History of Tattoo Culture in Israel | By Yasmin Bergner
Opening image: Cover of David Mosko “The Tattooed Sailor”‘s book: “Tattoos – Secrets of the Forbidden Art,” 1980. Tattoos in 21st Century Israel – A Late Bloom In recent years, we have been witnessing an exciting process of tattoo revival in our region, albeit belatedly. Why is the tattoo renaissance arriving in Israel with a […]
The Field Boy | Interview with Nassim Haramein #2 | Interviewer: Yasmin Bergner
Originally published in “Hayim Aherim” (Other Lives) Magazine, 2018 Wearable Technology In 2015, the first version of the ARK crystal resonance technology was released from Nassim Haramein’s laboratory: lab-grown crystals that can be worn on the body. The crystals are designed and structured geometrically to create a molecular structure that has the ability to resonate […]
Votiko | The Greatest Plague Known to Mankind | By Paul Levy | Translated by Yasmin Bergner
“Wetiko” is a concept originating from the Cree tribe in North America, a word expressing a psychological disease affecting human behavior that is destructive to itself. Our collective human psychosis. Wetiko – The Greatest Epidemic Known to Humanity – by Paul Levy Translated from English: Yasmine Bergner Opening image: Bouguereau, Dante and Virgil in Hell, […]
What’s Up with Men? The Mother’s Wound as the Missing Link in Understanding Misogyny | Bethany Webster | From English: Yasmin Bergner
כמובן! הנה המאמר שלך מתורגם לאנגלית, תוך שמירה מלאה על ה-HTML, המבנה והקודים: “`html In the midst of a brave wave of women exposing documentation of sexual harassment in various industries, many of us, women and men alike, are beginning to grasp the breadth of this reality of rampant misogyny. As a culture, we must […]
Mark of Shame and Symbol of Protection By Yasmine Bergner
The act of marking is a primary means of their segregation, ostracism, expropriation, humiliation, and sometimes elimination of the marked. These days, a fascinating exhibition curated by Chaim Maor (curator of the university galleries) in collaboration with students from the curation course, titled “Portraits of Cain – Representations of Others in Contemporary Israeli Art,” is […]
Ancient Future | The Great Initiation Journey | Article by Yasmin Bergner
The myth concerning the forces of creation has always been an integral part of our lives. The triad of myth-ritual-the sacred, which recurs across world cultures (as shown in the fascinating research of Mircea Eliade), today finds ancient and new forms of expression in a growing global movement of transformative festivals. Ancient Future – The […]
Body Decoration and Tattoos in Africa and the Middle East | By Yasmine Bergner
Historical Overview Opening Image: Tattooed slaves on a wall in the Temple of Seti I, Egypt, relief. Drawing: Yasmine Bergner The practice of body adornment may date back as far as 100,000 years ago, or even earlier. Shells and bone tools discovered in [1] Blombos Cave (today in the region of South Africa) were found […]
