This is a new spiritual sunset painting from my art studio near the beach in North Devon UK.
Its physical form is inspired by the beautiful beaches and Ocean light of the coasts by my studio which sits just 2 fields away from a huge landscape of sand dunes and beyond the beaches and wonderful light of the West Coast of England.
The Energetics of the painting are grounded in my Spiritual Energy Paintings from India. The amazing light of these paintings draws you in and the sunset gives off a wonderful feeling.
The Light is beautifully captured and the real Gold Leaf creates a wonderful effect which changes with the light of the day reflecting the light back to you in an ever changing form.
You can buy this painting from my Sunset Art website but it is quite large so its expensive. There are other sunset paintings which are cheaper and smaller
This collection of paintings were mostly painted in India and in my Studio in the UK.
They all relate to energy points in the body. I find looking at them clears and illuminates those energy centres.
If you are very sensitive I hope you will be able to sense the energy behind them. They work from the Base chakra up to where I connect to God at the highest point I can wherever that is.
Spiritual Energy Paintings
This is the collection of the first energy paintings working from the base chakra up through to a connection with God at the top.
The 2 faces at the bottom are of Meher Baba from India and are not part of the energy series they just fitted nicely in the gaps and he was the inspiration for this part of the collection..
It was not until I wrote this book that it fully dawned on me that perhaps life and God were one and the same. The only difference is the interpretation or spin we put around God, whether he is some great power, being, energy, creative force, huge universal power, great soul, or just the God we all know from our religions and scholared texts. It seems pretty obvious in some ways that all life is God, dependent on God and is God. Without this great power nothing could ever come into existence. However the mind has a very difficult time accepting that life really is just God and not some product of its own thoughts and actions, instigated by mind, with God demoted to a casual observer. All the chaos, fretting, regretting and planning are the whirings of the mind which deceive us into thinking we rule life, blinding us to the real facts of true life. This book haphazardly follows a trail through my life, coloured with some of my experiences along the way. It tries to chart how living life, following intuition, unwittingly changed to following life knowingly, knowing that there was a guiding force which I could feel, my own intuition or inner knowing. It was as this developed I began to be aware of a faint inner voice. As time passed, so the voice and feelings overtook the judgment of my own mind, until eventually an idea was hatched, to try a great experiment. This experiment was to live from intuition alone, by placing mind in the back seat of life, where it has reluctantly remained ever since. By looking back on past experiences I have drawn all I know together to try to reason and solve the puzzle of life, by learning to distinguish Life and God, Mind and Heart, inner promptings from outer chatter, foolish whim from inner guidance. Throughout this time, my experiences have been ever changing and progressing. There has never been a solid piece of ground from which to look back and truly know. All that I have come to know is to constantly apply ‘reason’ to all that I have felt and heard, to try and make sense of the path once mind is left behind. The process has been on going and I have been constantly learning. Even though I think I have come a long way, there is nothing about living with God that I can say or teach with any great certainty. It is a vague, fluid concept, hard to pin down, like following a path in total darkness. You can only feel the edge of the path, where you are, to act as guidance, but as hard as you try to think, you cannot be certain about the direction ahead. You can plan and speculate and extrapolate the old path in your mind to project what you think is the future path, but you can never be sure. It all comes down to feeling tempered by constant reasoning. I have met many spiritually advanced people along the way and even those with heightened perception still suffer the same folly of not quite knowing, although they know a lot they still don’t know it all.
It is a very rare person, so rare as to be unfindable, that is not deceived into thinking that they really do think they know what they truly can’t
Where was I was closest to Spiritual Love? There are 2 places in the world where I have got the closest to the bliss of Spiritual Love and the most memorable. There have been incredible glimpses in all sorts of places, but these 2 stand out.
My first encounter started in India when I went round the world for 9 months completely detached from my normal English life. The spiritual energy and the culture shock of India on my young naive mind really gave me an incredible push and after that trekking in Nepal gave a brief glimpse of bliss and detachment, at the end of the trek, which I completed with my wife despite both of us being quite ill. From their we journeyed onto Thailand and it was here I really felt at home. I was waking at 5am doing Yoga and then Tai Chi. The moving between countries and the different cultures was helping detach me from my past, clearing old patterns and opening my mind to other possibilities. On the island of Koh Phangan we were in a a bamboo and palm leaf thatched hut on a remote headland on Bottle Beach, only reachable by boat. Before sunrise I would do Yoga and Thai Chi and then swim or walk to the restaurant for breakfast. It was a Robinson Crusoe type experience in my boy like mind. I felt so at home there despite the heat and then one day walking down the bamboo walkway to the restaurant I felt elevated as if lifted by my crown and total bliss for just a moment maybe a few seconds. But I never forgot it.
I meditated and tried many times to find that level of bliss again but seemed to reach only the same place. It was very peaceful, very calming, beautiful but not the same level of bliss and no matter what I tried I could not progress beyond it.
The next time I experienced this special form of bliss, experiencing it in many ways and learned about Spiritual Love both on the inside and outside was when I first visited Meherabad and Meher Baba’s Tomb Shrine. India was a special place to me and the spiritual energy was wonderful, but this place was on another level entirely so full of inner love. The tomb itself was incredible and allowed a much deeper spiritual connection and clearing of old patterns.
This peace, bliss and love I also get from some of the books about Meher Baba and so I wanted to share the books which I find so special. It’s not so much the words, the stories or about Meher Baba himself but its the gaps in between the words, the feelings. Just read the books and let the feelings emerge from the pages, it’s a wonderful experience.
Here are the books I have found so special and you can read many of them for free online.
