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KATHERINE HARRIS -- A MIND-CONTROL PLANT. THE HARRIS CONNECTION TO THE JFK ASSASSINATION.
by Linda Minor © 2001
Is Katherine Harris is a serious mind control plant? The recent election scenario in Florida must have been in the works for several years. It appears Ms. Harris had been involved in a Christian group called L'Abri and had visited to Switzerland. This group was set up in 1955 by Dr. Francis Schaeffer. It turns out Schaeffer in 1942 was in St. Louis and was in the middle of the schism that took place within the Presbyterian Church foreign missions group. It also turns out that Schaeffer joined the American Council of Christian Churches which was founded by Carl McIntire and that he began traveling to Europe during the years of World War II--mostly to different cantons in Switzerland--at the same time Allen Dulles was there!
In reading the history of the schism in the church group, what I found was that Princeton University--a Presbyterian school--was also in the middle of this disagreement. One of the spokesmen for Princeton was John Foster Dulles who was using the church to push through the U.N. Allen Dulles himself was closely involved with psychiatrists who were practicing research on human guinea pigs.
A well-known fact is that Dulles having mistresses drove his wife, Clover, to be suicidal. Once, she consulted Dulles psychiatrist friend, Ewen Cameron, who did much MKULTRA research on the minds of Canadians. Eventually, many years later, the CIA lost about $100,000 each to the Canadians who Cameron experimented on. Cameron was an extremely evil man as evil as Hitler. His story and his studies of Freud and Jung are widely published about e.g., Journey Into Madness: A True Account of CIA Mind- Control and Medical Abuse, G. Thomas. Clover Dulles also had a Jungian therapist for a while. http://www6.50megs.com/presidents/eisenhower.html
ACCC is an extremely fascist group. The people behind Hitler were actually pulling the strings from places such as Berne and Geneva and were continuing their mind control research during the war years. It's very likely that the ACCC was being used to train mind control assassins then.
According to the Torbitt Document, J. Edgar Hoover asked his "friend" Carl McIntire to set up the ACCC. http://www.parascope.com/articles/1196/torbitt.htm
Another organization participating with the FBI's Division Five at the time of the Kennedy assassination, was a religious group called the American Council of Christian Churches. A.C.C.C.'s West Coast representative, E.E. Bradley, was indicted by the New Orleans Grand Jury for complicity in the assassination. A.C.C.C. launched a campaign in 1964, at J. Edgar Hoover's request, to elect him President of the United States.7
In 1941, J. Edgar Hoover had his good friend and agent, Carl McIntire, organized the espionage and intelligence unit under the cover name "American Council of Christian Churches" with the headquarters in New York City. This group was able to take in many innocent religious groups who did not know they were connected with a spy and propaganda agency. However, Hoover and McIntire through this guise were able to place agents posing as ministers and missionaries throughout the United States and most Latin American countries. We will examine the involvement of this
group's agents later.8
HOOVER was joined in the cabal to murder President Kennedy by .... H.L. HUNT of A.C.C.C....
Francis Schaeffer, who set up the school where Katherine Harris was probably
programmed, was tied in with McIntire's group:
Schaeffer and his wife founded the Children for Christ ministry in St. Louis, which soon became widely adopted by other evangelical churches. In 1947 he traveled throughout Europe as a representative of the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions and as the American Secretary for the Foreign Relations Department of the American Council of Christian Churches. In 1948 he moved with his family to Lausanne, Switzerland to begin mission work, and moved the following year to Champery, Switzerland, where he wrote Basic Bible Studies. http://www.pcanet.org/history/findingaids/schaeffer.html
In the center of these battles was J. Gresham Machen (1881-1937), assistant
professor of New Testament literature and exegesis at Princeton Theological
Seminary. Despite temptations from liberalism during his graduate study in Marburg and Göttingen in 1905-6, Machen had become a firm upholder of the conservative tradition of the Princeton theology. He established a solid scholarly reputation through The Origin of Paul's Religion (1921) and later The Virgin Birth of Christ (1930), and he penned one of the most cogent popular defenses of the conservative position, Christianity and Liberalism (1923). http://www.bju.edu/resources/library/orthpres.htm
Princeton, long one of the bastions of orthodoxy in the PCUSA, was the next center of controversy within the denomination as that school became the focus of an effort to reorganize the board. This the denomination did in 1929, installing a board committed to a more theologically inclusive course. In protest, Machen left to found Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. Joining him were several faculty and students from Princeton, including Robert Dick Wilson, Cornelius Van Til, O. T. Allis, Francis
Schaeffer, and Carl McIntire. 5
The Bible Presbyterian Split
While still an infant church, Machen's group divided into what eventually became known as the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and the Bible Presbyterian Church.
