They created live experiences the likes of which had never been seen before, using picture discs, liquid wheels, cassettes and more to reflect the sounds and attitudes of punters in visceral visual forms. “From beautiful abstracts to visions of outer space, the designs for these rotating projections are a snapshot of the creativity and inventiveness of an era,” says Foakes. As one chakra center becomes predominant in a given culture, that chakra "colors" the values, assumptions, and prejudices of that society. This in turn often creates a prevailing one-mindedness or dogmatism. Such narrowness of vision has often determined the characteristics of a culture and the course of an era. The sum of potential and kinetic aura is always constant. The law of conservation holds that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. Thus, energy cannot be extracted from or added to an electromagnetic field without a corresponding change in the field. A thought then can be referred to as a potential or static electromagnetic field pattern. On the other hand, the thinking process represents a continually changing or dynamic electromagnetic field. As thought changes from a static to a dynamic field, it imparts energy to and receives energy from the thinker during the course of the thinking process. When the process ends, the resultant thought is stored (a memory) as a static electromagnetic field pattern in the auric field. Clearly the mind, the aura, and the electromagnetic chakra system are inseparably interrelated.

How did you get into this more antiquated form of light show; and what was the attraction to you, over a more digital solution? The majority of what I know about the chakra system has come directly from my twenty years of experience as a healer and aura reader. As a young healer and psychic, when I would look at another's auric field, I would notice that some areas were darker than others, or that there were "holes" in the aura. I came to understand that those holes were indications of ill health or predictive of illness to come. When I put "energy" into a body and watched its movement, I observed that adding energy to one part of the body reveals how the body uses energy, and therefore how healthy it is. I watched people think, I watched them feel. I saw that these "patterns" correspond to their disease. From this experience I learned that we can suppress information in the body or in the chakra system, but we can never eliminate it. We can alter that information by the way we move or the way we think. Even if we make a slight change in behavior, it precipitates change in every other aspect of our lives. That was when I began to view the aura as a reflection of a person's entire well-being. A number of activities will take place at key locations around the city centre as part of the event, including brass bands performing in Town Hall Square, a live DJ set from the Haymarket balcony and the Bright Christmas light installation made up of 33,000 coloured LED lights at Highcross. One of of the following rewards will be obtained when opening 1 Anniversary Wheel of Light Giftbox: Once I began to explore things in this way, it followed that if an entire culture's thought process was dominated by a particular chakra color, that culture would process reality through that dominant chakra. In other words, since each chakra has a particular "viewpoint," a culture would tend to "see" reality through the "eyes" of that chakra. Furthermore, because each chakra is directly related to a specific area of the body, certain positions and postures of the body would enhance the dominance of one or two colors while inhibiting others. In Islam, for instance, a Moslem bows on a prayer rug, with his knees on the ground. He then puts his forehead (more specifically, his "third eye") on a point that is usually a design on the rug. This posture directs focus to the area around the navel and around the forehead, making the second (orange) and sixth (purple) chakras dominant.Wheels of Light explores the seven chakras, or energy centers, of the body with particular focus on the first chakra, which has to do with our basic life force, our physical bodies, and our sexuality. This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen.