The Biographies of Meher Baba which is many volumes and documents Meher Baba’s life which is quite incredible in itself. I have met the disciple Bhau who wrote this and he lived closely with Meher Baba. While I did not find myself attracted to him, the writings themselves have such a wonderful feeling behind the worlds I have read all of the volumes 2 or 3 times.
Eruch was a man I saw many times but foolishly only met once when he grabbed me and gave me a wonderful hug. Its was quite incredible and stars appeared to float around my head and eyes in a most blissful manner. After realising what a special guy he was, I missed my chance as I he died shortly after leaving me wishing I had spent more time with him. He was dedicated to and spoke for Meher Baba who was silent and only communicated in sign language. One of his books about him living with Meher baba is That’s How it Was
Intimate Times Guruprasad by Bal Natu is one of my favourites to read. Bal was a wonderful man who wrote about his times with Meher Baba at Guruprasad in India. I met him many times and he was so genuine, thoughtful and helpful. He wrote a few books about Meher Baba but this one I felt had so many moments and lessons in Spiritual Love for me that it is one of my favourites. The feelings emitted from reading this book I find really beautiful.
Blue Bus Tours are a wonderful book & The New Life both have beautiful moments in and feel wonderful to read.
My friend likes to read God Speaks written by Meher Baba and he advised everyone to read it at least once, but I really did not get on with this book and struggled to read it finding it a bit dry but Baba intimated something was hidden in the words.
This is a small booklet about Hazrat Babajan a female perfect master in India who worked with Meher Baba.
This is a little booklet I picked up when I went to visit Upasni Maharaj and I find it a real little gem about getting closer to God. Book by Upasni Maharaj
There are many more books about Meher Baba and just some of them are here. Some of the newer ones are only available in print and are quite expensive.
This is the start of my Spiritual Love Blog about my life discovering Spiritual Love. It’s my story and my spiritual experience of how I tried to live with god. From my very limited perspective and knowledge I give you my story, the assumptions I have made and conclusions I have made. They are mostly neither correct or factual but I have tried to keep it honest. These experiences have been mine and so are subjective to me. I hope seeing them woven into life will help you make more sense of your life. And if you are trying to lead a more spiritual life, letting the inner guide the outer, I hope these insights of mine help you see through the haze, challenge the mind, oversee the mind and start to understand the vaguer guidance of the inner guide so it can come from the rear guard to the front and lead the way home.
I’ve tried to use God as a general term covering various Gods of religions and also God in infinite form, Light pure, Spiritual light, Pure Soul, Over Soul, Infinite One etc and God in other languages. God is just the shortest description and as I am English its my most familiar term. I distinguish this view of God from Clairevoyant Claire audience or the occult where the focus is through the third eye into the astral which I find to be just another part of life but without the body’s physical existence and for me a distraction. Whereas God I find as infinite, pure, all power,all encompassing oneness and to find him is in a different direction to the Astral or beyond it. The astral still remains in the duality of consciousness. It is not one or pure so this is something I do experience at times but my focus remains on God.
I have had many experiences and spent much time both in inner work and outer visits to India with Meher Baba, Sai Baba of Shirdi and Babajan and so I do recommend looking into some of the most extensive writings by Meher Baba and his close Disciples. There is little written by Babajan and Sai Baba of Shirdi. I have also had inner contact with Upasni Maharaj who also lived near Shirdi and there are some writings from him which are interesting but I find Meher Baba the most extensive and most interesting to read and these works have helped me greatly understand Spiritual Love for God.
Spiritual Love is about finding true love in the spiritual realms. It’s about love of your spiritual connection, God, Master or Realised Fully Enlightened Guru or guide.
It’s not about psychic connections or connections to a guide or master who is not fully enlightened. Its about your relationship with God or your most deepest inner soul. It’s an energy connection of pure love into the spiritual realms.
This is about my story and experience finding and deepening my inner spiritual connections and coming to terms with inner Bliss and True Love and what needs to be cleared and worked on to make room so this pure form of Love can enter.
This form of Love is not about loving a friend or family member it’s a Love which is pure and cannot be manufactured. It’s all around us but we have to let go enough to let it in and this is what this is about.
I’ve been writing about Spiritual Love Spiritual and painting it for 30 years. You can see some of my previous experiences below. I have gained great inner and outer help from visiting and reading about Meher Baba and the Five Perfect Masters who lived in India during the 19th Century.
But be warned, this is not about improving your life, material satisfaction, personal love life or creating fairness or even a more enjoyable life. It’s about wanting less, needing less and acceptance and letting go which may or may not be helpful in the real physical world we live in. Its not about giving up responsibilities or jobs or chores but of giving up your inner wants and needs and slowing the mind so the Bliss and Love permeates and shines through everything.
This Blog is about my experiences and thoughts. Don’t rely on it. Don’t believe it. Don’t follow it. Its full of spellings and typos and no one has proof read it. Just read the story and pick up on the underlying energy. Thats what its about.
Below are some links to other ways I have tried to capture this abundant spiritual energy I am following.
I wrote a short book on my journey of trying to live life by following only God’s inner guidance. You can read Pete’s books on his journey through Spiritual Love
You can see my Prints of Spiritual Master and Avatar of the age as Meher Baba Paintings where I find great Spiritual Love & The Samadhi at Meherabad
I also work commercially as an artist and you can see some of my art as Free eCards
Take a look at my website www.petecaswell.co.uk which is dedicated mostly to ski art where I love to be in the snowy mountains to ski and snowboard and also some sunsets of the oceans where I love to sail, swim and surf.
Spiritual Love & Surfing at my local beach at sunset
