Since there was a little bit of a delay completing this one I decided to do something slighty different with it and do a 3D render! This won't be standard going forward, just wanted to experiment a bit.
Stop trying to prove to the 3d you have what you want. The 3d is just ur mirror, it doesn’t and will never mean anything. It is you but physical, let go of it and start being without expectation, without needed to be reassured by your mirror. You do not need to fight your mirror or ignore it, become passive with it / dismiss it. Or even love it since it’s a gift you gave to yourself. But do not make it your enemy. You will just be enemies with yourself, fighting with yourself. Let go and just be.
Sasha from Amphibia to complete the calamity trio! ⚔️
I rendered this in both Cycles and Eevee just to do some testing but surprisingly it ended up looking better in Eevee, so I left it that way. The turntable made the sword look EXTRA ✨sparkly✨ thanks to some compositing nodes.
(ignore these random pics i found on my phone guys, they turned out to be aesthetically pleasing tgt 😍🙏🏽✨️)
referencing to this post, one of the notes i wrote on one of my side blogs (privately) was:
be aware of your thoughts, not your body. you will manifest a shift in your state of consciousness to become pure consciousness.
if i want to put this into a perspective for others to understand pure consciousness without making it sound overcomplicated, i would use examples like the loass/law of being, and sleeping.
so a lot of us are familiar with the ✨️law of assumption✨️
the law of assumption requires us to be in our imagination. to decide that we are no longer desiring, but rather we have our desires (in imagination). the 3d will reflect our imagination when we naturally persist in this assumption. the law of assumption also requires us to know you shouldn't pay any mind to the 3d regardless of what you see, hear, taste, touch, or smell.
and all of us, if not, most of us, or at least some of us are familiar with ✨️sleeping✨️
when we are sleeping, our state of consciousness had shifted to a sleep state where the sleep cycle restarts.
before we induce sleep, most of us get comfortable, relax, close our eyes, swat mosquitoes away from our ears, get comfortable again, and we don't hyperfocus on whatever's going on in the physical world.
doing this, we embody the sleep state, to manifest a shift in our state of consciousness to induce sleep state (law of being): you closed your eyes, and you moved your awareness away from the physical world therefore manifesting a shift in your state of consciousness to induce sleep.
to apply this to pure consciousness, you must embody pure consciousness to manifest a shift in your state of consciousness to induce pure consciousness.
you know that you shouldn't be aware of the physical world (your body, what you're smelling, hearing, tasting, nor seeing). your awareness should only be on your imagination, whether you're affirming, daydreaming, having internal dialogues or letting your thoughts wander.
when you are pure consciousness, you're conscious and you're only aware of your imagination cuz there is no awareness of the physical world in this state. if you're focused on the time that has passed and on your body, then you won't manifest a shift in your state of consciousness to be pure consciousness, cuz you're not embodying the state.
Didymoceras nebrascense - an unusual ammonite from the Late Cretaceous, ~70 million years ago, found in the seas of North America. It was one of heteromorph ammonites, known for their odd shells that formed a variety of strange and complex shapes.
The spiral shell of Didymoceras, like other heteromorphs, impacted its locomotion, causing it to drift slowly with ocean currents. During that it likely used its tentacles to catch small prey, while the unusual shell shape might have helped against predators.
Fossil evidence suggests sexual dimorphism, with females larger than males. This size difference was likely linked to reproductive roles, as females needed more space to store eggs and additional protection, a trait common in other ammonites.
A few months ago I saw this painting by Takeuchi Seiho and became completely entranced with it....
I had a lot of fun trying to get naturalistic brush strokes in Procreate!
I'm working on getting it fuzzy and putting it in a scene to mimic the original, but I fly out for major surgery in a few days and I need to focus on that.....