Soul Searching

Grant Carroll, about 1 year ago

This is great. Nice composition!

webgrrl, about 1 year ago

what does the arabic words say?

Cliff vestergaard, about 1 year ago

arabic words say? I do not know they say seem to look good with this art work.

gaylehebbard, about 1 year ago

Beautiful work. So surreal. I love it.

bobdollar, about 1 year ago

awesome i love it!!!

Helene Kippert, about 1 year ago

Great work Cliff!

Cliff vestergaard, about 1 year ago

thanks everyone for your comments means the world to me.

kookylane, about 1 year ago

Super cool, very beautiful! Love the circular symbols up there, what is it? some technical drawing?
Was gonna ask about the arabic word too, i hope it’s not something from Koran or something offensive, incase someone might get offended. It sure looks good though.

Cliff vestergaard, about 1 year ago

any one know arabic word. If can from the koran I do think it would be offencive I think its part of a love peom.

TonyLegg, 5 months ago

wonderful, great feeling to this image…

Cliff vestergaard, 5 months ago

hope it’s not something from Koran ? they say the koran is not evil, some people Watch to much FOX news I think. The bible,The Koran, The Iching, [edit] Buddhism
(see Schools of Buddhism)

Mahayana
Humanistic Buddhism
Madhyamika
Nichiren
Soka Gakkai
Pure Land
Tathagatagarbha
Tiantai
Tendai
Yogacara
Zen
Caodong
Fuke Zen
Kwan Um School of Zen
Sanbo Kyodan
Sōtō
Ōbaku (school of Buddhism)
Rinzai
Nikaya schools (which have historically been called Hinayana in the West)
Theravada
Amarapura Nikaya
Vijja Dhammakaya
Mahasthabir Nikaya
Ramañña Nikaya
Sangharaj Nikaya
Siam Nikaya
Thai Forest Tradition
Thammayut Nikaya
Vajrayana
Shingon Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism
Bön
Gelukpa
Kagyupa
Nyingmapa
Sakyapa
Jonangpa

[edit] Hinduism
(see also Contemporary Hindu movements)

Agama Hindu Dharma (Javanese Hinduism)
Lingayatism
Reform movements
Arya Samaj
Brahmo Samaj
Shaivism
Shaktism
Tantrism
Smartism
Vaishnavism
Gaudiya Vaishnavism
ISKCON (Hare Krishna)
Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mission
Six major schools and movements of Hindu philosophy
Nyaya
Purva mimamsa
Samkhya
Vaisheshika
Vedanta (Uttar Mimamsa)
Advaita Vedanta
Integral Yoga
Dvaita Vedanta
Yoga
Ashtanga Yoga
Bhakti Yoga
Hatha yoga
Siddha Yoga
Tantric Yoga

[edit] Jainism
Digambara
Shvetambara

[edit] Sikhism
Khalsa
Nihang
Namdhari or Kuka Sikhs
Sahajdhari Sikh

[edit] Iranic religions
Religions originating in the area known today as Iran

[edit] Manichaeism

[edit] Mazdakism

[edit] Yazdânism

[edit] Zoroastrianism
Zurvanism
Magus (see Three Wise Men)

[edit] Taoic/Far Eastern/East Asian religions
Religions originating in south east Asia.

[edit] Caodaism

[edit] Chondogyo

[edit] Confucianism
Neo-Confucianism
New Confucianism

[edit] Falun Gong

[edit] Shinto
Oomoto

[edit] Taoism

[edit] Yiguandao

[edit] Chinese folk religion

[edit] African diasporic religions
Religions originating but not entirely located in Africa

African Initiated Church
Anago
Batuque
Candomblé
Kumina
Macumba
Mami Wata
Obeah
Oyotunji
Quimbanda
Santería (Lukumi)
Umbanda
Vodou (Dahomey mythology)
Vodou (Haitian mythology)

[edit] Indigenous religions
The orally transmitted canon of indigenous peoples, many involving some variant of animism and many defunct

[edit] African traditional religions
West Africa
Akan mythology
Ashanti mythology (Ghana)
Dahomey (Fon) mythology
Efik mythology (Nigeria, Cameroon)
Igbo mythology (Nigeria, Cameroon)
Isoko mythology (Nigeria)
Yoruba mythology (Nigeria, Benin)
Central Africa
Bushongo mythology (Congo)
Bambuti (Pygmy) mythology (Congo)
Lugbara mythology (Congo)
East Africa
Akamba mythology (East Kenya)
Dinka mythology (Sudan)
Lotuko mythology (Sudan)
Masai mythology (Kenya, Tanzania)
Southern Africa
Khoikhoi mythology
Lozi mythology (Zambia)
Tumbuka mythology (Malawi)
Zulu mythology (South Africa)

