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Art, Consciousness, and Spirituality
As of June 26, 2009, this discussion is undergoing a renaissance with new participants being invited to join.
Welcome!
This discussion is a place to share your personal experience of how art (whether creating art or experiencing art as audience) affected, is related to, your consciousness and spirituality.
While theoretical ideas may be included, I am most interested in hearing personal stories from you regarding your relationship with art as a means to consciousness and spirituality. In the 41 pages presently existing, members have posted links to research, music, and videos as well - which have enriched the dialogue.
Please note - one member transgressed a boundary on RG and was temporarily banned - which caused his postings to disappear. Also, by 2012, several members quit RG and all of their posts disaappeared.
These losses are unfortunate. So, as you read through what is posted - you'll notice some holes, large or small, in the flow that was created by posts being deleted.
Oh, well! The discussion goes on!
Your contributions may be as long as you want, even essays or articles (but you might need to paste in longer passages in pieces as there seems to be a limit to what each post can hold). If you have much to say, I suggest creating a separate document - and then paste the text into a comment box. That way, you're less likely to lose an important communication created in the flow of passion.
Also, please add your own works of art, whether poetry, music, film, visual art, or whatever.
Your personal definitions of consciousness and spirituality establishes what you share, and the definitions may be as fuzzy and gray as you want. Likewise for the definition of art. Parapsychological/paranormal phenomena are welcome, too.
In the arts, the issue of consciousness and spirituality generally receives little attention. So, this is a frontier worthy of exploration.
Thanks for joining me on this journey. Let's go!
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Permalink Reply by BastetAsshur on -
Hi. I come from a Contemporary Dance background. Mind/Body/Spirit is something we talk about a lot. Far from being unexplored territory it is standard practice to incorporate spirit as part of teaching dance/learning dance/choreographing/being choreographed on. I'll give you an example as best I can in words.
I was choreographing on a group of 23 people on a full-time bachelors dance program in Auckland, New Zealand. The dance was about death and those left behind. It was a 20 minute piece which is no small undertaking. (I just noticed the pun. Not a purposeful thing.) The very first session was having us all sit around and talk about what death meant to us. This naturally led to religion/spirituality/philosophy/beliefs. How could it not? At that time, one of New Zealand's most reknowned of dancer/choreographers had just publicly come out as H.I.V. positive. It was a really intense discussion that went for hours. There were tears, and laughs and a sharing that brought about trust and closeness that cannot be manufactured.
The dance itself was then based on the beliefs of the 23 people who were the dancers. It became an exploration of, 'what happens when you die', 'how does belief affect those left behind', 'how does belief effect you when you know someone is going to die sooner than the average lifespan'?
As the teacher I think I learned more than I taught.
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Permalink Reply by Denita on -
Then you are working in a very enlightened field - this sort of deep discussion is not common in how arts are taught here although perhaps that has changed or is changing - which I think is happening in a few places. I appreciate you sharing this story - brief and rich and inspiring. I'd love to see video(s) posted in RG or here in Art, Consciousness, and Spirituality - of your dances. Even still photos. That would tell me so much!
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Permalink Reply by Denita on
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INVITATION
Enter the imagination,
the in-magicked nation where
heavenly hammers and netherly nails
construct reality. Dreams stir and compose,
visions skip and thunder, following you everyday,
everywhere, until you turn and embrace each mage bearing
gifts, good or bad, black or white, until you weave a pattern, binding
both, until that image enters you, in-spirits you, and you, in gracious return,
give son to heart, path to earth, hand to plow. Join love walking through grain.
White or black, the nation is flat,
no shadows, no light,
no cycle, no child,
no orbit, no form,
no-one to hug in the August morn.
Put on your gray hat.
Descend the stair. Go down.
Go deeper. Put your hand on the latch.
Open.
Hello.
Welcome home.
In the land of images, you are never alone.
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Permalink Reply by Denita on
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Hello, and welcome. Welcome back to previous participants. Welcome to the new members.
Art, Consciousness, and Spirituality is alive again.
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Permalink Reply by Denita on
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Hmmm. Interesting. Thanks for posting this. Glad you enjoyed my poem and the detail from one of my paintings.
MUwaM said:Great Image and Poem,
here is a link to 'Reading' A Gaze, What We Believe Changes What We See
"It tells us that rather than being a passive process, social perception is very active," added Christoph Teufel, also of the University of Cambridge. "We do perceive social signals. But once we attribute a mental state to them, this in turn changes the sensory processing of that social signal. It's a two-way relationship."
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Permalink Reply by Denita on
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MICHAEL BAY FINALLY MADE AN ART MOVIE (Return of the Fallen: Transformers)
http://io9.com/5301898/michael-bay-finally-made-an-art-movie" target="_blank">Facebook friend posted this - as the best movie review he'd ever read. It is excellent - I'll say that. Except, that at the end, I would add the statement: "You are the transformed." I took my son and a friend to see this - and we came out feeling strong, empowered. And, yes, it does best depict the chaotic melee of battle, while being ridiculous, and complete brain bashing over stimulation
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Permalink Reply by Denita on
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Found this film clip, of Self-Made Shaman, made by my new friend, Ivan Szendro, who I met at the recent International Society for Shamanistic Research.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5uQ6UROqSg
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Permalink Reply by John Matthewson on
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I find Corot more spiritual than Blake. The difference is the difference between reality and caricature. Take Van Gogh's "Potato Eaters" for example, this has a spiritual reality but is not a caricature.
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Permalink Reply by Denita on
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Nice observation. Can you define "spiritual" - what you mean by that?
John Matthewson said:I find Corot more spiritual than Blake. The difference is the difference between reality and caricature. Take Van Gogh's "Potato Eaters" for example, this has a spiritual reality but is not a caricature.
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Permalink Reply by Roman Kozlowski on -
John Matthewson said:I find Corot more spiritual than Blake. The difference is the difference between reality and caricature. Take Van Gogh's "Potato Eaters" for example, this has a spiritual reality but is not a caricature.
John, I don't agree. Corot's pic'n'mix of dutch and Italian influences never really worked for him in his efforts to establish a truly original style, unlike contemporaries Blake, Turner, etc.
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Permalink Reply by Denita on
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Greetings, my Friends! Long time no post!
Tomorrow, RedefineGod and MyMythos will be featured in my powerpoint presentation on The Male Divine in my 4 hour class on World Mythology at the University of Phoenix campus in western Washington.
In addition, youtube videos of Larry Dossey, MD, and Stanley Krippner, PhD, will be shown.
RedefineGod and MyMythos are excellent examples of global spirituality in the age of technology.
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