New videos for you….

Posted on | August 1, 2009 |

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 here if you care to take a look.  It’s already on YouTube itself and on Facebook, so I felt putting it here in my blog 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?

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