What up Vant currently right now in this moment. I'm trying to Thank you Finish the line work for the jelly and then we're gonna get going with where did I get all this paint on myself from? Then we're gonna get going with the Something the alcohol ink Anybody anybody else ever forget what they're saying as they're saying it. I feel like it can't be just me So I was requested especially to go live today at this time or one of our fam that is having a tough week So Want to make sure we got this live in I keep like confusing myself With these lines Trying to make them make sense, but you know what like jellyfish Lines kind of don't Make sense So I'm gonna stress on it just a little bit and then I'm gonna let it go That tentacle is fine. So like I keep I should have Drawn each leg in a different color that way I won't get them like Mixed up like I'm doing Literally while I'm talking essentially, I'm just trying to keep the spine of my each tentacle I'm trying to keep the spine in a certain Direction and then add the super flowy looking I Don't even know what that part of the body body jellyfish I don't even know what that part of the jellyfish is technically called I'm sure one of you genius people that is part of the fam We'll know we're gonna call this tentacle Den as well. So now I'm just gonna draw out this guy This is kind of just my rough view of What a jellyfish looks like I Mean I am a mermaid, but I've never seen one up close So essentially all I'm doing is I started with three just straight long just not straight just Not a scalloped yet just lines and then like this one. So I started with this line right here and Then now I'm just going over it and adding Kind of like fabric folds You pet a jellyfish an aquarium.  We're here for you and I hope we bring you some Distraction or Entertainment in some way and then people have bad days I'm always down to help so I'm going to Probably get a little too extra right there, of course It doesn't even look like how it's supposed to look Also the type of eraser I'm using is called a kneaded eraser Which is really awesome because it picks up The graphite at least that's what I'm using but then you just stretch it and it kind of I don't know what it is I don't know if it disintegrates what you have erased or just consumes it and soaks it up, but Like we'll use a bunch of this we'll just keep using using using it this is The other half of this one it comes lighter and then So this has gold glitter a whole bunch of graphite on it but You just kind of pull it and work it and it thinks I love it kind of just cleans itself. It's It's crazy. It's like putty, but it's not really that sticky. I mean it is tacky But now it's like almost the same color is the one I'm using so anyways Moving on I think we have the kneaded erasers in our Amazon shop link Listed below this video in the description box. Okay, so I'm just adding a little waves and then drawing Connecting lines Connecting lines, I don't know if that's the right word Just I'm adding in the folds that it's implying to give it the shape that I'm wanting and if it doesn't look how I want it to then I just Kind of overdrive a little bit more And if that doesn't work, then I only race it just like that If you haven't seen my alcohol ink artwork before Then you may not know that it's very like sketch I have a lot of lines And so I like to see where I've like all the different places that I tried to make a line work and so all of the Transfer graphite from this being a soft board so it's I could put hand stamps everywhere I'll clean some of it up, but for the most part. I like having that. I like I like sketched Fine art. I don't even know if that makes sense But I said it Or that artwork that looks partially complete So the spine is here. So if you guys weren't here with me, I'd still be Doing the same process Just my problem is sometimes I don't know which side to draw a line on sometimes folds like that happen like more centered Be what do you think you do more of like actual supposed to look like something for real type artwork How do you handle it's like doing hair you just get an idea of what that shape is It is idealize it. I am I am going to be painting on this but I'm gonna make it really loose painting. I'm gonna make it I'm gonna do basically an alcohol ink Over this but not like paint within the line. So it's gonna be real Loose if you've ever seen a watercolor tattoo, that's kind of the look that we're gonna end up with on this one Also, these lines will make more sense when I When I get all of the lines drawn in black Are you using photo reference or just your memory? So I did look at the image I used as the cover photo I looked at that before I started I don't have a reference just out If I wasn't doing a live then I would probably have a reference pulled up on my phone It's always good to have a reference of What you're doing Always good to have a reference in front of you But since I'm kind of just idealizing it anyways It's not that big of a deal But Most of time paintings look better if you are working off of a reference usually Most of time. I can't really think of a time where having a reference would be Not helpful Every time I do an alcohol ink piece. I'm reminded that I need to do one for Shane stoner He keeps slipping my mind because we have too many things Going on at one time What is it too many? Hokes in the fire that's probably not accurate Pokers I was getting too congested in here. So I had to reroute this this one Too many irons in the fire. It's quite possible that a lot of these Little tentacles Aren't gonna make sense by the end of it This is gonna be a whole bunch of Shapes, but I'm okay with that I'm almost done with the boring part though I don't know how to turn this thing around without it losing what I'm doing yeah, like Flip the flow to go this way I mean Okay, they just fold it in so It's following this line and so I need it to do this but on this side I'm gonna put some ice in my this here be I'm thankful every day that Y'all don't judge me for putting ice and wine I'm thankful every day that he I Have a husband that is artistic and Not only can help me with my artwork, but likes to help me with my artwork Chains don't I haven't seen him in a while. He's been busy. I like it. I just don't know how to make it I don't know which of these is the fold that you know what I mean like it doesn't Try and do this on this side, but I don't know how to turn it Like you did it right like you put the waves on this side, but I don't understand what in here is now it's spaghetti What is what? Thank you so much. Where's the button? How do we always lose it? Thank you so very much Kim that Really means a lot to us. We put a lot of time and energy into the channel and there's the party horn and I'm Contributions like yours help our channel to Keep rolling, you know what did he have going on here? I don't know what that is You know, it's a jellyfish. It's Just gonna be shapes, right? That part is confusing me. I would just save it to the end and get just fully confused by myself Take that part in that part Okay, I'm almost done being meticulous. You guys swear I'm swear Maybe I'll just do one of these guys to distract From the this perfect crushed it nailed it winning at everything Okay, feel better about all this now I'm Sorry, I'm not chatting much with you guys as you can see this is taking all of my concentration To kind of What takes a lot of concentration I think anyways just to do an art piece sometimes and then if you then also consider trying to Talk your way through it. I have a this the head part doesn't make sense I'm trying to make it not look like a mushroom, but I Don't know if it will ever Look like a mushroom. I Mean not look like a mushroom Maybe I should add some of these up here, but also I don't want to because It kind of it doesn't look like that. It looks oh The swatch from yesterday This is jellyfish I guess I could use them as a reference but even then I'm not a hundred percent sold on the shape of The top but it does show me that there's like It's like ripples. Is that what this is bulldog hustle? Oh, I don't know what you guys are talking about Y'all are probably on four different conversations All right, let's erase everything in here so I can see what I'm working with What I said before is a great tip for if you're doing something confusing like this So if you're gonna do an octopus at this then This doesn't connect anything it's supposed to go with this thing so in Order to avoid what I'm struggling with in this moment if you did each Tentacle in a different like color pencil then You can avoid Getting confused Like I am right now But if we're honest if I had each tentacle as a different color, I'd probably Still get confused. That looks good It looks like it should make sense. So spoken like a marine biologist. Well, I don't want to brag But I did stay in a holiday in one so My goodness, I didn't even know you guys could see my busted My busted iPads green Okay No, it's not in the way. You can just see the corner of it Okay, I can't see you guys for a second because I'm gonna pull up a reference for I need one of the jellyfish references because I need to Get something happening with this mushroom top So while he's doing that I'm going to just clean up some I Just I don't I'd have to see I don't these are such majestic animals Yeah That what's in there. I don't know that you think they're aliens. I could see that I could totally buy that they were aliens Okay, on top of cleaning up some of these lines. I'm also dabbing My harsh graphite lines What's up tutor? I Hope you have a rad day today tutor So in addition to cleaning up my lines, I am also Dabbing my existing graphite lines So that they are less likely to smudge so for example if I can't see what you guys think So for example right here, I haven't dabbed this part if I went like this it smudges out But this bit that I already dabbed if I go like this it does not so I'm just it's essentially like fallout for you ladies That do eyeshadow It's essentially I'm picking up the fallout or the loose