Art and the beyond.

The art of writing is to allow the muse to throw the dice and to conjure up the visions that she leaves in her wake. A good writer ‘reads’ or ‘receives’ these visions and manifestations and translates and transcribes them into forms that man can experience.

The translations and transcriptions are forms that man can experience: be it a sculpture, painting, music, literature, a food creation, gardening or anything that manifests via a person.

It is a difficult task and that is why it is called an Art. It is like a man catching a lightning bolt and then wrapping it as a gift that will nurture man without destroying him. The artist must lose enough of his mentality to receive the message but keep enough to translate it into human terms. The artist must be without ego, ulterior motives and hidden agendas.

Heidegger said that the essence of something is hidden from man. According to Plato and Jung, this essence sits as an archetype or a form in the object. Think of the marble block in front of Michelangelo from which he released David, the empty pages in front of Hesse from which ‘Steppenwolf’ manifested or the organ in front of Bach from which Air on a G-string resounded. Creations are already present in the raw material, but the Artist must ‘see’ it in his ‘mind’ and then allow his skill to replicate the form and fill it with new content so that humans can experience it and see it with their conscious mind. The artist is only the instrument in the process.

Professor John-Dylan Hayes conducted an experiment at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig in which he used a brain scanner to investigate what happens in the human brain before a person makes a decision. He has found that a decision is being made seven seconds before a person consciously makes a decision. (Click here to read more about this interesting experiment).

This implies that we have a ‘Brain’ that makes a decision before we make a conscious decision. In fact, Dr. Andrew Newberg, a neurotheologian, has found that parts of the brain shuts down when people channel. (Click here to read more). When our conscious mind shuts off and we produce a ‘decision’ or are able to speak and say things, it is possible that we have a brain or an intelligence that is coming from a state of being that is beyond consciousness.

Scientists can use the theoretical model of Freud to explain it. They would say that the person’s unconscious makes the decision and it is then filtered through the sub-consious to consciousness seven seconds later. But how can a person speak when he is unconscious as in the case of the channeling person? One can even ask if it is he who speaks? There are various accounts of people talking in the voice of a deceased person even if they have never heard the person’s voice. In my blogpost: Awareness and ‘Unconscious’ I will embroider further.

We can therefore assume that there is another brain, which I call the Awareness Brain, that guides the artist physically and intellectually during the creative process. In order to commit art, the artist must therefore enter a state of being that cannot be described or researched because it happens in and through the ‘Awareness Brain’. The Awareness Brian is actually our manifestation, the non-dual state of being, the divine, God, the ‘Beyond’ or whatever you want to call it.
It is sometimes hard to believe that some works of art were actually created by human beings. The artist is therefore the pen with which divine inspiration writes, the brush with which God paints, the notes through which the muse brings messages that cannot be described with words. The beautiful Afrikaans word ‘in-gewing’ describes this process aptly. It is a gift that was delivered in you.

You are not the source of your art. Your mind may think so, and you might experience it as such, but know that you are actually only a copywriter, paint in the outlines that nobody can see, or form and sculpt according to visions that you receive. This also applies to behaviour. Every movement you make is already orchestrated and choreographed from the Awareness brain. Walking between the Twin Towers in New York on a tightrope, playing the Devil’s trill on violin by Tartini, or baking a bread that is perfect are examples of the Awareness brain’s movement that cannot be the result of human consciousness.

I play the piano. I play without any mistakes if I go into a state of being where I have no idea what my fingers do. But the moment I worry about which notes to press, I fail. I am a very good cook. I ‘know’ exactly when something must come out of the oven or how much raw ingredients will be enough so that everybody is fed when it is cooked. This ‘knowing’ is called ‘Wisdom’ and it is not in time and space. Wisdom operates within rhythms and movements that are orchestrated from the Awareness Brain.

The approach of artists and their training need to be reviewed. The artist needs to be trained to listen, to move, to en-act the rhythms and movements it receives instead of trying to portray their own views of time and space, or imitate other artists. I find a lot of modern sculptures, paintings, creations, music, movies, etc. expressions of individual egos and ideas, rather than soul expressions for and to man. They are statements, not transformers.

In the past 100 years most people are brought up to be strong individuals with unique personalities and strong egos to survive financially and politically in this world. Most artists continue with this approach when they become artists. It is not so easy to break down their egos, bring them in touch with their own bodies and emotions and finally to open their ears for the sweet guidance of the Awareness Brain. Through the Awareness brain an artist brings the gift of the Beyond into this illusion.

Although I focused on Art in this post, I want to extrapolate this to also include basically all of life. Every form of creation that man brings into conscious experience is included. From designing a new cell phone to baking a bread, to making life choices are all included in this view.
(Thank you that I could use this picture Kristian Jyoti)

Krystian Jyoti