This split resulted from two issues of importance to the Fundamentalist movement: alcohol and premillennialism. Generally, the Reformed confessionalists took a position rooted in the idea of "Christian liberty." Since the Bible did not clearly condemn alcohol, then the believer could follow his own conscience on the matter. Machen himself was not opposed to wine, and he in fact opposed prohibition. Other issues also figured in discussions about the limits of Christian liberty, such as the use of tobacco, but alcohol was the central, most controversial point.
Opposing this tendency within the new church was a group led by Carl McIntire, a pastor in Collingswood, New Jersey, and J. Oliver Buswell, president of Wheaton College. They came out strongly for total abstinence from alcohol and tobacco. They protested vigorously because Westminster Seminary did not ban these substances and charged that even the faculty were partaking.
You can get another insight into this split that occurred at another site, written by a different faction of the so-called "Christian fundamentalists." This was the faction which Billy Graham came out of. However it traces its roots to the same place and time period in which Francis Schaeffer emerged, even though his name is not mentioned at the website article: {http://www.nae.net/about-history.html The Association traces its beginnings to April 7-9, 1942, when a modest group of 147 people met in St. Louis with the hopes of reviving the fortunes of evangelical Christianity in America.
The same article does refer to McIntire's role in the split:
The only source of tension during the proceedings centered upon a motion presented by the fiery fundamentalist from New Jersey, Carl McIntire. He pleaded with participants to join the American Council of Christian Churches, an organization he had founded, a month before the October 1941 exploratory meeting in Chicago, as a declaration of war against the Federal Council of Churches (FCC). The issue had been placed on the table at the earlier Chicago meeting, but in St. Louis the participants declined McIntire's invitation, believing that a more positive testimony to the gospel was needed.
Another website gives more detail about the relationship between McIntire and Schaeffer is {http://www.banneroftruth.co.uk/articles/carl_mcintyre.htm:
Carl McIntire is now 92 years of age. He was born in 1906 in the Midwest and while reading such books by J.Gresham Machen as "What is Faith?" (Banner of Truth) he concluded he wanted to study in Princeton under Machen's teaching. But it was not long before he felt he knew better than his teacher. He was ordained in 1931 in the Presbyterian Church USA. In 1933 he was called to the church at Collingswood, not far from Philadelphia, where he has remained. The following year he joined the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions which Machen had organized to make sure conservative missionaries were being commissioned. For doing this Machen and McIntire were ejected from the PCUSA.
A new denomination was started in 1936 with McIntire amongst the 34 ministers and 17 elders signing the declaration, but within months McIntire had probably incited Dr. Oliver Buswell and others to insist that the new church support a total abstinence stand on alcohol. Machen was at the same time voted off the Independent Board for Foreign Missions. Weighed down by these disappointments Machen succumbed to an infection that ended in pneumonia and he died in Bismarck, North Dakota, on January 1 1937. At the General Assembly of that year the whole group split into two, McIntyre and the pre-millenialist non-alcohol people forming the Bible Presbyterian Church while the Presbyterians centering on Westminster Seminary formed the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.
McIntire set up a whole series of organizations serving what he called the "20th Century Reformation." He launched his magazine, the "Christian Beacon," began a radio programme, attacked the World Council of Churches and picketed their meetings. His message was enthusiastically received by Fundamentalists. But all was not well. In 1956 the General Assembly of the Bible Presbyterian Church voted to leave the American Council of Christian Churches and the International Council of Christian Churches which McIntire had founded. This split the BPC into two. The majority, which included FRANCIS SCHAEFFER, gave McIntire the name of the denomination, Shelton College, Faith Seminary, the ACCC and ICCC. The remainder formed the Evangelical Presbyterian Church. In 1965 they joined a group from the United Presbyterian Church to become the Reformed Presbyterian Church, Evangelical Synod. This denomination joined the PCA in 1982.