graphite. That's on top of my lines Whenever you draw a line with a pencil or charcoal or pastel or charcoal or anything like that there's gonna be some like powder like Dust on top of the line you draw just because It just will be because of the friction of when you draw on the paper. That's you science I don't know if that's why but it makes sense to me So if you just Dab off the fallout Then you don't really have to worry about smudging your lines as bad For me, I don't care if the lines smudge except for I don't want Any of the graphite to dull my alcohol inks smudgy lines just enhance my Style I guess I have like a Very messy refined Artistic style and I'm just creating for because I want to Instead of a commission. Well, I guess I that rolled over into my commissions as well, but My style is just very hot mess success Doesn't look like much doesn't look like much and then you blink and it's like, okay. Well, I guess that's still a bull Pardon me while I clean my eraser You guys hate came here to see like a super quick easy Well, I guess this isn't the hardest way to do a piece like this But this is definitely not gonna be a time lapse but also definitely this part takes the longest and I'm essentially done with it and just Picking up the fallout I Already have my alcohol inks pulled and ready to go also, we took canvas to a Training place today just to get some socialization and You know, we've been working with her but we wanted Professional work and also get her used to being around other people and dogs, etc. Y'all They opened with e-caller. I don't know. I'm not a professional dog trainer surprised.  That's like the last thing you do but this lady Who had to be half my age, which is fine young people can know how to train dogs, too but I like We went in for an evaluation and she was like, I think this color will fit her best. I was like, whoa Calm down, ma'am And she was like, yeah, so what you do is you put this e-caller on your dog and You just it's not very strong You just give it a little tap to get their attention Even when you're like just rewarding them So you just tap the thing on the lowest setting and then you give her a treat that way she associates it with good Things I was like, why do I need to teach her? That a shock or a tap however you want to say it You spell it however you want it is still putting electricity in a puppy What is that tapped? Why does she have to get used to being mildly electrocuted? Why don't we just use treats like normal people? Oh, yeah, I remember I know I sat there and she was um Yeah, so we took her to another She has an evaluation at a different place In the morning Oh, yeah, it is just for hanging out But she's gonna be doing other She's gonna be doing other um, sorry I got distracted while I was drawing these lines, which I'll Fiddle with more later. Anyways Now she has an appointment at a different place That does not do shock callers I called them in advance and was like, hey, this may sound like a weird question, but Do you bring me those gloves over here? Oh This may be a weird question, but do you guys use e-caller? She was like Is your dog Like extra and I was like she's four months. I'm gonna put electricity in a four month pit anyways So what's up sue? so I understand that like You can't even feel a vibration on the lowest setting on the collars but It does depend on circumstances, but I can't Fathom the circumstance where I put an e-caller On a four month old puppy that doesn't have behavior issues yet I feel like that would just put behavior issues into her, but I digress That's just what I was thinking I'm not opposed to it if they need it But that's just so last resort for me All right, let's pull a collars out I mean, there's a place for everything. I just I don't think it's with her She's already very sensitive. Like if you yell at her Her feelings get hurt and he was four years old exactly Rachel Malinois are like super hard to train Kid with tonsils playing up again. Yeah, um Jeff just took the pup out to Play in the the atrium. So we don't have to worry about Loud puppies It's okay, bubba Just grabbing my embossing gun I thought I was prepared and then The world corrected me So Your dogs are barking because they heard mine my bad All right, hopefully this won't knock everything over and probably will All right, so if you guys have never seen me do my alcohol ink uh artwork Essentially what's gonna happen is I'm gonna drench the piece in alcohol And then let me show you kind of the style I'm going for So It's gonna be similar to Stop scaring that baby Or just keep on So it's just gonna be like Colors inside outside of the lines I thought you were doing stuff to keep them from barking not cause them to be barking My goodness. I love that one I'm gonna save that picture Let's get the ball So see how the color is like some of it is inside some of it is outside It's very messy very all over the place. So that's what we're going for In this piece Oh That's kind of my style That's kind of what we're going with today Really like that Reference I just pulled. Okay. What's up Marcy? Lo with it. You want me to leave it up here? You want to get in close somewhere? Well, if you want to be here and like zoom in on things that'd be rad Oh, I don't know. Um, am I gonna do pinks and purples? So I Brought out my tertiary colors Bamp full disclosure. I wanted to do this color For a minute, but I know I know that I would get a whole host of Cruddy browns if I did that So There's so many awesome references It's not going to be in focus Okay, so I brought out Yeah, yellow. I know Every time she plays with that. I'm like, what what do you have think of anything, but she had a whole Doritos bag She likes Doritos Um Bye, Julie. Thanks for coming in Okay, so We're gonna drench the whole piece in 91 isopropyl alcohol. You can use less percent um But it's not going to work as well and by not as well. I mean Horrible and then also you can go higher And it'll be okay. So just if you can help it at all don't go under 91 percent And then There are some like grain alcohols that you can use like ever clear And there's some kind of rom that would be fine Ever clear work best. You can also use acetone doesn't work as good and it's hella smelly so I'm gonna start with uh purples and pinks and aquas but we may um We may end up doing the I may throw some yellow in there too. Well, who knows who's to say? also, I grabbed some ranger some molder It looks kind of like a pewter. Has anyone ever used it? Do you like it? What do you think? What are your thoughts? I'm just opening all of my Colors first Just just trying to make her be loud while i'm live. I think He's pulling out every scary and loud toy like he didn't think he was scared Okay, so the colors i'm using are spectrum noir B That is very distracting so the Colors i'm using are spectrum noir ly one yellow If I use yellow Um ranger mermaid because reasons. Oh my goodness gale. Thank you so much but without that I so appreciate it you guys every Contribution helps so much in it. It just makes my heart happy It makes it less stressful to live as an artist, you know Uh jacquard passion purple I don't know where the top of this is. I'm glad I oh it's in there I'll see if I can get it out if I use this one. It's a blick studio marker refill In this shade zero three four violet beat. Can you see if you can get this? tip out Also, uh, you're gonna stain your fingers if you don't put a glove on I'm also going to use jacquard piñata senior rita magenta or magnana and copic marker refill in the shade fuchsia rv one uh rv zero nine Thank you Just that part or there's a whole part. No, that's it. Will you put it in here? I don't want to get purple on my finger Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Just a tip Um Yeah Yeah All right So we got our other purple Going again Okay, the key to have an awesome looking Alcoholing piece is to use more alcohol and less of the color That way it stays bright because while it'll always be translucent usually Clear I have to use blending solution with the smolder Um Now I have a lost track. Okay, so Alcohol links will always be usually see-through But if you get them really concentrated really deep dark concentration of those colors Then you will um You won't like it. It's gonna get too Too much saturation I'm out of my duck blue or green or whatever that was So I also just pulled pinata Uh jacquard sunbrite yellow And copic marker refill Duck blue. I'm not out y'all happy day Okay, so more alcohol less pigment And put a lot of alcohol down to keep things moving and fluid ready go Also, it's wednesday, which means We're paying it forward No retro No, what's it called the train? We're doing a train train of viewers After this speed we're gonna all go over and check out Tisha's channel Who is in the room right now? But if she wants to let us know what we're gonna be arting on her channel That would be awesome Okay, so right now. I'm just trying to get A splash of alcohol most everywhere I don't want to have all I just smudged that I didn't pick up enough fallout. It's okay um I'm trying to give some splashes. All right Also I'm a little bit Not level which is okay with resin because I don't have it here Like on this table for long then it goes into the dust free zone But this piece will probably be here for a bit. So I'm just shimming it up on this side um, I also got my Mixative I don't know what color this is. It's some kind of gold Evelyn Didn't come up with the word train. So talk to the people in charge All right, I don't want these dots of vibrant color. So I'm just blending those out before I even add the rest of my inks Okay Now I'm going to start with super light Individual drops And not a lot of them Because the more that you put down The more you have to ultimately kind of blend out. Whoops. I didn't mean to have two drops there, but maybe fine Okay Now I'm going to put a little bit more alcohol down just to kind of Splatter the inks that I just laid out I put a lot of alcohol down as the base because I don't want the Inks to stain my board I know it doesn't look