Category Archives: ART

Paintings, photography, aesthetic objects, beautiful communication, and anything I consider to be art, artful, artistic, artsy or whatever.
Art is subjective. It is a quality of communication can be contributed to by the viewer through empathy or agreement with its creator.

LOVE IS

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LOVE IS

Love is Feeling You As Me, and Me as You. Your Well-being is My Well-Being.
Love Embraces without Touching, Understands without Speaking, Knows without Seeing.
Your Pain and Joy is My Pain and Joy.  Love Shares All and Cares Selflessly. Unconditionally.
Love is My Responsibility for Your Self as My Self.  In Eternity we may be Separate, yet we are Forever One.

—  Lawrence R. Spencer —

LOVE: A DEFINITION

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LOVE-a definition

In the following short video David Icke offers a simple and eloquent summary of, and solution for, our current situation on Prison Earth. He says that “love” is the solution to dissolve the artificially created energy frequency of fear with which we are constantly bombarded by the prison guards.  I suggest that “love” is not a good word as it is far too ambiguous. The actual energetic frequency of “love” is more precisely expressed by the definitions of “appreciation“, which includes understanding and admiration and affinity.  It is a delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values). A full understanding of a situation.  This includes acknowledgment, recognition, realization, knowledge, awareness, consciousness, and comprehension of an  object, condition or being.  Love is an energy frequency that is most similar to the essence of our Self, as a spiritual entity. It is nearly imperceptible, yet with infinitely potential power.

I think a more useful definition of “love” could be  “A willingness and ability to Cause, Understand, Acknowledge and Admire a Bringing Into Being, or Not Being, any State of Existence, in any Universe, as an Immortal Sentient Being”.  — LRS

JAZZ TRANSCENDENCE

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Transcendence” means “going beyond”, and “self-transcendence” means going beyond a prior form or state of oneself.  Mystical experience is thought of as a particularly advanced state of self-transcendence, in which the sense of a separate self is abandoned.  The Spirit rises beyond the physical universe and perceives the spiritual or aesthetic universe.  When an artist creates, one often enters a state of transcendence in which aesthetic or spiritual creation is achieved without regard to the limitations of the physical universe.  Beauty, in any form, is a manifestation of spiritual creation.

FOOLS WHO KNOW NOT

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I use following lines from the Rigveda as the introduction to nearly every book I write:

“We ask,as Fools who know not Our Own Spirit: Where are the hidden traces left by The Gods?”

— Rigveda, Book I, Stanza 164, Lines 5 a & b

I believe this states the current condition of human beings, as immortal spiritual beings:

We were gods who once created all that we perceive.

This universe started as a game to remedy the eternal affliction of gods: Boredom.

The curse of Immortality is the ability to know all, see all and be all of our own Creations.  Every move on the chess board is ours, unopposed.  Boredom is the definition of Hell.  The remedy is the ‘pretend’ not to know every detail, to see every outcome and to a powerful creator of space, energy and things.  Pretence is also a definition of Hell.  A two-sided coin: Know and Know Not.

Pretending Not to Be All Things, to Be All Beings, to Be all of Creation is a game you can lose. This is the origin of our isolation from each other, from other life forms throughout the universe, from spirits, from ourselves, from other times, places, realities, and universes.

Surprise! You’re in pain….   Surprise! You’re dead….  Surprise! You’re stuck in a fragile body made of flesh on the outer rim of a forgotten galaxy, pretending to be having a ‘life’.

Our choice to forget that we are the ‘gods’ relieves us from our deeds and misdeeds, theoretically, but not in fact.

It’s easier to blame some other “deity” for the cruel residue of our own crimes and creations than to undo what we’ve done.

Every crime committed against us, we have committed against others in some long-forgotten yesterday.

Memory and responsibility (not blame or regret) may set us free from the self-made misery of life in this universe.

To Know or Know Not are choices we can make to navigate through the extreme regions of Hell: Boredom and Pretence.

— Lawrence R. Spencer, 17 Nov 2001