Video Poems and
Movies
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Note: these videos were made with windows movie maker. They are "wmv"
files that open with windows media player.
The "video poems" are basically two things: they are a study of the extent
women can embody the magnetic fluid--a magical expression of
femininity--and they are a "story board" or an unfolding sketch and
outline for one or more screenplays I am writing. If you have a low
tolerance for ambiguity or are unable to take risks (as in "to dare"), you
will definitely want to stay away from this material.
Theory of Video Poems: short and long answer
1. Short answer: It is tantra--find the girl inside you and make her part
of you. If you can not handle nudity, click here for Walt Disney.
2. Long Answer
Novemeber 28, 2008
Words from the undine Amue
September 21, 2008
The Picture for--A Sailor's Poem (picture by
Bob Coello)
A Sailor's Poem
Commentary on A Sailor's Poem
And now, for another "light, playful" poem, as in the Robin William's
line--"The purpose of poetry is to woo women" or is there something
else lurking beneath the surface?
September 13, 2008
A Celtic Prayer
A poem, from the book, The Song of the Universe.
September 11, 2008
Picture
And now on the lighter side, a little poem, Make Me a Farmer, obviously
based on the picture.
Make Me a Farmer--the poem
Septermber 8, 2008
Hagiel
The extended poem
Hagiel, Bardon mentions, is not the archangel but the head of the spirits
of the sphere of Venus.
I have the habit, you may notice, of writing poems just after a shoot
with a model. This is the fifth shoot and so the fifth poem for this
model.
Thanks to extensive, detailed correspondence with someone who reads my
poetry, I can point out these poems are "focusing" exercises. For example,
a shoot depends for success on some chemistry between the photographer and
the model. The other's energy gets inside of you. My poem is simply my
describing the actual physical sensations within my body of that energy,
finding words, phrases, or metaphors for it, and then entering a state of
total receptivity to check on the accuracy as the images vibrate with the
sensations and feelings.
One further point: what I see that I know of no one else being able to
see is the full masculine and the full feminine in their unity. I can make
this statement because my book, Undines, is an indictment of all religions
and magical traditions on earth. Namely, though they may know earth, air,
and fire, they know next to nothing about the mysteries of water. But you
can decide this for yourself if you have time and inclination. I have
spared no effort in my journey into the domain of the queens of undines.
It is obvious to me that their beauty has not yet appeared on earth.
And so my global casting call, to find women who can embody what has
never before been seen. Of all the planets in this quadrant of the galaxy,
the earth is perhaps the most beautiful. Yet it appears the human race
does not yet taste this ecstasy.
For "focusing," see How to Write a Poem at the end of my book, The Song
of the Universe Here
September 3, 2008
This is the sound file from the audio section with a few pictures added of
The Goddess, the Merman, and the Cup. The Goddess is the Goddess of the
Earth who shows up in my yet to be published The Fall of Atlantis
screenplay and my book, Mystical Fables. She asks for a religion without
priests, temples, or rituals. This is a contribution to a "gennuine cosmic
religion" mentioned by Bardon in his description of one of the spirits of
the sphere of Mercury.
The Goddess, the Merman, and the Cup
August 24, 2008
As I said above, you find the woman inside you--it is tantra. In all the
serious magic I do, I join without separation with any being in the
universe. It is a privilege extended to those who love.
I remember a week long seminar, ages ago, I attended run by one of the
Dalai Lama's translators. At the end, we walked around the room slowly
and stopped one by one in front each person. And then we said, "You are
the __ in me," that is, we saw each other person as part of oneself.
I realize most Western traditions do not do this. They have no knowledge
of the study of omnipresence. But in all the poetry I write, for a
microsecond, I am one with the heart of the person who inspires the poem.
Those who are weak or profane can not even dream of this level of
oneness with others much less with spirits or the universe.
I was shooting today several scenes in a movie I am making. One of the
models/actresses I met for the first time on location. On the freeway
going home I wrote this poem.
One picture--one poem:
picture
poem
One picture--one animation:
poem 2
animation
August 23, 2008
The power of women is captured in part by combining the light and the
dark. If you only stay with the bright, shiny side, the image can capture
the beauty but not the mystery of femininity much less the power in women.
The Dalai Lama's translator once said to me, "You are the most "empty"
person I hage ever met." He meant "empty" as in "Prajnaparamita." It is
really nice to run into a model who knows "emptiness" from the core of
her being.
The Prajnaparamita meditation is one of the most important meditations
for peacemakers and for my spiritual work. It appears to be totally
outside of the consciousness of Western magical traditions.
Akasha/emptiness/Prajnaparamita is not something you talk about or
discuss. It is something you do and end up being. I will be doing a rather
extensive presentation, both serious and humorous (since humor helps
promote clarity), of this divine state of awareness in the near future.
Two pictures actually: one, the human being and two, the divinity. What
seems to be a negative or dark emotion from the point of view of an
individual's personality can also be an awareness of pure transcendence.
Blending or harmonizing the two, the personal and the divine, within
oneself is always high art.
One picture--one poem:
Picture
Poem
One picture--one poem (and one animation):
Poem: Prajnaparamita: Mother of All
Enlightened Beings
Picture
Think of the following as a brief meditation on the appearance of
Prajnaparamita inside your own mind. Its tantra: find the girl, or the
enlightened being, inside your self.
Animation of Prajnaparamita
"Form is empty, emptiness is form, Emptiness is not other than form, form
is also not other than emptiness." From the Heart Sutra-- Click here for full
version on Dalai Lama's web site.