like I have a lot of color down right now, but It will change Turr, rest of me. I do think I need to add a little bit more of the aqua up here though All the colors I'm using mix really well together so If I do get a secondary color off of The colors mixing just together In my opinion, you can't have too much alcohol put down, but you can't have too much of just the color put down I'm just going to give it a girly swirl to mix everything up And now channel crossover bounce the tube. I like all of most all of those So I'm going to use an embossing gun with a really short cord to manipulate my inks You can use a heat gun, but it's going to um It's not going to look the same with a heat gun because It's going to add more heat than what this is adding And the heat is what makes the alcohol evaporate Uh, okay. Usually I don't want the harsh lines that using any kind of heat to evaporate your alcohol inks but because of the the look of um jellyfish I don't mind. Will you come hit the button for me in a minute? Thank you so much Deborah That it really helps a lot and I I so appreciate it Also, please don't feel obligated to contribute It is in no way required I just It warms my heart when you guys even think to come here and watch much less Contribute to you know what we're doing So because of the way jellyfish look they have those Incredibly beautiful folds of everything Um because of that I'm going to be very okay with getting these kind of dark lines and having some infinity rings I'm going to try to separate These lower inks from the upper inks. This is looking a little bit too phallic up here on the forehead of our jelly Bring it down. Bring it down people So I'm going to try to separate the upper part of our jelly from the bottom part of our jelly because I want to get these Very awesome folds. I'm not going to follow my lines exactly Mainly because I don't think I have the ability To do that, maybe Clara would have that magic or not so I'm going to be just adding some kind of frills with the embossing gun some hard lines, but Not that many In theory, not that many as you guys know if you've worked with alcohol in at all ever before Sometimes you just can't control Any of it like you would want to So in order to get some of these lines, I'm just using indirect heat Uh, which kind of basically means I'm putting the Uh concentration part of My embossing gun on the outside of where My everything is and I'm letting the heat bounce off my substrate and go into the different areas so Kind of running my uh, I almost called it a heat gun my embossing gun. I'm running it Very intensely in the areas that um Are kind of set They are blank because They're in between the tentacles so I'm Purposefully quit drying those breaks And while I'm going I'm adding more color and more alcohol in just very specific areas Very designed areas I'm only ever This is just my process. I only ever add More alcohol when the alcohol I have down already is still fluid. I don't have a lot of success at all when it comes to adding more alcohol and pigments and all of that Once it's dry, I end up messing everything up. So So I basically fully avoid that by only adding more alcohol to the piece In areas that's still fluid Claire probably has a way around that She probably has some super secrets if you guys are super into alcohol Oh my god, tim. Thank you so much We're We're here for you. You you shouldn't Feel obligated to do that. I I can't tell you how much I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you, tim. Thank you Y'all are gonna make me ugly pride I can feel it already Okay So now I need to work on these outlying areas because I have my separation these areas Are coagulating a bit because I'm just pushing the alcohol ink kind of Harshly into The areas where they're coagulating And so they're giving me that frilly look that you see In jellyfish at least I guess the kind of jellyfish that I pulled reference for That's kind of why I wanted to do this in alcohol ink number one I feel like I Can make it look more acute Y'all words are hard today. I feel like I can make it look more accurate uh with alcohol in The medium kind of just lends itself to the look And secondly I just don't have skill in any other medium to make something look like something else except for Except for alcohol in no shame. No shame though. No shame Be my this doesn't look that bad. Just so you know I'm not sure what you said Yeah, I'll find out what you said when I'm done with the embossing gun Oh, I just wanted to hear you say it four times I feel like a lot of the aqua is kind of gone So this middle part is still fluid And I'm going to add a little bit of that Duck blue there And hope I don't regret it I guess I'll just put more of that aqua color up in the top part of our Jelly I said this part doesn't have much happening What should we name our jellyfish? This part was already dry and I hate adding When it's already dry It never turns out right I'm gonna let that Just self evaporate I'm gonna let that self evaporate What happens when you're not manipulating it when it's evaporating is it's going to be really soft So for example up here, I was doing a lot when I was working on the outside edge And then I started working down here. So this area dried on its own So it's really Soft there's not all those lines because I'm not Making it go in these lines and evaporate going to help some of that coagulation to Disperse here Even though I only added a few like drips and drops of color I still feel like it's bordering on being too dark. You know what I mean? We're fine. This'll work. Nope, that won't work. Where's my this? I'm just gonna dab off Some of the dark bits some of the coagulation Only because it's gonna take Quite a bit for it to dry I'm gonna work on this bit I'm gonna shim it up one more time What's up, Mr. Koop? Haven't seen you in a bit Tink Don't judge the ice that's in my wine It was warm Okay So even though I hate putting Any manipulation on something that is already done Drying when it comes to alcohol ink. I have no choice but to do that up here because it kind of just looks like The head is evaporated So I'm gonna have to do it But I'm gonna be real careful about it And I'm gonna keep my embossing gun on so that I can keep it pushed From all of the everything else that it will probably try to mess up So I didn't put any Yellow on the piece Do you guys think it needed it? Are we good with the purple pink aqua palette we got going on I'm just gonna push it to the edge of what I drew And then bring it back. It's not going to be a straight line, but That's okay And for this part, I don't want a lot of lines. I want it to be softer So essentially I'm just going to control where it's going from the outside I actually don't want this line I want it to be soft All the way across So I'm just worried about controlling the outside If I were to just do this forever I would get infinity ring So it's going to be a circle and a circle and a circle and a circle and a circle until everything's evaporated But I don't want that I want it to be just soft. So I'm going to be hitting it with heat Really high up and as evenly as I can Looks like I'm still going to have a hole in the middle I'm also going to be dabbing up Some of the coagulation But not all of it because I feel like there is that like It'd be a good separation from the top of it To the rest of it, you know Also, if you're new here, hi. Hello. Welcome. I'm Erica. I'm with uh, obviously artist still death We go live every weekday at 6 p.m. Central except for on two days of that 2 p.m. Central We're a full-time artist We have a small business resin shop. It's artiststilldeath.com But we make less of our revenue off of youtube YouTube in the shop. It's how we keep the lights on Valerie it has been way too long I'm gonna add a little bit of motion in here Because it's mostly dry, but it's not going to push like a wave of alcohol Once it's no longer really fluid, it's just damp alcoholing That's when you can kind of really go in there and make sure everything's super dry All right, thank you embossing done for your service Now we got to figure out if we want to clean anything up. I'm going to take you guys down for Some up close impersonalness So you can still see our pencil lines.  Let me get you kind of Sorry for the movement. I hope no one just got car sick. Nope motion sick I know this one kind of like blurbed but I was going to fade out some of the edges, but I think I may leave it because Where's mine? my this nope my this so My references my references Let me just show you It has that like Brown to see you guys It has that like that haze Oh So it I feel like That is kind of like what that looks like So that's why I'm cool with the coagulation That we've got right now You are loved Tim All right. I'm not going to do any cleaning up currently in this moment I'm going to go ahead and put the black lines on and then after that I will Refine some of the lines if I need to That's a black poska Pintar Who does pintar? Why do I have pintar pens? So now I'm going to use paint pens if you've never used a paint pen you can use a billion zillion different kinds if you use sharpies and That's rad just understand that when you start to If if you use sharpie use that last Like very last because sharpie is alcohol-based actually and so For example, I usually do some finagling after I put my black lines on and if I have black lines that are done in Sharpay They're going to move because they're alcohol-based Tim it is my sincerest pleasure to be a distraction For you All right, so there's nothing that's tacky nothing that's still fluid But before we do that I need to feel it and to do that I'm using something My uv archival spray Okay, so this is my uv archival spray very important to get matte because Anything that's beyond matte has some form of alcohol property in it And it will wake up and move your Inks this isn't going to Um No, it's like if I were to let this dry and then Put alcohol on it and like rub my finger into it It would wake it up. It's not gonna like fully protect it to do that. We're