Ask The Seer

Words of Wisdom-Edgar Degas

2012-02-15T07:47:00.000-08:00

“Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.”- EDGAR DEGAS

Words of Wisdom-Salvador Dali

2012-02-01T07:43:00.000-08:00

“There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.”- SALVADOR DALI

True Freedom

2012-01-18T07:38:00.000-08:00

Ask The Seer about true freedom. What does it mean to you?

Words of Wisdom-Anonymous

2012-01-04T07:38:00.000-08:00

"Between the wish and the thing, life lies waiting." UNKNOWN

Words of Wisdom-Carl Jung

2011-12-23T12:11:00.000-08:00

"The great decisions in human life usually have far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness." CARL JUNG

Native American Voices-Navaho

2011-12-07T12:04:00.000-08:00

"It is lovely indeed, it is lovely indeed...
I, I am the spirit within the Earth;
The bodily strength of the Earth is my strength;
The thoughts of the Earth are my thoughts;
All that belongs to the Earth belongs to me;
I, I am the sacred words of the Earth;
It is lovely indeed, it is lovely indeed..."
NAVAHO CREATION CHANT OF CHANGING WOMAN

Future

2011-11-23T12:02:00.000-08:00

Ask The Seer what wonders the future holds for you.

Words of Wisdom-Pablo Picasso

2011-11-09T14:52:00.000-08:00

"Everything you can imagine is real." PABLO PICASSO

Words of Wisdom-William Worringer

2011-10-26T14:48:00.000-07:00

"Aesthetic enjoyment is objectified self-enjoyment. The value of a line, of a form consists for us in the value of the life that it holds for us. It holds its beauty only through our own vital feeling, which, in some mysterious manner, we project into it." WILLIAM WORRINGER

Design the Body

2011-10-12T14:44:00.000-07:00

Ask The Seer to re-invent the human body. What would you change, and why? What would this improved design look like?

Native American Voices-Omaha

2011-09-28T14:38:00.000-07:00

"...But now the face of all the land is changed and sad. The living creatures are gone. I see the land desolate and I suffer an unspeakable sadness. Sometimes I wake in the night and feel as though I should suffocate from the pressure of this awful feeling of loneliness." ANONYMOUS

Words of Wisdom-Louise Bourgeois

2011-09-14T14:26:00.000-07:00

"Only through a spiraling, infinitesimally gradual approach can a human being experience the Self, through constant, inevitable striving, that persists despite the certainty of its own fruitlessness and failure to clutch at any passing straw of revelatory insight." LOUISE BOURGEOIS

Your Authentic Self

2011-08-31T14:22:00.000-07:00

Ask The Seer about your authentic self.

Words of Wisdom-Anonymous

2011-08-17T11:55:00.000-07:00

"Speak the truth, but leave immediately after." ANONYMOUS

Words of Wisdom-Keith Tyson

2011-08-03T11:48:00.000-07:00

"Unlike gold and diamonds, art has this other value, and that's what makes it fascinating. Everything else is trying to sell you something else. Art is trying to sell you yourself. That's what is different about it. Art is what makes life worth living." KEITH TYSON

Paint the Universe

2011-07-20T11:45:00.000-07:00

Ask The Seer to paint the universe. What color would you choose? Why?

Words of Wisdom-Anonymous

2011-07-06T08:39:00.000-07:00

"You will know you have moved forward far enough when you can no longer imagine the way back." UNKNOWN

Words of Wisdom-Joseph Campbell

2011-06-22T08:31:00.000-07:00

"The society that cherishes and keeps its myths alive will be nourished from the soundest, richest strata of the human spirit." JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Hidden Treasure

2011-06-08T08:28:00.000-07:00

The Seer transports you to a secret hiding place to unearth your buried treasure. Where do you go? Describe your hidden treasure.

Words of Wisdom-Albert Einstein

2011-05-25T08:26:00.000-07:00

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." ALBERT EINSTEIN

Words of Wisdom-Carl Jung

2011-05-11T08:20:00.000-07:00

"Whereas we think in periods of years, the unconscious thinks and lives in terms of millennia." CARL JUNG

Celebration

2011-04-27T08:14:00.000-07:00

The Seer takes you to a mountaintop to celebrate the wonders of life. What would you do to express joy and thankfulness? Would you sing, dance, pray, or meditate?