The history of psychedelic design is largely focused on graphics: record sleeves by Hipgnosis, for instance, or that ubiquitous Bob Dylan poster by Milton Glaser. And of course, psychedelic is a sprawling term; encompassing everything from drugs to certain sounds, colours, patterns, clubs, fashion and more. But one aspect of psychedelic counterculture that’s far less visible today is light shows – a crucial creative element that brought gigs and clubs in the 1960s and 1970s into even more elaborate realms of trippiness. I am writing this text primarily for Americans, mainly for students of healing. If it serves its purpose, it will become obsolete. Those who study the chakra system will acquire an understanding of it and will then be able in their own individual ways to add to it the knowledge they accumulate through their own experience. This book is merely a foundation from which a greater structure is certain to arise. The shamans envisioned that our luminous body envelops the physical body and organizes it. And the organs of our luminous body are the chakras. Through our chakras we metabolize energy and emotions. Energy from past traumas gets stored in our chakras, our wounds are encoded as energetic information within them. An ordained minister, she is the founder and director of the Healing Light Center Church now in Sierra Madra, California where she also offers a four-year training program for healers. Kinetic energy is energy in movement within either a static or dynamic electromagnetic field. A field is considered static until the intensity of either the electric or the magnetic field is varied. A dynamic electromagnetic field consists of oscillations of a specific frequency or wavelength; a more complex field may have several frequencies. In a dynamic field, the magnitude of the oscillations determines the intensity of the field, or the amount of energy being carried in the field. The frequency and wavelength determine the "color" of the propagation. (Propagation is a term used to describe the extension or transmission of sound waves or of electromagnetic radiation through air or water. I So when we refer to the energy moving from chakra to chakra, or through the body, it is understood that this energy is being carried by moving electromagnetic fields. When we refer to "color of energy" (or, sometimes, frequency), we mean the color of the energy or chakra, as defined by the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation being emitted at that location, as perceived by those who have second sight.I was raised by my grandmother and great-grandmother, Nana. It was Nana who taught me to see auras around plants, although she never used that term. She would say, "Do you see the light? What color is it? Do you see that the light on the plant is increasing?" She told me that cuttings taken from a plant on which light was increasing would take root, but that cuttings taken from a plant on which light was decreasing wouldn't root. Then she'd have me do experiments in which I'd take cuttings from different plants, some with a full bright aura, others with a diminishing auric field, so I could discover for myself the truth of her teachings. So it was that in a very practical way I learned from Nana to "see" auric light and energy and to identify what was "full of light" as that which was also "full of life." NEVER ALONE: VIDEO GAMES AS INTERACTIVE DESIGN THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK ISBN: 9781633451414 As well as showcasing artefacts from light show companies, the book looks to contextualise the images through a brief overview of the history of UK light shows from the 1960s onwards. We learn that artist couple Mark Boyle and Joan Hills (also known collectively as the Boyle Family) created some of the first light show performances in the UK in the early 1960s, “more as counter culture art pieces on the underground scene than gig visuals”. These mysteries, however, were preserved by sacred priesthoods and transmitted to select initiates throughout the ages. In our own culture the Native Americans have preserved these ideas through oral tradition. Moreover, it was prophesied by nearly every ancient culture that there would be a future time when this "lost" knowledge would be rediscovered. As each of the ancient civilizations was conquered -- the Egyptian, the Chinese, the Greek, the Roman -- vast libraries were burned and within the fires were consumed massive volumes of antiquarian and esoteric wisdom. It is no mistake that the period that followed was termed the Dark Ages. By the time the light shone again, science and religion had become enemies, and common knowledge of the chakra system had become an esoteric mystery.

What followed was a flood of information about all manner of other practitioners and companies who were active from the mid 1960s onwards,” Foakes explains. “Scans of old brochures, effects wheels and more filled up the inbox alongside names to follow up, links and witty observations.” CODED: ART ENTERS THE COMPUTER AGE, 1952–1982 DELMONICO BOOKS/LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART ISBN: 9781636810805 When certain items are drawn repeatedly, they will be converted into proofs of light, which can be used to exchange for items at the Redemption Store. Drawing on scientific research, Native American culture, the ancient traditions of the Egyptians and Greeks, the philosophies of the Hindus, and the religions of the East, Rosalyn L. Bruyere presents a unique perspective on the value and healing potential of the chakra system. Excess rewards will be converted into Proof of Light, which can be used to exchange for items in the Expo Store.The Boyle Family began to create multifaceted public art pieces inspired by Ken Kesey’s LSD-fuelled bus trips in the USA, known colloquially as ‘happenings’. These included 1964’s Suddenly Last Supper, which featured collage films and slides being burned as they were projected onto screens, mannequins and performers, as well as a piece called Bodily Fluids and Functions at the Roundhouse, which cased controversy thanks to its inclusion of live sex. Optikinetics projector with liquid wheel Wheels of Light cover

KF: A few things. Musical changes and fashions saw them relegated in some quarters, technology caught up with and in some cases superseded them. Disco for instance was more about glitter balls, automated pin spot lights and illuminated dance floors than trippy liquids although the effect cassettes worked somewhat in that era. Clubs and pubs installed their own equipment, some of it automated, which meant there was less need for light show operators but there was room for the odd picture wheel which ran on its own. The real nail in the coffin for most was the recession in the early 80s which put many of the companies making this gear out of business or forced a change of direction. Only Optikinetics managed to navigate these times and still exist today because they diversified into lightweight, temporary scaffolding for exhibitions and stages.The secret mysteries of the People," foretold the Hopis a thousand years ago, "shall be made known when the sons of White men wear beads and long hair. The truth of these Sacred Ways shall be revealed when the Eagle lands on the moon." Any of us who remember the sixties and NASA's moon flights know that these events have already come to pass. If the ideas contained within this book are difficult and challenging, it may assist us to remember that others before us were likewise challenged. Perhaps, most importantly, it would be worth our time and energy to think about what the rediscovery of these ideas could mean for us both personally and globally. These ancient, now reborn, mysteries may very well provide the kind of wisdom we need to guide us through the fears, disease, and darkness of a nuclear world into a new age of hope and understanding, health and light. The very survival of the race may depend on the ability of each of us to embrace new ways of thinking and being and to adopt both a traditional and revolutionary path.