August 16, 2008
The Goddess
This is a two minute clip, a scene from a short independent film still
being written. It is storyboard quality. It is fiction though there is a
spiritual anthropologist wandering around here somewhere.
Plot: Previously, two hit men pursue their prey into Michigan Central
Station, the grand old abandoned 16 story building near downtown Detroit.
An independent film is being shot in the Great Hall of the station. A few
other photographers are also in the building.
Our model "sees" and interacts with dead people as well as channeling
in an artistic manner any spirit or being she wishes to embody. Some think
she is "just another model." But others notice her uncanny abilities and
seek answers to their questions.
See below or go to youtube.com/carbiel for youtube version of same. If
these don't open on your computer, try downloading the below youtube
version by moving your cursor to the top right of the screen and clicking
on "download." The download opens in Realplayer.
August 9, 2009
Expressions, Part III: A Study of the Feminine
Spirit
The model, herself a professional photographer, takes the best photos
of women that I have seen. She likes this video the most.
August 5, 2008
Beatitudes For the words only of the
rewritten Beatitudes.
Beatitudes, Part I: Studies of the Feminine
Spirit (Warning: adult and spiritual material--over age 18 only)
Beatitudes, Part II (Warning: adult and
spiritual material--over age 18 only>
Beatitudes, Part III (Warning: adult and
spiritual material--over age 18 only)
How to see
For a brief discussion of "how to see" these videos. I am having very
detailed discussions with a number of individuals on this point.
For a Brief Commentary on the Sermon on the
Mount
Note 1:
These Beatitudes don't need pretty music and warm and tender pictures in
order to be communicated correctly. The words are spoken with "a voice of
thunder, a tongue of lightning, and a heart of fire." Try to "hear" the
words and appreciate the soul of the model who, like a prism, reflected
the colors of the spiritual light spectrum through herself.
I started writing them from the first moment I met the model on
location. It was a nude shoot--no nude model, then no Beatitudes. Try to
keep that at the forefront of your mind. See Michigan Central Station
below for what I wrote hours after the shoot.
Note 2:
The model is a professional photographer who teaches photography, makeup,
modeling, and runway. She is the best photographer of women I have ever
seen.
July 31, 2008
Expressions II, Studies of the Feminine
Spirit (Over age 18 only)
In discussing this video with the model, I told her it "accomplished my
purposes of joining the ordinary, everyday world with the world of awe and
wonder, the personal with the archetypal, the sensual with the
transcendent, and darkness with light."
Bryce, the director of mpw.com, the photography school, asked
me, How did the shoot go?
I said, It was a three "Oh God" shoot.
Bryce said, A three "Oh God" shoot must be a good thing, huh?
I replied, Robert McKee was once asked if he believed in the existence
of God. McKee replied, Michelle Pfeiffer is proof of the existence of
God.
Bryce said, I get it.
July 23, 2008
Expressions I, Studies of the Feminine
Spirit (Over age 18 only)
I describe briefly and in sets thirty-nine different "expressions" of one
model at one shoot. There was little or no "artistic direction" of this
model. She came up with these positions and expressions by herself.
Ultimately, I am asking my models briefly to put aside their egos and
identities so as to express a receptivity that is so giving it has command
over everything because it is the source that gives birth to all of life.
I take it this is a femininity that our world knows nothing about.
I discuss elsewhere the nature of the magnetic fluid or the essence of
the feminine spirit in my article on Problems in the Study of Magic, the
Magnetic Fluid. The significance in part of displaying a large range of
emotional expressions is that the presentation allows an individual the
opportunity to bring together diverse aspects of him or herself.
As I wrote the model after the next shoot, "That was really fun, fun as
in I was able to bring together parts of myself that have never met."
The essence of the magnetic fluid is that it can encompass the soul of any
being within itself, renewing, transforming, and restoring it to life.
July 17, 2008
Michigan Central Station (Over age 18 only)
This is a video poem that I wrote for the model and the location from a
photo shoot workshop. For more on the location, see Wikipedia.com
This video poem continues to explore the powers of the feminine spirit.
It is a collective pathworking. And it is tantra: instead of using an
image from Tibetan Buddhism, I use a living woman whose qualities of
personality and spirit enable the viewer to undertake an inner journey.
I have had complaints about the quality of my photography and questions
about whether this project has any validity. One of the best
photographers in the country has given his ok for this video poem and the
model, also a photographer, loves the poem and the photos. I quote:
"That movie ROCKS."
For those who really don't "get it," (especially professional
photographers who apparently have been brainwashed in some secret
concentration camp in N. Korea--becaues they are unable to "see" a picture
as a symbol rather than as a literal representation, much less figure out
how to "contemplate" a picture) the urban decay setting of an abandoned
building "symbolizes" the way in which our world is hostile to genuine
feminine consciousness: "time is racing to destroy this momument."
July 4, 2008
Inner Self (over age 18 only) This is a brief
picture video shot at the Michigan Dunes near Saugatuck. Again, the video
is meant as tantra: you take the images and use them for contemplation.
The girl is a reflection like a mirror that shows what is hidden in your
self.
May 28, 2008
Inner Undine
This is a short video shot near Sandy Beach on Oahu, Hawaii. I wrote the
poem the night before the shoot for this particular model. It represents
her spiritual journey in life. I see a great mystery unfolding. I can't
help what others "see." The next day we made the video of the poem. The
vision at the end is from the story of the undine Isaphil.