by Christopher Lock
“In my view, this is a must-read for the serious researcher or armchair enthusiast of the WingMakers’ Materials. Mr. Lock expertly weaves the scholarly approach of a researcher with the more subjective interpretations of an art enthusiast. The paper is both in-depth and comprehensive in its analysis, and many of its insights are directly applicable to the broader collection of the Chamber Paintings. I heartily recommend it if you desire to more fully understand the intricacies and subtleties of the Chamber Paintings and the WingMakers’ cosmology that is encoded therein.”
-- Mark Hempel, WingMakers' Website Manager
Available Now for $2.97 -- This enlightening document is a carefully researched academic paper by Osaka University of Arts educator, Christopher Lock. It presents the first complete and exhaustive analysis of all imagery in Chamber 6 Painting. Consisting of 34 pages of text and detailed illustrations, the paper reveals how the painting's extraordinarily rich imagery depicts the WingMakers' Cosmology in all its complexity, sophistication, beauty and enchantment. Revealing a "key of codes” or meanings that can be applied to the other WingMakers’ chamber paintings, this paper is an indispensable aid for decoding the subtle, multi-leveled expression of these enigmatic paintings. The paper also shares Lock's account of experiencing the Thunderous Silence of Zen as he approached completion of the painting's decoding, demonstrating that the close study of the art of the WingMakers can indeed shift consciousness.
This paper is delivered electronically to your email address in an Adobe Acrobat Reader format. Its cost is $2.97 for a personal license that permits full color printing, but not re-distribution rights. Because it is delivered electronically as an email attachment, there are no shipping costs. While the WingMakers’ papers are free, this paper was developed by a third party (Christopher Lock) and was a very time-intensive project for which Mr. Lock should be provided some remuneration. Because it includes high-resolution images from Chamber Painting 6, it is a relatively large file (2 megabytes). You will require Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to read this file. In the event you don’t have Adobe Acrobat already installed (or you have an older version) on your computer, please follow the link below and download it for free.
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Comments from the Author:
One reason for offering this paper online is to present to those who might wish it a possible catalyst for a remarkable transformational experience.
With the cover and inside representations of the Sovereign Integral in hand together with the G&P (Glossary and Philosophy essays) all the ideas, research, interpretations and findings that may have led to my Thunderous Silence transformation are available for study, checking, and rationally and intuitively weighing in the balance of your own mind through your own discernment.
Distill this offering through your own sincere investigations, for it may lead you unerringly to the fulfillment of your destiny, where the ever-living essence of Source awaits, to crown your existence with freedom and reveal the animated life of all the diverse manifestations of its Creation.
Christopher Lock
Several selected excerpts from Lock’s paper are provided below.
The background story to the discovery of the paintings is a 20th century myth found on the website (www.wingmakers.com), and the media First Source CD (book). Like many myths it is “a story invented as a veiled explanation of a truth” containing both fact and fiction (Webster ‘myth’ 2a). Moyers quotes Joseph Campbell in The Power of Myth as saying a myth is “a metaphor for what lies behind the visible world” (Intro. xvii). Defying simple definition, an excellent explanation of myth is found in Mythologies, “Toward a Definition of Myth”, wherein Eliade writes: “Every myth tells how something came into existence – the world, man, an animal species, a social existence, etc.” The myth is regarded as “absolutely true…and sacred….” It always has a sacred “primordial history” that begins with a cosmogonic myth of some kind (3-5). The WingMakers’ cosmological mythology contains all these elements.
Excerpt 1 from Main Section: The entire picture stands upon the patterned, yellow/gold band. Abstractly showing the unity of all manifested existence, the band contains Creation’s primal building blocks originating from spirit. In this painting yellow is representative of the realms of spirit. Chevalier and Gheerbrant (CG) in The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols note that yellow is “the vehicle of divine immortality” and “the color of the gods” (1137). It is from spirit or First Source (FS) that form (the squares) and energy (the triangles) originate (Philosophy 1 and 3). The deep blue upper and lower band edges suggest FS (see below).
Excerpt 2 from Main Section: At this juncture it is interesting to recall the famous mid-twentieth century statement by Nobel Prize-winning father of quantum theory, Max Plank:
There is no matter as such! All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter (Braden 40).
Shocking the scientists of his time, these words of Plank parallel those of the WingMakers on Source Intelligence (SI).
At the bottom center of the painting the secret root surfaces from the Wholeness Navigator (WN) core system of interconnected roots as a “lifeline through which individual expression” is “brought to the surface of earth and…released as the fragrance of individuality” (Glossary & Philosophy essays) (Fig. 3). In the painting the secret root, the “subtle carrier of information that leads one to see the…All That Is One,” spirals around the red woman Sovereign Entity (SE) and “into the uncharted realm of First Source” – the deep blue, star-filled heavenly “field of unity that defines the culture of the multidimensional universe”. The secret root also spirals into the FS deep blue spiraling up into the golden-yellow Madonna-like Sovereign Integral (SvIg) (Fig. 3 and Fig. 4). It shows the root’s link to the SE, SvIg and FS (G&P); and the blue illustrates the SvIg’s connection to First Source.
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