From The CEO
WHAT A WORLD, WHAT A WORLD, WHAT A WONDERFUL WACKY WORLD TO BEHOLD! THE INTRIGUE, SUSPENSE AND MYSTERY OF THE HUMAN WORLD IS A THRILLER. WHEN ONE LEADS WITH THE HEART ONE GIVES AND RECEIVES COMPASSION AND WHEN ONE LEADS WITH THE HEAD ONE GIVES AND RECEIVES COMPETITION. HOWEVER, THE JOY OF EXPERIENCING IMPERMANENCE ASSURES THAT THE ASSUMED PERMANENCE IS IMPERMANENT. DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD, THE WITCH IS DEAD, DING DONG THE WICKED WITCH IS DEAD, ETC.
NOW THAT THE CALVACADE OF GHOSTS, SHADOWS, GHOULS, MONSTERS AND GOBLINS HAVE ALL FLED! THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HALLOW IS DEAD AND YET THE ESSENCE OF MEMORY LIVES ON! THE INFLUX OF SPIRITUAL BEINGS CREATING A TIDAL WAVE OF POSITIVE ENERGY THAT EMBRACES THE QUALITIES OF THE AFOREMENTIONED IS EXTRAORDINARY. THE NETWORKING POLARITY OF CYBERSPACE CONNECTIONS WITHIN THE INFINITE DOMAIN IS PRODUCING INDIVIDUAL UNIVERSES FULL OF CREATIVITY THAT AFFIRMS LIFE IS UNQUESTIONABLY LIFE! IT IS PERFECT IN ITS IMPERFECTION AND WILL ALWAYS BE!
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A Capital Review AN EXTRAORDINARY BODY OF ARTWORKS OF PHENOMENAL EXISTENCE Romare Bearden 
The Family What a joy, Oh what a laugh! One Nation's Capital is currently hosting this exhibition, September 14, 2003 -January 4, 2004. This truly is an extraordinary retrospective of the Artist, Romare Bearden and his lifetime contributions and legacy of masterful ArtWorks. The National Gallery of Art, in the Washington, DC. metropolitan area has brilliantly displayed 'the evolutionary expressionism of life energy' through this apparently well organized exhibit. In brochures written by Ruth Fine, curator of special projects in modern art, in addition to a children's brochure with text by Heidi Hinish, and produced by the Department of Exhibition Programs and the Publishing Office, which we received upon attending the museum thoroughly gives detailed information regarding this actual exhibition content and purpose. 
Summer (Maudell Sleet's July Garden) 
Tomorrow I May Be Far Away 
Madeline Jones' Wonderful Garden 
Mecklenburg Autumn: October - Toward Paw's Creek ![In A Green Shade (Hommage [sic] to Marvell)](images/bearden/bearden6.jpg)
In A Green Shade (Hommage [sic] to Marvell) Romare Bearden (1911-1988) was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, moved with his parents to Harlem, New York City in 1914 during the African-American Migration period at that time. Although, he was embedded in the consciousness of the New York environment, Romare was strongly affected by the cultural ambiance of Mecklenburg County and influenced by the inspirational panache of the 'Big Apple' as shown in many of his ArtWorks. There are images from Romare's childhood stays with his grandparents in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as well as the Caribbean island of St. Martin vividly reflected from the hands of his genius. The Harlem Renaissance of the roaring '20s provided Romare Bearden's family household with a full ring of talented, creative and dynamic personalities from various walks of life, (Langston Hughes, Aaron Douglas, Duke Ellington, etc.) who help to channel the creative surge of Romare to be an Artist of great magnitude. The power radiating from the canvas' of Romare are invocative reminiscences of the unfolding times bringing about a new and distinct revelation of the creative expressions of life energy. The universe has its way of guiding the chronology of an individual to fulfill the destination of creation and so it is with this Artist. It is evident that Romare's determination to produce a creative body of ArtWorks indicative of the pulses of Human consciousness as experienced by the linear life span of time and space was greater than gaining a degree in medicine as his parents wanted him to do. His studies in biology, trigonometry, and Greek at the Lincoln University in Pennsylvania lead him to pinpoint art as his medium which brought Romare to Boston University and than to New York University, with a degree in education in '35. The muses worked vigorously to inspire this well of untapped talent to overflow with classes in figure drawing and watercolor at the Art Students League under the direction and guidance of German Artist, George Grosz, who was a strong participant in the artistic movement 'Dada.' This artist provided an entrČe to the full history of Western art which established the foundation of Romare Bearden's composition techniques and approaches to the creative process he undertook to originate. The Dada's political stimulus at that time infused the imagination of Romare to create a weekly cartoon for the Baltimore Afro-American for approximately two years in the '30s as he continued cultivating painting and sculpture education. 
