The thin thread of shamanic descent into our profane world leads through the office of The Artist. And so if society is somehow to take hold of itself in this penultimate moment, as we literally waiver on the brink of planetary extinction, then the artist, like Ariadne following her thread out of the labyrinth, is going to have to follow the shamanic thread back through Time. We have been dis-empowered by a rational tendency to deny our irrational roots, which are a kind of embarrassment to Science because Science is the special province of the Ego, and Magic and Art are the special province of Something Else. Very few of us pick up our sculpting tools or our airbrush with our knees knocking with fear because we know we are invoking and acting with The Muse at our elbow. And somehow I think The Artist needs to recover this sense of Mystery.
Posted on: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:13:07 +0000
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