Spiritual Art is created by a person who embodies a spiritual life consciousness.  They live within their heart in a peaceful flow and natural communion with the higher self, nature and the cosmos.   Their life is a prayer and their actions stem forth from the flow of spirit moving through them.   Having complete spiritual mastery is not what I am talking about; that is very difficult, and there is a sense of levels and progression.  If we are honest with ourselves about how we feel, think and act, and the mirror back to us is wisdom, love and service, then we have crossed a significant threshold.  The imbalanced ego opposes this in self importance, self indulgence, and fear.  The ego is about justifying control, both in life and art.  It’s an intellectual cleverness and strategy to keep prominent in the circle of life, but the circle has no inclusions in its clarity and symmetry; it maintains a holistic balance.  Standing outside the circle, the ego stands proud as it continues to seek attention.  The healthy ego has a broader perspective that functions in balance with heaven and earth, and sees its way in happiness and service.  The imbalanced ego stands proud outside the circle and the balanced ego feels joy instead inside of it.  These are subtleties that I am aware of.  A finished piece of spiritual art carries spiritual energy; it carries a power because of its unification with in the circle of life.  Art derived predominantly from the ego can touch the masses in stardom, but its healing capacity is questionable.   The maker of any object leaves its imprint in the object.  Our energy affects each other, gets absorbed in the material plain and travels the spiritual dimensions.  This quantum field of energy is what we all move through creating and assimilating with our vibratory signature.  In the growing field of spiritual art lies the ego.  It is the ego’s spiritual identification and declaration that it is creating spiritual art.  So as an artist I imagine we should take a good look into the soul’s mirror to see if we are spiritually mature.  Are we are communing with our higher self and the complexity and oneness of the divine?  The universal mirror is always the answer; all life’s facets reflecting back at us.  These facets in part being the mind, body, spirit, emotion, senses, energy, the people around us and of course our art.  Who does it speak to?  What is it saying to them and why?  Spiritual art can carry a mystical power, healing others, bringing visions and dreams, and helping people move forward in life. Shamanic cultures, the indigenous peoples that still have their society and culture intact, live their daily lives immersed in their cosmology.  Their art comes from this source and carries this meaning, purpose, and power.  All of these artifacts can be portals to other realms of their mythology and assist in healing.  The Huichol people I find to be a great example.  The modern “civilized” societies are dysfunctional, cultures fragmented.  Grasping for a deeper relationship with our life within this model we are quick to venture into the burgeoning field of spiritual art to aid our identity and lack of fulfillment.  The trail is littered with immature egoist identity, coming from both the artist and the support network.  This is my observance not a cynical condemnation.  There is far more going on here that I have yet to understand.  What is clear to me is the old adage - art as in life, when we master ourselves, we master spiritual art, and there is no separation.  When we have gone through the many layers of our shadows and transformed them into light, (not easy work) then the light is tangible and visceral.  This light filled art work requires being an open vessel for the other to flow through, the higher self, and the spirit world.  For my part there is a heightened energy, a quickening with acute awareness.  The creation flows and its fluid making does not entail editing until the river slows to an idle ponder.  There have been people who have had spiritual experiences with my paintings and have seen these paintings in their dreams.  After enough of these stories were mirrored back to me, I gained a better picture of my art work and its function, its role in the public platform, in the circle of life.  In my experience, our energy signature is who we are at our own level of conscious awareness, and this signature travels out through the universe and connects to like energy in the cosmos. This energy can come through in our art and can be an active source of power to serve the world at large.  Since it is a multi-verse we live in, our connections can be great mystical orientations to help bring wholeness to our own dimension.  My art seems to be heading in this direction.

cal orientations to help bring wholeness to our own dimension.  My art seems to be heading in this direction.