Art And Spiritual Transformation

Author : Finley Eversole
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1594779252
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art and Spiritual Transformation written by Finley Eversole and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primal role of art in awakening and liberating the soul of humanity • Presents a seven-stage journey of transformation moving from the darkened soul to the light of spiritual illumination • Provides a meditation practice to experience the spiritual energy embedded within art • Includes artists Alex Grey, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Walter Gaudnek, and others Art and Spiritual Transformation presents a seven-stage journey from the darkened soul to the light of spiritual illumination that is possible through the world of art. Finley Eversole introduces a meditation practice that moves beyond the visual content of an art form in order to connect with its embedded spiritual energy, allowing the viewer to tap in to the deeper consciousness inherent in the artwork and awaken dormant powers in the depths of the viewer’s soul. Examining modern and postmodern artwork from 1945 onward, Eversole reveals the influences of ancient Egypt, India, China, and alchemy on this art. He draws extensively on philosophy, myth and symbolism, literature, and metaphysics to explain the seven stages of spiritual death and rebirth of the soul possible through art: the experience of self-loss, the journey into the underworld, the experience of the dark night of the soul, the conflict with and triumph over evil, the awakening of new life in the depths of being, and the return and reintegration of consciousness on a higher plane of being, resulting finally in ecstasy, transfiguration, illumination, and liberation. To illustrate these stages, Eversole includes works by abstract expressionists Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Mark Rothko and modern visionary artists Alex Grey and Ernst Fuchs, among others, to reveal the powerful and liberating forces art contributes to the transformation and evolution of human consciousness.

Author : Keri Wehlander
Publisher : Wood Lake Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1551455684
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creating Change written by Keri Wehlander and published by Wood Lake Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music, dance, drama, visual art, writing - what role do the arts play in our spiritual life? Some people believe the arts are essential to their spiritual practice because they bring moments of insight and transformation to their journey. Creating Change explores the many ways the arts cultivate spiritual depth and transformation. Stories from artists and congregations reveal how the arts breathe new life into prayer, worship, theological reflection, and the work of justice. It looks at how the arts allow us to express our spirituality with an individuality and depth that truly celebrates our connection to God.

Author : Elizabeth Clare Prophet
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1609883993
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creative Thought Forms written by Elizabeth Clare Prophet and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Prophet, a modern-day adept, shows how you can use color, sound, and geometry to create thoughtforms that have a reality far beyond mere imagination. Have you noticed how advertisers use thoughtforms to program your desires? How the news media use thoughtforms to program your mind? There is real power in the science of thoughtforms. And this science can be used for many purposes-including the healing of mind and body. Thoughtforms can even precipitate in the physical plane. But of far greater value is their power to transform your mind and emotions. How will you use thoughtforms to brighten your life, your mind and emotions with the balance, symmetry, and harmony of light?

Author : Wendy Beckett
Publisher : Harper San Francisco
ISBN 13 : 9780060608286
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gaze of Love written by Wendy Beckett and published by Harper San Francisco. This book was released on 1993 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain's delightful television-star nun offers arresting insights into the soul of modern art--featuring color images of works by such artists as Matisse, Hopper, and Rivera.

Author : Wassily Kandinsky
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 048613248X
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Concerning the Spiritual in Art written by Wassily Kandinsky and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-20 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneering work by the great modernist painter, considered by many to be the father of abstract art and a leader in the movement to free art from traditional bonds. 12 illustrations.

Author : Robert Elliott Allinson
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780887069673
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chuang-Tzu for Spiritual Transformation written by Robert Elliott Allinson and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a fundamentally new interpretation of the philosophy of the Chuang-Tzu. It is the first full-length work of its kind which argues that a deep level cognitive structure exists beneath an otherwise random collection of literary anecdotes, cryptic sayings, and dark allusions. The author carefully analyzes myths, legends, monstrous characters, paradoxes, parables and linguistic puzzles as strategically placed techniques for systematically tapping and channeling the spiritual dimensions of the mind. Allinson takes issue with commentators who have treated the Chuang-Tzu as a minor foray into relativism. Chapter titles are re-translated, textual fragments are relocated, and inauthentic, outer miscellaneous chapters are carefully separated from the transformatory message of the authentic, inner chapters. Each of the inner chapters is shown to be a building block to the next so that they can only be understood as forming a developmental sequence. In the end, the reader is presented with a clear, consistent and coherent view of the Chuang-Tzu that is more in accord with its stature as a major philosophical work.