Therefore, it seems Schaeffer and McIntire were working within the same organization until another split occurred in the church group in 1956. It was 1955 that Schaeffer allegedly set up the academy in Switzerland which Katherine Harris later attended. So the question is, was there a division of labor that occurred at this point or just that there was a decision to further compartmentalize the operations.
It has been suggested in the book entitled Crossed Fingers: How the Liberals Captured the Presbyterian Church (a full description of which appears at http://freebooks.commentary.net/freebooks/sidefrm3.htm and an excerpt of
which is posted at the url below) that perhaps the purpose of the split was to gain control of a large number of churches which could be convinced to support the passage of the United Nations after the planned World War II:
Theological liberalism steadily manifested itself in the affairs of the Church. Consider the overwhelming support given by the General Assembly to the creation of something like the United Nations Organization, beginning in May, 1941, four years before the UN was created. (The influence of John Foster Dulles was crucial in this early support; he was a strong internationalist prior to 1948.)(31) In every year but one, 1946 to 1990,
the General Assembly annually promoted the work of the UN.(32) In 1947, eleven years after the de-frocking of Machen, two decades before the 1903 Westminster Confession was revised, the General Assembly voted its approval of the following position: "We believe that the ultimate goal for World Organization should be Federal World Government. The success of the United Nations is an important step toward this end."(33) Once in the hands of power religionists, the proclamation of the Northern Presbyterian Church's political commitments preceded the proclamation of its confessional commitment.
NOTES: 31. Mark G. Toulouse, "Working Toward Meaningful Peace:
John Foster Dulles and the Federal Council of Churches, 1937-1945," Journal
of Presbyterian History, 61 (Winter 1983). 32. Robert F. Smylie, "The Presbyterian Church and the United Nations: An Overview," American Presbyterians, 68 (Summer 1990), p. 73. 33. Minutes of the General Assembly, 1947, p. 209. Cited in ibid., p. 78. http://freebooks.commentary.net/freebooks/docs/html/gncf/conclusion_part. 3.htm
The Presbyterian Church brags about its New World Order connections:
THE PRESBYTERIAN PRESENCE
How long has the Presbyterian Church supported the United Nations? Since before the organization began. Even during the early years of World War II the Presbyterian Church was helping to lay the ground work for such an organization by supporting the work of the Federal Council of Churches Commission on the Bases of a Just and Durable Peace. The commission was chaired by John Foster Dulles, a lawyer-statesman, Presbyterian elder and ecumenical churchman. John Alexander McKay, then President of Princeton Seminary, helped to provide the Commission's theological grounding. The Presbyterian Church established its own Special Committee on a Righteous Peace in 1942 and launched a "World Order Movement" in 1944. From this followed a promotion blitz in the fall of 1944 and spring of 1945 in anticipation of the founding conference of the U.N. in San Francisco. Today the Presbyterian Church's support for the U.N. is manifested in the Presbyterian United Nations Office (PUNO). This office, part of the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program, represents the church and the church's concern for justice and peace and the United Nations' role in achieving those two goals. The PUNO's role is guided and defined by Presbyterian General Assembly policy, reflected in more than 200 resolutions. http://www.pcusa.org/pcusa/ce/un-home.htm
Fritz Springmeier has alleged that Billy Graham--also from a Presbyterian
fundamentalist background, which is one of the primary sources for Masonic activity --was not only a victim but a perpetrator of mind control:
http://hermes.spaceports.com/~eddy4god/Graham.htm . (For background, also see http://hermes.spaceports.com/~eddy4god/Contents.htm) The therapist can learn about what is happening so that they can better deal with what the SRA survivors are beginning to reveal. The grooming of the American people to believe massive amounts of lies did work, UNTIL a few loving therapists, ministers, and doctors began to liberate victims of the Monarch trauma-based mind-control. These programmed multiples began revealing a horror story of deception unparalleled in history. ...Everyone
in the Illuminati of any significance has participated in grooming the public to believe that Billy Graham is a great man of God. Graham has stood beside each of the Presidents and the Pope. The Illuminati don't just program individuals, they program whole nations. The public has been led to believe in a television image. But what if the secular media's image of Billy Graham is not real? For Christians it means that they can quit trusting in a man, and place their trust fully on God. For secular readers,
they can begin to see the extent of how America's institutions have been corrupted by the horrible trauma-based mind-control. ...
