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Kip Herring Artist & Truthseeker

Awake in the Dream & Back in my Village

About Me


www.KipHerring.com Click the link to see more art. My website needs serious updates. Stay tuned - I might be changing things soon.
This page is for fun and a bit of my expression. Obviously, I have a few pieces of my artwork displayed here, as well as some personal thoughts on life in general. Although my time here is limited, I'll enjoy hearing from you.
I'm just a *simple guy who lives a very simplified life in Missoula Montana. I love people, but tend to be reclusive. Painting is my outlet, as well as writing.Welcome to this little realm of mine...
* DISCLAIMER... simple guy is relative, and does not include times of major complex moods, abstract thoughts, conspiracy theories and outright spaciness.
PLEASE READ -Due to increasing spam and phishing, I ask that you send me an email message if you'd like to be added as a friend. If you're really interested in adding me, then I trust you've read this. Thank you!
If you'd like to use my artwork on your page, please feel free.
"Sacred Love"
Oil on textured board
48 x 36
What it means to be Vegan
"Valley of the Sun"
Oil on textured board
36 x 48
"Jewel"
Pastel
It was love at first sight.
She whispers to me in the sweet breezes,
and am touched by her continual peaceful presence.
She has never expected anything of me,
but always allows me to feel whole and complete.
And now, my love for her has only grown,
and our relationship, is sacred.
Although there have been times I neglected her,
she was always waiting for me when I returned.
When I was angry,
she gave me peace.
When I was sad,
she gave me comfort.
When I was confused,
she cleared my mind.
Her very essence is quiet and nurturing,
she mirrors my soul.
Her name is Gaia, and she is my unconditional lover.
I call her Nature,
and she will always be with me,
and I, with her
2006 Kip Herring
"Celestial Sunset" Pastel
,
"A Winters Dream"
Pastel

My Interests

Truth, Peace, Nature, Veganism, Late Night Campfires and the conversations it stirs up, Space, Earth, UFO's, Meteorology, Quantum Physics, Trippy Music, Fantasy/Traditional Art, exploring possibilities, exploring backcountry mountains/deserts (& desserts), Balance, Archeology, Ancient Civilizations, Solitude, Coast to Coast with Art Bell/George Noory www.coasttocoastam.com, Exploring the fringes of reality, Beauty traditional & non, Laughing uncontrollably over simple things, good friends, picking random phrases and switching the first letters of the words around, meeting like-minded people, meeting visiters from other places, Dark Chocolate, creating perfect moments with kindred souls, and transcending USA incorporated - it's so against my very nature. Lets live in a tribe where we only exchange our talents and services!! No Money! :)

"Nirvana"
Oil on textured canvas
36 x 48

I'd like to meet:

Open-minded beings and fellow truthseekers...& myself without social conditioning. Please be somewhat real, with an actual photo of you, your real age, and some description of yourself. It's just more personal that way.

It's impossible to love your enemies. But, it's easy not to have any. - Kip

"The Secret Grove"
Pastel

About this years elections...

Does it matter who we vote for unless our votes are actually counted?...and will it matter who's in office if two parties can't agree from where to order lunch?

Electing a new president hoping they will cure the nations problems is like an AIDS patient taking an aspirin and expecting to be healed.

We need to break down the government... lord knows they don't represent me in the least, and it makes me so happy that my money is used for killing inocent people... men with the face of my brother, women with the face of my lover, and children with the face of my child. What place is this that we call home?

Let's just relax for a bit

No offense if you're not displayed here on my friends list... How could I categorize you? I'm not going to sit here and rank you... too petty. You're my friend thats all that matters! :D

JUST ENJOY THE MUSIC & SOME OTHER THINGS I LIKE :)

Music:

In general:

World
Ethnic
Trance
Ambient
Electronica
Classic/Contemp-folk/rock
Independent Artists, etc.

Internet Radio:

RadioParadise.com (awesome eclectic mix)

DI.fm Vocal Trance
DI.fm Euro Trance
DI.fm Tribal House
DI.fm Chillout
DI.fm Ambient
Sky.fm World
Sky.fm New Age
(DI.fm is just cool & Sky.fm same people)

Just A FEW of current favs:

David Gray
John Mayer
K T Tunstall
Jack Johnson
Crowded House/Finn Brothers
Counting Crows
Radiohead
Neko Case
Air
Zero 7
Conjure One
REM
Sleepthief
Azam Ali
Charanga Cakewalk
Marley
Au4
Hans Zimmer
Yanni - he's going vocal (big influence when I was younger)
Idan Raichel Project
Delerium
Blue Stone
Karunesh
Cybertribe
Enya always - In my opinion one of the most original, creatively-melodic & delicious vocal artist in my time.

