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Connecting to the Sacred Through Contemplative Gaze
Get PDFVisual contemplation can do more than convey images, it can transmit to the soul in ways that both inform and inspire. The artist shares the experience of empathic connection with another artist that may be cultivated by engaging with pieces that evoke emotional and somatic responses, and then entering into creative conversation with the artist by following their gestures, brush strokes, movement, marks, and color decisions
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter
Get PDFThis is the January 2015 issue of the Integrative Health Studies Newsletter at CIIS.https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/integrative-healthnewsletter/1002/thumbnail.jp
Integral Yoga, Neuroscience and Neurogenesis
No full textIntegral yoga provides a widely inclusive understanding of consciousness that helps makes sense of many of the findings of neuroscience. This talk uses recent neuroscience findings on neurogenesis as a frame to show how the practice of integral yoga can be a path to enhancing brain function and cognitive abilities
Clay as a Spiritual Practice
Get PDFart, expressive arts, spiritual practice, clay, clay as a spiritual practice, art therapy, Mary Magdalene, interior light, surrender, Divine Presenc
Altered States of Consciousness and Creative Expression
Get PDFHypnagogia, a state of consciousness between wakefulness and sleep, provides a palette where conscious awareness intertwines with dream images. This state is compared with synesthesia, the imaginal realm, and Jung\u27s active imagination process as inspiration for artistic creation
A Photo Reverie: Creative Synthesis in Intuitive Inquiry
Get PDFCreative synthesis is the last phase of heuristic research where the researcher uses his or her tacit and intuitive understanding of the research findings to synthesise and portray these findings through a creative medium. In this short paper and accompanied photo-reverie, the author demonstrates how he used a creative synthesis in an intuitive inquiry to portray the inner dimensions of his research into the transpersonal implications of singing
Of the World that Freely Offers Itself: An Exploration of Writerly/Artistic Rituals
Get PDFThe author, a fiction writer, explores the relationship between the writer/artist and the so-called Muse, especially with respect to working rituals that precede the artist’s creative expression and make it more accessible. She takes an informal approach to a collaborative inquiry and experiments with her own musings as she navigates through her colleagues’ responses to a questionnaire in which she asks them to qualify and self-analyze their pre-writing/painting rituals and ensuing working habits. Her attempt to deepen her own experience by understanding the experience of others unfolds in this lyric essay in which linguistic strategies serve to differentiate inner process and discovery in the world. She takes liberties, invoking Franz Kafka, and even addressing him as one of her colleagues. The result is a hybrid form of creative-scholarly writing, informative and lyrical rather than analytical, that is inclusive of the researcher’s voice as a fictionist, who, in collaboration with her colleagues, is reckoning with the Muse
Transpersonal Art—Does It Bite?
Get PDFThis article addresses the question of whether or not political perspective and content enrich transpersonal art and studies. The artist’s argument for making the range of the transpersonal inclusive, not just transcendent but also immanent, employs examples from her art as well as descriptions of her process. She sets the discussion in three contexts: that of art criticism, contemporary and traditional; that of art production; and that of the field of transpersonal studies. In regard to the latter, she both defines and examines the role of spiritual bypass, and argues the importance of resisting the temptation to take refuge in a form of introspection that bypasses sociopolitical concerns. By examining in detail her portrayal of Erland Josephson in his latter years, she addresses a question bridging the transcendent and imminent: How does one read a face and discern/portray a person’s relation to the inner and outer worlds