The ARTIST & THE LANGUAGE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
‘Forty Acres Mistery’ (C) Geoff Hall, 2021.
The artist offers people the language of consciousness; amidst the daily chatter of the ego: in ourselves, the news, social media et. al. which cannot raise our consciousness, because information only feeds the emotions.
The daily chatter of the ego. The language of manifestos and sacred books, builds institutions to protect the egoic self, once the initial fire and fervour have evaporated; to prohibit entry to those who do not believe the same as me/we and transform this world into its likeness, rather than the Divine likeness.
These can be churches, governments or political parties, protecting and projecting a sub-species of the egoic ‘we’. All such ways become fossilised, solidified and these encrustations are seen as strength, but they are really life held by Death.
Held by death and bringing Death or punishment and tribulation to those who are ‘not one of us’. Death can only give birth to death and so the cycle of fossilisation continues. Atrophy is mistaken for change, progress, refinement; confirming their truth, but all that is happening is the putrefaction of life.
And still we do not learn, that we must break from the chattering ego.
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THE MIRROR OF THE EGO
The mirror of the ego
has the illusion of
depth, when all we have
is the surface of
the mirror, and
cannot distinguish
between surface and depth.
This is not self-knowledge,
not even of ‘the glass darkly’
kind, which is the mirror
of the soul .
To know ourselves
is to reject the
mirror of the ego,
for the mirror of
the soul. It is then
that we see in part
and truly know
in part. The trick is
to know which mirror
you are standing
in front of.
(The crack in your mirror, is the crack in your Cosmic Egg).
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THE MIRROR OF THE SOUL IS CRACKED
The awakened artist has already figured this out and presents to us what they have seen in the mirror of the soul.
We enter the world with a sense of Being, before we are (re)conditioned by another story and lose that sense of Being. The mirror of the soul is cracked by the pressure to conform to this new story, but all the while our self-knowledge is damaged, but we try and hang on to this ‘origin story’. It’s this gap between these stories, that makes us fell alienated, but we don’t perhaps yet, know why.
It is the conscious artist who is able to edit this new story; in giving us time to be still, to pause, to re-collect our origin and take us beyond this tale of inception which is akin to a book starting three chapters in, and leaving us to try and figure out what happened…How did we got here?
Art from this source can be a screen of awareness, to help us reconnect with our True Self, which is our highest self. The True Self is hidden, hidden in the Cosmos and wrapped in the arms of the Divine.
It is this artist who raises the potential, the possibilities of consciousness, of being awake… alert… watchful. The artist is therefore, not the means - that’s what the self-important ego wants - but is a channel of, Spirit. If we can listen, receive the words and images from the Source, then we will awaken to Spirit and travel the whole of Creation with a new sensibility - yes, senses, perceptual awareness - and not intellectual prowess. This Spirit provides our Life with greater nuance, than any intellectual games could possibly render and slowly eradicates a bi-polar vision of life.
Culture religion nor political manifestos, can give us this. The artist is therefore, the true avant-garde, to a new reality, where we are no longer alone; for everything is connected to everything else.
Welcome to the Quantum Universe.
Jack Stanza
Fractal Tree - (C) Commons, an image by S. Saisundar. 2018.
In the Quantum Universe, perhaps we could see the ancient ‘Tree of Life’ as a fractal tree and that in eating a part of it, we find an experience of the Whole?
Art, at least conscious art, can provide a fractal for the whole of life. Consciousness shared?
