Better Religion Through Science and Art by Alex and Allison Grey
The Greys have been great supporters of NewRealities and I
greatly support their work and vision to create a sacred chapel
for their art. It is not only a beautiful idea it is an important part
of our cultural and spiritual evolulition. Support Cosm at
www.cosm.org - Alan Steinfeld NR founder.
Creativity is a spiritual path for many artists. Entheo-art, art that
points to the God within, is a sacred creative manifestation of
visionary culture. Entheo-artists paint the transcendental realms
from observation. The viewer, especially one with a dilated psyche,
comes into contact with the visionary source through contemplation
of the artwork, uniting with the transformative evolutionary creative
force working through the artist.
After of a life of studying the rise and fall of civilizations,
Arnold Toynbee posited that civilizations exist to give birth
to better religions. In Roland Griffith's Johns Hopkins study,
a majority of spiritually inclined subjects had a full-blown mystical
experience after a single dose of psilocybin. The mystical experience
is the foundation of all religion. Visions that glimpse divine
imagination catalyze the primary religious experience. Religion
is not just tradition and dogma. At the heart of religion is a life
lived in relation to the creative force of the Divine.
In the entheogenic state, our perception of self-existence is altered
and our life path and the way we relate to others and the world is
transformed. For those that have a mystical experience, an enhanced
moral compass may play a part in activating stewardship of the ailing
planet. Entheogens have catalyzed reconnection with and compassion
for all life. This awakened "ecology of being" translates from the
spiritual world to the physical, promoting creative, even visionary
ways of remediating our ailing environment and aesthetically
transmitting unitive consciousness. Many who have experienced
infinite Oneness claim to have seen themselves as a part of a
light web of souls. Co-recognizing our interrelatedness is at the
heart of visionary culture and is a harbinger of universal spirituality
and the dawning of planetary civilization.
Could God Be Yearning to Know Us?
The supreme Godhead is greater and beyond all consciousness
and knowing. All words and concepts fail to grasp the Great
Mystery of the transcendental cause of existence. Yet the
unknowable God must also yearn to be known, for why else
would the Infinite One reveal itself to us through the mystical
experience of communion with the visionary realms? This is
why the mystical experience is the most healing event in a
person's life. The unknowable reveals itself in theophanies
of the divine imagination.
Without a cosmos, God cannot be known and loved by creatures.
Every moment, God creates a staggering masterwork to astonish
and inspire us if we could but see it. So it is that a temple or any
work of sacred art first appears in the mind of the mystic as a
theophany to be shared, that God may be revealed, that the
unknown may be known. Artists labor to translate the vision
into tangible form as an offering to spirit and to uplift people.
Those who know not God carry the sadness of the unrevealed.
This is why the soul yearns to know God, why we seek to know
our deeper selves and why the Koran states, "To know oneself is
to know Allah." God is the hidden treasure longing to be known
and by that knowledge we are healed and brought into the light
of love and wisdom.
Children yearn to delight their parents. Given a supportive
environment, young people will sing a song, draw a picture, do
a dance -- look for ways to please Mom and Dad. All they offer can
never repay the gift of life and care given them by their parents.
They may be too young or inexperienced to contribute materially
to their parent's worldly needs. But their lively exuberance and
youthful innocence refreshes the spirit of a loving parent
nonetheless.
God is the ultimate Mother/Father Creator of the Cosmos.
God is already everything, the super-abundant source and
sustainer of all manifestation. Responding to God's infinite
gifts, a child of God, a mystically conscious person, naturally
wishes to make an offering, some token of thankfulness for
the blessing of existence which, with all of its woes and trials,
is still the greatest gift any one of us has been given. Just like
a good parent, God does not demand these tokens, and given
God's super-abundance, the Almighty certainly does not need
them. Yet we wish to thank God, even continuously if possible,
as a way of showing our appreciation for the divine mystery play
in which we have been offered a role.
The deepest veins of creativity in the human soul are the wellspring
of all devotional art and sacred space. A temple can be an enduring
manifestation of gratitude by people of kindred spirit who join
together to make an offering. Creating sacred space taps the
fount of loving awareness and thankfulness for God's holy gift
to all of us. Let us join together and make our offerings.
However great, our contribution will always be small tokens
for our creator, but with "right effort and intention," God may
delight in it and rain down on us blessings of love.
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Wednesday, 26 October 2011 22:35
posted by Janay
Great thinking! That really berkas the mold!
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Monday, 24 October 2011 07:50
posted by Chubby
You Sir/Madam are the enemy of cnofsuion everywhere!
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