tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731669573883861124.post4904383932145938252..comments2024-02-24T13:22:39.745-05:00Comments on Seeing Meaning: The Center of ArtSusan Waters-Ellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15047648549250876500noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731669573883861124.post-29930852093538643682009-11-17T19:49:58.931-05:002009-11-17T19:49:58.931-05:00Susan! Another marvelous post. I couldn't help...Susan! Another marvelous post. I couldn't help but share and respond to the illusion of the nursery room floor and how once we learn about illusions as adults we're more equipped to navigate through them. i find this particularly compelling as i'm writing my screenplay in hopes to call out the greatest illusion we haven't seen yet-Oneness. That "mythic theme of separation" is the mythic illusion i'm tackling in my writing. how to construct a cinematic world that calls this out. one that identifies and so clearly shows how we ourselves cause and perpetuate this illusion is what i'm up to. my goal and intention in the film is to teach ways of being that create Oneness. That even if the world is all one big illusion, be it a hologram or a dream, that we do have the power to create it as we want it to show up. By creating new thoughts, new beliefs, new actions, new speech and new attitudes about the circumstances that seem to surround us. To see that love and resentment cannot fill the same space and we can create anything as a choice. we can choose to be be happy or grateful that we can pay our bills-or that we have bills! many people i know have said that cancer or other diseases or illnesses were the best things that could've happened to them! they really woke them up to life where in other places they were literally dying. i'm not claiming any of this is true, just a view of life that serves to empower. that we have a choice to create the circumstances as opportunities as set-backs or as exactly what we need. i had this thought as well when thinking about why we can't stare at the sun. evidently the back of our retinas have no sensory or nerve endings that elicit pain, so you could stare at the sun and they would burn away-causing blindness without you feeling a thing. then i thought that this is mostly true we life. we fall asleep to life's majesty-it's granduer-or the constant bombarding of media and advertising. it's so in our face that we become blind or desensitized to the magic, miracles, and omnipresent beauty that surrounds us. we're staring daily, every second at a world of wonder and we have to remind ourselves to see it. this is what i think great art does. it reminds us that the picture we're looking at-on the wall-or in front of us is ALL art. it's all divine. so one vision i hold for the world is that we all take on our greatness. our beauty. the perfect divine masterpiece that we are. that we wear our being framed like a work of art, like the most splendid mirror so we all may see through the illusions. so we may use each other and truly open our eyes to awaken.Jon Marrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01147248198134817053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3731669573883861124.post-38953400573976335442009-11-12T18:29:32.811-05:002009-11-12T18:29:32.811-05:00someone once said to me, "fiction has nothing...someone once said to me, "fiction has nothing to say to me.". this proved my suspicion that she was inhuman and also very sad and angry in her isolation due to fear of humbling herself with the rest of us in our broken and beautiful humanity.m. jordan tierneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10875732606580305037noreply@blogger.com