as are water, air, and light, our elemental constructs. This abundance of sensory phenomena, dreams, memory, imagination, emotions, and intuition, stem from this pool of experiences, embedded in the corners of our eyes, in the soles of our feet, in the lobes of our ear, in the timbre of our voices, in the whisper of our breath, and in the palm of our hand."</span></div>
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B1697034303299747493293745633278/BJSM4.jpg
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T1697034303244407261072616978430/BJSM-1.png
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F1697068518431335874212340299774/tumblr_e0643be04f475c064fcb942f6c2a417e_82976544_1280.jpg
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H1697074510727021010244215896062/IMG_6726.mov
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z1697085941491793957326098921470/Screenshot-2024-03-27-at-19.18.47.png
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J1697085941436453725104970266622/Screenshot-2024-03-27-at-19.19.53.png
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V1697102860476523482252650084350/007480C0-182A-41A8-A7D8-A65549AB9500.JPG
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H1698123369020113211003720562686/Screenshot-2024-03-28-at-10.56.22.png
<span style="line-height: 1.15;">I'd wash the sand off the shore<br />Give you the world if it was mine<br />Blow you right to my door<br />Feels fine<br /><br />Feels like<br />You're mine<br />Feels right<br />So fine<br />I'm yours<br />You're mine<br />Like paradise<br />I'd give you the world if it was mine<br />Feels fine<br />Feels like<br />You're mine<br />I'm yours<br />So fine<br />Like paradise<br /><br />I'd wash the sand off the shore<br />Give you the world if it was mine<br />Blow you right to my door<br />Feels fine<br />
<br />Feels like<br />You're mine<br />Feels right<br />So fine<br />I'm yours<br />You're mine<br />Like paradise<br /><br />Ooh, what a life<br />Ooh, what a life<br />Ooh, what a life<br />Ooh, what a life<br />I wanna share my life<br />Wanna share my life with you<br />Wanna share my life<br />I wanna share my life<br />Wanna share my life with you<br />Wanna share my life<br />I wanna share my life<br />Wanna share my life with you<br />(Ooh, what a life)<br />Wanna share my life<br />Wanna share my life with you<br />(Like paradise)<br />Wanna share my life<br />Wanna share my life with you<br />Wanna share my life<br />Wanna share my life with you</span>
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I1698144165473553541530602305534/Heremakono
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M1698273229797118961116052846590/Dhaka Art Summit Pavilion and Performance
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V1698274139553643188323719444478/Screenshot-2024-03-28-at-13.11.56.png
<div style="text-align: left"><h2>oletha imvula uletha ukuphila, <br />
Sumayya Vally
</h2></div>
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E1698274432377258614389141796862/Screenshot-2024-03-28-at-13.07.09.png
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="--font-scale: 1.16;"><span style="line-height: 1.15;">“They who brings rain, brings life” IsiZulu proverb<br />
<br />
“Wielding the comings of rain is a tradition practiced by cultures across geographies. To possess the power to command rainfall is by inference possessing the power to dictate the flow of the natural cycle and climatic conditions. Across Southern Africa, rain-making rituals are directed towards royal ancestors because they were believed to have control over rain and other natural phenomena. One of these is the Moroka of the Pedi tribe in South Africa. Here, a series of fired and unfired clay vessels are assembled as a temporal space to hold gatherings. Over the course of DAS, a series of performances which draw on the traditions of rain-making and harvest are performed in the space where the hands that formed the pots also work to un-form them. The rituals include the use of water, which allows the un-fired pots to dissolve over time, revealing areas and niches of gathering contained by the pots, as well as rhythmic drumming that evokes the sound of thunder at the end of each day.</span>”</span><br />
<br />
</div>
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B1698295287048623241543368439806/Heremakono-Waiting_for_Happiness_2002_001.jpg
<div style="text-align: left"><h2>Heremakono, Abderrahmane Sissako</h2></div>
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I1698326371749295569877344319486/8A3210C3-C537-42F0-9D06-B913CB7D7B12.jpg
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H1698430468921266057648550049790/IMG_8065.mov
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C1698467871521103167061697099774/Screenshot-2024-03-28-at-15.54.09.png
<div style="text-align: left"><h2>A Book of My Own, <br />Scholastique Mukasonga</h2></div>
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q1698467871539549911135406651390/Screenshot-2024-03-28-at-15.53.53.png
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="line-height: 1.05; --font-scale: 1.16;">“All colonized peoples have been victims of cultural aggression, as the colonizers attempt to impose their own cultures, presented as superior to indigenous cultures, which are deemed primitive or deviant by the colonizers’ standards. This is the “civilizing mission” that the Europeans called upon to impose domination over their African colonies. Rwanda did not escape this cultural agression that, in addition to Christianization, was marked by a racial interpretation of the country’s social and political structure. This is, many decades later, what resulted in the Tutsi genocide of 1994.” </span></div>
