The Natural Attention to Life – Freeing Images rather than Capturing Them

PERCEIVING AND RECOGNIZING OURSELVES AS ENERGY

As a child I lived with a secret veil of sadness. I felt it in the depths of my soul, which had become aware, through my conscience, of the existence of energy. And it created discomfort, fear, torment but at the same time curiosity and wonder. I remember that at night I struggled to sleep because in the darkness I perceived all these frequencies, perhaps because there was a space of silence and I could concentrate. I began to perceive this essential space for seeing. I must say that even today in the evening and at night I am at my maximum concentration. Perhaps the first time I perceived beauty and happiness was when I felt that energy like a breath of light which was flowing, filtering, breathing and making space everywhere with a bundle of powerful vibrations in animate and inanimate things, beyond human principles of right and wrong. I perceived matter and physicality, however, only as a means, as a final and manifest intermediary of something that used light and for light, but which had already been created in the invisible through an electrical thought.

As a child I didn’t have all these notions. It was just a sensing, a feeling that often scared me, but I strongly felt the duty to communicate, to dialogue with this energy in order to get to know it and use it, obviously without knowing why. But there was a problem: this energy was invisible, outside the space-time paradigm. Not knowing what to do, I got sad, I often got nervous, I cried. The sadness I felt was also caused by the fact that children of the same age as me were happy, laughing and amazed at things that communicated nothing to me. They were merely material, superficial, mediocre, impersonal things. I would like to say banal. It was as if their sensory apparatus was limited, inadequate to allow them to perceive reality at the level at which I perceived it, which was not a higher level than theirs, yet it was different.

I did not perceive myself as a child, but I perceived myself as an energetic channel, a flow of consciousness that went beyond the limits of aesthetics and somatic features …

And I did also found this in adults. In some adults, though. I did not perceive myself as a child, but I perceived myself as an energetic channel, a flow of consciousness that went beyond the limits of aesthetics and somatic features, which is why I have never been part of any ideological alignment or aggregation and never had a sense of belonging to anything, as well.

Consequently, I would not discriminate against anyone, but I was the one who isolated myself because I couldn’t communicate, having nothing to say with their language. I remember that in that period dance and body expression helped me a lot thanks to a really good teacher who used the Feldenkrais® Method. I never even had a sense of belonging to my nationality. I had a hard time playing team games, being a fan of something or someone, taking sides, and if I took sides they were those of the weak because I didn’t distinguish between people, animals, plants… for me everything was worth saving. The adults, on the other hand, conveyed to me a tired, stressed, frustrated, low, almost resigned, self-sabotaging energy. I noticed their inability to dwell in the present and in beauty except in an artificial, ephemeral way. I perceived them as monkeys jumping from the past to the future, forgetting that there was a present time of truth. I myself wondered why my mother never stopped and always worked, but observing her I wasn’t sorry for the space that she couldn’t always offer me. I was sorry for the space that she didn’t offer to herself, or if she did, it was a fleeting one. This made me feel melancholic. I found this in most adults. I noticed and admired in artists, or in young children, that immersion in their visions and creations, and I also noticed it in animals. I asked my parents if I could have a cat but not having adequate space in the house they told me they couldn’t get one for me. Even today I am still aware that that cat wasn’t a whim, but I wanted it to understand if animals really lived in another frequency since every time I looked at cats on the street or those of others, I resonated with them them, and I felt a sense of well-being. I often loved being in the studio of a painter who had several cats watching her paint. The frequencies were very high, and at that moment I imagined myself like that as a grown up: an artist, alone with my cats, and happy. And all those people, who ran out of that studio, that atelier or inside my head, suddenly disappeared. Many years later, I had a cat and being in contact with its energy I understood that it lived on the same planet with me but its frequencies seemed to come from another one. And I learned a lot because at the same time we were connected by the meaning
of life without a reason. We were brothers. I was neither its owner nor its mother. There were no roles.

