tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68274870898658350732024-03-19T12:53:01.434-07:00The Artist as a Spiritual ExplorerRebecca E. Parsons/Cre8Tivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07232095697300045428noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827487089865835073.post-39230682067630400922010-05-31T06:39:00.000-07:002010-05-31T06:39:04.688-07:00Is Your Imagination Out of Focus?<a href="http://cre8tivecompass.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/stormy-sunrise-11.jpg"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-749" height="367" src="http://cre8tivecompass.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/stormy-sunrise-11-300x225.jpg" title="stormy-sunrise-11" width="492" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/art-and-soul-radio">Art and Soul Radio's</a> Musing for the week...<br />
<blockquote><em>One of my favorite writers, Mark Twain said “You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” What helps you bring your imagination into focus so you can really see what is?</em></blockquote><a href="http://cre8tivecompass.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/rain-pants-34.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-746 alignright" height="225" src="http://cre8tivecompass.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/rain-pants-34-300x225.jpg" title="rain-pants-34" width="300" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cre8tivecompass.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/rain-pants-34.jpg"></a>My musings on the quote: mindfulness...it takes practice to live fully in the moment and be present in your life...fully and mindfully experiencing all your senses, often will unleash vivid imaginings and delightful bouts of creativity...<br />
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it rained during my morning walk along the beach...i noticed other people scurrying off the beach...i stayed and felt the drops hit my arms and face and clothing...they were neither hot nor cold, yet the breeze from the ocean cooled my skin and felt good...<br />
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the soft rain added a fresh, clean fragrance to the salty sea air...i breathed deeply...it tasted salty on my lips as an upward curving of the corners of the mouth indicated pleasure...<br />
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the drops made a soft tapping sound as they fell on the ocean and sand...i stood and listened to the rhythm of the rain as it mixed with the sound of the waves as they moved toward shore...<br />
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i searched for a rainbow...there was none...however, i noticed the patterns the drops of rain created in the shallow water near shore...i tried to capture the circular shapes as they expanded and grew into one another...i took several photos as i watched the ever-changing patterns form and reform like an infinite kaleidoscope...knowing these patterns will find their way into my art...<br />
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when the rain stopped i noticed two feathers floating in the water...they created intricate dance patterns as they bobbed about...twisting and turning...growing close then separating...i watched this performance for quite some time until a large wave washed them from my sight...<br />
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mindfulness takes time and a commitment to yourself...i made such a vow years ago when i moved to this tiny island in the atlantic...i would take a mindful, prayerful meditative walk by the sea every morning as long as i was able...at this moment i am able...<br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">art for me is prayer...it is allowing the energy to flow through me to create as no one has before me and as everyone has before me...creation is the moment i am most present in my life and at one with the universe</div>Rebecca E. Parsons/Cre8Tivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07232095697300045428noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827487089865835073.post-88751898998216854472009-08-18T06:52:00.000-07:002009-08-18T07:22:40.550-07:00blessed discomfort...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgooHYjaFN90MNSfbzmbAnCo9d2ioNgK3V4eVSJPccM5I5oI0rOyX9ZuMdfmLCRoFKU3cqPzMPo5AovP77bci8lYTc6-CCU5D3kCPwD9mAXPfQlK9QL9YSZ0L07eDXqluC1bF9lI5MXKvw/s1600-h/glass-sand.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 480px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgooHYjaFN90MNSfbzmbAnCo9d2ioNgK3V4eVSJPccM5I5oI0rOyX9ZuMdfmLCRoFKU3cqPzMPo5AovP77bci8lYTc6-CCU5D3kCPwD9mAXPfQlK9QL9YSZ0L07eDXqluC1bF9lI5MXKvw/s320/glass-sand.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371292942943190322" /></a><br /><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">in the movie Bounce, Ben Affleck encourages Gwyneth Paltrow:</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><br /></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;">"It isn't brave unless you're afraid." </span></span></div></span><br /><div>as an artist i am accustomed to creating within blessed discomfort...as a creative entrepreneur i am more than used to blessed discomfort...as a child of God i have learned to embrace blessed discomfort...</div><div><br /></div><div>blessed discomfort has helped me grow as a woman, and artist and a spiritual being...to find the courage to stand in my own truth and find my authentic visual voice, i have had to walk through fear...my worst fears...feel vulnerable, raw and exposed...hopeless, helpless and alone...</div><div><br /></div><div>this walk of blessed discomfort is what defines the path of The Artist as a Spiritual Explorer...following that inner voice that compels you to go forth...take risks and chances with your art...embrace your gifts...then share them with the world....</div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE0TzP1pbkA-w2f75iYjSKzinpvHehqsFypRg8cr8188P8MK0HR1QLImeortQ0iPlmc1FngTYHyRXxHmmmGCL29oXlqm0mpJ3z00QF1T-Tg1g89ZxY5dyqE8bqwhbS9FPNVLiZJlZp3Zo6/s1600-h/art+2-final+lo"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE0TzP1pbkA-w2f75iYjSKzinpvHehqsFypRg8cr8188P8MK0HR1QLImeortQ0iPlmc1FngTYHyRXxHmmmGCL29oXlqm0mpJ3z00QF1T-Tg1g89ZxY5dyqE8bqwhbS9FPNVLiZJlZp3Zo6/s400/art+2-final+lo" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371304720076901634" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">'out of darkness' - 2007 20" x 24". acrylic, plaster on paper</span></div><br /></div><div>and the sharing of your work brings blessed discomfort...will they like it...will they understand it...will they buy it...