Words of Wisdom-Janine Antoni

2011-04-13T07:52:00.000-07:00

"I make art because it centers me in my body, and by doing so I hope to offer that experience to someone else. This direct physical experience is one of the rare things that art can offer in a culture of mediation." JANINE ANTONI

Ojibwa Prayer

2011-03-30T08:00:00.000-07:00

"Grandfather, look at our brokenness. We know that in all creation only the human family has strayed from the Sacred Way. We know that we are the ones who are divided and we are the ones who must come back together to walk in the Sacred Way. Grandfather, Sacred One, teach us love, compassion, and honor that we may heal the earth and heal each other."

From Now On

2011-03-16T13:15:00.000-07:00

Ask The Seer about your future.

Words of Wisdom-Louise Bourgeois

2011-03-02T13:11:00.000-08:00

"Art is a way of recognizing oneself." LOUISE BOURGEOIS

Words of Wisdom-George Bernard Shaw

2011-02-16T12:59:00.000-08:00

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Words of Wisdom-Mother Teresa

2011-02-02T13:04:00.000-08:00

"We can do no great things; only small things with great love." MOTHER TERESA

Native American Voices-Oglala Sioux

2011-01-19T12:52:00.000-08:00

"The old Lakota was wise. He loved the earth and all things of the earth...He knew that man's heart away from nature becomes hard; he knew the lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to the lack of respect for humans too." LUTHER STANDING BEAR

Authentic Self

2011-01-05T12:49:00.000-08:00

The Seer introduces you to your authentic self. Describe this person.

Words of Wisdom-Aristotle

2010-12-22T12:41:00.000-08:00

"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire." ARISTOTLE

Words of Wisdom-Gaston Bachelard

2010-12-09T12:41:00.000-08:00

"Thus we cover the universe with drawings we have lived." GASTON BACHELARD

Super Power

2010-11-24T07:52:00.000-08:00

For one day, The Seer offers you super power in one of your five senses. What would you ask for? What would you do with your super-sensitivity?

Words of Wisdom-Sarah Bernhardt

2010-11-10T07:50:00.000-08:00

"Life begets life, energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich." SARAH BERNHARDT

Desire

2010-10-27T07:47:00.000-07:00

How do you separate need from desire?

Questions and Wishes for The Seer

2010-10-15T14:41:00.000-07:00

I ask for the ability to feel deeply--to let energy flow and to feel interaction. Not just me doing, but dancing in and with the air, the ground, the light.

I ask for guidance in my next steps: the clarity to see what I need to do next, the courage to venture forth.

I ask for a sense of peace while still experiencing life and emotion to the fullest. Is that possible?

Where can the arts take me today? Can we use them to help others feel peace?

On September 11: Do the pictures still move others to tears too? My heart still aches for those who were lost...

How long does it take to ask for help?

Who is responsible?

I would ask for the ability to know and act on my innermost passions...

Conviction to trust the voice inside. It is a form of self doubting not to. Would that we would all trust the voice.

Happiness and the ability to know what brings happiness!

I wish to have peace in my life.

I wish for good health and happiness for me and my family. Thank you.

Prosperity for all.

World peace, of course.

What is truth?

Who is Jesus to you? ...the lover of our souls. Is The Seer the soul?

Peace on this earth is my lifetime dream!

Will the planet (i.e. nature) survive?

Why do you see with your eyes? Instead, is it not better to feel with your heart?--The wealthiest man in the world.

Does God really hate "fags?"

What do you want me to know?

Fame and Fortune

2010-10-13T07:41:00.000-07:00

"I don't have high expectations for my career. I don't need fame and fortune. All I want is fame and break-even." UNKNOWN ARTIST

Native American Voices-Meditation

2010-09-29T07:35:00.000-07:00

"Holy Mother Earth, the trees and all nature are witnesses of your thoughts and deeds." WINNEBAGO

Home

2010-09-15T07:33:00.000-07:00

Ask The Seer about your Home.

Words of Wisdom-Jeannette Winterston

2010-09-01T07:28:00.000-07:00

"Art is not a private nightmare, not even a private dream, it is a shared human connection that traces the possibilities of past and future in the whorl of now. It is a construct, like science, like religion, like the world itself. It is as artificial as you and me and as natural too." JEANNETTE WINTERSTON

Words of Wisdom-Julia Cameron

2010-08-18T07:26:00.000-07:00

"Taking risks expands our self-definition." JULIA CAMERON

Material Wishes

2010-08-04T07:18:00.000-07:00

The Seer grants you the ability to weave any material from your imagination. What would it look like (color, texture, transparency)? What would your material or fabric cover? Would it hide or reveal something?

