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posted October 31, 2009 03:08 PM         

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I'm not a believer of indigo children, but there is something different and very special about this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNCRYMwKBVU&NR=1
http://www.artakiane.com/home.html
http://akiane.com/articles.html

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posted October 31, 2009 08:00 PM         

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She's awesome, I've looked at her artwork before and it's moved me to tears.

Felt a bit uneasy when she started talking about God and Jesus a lot in the first video link, but I used to feel that way too as a child, maybe I just lost the connection.

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posted October 31, 2009 08:11 PM         

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From "Footsteps Of Eternity" painting, what she wrote beside it (see gallery): http://www.artakiane.com/gallery.html

Footsteps Of Eternity

The following theory is based only on my own interpretation of my childhood memories and experiences. Those are not final conclusions or convictions, but just my presumptions. There could be countless other explanations about reality, equally valid…

Many of us suspect that we had seen a better world than this one, our true home somewhere we had been living. Our desire for excellence, for peace, for enlightenment, for wisdom and love is the vague reminiscence of that perfect place we had come from.

Our craving for great architecture, aesthetic surroundings, comfort, and loving relationships stems from the forgotten source of abundance. It is as if we are constantly comparing the two states, but rarely feeling full contentment.

Our yearning for profound connections is always inside us, but this world often does not meet our expectations. Even those who completely forgot our past keep on striving for perfection as a compass.

But those who vividly remember it, as I had in my childhood, experience conflicting emotions, on one hand, reassurance about our infinite destiny and the purpose of our earthly journey, on another hand – missing our home, and the sharp contrasts between different dimensions.

No matter what hardships we endure here, it is probable that we forgot that long time ago we ourselves had volunteered to experience them. Only if we participated in making such decisions, life could truly be just. And why exactly we decided to experience so many difficulties and even tragedies I do not remember.

However, I believe we are not given more than we had agreed upon. Sometimes we are given more than we can handle, perhaps for the purpose of changing others, since our wisdom depends on the growth of everyone.

I often see life as a stage. From my earlier recollections, this stage is like a virtual reality film, but on the most advanced state. We can choose to either observe it or participate in it on many levels. In a way, we write our own script.

Love cannot allow so much misery unless we ourselves agree to experience it. It is often lonely to be separated from the divine guidance and understanding. We feel alone here making so many mistakes and discoveries. When we return back to our ‘Real home’, we all will engage in many interesting discussions…

Since time does not exist in heaven, and there are infinite worlds unknown to man, certain lives here on earth and there in heaven are happening at the same time. When I was little, I felt that I was just a visitor here on earth and my permanent home was in heaven.

According to my journal, where my experiences were recorded, I had chosen my own earthly parents, my own name and watched even my own development as a child.

Footsteps of Eternity is based on a few of my recorded early childhood experiences. Asked by my mother how long I had been away during my visionary visits to heaven, I tried to assure her this way: “I have never been away. I am there in heaven right now and watching myself here talking with you. You see, I cannot remember ever being separate from anyone. You are just my earthly parents, but we all have agreed to live together in this life here on earth. It is like a life school. My body there is so light .We all have wished to experience it, and here I am.

Two women are actually one and the same person but the one on the ground is experiencing life here on earth and the other one on the left is living in heaven through other dimensions including this world. She is pouring the liquid hope on her other Self which I used the mysterious gold dust that materialized in front of my eyes.

The patterns of dresses symbolize footsteps of eternity. The black pattern on the white dress mean black footsteps of finite life in the white purity of eternal divinity.

The white pattern on the black dress indicate the divine footsteps of infinite life on the dark and challenging finite life.

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posted October 31, 2009 08:26 PM         

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Like what her mum has to say on children focussing on their chosen talent:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNV0vV5vBWA

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posted October 31, 2009 08:45 PM         

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Her beliefs?
http://www.nicenetruth.com/2009/05/akiane-the-blessed-child.html

Karen Lindell
Akiane Kramarik, a self-taught teen painter-poet will visit the Ojai Valley Inn on July 18. She’s been featured on Oprah, CNN, Time and more for her realistic paintings, many of them with religious themes. She started drawing at age 4 and writing extremely sophisticated poetry at age 7.