In that moment I had a flash, an inspiration or, probably, an initiation, I felt enveloped, I felt that my consciousness had shifted, as if someone had taken my back and turned me in another direction. I began to feel a strong sense of peace and well-being which was separate from what was happening to me in reality. There I learned that I could not live where that type of people lived, who rushed to fulfill roles, many constructed or obligatory, and who had to create something new. I had to create it, or create it for them in communion and synergy with this energy that I perceived everywhere, even under my feet. I was also aware that it was not an egoic feeling or one of my own, but it was a universal, cosmic feeling, in fact as a child when I didn’t understand where it came from, I thought that there was someone else, or an angel, inside me who was guiding me. Then I realized that it was really me and that I was developing a new version of me, the real one.

TOWARDS ONESELF

I would have liked to move all human beings in a direction of light, to a home of peace and I would have suspended them in a time in which they could finally dedicate themselves to their talents, to their ambitions, rather than in a choking time, dedicated to the Matrix, to work, to the economic, mental and energetic maintenance of a family, to making things and accounts balance, with compromise and effort. No, I have never believed that everything was a sacrifice. I never believed those who told me that life was and had to be an immolation. On the contrary, I firmly believed in Existence and in the absence of effort, yes! Effortlessness! Effort might exist, but for me what existed was the absence of effort and in behavior, because for me it was the awareness of the energy to make everything happen. I probably believed in “magic” when I was little, and in intelligent spirit when I grew up. After all, we know that those who do not believe in magic are destined to never encounter it. And I often thought: “Look what they deprive themselves of!”. Perhaps this was even the reason that pushed me to choose not to create my own family and not to have children. I wanted to energetically commit myself to life. I wanted to always have one foot available to explore, dwell or sink into searching for the sacred, in the spirit of things and their breath, but above all in the void-silence to be able to perceive it in everything. My point of reference wasn’t just humans. I wanted to feel free not to return, to transcend. Free to experience solitude, emotional spaces, impermanence, temporary phenomena, to celebrate beauty and pain, whenever I wanted and without anything or anyone stopping me or acting as a shield or an obstacle. While my peers were wondering if they were capable of being mothers, I was asking myself whether I was up to this freedom that I was giving myself. It was an instant intuition of liberation and I offered myself to it without any desire to understand. I knew I didn’t know. For the first time I experienced the letting go of beliefs at the subconscious, genetic, historical, cultural, soul level, and I had a feeling of being blessed. I wondered: “How wonderful it would be if everyone could experience this sensation! That everyone could live without conditions, surrendering to their own ego, evaluating responsibility first towards themselves outside the box!“. I wondered how people could be responsible for others, parents, educators, or teachers, if they had not first been responsible for themselves. For me, being responsible meant first of all fulfilling myself before others and I’m not talking about roles, I’m talking about experiencing life, flowing into the mission for which one was born, into one’s talents, a bit like Margherita Hack did, or Guglielmo Marconi, without dedicating one’s entire existence to someone else, making one’s own reasons, fighting for one’s own ideals… because it is clear that if one dedicates a lot of time to others, one will have little time for oneself and for a personal evolution. Of course, one can try to dedicate oneself to others, but later.

I wondered how people could be responsible for others, parents, educators, or teachers, if they had not first been responsible for themselves.

My grandmother also told me these things before leaving her physical body. She told me that she hadn’t done anything for herself.

For me, time has never been that of the clock. It has always represented a dimension of consciousness, but I saw that few dedicated this space to themselves. They were more present in sombody else’s space. Most of the time I perceived them as choked, alienated, frustrated.

I felt I had to do something for the humanity that didn’t deserve to live this way, it was heartbreaking for me, and I chose to start from myself. After all, I would never have been able to improvise on this without first experiencing it and becoming aware of it.

I began to experience the feeling of liberation through accessing the “here and now”, not in meditative terms, but in practical terms, even documented, witnessed and witnessed. This had immense value for me because nothing can be seen, disidentified, modified or reprogrammed without being first acknowledged. In fact, I thought that many lived this way simply because they couldn’t see themselves. I thought I had to bring a practical tool to the surface, since simply closing my eyes and assuming an asana to stay in the state of presence wasn’t enough for me. I needed a witness, a bridge of recognition. I wanted to place this awareness in my hands as an extension of them, as if it were a shamanic drum.