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W1700039955956326698449406654462/IMG_8493.mov
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q1700057585325170501930790549502/Screenshot-2024-03-29-at-16.04.57.png
<div style="text-align: left"><h2>Mafruha Ahmed & Worms Magazine</h2><span style="line-height: 1.15; --font-scale: 1.16;">“Hey, I'm in the motions of writing a recipe book but in the process, I would love your feedback. I wanted to create a small mailing list where I can share recipes with you twice a month for 6 months. What I would love is images - the good, the bad, the ugly..<br />
Other things: if you changed the recipes; if you liked/disliked it; if you had company; if you were listening to music et...<br />
I hope to create a zine to go alongside the book including your images, anecdotes, thoughts & ideas on the recipes shared..<br />
Maf x”</span></div>
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F1700075235114559995008648083454/IMG_7013.mov
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V1983651118342289455151583197182/0009016-R1-20-19A.JPG
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="--font-scale: 0.47; color: rgb(44, 44, 44);">Photograph by Maxine Pennington</span></div>
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X1983657910525691115377035966462/THECRESCENTMOON-MIX.jpg
<div style="text-align: left"><a class="text" style="color: rgb(214, 202, 202);" target="_blank">LISTEN</a></div>
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J1983704349890302029920166868990/Wanderers of the Desert
<h2 style="--font-scale: 0.96;">Wanderers Of The Desert, Nacer Khemir</h2>
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U1983719051207459013484422756350/A-Field-Guide-to-getting-Lost.jpg
<div style="text-align: left"><h1 style="--font-scale: 0.8; line-height: 1.4;">Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem of the human soul, for those whose cast of mind leads them to seek such emblems. No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay." But the butterfly is so fit an emblem of the human soul that its name in Greek is psyche, the word for soul. We have not much language to appreciate this phase of decay, this withdrawal, this era of ending that must precede beginning. Nor of the violence of the metamorphosis, which is often spoken of as though it were as graceful as a flower blooming.</h1></div>
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y1983730194110790690328752814078/Sunshine-feat.mov
<div style="text-align: left"><span class="text" style="--font-scale: 1.15; line-height: 1.15; color: rgb(241, 240, 246);">I desire to be surrounded by nature, to see the sunset every night, the moon rise, the stars and the milky way, walk at dusk and wake up at dawn. Look out into the horizon and be aware of the vastness of this planet and the whole universe. To be surrounded by animals, plants, water and all their sounds. Feel the sun caress my skin and talk to the trees. To simply be in Gaia’s essence connected to all her elements.</span> </div>
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S1983730452291420745967637231614/Tree.mov
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J1983762983069254500540783392766/IMG_0025-2.mov
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P1983773051560424348245989128190/frames_of_perfect_days-abstract_dreams.jpg
<div style="text-align: left"><h2>Perfect Days, <br />
Wim Wenders</h2></div>
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B1983775350116969652824668239870/frames_of_perfect_days-photos_of_trees.jpg
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E1983793085923526761610164959230/IMG_4787.jpg
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M1983815166178120901953291417598/Screenshot-2024-09-23-at-17.59.57.png
<span class="text" style="--font-scale: 1.15; line-height: 1.35; color: rgb(240, 239, 245);">We put our minds together and give thanks to our oldest Grandmother, the Moon, who lights the nighttime sky. She is the leader of women all over the world and she governs the movement of the ocean tides. <br /><br />
By her changing face we measure time and it is the Moon who watches over the arrival of children here on Earth. Let us gather our thanks for Grandmother Moon together in a pile, layer upon layer of gratitude, and then joyfully fling that pile of thanks high into the night sky that she will know. With one mind, we send greetings and thanks to our Grandmother, the Moon. <br /><br />
We give thanks to the Stars who are spread across the sky like jewelry. We see them at night, helping the Moon to light the darkness and bringing dew to the gardens and growing things. When we travel at night, they guide us home. With our minds gathered as one, we send greetings and thanks to all the Stars. Now our minds are one.</span>
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q1983824248838393962472639690750/0009019-R1-06-6A.JPG
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="--font-scale: 0.47; color: rgb(44, 44, 44);">Photograph by Maxine Pennington</span></div>
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V1985378356294328365396174698494/Laurie Anderson
<div style="text-align: left"><h2>Laurie Anderson on
The Power of Art </h2></div><h2><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@RBMA"></a><br /></h2>
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U1985420135347303474253023541246/Screen-Shot-2019-12-12-at-1.33.43-PM.jpg
