Re-member, reader/viewer, remember the sensations you have viewing the image, reading the poem, and the more popular format of adventure/fantasy fiction that will follow in this Fall Series. Then let your unconscious re-member it- Re-compose image, poem, history to tell its real story, to have its real effect on you- you will do anyway! (From titillation to tragedy, the human heart rages, raves and roves in its search for true identity and peace.)
***After the Achekale, the Left Hand Path:
***After the Achekale, the Left Hand Path:
LIGHTFULLNESS***
THE BEGINNING AND THE END!
9/’11-- Musing
I came into this world before my parents began to tire out. I often seemed to fall short of usual measures- i.e., sports and finance. There was some talk about other gifts... But little of that until college. There, my world opened and grew exponentially. After that, there was the Church and Pilgrimage and Panikkar, Lancaster, Georgia in a line of fine religious and secular teachers!
Church people[1] make terrible mistakes. So do secular altruists. When church people get it right, it is a magnificent thing- but they waste a lot of time socializing and politicking. It seems unavoidable. So it is with secular altruists. Better to just be ‘natural,’ use and support various social networks, ‘religious’ or ‘secular,’ to engage the fullness of the Spirit(s- Elohim) in solitude, and in commune. Such discourse requires a diplomatic dedication (and skill!) to ‘do no harm,’ yet still push through nonsense and dishonesty in oneself and others on a path of realization and ‘de-light.’ (Shamans have depended upon such 'light' from the beginning- in various spectrums.)
In the forests of metaphor that are human sensibility, here is one of those rare aspects that is literal, though not necessarily physically so. Lightfulness- what Christianity references as ‘a Light that casts no shadow’ and Buddhism notes in its “Clear Light’ realizations. Language, ideas, images can support this experience- but finally give way before it. In fact, it is this ‘visionary consciousness’ that forms and informs ‘sense’ itself: Language, ideas, images... The Lord is beyond form or content. We can’t do without, it seems.
Believe in the Lord Christ (access), depend on the Lord Buddha (process), entertain with respect and 'honors of origin' Shamanistic Animism-- not without drawbacks as well, but it is our first great insight about the nature of being (along with discovery of tools) and no one knows Nature better-- the great, ineffable Sacrament of God’s Creation.[2] In this, Science comes to its fullness...
[1] By ‘Church people,’ I mean any organized group experience with traditions, teachings, scriptures and/or practices maintained over time.
[2] Materialism has a dark, forceful, prideful tendency that tries to dispense with a ‘spiritual’ dimension, but is miserable and lonely without it.
Religions, secular or otherwise, tend to think they own the Light. If they own anything its properties, ideas, images... ‘Lightfulness’ always finds freedom in the midst of process and form.
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***235. AFTER THE ACHEKALE-THE LEFT HAND PATH, Acrylic on Canvas, 20” x 16” 2003-2012. SEE ACHEKALE.
***9. [7.] Strider (Dragon Painting II) Oil on Canvas 5’ x 4 Amorphic color and space in counterpoint relationship with hardedge, linear and geometric embellishments- It’s about the relationship between the general context of being and specific experience as open and luminous.
***235. AFTER THE ACHEKALE-THE LEFT HAND PATH, Acrylic on Canvas, 20” x 16” 2003-2012. SEE ACHEKALE.
***9. [7.] Strider (Dragon Painting II) Oil on Canvas 5’ x 4 Amorphic color and space in counterpoint relationship with hardedge, linear and geometric embellishments- It’s about the relationship between the general context of being and specific experience as open and luminous.
The title, "Strider", is from the ‘motion’ of this nature painting that reminds me of the movement of a Water Strider...Yet, as well, the painting still suggests a more cosmic ambience.
The ‘dragon’ theme in these works is a reference to nature and our metaphysical, technological relationships with nature...
Barometric and gravity drawn forces inside and around the artist and the art interact with artistic tools and training to evoke both the sensitivities of a migraine person and requirements for later spiritual training...
Barometric and gravity drawn forces inside and around the artist and the art interact with artistic tools and training to evoke both the sensitivities of a migraine person and requirements for later spiritual training...
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