CONSCIOUS ATTENTION, A NEW WAY OF SEEING

The universal component underlying the biological cognitive system that acted as a lever for me was attention. Attention affects how we perceive incoming stimuli and therefore had to be conscious. It is precisely attention that supports perception and recognition. It has the ability to select external sources of stimulation, in the presence of competing information, to dedicate itself to the information relevant to our purpose and leave out the irrelevant ones, which are of no use. I dedicated myself to the selective visual, spatial and divided attention of the feeling, of the breathing of things and people, to the active conscious and soul visual perception and reception instead of using the passive one, and I trained myself to direct the feeling that I and those things felt together to transform it into a new image. A reprogramming of the old one.

The universal component underlying the biological cognitive system that acted as a lever for me was attention. Attention affects how we perceive incoming stimuli and therefore had to be conscious.

I dedicated myself to local, directional own-body, and extradimensional spaces. This was fundamental because in the empty space not only is there breath, but there is an unmeasurable emotional value that is overlooked. To feel it, the space must be left empty. In fact, there is a tendency to furnish a house by filling it, or to give a child anything… but this is not the case, certain spaces must be left empty. Emotions penetrate us on a cognitive level and are therefore not just a purely optical observation. Space, if left to breathe, is also climatic, resonant, olfactory, silent. Space conveys and carries us. I feel the rain coming because if I connect with the space, I can smell it and I feel that the space changes its electricity by the law of magnetism.

A CAMERA IS ABOUT HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS AND RELATING

I found the faithful medium that accompanied me in carrying out this mission, this intuition and this channeling, riight in my hands. When I was eleven, without me looking for it, my father owned several of them: it was the camera, the analogical one. The first time I put my eye inside the viewfinder, doors opened as if I had opened a curtain, yet it was only a rectangle. Perhaps this was my first time becoming aware of the truth of the word “relationship”. The camera, although it was an object, connected me in a much higher way than with a person, and therefore it became my interlocutor, my accomplice of the present. Pressing that button, that shutter button was like pressing the trigger for a perfect, straight shot into silence. A gesture that was not an end in itself, but which resonated within me, in space, in light, and subsequently in the observer with an emotion. It was like entering people’s and animals’ DNA, to step in light particles, in plant sap, in electrical circuits where everything is interconnected. And I no longer felt the sadness that had accompanied me for so long as a child. I finally had a medium that could be put at the service of humanity: a humanity that is afraid of fading away, of disappearing, afraid of living, but that thanks to a picture, meant as a new image in 4D rather than 2D, can see exactly what happens in being evanescent, impermanent, precarious, fragile, and can acquire the reading ability to find in these emotions the beauty and the power of change, transformation, suffering and pain; for a dry leaf is not dead, it has only transformed itself, and it is wonderful. Of course, the camera had already been put at the service of humanity in 1839, but I wasn’t interested in carrying out the limited task of photographing what the reflex mirror had in front of it, channeling it into the lens flipped by the pentaprism and displayed in the viewfinder. The intention of “taking a photograph” had to be modified in some way. In fact, a photograph is not made, it is created, and this had nothing to do with the basis of the irrefutable technique, because it concerned human conscience.

The intention of “taking a photograph” had to be modified in some way. In fact, a photograph is not made, it is created, and this had nothing to do with the basis of the irrefutable technique, because it concerned human conscience.

ASKING THE FLOWER HOW IT WANTS TO BE LIBERATED

It is one thing to perceive colors as gradations of tone or even as chromatic surfaces, but it is another thing to perceive them as temperature, wave, frequency, vibration, energy. It’s one thing to photograph a flower, it’s another thing to photograph the energy of the flower, the feeling of the flower, its frequency.

Our sensory apparatus, although limited, can be moved, since everything (and therefore everything we see and perceive) depends on the quality of our level of consciousness.