<div style="text-align: left"><h2 style="--font-scale: 0.94;"><br />
Solange Knowles, When I Get Home </h2></div>
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z1985420135291963242031894886398/Screen-Shot-2019-12-12-at-1.27.53-PM.jpg
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X1985420135310409986105604438014/Screen-Shot-2019-12-12-at-1.28.38-PM.jpg
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F1985420241305401433640688023550/5001685-R1-057-27.jpg
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K1985441148623773647161974978558/Screenshot-2024-09-24-at-18.29.36.png
<br />
<h2 style="--font-scale: 0.5; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">‘This is a wonderful day. <br />
I've never seen this one before.’<br /><br />
Maya Angelou
</h2>
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K1996294773472193999718728988670/ab67616d0000b2739b6fad3f9a5a8858c9ca966e.jpg
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G2307091043661834454294345938942/Screenshot-2025-04-14-at-13.44.50.png
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="line-height: 1.35; --font-scale: 1.1;"><span style="--font-scale: 0.84;"><i>Picture: Flowers by Yoshihiko Ueda</i></span> <br /><br />
<span style="line-height: 1.15;">“You have to love it enough,” said Dr. Carver. “Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or little peanut it will give up its secrets,” he continued as if talking to himself, “but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also—if you love them enough. In a crowded auditorium of people I can pick out the spiritual souls almost at a glance.’</span></span><br />
</div>
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2307091043606494222073217284094/images.jpg
<br />
<div style="text-align: left"><h2 style="line-height: 1.2; --font-scale: 0.61;"><span style="--font-scale: 0.88;"><span style="color: rgb(36, 62, 169);">The Man Who Talks with the Flowers</span><br />
</span><br />
</h2><span style="line-height: 1.15; --font-scale: 1.1;">‘He is tied only to the God of the flowers. He is as free as the flowers which give themselves to the sunshine and to the dew. Because he is so like the flowers in his relaxation and selflessness, the flowers give up their secrets to him.’</span></div><br />
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C2307113688497477714592009156606/water.mov
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2307125970468809198927441950718/All We Imagine As Light, Payal Kapadia
<h2 style="--font-scale: 0.87; color: rgb(36, 62, 169);">All We Imagine As Light, Payal Kapadia</h2>
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V2307133142894946450527882180606/IMG_8370.MOV
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2307145331617986642261531555838/3EB1FC7D-CE85-46E5-A776-1F28634CCC87-2.jpg
<h2 style="line-height: 1.15;"><span style="--font-scale: 0.77; color: rgb(36, 62, 169);">Secrets Of Divine Love A.Helwa</span><br />
<br />
</h2><span style="--font-scale: 1.1; line-height: 1.15;">"<span style="line-height: 1.15;">Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it"<br />
RUMI<br />
<br />
Just as water wheels raise water from a flowing river toward a fetilega-den, prayer pulls our consciousness from the flow of our passing thoughts toward the garden of the eternal soul. Prayer is more than physical motions; it is more than words of praise and gestures of humility. When we pray, we join the orbit of love: we flow with the rivers, sway with the trees, dance with the moon, and sing with the birds. When we pray, we join with what's and has always been, in constant praise of the Divine.<br />
<br />
“Have you not considered that those in the heavens and the Earth, the sun, the moon, the stars, the mountains, the trees, the animals, and many people, all bow down to God?"<br />
QUR'AN 22:18</span></span><br />
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2307172352962108134224025221118/Alice Walker - Creation
<span style="--font-scale: 1.32; line-height: 1.15;">“Creation is really a sustained period of bliss” Alice Walker</span>
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2307175538069173621283754997758/Screenshot-2025-01-26-at-17.10.01.png
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="line-height: 1.15; --font-scale: 1.1;">I live like water—soft, open, ever-changing. Shaped by all I touch, transformed with each moment, I meet life as a wave meets the shore—flowing with presence and devotion. I move in rhythm with the Earth, attuned to its tides, its stillness, its turning. I let life move through me. I listen. I surrender. In flowing, I return to myself.</span></div>
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2307198117142174258806866704382/IRANEGAGBEN-LOGO-lightbeige.png
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2307202917612171536538321942526/IMG_9467.MOV
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J2307209205055761851923023394814/IMG_9648.jpg
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2316598780116898438240775567358/IMG_9816.jpeg
<br />
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="line-height: 1.15; --font-scale: 1.1;">It’s 8:21 a.m. in Fayoum. I’m sitting on a palm wood chair on a patch of grass at the far end of the pottery school’s pool. The sun is perched high in the sky, directly in front of me, and my whole body is bathed in its warm light. I’m drying off from a swim I had twenty minutes ago. A chorus of birds sings in harmony from the trees encircling the pool.<br />