Of The Blues: At the Savoy Like every Artist who undergoes the chisel of a master hand to bring forth the hidden depth within a block of stone, i.e. - "The Boy David" by Michaelangelo - so Romare Bearden exemplifies the profundity of such an effort in his growth and development through pursuing his creative expression while dealing with the rapprochement of day to day survival. Doing his ArtWorks whenever an opportunity presented itself Romare worked a steady job a number of years with the New York City Department of Social Services. He also was a World War II veteran traveling Europe on the GI Bill in the '50s and achieved independence from further obligations and distractions from his ArtWorks when he aged to his sixtieth year during his lifetime. Finally, as every Artist works to accomplish this feat through his creative efforts, Romare Bearden earned enough capital through art sales to work-full time in his Long Island City Art Studio. Romare also got married to Nanette Rohan in '54 and they eventually moved downtown Canal Street New York where they lived until the inevitable claimed their mortal Beings. An overview of the Human life can be dystopian, however it is through the trials and tribulations of the Artists' quotidian rapture life doesn't prevent enthusiasm to live life fully until ones mission is completed. When we entered into the visual world of Romare Bearden's "collage-paintings" of graphite, ink lines, painted marks on flat-color papers to the magazine and newspaper cutouts composing images incorporating pressure-sensitive glossy laminates, intensively printed on color-aid sheets of matte construction papers and foils, we sparkle with delight. There are textile fragments of plain and patterned fabric creating pictorial collages done on canvas, board and paper as well. The textured surfaces are altered with spray paint and use of traditional paint techniques with abrasion - sanding to roughen a kaleidoscopic plane of juxtapose illusions with 3D manipulation for visual effects as well as grading color tints by means of a bleaching application. The mono type process produces a hybrid painting, drawing and printmaking. The visual impact is astounding. It is very different from the basic collage approaches and resolution methods used during that time. The easy, flexible and fluid method used and mastered by Romare by applying an image to a glass or metal surface and transferring it to paper, usually by means of a printing press as relayed in the museums brochure under the section 'Technique' is revolutionary in the field of artistic creativity. We are inspired to acknowledge the gifts of Romare Bearden and their impact upon the world we continue to cultivate through the perceptions, perspectives and visions of Artists' today. Websites: The Romare Bearden Foundation 'The Art of Romare Bearden' at the National Gallery of Art Schedule of Exhibition: Through Jan 4, 2004: National Gallery of Art Feb. 7 - May 16, 2004: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. June 20 - Sep 12, 2004: Dallas Museum of Art, Oct 14, 2004 - Jan 9, 2005: The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY Jan 29 - April 24, 2005: High Museum of Art, Atlanta. A Mandala's View
EL GRECO
A 'GREEK' TYCOON OF THE RENAISSANCE ART THE MANDALA OF TIME TRAVEL SWINGS OPEN THE DOORS WITH ITS PENDULUM ACROSS THE UNIVERSE INTO THE REALM OF 'EL GRECO', A CREATIVE DIMENSION ALIVE AND WELL HERE AND NOW! LIFE IS HAPPENING! One should not underestimate the impact that any 'Artist' makes during the sojourn of life upon its visible realms of Human existence. The eternal wheel as aptly demonstrated with another gem from the spectrum of the Renaisance era of 'the evolutionary expressionism of life energy' has stopped for this brief moment. Through the generation of times spacial dominion arises EL GRECO, the Man, the Artist. Recently the spotlight has turned to this focal point for insight, beauty and inspiration through an entrance into a zone of universal consciousness that is viable awareness via the discriptive etymology used by the Art World. 
Saint Martin and the Beggar In an article by Blake Gopnik, Washington Post Staff Writer, New York, Sunday, October 26, 2003, N9, titled "Stretching the Truth: EL GRECO's Artistic Twist" superbly expresses in a wonderful synopsis or summation value of the lifetime of an 'Artist'. In addition to many other avenues of information about EL GRECO we have absorbed divine imprints upon the sands of time. It gives us great joy to experience, celebrate and share the dynamics of this kindred spirit. We affirm that there are infinite portals into the center of conscious awakening and EL GRECO is 'ONE' of those for now! This central reference point of a Human Being was, is and will be presented throughout Human evolution. The Universe touches the inner current's stream of life energy with an unusual creative power of sublime beauty. It's a miracle to see ArtWorks in 'the evolutionary expressionism of life energy' magnetizing the inner Being to bring forth the fluidity of structure and form. EL GRECO's paintings are exhibiting essential qualities that produce the extremes of the internal and external impulses of the world today. The stretch of any creative Being through dormant states is an awakening. El GRECO, born into physical form in 1541 in Crete was a part of the Venetian providence. The name Domenikos Theotokopoulos was bestowed upon him as his initial identification, although the masterful surge configured an environment cultivating the care of EL GRECO's preliminary stages of growth and development through his father, a tax farmer and entrepreneur, the world surrounding him set afire a passion unmatched in his unique ambivalent style. 
