When Death Finds You, May it Find You Alive
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October 28, 2011 by chris
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“Almost all cultures have the notion that there is a judgment when we die. Some kind of accounting has to be made of one’s life. I believe God – and to me “God” is just shorthand for the ineffable divine presence – has only one question for us at the end: “Did you become yourself“? We [...]
Continue ReadingThe Power of the Unconscious
This is something of a follow-up to my last post. Over the years I’ve become increasingly aware of how much richer the unconscious mind is, creatively, than the conscious mind. As artists, we use our unconscious minds all the time, if only to let us know when a piece feels finished, or if an element we are introducing to a painting [...]
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