</div><div><br /></div><div></div><blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><i><b>out of darkness</b> is a work that visually explores my life and my work as an artist...it shows how i am being pulled out of the darkness of doubt and fear toward light and expansion...it reveals that there will be obstacles ahead, yet it promises the journey will be worth the effort...she is a strong woman, naked and raw, heading into her destiny while remembering her past...remembering because it makes her who she is today...it gives her the sensitivity to love the journey...and it frees her creative spirit to explore all that lies before her...</i></span></div></blockquote><div><div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#663366;">===================================================</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#663366;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://kingofmicestudios.blogspot.com/2009/08/little-blog-love-back-atcha.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">carolee is having a giveaway on her blog for the cutest trinket box...go see by clicking this sentence...</span></a></div><p></p><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 390px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcoB_ta3GpIdxgJmBxX_1EV7lhyphenhyphenN5uAYIVxyruca8o4D-2ueAVLhs2hJ1pKvERTHAjXhCI89YJAKx7JjMmrZO_Gh_grlDrewnvXg4Ry6ya5v-mW-XPi_wP6BZBYLh9uU_i-TzyEMF0bU4/s400/giveawaybox.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371072791435484274" /></div></div>Rebecca E. Parsons/Cre8Tivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07232095697300045428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827487089865835073.post-68591709145325949052009-08-03T04:51:00.000-07:002009-08-03T05:31:59.515-07:00with this gift is a mission...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFwuVMCFK1J8qc1oOgE5dSM7qzY0_L7vJpA63pK09RqBQNasu1x_YGxopPDmAQbwq2dUdKNvof0XFdcdyU_gAMHa597hBtHWSCNlk5H6k8A-gZr4MZGYHc2NbpWTgUCxZJBqPw9vwD8xVB/s1600-h/gift-mission-quote.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFwuVMCFK1J8qc1oOgE5dSM7qzY0_L7vJpA63pK09RqBQNasu1x_YGxopPDmAQbwq2dUdKNvof0XFdcdyU_gAMHa597hBtHWSCNlk5H6k8A-gZr4MZGYHc2NbpWTgUCxZJBqPw9vwD8xVB/s400/gift-mission-quote.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365713978548629378" /></a><br />i have been given a great gift...in return i have a job/mission to do...<div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#336666;">From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and to whom they entrusted much, of him they will ask all the more. </span>Luke 12:48</blockquote></span></div><br />the mission? to bring others to God and feed the poor...<div><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtWM5Ymw-AQAiDf0Y_8goLJs_Vim3MYlvzYOvbcnpZKGEmVGqqH-i_YwrFwu2K3oUmorrMefNCl7-8ioHzaQyBA7kLl2we546rhEG1XObgSY6qTJ6pleQ3ew8NXjfhxbhnPZAGeEWahjdy/s1600-h/gratitude.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtWM5Ymw-AQAiDf0Y_8goLJs_Vim3MYlvzYOvbcnpZKGEmVGqqH-i_YwrFwu2K3oUmorrMefNCl7-8ioHzaQyBA7kLl2we546rhEG1XObgSY6qTJ6pleQ3ew8NXjfhxbhnPZAGeEWahjdy/s400/gratitude.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365707126118898578" /></a>Rebecca E. Parsons/Cre8Tivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07232095697300045428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827487089865835073.post-39722364756298519772009-04-22T05:30:00.000-07:002009-04-23T05:31:33.832-07:00enjoy your earth...<div style="text-align: center;"><embed wmode="opaque" src="http://static.ning.com/socialnetworkmain/widgets/video/flvplayer/flvplayer.swf?v=4.0.10%3A20718" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.powerfulintentions.org%2Fvideo%2Fvideo%2FshowPlayerConfig%3Fid%3D1335877%253AVideo%253A94686%26ck%3D712187814&video_smoothing=on&autoplay=off&isEmbedCode=1" width="456" height="260" bgcolor="#E5E5E5" scale="noscale" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed> <br /></div><small><a href="http://www.powerfulintentions.org/video/video"><br /><br />Find more videos like this on <em>Powerful Intentions: Law of Attraction Community</em></a></small><br /><br />for inspiration today...Rebecca E. Parsons/Cre8Tivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07232095697300045428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827487089865835073.post-70066090372794722662009-04-05T06:12:00.000-07:002009-04-05T06:13:51.546-07:00morning meditation...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFON7XQbujX7jOQDptAj04JcUQUwupRW2LcLOUU_ut-3Hcr0PzrFaHEvkXcXNtnBQ4ATKoAeCulORkpgVAhKi3i_53hBg4WMSERKBjX5-svWO-3SK77uXHUbQObKpLtfn3xw0Bt9Xlvpo/s1600-h/489-marina.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFON7XQbujX7jOQDptAj04JcUQUwupRW2LcLOUU_ut-3Hcr0PzrFaHEvkXcXNtnBQ4ATKoAeCulORkpgVAhKi3i_53hBg4WMSERKBjX5-svWO-3SK77uXHUbQObKpLtfn3xw0Bt9Xlvpo/s400/489-marina.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321191580971672194" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:13px;">last night's sunset at the marina amelia island, florida</span><br /></div></span><div><br /></div><div>this peaceful scene helped calm my soul last evening...as you know i have been doing lots of soul work during this Lenten season...it has helped me climb out of the blue funk my life has been in for the past few years...</div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH5UBQRQefxGgUdOxXVMpx1blFQ07MvDm2v-vwe_tan_q4gY5uRllrIbGVlO5-7DafMOXsWwxihyphenhyphentawgikhddhp-tqbtPbdEy36umJ8ektUuh5rDtmz_-qyaWLzl21xk_cyFp3UL2n3m8/s1600-h/459-sunrisee.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH5UBQRQefxGgUdOxXVMpx1blFQ07MvDm2v-vwe_tan_q4gY5uRllrIbGVlO5-7DafMOXsWwxihyphenhyphentawgikhddhp-tqbtPbdEy36umJ8ektUuh5rDtmz_-qyaWLzl21xk_cyFp3UL2n3m8/s400/459-sunrisee.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321191579176431282" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:13px;">the sun just peeping over the ocean this morning</span><br /></div></span></div><div><br /></div><div>i love to go to the edge of the sea to meditate....</div><div><br /></div><div> contemplate...</div><div><br /></div><div> for my soul is at rest when i am here...</div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqY1SPlCjrHBV5SkdMV1lrn1X-mqnnzEVx5KIB8gLQQiU-QsID8BgOEMH7AJgw7pJFKhdK6k8Yg9v7MOFBMrPKyk5Pb6gvPhsy2WPYXCP9p15pFJehLDaFypUgvedSHWZZTtxuofgJsEo/s1600-h/459-sunrise-pier.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqY1SPlCjrHBV5SkdMV1lrn1X-mqnnzEVx5KIB8gLQQiU-QsID8BgOEMH7AJgw7pJFKhdK6k8Yg9v7MOFBMrPKyk5Pb6gvPhsy2WPYXCP9p15pFJehLDaFypUgvedSHWZZTtxuofgJsEo/s400/459-sunrise-pier.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321191570810663298" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:13px;">the sun about an hour after sunrise...thru the pier</span><br /></div></span></div><div><br /></div><div>this sets my day for creativity and connection to my God, my soul and my muse...