Laocoon Like Father - Like Son - Like father is the Son evolved - a common denominator in the evolutionary process of creative expression reflected in the mirror of life. EL GRECO's Father's influence stems from his apprenticeship as a painter manifesting images of the Byzantine icons captured by his brush of the day. The pictorial canvases of that period renders ritual observances of the religious perspective by all 'Artist' during that period instead of a more personalized point of view that freedom seems to provide Artists' of today's world, 'Artist' who are able to transcend without severe judgment and criticism to destroy their output. EL GRECO started his sojourn as a young man painting in Venice around 1567. The courageous and radical acceptance of his approach enabled him to override some of the conventions restricting the 'Artist' which spqwned a rebel nickname 'GRECO' meaning 'GREEK'. Every 'Artist' has his own unique vision of the world with all of its contents and contexts to draw experiences from, as EL GRECO undoubtedly did. ArtWorks from his creative genius spark the same causes and effects of his mind, body, soul and spirit which are living within his canvases. The primary training mastered by mainstream styles of painters (like Titian,Tintoretto and Veronese) were grasped through EL GRECO's impulsiveness to teach himself approaches that lead him into another dimension of the mind's perceptions about life. Although It is deemed by society to always be dangerous to express an individual perspective in a predominately group based culture, life itself advocates who will or won't get into the art club despite man's criteria designed to be prejudiced, judgmental, condemning and/or condoning which may impede progress by not supporting progress. 
Saint Jerome Like most Artist, EL GRECO risked any appreciation when he forfeited accepting his membership invitation to be like his colleagues who were afraid to wade the turbulent waters of distructive criticisms. His independence radiates from his ArtWorks showing that he rejected the stigmatization called Renaissance art as a validation and coursed his own ship through the rocks in the direction of Italian art that noses turn up to even today. The Artist within us knows that one doesn't know but knows what one does know through living fully and courageously. This is a great motivation to create. That is why the Artist persists in exploring the unknown through every medium available during 'the evolutionary expressionism of life energy'. GRECO's mission is quite clear as shown in his body of ArtWorks. There isn't any criticism, professional and/or amateur, that can do what he did because he was the only one given the charge to do what he did without compromise. It cannot be undone no matter what! Look at the Italian Artist Schiavone, who is hardly recognized or remembered as a pioneer of the distorted artistic form approach to the painting of the canvas or the intensely bursting and highly colorful pigments of emotional discharge demonstrated through controled insanity with a precision of brush strokes that evidently inspired the creative flare of EL GRECO's artistic cultivation. We've got to come to an understanding that life is for constant change, and start to enjoy its freedom through creativity. 
Christ at the Sea of Galilee "Schiavone together with older Italian painters such as Correggio and Parmigianimo, whose [mannerist" stylization's EL GRECO is on record as having liked, and younger figures such as Lelio Orsi - a master of the extreme torch light effects that EL GRECO later went to town on - and Giacomo Bertoia, a radical follower of Parmigianino who EL EL GRECO may have briefly worked under in Rome, and the Greek painter's peculiarities start to have a substantial pedigree." - Blake Copnik Oh yes, Blake Copnik, hit it on the nail head, EL GRECO is a phenomenon. The exaggerated, extravagant, almost abstract-surrealistic approach exuding from the masterful hand moving across the canvas without a quest but a specific direction opens the third eye of perception to see the illusions of reality in their profound states of natural illusions. Blake also states in his opening of the aforemention article: "There's no such thing as weird art. There's no such thing as normal art. There's just whatever an artist decides to make, and then an audience that buys into it, or not. All the theorizing and explanation and justification comes after that basic fact of creation and reception. Right from the start, artmaking is such an odd activity, without fixed goals or necessary rules, that anything goes so long as artist and audience can agree on it." Voila! There we have it once again. Of course, EL GRECO's creative approach diminished his career opportunities for further advancement by the authorities initially in position to hinder or enhance his process. However, anyHuman Beings rising out of the psychological abyss of the status quo must meet this challenge head on even if his ArtWorks aren't ever recognized by anybody. The Art must be done! The freedom EL GRECO maintained regardless of his slow beginnings is what we celebrate here today. The 'Artist' must not become a slave to the machinery, that will ultimately devourer and/or destroy his creative freedom to express the inner depths, by conforming. The Artists' individuation of vision within the collective consciousness cannot be separated from the collective consciousness of Human existence. It is all-pervading. 
