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Or..you may have to copy and paste into your browser. It's a short film clip from CNN of a child artist. It's soooo worth your time to watch.

Please watch this and give us your thoughts. I am in awe.

I can't view it for some reason. I am hoping it's just my computer :-/

Can you please explain what happened in the vid?

Oooo<< is it abt Akiane? >> the prodigy child that claims to have went to heaven and paints visions that god had given her? .... i heard some things about her and i must say, her art is absolutli amazing...and if you read her poems ... itz hard to imagine that she is only 12 or was it 11? >> really makes you wonder ( for those that are not christian) is god really there?

The link isn't working for me. Can someone give us a summary?

It works for me when I copy and paste it into my browser. I wish it would work for you guys. Dang!

It shows a little nine year old girl that at the age of four that began to tell her Atheist Mother about 'trips' she'd take to heaven. She started drawing and then actually painting! As she grew older, the paintings became more detailed and you wouldn't believe how vivid they are!!! It's amazing!!!!

Not only that, but a few months ago, she decided she wanted to play piano, and now she's composing her own music. Maybe you can find it via search engine or something? Using the key words of CNN and child artist or something of that nature... I dunno. As I said, it was sent to me in email and I just copied and pasted the link here.

I'm gonna try to post the URL here. Try it and see if it works for ya.... I hope it does!!!

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Akiane is one of the most gifted and amazing artists I have ever had the pleasure to view her work. She started sketching faces when she was just four years old, even then, they had detail and were far different from normal four year olds. Hopefully the link below will take you all to her official site.

Akiane Artist

Well I still can't view the video... :-/

However, I looked her up and her pictures are absolutely amazing! For anyone else who wants to see her art, go here: http://www.artakiane.com/home.htm


Edit: Also, she is a very gifted poet. Check out the poem on her site http://www.artakiane.com/akiane_poetry.htm She is a very gifted girl!

hey paintings are VERY good but I dont believe they are anything but a very talented little girls work. i would like to hear more about her "journeys" though

I wonder if she'd be getting the same amount of attention if at 4 she began lecturing her Fundie Christian mother on the fine points of aetheism?

I think we all know that answer to that

Still she is so talanted that there is no way she would not be famous religious or not.

I dunno..... what I wonder is how does a four year old even know that much about "heaven" regardless if her Mother is atheist? Thing is, this little girl is truly gifted. It facinates me to see any child with a born talent for any art be it in music, painting, writing, whatever. Some call it genius. Some call it magical. I call it spiritual because that is the only word that feels right to me.

Thank all of you for these extra links! I love getting to see more of her work. The link that Lotus Flower put here is really something. When you click on her paintings, some of them have a little something quoted about them by this little girl. Her thoughts and expressions are just as captivating as her art is. Remarkable...simply remarkable.

Thank you so much for that, it was beautiful.

She is absolutely remarkable. I have a bachelor's degree in Painting (yeah, I wasn't very practical when I was younger), and I couldn't do half of what she does. I am amazed. Thanks for sharing!

To master form and expression at that age is beyond genius. So this is what they mean by all that "Indigo" stuff.

Indigo, Maybe so!! I wouldnt be suprised at all if she had a near death experience somewhere in her first year of life or so...
Her art is absolutely breathtaking.

I think I'm going to see about getting one of her books to read. Hopefully it will tell more about how she first began to relate her experiences. I'm wondering if she had a near death experience, or....if she "remembered" perhaps from where she came from. I know that for me personally, my first memory is wondering how I got into such a small little body. Even though I'm much older now, that first memory is still just as vivid today.

Super talented kids make me so mad. I'm 17 and I'm not even that good, and I've been practicing for 4 years. Anywho, she's an absolute genius. Definately God-given talent. A real slap in the face to all the athiests out there.

Wow, so Jesus really does have blonde hair and green eyes? LOL!

The horse that she has drawn.
I saw it somewhere in heaven during my astral travelling long time ago.
It was a beautiful horse.

ive read articles/seen interviews (online),and have been to her web site.
it is very interesting and her paintings are beautiful. has anyone seen the
one with the tree in autumn,with the sun shining?? it looks so very real..

a prodigy is right - we need to find out how they tick and why. we need more of them.

as for seeing god - we see god as we understand god. her mother may have been an athiest , but our society isn't. and of course the dominating religion is christianity ( and a erroneous white jesus).

it seems , in other countries, and with children who have NDE - they tend to see the god of thier understanding.

hence this doesn't mean what she sees is right for all. if she had been a buddist she would have seen budda.

I think she is indeed very talented, however I don't think it's a "gift from god". Heck, we could go about saying the same stuff about Mozart but we choose to call him a "child prodigy" instead.

I seriously doubt God has anything to do with it, and as the others have pointed out i doubt she'd be getting as much attention if she were an atheist

Yeah, attributing this talent to god is not giving this girl enough credit. She's a pretty damn fine painter.