Author : David Ulrich
Publisher : Watson-Guptill
ISBN 13 : 0399580336
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zen Camera written by David Ulrich and published by Watson-Guptill. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zen Camera is an unprecedented photography practice that guides you to the creativity at your fingertips, calling for nothing more than your vision and any camera, even the one embedded in your phone. David Ulrich draws on the principles of Zen practice as well as forty years of teaching photography to offer six profound lessons for developing your self-expression. Doing for photography what The Artist’s Way and Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain did for their respective crafts, Zen Camera encourages you to build a visual journaling practice called your Daily Record in which photography can become a path of self-discovery. Beautifully illustrated with 83 photographs, its insights into the nature of seeing, art, and personal growth allow you to create photographs that are beautiful, meaningful, and uniquely your own. You’ll ultimately learn to change the way you interact with technology—transforming it into a way to uncover your innate power of attention and mindfulness, to see creatively, and to live authentically.

Author : C. C. Zain
Publisher : Brotherhood of Light Lessons
ISBN 13 : 9780878875023
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spiritual Alchemy written by C. C. Zain and published by Brotherhood of Light Lessons. This book was released on 2014-06 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christine Valters Paintner
Publisher : SkyLight Paths Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1594733007
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lectio Divina--The Sacred Art written by Christine Valters Paintner and published by SkyLight Paths Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-27 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Break open this ancient contemplative practice of listening deeply for God's voice in sacred texts. Drawing on her own experience as a monk in the world, Christine Valters Paintner introduces the foundations for a practice of lectio divina. She closely examines each of the four movements of lectio divina as well as the rhythm they create when practiced as a process.

Author : Marilyn Schlitz
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
ISBN 13 : 1608826848
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living Deeply written by Marilyn Schlitz and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2008-01-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living Deeply transcends any one approach by focusing on common elements of transformation across a variety of traditions, while affirming and supporting the diversity of approaches across religious, spiritual, scientific, academic, and cultural backgrounds. Each chapter in the book ends with Experiences of Transformation, exercises drawn from wisdom traditions or scientific investigations meant to enhance your direct experience of the material. Opportunities to actively engage in your own transformation and that of our world are woven into the fabric of your everyday life. Learning more about the terrain of consciousness transformation can not only give you a map, but can help you become the cartographer of your own transformative journey. Research over the last decade at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) has systematically surveyed hundreds of people's stories of their own transformations, as well as conducting over 50 in-depth interviews with teachers and masters of the world's spiritual, religious, and transformative traditions. No matter who you are,where you come from, or what your current path is - whether you seek to transform your life completely or simply make adjustments that will add a layer of richness and depth to your life - exploring the many ways that transformation is stimulated and sustained can hold great power. Weaving together cutting-edge science with wisdom from teachers of the world's transformative traditions this book explores how people experience deep shifts in their consciousness, and how those shifts can lead to healing and wholeness. Research over the last decade at the Institute of Noetic Sciences has explored in depth the phenomenon by which people make significant shifts in the way they experience and view the world. Focusing in particular on positive transformations in consciousness, or those that result in improved health, well-being, and sense of meaning, purpose,and belonging, hundreds of people's stories of their own transformations were included in the research, as well as in-depth interviews with over 50 teachers and masters of the world's spiritual, religious, and transformative traditions. Authors Marilyn Mandala Schlitz, Ph.D., Cassandra Vieten, Ph.D., and Tina Amorok, Psy.D. - will begin conducting workshops based on the information they have gathered for this book. These workshops will blend the rigors of science with the deep wisdom of the world’s spiritual traditions. Drs. Schlitz, Vieten, and Amorok will offer key insights from the decade-long qualitative and quantitative research study, of how people transform their lives. The workshops will include rigorous inquiry, group dialogue, and direct experience about the kinds of transformations in consciousness that change a person’s worldview to one that is more connected to others. For more information about the Signature Education Workshops, please visit www.livingdeeply.org Also available is a companion DVD.