The Holy Family with Saint Anne and the Infant John the Baptist EL GRECO, like every Human Being, invested, contributed and sacrificed all gifts given by life itself to a world resisting inevitability. His plight like all 'Artist' seemed to have been constantly working in an inequitabe disposition and being consistently, methodically, nudged out by the deceptive business patterns. Apparently EL GRECO resisted coercions to serve the rigid dogmas of embattlements against his creative freedom, otherwise we would not have this spoltlight upon him today. It still seems that mannerist eccentricity is an expression of spiritual fervor and an escape from earthly realities, however, it could as easily be viewed as a sign of earthy transformation beyond concepts, structures, ideas and forms into spaciousness that we cannot deny. EL GRECO's lifetime even in Spain as documented was challenging as well. His radical style spinning out of the norm and yet expressing the natural course his ArtWorks did take was feared. When a commissioned ArtWork by a collector of mainstream Italian art backfired, it left EL GRECO's major ArtWork entrenched in controversy. This produced a removal of his masterpiece as soon as it was put in place, which sounds a little bit like Diego Rivera's mural in the Rockefeller Center escapade. Oh yes, disappointed, disheartened and upset, we can imagine as 'Artist' the blow that surely must have been his feeling that caused him to flee to another locale, Toledo, where views on the new Renaissance art of Italy was not as fixated, for EL GRECO to find any kind of public acceptance and/or appeal beyond the critics' choice perpetuating an hypnotic persuasion to convince the mind of men to yield and follow. When an 'Artist' works within the universal field of energy selflessly, with the demigods of egotistical diminution, nothing will be able to stop what must be done by the force traversing through his creative being. Such is the living proof of EL GRECO ArtWorks! 
Madonna and Child with Saint Martina and Saint Agnes The isolation and aloneness that comes with independence from mass-think, and it's compromises to fit into the norm without taking risk to explore other dimensions of life itself, can be crucifying during the time in which an 'Artist' is experiencing the pressures of a world refusing to let go of the delusions of permanency, control and power. As we continue to look deeper into the ArtWorks of EL GRECO and see the revelations of the masked essence playing in the imagination with the soul of Human existence, we applaud vivaously and shout BRAVO! The imperial archives of this universal museum has brought forth yet another superb example through an introspective overview of an Artists' retrograde into the unknown. EL GRECO was projecting through the trajectory of timeless space. What we are facing with every breath we breathe is that the whole of life is infinite, multidimensional and always experiencing itself here and now. Truly, EL GRECO's future for Italian art that might have been never was - IS. He sold his bold vision to a clientele that had no reason to reject it, or much to compare it with like the many 'Artist' of today, and this fact serves the great purpose for encouragement to 'Artist', otherwise we would not be blessed with the brilliant body's of ArtWorks for all time. EL GRECO, a member of Toledo's middle class; a bachelor who fathered an illegitimate son he brought up as his heir and chief assistant; a businessman who managed a thriving workshop-apparently his style was never strange enough to stop pupils from lining up to learn the knack of it-and who also managed to live beyond his quite substantial means like most 'Artist' understanding the temporariness of material, physical and spiritual reality; a litigious maniac who spent all his spare time suing people to force clients to pay more than they had planned to spend on his ArtWorks. There isn't anything unusual or strange about this ongoing saga for 'Artist' at all...Greed begets Greed...everyone seems to be in A - GREED - MENT, until truth comes piercing through to balance the books. The clientele who collected EL GRECO's ArtWorks paid aggressively for an EL GRECO, like every 'Artist' known to be consumed by a world full of abusive behavior to amass a fortune from his blood, sweat and tears for the castle in the sky! EL GRECO, like a Picasso, simply made sure that their clientele were buying ArtWorks that are superb in a perfectly normal way. It is evident that we cannot go back to a place we never left in the first place. EL GRECO as all 'Artist' lives in the infinity of Human consciousness forever changing with this expanding Universe. Just a glimpse of the unimaginable comprehension of an ominpresence is the reward of a great 'Artist'. Looking within, behind and beyond in the point of now, one can see the living breathing ArtWorks at play. Visit El Greco Exhibit: National Gallery of Art Evolutionary Expression
 Golden Awakening. 1995. Acrylic on Russian Linen - 36 x 28" (91.4 x 71.7 cm). Original - Available
Poetry #107
CONTENT AND CONTEXT Collage sense, Memories Pathways recall, All at once! Essence probable Pre-cognition To play out stretched "time" Manifested version To memory Constantly change Relationships associative nature To other like events By field patterns and Probabilities future memory. We are partaking, Participating, and A part of the master event Creating the mythology At the end of the beginning age, The myths in which participated The beginning age which is ending. As results are existing In the moment being Relaxed and alert, Active and peaceful, Transforming magical Natural life Expect a miracle direction Focus and attend exchange, Exercise the form, Through which the energy flows Through inner and outer Magnetized thought Intent abundant belief. Reveal system Operations Content and context, Command and courage, Clarity in want, Stunts and choices made, Not mixed signals. Clear spoken focused intent And attention acted upon Each leads to the next Current with focus! By JV Harvey |