gonna add resin like maybe tomorrow Not today. Um, so it's just gonna protect it Between now and resin and Any layer protection is good for alcohol inks and so we use all of the layers of protection I'm just using my embossing gun to dry That Archival spray you probably use a matte spray paint Totally up to you. Oh, they have real posca pens. That's rad This is a real posca pen. You can tell because it's uh written in english And I think posca actually may be out of an asian country but the ones that have Not us american english writing it took me three tries to come up with english um The ones that don't have english are counterfeit. They still work well But I find that if you like go over the line twice sometimes it Will um Pull up the color instead of put more color down. What's up megan? How you been? Okay, so i'm just going to go over the lines with my Thin posca pen. This is a bullet shaped 0.9 to 1.3 millimeter thick posca pen I'm not really caring much if I hit exactly on the line that I pre drew or not because i'm gonna add some sketchy lines some I'm gonna add a lot of stuff so Right now since I kind of let this get a little bit too dark I'm trying to discern What is It's supposed to be here and what is Not also, I can't see what you guys are seeing in this moment. So The mods will take amazing care of you While I am away You don't need to be up there with him this ma'am She is not concur She has separation anxiety from bowie Fun fact That was nerve-wracking That don't make no sense She is like big right now and she is She is huge now She's just a big girl Twice as big as bowie That she is Yeah, she does look like a little fox That is exactly what she looks like I'm sure some of this I have gotten fully wrong We'll be fine Looking good See what's fun about jellyfish and stuff like this is You have a dark line, but then it You give it the structure, but then there's always like a little bit of And there I was love the pill I can see all her beautiful wings dancing down Holographic foil will look great on this. Yeah, I'm either going to do a foil or A vinyl But yeah, one or the other Maybe even both Who's to say who's to say I'm just connecting all the little lines of everything that I drew This guy Super important to keep like Very fluid As I say that my ink runs out Super fluid line You have to do second and third passes things get sketchy You also want to keep it Like the line going smoothly Oh my goodness. It's getting confusing for me even now I wonder if I chose a board that was just a little bit too small for this type of piece Hopefully not. Okay. Let's make these lines Makes sense. Well, actually they don't really have to make sense because I mean it's a jellyfish tentacle How much sense do those make they're just magic underwater creatures So one of the first things that ever well The first thing I ever painted with Jeff was an elephant and um A lot of fun is very intimidating because I knew he was a really good artist When he helped me to know how to draw uh painted octopus also I still don't know how to do it low-key Like he showed me but I wasn't really listening I just wanted to watch him do it because he's So talented None of that makes sense, but we're gonna say that it does All right. Oh, there's skinny ones too You think the size is good cool. I need a finer point paint pen Do you have any tea tiny paint pens? I think I found one black Nope, I didn't even have to be poska. I just need ah If it works Because we have All the paint pens. When did you guys fall back down? I know but since I don't have a videographer I have like if I go up here, it's not on the screen And I don't know that I'm up there Like a second ago. It was like this Swish and flick I still don't know what I'm gonna do with the top of it I'm gonna pull up My references. So if you guys are talking to me I'm not gonna see it for a minute Thanks for all the paint pens Okay, so I always do I think before I do the little lines I need to do my thicker lines I think I should do some Like Where would it look right? To do thicker lines out I need I need variations in my line weight Which means I need some lines to be thicker And some lines to be thinner Man, how many of those like super fine tentacles? Do they have the edges look kind of like They're textured Some of them I'm gonna do all this in front of you guys because it would take forever But I am going to add some kind of texture On some of these edges maybe in a different size Nope Do we have something in between?  I guess I could just go through and dot on Just alcohol and it would disperse it Yes, I just don't understand what you mean by whip it because that sounds like it's going to be a stroke But that's like just a random Okay, thanks for your help. I know and I appreciate the ideas I just don't know that you understand what I'm trying They are highlighted, but they're textured highlights Oh, that's a great angle though so I think if I've pulled one of these fine point arteza brushes, which I think my arteza code still works down on the description box Who knows? So this is an empty arteza I may be a watercolor brush. Maybe an alcohol ink brush. Who knows? So I just filled it with Regular 91 alcohol Oh, there's a button. Okay So there's these buttons on the side that say push so that's good and then it like Loads up into the brush So if I just oh that's a lot out, but that could be a good thing to just Kind of just move what we already have down See this is what I'm talking about how Even if I um spray Seal everything I still end up Doing things Joyce, thank you so much. Maybe I appreciate it. What's up Susan? We've missed you so this um It's kind of leaking out alcohol faster than I need it to be so I'm just going to kind of Go along the edges and just dab it Kind of like what Jeff was saying And so that it like if you can see right here Nope on the spot. So it'll work. Wait my finger So if I just dab on this alcohol knowing That alcohol is going to disperse. It's going to push everything So knowing that I'm going to kind of let it do that and then we'll see if we like it and we'll I'll make a decision from there if we want to keep on this process or not So I just want to show you kind of what I'm looking at slash talking about Yeah Okay, that's super zoomed in but see On like the outside edges in this particular example that's way too zoomed in The area that I'm trying to do is essentially like yellow In that image anyways You know what I mean like that That frilliness on the outside Is what I'm trying to I guess emulate However, I'm not going to make you guys like sit here Watch me figure that out so That area that we just did Just dried now it's right here And I think it's just kind of like Not exactly what I was going for But I think I think this got way extra And I'm not even sure how to fix that. Let's take our this and Do relief Relief in that I'm Using the alcohol that's just here To pick up some of that color If I was scratching the surface it would be It's graffito But I'm not scratching it so it's just relief Maybe I'll go back over it with a teal But it was definitely Kind of a distracting mark so hopefully That looks a little bit better Vamp you like the darker frilly? I think It just didn't make quite enough sense because I would have to do it like a lot of places So I think if I do it with colors that are already incorporated then I'll give y'all a shout out Do friends about y'all's channel they starting to epoxy it. Oh, that's awesome. Thank you coop.  I don't have enough control Okay So I'm going to Put some of not yellow Purple does look black when concentrated I'm gonna put some of my this color that is squirting Not directly into here with some alcohol so it doesn't just settle on the bottom I'm just gonna put the colors of my palette out on here. Oh, you want to get down get down?  All right so I'm gonna fill this in with Currently a jump color I'm gonna fill it in with the aqua because I don't have any aqua in the surrounding Areas So for this i'm gonna show you what i'm gonna do and then Either finish the rest of it in a time lapse or just off camera because it'll get Hella boring just to watch me dab on aqua colored diluted resin Nope alcohol Ew, that's pretty. I'm just dabbing it on um mostly Right on the line But also i'm kind of like going in and out and what i'm what is happening is when you add alcohol in back onto a piece or even just alcohol It's gonna disperse what you already have down It's gonna push all that color outwards And so that push outwards is gonna give me that darker kind of outline that i'm i'm kind of looking for And it's not going to be just the fine dot that you put on there it's gonna Grow out just a little bit so keep that in mind when you first put your little dots down It's not going to look exactly like what you had Give me a little bit bigger the leave room for growth I guess So this is a something from somewhere I'm sure That one of the mods Um Can give you some direction on where I got these and where you can get them and who Makes them I just The information is Alluding me currently I love that this aqua is like starting to look like it's glowing also my tea tiny this Is getting very saturated with some of the purples So i'm going to have to change it out in a minute And also i'm going to change color In a minute Because i'm moving up into where some of it looks more blue My goodness. I love this technique. This may be my new favorite thing. I'm so excited about this These little bitty dots of alcohol and color Is something that I could do and just kind of Kind of zone out I'm sorry tg Started looking pretty. Well, thank you alpha appreciate that Where am I gonna go? Let's go My goodness. There's so many things that are okay. Let's go right here.  