People don't grasp that just because a preacher can sincerely preach what seems a "perfect sermon," doesn't mean that he can't also be part of the Satanic hierarchy. What is happening with the Illuminati's ability to create programmed multiples is that we are getting perfect preachers who are secret hierarchy members. Some of their "perfect sermons" are full of slides, such as "the Christian people need to get involved in the voting process. Christians love to hear such things, it tickles their ears, but the truth is that the entire voting process has been captured and corrupted. Voting machines have repeatedly been exposed to have been rigged, and the controlled media and public denial have prevented Americans from giving up their myth that the common man's votes run this nation. ... Billy Graham described his friendship with Allen Dulles, I make every effort not to let it appear that I favor one party over another. I count Secretary Dulles a friend, but Senator Humphrey is also a good friend of mine, [who he met] ... when we were both swimming nude at the YMCA pool in Minneapolis where he was running for mayor." A friendship with Allen Dulles? Allen Dulles, director of the CIA, was one of the biggest perpetrators of the trauma-based mind-control that this book is about. Humphrey also received orders from the Satanic hierarchy. And what is this swimming in nude? When Billy Graham had his 1954 Crusade, large sums of the money came directly from people in the Illuminati, the Whitneys, the Vanderbilts, the Rockefellers, and Chase Manhattan. ... As a programmed multiple who participates in Satanic Ritual, Billy Graham has deceived everyone. The second area is concerns about his support for a One-World Church and a One-World-Government.
There's another interesting theory propounded by "Kerry Thornley" at the following url: http://www.totse.com/en/conspiracy/institutional_analysis/thornlet.html:
Before Hitler actually put it into practice, that was a very popular idea known as Eugenics and supported by Presidents Coolidge and Hoover, the Morgans, Harriman, et. al. What have since renamed themselves Psychiatric associations were originally Eugenic Societies and Carl Gustav Jung played an important role in the transition. Mary Bancroft, assistant to Allen Dulles, was in therapy with Jung when -Dulles began playing footsie with the SS in Operation Sunrise. My surmise is Dulles,
Jung and the SS guys created a secret society when Kim Philby sabotaged their separate peace idea based on Jung's conception that one of the few problems with Nazism was Hitler and the strong role of the dominating father in the German family unit that made Hitler appealing. Renegade CIA agent John Stockwell, who was close to Dulles, told me that is exactly what happened.
Kerry Wendell Thornley, POB 5498, Atlanta, GA 30307
There's also the story about New Era, the investment company of John G. Bennett. http://www.tentmaker.org/Dew/Dew7/D7-TopChristianMinistriesGetFleeced.html:
It seems their tickling ears just couldn't resist a rumor floating around he Christian financial community that a Philanthropic organization headed by an Evangelical was offering a matching fund program which guaranteed them a doubling of their, (or should I say your) money. By being able to drop names like Rockefeller, Billy Graham, etc. as references, John G. Bennett was able to convince the financial officers of the leading Christian organizations to invest hundreds of millions of believers money into a fund
called New Era. ... A partial list of those Christian ministries who were fleeced are:
James Dobson's Focus on the Family
Pat Robertson's 700 Club
Bill Bright's Campus Crusade
Chuck Colson's Prison Fellowship
Youth For Christ, International
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship
Walk Through the Bible Ministries
Young Life
Moody Bible Institute
Christian Broadcasting Network
Chapel of the Air
.. . .and the list goes on and on and on. The government estimates as much
as $550 million dollars were involved. Surely these ministries will throw the
blame onto anything other than themselves.
The American church, as I mentioned on the audio tape entitled, the Church
is a rich prostitute, owns over a trillion dollars of real estate, stocks,
bonds, etc. It's gathering and use of this money is on extremely
unscriptural grounds.


Thor Ragnarok opens in theaters this November, so I am gearing up for the super hero fun with baking! In honor of the movie, I thought it would be fun to get creative in the kitchen and make some sweet treats! I love a cupcake and have always made fun themed cupcakes for my kids birthday every year. So, why not make a Thor inspired cupcake?! I even threw in some green icing in honor of Loki. Fitting that the hammer comes crashing down on the Loki green icing!
In Marvel Studios' THOR: RAGNAROK, Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe without his mighty hammer and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok—the destruction of his homeworld and the end of Asgardian civilization—at the hands of an all-powerful new threat, the ruthless Hela. But first he must survive a deadly gladiatorial contest that pits him against his former ally and fellow Avenger—the Incredible Hulk! THOR: RAGNAROK is directed by Taika Waititi and returnsChris Hemsworth starring as Thor and Tom Hiddleston reprising his role as Loki. They are joined by Cate Blanchett, Idris Elba, Jeff Goldblum, Tessa Thompson and Karl Urban, with Mark Ruffalo and Anthony Hopkins.