Human Beings are forever in pursuit to break loose of the material, physical and spiritual chains during every 'Bond-age' period. Since we, the Human species, from the perspective of technology are technologically equipped to meet the challenges during this continuous evolution of life energy, then why are we Humans so dysfunctional? The 'Artist' within can only express through ArtWorks from every medium that is possible as outlets to answer this Koan. This puzzle and/or riddle baffles the most self proclaimed of the intelligent species inhabiting the planet earth. The answer is here. We just don't see it. Obviously inadequacy parlays the consumption of the Human Being by its technology as it seems that technology has delivered the Human Being to be eaten up and spitted out while it thrives like locust grazing the fields of crops for its sustenance. The life energy of the Human species is demonstrated with the insurmountable poverty in the world where every 'today' mentioned, past, present and future, hasn't truly and honesty been addressed. The supreme rule of Human consciousness beckons us to stop, look and carefully listen to the echoes on the wind; the voice of our inner Being; the creative force; the 'Artist' here and now; right where we are! The universal understanding that we are the world, we are the children, the pitiful little children, who since our initiation into the fold of creation are neglecting a powerful responsibility because of egotistical incompatibility which incapsulates the essence of life's freedom against the accepted delusions of life's imprisonment. Look at all the stuff we've accumulated internally as well as externally in defensive living that we have stored away to use everyday: the abundance of things but not an abundance of loving-kindness or compassion; how strange it is...
Although it is a brief moment of insight and revelation, we are thankful for these fleeting manifestations of phenomenal existence as they dissolve into oblivion. Everybody knows they are born to die. It is what one doesn't know while in the body that produces matter. The quest is resounding, what Am I doing here? We understand "The Evolutionary Expressionism of Life Energy" is merely an acknowledgment of 'All That Is' which pinpoints the infinite ways we have produced, as spokes to the hub of the eternal wheel connects its outer and inner circle's expansion. The micro- macro-alpha- omega voyage through the mind portals into the depths of an abyss spirals ultimately to a new genesis of another dimensional cycle creating continued super-nova births! All of the Human experience is essential to the Gatekeeper of existence that we sense is awaiting at the souls entrance/exit beyond the conceptual thought processes regarding 'The Garden.' The United Kingdom of Creation releases, lets go and lives freely within this grand canvas called 'Universe.'
The imperial quest of the Human sojourn is to come to enlightened understanding of the significance of insignificance in this forever changing world by spending time and energy in a truthful state of unconditional loving-kindness and compassion. Give something to a complete stranger that is observed on the path walked everyday and feel the joy it brings in this field of technological dominance. This forthcoming 'Thanksgiving' celebration slated must not invigorate the cacophony of family dysfunctionality but resound the unification of the mind, body, soul and spirit of the Divine. We do not hold on to life, for life doesn't hold on to anything, therefore live life in the natural flow of change here and now. Don't just give where return of giving is a precedent. This creative essence of life demands DOING, BEING AND HAVING BIG MANIFESTATIONS OUTSIDE OF THE BOX!
Once we experience the simplistic opening up to the Human Beings right where we are in the world, we have affected change of a higher order. This kind of action can heal life's ills and rejuvenate collective consciousness as a great adventure filled with joy, peace and again... loving-kindness and compassion. Send a card of kindness to anybody disliked and/or liked and technology will begin to support the Human Being instead of the Human Being supporting technology only. When one bares oneself as naked as the day of ones physical birth of the inherited bio-psycho fears, one will come to know, as the 'Artist', that life is void of permanency. Now is the only time to love like neighbors. The subliminal messages transmitted and/or transferred, through every possible channel of mind controls imaginable, are not all camouflaged approaches to deter the spirit from it's mission. The 'Artist' came into this world to bring testimony to the utmost highest of Human Being. The sharing of the genuine gifts allotted one in life are Heavenly Blessed.
The master 'Artist' is the Dream weaver; oh yes, they inspire the great 'Artist' within creation to bring forth and encompass the highest universal frequencies and vibrations that reverberates throughout the shadow lands of thought, ideas and concepts, as a candle light illuminates a dark space like the starlight patterns upon the black velvety night sky. We are the Children of the Golden Light, the 'Artist' exiled incognito spread across the earth reflecting our starlight express, the Almighty spirit entrusted to uphold the exodus from the mirages of delusion through the barren deserts of time and space terrain...seeking, searching, and finding an oasis to cool the parched thirst in the throat for the elixir of life and life more abundantly as long as it takes for Human Beings to understand that the destination is this journey, not the watering holes quenched along the way...
