SACRED STORY: contrasts & notions of beauty

African beauty of Sereda Aleta Dailey

“Intelligent beauty is a commodity in Western culture the way that dumb blonds are revered in African centered communities. Intelligence within beautiful women, and the intelligence of Beauty signify to the initiated the important relationship Beauty holds with the Sacred. Women and men who hold these truths within have no need to speak of what they hold in the same manner it isn't important for a yogi to continually talk of breath to the uninformed and the comfortably ignorant.

Hold these truths as self-evidence.” - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

 Francesca 

symbol of the grape lotus

deeper spirituality: a Manhood teaching

“So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused.” ― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

symbol upon Stone Person

symbol of 3 stages of Womanhood from Gary Williamson's collection

symbols ancient of days

symbols of women's powers

tattooed women in temple laughing

a CHILD OF WAR

In this June 8, 1972 file photo, 9-year-old Kim Phuc, center, run down Route 1 near Trang Bang, Vietnam after an aerial napalm attack on suspected Viet Cong hiding places.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/napalm_girl_photo_from_vietnam_war_cLcQiVDeWsct7yI7kKyuvL#ixzz1waTaMMBH