Bake your favorite cupcake recipe according to the directions. I used green cupcake holders and icing to give it the "Loki" effect.
For the hammer, I coated Jumbo marshmallows with water and immediately rolled the wet marshmallow in gold sprinkles. I was going to use silver sprinkles because Thors hammer is closer to that color but I really like how the gold turned out! Set aside to dry.
Once the marshmallow has dried completely, stick a pretzel stick and place on the cupcake. This is such a fun and easy treat to make for your Thor themed party!


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Mexican superstars Trevi and Guzmán unite for 'Versus' tour
Dave Acosta
Two powerhouses of Mexican pop and rock joined forces when singers Gloria Trevi and Alejandra Guzmán announced they would perform together for the first time in Los Angeles on June 2. That announcement was followed by a May news conference in Los Angeles to announce their "Versus" tour.
The two hitmakers' U.S. and Mexico tour hits the El Paso County Coliseum at 8:30 p.m. Sept. 1.
"We are women who are strong, united fighters," Guzmán said during the news conference. "We are sending a strong message" with this tour.
More:Singer Shaila Dúrcal to perform Saturday in honor of Juan Gabriel
Long considered rivals, the divas helped break down female stereotypes in Mexican music during the 1980s through the 2000s.
The daughter of famous parents Sylvia Pinal and Enrique Guzmán, Alejandra Guzmán's many hits include the classics "Mirala Miralo," "Hey Guera" and "Un Dia de Suerte."
While Trevi's controversial personal life and legal issues often led to media scrutiny, she never allowed them to outshine her empowering music, with hits that include the songs "Gloria," "Pelo Suelto" and "Dr. Psiquiatra."
More:Mexican Food Fiesta to take over San Jacinto Plaza
More than a meeting of two supposed rivals, Guzmán and Trevi said the tour is a symbol of unity.
During the news conference, Guzmán gave all credit for the tour to Trevi, who wrote an email to Guzmán following the Pulse nightclub mass shooting in Orlando last year. In the email, Trevi asked for Guzmán's help in supporting the LGBT community.
"I think this is the perfect moment for us to unite," Trevi said.
Trevi and Guzmán released their first joint album, "Versus," in June. It features the single "Cuando Un Hombre Te Enamora."
The "Versus" tour kicked off in front of a sold-out audience at Los Angeles' Staples Center. The 30-date tour includes stops in 13 states, including seven Texas concerts and three more in Mexico City.
Guzmán, known as "La Reina del Rock," or "The Queen of Rock," and Trevi, who is known as "La Suprema Diva del Pop," or "The Supreme Diva of Pop," promised that the tour would be an experience for each other's fans.
"The fans are the ones who buy the music, who get excited and who are still there," Guzmán said. "And I know people that have kept growing with me. What's better than uniting for the music? I could have never put together a show like this alone and it gives me great joy to share it with Gloria. We are going to destroy, but with music."
Trevi said that the tour's name "Versus" doesn't symbolize a meeting of two rivals, but a joining together of two stars, along with their fans, to show the world what can happen when it unites against a common cause.
Trevi said that she was moved after the events in Orlando to do something to help unite the LGBT community, which as supported her throughout her career, women, minorities and, in general, all people.
More:Parade, concerts to honor Juan Gabriel anniversary
"It's not just the Latinos, but speaking on a universal level, if humans unite — alone we are magical, we are strong and we can move ahead — but together, united, we are very powerful and we can do awesome things," Trevi said. "We're doing this now, because it's not just Alejandra and Trevi together; it's all the people that are going to be present at each concert. And that one voice is going to send that message to the world."
Guzmán said that she still believes in the power of music to unite.
"I like to dance to reggaetón, too, but I haven't lost that rocker vein," Guzmán said. "In the end, we are pop (and) rock (artists). We're from an era where lyrics are important and it still gives me satisfaction … It's important to remember that even when things aren't great, we can give a hand and do something bigger."
Dave Acosta may be reached at 546-6138; dacosta@elpasotimes.com; @Chuy_Vuitton on Twitter.