I feel bad for running over So I can tell because it's just solid pink and it's there's no like center That's like lighter that I have too much color and not enough alcohol in my alcohol and alcohol mixture I'm just gonna add a little bit more alcohol Let's see what we got Still too much If this doesn't work, then I'm just gonna have another little cup of alcohol just clear alcohol on the side Okay, that's working better That's not I'm gonna have a clear on the side It's gonna start clear anyways And I'll just dab in the center of it and that'll push The pink outward And give it some dimension because if it just had that dark Or just solid pink look it would look good But it's gonna look better if you have a variation in depth something lighter something darker. It just makes everything Look better when there's a variation In tone and hue Also, if you're interested I have a color theory Vlog up and I'll help you choose colors For your next art piece Could use a dropper. Hi, Vinnie. How are you doing? So the thing about a dropper is it's gonna drop A drop and That will look fine But I wouldn't do it on something that this kind of smaller scale And really if you're gonna use a dropper it's gonna give you a larger like circle of alcohol and For something that's kind of this small you need something a little bit a finer point You can use a dropper But just Be careful because it could put a dot that's too big a dollop A drop of alcohol that's going to grow to a size bigger than you may have been anticipating So the answer is Kind of you can yeah, yes, kind of but you don't have enough Yeah, like Vance say you don't have enough control and Sorry, I just noticed my wine is very empty I'm very watered down at this point So it's looking good I'm not going to do All of this in front of you guys one it's going to be boring two My phone's going to die before I get that done. I would plug it in but my mic's plugged into that hole I know that's what she said So let's do a little bit more detail with our marker And um I'll probably just finish Our little mushroom cap there I'm going to add some like sketchy lines Kind of like I'm just now Drawing it on Actually This is one of my favorite things to do Not the best marker for what I'm trying to do. I need a pen Need a What is that? Oh, it's eyeliner. That's not going to work there. There we go So there we go, but that's not working either I wish I could draw With a pen like this um but And then like use that as my sketch. I don't have that I don't have that That kind of conviction with your pen I mean No, but like I wouldn't be able to draw it with a pen And just like sketch it until you know, people like scribble until it's a face and it then looks amazing But you can still see the scribble lines. I don't have that I have to draw in pencil get it perfect and then Add what would be scribble lines over top Nothing I'm going to do it all over but my phone's at like 10% And I can't plug it in so I'm just showing them all the parts of what I'm going to do And then I'm going to dot this uh after the live and then tomorrow We'll add some foil And we'll add a flood coat if bowie wants to be petty bowie can be petty We'll also be adding my signature splatters If an art piece could have like an off shoulder shirt I'd make it happen because that's also very on brand For me and I know some people don't like these like sketchy lines But um My artwork maybe just isn't for them I get questions a lot from people that are like How do you deal with people that don't like your work? How you deal with people? That just don't have anything nice to say And uh the answer is I just don't deal with them If someone's going to be negative they can do it over there Like all the way over there With a sharpie maybe work because it's alcohol based and blur out So Barbara I can definitely show you what alcohol And sharpie would do Find a sharpie And my phone dies Then be kind of one another because you never know what someone's going through So here's a sharpie And Here's some actually let me do some Do some down Hero I'm actually going to add some um We'll be right We're right here I'm actually going to add some black alcohol ink To this as well So I dotted it a little bit down here And I'll just put some alcohol over top Bowie has zoomies. He's on the bed. It's amazing. I love it so Sorry about that So right here. I don't know why I have been doing that instead of just Taking you for a ride So um Yes, it It just kind of makes it a fuzzy gray purple Which is fine But um I'm going to want black like No question about it. It's black alcohol ink But yeah, I've done um pieces on tiles with sharpie and then Put alcohol on them and then they go They look awesome This is a memory piece for sure Tim, I just want to give you all of the positive memories Beverly should totally sketch a jelly Micro swabs used for makeup cleaning cameras keyboards, etc That sounds accurate gale. Thank you very much Uh, what time are you going live for part two tomorrow? I will be what's today wednesday. So tomorrow is thursday I'll be going live at six p.m. Central, which is two hours back from right now. I'm sorry I've Ran completely late today So it's 20 in like right now tomorrow, but two hours back Or 22 hours from now or just six p.m. Central 7 9800 hours in military time Looks epic. Thank you so much. Okay. So all I'm going to do tonight is fill in the dotted frillies And if I come up with a technique that I'm like erm or gird You guys have to see what I just did then I'll leave a section so I can show you what goes on Then we're going to add some black alcohol ink We're going to add some foil And we're going to flood peach peach Uh, how to deal with people bring helmets and crayons. It always works Listen, if you and I were in an argument and you were like here's some crayons I would forget and I would just start coloring Oh, that's awesome. Valerie Have fun dotting. Well, I think Joseph's going to cook dinner and then while he's doing that I'm going to get my dot on In the meantime Here's my babies This is canvas trying to make bowie play Oh, also, I realized something These all these have numbers on them. I didn't have to like break something through and then Pause it and find out which one it is. I'm just going to have Like I'm going to find a way to pick three people To pick three numbers between like one and five hundred I guess and then they're gonna I'll pull those three numbers And then I'll let you guys decide Which of the three cards I pull That I have to use to paint with so I let the box Of color pick every Tuesday at 2 p.m. I let it pick the colors that I'm going to use on the live feed I have no idea where my babies went My goodness. Oh my goodness. Shelly. That's a very good point Why you got to bring up science and math like that? so gail, um Sarah renae clark is who makes it and so I guess sarah renae clark dot com um That's how you spell it and there are two boxes I don't think one has more color and more neutrals than the other etc um She is getting big Bubba she got she's going to a Puppy daycare to play with some other puppies tomorrow For a half day super excited. Anyways, um, I'll be finishing this tomorrow. I hope you've had an amazing day We've seen her shove them back in the box forever. So I'm just going to get some people together between now and tuesday and promise them wine and We're just going to put them back in order Anyways, you guys are amazing. Be kind to one another. You never know what someone's going through tim My whole heart goes out to you. We love you so much Thank you guys for being here helping to support The channel the fam. Thank you mods for being so amazing Also, I have a sale right now on my shop artist till death dot com. Do you need resin anything? The code is easter for 15 off Through the weekend So, yeah, you guys have an awesome evening. We're going to finish this tomorrow with you. So come here Don't forget to leave me your thumbs after the live feed with you could comment what your favorite color is In the piece it will help my channel if you engage in the comments instead of the chat It helps and don't forget to leave me your thumbs subscribe if you haven't and share my videos if you got time It's free and it helps me a lot. You guys are amazing. We'll see you guys tomorrow Be kind to one another because you never know what someone's going through So you don't have to bubba You're so beautiful Canvas did you come say bye? Oh there her is. All right. See you guys tomorrow. Bye


Hello, beautiful soul, and welcome to our special extended video attempting to describe the true nature of God. The truth is, there are just so many ways that God can be expressed and described, because for thousands of years, God has been explored, revered, and worshipped by countless religions and forms of spirituality. In our original episode on this, we only covered a few expressions, and today we will expand our outlook to encompass even more. And so that you know, this episode is actually a bit of a forerunner for a much requested upcoming series about the nature of Christ and Christ consciousness. But in the meantime, if this subject is of interest to you, please check out our brand new Four Elements Transformation, which explores deeply the nature of Christ alongside the Tao and the mysteries of Kabbalah in the Four Worlds. We'll talk more about it at the end of this video, but now, without further ado, let's see if we can't describe the indescribable. Wait, actually, that's the best place to start. Can we even do that? In the ancient Hermetic writings, Hermes said, the imperfect and impermanent cannot easily apprehend the eternally perfected. Can our human brains even conceptualize the eternal spirit manifesting infinite perfection through all of the dimensions of time and space and establishing the foundations of reality as we know it? Well, let's find out. Now for many people today, there's a lot of simple descriptors that are often drawn upon to name and describe God. Love, unity, source, all, truth, consciousness, spirit, father, mother, Christ, light. It's unfortunate, though, that sometimes these terms are often used in place of the word God out of fear of saying the word God itself. It's understandable. With so many concerned about offending others today, many people will choose to remain aloof with their words, even going so far as saying the universe in place of God, which may not be so appropriate. Certainly, the universe is wonderful, but that's like praising the video game for creating itself instead of honoring the developers. Naturally, some today do believe the universe to be self-creating, but if that's the case, we ought to recognize that the self which creates the universe would therein be the pure beingness from which all things came. And so we're back to where we started, just arguing about which label to use. But concerning the existence of God and His nature, according to most ancient scriptures, it wasn't that humans just got together and decided they were going to believe these things about Him, but that in most cases, God Himself gave us these teachings in some form or another so that we may learn how to be virtuous, righteous, and just. Yet a common question often arises in response to this. Did we really need God to tell us to be good? Like the Ten Commandments, for instance.  