Prompt: A small black kitten fills the center composed, monochrome photograph, leaning forward over a large tangled ball of pale yarn. Its front paws rest on the yarn as if playfully clutching it; its body tilts toward the viewer, with its face angled slightly downward and large glossy eyes gazing at the strands. The kitten has soft, dense black fur, pointed ears, a tiny nose, delicate whiskers, and an alert, curious expression. Bright silvery highlights trace its fur and whiskers against a deep, nearly black background dotted with a few softly glowing circles of light. The yarn dominates the lower center, its tangled fibers sharply illuminated, while a loose strand trails across the reflective surface at the bottom. Close-up, low-angle perspective and shallow depth of field create an intimate, dramatic composition. High-contrast black-and-white photography, luminous rim lighting, rich shadows, and a gentle, playful atmosphere.
Prompt: A richly detailed fantasy illustration of a young adult fairy woman with fair skin and a slender build, seated in a worn, upholstered armchair near a tall, sunlit window. She has voluminous, curly copper-red hair adorned with tiny autumn flowers, delicate pointed ears, dangling earrings, and translucent veined wings spread behind her. Wearing layered rust-orange and deep green clothing with flowing skirts, she leans her head gently into one hand while reading an open antique book resting in her lap, her eyes lowered and expression peaceful and absorbed. A small tabby cat sleeps curled beside her on a patterned blanket draped over the chair. The cozy, rustic interior is filled with dried flowers, books, old wooden beams, and a glowing lantern. Warm golden light streams from the window at the right, illuminating drifting dust and the fairy’s hair; rich amber, ochre, russet, and moss-green tones create a magical autumn atmosphere. Framed as a close, intimate scene from a slightly elevated viewpoint, with the woman centered and the room’s details surrounding her. Painterly, intricate storybook fantasy art with soft luminous textures and a serene, enchanted mood.
Prompt: A surrealist oil painting of a solitary, slender human figure seated on a barren plain, positioned in the lower center and viewed from behind. The figure has short, glossy black hair and wears a long, ragged garment in charcoal, umber, and pale ivory, its textured fabric trailing across the ground and draping over a raised, bent knee. Their head tilts slightly downward toward the left, shoulders hunched in a quiet, contemplative pose. A huge glowing orange-gold orb dominates the upper-right background, like an immense sun or planet, casting warm light across the scene. Dark, jagged rock formations frame the figure at the far left and right, while a hazy ochre and smoky gray sky blends into the flat, dusty foreground. The composition is vertical and atmospheric, with the figure silhouetted against the luminous orb; painterly brushwork, layered textures, muted earth tones, and dramatic warm-cool contrast create a lonely, dreamlike mood.
Prompt: A somber, surreal mixed-media portrait of a solitary, human-like figure seated near the center of a tall, narrow composition. The slender figure is completely draped in ragged black feathers, fragments, and layered dark fabric, with the head bowed deeply and face hidden; its posture is hunched, shoulders rounded, hands resting together on the lap, and long legs folded downward. Vast shattered, skeletal wings or branching structures spread behind the figure toward the upper left, formed from cracked black lines, feather-like shards, and broken fragments. The figure faces slightly right in profile, conveying grief and quiet introspection. A distressed parchment-colored background of warm ivory, ochre, and muted gray is marked with stains, scratches, and fine cracks, with a pale radiating glow behind the bowed head. The composition is mostly full-figure, viewed straight on, with strong contrast between the deep charcoal silhouette and softly illuminated background. Painterly textures, ink-like splatters, and expressive fragmented details create a haunting, gothic, melancholic atmosphere.
Prompt: A fantasy portrait of an adult woman with a pale complexion and slender build, seated in profile on a mossy stone ledge. She faces right with her head bowed and eyes lowered, her expression somber and contemplative. Long, wavy dark hair frames her face and falls over her shoulders. She wears a fitted, layered charcoal-black gown with textured sleeves, intricate feather-like details, and subtle silver accents. A huge pair of dark, layered feathered wings rises behind her, sweeping upward along the left side of the frame. Her hands rest quietly on her lap and near the ledge, while her body leans slightly forward. A luminous full moon fills much of the background behind her, surrounded by misty gray clouds and a muted, shadowy landscape. The vertical composition places the woman near the center, with a close, slightly low viewpoint. Cool silver, slate, and charcoal tones, soft moonlight, fine painterly detail, and atmospheric haze create a melancholic, gothic fantasy mood.