We need not resist the knowledge to live, for the reverse of 'live' becomes 'evil'; we have gathered so much information for today's continued evolution as the Human species. However we must extract from the illusion of reality this life substance; the very essence! The enormous catastrophes, casualties and atrocities around the world as deliberate orchestration and shown via illusion's news mediums, events, etc. activate conscious awareness that may or may not arouse emotional reactions but inspire peaceful action. The Artists' responsibility is to grasp the essence of this dilemma in ArtWorks and project its miracle through the various mediums for creative transcendence with conviction that this is life and it is doing what life does. Like little children rising out of a pitiful state and becoming excited, laughing and playing in Halloo Eve's disguises releases any attachment to Halloween's nightmare states with their horrific images from the darker side of 'mankind's conscience and diffuses the fear, angry and rage suppressed in a conditioned mind. We can do without enacting vengeance upon the Human for Being Human by transforming the superior/inferior concepts of being Human into its Divine. Anything that distracts and/or deludes the mind from universal consciousness must be dissolved. This is truly letting go... There must be the experience of freedom penetrating and enveloping the rigidity in which Human Beings appear to be trying to control outcomes of life, otherwise one cannot obtain that freedom if one doesn't know anything of its possible existence.
It's okay not to know as long as one doesn't deny what one knows which enables one to transform knowledge into the wisdom of life which one knows, therefore one is using intelligence for it is unattachable, whereby intellect is a function of its component 'the mind' to orchestrate its unfoldment through creativity. One never knows do one, until one knows, we are a knowledgeable family. There isn't any Human Being without exception, living the life they intended, although Human Beings are living the life that is essential regardless of the infinite purposes, reasons, rationales and/or logical realizations used to understand the nature of life. This is how creation creates. The unknown becomes known which continues into the unknown which substantiates the profundity that "One never knows what God's Plan is until it is revealed and then one knows God's Plan which is to create beyond all manifestations of self," God being the universe manifesting consciousness reflected through inflection of the absolute truth is without any attachment to anything absolute. Herein lies the freedom the 'Artist' radiates through creativity time and time again. When we look at the ArtWorks of creative expression they affirm that every Human Being knows better but avoids better, acting like its a plague to be better, because better means giving up the fight for something better other then what one has as the best! Know Thy Self....As I Am The Self To Know!
Of course, IGNORANCE IS BLISS!, but IT ISN'T STUPIDITY! There isn't any greater self-inflicted rage or anger than the wrath of stupidity which is misunderstood as ignorance. It seems that in this world because of stupidity one becomes afraid to address ignorance in its rightful place. When observing the things one undertakes to create, look at the motivation behind the action and one will see that ignorance doesn't play a part in it but outright stupidity does. "I know this isn't good for me but I'm going to do it anyway, no matter what," This isn't ignorance! The constant self-abuses, whether material, physical or spiritual in the name of any worshiped concepts based upon delusions of permanency of any kind, adorns/ordains the aggressions of greed, malice and resentment for life. The grotesque cynicism regarding lack of appreciation by the Human species towards life is diffused by the 'Artist' within all of Creation. The opening and expansion of the heart cultivating forgiveness and loving-kindness can remove the suffering, pain, sorrow, guilt and anger that grips within gripes of the mind; gripes within grips of the mind.
"The concepts of mind is rather confusing to some of us because we try to think of mind as an entity, or we want some definition of it, so there are many ideas about the mind. But the mind is not an entity – it is only a function. The functions of thinking, reasoning, imagining, understanding, conditioning, and liberating from conditions – all these are called mind. Some of you may see the mind as centuries old, because it is a process of accumulating and preserving memories, beliefs, traditions, customary patterns. From birth our minds have been molded by the teaching of our parents; in school we have been instructed according to systems of education and training; later on we are influenced by schools of thought, philosophies, religions and other subjects. We accumulate knowledge which is stored in the mind, which therefore becomes something of the past mixed with the present. It is not possible to say exactly what it is, but we have to understand its functions. Without these functions, there is no mind at all. In deep meditation, one may come to the state of no-mind, in which there is no movement whatever. In that state, the mind is free from its own conditions – it becomes the Unconditioned. We still call it Mind, but it is not the mind we usually mean. We do not seek to obtain a definition of mind, but need to understand it through its own conditions and operations..." - Dhiravamsa
So a universal transmission "Let it be, Let it be, there will be an answer, Let it be!" - John Lennon, invokes one of the greatest attributes known as Human exploration, the capacity to learn how to let it be balanced by using the oar and/or compass through the trouble waters of the cosmic ocean. Even the rock foundation canaling the seas flowing essence into the vastness of creative existence is navigated by the captain's charge of indelible instincts and intuitive wisdom to forge ahead into the unknown boldly and courageously. The fear energy is intense but greater is the wisdom to handle, channel and use the fear positively to have operative capacity because it will eventually catapult one out of the selfishness through the barometer of time's continuum into the faith zone where the calmness emerges within the depths of the mind as stillness which is the same field of energy.