After all, it would be enough to establish a bond with the flower and ask it how it wants to be photographed. You can’t relate to your frequency, but to photograph it you have to relate to its own. If you talk to a child, you have to relate to her. Have you ever tried to ask a shooting star what you can do for her instead of using her for personal ego purposes in expressing your desire through its duty? Well, the concept for me was and is the same: establishing a mediumistic, invisible relationship with the spirit and soul of anything and not photographing it according to one’s own feeling and therefore exclusively the form, but according to the feeling that a tree, a rock, a sky, a person suggests to us. It’s not a question of asking questions, it’s a question of interacting with the morphic field and channeling it. It is the energy that makes things and events happen, but the energy of things is not separated from yours, in fact there is no such thing as luck or bad luck, it depends on your level of connection you have with the energy. Our sensory apparatus, although limited, can be moved, since everything (and therefore everything we see and perceive) depends on the quality of our level of consciousness. If we do not modify it, we certainly cannot expand or change the state of our vision, but we will always see in the exact same way according to one of our histories and, I would add, we will always take the same photographs, we will always produce the same images inside and outside of us, we will always have the usual projections, the usual blocks, the usual expectations, the usual thoughts, the usual results.

MOVING INTO THE FLOW OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND PRODUCING FROM THERE

After thirty years of practice with the instrument of the analogical camera, darkroom prints, and, since 1995, with digital cameras, in 2017 I channeled PRANOPHOTOGRAPHY, after a seven-year period living in Berlin, in which I had new knowledge and energetic information given by the morphology of spaces such as latitude and longitude, distances, climate…etc. I added to the word PHOTOGRAPHY (Phos “light” + Graphis “to write”, writing with light from the Greek), the prefix PRANO: Prāṇa, “Vital breath”, “life”, “breath”, “soul”, “spirit”, energy from Sanskrit. It was that breath, it was that space that I wanted to talk about, it was from that space- silence that made the word photography complete, specifying its meaning and the symbolic-energetic-medianic-empirical principle in which the camera no longer captures images but liberates them by carrying “the photographer” into the flow of consciousness of another frequency, scientifically called brain frequency Theta (which I tried to better deepen). Thet frequency that transcends matter, that flows in the consciousness of visible and invisible bodies, that makes one alert, lucid within the soul- technique coordination, emotion-reason right-left cerebral hemispheres, beta-theta brain waves. In short, being “here and now” and producing from there, from that place, and therefore being quick and quick with the calibration of the triad (iso aperture time) based on the degree of awareness of the channeled energy scene commonly called “composition” in photography, which I define and prefer to call in pranophotography: “order”, or “making order”, whether it is an artistic composition created specifically through a vision or an already present scene. The order in photography is organized with the framing, the angle, the manual focus, the isolation of the subject with the focal planes thanks to the diaphragm or with the complementary colors but, above al,l with the intention of what exactly one wants to communicate. You don’t take photographs by chance.

… the camera no longer captures images but liberates them by carrying “the photographer” into the flow of consciousness of another frequency, scientifically called brain frequency Theta …

VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE IMAGES – THE LANGUAGE OF LIGHT

In order to channel this energetic technique that operates in the conscious and subconscious, I immediately entrusted myself to the true source, to nature, and used its own language, which for me was simple, primordial, native: the energy that flows in the images, the one that reveals them, that composes them before our eyes, starting from our body, which is not divided from everything else. And so I entrusted myself to the invisible. I used that sensation that scared and amazed me as a child, the same one that didn’t let me sleep at night, to create and free bodies and fears. Throughout this period of time my evolutionary journey had been from the unconscious to the conscious and everything was connected, perfect, everything was waves, shapes, colours, solids and voids that allowed me to see myself from the outside, and for this reason I decided to devote part of my life to self-portraits with the remote control as a listening therapy, based on the perception of myself outside of my body, since when I photographed myself, I did not see myself with my eyes, but I saw myself through a broader vision: that of perception, energy flow, vibration, channel, frequency. The subject was never me but it was the authentic relationship with space and with the soul of the world. This feeling of mine, summed up and synthesized in an image, took me into a state of ecstasy and expansion that I still carry out, disseminate and develop today. Many people when they see my shots say: “I feel like this“… and for me this is already an achievement, because they recognized themselves, pacified and liberated themselves through an image that spoke about them. I was no longer afraid of entering this frequency, a truth that my body had been suggesting to me since I was a child. A body that, feeling itself as a channel of light, needed to be finally “seen”, recognized by myself from the outside in its tonality, totality, before judgment, devoid of judgment. I no longer needed a mirror to know that I existed, because I felt that I existed, and concentrating on this feeling was all I needed. I was experiencing the “Memory of My Self”. From that moment I thought that others could also experience their “Self” through me, if they wanted. It was enough to guide them, introduce them. And so I did.

