Facets of a Diamond – Blog
Of course, I can be spontaneous, un-thinking, un-editing, when I paint. After all, I spent more than six years in daily psychoanalysis saying whatever came into my head: free association.
And I learned from this experience to trust my inner self, to give it its freedom. I came to Know that there was a Power that
The Karmic Plan is implemented by The Force which designates agents (from the Latin agere, to act) to act on Its behalf.
The agents we call spirit guides.
Whatever you memorialize (a far better word than take) is Spirit in that particular form. The more you Know that, the more will the viewer.
And the very reason for photography is that the viewer will thus become Aware of the Spiritual dimension of life.
Your supposed choice of subject, of framing, of all
How can we ever understand ourselves without a Knowledge of our Shaping Forces, of the Spirit World?
And how can we understand why we exist without the belief that it is for the spirit within each of us?
What do I mean by “spiritual”?
When one is surrendered (by Spirit) to Spirit, The Force, Tao, Thy Will, Amida – whatever metaphor one chooses for the Ineffable.
Perhaps Mahler expressed it best: “One is only an instrument the Universe plays on.”
A passerby intrudes into my photograph. And yet I cannot discard it, because I realize that his seemingly accidental presence was Meant. So, unlikely as it may appear, this photo – and every photo – is an Instance of God.
And so is to be Revered.
I sometimes crop a photograph,
not to make it now an Instance of God
– as is every photograph –
but to make This more obvious.It must be so much more difficult
to develop a strong sense of Identity
without knowing of your Spirit Guides,
the Shaping Forces of your life.