Creative imagination is given to everyone, but most do not realize that they possess it. Not everyone has the imagination of a truly gifted artist, but all have it to the extent that they are able to relate to the creative life force, and allow it to flow through them. Not all are creators, but the ideal beholder must also engage in the creative act, if he sincerely wishes to participate in the experience of the one who created the work of art.

This participation requires a very special effort, one which most are not willing to make. They expect, even demand, that a work of art speaks to them immediately. Make no mistake--art is not a direct means of communication. It speaks indirectly. You hear it with an inner ear and perceive it with a third eye. It does not reach your intellect, first, as does the written word. You have to prepare yourself to receive it. In this sense, the pleasure experienced through an appreciation of the plastic arts is like that derived from poetry. When, at last, you begin to sense its meaning, you realize you are in contact with some force, higher than yourself.

The true lover of art experiences something of the same elevated emotion that the artist felt during the moment of creation. This is one of the symbolic functions of the artist--to act as a medium in communicating a message to those who may be less sensitive, and thus less able to receive their own messages.

Pegot Waring, American sculptor.
Speak with Granite Tongues.

The imagination is immune to control. Prisons seen or unseen cannot fully enclose the eternal imaginative powers.

The imagination goes through walls made of rock, steel, or convention, prejudice, and fear. The imagination is not bound by where we live or who we are. The imagination is always looking beyond the horizon, and entering into new worlds, unknown and unexplored. The imagination is a shadowy realm whose boundaries reach to the infinite. The imagination goes beyond time and space and is a life unto itself.

The imagination is always there first, as it comes upon the reality before it is a reality, the fact before it is a fact, and beholds the truth before the truth can be known. The imagination reaches and grasps into the unknown with a power all its own. The imagination is ever in part discontent, ever restless, searching for a land beyond. Imagination never quite reaches the ultimate land or destination it seeks or if it does it instantly seeks another, and thus it never dies. For imagination to reach the ultimate and accept that as all, never to seek another destination beyond the horizon would be the death of imagination.

No imagination needs to forever reach out and find new lands, new worlds, new destinations, inventions, ideas, and concepts. The imagination needs to be free, and cannot be stifled or quenched. It is the spark of creativity and innovation which has guided humanity since the beginning.

The Imagination has worlds of untapped resources ever to be found which will release their fresh contents of vigor and beauty always giving variety and wonder to our existence.

www.angelfire.com/wa/omegasun/index.html Visionary Healing Art is dedicated to exploring and expressing the truth, in its varied phases, that all things are part of something greater and vastly wonderful.

I feel that it is the mission of any transcendent art to bring to life the truth AS INTERACTIVE AND MOVING WITH CONSCIOUSNESS...

Transcendence is sometimes mistaken to signify a single, rather than a dual, state of being. To transcend something is not to exist at a level above it, but rather to exist within it or at its level, yet simultaneously to rise above it. To realize a dual-level existence, as it were. Angels do not transcend the physical. They simply exist above it -- or more correctly, outside and independent of it. But humans sometimes do. This dualistic nature of transcendence should permeate any work of transcendent art. And always -- always! -- it should point to the true, the beautiful, and the good. Point is from a series of works called photoglyphs, a term combining the Greek words for "light" and "carvings." mythology, performance, and poetry. The artists' works are based on the concept that "unity comes from a fusion of duality."

"Point is to use the mind to go beyond the mind."