Aren't those just naturally morally intrinsic within our conscience? Ironically, maybe not, because even the word conscience itself etymologically means faculty of knowing what is right, originally especially to Christian ethics. Further, a lot of ancient scriptures say that humanity was awash with evil for a very long time, pillaging and plundering each other, worshiping demons and killing for greed and power when it suited them. In fact, that's still to some degree happening today. And in this, we might consider if a child is never taught that stealing is wrong or are even taught that it's right, will they come around to justice and virtue on their own or only once they are caught and face consequences? And if they never face consequences, will they believe themselves to be entirely in the right in everything that they do? From that perspective, maybe we really do need some divine guidance. This brings us to the opening of how God has been described, which is that of law. What this means is that God has been described as a set of rules upon which the foundations of reality are based. We might consider the law of gravity, which we do not physically see, but can identify as operating throughout the universe. This is a really great way of conceptualizing God, especially if we have a more atheistic mindset, because seeing God as the invisible laws underlying the universe helps us to bridge science and spirituality. Just think, if subatomic particles were not held together by any laws or gravity was inconsistent, would we even have a reality at all? You're walking to work one day and then you're flying through the air because gravity stopped working, but then it turned on again and now you're falling? That would be pure chaos! By suggesting God is the forces within the field of reality by which all things operate, we provide a powerful foundation to work from for scientists and spiritualists alike. But we must be clear, God can be known through more than just cosmic law. In fact, one of the most common descriptions of God is that of a threefold nature. God is often said to have three key aspects to his being, or that we might more easily comprehend this supreme power by looking at it through a lens of three. This is very relative to sacred geometry, something we've explored in great detail on this channel in the past. In the major Western tradition of Christianity, God is described through the Holy Trinity, and in the major Eastern tradition of Hinduism, God is described through the Trimerti, as well as its feminine polarity with the Trivedi. But Triune descriptions of God are found in more than just there. In Taoism, for instance, we have a threefold manifestation known as Yin Yang, Ru Wei, and Tai Chi. And Lao Tzu has also described God with a triad of concepts, invisible, intangible, inaudible. In Greek mythology, we also have the triad of Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades, who represent the primal forces of creation, life, and death, among many other things. And pause for just a moment. Notice the geometry of their staffs? Zeus always carries the big singular lightning bolt. Hades carries a two-pronged staff. And Poseidon carries a trident. That's not by accident. And we'll talk more about God and number later on in this video. Even in modern spirituality today, a very common lens to observe a human being is through mind, body, and spirit. And were we not said to have been made in the image of God? So let's take a moment to look deeper at some of these triads. Recently, we were watching Dr. Jordan Peterson's biblical lecture series, Very Profound Stuff. And in the end of his first class, he breaks down an idea cloud of the biblical trinity, which is an excellent place for us to start in understanding this concept. Of course, we know this trinity as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. And it's described that the Father aspect is something that we can enter into a covenant with. It responds to sacrifice and prayers. It transcends time and space. It punishes and rewards and judges and forgives. It is also beyond nature, which is very interesting. Closeness with it is heaven.  It is also the law which we have explored already. Now, the Son aspect is completely different. It is relative to language and vibration, the Word of God. It is the body and blood of Christ. It is the tragic victim and scapegoat and the eternally triumphant Redeemer simultaneously, which can rescue from hell. To the Christian Kabbalists, they would describe the Word of God or Son of God to be nested on Tifaret on the Tree of Life. This transition point between formless energy into substance with form and back again. The Son dies and is reborn and is the King of Kings and the Hero of Heroes. And finally, the Holy Spirit aspect in this trinity is far more mysterious and is often understood more as a feminine expression of the Divine. It is akin to the human soul, the prophetic still small voice or the spoken truth. It is called forth by music and is the enemy of deceit, arrogance and resentment. It is known as the water of life and is blinding light that burns without consuming. Now, all of this of course is just one of the trinities that we have to explore. So let's take a moment to look at the Eastern tradition of Hinduism. These aspects of God are often described as the forces found working through all things in the cosmos. Brahma is the force of creation in the universe. He is called the father of fathers, the golden fetus or the architect of the universe. Brahma isn't worshipped so much today though. The idea is that he created everything and then left the rest to the other two. There's also some mythology where he screwed up a bit and got one of his five heads cut off and is still in the process of redeeming himself though it is said that the time of Brahma is coming again soon. Then we have Vishnu who is the preserver and protector of creation. This force of preservation is one which keeps and maintains harmony in the cosmos. And then when things grow out of balance, Vishnu will incarnate himself into a form necessary to help bring harmony back to creation. As an example, Vishnu is said to have incarnated nine times in Earth's history with his last two incarnations being as Krishna and Buddha with a tenth prophecy to come at the end of a major cosmic cycle called the Kali Yuga. This in principle is very similar to the idea of Christ returning at the end of time. And finally, there is Shiva, the force of the destroyer. Shiva is interesting because just as he is known as the destroyer, he is also known as the redeemer. Shiva is the force of destruction to that which is old and brings renewal, recalibration or restoration to that which no longer works in reality. Shiva is often represented as dancing because through him represents the dance of destruction and recreation which takes place constantly at fundamental levels of existence. This is actually quite significant because the deeper one goes into quantum mechanics, one learns that the waves and particles which make up our energetic reality matrix are constantly dancing together in and out of formation in different patterns, creation, destruction, rebirth and renewal. In 2004, this very idea was memorialized at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland when India gifted a two meter tall statue of Shiva for the site. Now, this might be a good moment to briefly discuss the nature of idolatry and if it's actually right or blasphemous to have literally any of these depictions of God or God's attributes in any particular way. Does God really look like a blue man dancing on a person, a big bearded man in the clouds or a swirly circle with a couple of dots in it? It would likely be arrogant of any of us to presume we could describe an image of God. However, if we can understand that all of these depictions are human attempts to describe greater concepts than can be made into forms, then we free ourselves from the attachment to those images and can go beyond what we knew before. As many may recall, the first two of the Ten Commandments reflect this, not putting any lesser gods before the supreme power, nor should we attempt to create images of that supreme power because it cannot be done. Yet, this was even encoded into Hinduism with the concept of Brahman, the unity of the trimerty who is also known as the supreme ultimate reality and is represented by the AUM, three in one, pronounced OM, the sound or word of creation. The link here from OM in the West is the Amen, the resonant sound of the Lord and as such, the trinity of the Western understanding of God are said to be produced by the word of God, the vibration of creation and we'll discuss this more in just a moment. Curiously, the Hebrew name of God, Yod Hei Vav Hei, sometimes pronounced Yahweh, written vertically, produces an image that looks like a human body and this is said to simply be the supreme being from which all comes. It looks like a person, as we see in the Bible, man was made in the image of God. This being though, also is the unity that produces the multiplicity of all creation, which cannot be described or defined. And here's something that's really wild and