I knew that in there I could speak with the body understood as a lived body rather than a represented body. In fact, my self-portraits are not the result of representation, but are liberated inner rooms, real moments of strong pain like the work “Human Alienation”, of strong will, like the work “Deep Ecology” or of strong prayer for humanity like the work “Anamorphosis”.

FREEING THE PHYSICAL EYE AND TRANSFORMING IT INTO A POETIC EYE

The organ that allowed me to enter this frequency was a fundamental organ, a true extension of the brain, capable of perceiving luminous energy, transporting the information captured and processed in the form of images: the eye. As a child I spent a lot of time seeing, looking, literally staring at things and people, but what I was doing was simply capturing, scanning their energy as well as their expressiveness.

By watching, I learned that the body of a human being was no different from a stone, a star, or a tree, even though they lived on different planes of existence. Everything in fact, the so-called Olos, was as if it was made of the same substance with a manifestation that however was different. Everything was incredibly connected, interpenetrated, interconnected, as if consciousness was in the morphic field and that it was this consciousness that transmitted inputs, images and thoughts to me. Thanks to this relationship that I had established, I came into contact with the invisible and suddenly began to dialogue with it. Until today. Not only was everything made of energy, but everything had an essence, a spirit, and I began to evaluate everything around me as frequency and vibration, not as appearance, and I understood, at that point, that matter lives thanks to the energy that moves it and that it is not the brain that produces thoughts but it is the thought that builds the brain. I felt this, and this was what moved me from inside. I suddenly began to perceive everything as perfect and that nothing and no one goes crazy, but that everything reacts and that everything is the result of a relationship.

From that moment on, I decided that in order not to betray this intuition I had to show it… a bit like nature does, and not to objectively demonstrate it. I was interested in people knowing that it existed, knowing about this existence, and the demonstration, if it happened, was a self-demonstration. I have always perceived myself as a bridge. In short, what I had acquired simply by observing did not necessarily have to have scientific, rational, logical, mathematical, proven, indisputable demonstrations… I was interested in creating emotions in order to get to the perception of the body, of the cells, of the mind, of transmitting the feeling that energy made things flow by transporting them into the poetic space where the invisible resides. It hasn’t been a simple journey because our eyes see things divided, separated. The eye selects, rejects, organizes, discriminates, associates, classifies, analyses, builds, hinders.

The eye limits our life a lot in certain aspects. It doesn’t even pick up certain frequencies at all. It does not see what is bare. It is very whimsical. It sees flaws everywhere and catalogs them, discards them. Yet, I had the sensation that although the eye had these attributes, everything was one and non-dual.

I am referring to the energetic potential, not to identity. It was the camera that led me to testify that everything can be liberated, starting from the physical eye. We just need to talk to it.

It was precisely the camera that led me to testify that all this can be liberated.

My research is not a performance but is a “state of presence”, a “listening” a “search for the self” according to the cosmic laws and the definition of creation. My intent is to stimulate the human being to a process and a path of energetic, soul, alchemical, primordial, transcendent exploration, and access to the mother, the source, the universe, through frequencies and vibrations. cosmic nature. Nature uses images as its primordial language. That’s why I chose pranophotography and photography. It is a path that goes beyond the photographic technique, beyond the physical eye, in which the camera becomes an tool for investigation for the awakening of consciousness, and accessing the here and now, a place of power and healing. It is so obvious that one is not present and connected when photography “doesn’t come”. This should be enough for anyone looking for a quick or scientific demonstration.

 

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