Prompt: Highly detailed, fantasy-style illustration featuring a young fairy-like character with large, expressive blue eyes and curly red hair adorned with small flowers. The character has pale, textured skin with a slightly cracked appearance, adding an ethereal quality. She has pointed ears and is wearing a garment with a cracked, aged texture in shades of blue and gold. The character is holding a small, realistic black cat , eyes that mirror the character's in size and expressiveness. The background is dark, enhancing the focus on the character and the owl, creating a mystical and enchanting atmosphere.
Prompt: The Soul, The Koshas, and “No Self”
Liberation is when one realizes the emptiness of all aspects of maya, or all aspects of the soul. It is not merely an intellectual realization, but an awakening of emptiness itself as inseparable from all things. Liberation is a collapse of the duality or apparent distinction between soul and no self. The soul is exactly emptiness (shunyata), and emptiness is exactly the soul. Primordial emptiness awakens as the soul.
There are many developmental models that describe the self structure such as Maslow’s hierarchy, spiral dynamics, various chakra-based models, the sefirot of Kabbalah or the great chain of being described in different ways by Plato, Plotinus as well as by mystics such as Sri Aurobindo. Every mature spiritual system that reflects the perennial teaching will have some developmental model. Many of the Western psychological models such as Maslow’s hierarchy are incomplete, and actually end where some of the Eastern models are just beginning, since the knowledge of higher worlds has been long forgotten. Each system is a unique lens to look through offering a different perspective and a different language template to point toward the mass of phenomena that constitutes the self which grows and changes through time. What is important is not believing or accepting one system as true, but to see what they all point to within yourself; to make your unconscious parts conscious.
Early Buddhism and Hinduism speak of “three worlds, “three spheres”, “three planes of existence”, or “three realms”. In the Gayatri Mantra from the Rig Veda, one of the oldest Vedic texts, it speaks of awakening within the three realms. The vedas are sort of “hymns” to awaken to one’s true nature. The Gayatri is considered by yogis to be the essence of the Vedas, or the mother of the Vedas, and the quintessence of divine knowledge. It says that one must awaken all three realms, the gross, the subtle and the causal, to attain liberation from illusion. Another way of saying this is that one must realize the emptiness of all three realms, bringing conscious awareness to each realm, yet not identifying any sense of self with them.
“Om Bhur Bhuva Swaha”
Awaken the three realms (gross, subtle causal)
Each realm is a layer of maya or a layer of the soul/ self structure that is like a veil over our true nature. Likewise the Buddha said that one must realize the emptiness of the 5 skandhas or aggregates of mind-stuff, the entire self structure, to realize Nirvana. The 5 skandhas are a functional model of the workings of the self structure. The number of divisions is not important as long as the model points to all aspects of the self structure.
Another conceptual lens can be found in the Upanishads, which differentiates the self structure into 5 sheaths called koshas. The koshas are layers of maya or illusion which cover the soul and are simultaneously expressions of the soul. We will use the kosha system as an example of a conceptual framework for inner investigation.
The first Hermetic principle for self knowledge is “The All is mind; the universe is mental”.
Each kosha or sheath of maya can be described as a level of mind which exists within a continuum or matrix of phenomena ranging from gross to subtle. Branching patterns are one of the signature patterns of mind that is found at all levels and fractal scales of nature. NO TEXT IN PICTURE.
Prompt: The physical sheath of maya (annamayakosha)
The physical sheath is a mind construct created from sensory data which forms the perception of an external world. The physical sheath is what creates the illusion of being a physical body. With the advance of modernity and science we have developed a great capacity to explore, penetrate into and manipulate the mentally constructed physical world. In the majority of humans, almost all of awareness resides on the physical layer and most human activity operates unconsciously. We believe that we are this physical being, and our behavior is robotic and conditioned, repeating endless patterns which are all for the benefit of this illusory self. The physical and mental sheaths together are what constitutes the consensus reality that most humans are experiencing on Earth at this time.
Leonardo Da Vinci said: “Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead….”
A person who is identified fully with annamayakosha is unaware of the thoughts that they are thinking or the behaviors they are enacting; they have literally become identified with the physical pattern that they are repeating. Such a person lives a robotic life and cannot truly be said to be fully alive. When Jesus said “Let the dead bury the dead”, the people to whom he referred were living lives that were on the most gross level of existence. In this sense they were already dead. The metaphor of “resurrection” or “raising the serpent” points towards the raising of one’s energy out of this layer to the higher levels of existence.
“As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up” John 3:14 NO TEXT IN PICTURE.