[edit] Eurasian religions
Main article: Shamanism
Estonian mythology
Eskimo religion
Finnish mythology and Finnish paganism
Hungarian folk religion
Noaidi
Siberian Shamanism
Tadibya
Tengriism (Indigenous Mongol, Tartar & Kazakh belief)

[edit] Native American religions
Abenaki mythology
Blackfoot mythology
Chickasaw mythology
Choctaw mythology
Creek mythology
Crow mythology
Guarani mythology
Haida mythology
Ho-Chunk mythology
Hopi mythology
Huron mythology
Inca mythology
Inuit mythology
Iroquois mythology
Kwakiutl mythology
Lakota mythology
Leni Lenape mythology
Mesoamerican mythology
Aztec mythology
Maya mythology
Olmec mythology
Midewiwin
Navajo mythology
Nootka mythology
Pawnee mythology
Salish mythology
Seneca mythology
Selk’nam religion
Tsimshian mythology
Urarina ayahuasca shamanism and animism
Ute mythology
Zuni mythology

[edit] Pacific religions
Australian Aboriginal mythology
Austronesian beliefs
Balinese mythology
Javanese beliefs
Melanesian mythology
Micronesian mythology
Modekngei
Nauruan indigenous religion
Philippine mythology
Anito
Gabâ
Kulam
Polynesian mythology
Hawaiian mythology
Maori mythology
Maori religion
Rapa Nui mythology
Moai
Tangata manu
Chinese mythology
Japanese mythology

[edit] Cargo cults
Religions appearing in Pacific tribal societies in the wake of Western culture.

John Frum
Johnson cult
Prince Philip Movement
Vailala Madness

[edit] Historical
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[edit] Ancient Near East
Main article: Ancient Near Eastern religions
Ancient Egyptian religion
Ancient Semitic religions
Mesopotamian mythology
Arabian mythology (pre-Islamic)
Babylonian and Assyrian religion
Babylonian mythology
Chaldean mythology
Canaanite mythology
Canaanite religion
Hittite mythology
Persian mythology
Sumerian mythology

[edit] Indo-European
Main article: Proto-Indo-European religion
Indo-Iranian religion
Zoroastrianism
Historical Vedic religion
Ancient Roman religion
Ancient Greek religion
Slavic polytheism
Celtic polytheism
Germanic polytheism
Anglo-Saxon religion
Norse religion

[edit] Hellenism
Main article: Hellenistic religion
Mystery religions
Eleusinian Mysteries
Mithraism
Pythagoreanism
Early Christianity
Gallo-Roman religion

[edit] New religious movements
Religions founded since 1850 with small followings, including Neopaganism and alien-based religions.

See list of new religious movements.

[edit] Nonsectarian and trans-sectarian religious or spiritual movements
Spiritualism

[edit] Esotericism
Alchemy
Anthroposophy
Esoteric Christianity
Occultism
Rosicrucian
Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis
Rosicrucian Fellowship
Surat Shabda Yoga

[edit] Mysticism
Christian mysticism
Hindu mysticism
Tantra
Ananda Marga Tantra-Yoga
Kabbalah (also part of Judaism)
Kabbalah Centre
Martinism
Merkabah (also part of Judaism)
Meher Baba
Sufism

[edit] Left-Hand Path
Faiths teaching that the ultimate goal is separating consciousness from the universe, rather than being absorbed by it

Luciferianism
Satanism
Setianism

[edit] Magic (religion)
Hoodoo (Rootwork)
New Orleans Voodoo
Kulam – Filipino witchcraft
Magick
Chaos magic
Enochian magic
Demonolatry
Goetia
Pow-wow
Seid (shamanic magic)
Vaastu Shastra (Hinduism)
Witchcraft

[edit] Organizations promoting Ecumenism
Dances of Universal Peace
Interreligious organisations
Focolare Movement
Humanity’s Team
Subud

[edit] Systems claiming not to be religions, but which have characteristics of religion
Aesthetic Realism
Fellowship of Reason
Juche
Nazi mysticism

[edit] References

[edit] By demographics
Main article: Religious demographics
List of religious populations

[edit] By area
Further information: Religion geography
Religion in Africa
Religion in North America
Religion in South America
Religion in Asia
Religion in Australia
Religion in Europe
Oceania / Pacific
Religion by country
List of state-established religions
Christianity by country
Roman Catholicism by country
Protestantism by country
Islam by country
Buddhism by country
Hinduism by country
Judaism by country, Jewish population
Sikhism by country
Buddhism by region

And what else ?

Cliff vestergaard, 5 months ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_world_religions

Leslie Hagen, 2 months ago

Beautiful Image and very thought provoking. I think it makes quite a statement about todays issues regardless of what the arabic works might say. Although it would be better if they did have relevant meaning.