From the Editor
Thoughts
from my Ethers
...compiled from site
postings
and correspondences
Letters
Dear Ed,
Thank you for your response. I appreciate your intention to look into our gallery again. I am providing a couple of pertinent links and the exhibitors info package (attached) again, for your convenience. I looked at your site and found your artwork enthralling.
Our site is one of the largest page-for-page art websites on the internet, and our campaigns to increase membership and public profile are lending great promise to all the artists we represent. I hope you will look into exhibiting with us, although any participation is valuable and encouraged.
As a member, you can access stimulating members' forums, give input in readers' forums or submissions pages in our webzine, Cream, and attend bi-weekly online art openings and discussions. We'd love to have you a part of our community, so I look forward to hearing from you again.
Sincerely, Rog
(Regarding
an enquiry about a painting of mine…)
Woman of Passion! Thank you for bringing your passionate eye to my gallery! "Blue Moon" is a favorite of mine, and seemingly of many others as well. I knew it was magical from the first paint I squeezed onto my palate. I was grieving a loss of an ideal. A love. A love life. I awoke one morning, crying, missing, and yet a feeling of Spirit's consolation, protection and love shimmered around my body. I saw the painting. I got out of bed and manifested it. It was a very wonderful few days of such.
Rog
Dear Carole,
My own spiritual tradition is one that recognizes "God", the Unknowable Essence, the Supreme Creator. God's bounties shower upon all: the laws of love and attraction, of nature and physics, of cause and effect; the laws of creation, expansion, destruction and resurrection.
The ideas within Animatism (see Animatic Manifesto) helped me to further classify the 'identity' of this unknowable supreme force, only some of whose manifestation is the daily miracle of life and breath, and the unmistakable answering of prayers, when they are spoken (or painted or sung and danced) with wisdom, earnest, surrender, and reverence.
Animatism helped me to remember the fundamental principles that drew me to a spiritual path in my early twenties, and the sense of faith I now define and utterly rely upon in my daily living. I am very much an optimist and Animatism is an optimistic philosophy, and with one's eyes and heart open, the 'whisperings of spirit' can be heard, the life of Christ is here and now, resurrected, in the faithful and devoted, in the seekers and the givers, in the meek. All are walking in the light - because they CHOOSE it. This faculty to choose is one of the most clear evidences of a God of Love, a God of all.
Thank you for your questions; I hope you will visit Millennium Art Gallery again – we now have an informative F.A.Q. section, if you need answers to any 'technical' queries about the Animatic Art movement and artist representation.
Sincerely, Rog
( ...to join or not
to join )
Dear FH,
Yes, the mind is a wonderful thing, but sometimes we cannot deny its limitations - at least in the context of any given state of evolution. It makes sense that we may evolve one day to "be God", or that "mind" will develop to a point of ultimate comprehension, or harmony. For now, we are subjects of a Greater Force, of which relatively 'digestible' fragments are articulated by prophets and seers - and their validity can best be measured by the 'fruits' of their teachings. Other than that, there is the inner conscience of every individual - a glimpse into the collective and harmonious mind that is All - and which we can all cultivate a relationship to in our own lives.
Anyways, a stimulating topic, and essential, if we are to achieve peace in our lifetime...All the potential is there.
You mentioned something about our having an air of 'exclusivity'. Rest assured our art movement is absolutely open to all - any person who wants to join - it's free and the only requirement is that you have an e-mail address.... and that you've glanced at some of the ideas for which the website is created and maintained, and see that you can and want to contribute something. Some people, though, will prefer to ensure being 'shut out' because they are self-professed 'non-joiners', intimidated and ultimately imprisoned by the 'kingdom of names' (a lot of alcoholics are militant 'non-joiners' before their lives fall apart and they drag themselves, half-dead into AA) ...To become a member of our community you only need a desire to connect with others around the ideas of creative exploration, personal growth and global healing.
So, I think that anyone who has a lot of baggage around 'joining' or 'membership' has got some sad little issues that could conceivably have them miss out on a fair number of positive experiences of people coming together in like-minded 'groups', pledging support of various ideals and principles, and not just flitting around the fringes for only as long as it tastes good.
Hey, everybody, welcome to the new art movement! All are welcome - do you dare
join??
( ...what is Canadian?
)
Hey FH,
Nice chatting today. I have to contest about Canada lacking culture; albeit sometimes its a bit of cheese-culture (CBC television etc)...
But all in all, our sweeping landscapes, impressionist painters, CBC radio (oddly and vastly more culturally definitive than CBC television), The Tragically Hip, Vancouver's perpetual sense of inadequacy, the great divide called the Rocky Mountains, the vanishing prairie farm, the BC logging and off-shore drilling threats, the East Coast unemployment chaos and Inuit children' substance abuse...we have culture all right.