possibly the most important thing we've ever discussed on spirit science to date. In the book, The God Code by Greg Braden, he shares that scientists studying human DNA actually found that the basic elements of DNA all translate directly to key letters of several ancient alphabets and in these languages, our very genetic code spells this ancient name of God. Hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen and carbon, the four most primary elements within us translate to Y-H-V-G, which is three letters similar and one different from the name of God. This further illustrates that we were made in the image of God, but not as God or equal to God, but slightly different. In Hebrew, the characters Y-H-V-G spells and translates two distinct words, God eternal and within body. The periodic element here, which sets us apart, linked with the Hebrew letter G is carbon, where the presence of God is reflected in the invisible and intangible form of the three gases, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen. The last letter of our name is the stuff that gives us the color, taste, texture and sound of our body. Carbon, the one letter which sets us apart from God is also the element that makes us real in our material universe. Think about that for just a moment. Our very genetic code itself says God eternal within the body and this same code lives within all humans regardless of their beliefs, actions, lifestyle, religion or heritage. And this code also appears to work in the oldest, most ancient spiritual languages including Arabic and Sanskrit. The odds that this relationship would occur by chance are approximately one in 230,000. And so continuing our mind-blowing escapades, here's another thing that's really curious. That cosmic being in the ancient eastern writings called the Upanishads is referred to as simply the self with a capital S. One particular passage from these writings reads Brahman is the immediate and direct, the self that is within all. You cannot see that which is the seer of seeing. You cannot hear that which is the hearer of hearing. You cannot think of that which is the thinker of thought. You cannot know that which is the knower of knowledge. This is yourself. That is within all. Everything else but this is perishable. We might find this paradoxically ironic then when considering if the universe is self-creating because according to the ancient eastern mystics that is indeed the case and they have identified this self with the pure beingness from which the trimerty itself comes called Brahman which we also understand is the om or the word. Yet here would be remiss to not identify that essentially all of these concepts are syncretically linked with Jesus Christ.  While we're on the subject of syncretism if Jesus is the way and the Tao also translates directly as the way then isn't it appropriate to consider the deep intrinsic unity underlying such great world religions and spiritualities? And then since we brought up the concept of the Tao triune descriptions of God are also found there with the triad of Yinyang, Tai Chi and Wu Wei. Wu Wei is non-action which is a state of perfect stillness the force of unmoving manifested perfect wholeness encompassing all things. Then we have Tai Chi which is the force of dynamic action through which all things in creation move and constantly swirl. Finally, there is Yinyang the force of balance between that which moves and that which is still. It is when Yin and Yang are in harmony that we find balance within and through balance enlightenment. These three together are very similar to the concept of the three states of reality as described by the Upanishads which are called Rajas, Tamas and Satva which we explored in one of our previous videos on this channel. We can see therein also the principle of as above so below at work. Just as Yin and Yang are considered forces underlying creation they are also forces which apply to us. Lao Tzu even says all living creatures carry Yin and embrace Yang. The flow of these vital forces together determines their harmony. In the same verse Lao Tzu also shares something so simple yet completely profound which brings all of these developing concepts and our understanding of God together. The Tao created oneness. Oneness created tunis. Tunis created threenus. Threenus created all things. By this, we may see that whether we're looking at God through a lens of one or two or three or more either way we're not wrong. We simply must acknowledge that just as we saw with the Trimerte or the Trinity all things are whole and united from the indescribable source. To add weight to this here's a particular passage from the Hermetica which describes the ultimate wholeness and unity of God. God is whole and constant. In himself he is motionless yet he is self-moving. He is immaculate, incorruptible and everlasting. He is the supreme absolute reality.  God is primal mind. He is too great to be called by the name God. He is hidden yet obvious everywhere. His being is known through thought alone yet we see his form before our eyes. He is bodiless yet embodied in everything. There is nothing which he is not. He has no name because all names are his name. He is the unity in all things and so we must know him by all names and call everything God. This really makes it easier to let the mind settle into the concept, doesn't it? Everything is God and from that perspective is there any reason to try and describe God at all? After consideration it's probably fair to say that the answer is still yes for it's in our own exploration to understand that we grow closer to that which might be called God and in that come closer to embodying these divine attributes such as love, truth, goodness, virtue, mercy, justice and so on. But there's another important thing to discuss after that passage which is the use of the word he when pertaining to God. For thousands of years God has commonly been described with the pronoun he though today much speculation exists about why that is if God is actually a masculine being or if this is a reflection of masculine control structures placed on humanity for millennia. While certainly humanity has dealt with its fair share of controlling structures there is another simple reason why he is appropriate to use and this is because the masculine pronoun is often also the gender-neutral pronoun. We see this built into our language today such as when we say mankind it refers to all of humanity but womankind refers to women. This isn't shared with an intention to create a bias or cast division to be clear but to recognize how our particular language has been used throughout history. It's for this reason that one should not be disgruntled when hearing God when referred to as he because it actually at the highest level refers to beingness beyond gender. And now with that said there is also a case for observing God as feminine which comes in a few forms. In the Tao De Ching Lao Tzu commonly refers to the Tao as the mother of all things. One particular verse reads the true source is nebulous and perfect born before heaven and earth silent and void unique and unchanging cosmically circulating yet inexhaustible and endless it can appropriately be regarded as the primal mother of creation. And even in the biblical tradition primary aspects of God fundamental aspects in fact have been attributed to the feminine pronoun such as the case of wisdom and glory. Wisdom for instance was the means by which God created all of creation and is regarded as a feminine quality as well as often a being of its own at least poetically speaking similar to how Vishnu and Shiva are their own beings yet united as a part of Brahman. And speaking of these Hindu gods as mentioned each of the Trimerte have feminine counterparts which are known as the Trivedi the consort of Brahma is Saraswati who is the goddess of wisdom the arts and stream of speech and together they develop the multiplicity of vibration and sound when creation occurred. The consort of Vishnu is Lakshmi who also maintains balance both through fortune and misfortune. Lakshmi and Vishnu are inseparable just as Yin and Yang and incarnate together whenever they manifest themselves into avatar forms. Finally the consort of Shiva is Parvati bringing limits to Shiva's destruction and balancing his unbridled passions. Parvati is closely identified with Prakriti known as natural or primal matter the substance of everything in reality fundamentally. She is also known as world mother or divine mother and is closely connected with Shakti the active divine power through which the Godhead creates the world and displays itself. When we perceive the Trimerte and Trivedi together or the creative power of God and his wisdom we ultimately begin to perceive unity and balance between masculine and feminine principles in everything throughout reality. We might also see the union of force and field as two parts of a greater whole and the deeper we contemplate the deeper we come to know ourselves even better. And so in that very pursuit of understanding the most valuable thing each of us may do is take our own time to ask ourselves how does this help us personally? When any of us take the time to answer that question we each will personally grow closer to whatever God means to us and may even discover more qualities of God and ourselves in the process. It's probably safe to say that if we each embrace a little bit more of God or at least if we have a more atheist worldview the upright qualities which God represents will all be a little better off or maybe a lot better off. Yet we must still remain humble because at the end of the day just as Hermes described as we explored at the beginning God is difficult to comprehend. Another way of saying this was put forth in the opening lines of the Dao Dei Qing where Lao Tzu himself wrote a Dao you can explain is not the eternal Dao. A name you can name is not the eternal name. No matter how we may try and describe the infinite totality it seems we ourselves are a union of three things infinite spirit finite matter and the mind a mix of both oscillating