Music is so much a part of my life, I look forward to finally recording sometime.

"Goddess Hathor"
Goddess of Music & Art
Mixed Media

Movies:



I Love independent & Foriegn films, and even some hollywood style. ( like great visuals) Some good ones:

The Secret of Roan Inish
INTO THE WILD (fantastic film)
Amelie (long time fav)
Contact (dito)
Harry Potter Series
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Stranger Than Fiction
The Prestige (Tesla fan here)
Da Vinci Code
Baraka
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Star Wars series
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (walked out of the theater with my dad, as a kid just mesmerized)
Indiana Jones
What the Bleep Do We Know (must see)
Office Space (still makes me roll)

"EarthMother"
Pastel

Television:

it sucks my brain... I don't usually enjoy something designed to control my mind. Give me a book instead.
About TV - It is so fun to watch, and an escape from whats real. It's so easy to turn on and veg in front of it, forgeting your worries...being entertained at the drop of a hat. It's designed to be fun...designed to be addictive. But try living without one... it's better than having one! Most people are surprised how much they get done... how much time they have... time to discover themselves. But don't worry... it's not like I'm gonna smack you for watching it! lol..
To educate oneself with real truth, one must look behind the veil of money-driven sources. - Kip
Visit Storyofstuff.com and watch the whole thing! Very educational.
Acurate description of how I feel much of the time.
Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet ~ Albert Einstein
We pray on Sundays that we may have light, to guide our footsteps on the path we tread. We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, and yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead ~ George Bernard Shaw
I am in favour of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being ~ Abraham Lincoln
Would you eat meat if it was YOU that caged, tortured & slaughtered defensless animals while they looked at you with pleading eyes? Can we really turn a blind eye? - Kip
"Quiet Storm"
Pastel

Books:

Thinking books that open awareness. (Not much time for anything else...except Harry Potter hehe)
Below: Neale Donald Walsh - from CWG 1
“What the soul is after is- the highest feeling of love you can imagine. This is the soul’s desire. This is it’s purpose. The soul is after the feeling. It already has the knowledge, but knowledge is conceptual. Feeling is experiential. The soul wants to feel itself, and thus to know itself in it’s own experience.
The highest feeling is the experience of unity with All That Is. This is the great return to Truth for which the soul yearns. This is the feeling of perfect love.
Perfect love is to feeling what perfect white is to color. Many think that white is the absence of color. It is not. It is the inclusion of all color. White is every other color that exists, combined.
So, too, is love not the absence of an emotion (hatred, anger, lust, jealousy, covetousness), but the summation of all feeling. It is the sum total. The aggregate amount. The everything.
Thus for the soul to experience perfect love, it must experience every human feeling.
How can I have compassion on that which I don’t understand? How can I forgive in another that which I have never experienced in Myself? So we see both the simplicity and the awesome magnitude of the soul’s journey. We understand at last what it is up to:
The purpose of the human soul is to experience all of it - so that it can BE all of it.
How can it be up if it has never been down, left if it has never been right? How can it be warm if it knows not cold, good if it denies evil? Obviously, the soul cannot choose to be anything if there is nothing to choose from. For the soul to experience it’s grandeur, it must know what grandeur is. This it cannot do if there is nothing but grandeur. And so the soul realizes that grandeur only exists in the space of that which is not grand. The soul, therefore, never condemns that which is not grand, but blesses - seeing in it a part of itself which must exist for another part of itself to manifest.The job of the soul, of course, is the cause us to choose the grandeur - to select the best of Who You Are - without condemning that which you do not select.
This is a big task, taking many lifetimes, for you are to rush to judgment, to call a thing “wrong” or “bad” or “not enough”, rather than to bless what you do not choose.
You do worse than condemn - you actually seek to do harm to that which you do not choose. You seek to destroy it, If there is a person, place or thing with which you do not agree, you attack it. If there is a religion that goes against yours, you make it wrong. If there is a thought that contradicts yours, you ridicule it. If there is an idea other than yours, you reject it. In this you err, for you create only half a universe. And you cannot even understand your half when you have rejected out of hand the other.”