What: Gloria Trevi and Alejandra Guzmán "Versus" World Tour
When: 8:30 p.m. Sept. 1
Where: El Paso County Coliseum, 4100 E. Paisano St.
Tickets: $59-$286; available at the County Coliseum Box Office, Ticketmaster outlets, 800-745-3000, ticketmaster.com
Information: 533-9899; countycoliseum.com; facebook.coom/EPColiseum

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I am a Baptist minister who writes in the area of worship, theology and spirituality. I have pastored churches and taught theology in various parts of the UK and also have an interest in the visual arts and poetry.
and you walk with me each step of the way.
and refresh me when I am weary.
and plans dissolve into passivity.
and the present is ominously stalled.
when darkness dazzles with wonder and grace.
In early December I staged an exhibition of a dozen paintings which I had completed since my Italian journey earlier this year, together with a handful of earlier works. The show was exhibited at West Bridgford Baptist Church, Nottingham.
As well as the oils and pen and wash paintings, I included a number of photographs, a display of the books I had read and the sketchbooks which I had used while travelling. This was an attempt to feed back to the church some of the work and benefits of my sabbatical study leave – someone even read my sabbatical report!
Here is a gallery of the paintings and few pics of the exhibition.Click on an image and use the arrow keys or a further click to take you around the show.
I had ordered it long before publication so I opened the book with relish and anticipation when it finally arrived. The old adage tells us that 'Those who can't, teach!' I want to offer a variation: 'Those who can't, buy lot's of how-to books instead' and so spend their time reading about the activity rather than doing it and learning from their mistakes. Shelves full of books on how to pray compete with shelves of books on how to paint and draw!
Anyway, the book in question was Painting Light in Oils by Peter Wileman and Malcolm Allsop (Batsford 2011). Peter Wileman is currently president of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the book is stuffed full of his impressionistic, mainly landscape and people, paintings. He is a fine painter and has a lovely knack of using a narrow range of tones and colours to frame an area of bright light which sings (or zings) as a result.
Novice artists often feel that for a subject they must find something that is beautiful or dramatic in itself. The problem for many people is that they're more experienced in taking a photograph than choosing a subject for painting. A photograph tends to be the classic 'view', whereas an interesting painting usually shows a much less obvious take on a location.
In fact, your subject may be completely mundane; it may just be a collection of interesting shapes, a certain light effect, or a pattern of colour and tones that has made you want to create a painting.
I write on the last day of my sabbatical study leave and I have been reviewing the last three months – both the long trip to Italy and the drawing, painting and reading I did both there and on my return. As I leaf through my sketch books, I seem to feel more satisfaction with the pen and ink studies than with the pen and watercolour paintings. This may of course have something to do with my relative (in)competence in each media. However, I think it's more likely to do with subject matter.
The watercolours have tended to be less experimental and more concerned with grand views of well-known landmarks – like some of my photographs. The ink drawings tend to be on a smaller scale and capture some aspect of a street or building which has interested me. Pen, sketchpad and water-brush are, after all, more portable than the full watercolour kit and a drawing may only take ten or twenty minutes. As a result, the drawing is more responsive and less predictable. What oil painting I've managed since my return has also tended to be the grand view – and grand view in the middle of the day when I took the reference photographs rather than a well-known scene transformed by dramatic morning light or stormy weather.
Two things follow for me. First, a practical agenda. I must continue to paint from my travel sketches and photographs, but must look for those views which reflect my personal impressions and experiences rather than grand views – more chamber music than grand opera! I achieved this in some of my photographs, now I need to move to a stage of synthesis in my painting.
a way of focusing attention until it turns into contemplation, and from there to the inexpressible fullness, where the split between the seer and what is seen is obliterated. Eye, heart, hand become one with what is seen and drawn, things are seen as they are – in their 'isness'.
The beginning of seeing lies with the rapt attention of unpretentious, everyday things; things ignored, mundane, unexceptional, commonplace; things lying about in rooms, things like the wrinkled sheets of an unmade bed, the refracted stems of a bunch of tulips in a glass pot, the rust on a sheet of corrugated iron, the pattern of porridge left at the bottom of an unwashed pan.
Giving attention is akin to prayer. It is relating to the world in such a way that the 'I' doesn't get in the way of the 'eye'. It is an openness to God's world in its infinite richness and variety – not just the big picture, but the intricate detail – what we might call 'the calligraphy of God'.