“A Stairway to Heaven”

A Review of Hillside Memorial Park Culver City, California USA

From a visitor perspective: fantastic views, orbs & energy

with original photography & poetic stories In memory of Al Jolsen & Marion & Louis Freedman

BOOKS 1 & 2

by

Grace Divine

INTRODUCTION FROM BOOK

In 2013, Steve and I visited the Hillside Memorial Park in Culver City, California. We went there to visit his mother Marion Freedman, his father Lewis Freedman, and grandparents Joseph and Leona Hurst. We also went there to visit Al Jolsen, the famous singer who lived in the early part of the 20th century. Al Jolsen and Steve are cousins on his mother's side.

The experience was amazing. I shot lots of photographs. The park is tranquil and relaxed. Amazingly, the photographs afterward, showed some interesting orbs and energies. In fact, it was there that I caught the largest orb that I have ever caught on camera.

Some people claim that orbs are dust particles or something insignificant as such. But I believe that nothing happens accidentally. I believe that everything happens for a reason and timing is imminent. I believe that time, the timing of the occurrence of things, communicates something.

As an artist, sometimes I use my creative work to document time. And how so? To use a metaphor, in every writing, a phrase for instance, there are silent pauses or spaces. As an artist, I want to engage with those spaces to give the nature of life a deeper meaning.

I also believe that we live in a multidimensional universe. It's not unlike people who believe in God, in spite of the fact that God doesn't appear to have a physical existence. So then, where does God exist? I would argue God, or God's components can be experienced in different ways in different dimensions, spaces or universes. I also believe that human beings and well animals too and other things in nature, have a reflection or existence in other spaces or dimensions. As an artist I am trying to understand the nature of the self and its reflections. I am also interested in how mechanical devices, like cameras for instance, pick up on elements of the world around us that aren't evident to us human beings with the mere use of our senses.

I make an analogy here to seaweed. Seaweed is a living organism. But seaweed, does not appear to be able to differentiate as different kinds of animals or fish swim around it. For instance, a dangerous great white shark could swim by the seaweed, but it, the seaweed has no way of differentiating that from a clown fish or the such..

Just as well, living deep in the ocean, seaweed would not be aware of what lays over the water. Should a storm ensue, it would only feel the ebb and flow of the water around it, but it would be unable to understand the nature of the storm itself and how it looks in other places or dimensions such as just outside the water, and higher into the athmosphere even.

The point that I am trying to make here is that we too, human beings, are equally limited by our senses. A dog, for instance, can only see black and maybe one or two colors. Can you imagine? Human beings can see more colors than dogs but as it turns out, our eyes only pick up 1% of the electromagnetic light spectrum. Can you imagine what the world would look like if we could see more than 1%? It most certainly would be intense.

And this is one of my quests as an artist. I am trying to imagine the world with an expanded sense of consciousness.

Hillside Memorial Park is a beautiful park. It has flat areas and hills. These hills remind me of waves, waves made of silence. The park is very silent. And this is a good thing considering the park is located adjacent to the very busy 405 freeway, a place often filled with bumper to bumper traffic and exasperated drivers. As such, the parks' presence there would appear to be comforting as well as paradoxical. Also, when I've visited, I often ponder upon the truly great lives of the many people buried there. So many intelligent and bright people! So many loving and kind individuals. And then, I wish them well wherever they are, for I believe that in spite of the body's demise, something of our humanity remains, forever. Also, I hope these images present an alternative way to remember and think.

Grace Divine

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