</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Rebecca E. Parsons/Cre8Tivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07232095697300045428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827487089865835073.post-55397891740443363942009-04-04T08:23:00.000-07:002009-04-04T08:24:28.547-07:00journey into self awareness....Jill Bolte Taylor's astonishing journey into self awareness....<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><object width="446" height="326"><param name="movie" value="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><param name="bgColor" value="#ffffff"> <param name="flashvars" value="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/embed/JillBolteTaylor_2008-embed_high.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/JillBolteTaylor-2008.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=229"><embed src="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" pluginspace="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="446" height="326" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/embed/JillBolteTaylor_2008-embed_high.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/JillBolteTaylor-2008.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=229"></embed></object><br /></div><br />are you open to the possibilities of self awareness beyond your norm? would it take a massive stroke to bring you to this kind of openness? would your creativity come from a different place?Rebecca E. Parsons/Cre8Tivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07232095697300045428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827487089865835073.post-40529015958665683952009-03-21T05:12:00.000-07:002009-03-22T05:59:39.810-07:00the limitless universe, the space of our limitless spirit...The message of Jesus reaches into the depths of our humanity...into those spaces of life where we create and imagine, dance and sing, write and envision, laugh and cry, mourn and despair, hope and love, and where everything deeply human dwells within us. <div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFkqmo_MayfV4rQVYShKZqGSkCNj6PgeIZY0p409QuAX24P4QcmhftLU1DcwwkIy0G6m59EgxLK23-6QxdDBNDgHT9-rG4kyOOjoMJ2IzmNcZfRSClWzpda7f1Z-2VtVBiEGMytJXvt2gl/s1600-h/fire-dancer.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 282px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFkqmo_MayfV4rQVYShKZqGSkCNj6PgeIZY0p409QuAX24P4QcmhftLU1DcwwkIy0G6m59EgxLK23-6QxdDBNDgHT9-rG4kyOOjoMJ2IzmNcZfRSClWzpda7f1Z-2VtVBiEGMytJXvt2gl/s400/fire-dancer.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315678539635473954" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">"spirit dancer" - 2008</span></span><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>This message reaches into our art. I believe that our art is another message of eternal life as it lives and reaches beyond us. It is a bridge between heaven and earth and experiencing the oneness with all.</div><div><br /></div><div>Every human being has a light, a radiant spark of God's divine nature, installed in his/her own nature. The idea of opening this light to the world is what all artists and craftspeople have been doing since the birth of time. And I will venture to say that opening up our light will be most important in the third millennium as people search for a spiritual connection. For an artist, our art is the portal to our souls.</div><div><br /></div><div>I believe that all of us are called to co-create in the universe together with God. Everyone, if willing, can open up their divine origin, hidden within the depths of our human souls, and give something of value to the universe.</div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIkxat_A0QctjT4SJR450aa27R8Iw15pvu8njzjKfAEO7Ka0p4DBhaEaPED9OW-1AjXXuTmnpKi0816P1wXQH8an18-4ohEsagOElto1DE0X6g1Sn1t3C8C42ibCsVD4C5mxyTl4JJVtJG/s1600-h/repose.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIkxat_A0QctjT4SJR450aa27R8Iw15pvu8njzjKfAEO7Ka0p4DBhaEaPED9OW-1AjXXuTmnpKi0816P1wXQH8an18-4ohEsagOElto1DE0X6g1Sn1t3C8C42ibCsVD4C5mxyTl4JJVtJG/s400/repose.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315678544349762242" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">"repose" 2008</span></span><br /></div><br /></div><div>Finding your radiant spark, tapping in to the divine inspiration, and then allowing it to flow through you into the limitless universe is your charge in this life. Finding that space of your limitless spirit is a lifelong quest.</div><div><br /></div><div>Spiritually advanced human souls have already set forth on their journey... can you be far behind? Afterall, you were led to this place today... Have you set forth on your journey or are you afraid to take that first, necessary step?</div><div><br /></div><div>Millions of enlightened souls have entered their own dark night of the soul. This is where the journey first leads you. It is uncomfortable and, at times, frightening but very necessary to grow into our spiritual maturity. Once in spiritual maturity you are free to co-create with God and the universe with the gift that is uniquely your own.</div><div><br />We are challenged not to become so immersed in the illusory existence of the manifested universe that we forgot our divine nature. <br /></div><div><br /></div></div></div>Rebecca E. Parsons/Cre8Tivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07232095697300045428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827487089865835073.post-43957734040951307082009-03-20T08:43:00.000-07:002009-03-21T09:37:04.581-07:00Einstein & Picasso: The Beauty that Causes Havoc...Here is a link to Einstein and Picasso <a href="http://forum.wgbh.org/lecture/einstein-picasso-beauty-causes-havoc">lecture.</a> This lecture is part of Einstein Fest at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Canada.<br /><br /><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4YQ86pMOkkLP4ISRQvhat_wrI2sHt_VWEm55ajiT_9Hjfeh3i10wDyVowUJdeZ7nybao13Pd-Mf-5vgAX01nBY-YzaxK3EZxkkcV_uGBa4bYTtb_tXcZPh0OcLN18OdCPo70IFEC3fT7X/s1600-h/3193-2005_10_17_120.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 120px; height: 120px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4YQ86pMOkkLP4ISRQvhat_wrI2sHt_VWEm55ajiT_9Hjfeh3i10wDyVowUJdeZ7nybao13Pd-Mf-5vgAX01nBY-YzaxK3EZxkkcV_uGBa4bYTtb_tXcZPh0OcLN18OdCPo70IFEC3fT7X/s400/3193-2005_10_17_120.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315668166600903698" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>by Arthur I. Miller, professor, history, University College London October 17, 2005</div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQYyCGYQeMumVWFy1T6npl5RWjpkr7-jkS1EVUe2ho1PFY_i-HjjQdXoQjo9_zN9hwYUggOW8BIJ00-AVK0Kkc0WZXKw22tGkCnCV8DZZRMvgbWNKYOncvZNNqXGIoDsi69RRhOuub1gns/s1600-h/demoiselles_NewFINAL.