I forgot to mention...it was about the size of a normal head, or very slightly smaller, from that distance, in both instances.

Neat experience Blink! Maybe it has something to do with the picture?

Ryan

it occurred to me when reading that it appeared next to the picture, that there was a connection, like Juditha and Ryan already said. so let us know, it could be that a Greek artist had another life in a linear sense is related or came back as an artist in another time in which the painting was done then.

the more I think about it Blink, the more it seems what you saw was a thought form. have you ever read anything about thought forms? I've a pamplet on the shapes and colors of emotional thought forms. also theres psychometry to consider. Psychometry is done by usually holding an object and seeing if there are any images come to mind through nonphysical senses, using touch, however, I would say seeing images is very close to psychometry as images are seen in both cases; you must be using the 3rd eye chakra where things are imaged.
the only reason I say this is you had no feeling a spirit was around to give a message. although thats still possible there was someone in the background assisting your 3rd eye.
I've seen camera lens pick up auras around objects which is an energy field, all humans have an aura field of various sizes and colors according to their thought forms and emotions.
and objects give off a stationary type energy field, sometimes just an emanation of light.

I'm still going with that the original artist has attached this energy to the object. such energy of thought is indestructible, although we tend to think thought forms fade away into nothing over years of time, they don't really, they may get weaker or transmute into something else if interfered with, but energy is energy is light is light and is not as degradable, say, as is material items subject to deteriation process occurs in material plane. every item has an astral energy counterpart.

for skeptical scientist type folks there is a human ability to hullicinate but Blink's experience seems not to be that because she has been developing herself.
once when I was around 4 or 5 I believe I hallucinated a ghost just to see if I could. I saw an abandoned house across the street and wished hard to see a ghost. I pumped up excitement to go along with it. after a few minutes I saw a white filmy form pass back and forth in the window I was focusing on. then it just stood there as if making sure I noticed it. I do believe in spirits, naturally, since I do retrievals, but in this case I believe I experimented with my mind's capability.

let me know if your meditation yields anything up. love, alysia

Another thing strikes me. The photos next to the Van Gogh art print hanging on the wall are of upper torsos with heads attached (of course....).

I'm trying to remember exactly what I saw the other day. You know, it gets more difficult with time so everyone should write every detail of these things down immediately! I did not.

I do remember that the frontal face was just that...a face. Seems very economical, on reflection. Just enough to get my full attention but nothing superfluous, and nothing, incidentally, to place a date on the individual. Perhaps this was just something to get my attention and nothing else!

Kind of like a magician delighting you with his tricks....

love, blink

Hi Blink, Alysia and everyone,
don't know if this relates to Blink's experience, however, I remember Robert Bruce telling in "Astral Dynamics" about a special form of OBE where he went into pictures, as if these were 3D reality. From what he told (he has his own nomenclature) it seems to me that one can step inside a space which is created, fed, from different sources, as: the current impressions (sensual inputs like pictures etc, thoughts, emotions), unconscious things, and things coming from elsewhere.
The last point is tricky. Probably the best indicator for being of this category is what Bruce (Moen) called the "unexpected", part of this is the feeling that it has a life of it's own.

Spooky

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