I’ll be loading the latest video interview I did with Lilou Mace yesterday, within the next few minutes, and I’ll put it on my ‘YouTube’ page on www.allanhunter.net if you care to take a look. It’s already on YouTube itself and on Facebook, so I felt putting it here on Intent.com might seem like overload for my beloved readers….
I do feel it’s an important interview, though, for a number of reasons. The largest of these is that we discuss the nature of Art and Creativity, and we follow the notion that art is not about producing an object, but rather about asking the person experiencing it to change his or her relationship to the world. By showing us how to see a sunset in a new way a painter is not seeking to replace the sunset, but rather is asking us to see that what matters in the world is beauty, and to experience that we have to put aside our ego concerns, if only for a moment. When that happens we can open our hearts. The painter (or singer, or poet…) is not a person who creates an object so much as a person who can open a conduit for us to connect with the larger sense of what it means to be human. The artist can, therefore, become a channel for the divine to reach us. For we are all, first and foremost, creatures who are connected with the divine. But over the years we’ve put on ego-concerns the same way we’ve put on clothes, until we think our clothes are who we are. And so we lose sight of what is most important.
Artists the world over have written and spoken about the moments in their lives when the spirit of creativity worked through them, using them as a way to get the art expressed. It’s exhilarating, and humbling. But it is the connection to the eternal that matters, and through it we can invite others to connect to that energy.
Quite possibly the divine is using us, each of us, as a way to get itself expressed. If so, then that sense of connection to everything is a profoundly peaceful urge. For if we’re connected to everything, then how can we kill others? How can we pollute the earth when we are the earth? How can we go on letting others remain injured just so we can have a pleasant luxurious life? If we feel the connection, truly, we can’t do that anymore, can we?
Thank You Brother Allan,
Therefore the deliberate abuse of self or other is the practice of anti-theism, regardless of the label proclaimed.
Let us daily increase in: wisdom, love, gratitude, reverence, healing, peace, joy, happiness, laughter and prosperity.
Blessings X 10,
Ed
And For the Video Too,
Quite instructional. Exposes the whole idea of intellectual property as a device to encourage creative endeavor and no kind of natural right at all. Question: Young man, have you ever had one original idea? Certainly sir: Every one. For if there was no origin, there would be no expression. We can look to our connection to universal mind or spirit and we can break that down into sub macro collectives, such as our planetary consciousness, species consciousness, racial consciousness, political and social consciousness, etc. We become collectives within collectives, within collectives. If you or I write some truth or expression which resonates with some but not others, it is due to membership in different sub collectives. You interested in art, me in sports, for example. The sub collectives form the basis for a web site such as Intent and any other popular web site. And even here we have sub collectives conveniently labeled at the top of each page. We each contribute to our various collectives and in turn draw upon them for inspiration. And truly no person is an island despite any such appearance. For "myself", I am beginning to call me we and us as I represent an internal collective and many external collectives. Perhaps that is why we were taught to pray for us in the first place.
Let us daily increase in: wisdom, love, gratitude, reverence, healing, peace, joy, happiness, laughter and prosperity.
Blessings X 10,
Ed
Dear Ed,
Thank you so much for these wise words – you see it all very clearly! This is exactly what I was talking about in the video.
Blessings and peace,
Allan