Heroes:

Bob Ross :) When I was a young whipper-snapper, I would get up saturday mornings just to watch him on PBS... the originator of "the happy accident"
Anyone who listens to, and acts on their dream. A starving Artist is someone who starves their dream in the pursuit of security. I've been inspired by so many who have acted on their dream...
& those who show us not just who we can be, but who we actually are. (Pure Potential)
"On A Clear Night"
Pastel
Our Deepest Fear
Is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, “Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?”
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in EVERYONE. And, as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Marianne Williamson
Popularized by Nelson Mandela - 1994 Inaugural Speech
A very real extraterrestrial skull found in a cave in Northern Mexico
A comparison to a human skull. One of the many hard evidence people have been waiting for. It's everywhere if we look. The skull is found to be half as heavy, yet twice as strong.
A very real photo of the very real & forgotten L.A. Air Raid of of 1942 where a large unknown object was repeatedly fired upon in the sky.
Iapetus - One of Saturn's Moons "The Yin Yang Moon"
Same Moon - Who built this 12-mile high wall around the equator?
Stephenville Texas footage of 3-d hieroglyphics flashing in sky. This was NOT the ufo's that were reported... simply different phenomenon. Give it a minute to kick in... very clear footage at times. Some abductees are taught to understand mass amounts of data within these type of symbols. (Like reading a whole book in one symbol.)
I am an Artist, here to create... and perhaps stir things up. I try to recognise the truth in all things. Love equals truth, the only truth... Fear is the illusion, created for us to see beyond. What better way to appreciate who and what we are than to experience a taste of what we're not?
Isn't it a fantastic game? Is anything really possible?... Sure. Maybe you doubt it to be true, and that is your personal belief system, your hologram you've created. In a sense, it is your truth, as there are as many truths, (at this level), as there are people on the planet. There are infinite parallel universes for everyone to experience multiple realities. Like a video game, all the moves are programed in, all you do is choose the moves. In my constantly evolving hologram there are visiters from other worlds, other times, other dimensions, magick, peace, unlimited possibilities. I've had unexplained experiences, out-of-body experiences and have seen multiple other-worldly crafts.
So - this is me, and this is you. Our separation is just a temporary illusion. Science has already proven this. Once we all accept this, we'll come to realize the senseless act of going to war with ourselves... and peace will be found once again. It's not far from now... infact there is only now, this moment. Time is a necessary part of this amazing illusion.

My Blog

Dawn

Who enjoys waking up? Who actually enjoys the process of waking up, really? It's no fun being suddenly drawn away from a beautiful dream in which we thought was real. Being blasted by that cursed alar...
Posted by Kip Herring Artist & Truthseeker on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:59:00 PST

Personal note from me :)

Hey guys! I will be gone for a little while, for a combination of reasons. But before I go I want to thank all of those who have taken time to correspond with me... and who've also been patient with ...
Posted by Kip Herring Artist & Truthseeker on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:28:00 PST

Veganism

I thought I'd write a little about my decision to go ahead and become vegan. This is a personal decision and I won't call it right or wrong. I just see it as my next logical step in "being" peace. I'v...
Posted by Kip Herring Artist & Truthseeker on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:49:00 PST

This Too Shall Pass...

Theodore Tilton's PoemOnce in Persia reigned a king, Who upon his signet ring Graved a maxim true and wise, Which, if held before his eyes, Gave him counsel at a glance Fit for every change and chance...
Posted by Kip Herring Artist & Truthseeker on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:15:00 PST

laugh break :D

Laugh till you wet yourself :) The Dog, the Cat & the Rat! ...
Posted by Kip Herring Artist & Truthseeker on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 07:39:00 PST

Immortality & Paradigm Shifting

Immortality is something we dream about, at least a little. It's also the subject of many great books and movies, as well as the notion that one's name will become immortal through some great act or d...
Posted by Kip Herring Artist & Truthseeker on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:28:00 PST

Things vs being real

In recent years there's been a great awakening in the power of thought, of manifesting our desires... the law of attraction. No one could be more pleased to see this awakening than myself. That being ...
Posted by Kip Herring Artist & Truthseeker on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:37:00 PST

An Artists Prayer

May the first breath I take todaybe full and with purposeMay every breath therafterfind peace and beautyMay every thought I makebe the colors I choose on my paletteMay every move I makebe the brushstr...
Posted by Kip Herring Artist & Truthseeker on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 07:59:00 PST

Contrast

In contemplation of my life up till now, I see to sorrow and the pain.. and feel it all over again. Why must I do that?But one shift of awarness takes me to that place of joy, comfort and chidlike pl...
Posted by Kip Herring Artist & Truthseeker on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:45:00 PST

Thanks for your patience while I'm busy writing & painting...Namaste

Yesterday I had an amazing moment of inspiration, one which artist of all kinds wish for. Yes, I've been inspired at certain levels before, but this is such a powerful surge of creative energy I canno...
Posted by Kip Herring Artist & Truthseeker on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:20:00 PST