The conscious awareness of the Human species has brought forth key examples that have achieved the truth consciousness beyond reality throughout millennium for others to study and come to understand through individual exploration how to achieve mastery of life. However true this is there are those who have nicely packaged approaches, methods and techniques which can become confusing within the limitations and restrictions purposefully enforced within this finite plane of reality. It appears that the true leaders of the various populations throughout Human evolution are condemned, crucified, punished, ridiculed and annihilated by those who are threatened and therefore do their dastardly deeds through corruption's persuasions to overthrow freedom and lead the species of Human origin into further misery, suffering, conflict and destruction. The wisdom of the inflective 'Artists' being born a free spirit of invisible means understands the individual challenges confronting Humanity and its demise by clinging, craving and holding on tightly to the visible means of survival as Human peril. There has to be a balance between more and less which becomes enough! It seems with all of the intelligent products around one in the world that 'mankind doesn't use the capacity of mind, subsequently Humankind has become a ginny pig or a laboratory rat for experimentation. The tractable evolutionary process within time and space indicates that 'mankind' is under developed and incapable of rising to graduating levels of unified mastery within the universe.
In the depths of Human Being, the 'Artist' within knows that we are the life flowing abundantly throughout all of creation. Once again, we acknowledge that created appearances are cloaks, disguises, camouflages and/or masks that enable multiple expressions of the unknown. The individual reading this very moment is factual proof of this affirmative. The manifest creations are categorized, defined and identified only in temporary forms, channels, openings, pathways, etc., to bring forth the essence, the eternal spinning into cycles of illusory proportions. Many affirmations seem to separate one into halves - God is One, not Two - God the Father/Mother and I are One! God is with and around me.. who is me? 'I Am That I Am...' The denial of a running mind wants to delude itself into separations until it is stopped... 'I Am God'...'God Is One' and 'God Is All That IS!' Oh my God, how can you or anybody say that?! It's easy, one just did!
The problem has evolved through our extraordinary manipulation of intelligence to divide and maneuver energy into positive and negative effects, caused by an atomic rage for independence from the very source of creativity. The 'Artist' knows we cannot escape from life when we are life personified all over the place. Wherever we go...here we are! We haven't any reason for life to do what it is programmed to do, be and have happening. The impermanency of its contents, contexts and attachments proves it's vulnerability in which we are creating and expanding a forever field of energy. There is nothing required to remain intact since everything is transforming constantly. We must dismantle all that we have constructed through mind, body, soul and spirit concepts in order to prolong this sojourn of discovery at full capacity. The warp speed approaches in the mind's void of inquisitiveness propels Human Beings forward into delusion's memory, history and the like as pacifiers that appease to please the incarnation potentiality. The psychological structures of 'mankind' indicates that belief systems throughout the evolution of Humanity play as a major factor for consideration in deciphering behavioral patterns, inciting duality, separatism, segregation and elements within the unification field at large.
This divide is broadened within the circle of life between fellow Human Beings continuously as well as other species upon this planet due to calculated strategies to control via artificial intelligence nature itself. The conceptual endorsement to enslave the masses to establish control over nature collapses whenever implemented as are surface matters stimulated through promoting and perpetuating institutionalized prejudices, bias, condemnations and judgments. The resolve is to detach from this intentional ploy implanted as Human psychology to deceive, confuse and challenge the courageousness imbedded in every living cell of existence to surrender to defeatism's emotional depravity, therefore, collapse, retreat and be destroyed. The retraction of universal unfoldment began through decline without clear intention based upon contemplation of a mind filled with distraction and confusion. The created problems with programming the mind through diversion and hypnotic suggestion is not meant to be eliminated under the current belief systems in operation. The 'Artist' knows the resolve of anything that is a problem is the problem itself! The creative being created whatever it is to start with and will resolve the creative process through continuum of trial and error which is evolution and/or involution. In order to rectify any error it would require complete abandonment of mega communication systems maintaining archaic impulse data conflicting the revelation of the system from evolving and enforcing diversionary tactics of inequality amongst Human Beings on every possible level in the realm of survival for the fittest upon this earth due to lack of resources.