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 390px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQYyCGYQeMumVWFy1T6npl5RWjpkr7-jkS1EVUe2ho1PFY_i-HjjQdXoQjo9_zN9hwYUggOW8BIJ00-AVK0Kkc0WZXKw22tGkCnCV8DZZRMvgbWNKYOncvZNNqXGIoDsi69RRhOuub1gns/s400/demoiselles_NewFINAL.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315669476062113794" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Picasso's Les desmoiselle d'avignon</div><div><br />The most important scientist of the twentieth century, and its most important artist, went through their periods of greatest creativity almost simultaneously and under remarkably similar circumstances: Einstein's special theory of relativity and Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. It turns out they were both working on the same problem: the nature of space and time and, more particularly, simultaneity. When they produced these astonishing works, Einstein and Picasso were not the distinguished elderly figures that later became so familiar: they were in their twenties, unknown, feisty, dirt-poor, and prone to getting into trouble.<br /><br /><br /></div>Rebecca E. Parsons/Cre8Tivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07232095697300045428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827487089865835073.post-17687443759542927752009-03-19T10:41:00.000-07:002009-03-19T10:42:23.241-07:00the energy of incomplete work...<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">i invite you to follow this blog...just click at top right...</span></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div>here are some paintings that are incomplete..or so i thought when i started this post...but the more i look at this top image the more sure that i am it is finished...so it is...</div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLBqILn67BL0pIOYfaZM-YyoeZAfQseMTWIsR1eOOKn3CKn1edeOmrthktISjG0r42BX-wZ1zik6wAMATpxGxtCvErzqx2Qk9iwQPiRK-kOc4v6PmU5i51_ZHGGxV6o8j5Wy4cQEP48S4/s1600-h/the-tear.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLBqILn67BL0pIOYfaZM-YyoeZAfQseMTWIsR1eOOKn3CKn1edeOmrthktISjG0r42BX-wZ1zik6wAMATpxGxtCvErzqx2Qk9iwQPiRK-kOc4v6PmU5i51_ZHGGxV6o8j5Wy4cQEP48S4/s400/the-tear.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304509633310768706" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:13px;">'a single tear' - 2009 acrylic, plaster on canvas</span><br /></div></span><br /></div><div>back to the topic...do you know <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">the energy of incomplete work</span></span></span>...</div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHxhAJ9NWPvWIKKx0igih9zvWhxz_KpXsxjh8137TCO3dooTuCEU7An4eE3wqBzqRtMC_6wNSuQ-nfB0KnKXy06H-EJ2Vg5z4plUXd_08VAfht3VwoK5H0bQm8VMpkxqP4IfmrmXJFa08/s1600-h/water-sun.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 297px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHxhAJ9NWPvWIKKx0igih9zvWhxz_KpXsxjh8137TCO3dooTuCEU7An4eE3wqBzqRtMC_6wNSuQ-nfB0KnKXy06H-EJ2Vg5z4plUXd_08VAfht3VwoK5H0bQm8VMpkxqP4IfmrmXJFa08/s400/water-sun.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304509631612702386" /></a>how many incomplete, half finished, or unstarted works are <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">stealing your energy</span></span>?</div><div><br /></div><div>everything has energy...and things undone are thieves of creativity...they steal little bits of your energy by remaining in a state of limbo..<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">subtly leaking energy</span></span>...and the more little bits of energy that are being taken from you, the less creative energy you have to devote to the present <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">works begging to be born</span></span>...</div><div><br /></div><div>i took a walk around my studio yesterday...i noticed several pieces that i have begun, with great intentions, yet abandoned somewhere along the way...they call to me every time i enter the space..."remember me?"..."help me" ..."finish me"...</div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMHEttvZbVdZOYjw4_WsKywqErcj9iys4HwIqss0hKgqTX375MKWN066qeQRMgIXRdOTN6z2jFE2fVwV5Ja9LWK88bMBXpr_e9gFA6euJnatU0P7hOXUHKM3e8U7UxUxQQ4TYYifP0raY/s1600-h/unfinished-212.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMHEttvZbVdZOYjw4_WsKywqErcj9iys4HwIqss0hKgqTX375MKWN066qeQRMgIXRdOTN6z2jFE2fVwV5Ja9LWK88bMBXpr_e9gFA6euJnatU0P7hOXUHKM3e8U7UxUxQQ4TYYifP0raY/s400/unfinished-212.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305238266642980242" /></a><br /></div><div>if you have left some things unfinished in your life or your studio, perhaps they are using energy that could be better used in your present...for <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">the present <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);">IS</span> your life</span></span>...</div><div><br />how to spot your energy stealers...attune your senses, mentally take orientations, be alert to negativity and energy stealers in your personal space...</div><div><br />then neutralize them by taking an action toward finalizing them or repurposing them or omitting them..undertake a mental and physical spring energy cleaning...<br /><br /></div><div>sometimes i even pick these unfinished works up and remember the moment that image came to me...the need to create it...other times i actually take it to my table and work at it...then put it away again...</div><div><br /></div><div>i have come to understand that, if i did not stick with it until it was finished, perhaps it should be abandoned entirely...repurposed, reconditioned, reinvented...the materials used in another way...and when i do this i often find a remarkable work that developed out of fragments of other work from other times in my life...</div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimQXMEbzfU9CgddkhJwv64LdcLg7J6THVgQNThG2Haymg1LBjLdSLx9WYPKJkNePmCRgaTUsGaJG4VMpJTJEh4AFD6R7W8rFjQVzR15Mf6hdnnYzBuYcZ5TlckRrIEG1kuXW6Z5t2Y5QU/s1600-h/unfinished-208.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimQXMEbzfU9CgddkhJwv64LdcLg7J6THVgQNThG2Haymg1LBjLdSLx9WYPKJkNePmCRgaTUsGaJG4VMpJTJEh4AFD6R7W8rFjQVzR15Mf6hdnnYzBuYcZ5TlckRrIEG1kuXW6Z5t2Y5QU/s400/unfinished-208.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305239075380932050" /></a><br /></div><div>so i am starting a series called '<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">fragments</span></span>' that will use these old, unfinished works...in a different way, a new way...with new energy...i am also clearing away, simplifying my life...starting tomorrow i will begin <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">selling my collection of art making supplies</span></span></span>...please bookmark the blog or favorite it so you can see when new thing are added...it could be just what you need to finish a work...