Prompt: new art, Deeply colored pastel pencil on a light sepia matte brown background of a faded art deco design, create a vintage poster-style painting inspired by a late-20th-century French exhibition poster. Central figure: a figural boxer dog on his hing legs dressed as a doctor,leaning on a examination table, calm, enigmatic expression. Background a picture painted onto the brown background, bright blue sea, pale pink rocks, distant purple mountains, and a pale blue sky with soft clouds. Color palette uses blues, pinks, reds, and creams; shapes are simplified with bold outlines and flat color planes for a naive-art, dreamlike feel. The image is framed by a triple thin line black border, evoking vintage poster typography. Lighting is soft and even, no harsh shadows, overall whimsical and nostalgic with a touch of surrealism.
At the bottom of the poster, put the title=“DOCTOR BOXER AT YOUR SERVICE”
Prompt: The mental sheath (mannomayakosha)
The lower mind, or what we usually refer to as the thinking mind or the sensory mind is mannomayakosha, or the mental sheath. It includes all mental images, mental dialogs, perceptions and emotions, fantasies, daydreams, concepts, and definitions. It is essentially everything that creates meaning out of the world, as well as what is meaningless.
Exercise:
Thinking is always either visual, auditory (inner dialog or sound), or some combination of both. For the next 5 minutes try observing your thoughts in silence and you will find that every thought is made of either images, an auditory component (inner dialog), or both.
When the mind moves of its own volition (unconsciously), it is due to “dukkha”, or unsatisfactoriness, which is the movement of manas or lower mind operating for itself. The lower mind is never satisfied with what IS, and it is fundamentally made of patterns of craving and aversion. It exists to protect the organism and self structure, and to allow it to operate in a way that will let it have a human experience. For those identified with their personas, it has become the master rather the servant it is meant to be. Whenever we have resistance to what is, the mind engages in patterns of craving and aversion, and we have an incomplete experience of what is happening in the moment. Identification with the self structure creates a “filtered” experience of reality, and generates pathological thinking which is mediation of life through the filter of the mind. The incomplete experience of reality is an outward orientation toward the mind-made projection of the external world, focusing on “things” or phenomena which is constantly changing. If our sense of who or what we are is tied to identification with this phenomena (ie. we prefer or cling to one thing over another), then we will suffer when it inevitably changes. Most of humanity operates on the annamaya and manomaya koshas. NO TEXT IN PICTURE
Two Boys Playing on a Wooden Porch (Great Prompt by File:debop
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Prompt: Do a caricature funnies cartoon image render with big oversized exaggerated lips, chins, eyebrows, exaggerated ears, small undersized bodies etc., lightly exaggerated skinnier if skinny faces - fatter if fat faces, big oversized lightly exaggerated extended heads, lightly exaggerated noses, No merging of heads. No joining together of heads or bodies. Colourize if Black & White uploaded image.
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Prompt: An ethereal glowing angel with translucent sketched wings and a radiant halo, walking through a lush sunlit meadow with rolling hills. 1920s Art Deco aesthetic, high-contrast monochrome and golden hour lighting, surreal geometric framing, elegant vintage fashion photography style, fine art sketch details overlaying a rich landscape, dramatic shadows, cinematic composition, timeless and dreamlike mood --ar 4:5
Prompt: The higher mind or wisdom sheaths (Vijnanamayakosha)
As one’s energy becomes freed from conditioned patterns, one is able to connect to higher mind layers. One’s inner tree of life becomes more like an antenna receiving from a mysterious source, rather than an antenna that broadcasts an ego. All true creativity, art, music, poetry, literature, and novelty comes from this source beyond the limited conditioned mind. It is Buddhi or intellect in the Vedic traditions, the insight realm in Buddhism, or what Plato and Plotinus called the world of forms. In the works of writers such a Henry Corbin and those who followed, it is distinguished as imaginal as opposed to merely imaginary.
It is most important to note, that this realm is uncovered by pure investigation, by observing reality as it is. It is observed by surrendering all egoic activity, entering into pure emptiness, pure awareness and witnessing. It is NOT realized by visualization, rituals, techniques or practices as these things are part of the conditioned mind that has to be transcended. The difference between lower mind and higher mind is that lower mind produces iterated, autonomous repetitive thought phenomena, while in higher mind one simply witnesses reality as it is. Cause and effect, determinism and free will, require subject/ object duality, but as we move into the imaginal realm this duality falls away. Part of the path is to learn to distinguish imagination of the lower mind, from the “imaginal” revelations of higher mind. To distinguish lower concepts from the higher constructs.
