ART AS META-SYN

FIRST FRIDAY: August 4, 2006

A selection of works from our first Open House, "ART as META-SYN", featuring Iona Miller and Robert Newman.

ART AS META-SYN: Art can be therapeutic, both in the process of creation and for the viewer who reacts from personal associations. Art bares the soul, and provides a container for unbridled self-expression. High synergy is a differentiating characteristic of the nonagressive and secure. Beyond synergy is negentropy, the flow of creative connection. Symbolic art has both an emotional and cognitive content. Metaphysical art draws on the multicultural iconography, not only of the globe, but of the Beyond. At its best it embodies and reveal the indomitable human Spirit.

Any depth psychologist or therapist knows that the stories they hear from most of their clients fall into very few, quite typical tales. What we need are bigger stories to guide us in our complex world. We can enlarge our perspective from the individual to the global through “bigger stories”, such as those from our wisdom traditions.

Mythopoesis means literally, "myth-making," the natural expression of the visionary wisdom inborn to the human species (Lash, et al). It is a creative act of story-telling or narration, by which human beings "track" their experience and orient themselves to the cosmos at large.

Metahistory is a guiding narrative for human potential, rather than an interpretation of events. The cross-cultural metastory of the human species is an overarching view of past, present, and future. It opens a path toward participation in a story that leads beyond history, a mythos to guide the species.

This art is digitized with text at
http://zero-point.tripod.com/psycho/genesis.html
http://zero-point.tripod.com/psycho/genesis.html#TABLE OF CONTENTS

Find out more about Iona Miller's writing, hypermedia artwork and therapy at
Ionasphere 2000: http://ionamiller.org
Ionatopia 2006: http://ionatopia.50megs.com

ART AS META-SYN

Mixed Media, Montage, Book Signing

IONA MILLER & ROBERT NEWMAN

ART AS META-SYN: Art can be therapeutic, both in the process of creation and for the viewer who reacts from personal associations. Art bares the soul, and provides a container for unbridled self-expression. High synergy is a differentiating characteristic of the nonagressive and secure. Beyond synergy is negentropy, the flow of creative connection with Source. Symbolic art has both an emotional and cognitive content. Metaphysical art draws on the multicultural iconography, not only of the globe, but of the Beyond. At its best it embodies and reveal the indomitable human Spirit.

Iona Miller, CHT Consultant and transdisciplinarian Iona Miller is a nonfiction writer, hypnotherapist and multimedia artist doing groundbreaking work on the fusion of science-art, chaos theory, plenum physics, and emergent paradigm shift in experiential psychotherapy, new physics, biophysics, philosophy, cosmology, healing, creativity, qabalah, magick, metaphysics, and society. Rather than having an interest in specific doctrines, I am interested in the EFFECTS of doctrines from religion, science, psychology, and the arts. Our beliefs are the moldable raw material of the psyche, manipulated by governments, media and culture. How do we become what we are and how is that process changing in the near future? Art foretells that process. Author of The Modern Alchemist and The Magical & Ritual Use of Perfumes has shown in South Beach and Phoenix galleries. http://ionamiller.org and http://ionatopia.50megs.com

NEW WEBSITE: KNOW BROW ART
http://knowbrowart.50megs.com
Neither High-brow nor Low-Brow, the Electronic Arts are "KNOW-Brow Art" born of our fusion with technology. In the middle of the forehead, neither high nor low is the Third Eye of inner or visionary sight. Electronic arts, by their very nature, require a great deal of technical knowledge to interface with computer-assisted media. Know Brow art respects and draws from both classical art and that of the underground or street. Digital Media include still frames, Flash, and desktop digital movies, often incorporated with other media, installation, and performance.

Robert Bruce Newman is a developer of programs in the medical uses of meditation and a new childbirth method, Calm Birth. He has published three books: DISCIPLES OF THE BUDDHA / Living Images of Meditation (4/01); CALM BIRTH / New Method for Conscious Childbirth (10/05); and CALM HEALING / Medicine for the New Era (10/06). He has taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Naropa University, and the City University of New York. His art has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY; the Dwan Gallery, NY, NY; and other museums. http://medigrace.org and http://calmbirth.org He will be speaking with Ruth Miller co-author of CALM HEALING in our forthcoming GPML Fall lecture series.

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