</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Today's Intention...uncover the unfinished work in my life that is leaking energy...and finish or repurpose it...</span></span></span></div>Rebecca E. Parsons/Cre8Tivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07232095697300045428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827487089865835073.post-22746248513239204392009-03-16T10:40:00.000-07:002009-03-19T10:45:02.249-07:00heart broken open...i had such a profound experience during my meditation this morning, i feel compelled and led to share a portion of the awakening...<div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpTViIhJTxfLtVPi-xqqtdHsyExJXO8oP7lrhMKF4x0tPCFXq1gI0eYFBjxC5eEA0RKbLYbVC919aimQELgIr3WhPbk4bitP1T7zfi-aifGCDt4zeBOhaWJ55LmIURjh4JznZpSavO3J4/s1600-h/heart-broken-open-sketch.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 269px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpTViIhJTxfLtVPi-xqqtdHsyExJXO8oP7lrhMKF4x0tPCFXq1gI0eYFBjxC5eEA0RKbLYbVC919aimQELgIr3WhPbk4bitP1T7zfi-aifGCDt4zeBOhaWJ55LmIURjh4JznZpSavO3J4/s320/heart-broken-open-sketch.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309012028185381410" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">'heart broken open' - 2009, journal sketch</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">i do not usually bring something so personal to this place but i am encouraged to believe that it just might help others who are struggling with something at this very moment...<br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div>during my meditation i was feeling heartbroken, desolate and in pain...both physically and spiritually...as i look inward, i find that i am unable to ask for help and, even when it is offered, i find it difficult to accept...yet, i have the capacity to willingly offer and give help as empathy is a large thread running through my nature...and i admit that i might, just might, need help at this time...</div><div><br /></div><div>while journaling after my meditation this morning, i had a moment of clarity when i wrote, "the brokenness of my heart might, just might, be necessary for me to open my heart and accept help from God, friends, and even the universe."...albeit a forced opening, but an opening nonetheless....</div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3saOzC87cE-SHT8cNBYt-7mcoaZFME8XsIX71HIWudYdugRkx7agZLlIJ_mR0Np_68qZ80QS_4yzu8sElO-D0WTzfac2azfy_1b5Vsb_KUv6W_W1l6eJNJ1uqjVEgbNF9wCwS5iKbA-g/s1600-h/heart-in-box-web.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 315px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3saOzC87cE-SHT8cNBYt-7mcoaZFME8XsIX71HIWudYdugRkx7agZLlIJ_mR0Np_68qZ80QS_4yzu8sElO-D0WTzfac2azfy_1b5Vsb_KUv6W_W1l6eJNJ1uqjVEgbNF9wCwS5iKbA-g/s320/heart-in-box-web.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309002416521152226" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">'heart in a box' - 2007, acrylic on paper</span></span><br /></div><br /></div><div>now this opening of my heart is extremely painful...no, it is excruciatingly painful to the point i want to keep my heart in a box so it will be protected (actually it has been in a box for most of my life...you can read about it <a href="http://cre8tiva.blogspot.com/2008/01/my-plate-is-overly-full.html">here</a> and <a href="http://cre8tiva.blogspot.com/2007/06/stand-on-my-own-two-feet.html">here</a>...and even <a href="http://cre8tiva.blogspot.com/2007/06/connect-dots-of-your-life.html">here</a>...I write about trust issues a lot)</div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLMsjHKFeTzoJe68Bsbi__cdf1zP6AvqFOSM0uDe9K8uZJzs6yvsCMlkLnLWpwO6wjFh-Q3pk2WfZWhVq6o47C202f0YLaZWVI18Ru457HB0Ug2FDnx0m1I7T7k5BxWN4Xv7ABXPfCMLQ/s1600-h/Muse-5-20web.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></a>so my heart must be broken in order for it to heal...healing comes on gentle whispers to me, not in a roaring flood...healing is a gradual, sometimes difficult and almost always painful, journey for me...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8yOah5iYPxdGutc9hpulSNUdn5gyAU1HkSJniq5mp3bcZlKB2zX5DLHr2aSGaQ9OaknAnSbVd93muIG0Wko11DeWjrrALJCfiGbaFS1uYWA4hUjXDcvrK21LiNPHQTnt3aw_gfNWocA4/s1600-h/pieces-of-my-heart-2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8yOah5iYPxdGutc9hpulSNUdn5gyAU1HkSJniq5mp3bcZlKB2zX5DLHr2aSGaQ9OaknAnSbVd93muIG0Wko11DeWjrrALJCfiGbaFS1uYWA4hUjXDcvrK21LiNPHQTnt3aw_gfNWocA4/s320/pieces-of-my-heart-2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309022516698986210" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">'pieces of my heart' - 2009 acrylic on canvas</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>this opening up and pouring forth from my heart to yours is perhaps necessary for my healing to begin for a step toward acceptance begins the long journey into healing...from what was a small fissure, the tiny crack in my heart seemed to grow and the pieces of my heart were flung asunder...like a million tiny stars that blanket the sky on a clear night....</div><div><br /></div><div>gathering these pieces of my heart together, fusing and mending it slowly is where the healing is leading me...that tiny fissure that i thought was bad and frightened me at first glance...is perhaps best viewed as a good thing, a necessary thing...for true authentic healing comes by going through the pain and coming out on the other side better...stronger...more alive...</div><div><br /></div><div>i am not writing today in sadness or self-pity...that road has taken me nowhere over the past year...i write wholly within acceptance and awareness of my smallness in this vast universe of ours...embracing the fact that i am in the midst of healing...my spirit and my life...and it is painful...</div><div><br /></div><div>my heart is indeed broken open...pouring forth to those of you who are ready to hear my story...and begin your own journey...<br /><br /></div><div>if you like this post and other here, i would love you to become a follower of my blog...please click the link at top right column...and i promise to keep the posts thoughtful and artful...