I've come to believe in the necessity of gaining a more advanced level of personal, individual enlightenment. I trust such activity on a massive scale would ensure that Earth, other people and life forms, and our planetary neighbors, are not threatened by human existence.
I define this undertaking as actively moving towards an awareness of the whole, going beyond the needs and wants of one’s personal realms and interests. Any wall between Me and Other weakens with the recognition of one’s self as an active, connected, contributing element of the whole.
Work to understand why we do and think the way we do is extraordinarily significant. This can begin by questioning one’s motivations and priorities and exploring whether they stem from being thoughts, feelings or conditioning. This is a private journey on an intense, wide-ranging, yet kind level.
From longstanding yet current and political accounts, the impression is that we are overcome by collective arrogance, greed and hunger for power. However, unlike most life forms, human beings enjoy a superabundance of opportunities and choices on a second-by-second basis related to the degree of consciousness.
I also believe we do know our connectedness to the whole. It’s something humans are born with and most manage to lose sight of. It’s consciousness of a bigger picture. Many artists, from all the arts, present aspects and insights of this bigger picture. Look, listen, learn and enjoy.
Societal pressures, norms, conditions, the need to survive, live and love, and enculturation, distract from the basic perspective and knowledge we arrive with. It takes work to remember one as a vital and active part of the web of life. Allowing the arts to touch this higher element intrinsic to being human, offers a person companionship and direction on this public road to awareness.
I define this undertaking as actively moving towards an awareness of the whole, going beyond the needs and wants of one’s personal realms and interests. Any wall between Me and Other weakens with the recognition of one’s self as an active, connected, contributing element of the whole.
Work to understand why we do and think the way we do is extraordinarily significant. This can begin by questioning one’s motivations and priorities and exploring whether they stem from being thoughts, feelings or conditioning. This is a private journey on an intense, wide-ranging, yet kind level.
From longstanding yet current and political accounts, the impression is that we are overcome by collective arrogance, greed and hunger for power. However, unlike most life forms, human beings enjoy a superabundance of opportunities and choices on a second-by-second basis related to the degree of consciousness.
I also believe we do know our connectedness to the whole. It’s something humans are born with and most manage to lose sight of. It’s consciousness of a bigger picture. Many artists, from all the arts, present aspects and insights of this bigger picture. Look, listen, learn and enjoy.
Societal pressures, norms, conditions, the need to survive, live and love, and enculturation, distract from the basic perspective and knowledge we arrive with. It takes work to remember one as a vital and active part of the web of life. Allowing the arts to touch this higher element intrinsic to being human, offers a person companionship and direction on this public road to awareness.