Cempaka Belanda: Dutch masterpieces seal bond with Turkey

"A Summary" – Apr 2, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Religion, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Intelligent/Benevolent Design, EU, South America, 5 Currencies, Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Middle East, Internet, Israel, Dictators, Palestine, US, Japan (Quake/Tsunami Disasters , People, Society ...), Nuclear Power Revealed, Hydro Power, Geothermal Power, Moon, Financial Institutes (Recession, Realign integrity values ..) , China, North Korea, Global Unity,..... etc.) - (Text version)

"The Timing of the Great Shift" – Mar 21, 2009 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Text version)

“ … Here is another one. A change in what Human nature will allow for government. "Careful, Kryon, don't talk about politics. You'll get in trouble." I won't get in trouble. I'm going to tell you to watch for leadership that cares about you. "You mean politics is going to change?" It already has. It's beginning. Watch for it. You're going to see a total phase-out of old energy dictatorships eventually. The potential is that you're going to see that before 2013.
They're going to fall over, you know, because the energy of the population will not sustain an old energy leader ..."

"Update on Current Events" – Jul 23, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: The Humanization of God, Gaia, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Benevolent Design, Financial Institutes (Recession, System to Change ...), Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Nuclear Power Revealed, Geothermal Power, Hydro Power, Drinking Water from Seawater, No need for Oil as Much, Middle East in Peace, Persia/Iran Uprising, Muhammad, Israel, DNA, Two Dictators to fall soon, Africa, China, (Old) Souls, Species to go, Whales to Humans, Global Unity,..... etc.)

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Dutch masterpieces seal bond with Turkey

RNW, 21 February 2012, by Bram Vermeulen

(Rijksmuseum Amsterdam)

Several museums in Istanbul are holding major exhibitions of famous Dutch paintings to mark 400 years of diplomatic relations between Turkey and the Netherlands. Ties between the two countries go back to 1612, when Cornelis Haga presented his credentials to Sultan Ahmet I as the first ambassador the Dutch Republic sent to the Ottoman Empire.

The dark galleries of Istanbul’s Sabanci Museum are now being lit up by Golden Age masters – including Rembrandt, Vermeer, Jan Lievens and Jan Steen – from Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, which has been closed for several years due to a much delayed renovation.

Over 100 works, carefully packed in climate controlled cases, have been flown to Istanbul, where the Rijksmuseum’s director of collections, Taco Dibbits, opens them with visible excitement. “One’s heart beats faster once the works arrive—and when one sees people here react to the collection.”

Van Gogh

Suddenly Dutch art is everywhere in Istanbul. A slideshow in the old Golden Horn port recounts the life of Vincent van Gogh. Istanbul Modern is showing a collection from Rotterdam’s Boijmans van Beuningen museum. Eindhoven’s Van Abbemuseum and the new Salt museum, located in the city’s busiest shopping street, are putting on a joint exhibition. Close by, the Pera museum has staged “The Chamber of Levantine Commerce: Dutch merchants and Ottoman sultans.” Despite Geert Wilders’ anti-Islam Freedom Party, despite the ongoing integration debate or the lame discussion surrounding Turkey’s possible accession to the European Union, in Turkey’s former capital Dutch and Turkish citizens are seeking each others’ company.

The Rijksmuseum’s curator of seventeenth-century Dutch painting, Pieter Roelofs, has selected the paintings on display in Istanbul to reveal the way Dutch masters absorbed Ottoman culture. Jan Lievens and Rembrandt, for instance, were fascinated by the Oriental men ambling through Amsterdam’s city centre donning rich robes and gaudy turbans. Amid the black attire favoured by the Dutch, one couldn’t fail to spot them, Roelofs notes. “In their depictions of Old Testament scenes, the Dutch masters used Turkish models. The Oriental was a type, a source of inspiration to represent everything that was exotic.”

Isfahan

The careful observer will notice, in the paintings, the presence of Ottoman carpets, as well as influences from beyond the Ottoman Empire. One of the paintings on display, by Jan Baptist Weenix, depicts a visit by the Dutch ambassador to Isfahan, in what is now Iran. The point was, Mr Roelofs says, to show certain commonalities between the paintings and the place where they are being displayed.

Roelofs says he is fascinated by a view of Amsterdam’s IJ, the capital’s old waterfront, painted by Ludolf Bakhuizen in 1673. “This is where ships berthed from all over the world, where news arrived about the fate of husbands and loved ones. The sea brought riches just as it took lives.”

Turkey’s Golden Age

Standing on the Galata Bridge, Roelof says, one is overwhelmed by the same awe. Ferries shuttle back and forth between the European and Asian shores as huge ocean liners file past the palaces dating back to Ottoman times. While Europe slowly decays, Turkey’s economy grows apace, Roelof broods. “Surely this is Turkey’s own Golden Age.”