</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Rebecca E. Parsons/Cre8Tivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07232095697300045428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827487089865835073.post-83823849705423019932008-12-02T11:30:00.000-08:002008-12-02T11:33:20.746-08:00A Hundred Dollar Holiday<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275004402287571778" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 233px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKCt5WdVMSUo-aOT7Bsje1kwZ6SZMjKETnfky1CgGkVTQKgtfyEFmPyAiqrMkYWyQccLMgPzqGk9_g1I1UKQKBF8e_s5SsAYhsyFeLu7BXM7-j9hTrrd_O-A6HOMt_-bkcD-WdZZ7zJoQ/s320/Fly-Forth-Angel.jpg" border="0" /><a href="http://www.squidoo.com/homemade-Christmas-1">A Hundred Dollar Holiday - How To Create a Homemade Christmas</a><br /><br />I have joined the ranks of Squidoo...it is a fun place to voice your opinion...click the above link to get tons of information on creating a beautiful holiday celebration for less than $100.<br /><br />I CHALLENGE YOU TO CREATE A HUNDRED DOLLAR HOLIDAY THIS YEAR...You want to make a memorable Christmas holiday for your family but you have no idea how to do it! We will explore ways to make a beautiful Christmas memory without spending a lot of money.<br /><br />I have always been a make it, take it kind of person. There will be how-to's, ideas, recipies, videos, and much more. New stuff will be added daily...so chack back often!<br /><br />Please share a favorite homemade idea, your family holiday traditions, or special things you do on Christmas Eve or Christmas day in the guestbook at the bottom of the page!<br /><br />angel art by Rebecca E. Parsons (Cre8Tiva)<br /><br />"So the reason to change Christmas is not because it damages the earth around us, though surely it does. (Visit a landfill the week after Christmas.) The reason to change Christmas is not because it represents shameful excess in a world of poverty, though perhaps it does. The reason to change Christmas - the reason it might be useful to change Christmas - is because it might help us to get at some of the underlying discontent in our lives. Because it might help us see how to change every other day of the year, in ways that really would make our whole lives, and maybe our entire 365-days-a-year culture, healthier in the long run." <em>Bill McKibbon - see his book below...<a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca">read the rest of the article here</a>...</em>Rebecca E. Parsons/Cre8Tivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07232095697300045428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827487089865835073.post-27539706343390293522008-02-07T08:27:00.000-08:002008-12-09T16:37:52.174-08:00Art Preserves Spiritual Possibilities..."<span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,255)">Art is a conservative power, the strongest of all; it preserves spiritual possibilities that without it--perhaps--would die out</span></span>." <span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Thomas Mann, Reflections of an Unpolitical Man</span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCo52ozu2ct4hRCiUF4swTAJzPtQpglAOfsLYprEsyqTJPDaXbEcjfBMZuKmmIZ-pEHu8tOSuvCxpBiToPf8Jc4iPeXK2aWVtO-jOwHLFoHLExm0Lv7upea3WAIQch3HZoBSG9KSXCjHp6/s1600-h/Muse-3-22colorweb+2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5162777594312954818" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCo52ozu2ct4hRCiUF4swTAJzPtQpglAOfsLYprEsyqTJPDaXbEcjfBMZuKmmIZ-pEHu8tOSuvCxpBiToPf8Jc4iPeXK2aWVtO-jOwHLFoHLExm0Lv7upea3WAIQch3HZoBSG9KSXCjHp6/s400/Muse-3-22colorweb+2.jpg" border="0" /></a> <center><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">"spiritual being"rebecca e. parsons 2007 graphite on paper...acrylic...computer enhanced </span></center><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(102,0,204)">Einstein and Spirituality</span></span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://thecultureclub.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/albert-einstein-mechanics-1.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://thecultureclub.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/albert-einstein-mechanics-1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Spirituality is a concept that is difficult to pin down, so to avoid being ambiguous let’s look to science for some direction. The famous physicist Albert Einstein was very clear that he didn’t believe in a personal God or any accepted theology. He denied any belief in the immortality of the individual, and considered ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it. However, he did have a spiritual side, which he often expressed. To him it was characterised thus:<br /><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(102,0,204)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic">To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious</span>.</span></blockquote>The letter Einstein wrote late in his life to the Queen of Belgium, who was suffering a great grief, is full of this sense of spirituality.<br /><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(102,0,204)">And yet, as always the spring-time sun brings forth new life, and we may rejoice because of this new life and contribute to its unfolding, and Mozart remains as beautiful and tender as he always was and always will be. There is after all something eternal that lies beyond the hand of fate and all human delusions, and such eternals lie closer to an older person than to a younger one oscillating between fear and hope. For us there remains the privilege of experiencing beauty and truth in their purest forms.</span></span></blockquote>Einstein’s spiritual side often expressed itself in his love of music. After hearing the 13-year-old Yehudi Menuhin with the Berlin Philharmonic he was heard to exclaim <span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(102,0,204)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">‘Now I know that there is a God in heaven.’</span></span> He once said, ‘I often think about music, I live my daydreams in music, I see my life in the form of music’. He particularly worshiped WA Mozart and JS Bach: ‘I have this to say about Bach’s works: listen, play, love, revere - and keep your trap shut.’<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(102,0,204)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The Unifying Principle of Spirituality</span></span></span> <div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(102,0,204)"><br /></span>A final quote from Einstein might help to clarify this mysterious unifying principle. In 1930 Einstein published an essay on Religion and Science in the New York Times magazine, in which he described his own inclination towards a ‘cosmic’ religious sense, and discerned kindred glimpses of this feeling in such diverse figures as the prophets and psalmists of the Hebrew Bible, St Francis of Assisi and the Buddha. In this he said the following:<br /><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(102,0,204)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic">It is very difficult to elucidate this feeling to anyone who does not experience it. The individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvellous order which are revealed in nature and in the world of thought. Individual existence strikes him as a sort of prison, and he wants to experience the universe as a single significant whole. The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling. In my view it is the most important function of art and science, to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it.