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 #1 | Interviewer: Yasmin Bergner
Originally published in “Hayim Aherim” (Other Lives) Magazine, 2018 “Modern science’s refusal to search for higher order slows humanity’s development and severely harms the ecosystems upon which we depend to survive and thrive. The implications and applications of the connected worldview provide us with a clear vision of our potential to evolve. Humanity is heading […]
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 […]
The One and Only Form | The Science of Sacred Geometry | By Yasmin Bergner
להלן המאמר מתורגם לאנגלית, תוך שמירה על המבנה המקורי, העיצוב, וקודי התמונות כפי שביקשת. Originally published in “Hayim Aherim” (Other Lives) Magazine In human beings, innate “super-patterns” of thought and emotion are embedded, which Carl Gustav Jung termed “psychic archetypes.” These archetypes are part of the human hardware, and their traces can be found as […]
Why It’s Critical for Women to Heal the Wound of Motherhood | By Bethany Webster | Translated by Yasmin Bergner
Here is the article in English, maintaining the original structure, formatting, and the image code blocks as requested. Opening Image: Yasmine Bergner, Follow me out of Darkness, 2013, Photography: Jude Moskovitch Many do not understand that the fundamental issue underlying women’s empowerment is the Mother Wound. Difficulties and challenges between mothers and daughters are violent, […]
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, […]
Blood and Tattoos in the Work of Uri Katzenstein | By Yasmin Bergner
Here is the translation of the article into English, with all HTML tags and image source codes preserved as they appeared in the original. “These people who agreed to tattoo my work on themselves are a kind of erotic messenger for me,” Katzenstein told me a few years ago, and I observed his arms, tattooed […]
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 […]
The Murder of the Philosopher Hypatia and the History of Misogyny | By Yasmin Bergner
In the spring of 415 AD, a pagan noblewoman stepped out of the lecture hall connected to the Great Library of Alexandria and called for her carriage to take her home. Many educated pagan women enjoyed high social and academic status at that time, but Hypatia was one of the few who traveled independently in […]
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 […]
Rebooting the Swastika | Article by Yasmin Bergner
The deep wounds left by the Holocaust and World War II have cemented the swastika in our consciousness as a symbol of satanic evil, racism, and fascism, despite the symbol itself being innocent. Seven decades after the Holocaust, the swastika remains one of the most vilified and despised symbols. ManWoman, the Canadian artist and poet […]
Physical ownership of the symbol | Article by Yasmin Bergner
Until recently, the art world ignored the field of tattooing, marginalizing it and labeling it as primitive and inferior, yet in recent years, more and more artists have been using tattooing as a practice, a symbol, or an artistic act. Physical Ownership of the Symbol – Article by Yasmine Bergner Originally published […]
To Experience Pain in a Controlled Way | An Article by Yasmine Bergner
In the exhibition addressing American tattoo culture, Rona Yifman continues to observe personas operating under a sense of oppression, revealing a humanity that transcends social definitions. To Experience Pain in a Controlled Way – by Yasmine Bergner Originally published in the online magazine Erev Rav TUFF ENUFF – On the Solo Exhibition of Photographer […]
“And to Him You Shall Cling” – Tattoos in Judaism | Yasmine Bergner
Contrary to popular belief, the Jews of the Biblical era maintained a rich folk tattoo culture. The prevailing opinion is that Jewish faith categorically forbids tattoos. But is this historically accurate? The verse most often cited as proof is: “And you shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: […]
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 […]
