Author: Mark Ruffner

  • A Prayer for Annibale Carracci

    Some years ago, I was working on a mural project that incorporated references to the great painter of the late Renaissance, Annibale Carracci (1560-1609). As I gathered pictorial reference, I also started reading about Carracci’s life and his sad ending. The artist was commissioned to paint the ceiling of the Palazzo Farnese, the palace of…

  • An Exercise for Protection

    A powerful exercise for protection from all forms of lower consciousness is to visualize yourself completely surrounded within the highest form of consciousness, which can be beautifully imagined (or imaged in) as God’s bright white Light. Within that Light, nothing that is not of Love can penetrate. Therefore, when you see yourself thus completely engulfed…

  • Stimulating the Third Eye

    Why do I rub my forehead in a clockwise motion when I am concentrating? This motion is at the level of the third eye, and you are intuitively or instinctively generating the chakra of the third eye, both to remember what you are reading or thinking, and to understand.