</span></span></blockquote>Art for me, and for those receptive to it, preserves the spiritual possibilities...keeps them alive for the artist as well as for those who view or hear the artwork...what are your spiritual possibilities?</div><div><br /></div><div>Blessings Today...Rebecca<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br />article from: http://thecultureclub.wordpress.com/2007/11/27/js-bachs-mass-in-b-minor-albert-einstein-and-universal-spirituality/<br />photo from: http://thecultureclub.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/albert-einstein-mechanics-1.jpg</span></div>Rebecca E. Parsons/Cre8Tivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07232095697300045428noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827487089865835073.post-83380943459721528072008-01-20T08:04:00.001-08:002008-12-09T16:37:53.173-08:00Spirit-knowledge...Intuitivity<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXs0-CpjuC_sENIRNnBhHRAmWpamAKu-5Cghfgz8TfVraNdpuKaxPMPWg0p2yeeWbJCNE50IVcVBbmiOEoSFVcSPGa0lo31kIqdQ9XuHfgJPVUaGSpFE3Q-Nw6QbcsIS2tYTSixtCb5JA/s1600-h/trio+web"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5110798784002057618" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXs0-CpjuC_sENIRNnBhHRAmWpamAKu-5Cghfgz8TfVraNdpuKaxPMPWg0p2yeeWbJCNE50IVcVBbmiOEoSFVcSPGa0lo31kIqdQ9XuHfgJPVUaGSpFE3Q-Nw6QbcsIS2tYTSixtCb5JA/s400/trio+web" border="0" /></a> <center><em><span style="font-size:85%;">intuitive painting "trio" - 2007 - acrylic, watercolor and marmarino plaster on heavy paper</span> </em></center><br />Have you ever <u>just known</u> exactly what to do? Has the paint<u> just flowed</u> from your brush without thought? Have the words <u>just written</u> themselves? Have you <u>just danced</u> with joy to a piece of music you have never heard before? These bursts of creativity are what I call Spiirit-knowledge...where creativity and intuition come together to form <em><strong><span style="color:#6600cc;">Intuitivity</span></strong></em>...<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI7gVrlxqJsSBAgcMfqjjn3nXAvhHYljvHFy9SLbpcAGftE_dLQ1s2nhxWnprVSpxQeCIRLfoaFWw8NSre_wWyBhQuOVI8881A4D8MWk406FbeyMu9Z-PVabeZfC6yqZHTJBn4v2iOk8g/s1600-h/ladder+swirl.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5110400129432609986" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI7gVrlxqJsSBAgcMfqjjn3nXAvhHYljvHFy9SLbpcAGftE_dLQ1s2nhxWnprVSpxQeCIRLfoaFWw8NSre_wWyBhQuOVI8881A4D8MWk406FbeyMu9Z-PVabeZfC6yqZHTJBn4v2iOk8g/s400/ladder+swirl.jpg" border="0" /></a> <center><em><span style="font-size:85%;">intuitive painting "Spirit kmowledge" 2007 - Acrylic and molding paste on heavy paper</span></em></center><br /><em><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">Spirit-knowledge</span></strong></em> is the sense and knowledge of faith in a power beyond self that is alive in your heart. Spirit-knowledge is present in prayer and in art, whether the artist or craftsman believes it or not.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEWnEKVYB3miY19Wg0-3sdOHA_3jcmb4OknA4qLQ5CYPgw6f2_b8g-JIB696gy-SiWzxfeDt_LFSiZwVU3xvNAPUWgFDD1H38PZ-wdGth_hAQ0agJvr_1PwAKnDVnSrNiVwgLX2CS5BLI/s1600-h/ladder+alone+in+crowd.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109641371920163842" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEWnEKVYB3miY19Wg0-3sdOHA_3jcmb4OknA4qLQ5CYPgw6f2_b8g-JIB696gy-SiWzxfeDt_LFSiZwVU3xvNAPUWgFDD1H38PZ-wdGth_hAQ0agJvr_1PwAKnDVnSrNiVwgLX2CS5BLI/s400/ladder+alone+in+crowd.jpg" border="0" /></a> <center><em><span style="font-size:85%;">intuitive painting "Alone in a Crowd" 2007 - Acrylic and molding paste on heavy paper</span></em></center><br />I have always thought of my <em><span style="color:#3333ff;"><strong>Art as Prayer </strong></span></em>-moments of openness to the Spirit of God. I intentionally open and invite this connection before I begin to create - a ritual of sorts. I center myself with a few deep breaths. When I am ready (I do not rush this time), I ask God simply, "<em><strong><span style="color:#009900;">Give success to the work of my hands</span></strong></em>."<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiGX6uFV3PX2zjb3DKPMb3ula9VOgLmLCeHUsgLqaSSUtqxvD3gY2Us_nkVm1RmuEpJ8hbtmg1vFQj3d7e3z_rBLCz5afXUe5MZML1bkxKDkC_w1BFi7D7armYOo-8juiUrorAwxXJKAE/s1600-h/ladder+bella+luna.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109641371920163858" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiGX6uFV3PX2zjb3DKPMb3ula9VOgLmLCeHUsgLqaSSUtqxvD3gY2Us_nkVm1RmuEpJ8hbtmg1vFQj3d7e3z_rBLCz5afXUe5MZML1bkxKDkC_w1BFi7D7armYOo-8juiUrorAwxXJKAE/s400/ladder+bella+luna.jpg" border="0" /></a> <center><em><span style="font-size:85%;">intuitive painting "Bella Luna" 2007 - Acrylic and molding paste on heavy paper</span></em></center><br />What I know and discover in my art prayer is often difficult to share or prove to another - my sense of God, my delight in being a creative child of God and my intuitive feelings born in prayer. The paintings in this post reflect what happens when you are open to intuitivity... So I invite you to explore your intuitivity and Spirit knowledge this week.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3yn3o7GLosgRUsdXk76U81fyhpt7tuP7KgPC43a2BGtdcNH2f-Ap_Yi3U74AEbwC2vGmYbR4ILZiDDantGWukqeIg7Lt2ZWUCjQEmhRhJFmYtxP9s6uYYOFxY_iemsF2sTln_AwkUgGw/s1600-h/P9130116.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5110400129432610002" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3yn3o7GLosgRUsdXk76U81fyhpt7tuP7KgPC43a2BGtdcNH2f-Ap_Yi3U74AEbwC2vGmYbR4ILZiDDantGWukqeIg7Lt2ZWUCjQEmhRhJFmYtxP9s6uYYOFxY_iemsF2sTln_AwkUgGw/s400/P9130116.JPG" border="0" /></a> <center><em><span style="font-size:85%;">intuitive painting "Wings" 2007 - Acrylic and molding paste on heavy paper board</span></em></center><br /><blockquote><em><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">Exploratory Expedition...</span> Before you create this week, invite the Holy Spirit to guide you and be with you. Then open yourself to work intuitively, without editing or correcting as you go. Experience where this takes your art. Allow the time to open your heart to what the Spirit of God teaches in art prayer.</strong> </em></blockquote>Rebecca E. Parsons/Cre8Tivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07232095697300045428noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827487089865835073.post-39581425317599169172008-01-14T07:18:00.000-08:002008-12-09T16:37:53.493-08:00Art...Inspiration...Spirit...