Word to that

I disagree, She was 4 years old when she was receiving this insight from God. Her mother was an atheist so there was no Christian influence over her. So why did she pick the Christian God and not Buddha? Her mother definitely wasn't influencing her, and 4 is a really young age to comprehend that, even if her mother was a believer.

Nephilim_Slayer: Have you been aroud a 4 years old kid more than 1 hour? I yes, i have 4 newphes, and i cared them some times, and i can tell you that 4 years old kids are like sponges to things they see and heard. Maybe her mother didnt influence her, but maybe someone near her, a teacher maybe, a family fruiends how is a cristian, even the TV can influence children. The kid its a very talented artist, nothing more.

Very good for her age, but not that is the only thing that makes her art special.

Well take it as you may see it, but because of her there is one less atheist walking the face of the planet because of the her influence. So I'll take it.

That is silly.

very good point... and maybe even more than one... i'm looking at her site right now... she really does have talent... and lots of it...

i coudln't draw or paint like that if i paid her to do it for me... lol...

the crazy thing is... her paintings bring back memories...

although... i think the Jesus that she painted may have been something she saw somewhere... it's a little stereotypical... but then again... maybe she saw Him as she was comfortable seeing him...

Oh yes, a lees evil and godless athist roam the land, another victory for the allmighty and it servants against the minions of evillllllll!!!!!!!

For Nimoy´s sake....

She's so talented! I'm jealous, lol. I wish I could paint like that, whether it's pure talent or a "gift from God".

I wonder if her art will improve or stay the same. The really extraordinary thing about is her age, otherwise it just.. if it weren't for her age it would hardly be considered inspiring.

Looking forward to seeing her newer art in a few years.

12 is not a prodigal age to do something. Lets say she started drawing at age 3, that would be 9 years os experience, more than enough to draw good paintings. Also, she must not be smart if she thinks God exists.

Aw, believing in God doesn't make one stupid.

I was drawing almost as good as she was at 5 when I was like.. 10. I am an art nut and hers is good and all but it just lacks something to me.

whats wrong with being a athiest? im Agnostic and just because she is drawing pictures of god. the same god we see in every church here doesnt mean im going to turn christian now pff. she's got great talent and her poetry is beautiful however stuff like this, it always ends up that her mother was a christian after all and maybe even purposly taught her how to draw at an early age just to get this attention now. im not beleivng in anything righ tnow just the fact that she's got talent and its awsome talent i love art and she inspires its great thats all maybe god has nothing to do with it maybe she wants it to. but whatever.

This kid makes me want to stab my eyes out with rusty spoons. She makes me feel ashamed of how mediocre my art is compared to her's

its called practice you realy love art that much friggin practice.

I enjoyed your stuff.

We talkin' about practice? What are we talkin' about? Practice? We talkin' about practice, man.

thats great.no matter what you believe, you cant deny that their faith has made them happy and made their lives better. even in the end if we discover there is no god, at least our lives here, now, are better for it.

Thanks Coldethyl!

Well, this is interesting...I can only draw anime, and drawing realistic heads, she's way ahead of me. In the background, when she started talking the painting was good, but the arms disproportioned, but overall good, especially for her age. She could've made these drawings from dreams or visions not necessarily from god, BUT SINCE AGE 4! that's a bit strange. I'm not sure of this might be just a dream...maybe it is, maybe it's not. Nevertheless, Interesting video overall.



probably, despite that she's able to remember her dreams, or what she calls "messages of god", so vividly, and it is quite seldom to remember dreams so vividly. Nevertheless you're right.

I just lost brain cells reading this post.

Well, to me the concept of "heaven" is a really simple one. Simple ideas are more likely to be adopted by alot of people (too complex or abstract and things are more likely to not be very widespread or available to a majority).
And if she is as bright as I think she is, then she could probably read before she could walk (well, maybe not, but you get my point ), and religious or not, all she would need is one bible in the home and voila, she would understand the concept of heaven.

But yeah, religion or not, damn those are some freaky paintings. She really has an ability to take a snapshot of something real, or imagined, and focus on it, study details of it, and then convey it perfectly to a painting or such. Amazingly impressive. Same ballpark as savants who can remember everything they've ever read (the real "Rain Man" for example, name escapes me but you know who I mean), or that guy who could imagine extremely complex mathematical problems as visual shapes and such, and solve them thanks to that. Some people are just extremely gifted mentally.

I don't really "know" art, but those are among my favorite painting I've watch.

I actually have her website bookmarked. She's an amazing little girl with a huge talent. I was floored to see her work at just 3 years old! She's got to be an Indigo.

I thought "Indigo's" were supposed to promote truth? And I was under the opinion that the "truth" they have is different from religon. Yet she cottons to the christian ways. Doesn't that mean She's got to be a Christian?

Either way, radness all around. Doesn't matter what is painted, as long as it is painted And if it looks awesome, as her artwork obviously is (regardless of age), you get an added bonus.

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I watched the video for the second time.
There is something that bothering me.
The way she talks seems like she's lieng or different from the canvass expressions.
No doubt that she drawn it...but i have a question in my mind when it comes to heaven.
I just keep it to myself.