Museums, Foucault's Pendulum and Captivity
Posted on Sep 6th, 2009
by
Asteri
All we know what the Foucault's Pendulum is... I would love to read again the novel, after 20 years with this mind...
It all starts with time and Earth... lately I feel a need to memorize everything in our culture... and when i mean culture, am referring to Earth... We are so divided by borders, so called cultural differences, skin colors... but we have just one big heart, having the same beat all over again... And probably when we will feel that what is going through our blood stream is going through Earth's blood stream... when we will feel the heart pulse of our Mother Earth, things will start to change... Hold the hope we still have time to assimilate that and start the change... There is no date, there is no hour, it will happen when we will be ready... for some is happening right now, during this moment, but we are all changing, at our own pace...
Memorizing history and comparing our own evolution in time... interesting enough that the Terra Cotta Warriors came to town so I said "Have to see this one"...
The exhibition consists in few statues that you are not allowed to take pictures of due to copyright issues, which I understand, but you are can have photos with some copies of the statues, which I did.
The history might be cruel and repeating sometimes... the fact that workers were killed after the job was done, the fact that they used whips to make them work, did not make me feel comfortable... Yes, the statues after 2000 years are great to study and understand an ancient culture, but is sad that the message they come with in time is still cruelty... We can learn from history what not to do... I do not understand the concept of suffering and cruelty in evolution, sorry...
Next step was the crystals area which was really beautiful...
I find always museums contradictory maybe because our nature is contradictory...
Next step was the past and the future... :))) the dinosaurs...
This scene is amazing, the big guy is a vegetarian being under attack... the little carnivores guys...
Our planet is all about survival... but walking today through history I realized that we can not touch a crystal as spirits, we can not smile at a child's reaction seeing a huge crystal rock, we can not play with little animals, we can not smell flowers, we can not touch and love a lover... we need a form and a shape for that, to play in this big game, but we do not have to forget our essence...
So finally I got to my butterflies... I love butterflies, I imagine them living in their own world, huge beautiful butterflies with all the possible and impossible colors painted on their wings... sitting on humongous flowers under a beautiful blue sky and several suns... This is how I see them...
Butterflies are so fragile, they live for few days, if we take our time as a reference for their lives... Walking through the beautiful place between them I arrived to the windows where I felt the need to fly outside in the sun... and looking around I understood why I had that feeling...
My friend kept telling me that I do not have to start saving the butterfiles by taking them out... and not give them a speech like I've done last time with the parrots in a store cage... because they will not survive outside... and the only answer I had was that fear will keep us comfortable but not evolving to the stars... and decided to leave the place... but I met Mister Iguana... so had to make another stop...
A beautiful being, trapped again in a cage, too small for him... but got assured that his space will grow soon and that he has one hour per day, in the mornings, free outside his cage... being vegetarian he is not a danger for the butterflies...
Clearly I do not understand captivity ... and I think that we have to teach children that animals in Zoos and cages are not something natural and they should be freed... Children should not grow loving animals in cages... they should respect birds in the sky, iguanas in the forest, and the butterflies free in the green fields or in our beautiful flower gardens...
Mister Iguana got very happy when food arrived (lots of broccoli and carrots), he was acting happy making noises from the throat area and moving a little bit... He got back to the statue position after... I wanted to take a picture from the front side but he looked to me deep, like saying "leave me alone"... so i said "I am sorry" and left him...
Left the place through a small waterfall area...
Felt like I was an unusual appearance for the whole place and needed to disappear...
:)
May all beings be in peace...
It all starts with time and Earth... lately I feel a need to memorize everything in our culture... and when i mean culture, am referring to Earth... We are so divided by borders, so called cultural differences, skin colors... but we have just one big heart, having the same beat all over again... And probably when we will feel that what is going through our blood stream is going through Earth's blood stream... when we will feel the heart pulse of our Mother Earth, things will start to change... Hold the hope we still have time to assimilate that and start the change... There is no date, there is no hour, it will happen when we will be ready... for some is happening right now, during this moment, but we are all changing, at our own pace...
Memorizing history and comparing our own evolution in time... interesting enough that the Terra Cotta Warriors came to town so I said "Have to see this one"...
The exhibition consists in few statues that you are not allowed to take pictures of due to copyright issues, which I understand, but you are can have photos with some copies of the statues, which I did.
w3
The history might be cruel and repeating sometimes... the fact that workers were killed after the job was done, the fact that they used whips to make them work, did not make me feel comfortable... Yes, the statues after 2000 years are great to study and understand an ancient culture, but is sad that the message they come with in time is still cruelty... We can learn from history what not to do... I do not understand the concept of suffering and cruelty in evolution, sorry...
Next step was the crystals area which was really beautiful...
crystal1
I find always museums contradictory maybe because our nature is contradictory...
Next step was the past and the future... :))) the dinosaurs...
dino vegetarian
This scene is amazing, the big guy is a vegetarian being under attack... the little carnivores guys...
Our planet is all about survival... but walking today through history I realized that we can not touch a crystal as spirits, we can not smile at a child's reaction seeing a huge crystal rock, we can not play with little animals, we can not smell flowers, we can not touch and love a lover... we need a form and a shape for that, to play in this big game, but we do not have to forget our essence...
So finally I got to my butterflies... I love butterflies, I imagine them living in their own world, huge beautiful butterflies with all the possible and impossible colors painted on their wings... sitting on humongous flowers under a beautiful blue sky and several suns... This is how I see them...
b2
Butterflies are so fragile, they live for few days, if we take our time as a reference for their lives... Walking through the beautiful place between them I arrived to the windows where I felt the need to fly outside in the sun... and looking around I understood why I had that feeling...
b8
b7
My friend kept telling me that I do not have to start saving the butterfiles by taking them out... and not give them a speech like I've done last time with the parrots in a store cage... because they will not survive outside... and the only answer I had was that fear will keep us comfortable but not evolving to the stars... and decided to leave the place... but I met Mister Iguana... so had to make another stop...
iguana
A beautiful being, trapped again in a cage, too small for him... but got assured that his space will grow soon and that he has one hour per day, in the mornings, free outside his cage... being vegetarian he is not a danger for the butterflies...
cage
Clearly I do not understand captivity ... and I think that we have to teach children that animals in Zoos and cages are not something natural and they should be freed... Children should not grow loving animals in cages... they should respect birds in the sky, iguanas in the forest, and the butterflies free in the green fields or in our beautiful flower gardens...
Mister Iguana got very happy when food arrived (lots of broccoli and carrots), he was acting happy making noises from the throat area and moving a little bit... He got back to the statue position after... I wanted to take a picture from the front side but he looked to me deep, like saying "leave me alone"... so i said "I am sorry" and left him...
Left the place through a small waterfall area...
rain forest
Felt like I was an unusual appearance for the whole place and needed to disappear...
:)
May all beings be in peace...

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