# No Doper should be without one: Celestial Soul Portraits **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 30, 2010, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-doper-should-be-without-one-celestial-soul-portraits/548573 "2010-07-30T13:04:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-doper-should-be-without-one-celestial-soul-portraits/548573/1 "2010-07-30T13:04:13Z")
Please will someone commission [one of these](http://iasos.com/artists/erial/celestial-soul-portraits/) of me for Christmas? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-doper-should-be-without-one-celestial-soul-portraits/548573/2 "2010-07-30T13:11:43Z")
Someone out-lights Kinkade! ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-doper-should-be-without-one-celestial-soul-portraits/548573/3 "2010-07-30T13:16:30Z")
Don’t fear though - it’s quite a scientific methodology: > [@Batshit Artist](#): > > 1. You contact Erial Ali - letting him know you wish such a portrait. > > 2. Erial has a **phone consultation** with you - where he finds out about you - > your interests, your passions, your fascinations, how you “see” yourself. > > 3. You send Erial a **high-quality photo of yourself** - an image that you feel is highly representative of “the real you”. An image that represent how you like to be seen. This will be Erial’s “starting point”. > > 4. Erial meditates and “ **tunes into you** ”, to “get your unique Essence”. > > 5. Once Erial really “gets who you are”, then, starting from the image you provided, he magically **transforms** it into a Celestial Soul Portrait of you! I wish such a portrait. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-doper-should-be-without-one-celestial-soul-portraits/548573/4 "2010-07-30T13:29:50Z")
This looks like something you’d have done at a booth on the midway of the county fair. I liked the guy with the beam coming out of his third eye. Or is he downloading visions from the aliens directly into his mind? ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-doper-should-be-without-one-celestial-soul-portraits/548573/5 "2010-07-30T13:59:17Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > Please will someone commission [one of these](http://iasos.com/artists/erial/celestial-soul-portraits/) of me for Christmas? No\*\* jjimm\*\*. These are C-Soul portraits. We all deserve A-Soul ones. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-doper-should-be-without-one-celestial-soul-portraits/548573/6 "2010-07-30T14:25:46Z")
It’s a very tempting idea. Let me consult my Chakra. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-doper-should-be-without-one-celestial-soul-portraits/548573/7 "2010-07-30T14:45:51Z")
Do you think he’d paint my Thetan clearing itself of ingrams? ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-doper-should-be-without-one-celestial-soul-portraits/548573/8 "2010-07-30T14:50:06Z")
> [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](#): > > > [@jjimm](#): > > > > Please will someone commission [one of these](http://iasos.com/artists/erial/celestial-soul-portraits/) of me for Christmas? > > No\*\* jjimm\*\*. These are C-Soul portraits. We all deserve A-Soul ones. I know some people who deserve R-soul portraits. I think they would really capture their inner being. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-doper-should-be-without-one-celestial-soul-portraits/548573/9 "2010-07-30T14:51:08Z")
Do you have to pay more if it’s on velvet? ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-doper-should-be-without-one-celestial-soul-portraits/548573/10 "2010-07-30T14:54:37Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > It’s a very tempting idea. Let me consult my Chakra. Sorry mate, your chakras are all clogged up. Who fitted them? Some bunch of cowboys probably. I’m going to have to take them all out and clean them up with a rag. Cost ya, too. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-doper-should-be-without-one-celestial-soul-portraits/548573/11 "2010-07-30T15:06:11Z")
> [@hotflungwok](#): > > I know some people who deserve R-soul portraits. I think they would really capture their inner being. Ah yup. It’s all in the pronunciation **hotflungwok** … No extra charge for the velvet **Zeldar**. Plush \*and \*celestial.. **Hypno-Toad** , I think that ‘third eye beam’ is actually the trajectory of the bullet from the rival Columbian drug lord. **jjimm** , I’ve left your name, email address, and phone number, noting that there’s strong hope Erial Ali will see your celestial self much like ‘Lilie’ and that you especially like dolphins with unicorn heads. Just think..only 30 sleeps, and 250 bux!! So start dreaming..I mean, saving… ---
**Author:** ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-doper-should-be-without-one-celestial-soul-portraits/548573/12 "2010-07-30T15:40:34Z")
I, too, love the guy with the laser beam coming out of his head. **jjimm** , I’m sure we can take up a collection and send in one of your photos from the gallery to have done. Do you have a particular favorite? ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-doper-should-be-without-one-celestial-soul-portraits/548573/13 "2010-07-30T15:43:04Z")
Wow. That guy’s dropped a \*ton \*of acid. Love the laser beam man. Look painful. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-doper-should-be-without-one-celestial-soul-portraits/548573/14 "2010-07-30T15:52:38Z")
> [@Surly\_Chick](#): > > **jjimm** , I’m sure we can take up a collection and send in one of your photos from the gallery to have done. Do you have a particular favorite? I trust Erial to tune into me and choose. Perhaps he will choose elements from more than one, and stick them together to reveal my true celestial soul. Like he did so beautifully with Alison. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-doper-should-be-without-one-celestial-soul-portraits/548573/15 "2010-07-30T16:06:52Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > I trust Erial to tune into me and choose. Perhaps he will choose elements from more than one, and stick them together to reveal my true celestial soul. Like he did so beautifully with Alison. That’s really how I pictured you in my mind’s eye, anyways. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-doper-should-be-without-one-celestial-soul-portraits/548573/16 "2010-07-30T16:14:55Z")
For the little kid, it seemed perfectly appropriate (she has that hanging in her bedroom, undoubtedly). I’m not sure it works for adults tho, but hoo am I to judge. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-doper-should-be-without-one-celestial-soul-portraits/548573/17 "2010-07-30T16:17:17Z")
This is the silliest shit I’ve ever seen. And yet, I want one. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-doper-should-be-without-one-celestial-soul-portraits/548573/18 "2010-07-30T16:17:22Z")
I want one REAL BAD. Seriously, I REALLY WANT ONE. I love how he gave Mr. LARP an extra staff. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-doper-should-be-without-one-celestial-soul-portraits/548573/19 "2010-07-30T16:20:50Z")
Save the dollars and the 30 days, **jjimm**. I have tuned into your celestial self and I don’t even need your photo. I see your blondie hair all swirly and wispy around a tiara. From this, an ethereal sneeze of a thousand points of light leads to…I think… George Bush Snr …_closes eyes, furrows brow_…but I can’t see clearly… You’re wearing a magnificent robe of turquoise terry toweling… GOOD GOD\*\* jjimm\*\*…!!! _I can see your celestial junk!!!_ end transmission ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-doper-should-be-without-one-celestial-soul-portraits/548573/20 "2010-07-30T16:21:15Z")
What I want to know is, will he do one for your pets? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-doper-should-be-without-one-celestial-soul-portraits/548573.md?page=2)