We are 'Artist' and we must through direct and indirect transmissions eliminate personal/collective battles, wars, propaganda, riots and desperate acts of violence against another Human Being and/or species inhabiting this planetary dimension as evident by societies current inability to unite the civil liberties by egregiously violating universal truth and substituting superficial truths to govern 'mankind'. Human Beings are attempting to start from scratch again, not to try to get it right but to get it right from the start.... doing internal as well as external work through creative means one step at a time. The impact of the 'Artist' within is something to behold in the world today. Again, we are inherently induced to be afraid to allow in earnest the consciousness acknowledged of the unknown to be revealed as it has always throughout the Bonding Ages. The frenzy of surface activity daily experienced attributes to the distractions of conscious awareness concerning this development of Human evolution, but freedom is happening. These constant changes are droning away like a single drop of water falling onto a marble stone none stop, breaking the hard surface bit by bit as the past, present and future concepts fade into oblivion. We are learning that we no longer need to use as a measuring stick for a better life these blocks to freedom in the here and now. This growing concern for a better life is unfolding right before ones very eyes. We must see the Garden of immense possibility flourishing in absolute harmony, delight and peace in mind for the benefit of every part of creation.
Finally, the various systems designed for training, educating and conditioning the mind through tested methods, techniques and programs for mind control through the ages have produced an outlet for Human Beings today. Individually aspiring Human Beings who are detailed to the maximum with identification data, information overkill, etc., to become better, worse and/or the same as another individual modality; similar and/or like another in comparison, contrast or competition; to live or die in the battle field of mental and emotional dilemma; trying approaches as mechanisms for internal/external war and peace through terrorism by the defenders of terrors abuses the Human spirit. This quality of the Human consciousness is to be constantly transformed by the 'Artist!' within.
We are not convinced any longer to BE cultivated, groomed and encouraged to protect any territory against anybody that doesn't fit the accepted codes of honor stipulated by superiors whoever they are imagined to BE, however we are resolved to put down the weapons of war and peace. The 'Artist' is neutral, walking the middle path of the extreme duality of Humanity's sojourn. The consistent living and dying of everything around the Human Being awakens us to the truth that all things come and go. This is a dream. NOW THAT THE CALVACADE OF GHOSTS, SHADOWS, GHOULS, MONSTERS AND GOBLINS HAVE ALL FLED! THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HALLOW IS DEAD! LONG LIVE THE EVOLVING ARTIST....
....John J. Steven Cole
"We cannot imagine the scope of our ignorance, just as a blind man cannot imagine darkness until he can see."
- Immanuel Kant
"We cannot imagine the scope of our ignorance, just as a blind man cannot imagine darkness until he can see."
- Immanuel Kant
Books of Great Insight and Wisdom
The Book of Mirdad: The Strange Story of a Monastery Which Was Once Called the Ark -
Mikhail Naimy
Many Lives, Many Masters -
Brian Weiss
Popol Vuh: The Mayan Book - Dawn of Life -
Dennis Tedlock
Altars: Bringing Sacred Shrines into Your Everyday Life -
Denise Linn
Entering the Circle : Ancient Secrets of Siberian Wisdom Discovered by a Russian Psychiatrist -
Olga Kharitidi
Tao Te Ching: The Classic Book of Integrity and the Way -
Victor H. Mair, Translator
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix -
J. K. Rowling, Mary GrandPrČ (Illustrator)
Wisdom of the Maya: An Oracle of Ancient Knowledge for Today -
Ronald L. Bonewitz
THE COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF YOGA -
Swami Vishnu-Devananda
[Available through CCPI-Booklist]
Click the Door to the Reading Room
William Blake 1757-1827
Jerusalem Plate 31
William Blake 1757-1827
Jerusalem Plate 31
Appreciation and Gratitude
We sincerely appreciate all the contributions on every level in support of our efforts to collectively bring about joy, happiness, loving-kindness, peace and goodwill to all of Human Kind. Now is the time and the time is eternally now to give thanks, for the whole of creation to continuously bring about an harmonious convergence for the sake of humanity.
Thanks to every one of you individually in our cyberspace community for the constant inspiration, insight, encouragement, support, interest, inquiry, purchases and/or financial contributions to the work of 'The Evolutionary Expressionism of Life Energy' ArtWorks/Poetry by JV Harvey and Colveyco CPI. We are overjoyed to increase public awareness for visitors, patrons, collectors, curators, connoisseurs of Art, to view our Virtual Art Gallery Series and affiliate Artist's Sites in addition to attending Art Exhibition Shows/Events around the world.
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"I love to be loved.
I am Love.
Love is at the center of my life.
Love heals me and makes me new.
Love is all that truly matters in life.
Love connects me to the
Infinite and makes me whole.
Love restores my faith in life."
-Ambika Wauters
"LOVE YE ONE ANOTHER"
Many Blessings!
"I love to be loved.
I am Love.
Love is at the center of my life.
Love heals me and makes me new.
Love is all that truly matters in life.
Love connects me to the
Infinite and makes me whole.
Love restores my faith in life."
-Ambika Wauters
"LOVE YE ONE ANOTHER"
Many Blessings!
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