There is a point on the journey where the world is turned inside out, where the lower aspects of self are harnessed, and the monsters, the egoic little bosses, the fallen ones become angels. This could be called “the flip”. The higher mind is where symbols and higher mind constructs are alchemically transmuted into energy, thoughts and material form. Symbols are around us, alive and influencing us, but we do not yet have eyes to see them. Jung described an archetypal realm, a collective unconscious, which shapes our lives. Joseph Campbell explained how there is an inherent mythic structure to all religions and that particular myths are expressions of an underlying archetypal form. He said:
“On our hero’s journey: where we had thought to find an abomination we shall find a God. And where we had thought to slay another we shall slay ourselves. Where we had thought to travel outwards we shall come to the center of our own existence.” NO TEXT IN PICTURE.
Prompt: The causal body (Anandamayakosha)
The causal body or non-dual bliss sheath is impossible to convey in words and any description will sound paradoxical to the mind, because it involves the transcending of all opposites which are inherent to language. The causal body awakens when pure awareness, turiya becomes present as the body itself; as all that is. One inhabits a reality where form and emptiness, self and other, are realized as non-dual reality.
In the yogic traditions the word “satchitananda” is used to describe the causal realm “experience”. Sat means “truth”, chit is “mind or consciousness”. The word “ananda” is usually translated as bliss, but we don’t have a satisfactory word in our language for what this points to. When we usually talk of bliss we are talking of feeling good, feelings of energy, or well being. An experience should not be confused with satchitananada, which is something entirely different. It is not an experience at all, but more of a waking up to the truth or reality as it is, and to the illusory nature of the experiencer. One realizes all of existence as infinite space, consciousness, nothingness and it is neither something of perception nor, nor is it non-perception. It is the emptiness dancing of Zen- it is beyond duality, beyond pain and pleasure, beyond good and bad. It is our innate nature, the bliss of the subtlest heart; undifferentiated awareness that is everywhere and nowhere.
Even the awakening on the causal (anandamayakosha) is still a level of maya. Don’t forget, all of the koshas have the word “maya” in them. Prajna paramita, awakening to the ultimate wisdom, is realizing the emptiness of all levels of self. In the Heart Sutra the Buddha said that practicing prajna paramita the Bodhisattva realized the emptiness of all five skandhas, which are the five aggregates or “heaps” of mind stuff described in the Buddhist tradition. The truth is revealed when one realizes all aspects of the self structure to be empty or devoid of self. This means even letting go of the causal awareness, a letting go to the unfathomable that cannot be mentioned whatsoever.
When we awaken on any higher vibratory level than the one we are habituated to, all of the conditioned stuff below that level that we have not made conscious starts to come up. Any sankaras that were not purified will start to come to the surface. The five koshas reflect the five levels of conditioning that keep us trapped in maya. There is the biological conditioning which is our animal nature, psychological conditioning which we inherit from society, pranic conditioning which is our evolutionary template, higher mind or soul level conditioning which includes archetypal wisdom, insight, higher mind, and universal aspects of the game of Leila, and finally there is the causal which is awareness as the ground of all being. At first we learn to “be still and know”. Being still in this sense is not simply a stopping of activity, but the awakening of stillness within activity, an awakening of emptiness within form. As it is written in the Buddhist Shraddhotpada Shastra:
“All things in the world are unreal and deceptive; they are no more than projections of the mind. Just like the reflections which appear in a mirror, in reality, all things too have no true substantiality; they are untrue, illusionary and “Only-Mind”.. NO TEXT IN PICTURE
Prompt: Whimsically naive art of cats ironing flat carrots and hanging them to dry among fruits and veggies, rendered with intensely contrasting colors and crystal clarity. The unique style merges abstract, chalk-like brushstrokes with the ethereal quality of "girl_lines" and zen smoke, using techniques of R&F Pigment Stick, Monotype, and Fleischer Studios, evoking the dark genius of Francisco Goya, the haunting linework of Stephen Gammell and Endre Penovac, the bold textures of Basil Gogos and Rudy Meeuwissen, the reinterpretation of Monokubo and Gerald Scarfe, and the melancholic smoke art of Ryohei Hase. Dramatic lighting and vibrant, clashing colors create a surreal, dreamlike atmosphere.
