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Testament of One
It is those who tap those first holes in the glass of one paradigm who enable the next generations to see beyond its almost invisible limitations (so all-consuming can a paradigm be…) so that new light is allowed to enter and a broader perspective obtained. This is the kind of new perspective that Einstein referred to as necessarily “outside” of the current paradigm in order for us to evolve beyond its limitations and repeat behaviours. Light pouring through glass can seem just as real as light outside in the daylight…until the glass itself is shown-up to be what it is; another ceiling, the edge of a box, a particular perspective controlled by someone but not ourselves, a barrier to experiencing something much more whole and direct. Inside a particular paradigm, we experience a version of reality and it only shows us what “it” wants us to see. When we are inside of one paradigm, we can feel as comfortable as a tropical plant in its hothouse, all our needs met by it (if we are so lucky…). All without realising what we are missing, which is the open sky of something that would make it thus for all of us, not just those who are fortunate enough to be living in the most comfortable corners of a botanical experiment operated by those who turn dials to create the artificial heating and water supply that make-up our existence. In a lesser paradigm (an earlier wave of evolution, if you like) there are always those who lose out from its perspective, those who are discriminated against, who become the cannon fodder, the pawns in the game, those who are denied access, whose heads are stepped on by others getting to where they want to be. Someone has always been left out…and we are approaching the time when that is no longer tenable; it is a version of reality that is no longer supported by the universal impulse of this planet. Our time of oneness in the sense that we finally acknowledge and live by the tenet that we are all as-one, thus what we do to “other” we only do to ourselves, is upon us and the last century served as a “darkest before the dawn” moment to herald that new era.
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Posted in Authorship, Biography, Books, Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, History, Literature, Personal Development, Writing
Tagged butterfly wings, Carl Johan Calleman, changing the paradigm, Einstein, end of war, evolution, freedom of speech, oneness, pacifism, pacifist, pointlessness of war, power of words, Testament of Youth, The Eighth Wave, The Nine Waves of Creation, unity consciousness, Vera Brittain, vision of the future, war and the Seventh Wave, World War I, writing and feminism, writing from the heart
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Now is the time…
I loved this novel so much and, like all the best and most timely reads, I chose it almost by accident, feeling my way into the author via a particular root I was following (“root” feels like exactly the right … Continue reading
Posted in Authorship, Books, Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, Entertainment, Fiction, Life choices, Life journey, Personal Development, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys, Writing
Tagged Alice Walker, ayahuasca, divine feminine, flow, grandmother, Now is the time to open your heart, review, river, shaman, shamanic journey, yagé
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Airing your undies on the line
What’s with all this blogging people do? For me, its an addictive, almost obsessive-compulsive sense of creating order out of the otherwise arbitrary “chaos” of consciousness, of grasping handfuls of tenuously related threads and pulling them all together into a definitive cross-over point and finishing with the pretty bow that writing gives to a series of random epiphanies. While I breathe, it seems, I must write…
When we act and create from what we feel inexplicably compelled to do (that is, from the heart), we can never fail to expand outwards from ourselves and that “small” personal act in countless ways; spiralling out into the world on the back of our own enthusiasm and becoming to others the “breath” of inspiration (breath is, necessarily two-directional…) in ways both overt or immeasurably subtle, our output ending up who knows where, like the very air from our lungs. So, does blogging serve a purpose for those who do it…does art or anything done for the love of it…well, does breathing? Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art purpose, Art transformation tool, Authorship, Blogging, Consciousness & evolution, Life choices, Personal Development, Social media, Writing
Tagged art for art's sake, celebrity, doing it for love not money, Fibonacci spiral, finding meaning, Golden Mean, inner child, inspiration, inspiring others, making sense, psychology of blogging, purpose of writing, seeking attention, social media audience, spirals, validation, who reads blogs?, why create, why write a blog, writing like breathing
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Feeling your ideal audience
At the heart of this journey as an artist & writer, I’ve been telling myself I simply don’t need an audience to be whatever it is that I am, to do what I do (and, on one level, its true); … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art as a business, Art purpose, Art technique, Authorship, Life choices, Personal Development, Writing
Tagged art, confidence as an artist or writer, finding your audience, finding your purpose, motivation, sense of purpose, show up just as you are, who do you write for, who to create art for, writing
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Painting light
Another newsflash post to say…a new blog-home for my art related posts has just been born! Painting Light is a new addition to my existing clutch of blogs and will focus entirely on art and the art-making process, keeping things fresh … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art as a business, Authorship, Biography
Tagged art, art blog, artist blog, new blog, painting light
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