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq6c112EkLenTS1ZyJz3cuLrE_26xykWbDb88QtCO0Y8T347tXRRT__B1Laj_h3SzAWMElWHerEKo7R4iAFiAwW2_TY5FR1FARhzbJ8A021C_jJGaKZkB6HDQtQ85OCG07TUOQ8pnrHjke/s1600-h/111inspiration.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5155353750179338066" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq6c112EkLenTS1ZyJz3cuLrE_26xykWbDb88QtCO0Y8T347tXRRT__B1Laj_h3SzAWMElWHerEKo7R4iAFiAwW2_TY5FR1FARhzbJ8A021C_jJGaKZkB6HDQtQ85OCG07TUOQ8pnrHjke/s400/111inspiration.gif" border="0" /></a> <center><em><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">Model of Inspiration</span></strong> from visual thesaurus</em> <a href="http://www.visualthesaurus.com/">here</a>...</center><br />As I begin to create <span style="color:#6600cc;"><strong><em>The Artist as a Spiritual Explorer</em></strong></span>, I find a need to define the connection I feel between art and spirituality. If I could not explain it for myself how could I explain it for fellow explorers.<br /><br />Art is inspiration...and inspiration is:<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong><span style="color:#990000;"></span></strong><center><strong>in <span style="color:#000099;">spirit</span></strong></center><br />Inspiration \In`spi*ra"tion\, n. [L. inspiratio-in spirit.] The act of breathing in; breath; breathing in the spirit.</span></span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.bartleby.com/61/69/I0166900.html">Definition from Bartleby.com</a>, The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language<br /><br /><ol><li><br />a. Stimulation of the mind or emotions to a high level of feeling or activity.<br />b. The condition of being so stimulated. </li><li>An agency, such as a person or work of art, that moves the intellect or emotions or prompts action or invention. </li><li>Something, such as a sudden creative act or idea, that is inspired. </li><li>The quality of inspiring or exalting.</li><li>Divine guidance or influence exerted directly on the mind and soul of humankind. </li><li>The act of drawing in, especially the inhalation of air into the lungs. </li></ol>Inspiration, for me, is a sudden flash of intuition...the arousal of the mind to creativity with divine guidance or...breathing completely in the spirit...where the skills and/or tools capable of originating (and subsequently developing) innovation or insight bring into existence something new and uniquely mine.<br /><br />My formula for inspiration is:<br /><br /><center><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3366ff;"><strong>spirit + openness + presence + grace = inspiration</strong></span></center><br />The Holy Spirit breathes into me, when I am open and present, the grace to create....</span><br /><br />Art has always felt like prayer for me...being one or with Spirit. It is a time of deep connection with something outside of myself...God, The Holy Spirit, the universe...whatever you name it. When I paint it is a contemplative time, a meditation where I feel the presence of my greater self in God and allow it to flow through me. Being in spirit...<br /><br /><em><span style="color:#6600cc;"><strong>The Artist as a Spiritual Explorer</strong></span></em> is about this inspiring influence rather than a process or it's effects. It is the journey to a place where intuition meets creativity to form intuitivity. Although my art, at times, is sprinkled with vision, illumination and heart...it is the moment of creation that is the catalyst for continued exploration. The 'affects' or feelings that I experience are what keep me inspired, regardless of the outcome in terms of monetary or notable gain.<br /><br />This is about your journey, not mine. Although I will give reference to my journey from time to time for illustrative purposes, the path and how you walk it are entirely up to you and your connection with the spiritual.<br /><br /><em><strong><blockquote><p><span style="color:#cc0000;"><em><strong>Exploratory Expedition...</strong></em></span>Create your personal formula, consisting of the ingredients that define inspiration for you. There could be many things that play a part in your definition of inspiration or just a few. Pray with it or meditate on it for as long as it takes. There is no timeline for you to follow. This is your path. When you come to definition that suits you, create a visual reference for yourself.</p></blockquote></strong></em></span><br /><br />Resources:<br />Definitions of Inspiration at Humanity Quest <a href="http://humanityquest.com/themes/inspiration/Definition/synonyms.asp">here</a>...<br />Article of Inspiration <a href="http://www.qualitycoaching.com/Articles/inspiration.html">here</a>...Rebecca E. Parsons/Cre8Tivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07232095697300045428noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827487089865835073.post-88121935214297124762008-01-03T10:48:00.000-08:002008-12-09T16:37:53.933-08:00You are Invited...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSgfUL59LdiY8t16uwy0z2V_hhYAiEEVgYz87O6GXnXAfcrg5jqvnVilmLkGVxwzT4Stcr7e2sRRWV3ZAuhutJ-HQriCe_yz43odsdFVvj-VPBxHDhJvzO1O1NccVTKRL596FbNPWg-tQr/s1600-h/astheader2web.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5151324486740137490" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSgfUL59LdiY8t16uwy0z2V_hhYAiEEVgYz87O6GXnXAfcrg5jqvnVilmLkGVxwzT4Stcr7e2sRRWV3ZAuhutJ-HQriCe_yz43odsdFVvj-VPBxHDhJvzO1O1NccVTKRL596FbNPWg-tQr/s400/astheader2web.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Welcome...my intent with this blog is to provide an atelier for artist/explorers like myself...I am led to discover how to let my divine intuition create without editing...I will let go of preconceived notions...I will play...I will find my unique, individual visual voice...and I will begin to use it powerfully...and I will teach you how to do the same. I am so excited about the future...<br /><br />Pack your bag and come along...the first step is coming soon...<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB7KCCVyTDHXxPyj4tpVKaO21DI0dRADXejj0x5sIojXw4NZb7q2JAqC1ryseEqMPPx6XOxJrG9deRSg8J4QnnLV5kv66KEvaQHW2E8iMY9QJZiENMJKycIz3DXDIOPB6wWsv2_4DeSNc5/s1600-h/astbackgroundweb.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5151324491035104802" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB7KCCVyTDHXxPyj4tpVKaO21DI0dRADXejj0x5sIojXw4NZb7q2JAqC1ryseEqMPPx6XOxJrG9deRSg8J4QnnLV5kv66KEvaQHW2E8iMY9QJZiENMJKycIz3DXDIOPB6wWsv2_4DeSNc5/s400/astbackgroundweb.jpg" border="0" /></a>Rebecca E. Parsons/Cre8Tivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07232095697300045428noreply@blogger.com14