Perfection

2010-07-21T09:23:00.000-07:00

"If life was perfect, there would be nothing left to desire." UNKNOWN

Words of Wisdom-Francisco Goya

2010-07-07T09:18:00.000-07:00

"Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters; united with her, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of their marvels." FRANCISCO GOYA

Native American Voices-This Newly Created World

2010-06-23T09:09:00.000-07:00

Pleasant it looked, this newly created world.
Along the entire length and breadth of the earth, our grandmother,
extended the green reflection of her covering and the escaping odors
were pleasant to inhale.
WINNEBAGO

Art

2010-06-09T14:41:00.000-07:00

Ask The Seer about any form of Art.

Transformation

2010-05-26T12:41:00.000-07:00

If The Seer could transform you into any animal, insect, or mythological beast, what would you want to be? What would you look like? Where would you live? What would you eat?

Words of Wisdom-Carl Jung

2010-05-16T12:39:00.000-07:00

"The thought we shall think, the deed we shall do, even the fate we shall lament tomorrow, all lie unconscious in our today." CARL JUNG

Beauty

2010-05-06T12:33:00.000-07:00

Ask The Seer a question about Beauty.

Words of Wisdom-Erica Jong

2010-04-26T12:30:00.000-07:00

"Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." ERICA JONG

Dreams

2010-04-16T09:52:00.000-07:00

Ask The Seer about your dream.

Words of Wisdom-Gaston Bachelard

2010-04-02T09:48:00.000-07:00

"In the presence of an image that dreams, it must be taken as an invitation to continue the daydream that created it." GASTON BACHELARD

A question of history

2010-03-19T09:33:00.000-07:00

The Seer is a significant spiritual or political leader from history: what would you ask him/her? What would you tell The Seer about our contemporary society?

Four Elements

2010-03-04T09:07:00.000-08:00

The Seer transforms into one of the four elements (Earth, Wind, Fire, Water). What would The Seer become? What would The Seer do and what special wisdom would it hold?

Words of Wisdom-Kaethe Kollwitz

2010-02-22T08:19:00.000-08:00

"Strength is: to take life as it is and, unbroken by life-without complaining and overmuch weeping-to do one's work powerfully. Not to deny oneself, the personality one happens to be, but to embody it." KAETHE KOLLWITZ

Love

2010-02-12T08:10:00.000-08:00

The Seer asks: who or what do you love the most? Why?

Knock Knock

2010-02-05T08:07:00.000-08:00

Ask The Seer your favorite "Knock Knock" joke.

Your Ancestor

2010-01-29T08:06:00.000-08:00

The Seer introduces you to one of your ancestors. Who would it be? What would you ask him/her?

Happiness

2010-01-10T06:54:00.000-08:00

Ask The Seer about Happiness.

Magic Power

2009-12-30T12:34:00.000-08:00

If The Seer had magic powers, what wishes would you ask to be granted? Are these wishes for yourself or someone else?

Favorite Person

2009-12-20T13:08:00.000-08:00

Ask The Seer about your favorite person.

The "Book of Should"

2009-12-10T06:35:00.000-08:00

The Seer holds the "Book of Should." What would you ask The Seer about all of the things you SHOULD do, or should have done? What would you write in the "Book of Should" under "I should..."?

Wisdom of the Child

2009-11-29T06:01:00.000-08:00

The Seer transports you back in time to speak to yourself as a child. What would you ask yourself?

Vegetation

2009-11-22T09:52:00.000-08:00

If you could ask The Seer to turn you into any plant or vegetation, what would it be? What would you look like, smell like, and where would you live?

Truth

2009-11-15T10:37:00.000-08:00

Ask The Seer about Truth.

Your Favorite Meal

2009-11-08T10:35:00.000-08:00

The Seer will take you anywhere on the planet for your favorite meal. Where would you ask The Seer to take you? What would you eat? Would you bring a guest?

Inner Critic

2009-11-01T12:34:00.000-08:00

Ask The Seer, "What do I want to say to my inner critic?"

Mentor

2009-10-26T12:31:00.000-07:00

The Seer, as your wise and compassionate mentor, can give you any gift. What would you ask for?

Journey

2009-10-14T14:16:00.000-07:00

What questions do you have for The Seer about a journey? A journey through the past or into the future? A journey within or without the self?