Prompt: créer dans le style de Vincent van Gogh, meilleure qualité,8K,haute résolution, chef-d'œuvre, ultra-détaillé, couleurs vives, la vie à la ferme, champ en escaliers Asie du Sud-Est, agriculteur travaillant en tenue traditionnelle, la lumière naturelle du soleil illumine la scène, cadre rural vietnamien authentique, des rizières verdoyantes et luxuriantes s'étendant à perte de vue, paysage serein et pittoresque, atmosphère paisible et harmonieuse, techniques agricoles traditionnelles, texture subtile des champs en terrasses, composition stratifiée du paysage agricole, scène de campagne charmante et idyllique, vue immersive du paysage rustique
Prompt: A slightly disheveled, scholarly, well-traveled elderly man sits next to the fireplace in a pub with his cup of coffee. His eyes are sharp and bright and his beard is medium length and white. Several students at a nearby table notice him and his leather bound journal and fountain pen that lay on the table he occupies. A warm afternoon light streams in.
Prompt: A slightly disheveled, scholarly, well-traveled elderly man sits next to the fireplace in a pub with his cup of coffee. His eyes are sharp and bright and his beard is medium length and white. Several students at a nearby table notice him and his leather bound journal and fountain pen that lay on the table he occupies. A warm afternoon light streams in.
Prompt: Please create an image inspired by the following couplets, written in the style of traditional Japanese poetry, and render it in a mix of traditional Japanese art styles according to your artistic taste, without using any symbols, including kanji Hieroglyph. Let it be a truly beautiful image that captures the visual essence of the suggested couplets.
A new day has visited my garden
I enjoy the quiet morning in the foothills
Buds full of fragrance greet me
Blooming peonies with morning dew
The world seems wonderful to me with the beauty of the dawn
Rewarding joy with the radiant warmth of light
Prompt: A captivating young woman with long, flowing hair that transitions from dark to vibrant purple, partially submerged in a shimmering blue water background. Her striking features include luminous skin and vivid, expressive makeup, accentuated by delicate earrings that catch the light. The scene is illuminated by soft, ethereal light beams reflecting off the water, creating a tranquil and enchanting atmosphere. The overall mood is dreamy and inviting, with an emphasis on beauty and serenity.
Prompt: An expressive impressionist oil painting of a modern suburban living room interior with soaring high ceilings and an ample window, empty of people, dreamlike and surreal a la René Magritte. Soft morning light infused with a pronounced, dreamy foggy purple and very light indigo ambience streams through the glass. In one corner, a cozy reading nook glows with warm amber light and fragile potted plants. Opposite, a bare grey wall is slashed by a harsh beam of midday sun. A few carefully placed minimalist furniture pieces, including a sleek mid-century sideboard and a slender standing lamp, enhance the room while maintaining a subtle, serene emptiness. Floating high and inexplicably near the upper center of the room is a fluffy orange tabby cat, looking at us with a lovely, gentle expression, casting clear, well-defined shadows of its floating form on both the wooden floor and the bare grey wall. Heavy impasto brushstrokes, melancholic and contemplative atmosphere, visible textured paint, inspired by Claude Monet and Joaquín Sorolla. Subtle artist signature "Alvaro" in the bottom right corner, no other text or watermarks.
Prompt: watercolor portrait of a luminous woman, voluminous flowing auburn hair, with light gold highlights, drifting like soft storm clouds, deep Dark-Sea-Green eyes, intricate braids, ethereal beauty with Rosy-Brown nail polish, wearing a flowing bohemian maxi-skirt in shades of earth, blue florals and, with intricate greens, patchwork patterns, soft fabric textures, seated in a warm tapestry-filled interior, layered textiles and draped fabrics gently swaying, off-shoulder garment, resting nearby, wide-brimmed sun hat placed in the corner, natural sunlight streaming in, soft warm lighting illuminating her serene and timeless expression, calm relaxed atmosphere, intimate composition, golden ratio framing, delicate brush strokes, highly detailed watercolor texture, soft edges, artistic, dreamy, 8k, ultra-detailed, elegant, painterly style detailed painting
Prompt: High-angle shot shows a quiet street in a European city on a sunny day with scattered clouds, with parked cars on the left and colorful residential buildings on the right. Rows of bare trees stand along the sidewalk between the buildings and the street, casting long shadows. A white car is parked in the foreground on the left, next to other parked cars. The asphalt road is marked with white lines and has some wet patches. In the background, other streets and buildings can be seen under a blue sky.
Dream Level: is increased each time when you "Go Deeper" into the dream. Each new level is harder to achieve and
takes more iterations than the one before.
Rare Deep Dream: is any dream which went deeper than level 6.
Deep Dream
You cannot go deeper into someone else's dream. You must create your own.
Deep Dream
Currently going deeper is available only for Deep Dreams.
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