between these two states of infinite and finiteness in the middle. God must be experienced to truly be known and for each person that's their own journey. Perhaps it's also our collective journey too and that might be the best way to describe God not with words but by the virtue of our own inner experiences. It's probably fair to say that almost everyone on the planet has had an experience that could be considered mystical or even divinely inspired even in the subtlest of ways. Certainly we may be quick to write off such experiences as coincidences or the like but isn't there something to be said about what we take for granted being worth more than we sometimes think? And then the sum of our inner experiences collectively when we see the big picture of what everyone is going through maybe that could be described as God or the Holy Spirit or the Tao working through us all. And to that end couldn't it be described that humanity is a giant field of collective consciousness vibrating together through the illusion of separation manifesting a great shared reality field on an upward journey of self-realization wherein we also do battle with dark forces within us so as to overcome them and unlock the mysteries of the soul realizing the divinity within and one day all live together in peace wisdom and harmony? It's certainly a fun thing to consider. And with that thank you so much for watching this special extended edition of our God explained video. As mentioned this episode is a forerunner for the new Christ series that we're working on and we thank you so much for your patience. 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They call it the world's first computer, but what if it's one of many computers from an advanced civilization and this device represents lost technology. In this sense, it's the last computer of the ancient past. We are still struggling to understand our history, but it's not a mystery that there was machines in ancient times. It is foretold in many different texts that machines did in fact exist. Perhaps these machines were the last working remnants of an advanced civilization. The passage of time has always been a preoccupation of human beings, whether it be a question of satisfying basic needs such as when to eat and sleep, the importance of seasons for migratory and agricultural purposes, or a more sophisticated measuring of time into defined periods of weeks, days, and hours. The earliest method of measuring time for our current so-called advanced society was through observations of the celestial bodies. The sun, moon, stars, and the five planets known in antiquity, the rising and setting of the sun, the solstice, phases of the moon, and the position of particular stars and constellations have been used in all ancient civilizations to determine particular activities. For example, Egyptian and Minoan buildings were often constructed in orientation to the rising sun or aligned to observe particular stars. Some of our earliest texts, such as those by Homer and Hesiod around the 8th century BCE, describes the use of stars to specifically determine the best periods to sail and farm, advice which remains valid today. The world's oldest known computer lay submerged for more than 2,000 years off the treacherous coast of the Greek island of Antikythera. Beneath the weight of the water, the sand, and the wrecked ship that once carried it, the ancient astronomical computer's bronze gears and mechanical parts slowly warped and rusted. At the turn of the 20th century, a group of fishermen happened upon the wreck and its decaying treasures while diving after their evening meal. One of the fishermen swam back to his crewmates, clutching a bronze arm, the first find from the Antikythera wreckage to resurface. Two years later, in 1902, Spiridon Stais visited the museum that housed the recovered treasures from the wreck. Stais, a Greek politician, had orchestrated the ship's underwater excavation. In the midst of the coins, sculptures, and pottery, a green rusted lump of metal caught his eye. It was a piece of the ancient computer which became known as the Antikythera Mechanism. For several decades, scientists had been using x-rays and CT scans to look inside the ancient mechanism and reconstruct what it probably looked like when it was first made. We say probably because they don't know for sure. In fact, you could say this information is patchwork at best, but at least it is still revealing its secrets bit by bit. We now know that the clock-sized device contained an elaborate collection of some 30 interlocking spinning gears that control dials tracking the sun, the moon, eclipses, planets, and the schedule for the Olympics. A crank jutting from the device's frame spun the gears. It is unknown if this could have been a perpetual motion mechanism, but it is still possible. The cranked moved the hands on the dial, allowing the user to accurately predict eclipses and the passage of celestial bodies through the sky. Nothing as sophisticated or even close appears again for more than a thousand years later from the proposed dating of the object. It is sensational to consider this ancient machine to be a computer system, but that is exactly what it was. It was a mechanical functioning computer. For this period in history, we know it is light years ahead of its time with the dating of this object done so through the Olympic Games events that it kept track of. But if this object was so ahead of its time, then why was it one of a kind and why was it being transported? It would appear that the mechanism was a technology from a more advanced and indeed ancient civilization, yet it accounts for the time period. Are we missing something? Researchers don't know for certain the device's purpose or who used it, but the fact is this device existed long before clocks were developed. In fact, this was unknown when clocks were being developed. Yet it exists. When it comes to the hunt for advanced extraterrestrial civilizations that might exist across the cosmos, one must reckon with the knowledge that the universe is about 13.8 billion years old. In contrast, complex life has existed on Earth's surface for only about 400 million years and humans have developed industrial civilizations and only the past 300 years. This raises the possibility that industrial civilizations might have been around long before human ones ever existed, not just around other stars, but even on Earth itself. It is believed that the device is an ancient astronomy calculator that shows the four-year cycle of the early Greek competitions that inspired today's Olympic Games. Inscriptions on the device list names linked to the Olympiad cycle of games. The first clues that suggested a link with the ancient cycle of Greek Games came when the word Namia was read near a small subsidiary dial on the mechanism. The Namian Games was one of the crowned games in the Olympiad cycle. Other names were also found which include Esthemia for the games at Corinth, Pythia for the games at Delphi, and the word Olympia for the Olympic Games. Like astronomer Hipparchus of Rhodes whose work on the complex motion of the moon seems to feature in the mechanism, could it connection exist with mechanical wonders in the island of Rhodes and indeed Crete for that matter? At some point this ancient computer was loaded onto a cargo ship bound from Rhodes to Rome, perhaps for a parade organized by Julius Caesar. Social research and reconstruction of a working model of the device in 2006 found that it may not be Greek as formally believed according to nature. It may actually be Babylonian making the device centuries older than previously thought which means that the Babylonians may have played a large role in shaping Greek advancements in astronomy. It is important to note that the Babylonians discovered planets in our solar system thousands of years ago. They knew a Pluto, Neptune and Uranus to name a few. We have only recently discovered these planets relatively recently and of course the depiction and description of the planet X which are still being hunted today was known to this advanced culture. We don't know the truth about this mechanism but it is an exciting prospect that it could be a machine that included knowledge and advancements from a lost civilization. What do you guys think of this anyway? Comments below and as always thank you for watching.


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I'm here with the Chief of Naval Operations and we just want to take an opportunity today to really send a pretty robust shout-out to all our newest Chief Petty Officers. Absolutely. Congratulations. You have been selected for what I think is our asymmetric advantage in the United States Navy. When I travel around the world and I talk to my counterparts in foreign navies, every one of them wants a Chief Petty Officer Corps like we have. And to be those people, you're going to go through a process that's going to try you, it's going to test you, and it's going to be difficult, it's going to be challenging, and it's going to humble you, and we need you to be those people. And that's what the CNO is talking about and what our nation partners are looking for in their own NCO Corps. Yeah, so as you go through this transition, I want you to think about becoming confident leaders but humble leaders.  And then finally, never stop learning, right? Just because you've been selected for Chief Petty Officer, that doesn't mean the game is over. It's constantly moving forward and we need to be learning. That's right, CNO, and it gets hard. What the Navy is going to ask you to be for our Navy as a senior enlisted leader, it's difficult.  But just know that you wouldn't be this person today if it wasn't for the people in your life, those family members. No, exactly. We all have role models. We all have those folks who have helped us get to where we are. Keep those folks close to you as you move forward. Be leaders of extreme expertise and competence, but also leaders of character, and you'll be exactly what our Navy needs going forward. Congratulations. Well done, Chief.