We have a lot of growth ahead, in wake of growing right-wing politics, increasing world economic and environmetal instability etc, but I think in the long run, the fact that we are who we are, in this vast and diversified geography, with representatives of so many human realities, we will offer the rest of the world some unparalleled examples of truth and depth and survival. And art.
Stay Fun!
( ...creation stories
)
Dear FH,
Great Art began with, well, the inception of the universe. Creativity at its greatest - unrivaled, untouchable. But then fair Adam and lovely Eve brought this Divine creation to a human level, becoming conscious of self and thus cast from their blissful ignorance.
Every twig, pebble, fruit, droplet, warm breeze and blue sky is Art, and the human arts, tempered with awareness and humility, is Great in its perfect imperfection of attempting homage to the Perfect Divine. Don't sweat it - strive for beauty, reach for the face of God but know that you will never touch it. Now ain't that Greatness!
Truth is good. And universal truth. The truth that each one's truth is unique. Can we agree? To just let it be? Unless it's obviously hurting us or others... some peoples' truths hurt. Some of our own truths hurt.
Truth can open us or close us, the latter might cause the more injury. To be closed (unwelcoming of others' truth, and imagining one's own truth applicable to others unilaterally) is to often be unaware of one's self. One's thinking, one's acting, one's processing of information and emotions, one's effect on others, one's ability to respect and understand others - how can one know anyone when one doesn't know one's self - how can one know one's self when one can't even see one's self??
How can one know one's art - and particularly its source and power seperate from one's self, when one doesn't know who one is and what one's role is? Does anyone really know anything? We become attached, in various ways, to stimuli, physical and mental and so on, that attachment is our knowing. But think of death itself - the ultimate de-tatchment; we obviously must learn potent lessons about "letting go" - ultimately of everything we 'know' as 'real'.
So live your lives, know your lives, learn how to let go - goodness knows we get enough tests in that regard!! It's an illusion anyways, and the REAL life is beyond all knowing and cradles us in its immaculate eternity!
Rog
...From various site postings
Helen,
I am thrilled to have your column up! Yours is a perspective not only for your 'Sisters in Maturity', but most definately for any of us who dare to seek the guidance and wisdom of the Crone. She is a well-spring of experience - in nurturing, forgiveness, forebearance and perception. We look to our Grandmothers' unique offerings to guide us all a step closer to our realized and empowered selves!
Helen Redman Readers! Listen to your youthful hearts, listen to your Masculine hearts, Find the fragment of glistening truth in the distillations of the Crone-consciousness - She is Us, We are Her!
Hi, Steve,
Your "Experiential Reality" unfolds in wonderful ways, now that I'm thinking about it in my day-to day. The study and perspective facilitates a kind of 'stepping back' in which I can more appreciate for instance, the idea of 'living good' over simply 'feeling good'. My big sis tells me it's a great maturing when we can reach that kind of detachment from our 'experience'. Too often, we can become besieged by the intensities of being 'inside' our continual parade of feelings, and the relationships that form between each and our selves, giving us this nameable experience. And that is where we can get snagged - and attached to the experience. Instead, to stay balanced and 'living good', we need the objective distance - that point of calm observation: "...How interesting, these perceptions, these electrical impulses inside my physiology which are providing various and vital 'information' to my being."
Steve, thanks again for
your participation with The Medium. And to all the readers, please share with
us your insights and musings! We Are One!
Gwen,
Thank you again! I must say that reading this latest piece about birds' songs and flower gardens was a joy this morning. Today it is so warm and sunny, like summer finally here (they say it will be cool again tomorrow!). The gardens here are unparalleled, the assortment of trees lining East Vancouver streets are turning a full and deep green; what a beautiful part of the world I live in! Today. Here and Now.
Thanks for YOUR 'nudge'. :-)
Robert,
No, you are right! What does any critic bring to the world, but some reflection of their own frustrated creativity, or their own discomforts with arbitrarily classified beauty. If someone were to look at our planet, they might find more that enough to request that we ALL GIVE IT UP! WHAT A MESS! WHAT A WASTE! NO - that would unjustly disqualify all semblance of creative chaos, which very well might be at the heart of evolution, and ultimate Beauty!
Speak! Paint! Sing! Go with LOVE!
( from the MagMusic forum )
Welcome,
Everyone. The era of glorious sound has begun at MillenniumArtGallery.com,
and may you come to encounter a layer of Spirit unknown, as you familliarize
youself with the sonic and the mortal experiences of the artists represented
here. We are you, you are us, We are One.
Updates will occur regularly, as I go through some relatively vast and daunting
learning curves, at my artist's pace, but ever with an eye toward offering
- for free (though a donation to our org would not be scoffed at) - an unfolding
library and resource of beautiful souls ushering forth the Heart Song, in
its many and mysterious tones.
ROg
"Manifestation IV"
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