{"id":6630,"date":"2025-07-24T21:30:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T21:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skippingstones.org\/wp\/?p=6630"},"modified":"2025-07-24T21:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T21:50:11","slug":"chambered-nautilus-paintings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skippingstones.org\/wp\/2025\/07\/24\/chambered-nautilus-paintings\/","title":{"rendered":"Chambered Nautilus Paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chambered Nautilus Paintings<\/span><\/h1>\n

The Chambered Nautilus Dimensions of Our Lives<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

By Dennis Rivers, Oregon<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.\u201d<\/span><\/strong>
\n\u2014Rumi.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I<\/strong><\/span>n the course of my lifetime of stumbling and struggling through meditation, study, prayer and ecological activism, I have become convinced of one thing:\u00a0 We are part of something much larger than ourselves, a living presence that supports us, constrains us, and calls to us. That Presence provides us with breath, light, food and a million companions, and also yearns to receive back from us something profound \u2014a response, a conversation. I keep on thinking that the something given back out of gratitude must be more that the perpetual wars and oppression that have raged around the world most of my life.<\/span><\/p>\n

Neils Bohr (Danish Nobel prize-winning physicist and philosopher) once observed that the opposite of an ordinary truth is a falsehood, but the opposite of a great truth is often another great truth. It is a great truth of human life that we each need to develop our abilities as deeply as we possibly can. It is also a great truth of human life that we need to honor and nurture the webs of life, people, lands and seas around us, in widening circles. I am convinced that the more powerful we become with new technologies, the more deeply true both the above truths become. In the dream geometry of the Chambered Nautilus paintings below, I experience a celebration of our infinite interwovenness, a celebration of our complex developmental journeys, and a celebration of the One Life that holds us all.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am totally convinced that\u2026 <\/span>
\nThe deeper the ugliness we intend <\/span>
\nto confront and mend in the world around us, <\/span>
\nthe deeper the beauty <\/span>
\nwe need to carry within us. <\/span><\/p>\n

As you seek to mend<\/span>
\nthe wounds of this world,<\/span>
\nmay you bring beautiful new light<\/span>
\ninto every room your enter!<\/span><\/p>\n

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To download these pdf images, please click on the poster titles below.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Dreams of the Sea #1102<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dream Geometry Study<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Dreams of the Sea #4<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

By Dennis Rivers, created with the assistance of artificial intelligence, Oregon. <\/em>Dennis is our volunteer webmaster. <\/em>Dennis created these paintings (with help from AI) to inspire people to see the world around them with new eyes, a world in which greed and war were no longer needed. He feels that these images carry wisdom from Mother Galaxy. He writes, \u201cI love the infinite-spiral-speaking to-us-from-another-dimension<\/strong> feeling that they offer.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Dennis has offered these images as<\/span><\/em> free<\/span><\/strong> posters with inspiring messages, rather than as traditional over-the-couch wall art pieces. He is excited about the Public Domain\u2014Belongs to Everyone<\/strong>\u2014aspect of this project. You may also visit his website, EarthPrayer.net.\u00a0
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