Oprah Winfrey eyed the tiger.
“Tell us about this painting,” she said to her talk-show guest, Akiane Kramarik, pointing to the 9-year-old’s realistic rendering of a majestic tiger.
“I like the fur because it’s orange, because orange reminds me of listening,” Akiane said.
“How so?” the puzzled Winfrey asked. “I’m missing that point.”
“Because when you look at the sunset it’s orange, and you then listen to the birds.”
“Oh, OK,” Winfrey replied. “That — that makes perfect sense now that you’ve explained it.”
But Akiane doesn’t “explain” things, at least not in traditional ways. She paints, and writes poetry about, what she sees and feels.
Besides, how do you explain God? No one, not even Oprah Winfrey, can do that.
And much of what Akiane sees comes from God. Now 15, she’s been on intimate terms with God since she was 4, when she began having visions of and conversations with him.
“He talks mostly in colors and images,” she said. “I am painting and writing what God shows me. Each inch I paint in my canvas — whether it’s about pain, joy or mystery — is meaningful and directed by God.”
The subject of the “Oprah” episode on which Akiane appeared, which aired Oct. 21, 2003, was “The World’s Most Talented Kids.”
Really talented — not just talent-show talented.
Akiane (pronounced ah-kee-ah-nuh) is referred to as a child prodigy — although she’s uncomfortable with the term — whose dual talents are art and poetry.
She has a few side talents, too. She knows four languages (English, Lithuanian, Russian and sign language) and has started composing music. Many in New Age and religious circles consider her a “prophetess” because of her visions. Oh, and she’s also a philanthropist who donates proceeds from sales of her art to children’s charities.
Coming to Ojai
The painter-poet-altruist, now 15, will appear Sunday afternoon at the Ojai Valley Inn & Spa as part of the resort’s Arts & Leisure Masters of Perfection guest speaker series.
“Prodigy” might be debatable (see sidebar), but even Akiane can’t deny her prodigious output of work.
She started drawing at age 4 after her first God encounter, switched to painting at 6 and added poetry at 7. She home-schools herself and has never taken a formal art lesson, but her paintings — of biblical figures, children, animals, nature, herself and sometimes more abstract subjects — are nothing like the free-spirited Crayola scribblings of a child.
By the time Akiane appeared on Oprah’s show, her detailed, realistic paintings were fetching $25,000. She now charges $100,000 to $1 million for her original works, and $1,800 to $10,000 for limited-edition prints.
Her poems, which simply come to her — sometimes she doesn’t even know what the words mean — often accompany her paintings.
A little girl’s sing-song rhymes? Hardly. The first poem she wrote, titled “Searching for Rainbows,” ends with these lines:
Like color-blind ospreys searching for rainbows
We search for divine strength alone
Covered with wasps we walk in God’s shadow
If we die with the smile — we journey home
The sweet, soft-spoken girl from a small town in northern Idaho became a minor celebrity after receiving Winfrey’s golden talk-show touch. She’s since appeared on CNN, “Good Morning America” and “World News Tonight with Peter Jennings,” among other shows, and in publications around the world. She was featured, along with three other child artists, for a piece in Time magazine titled “Pint-Size Picassos,” and her art has been on display in galleries around the country.
She’s published two books, “Akiane, Her Life, Her Art, Her Poetry,” co-written with her mother, and “Akiane: My Dream Is Bigger than I.” She’s working on a third, she said, that will “follow up on what’s happened since I was 11.”
The years before then didn’t follow the usual trajectory for a child’s first decade.
Akiane — named after the Russian word for “ocean” — began her visionary and artistic journey at age 4, with a whisper.
“Today I met God,” she told her mother, Foreli, in hushed tones one morning.
OK, so any 4-year-old who’s been to church might make such a claim, but according to her mother, Akiane had never even heard the word “God.”
Foreli and her husband, Markus, were atheists. The Kramariks didn’t have a TV, and Akiane and her brothers were home-schooled, so “God” wasn’t part of their lexicon.
When Foreli, startled, asked her daughter what God was, Akiane replied, “God is light — warm and good. It knows everything and talks with me.”
After that first vision, she began sharing details of her visits with God, which to her were very real.
“Sometimes she sounded like an older woman — not because of her voice but because of her total sincerity, her strangely compelling comments, and her broad vocabulary,” Foreli said.
Inspired by what God had shown and told her, Akiane sketched figures and portraits on walls, windows, furniture, books and her own legs and arms and smeared walls with charcoal. Soon she picked up oils and acrylics and taught herself how to use them. She had no interest in taking an art class or visiting art museums, her mother said.
Akiane’s first painting sold for $10,000, after her parents contacted an art dealer to represent her.
Religious moments
One of Akiane’s most talked-about paintings is “Prince of Peace,” a realistic portrait of Jesus.
Her quest to find a live model for the painting has twinges of “The Twilight Zone.” Akiane, after praying for many months to find a person who matched the vision of Jesus that God had shown her, opened the door one day to a neighbor who introduced her to a friend — a carpenter, just like the real Jesus, except he was wearing jeans and a white T-shirt.
Akiane transformed her family’s lack of faith. “Our family never talked about religion, never prayed together, and never went to any church,” Foreli said. “But that changed after Akiane began sharing her visions.”
Yet, although some of her most well-known paintings depict Jesus and Mary, Akiane is not wedded to Christianity, and her family doesn’t attend a particular church.
“I don’t really belong to any religion,” she said. “We used to go to all different kinds of churches. Now we have home church. It’s more like a conversation about religion, love and unity. The easiest way to say it is, ‘I belong to God.’ I accept all faiths.”
Spirituality, though, infuses her paintings, whatever the subject. In “The Planted Eyes,” for example, a portrait of an African woman (which Winfrey said on the 2003 show was her favorite), “I wanted to express the beauty and the suffering of the black race. You can see the whole life of this African woman in her eyes, which are full of strength and spirituality.”
“Faith,” which she painted at age 9, depicts a little Asian girl she met who had been abandoned. “I knew at once that I would paint her in an empty field, away from the big city, where she’d find God and love for the first time,” Akiane said. “I dedicate this painting to all the abandoned babies and children.”
Akiane, as she’s matured into an articulate but still gentle teen who giggles a lot, is filling her head, heart and art with a kaleidoscope of visions.
“My mind has grown up,” she said. “When I was younger I really only saw one road. I only had one subject: Jesus, Mary, Heaven. Now I see so many roads I have to explore — different cultures, backgrounds, religions. I’m going inside people’s minds, seeing different dimensions. And I just painted a Hindu monk.”
She paused, then added, “It’s so neat to combine everyone’s religion.”
http://www.sudanvisiondaily.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=47270

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