In front of me stands a beautiful, tall white bird of paradise plant. Behind me, palm trees sway alongside vibrant pink and yellow blooms. To my right, just beyond the pool, towering eucalyptus trees dance in the breeze—the sound of their rustling leaves whispering in my ears.</span></div><br />
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2316662249146703319967767328766/IMG_8415.MOV
<br />
<span style="line-height: 1.15;"><b><h2 style="color: rgb(36, 62, 169);">Oceanic Feeling</h2></b><br />
<br />
In a 1927 letter to Sigmund Freud, Romain Rolland coined the phrase <i>"oceanic feeling"</i> to describe a sensation of boundlessness—an experience of eternity, limitless and unbounded. He wrote about this feeling as:<br />
<br />
<i>"The simple and direct fact of the feeling of the eternal (which can very well not be eternal, but simply without perceptible limits, and like oceanic)."</i><br />— Letter from Rolland to Freud, December 5, 1927<br />
<br />
Rolland associated this <i>"oceanic sentiment"</i> with the mystical states experienced by figures like Ramakrishna, as well as his own personal experience. It describes the sensation of being one with the external world, of an indissoluble bond that transcends the boundaries of self.<br />
<br />
In her book <i>"On Not Being Able to Paint"</i> (1950), Marion Milner, a writer and psychologist, explores the psychological and emotional processes involved in creativity. While she doesn’t use the term <i>"oceanic feeling"</i> directly, she describes a similar state of immersion and absorption in the act of creation:<br />
<br />
<i>"The moment of complete absorption in the act of creation is one in which the self, as a separate entity, ceases to exist. One is at one with the process, and this loss of boundaries is a necessary part of the creative experience."</i><br />— Marion Milner, <i>On Not Being Able to Paint</i> (1950)</span><br />
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2316705855866187763819571181566/IMG_8693.jpeg
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="--font-scale: 1.1; line-height: 1.15;">To give ourselves wholeheartedly—to a moment, a choice, a relationship—is to plant seeds in fertile ground. When we show up fully, the garden of life responds. It unfolds in its own time, in its own shape. And even when the outcome isn’t what we imagined, there is still something sacred there.<br />
<br />Each experience becomes a teacher—if we let it. If we surrender. If we trust.<br />
<br />Life moves in cycles—beginnings, endings, stillness, growth. When we stop resisting and start listening, we see each part has its place.</span></div>
https://extensiveconversations.com/sounds-
2026-02-13T03:32:01+00:00
always
0.5
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L1967537221632463797563579824126/THEBLOOMINGMOON.jpg
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F1967593417166420647835498051582/morelove.png
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P1967603653762769239255847663614/intentionsmaxine.jpg
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2218233519424316806167221106686/THEFULLMOON.jpg
https://extensiveconversations.com/photography
2025-02-17T19:01:29+00:00
always
0.5
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y1973880263727864086927312287742/0009517-R1-04-4A.JPG
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X1973880779148340250445893990398/0009517-R1-10-10A.JPG
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B1973881532384241012228015126526/0009517-R1-25-25A.JPG
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R1973881667137706470676289681406/0009517-R1-26-26A.JPG
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S1973887708280369913891057956862/0009019-R1-06-6A.JPG
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S1973887885406006509650172573694/0009019-R1-08-8A.JPG
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O1973912627525770486281597220862/100605660029-copy.jpeg
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F1973912627378196533691920807934/100605650006-copy.jpeg
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T1973912627396643277765630359550/100605650007-copy.jpeg
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C1973912627507323742207887669246/100605660018-copy.jpeg
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S1973912627415090021839339911166/100605650012-copy.jpeg
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L1973912627470430254060468566014/100605660004-copy.jpeg
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z1973912627488876998134178117630/100605660012-copy.jpeg
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A1973923384523216141122107471870/0003283-R1-27-27A.jpeg
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I1973923384301855212237592852478/0003280-R1-20-18A.jpeg
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E1973923384338748700385011955710/0003280-R1-26-24A.jpeg
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q1973923384486322652974688368638/0003283-R1-13-13A.jpeg
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T1973923384412535676679850162174/0003282-R1-11-12A.jpeg
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V1973923384320301956311302404094/0003280-R1-21-19A.jpeg
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H1973923384375642188532431058942/0003281-R1-10-10A.jpeg
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K1973923384264961724090173749246/0003280-R1-15-13A.jpeg
https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V2007399762269992201048163219454/100605650020.jpeg