![]() I believe the practice of alchemical Soul Art is a natural way to stay connected to our higher self. In practicing our art, we practice life, we bring heart to mind, we discover the universal Sacred in everything, (including our perceived enemies). The ego drops away and we come in touch with the essentials of life and death.” Thus an opportunity arises to take a risk, to try something new. James Hillman, Jungian Analyst and author of Re-Visioning Psychology, reminds us that “the soul is exposed and available during a crisis. Ritual is a set of actions, which marks the sacredness of life and is performed mainly for its symbolic mystical value. What I call creating Source Art is an intentional ritual for individual, group, and planetary healing. ![]() “The Soul does not think without a picture” – AristotleĪ more urgent, pressing, direct and essential use of art on a grander, more earthy, popular scale, is what we need. Opening our hearts and ultimately the heart of our culture to authentic creativity is our best hope for positive change in the way we live on earth. I believe and here propose, that the process of creating intuitive art is a potent, necessary and radical form of activism and spiritual practice. We are living in a time when more people feel desperate … cut off from their authentic self and purpose thus a window of opportunity opens. People who see her are either deeply moved or agitated. She has various names: Dark Eros, Black Venus, Lilith, The Great Cosmic Mother.īlack Wild Woman hangs on my wall wherever I live cheering me on, guiding me, reminding me of the purpose in all I do. She is indeed the essence of Wild Woman, our dark powerful shadow calling out for earth healing through authentic creativity. The one-page face demanded a body and it took a year of adding on papers, painting, allowing her voice, dance, sounds to come through me and listening to her guidance to finally complete this 10-foot tall painting. I painted a dark female face on a single sheet of paper. Realizing that the Wild Woman was a strong active aspect of myself was reassuring and healing.Ī few years later I was teaching a workshop in New Mexico. The stories helped me understand, accept and value aspects of my life and paintings of which I had previously felt ashamed. Hearing the stories of the Wild Woman Archetype was an awakening for me. I became obsessed with listening to these tapes filled with myths and fairy tales dealing with the Wild Woman Archetype. Then in the mid-1990s a friend gave me the audio tapes of “Women Who Run With The Wolves” by Clarissa Estes. Powerful female figures – birthing creatures of all sorts – had shown up in my paintings for years. As Carl Jung says, “Trust what gives you meaning and let it be your guide.”įrom the late 1980s to the mid-1990s my own personal search for meaning and healing brought me face-to-face with the “Wild Woman Archetype,” an energy and being who has disrupted, guided and reassured me in my life journey. When you engage in transformational art processes what excites you, what makes you feel more alive will become obvious. And, please note: any reference to positive attributes of the process of painting, applies to all creative modalities, such as dance, music, song, poetry, theater, and new combinations. If you are uncertain of your purpose or not yet found what gives you meaning, then I invite you to paint. I also know that each of us is called to participate in our own unique way. It provides an opportunity to see life in a larger perspective! Creating alone or in a group can also be fun, playful and joyous, offering opportunities to lighten up. Such spiritual creative experiences can initiate “breakthrough,” ease personal and collective angst, and open the heart to the needs of our planet and fellow beings. The Transformational Art Process which I teach, “Painting From The Source®,” is an intuitive unplanned painting expression, which deepens with the addition of multiple modalities such as sound, movement and poetic dialog. Art offers expression, detoxification and clearing of shadows, clearing of personal and collective unconscious blocks. Art is a revelatory spiritual and healing practice it is our universal heart-opening language. This I know: Art in all its varieties is the most potent transformational magic available to humankind. Cell phones, texts, tweets, sound bytes, emails invade, distract and drain us. Images of war and the devastation of all living creatures bombard us. All else seems secondary while our air, water, food, night sky, silence and earth, become polluted. The reality of ecological devastation and suffering of people, even when not directly in our face, lies always on the edge of our psyche.
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