Emerald Vision Abstract Oil Painting lyrical abstract a maple and a cedar

a maple and a cedar

and I have often painted her

When things break down

This huge creature--or spirit--had appeared one night and haunted the town with the its rumbling bass cries that shook the buildings

They each go about their own business in the night sky

Emerald Vision Abstract Oil Painting lyrical abstract a maple and a cedarBreaking through to higher realms how do you know when you are really ascending and when you are just kidding yourself? According to both Sufi and Hasidei Ashkenaz mysticism, you see something like sun gleams in green water. The mystic is advised not to be fooled if it looks like the water is rushing past it is really the mystic who is rising. The gleams are the sparks of the divine. This is referred to as the visio smaragdina in Sufism and a peculiar