The Faces of Samara
Assigned to: Identity Pod (Roz, Alan, Dmitriy, Trent)
Reviewed by RS 14/4/21: additions >> Thanks! JS
Would this be a place to speak about guests for Samara, as there were some people who kind of influenced Samara in many ways, Rich Bartlett, Emily etc.
Roz: I'm not sure about the value added by this page. I love the gorgeous synchronicity of Joachim seeing the Hilma af Klint Alterpiece, but the title "The Faces of Samara" doesn't quite seem to connect with that, and at the moment we only have one Face of Samara - although I have now provisionally added the para about Gabriele Seewald to this page, moving it from the Origins page.
I would maybe prefer to call this page something like "Synchronicities of Samara", although then it doesn't rhyme with The Places of Samara.
Hilma Af Klint
Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) was a Swedish painter and mystic whose paintings resonate in a strange way with Samara. Her work predates the first purely abstract compositions by Kandinsky, Klee or Mondrian (!) and we came across Hilma Af Klint after the first call with conscious coach, Emily Lane, who uses the image known as Group X, No. 1, Altarpiece (1915) in her work to represent the yin (the circle) and yang (the triangle), and has a print hanging on the wall behind her during video calls.
Below are some highlights of Hilma af Klint's work - be sure to view the introductory video in the presentation.
Joachim Stroh happened to see the exhibition at the Guggenheim in New York City at that time and stood (for several minutes) in front of the very same painting that Emily Lane had used to explain the Being and Doing energies of Samara.
According to this website, "The three Altarpiece works were the final series in the 'Paintings of the Temple' collection and are possibly inspired by Theosophy’s version of evolutionary theory, in which evolution occurs in two directions, elevating from the physical to the spiritual and descending from the divine to the material world."
Gabriele Seewald
In late March 2021, we were trying to purchase the domain name samara.earth, but were surprised and disappointed to find that it had already been taken. Rieki did some quick sleuthing and found that it had been acquired by a Gabriele Seewald of Taiwan in January 2021. I (Roz) offered to contact her via LinkedIn.
To cut a long story short, Gabriele turned out to be passionate about the Samara name, which had come to her via a friend who had been practising Yoga of Samara, allegedly arising in the Samara Valley of Russia. (I have not been able to verify the existence of the yoga practice, but there is indeed a Samara Valley, the site of an ancient culture [1]).
Gabi, a deeply spiritual woman, has a strong sense that Samara is an emerging being, connected with Mother Nature or Gaia, who is going to manifest in various forms across the world at this time. She was not at all surprised to hear from me, and to find that our Samara, like her Samara (a health centre in her native Austria) is rooted in the idea of a regenerative civilisation.
Our conversations with Gabi are still continuing as of April 2021, and future collaboration seems likely, as we continue to explore what this Samara-being longs to become.