Life Art Movement
Life Art Movement
I am watching videos online through YouTube about art movements. The Life Art Movement is happening now. It is not completely codified and would be a very large undertaking to do so. I feel the most like my thread of life as art which I call life art which is extraordinarily bigger than me alone of course as I have made clear is a movement that is happening right now. I am helping bring it into being. Yes, I have always wanted to be a big ole famous artist and lead an art movement and so I am doing that AND I am doing it by cultivating an ego that is placed in a respectable ratio to the rest of my being where well-being of all is promoted. Every day I do a little bit more to add to the energy of this movement. It started I would say in around 2018 or 2019. I gave the TEDx talk in 2017 where I said that art is more than just a thing on the wall. Art is a gift, an internal energy that externally flowers the world. Then in 2018 I got the job at the library as a shelver. It was once I was placed in an environment in which my system, my philosophy, my soul fit and flourished that life art began to take off. I was listening to a bunch of Derek Rydall and his book Emergence. Life art is in a way my own unique voicing of a truth that works through Michael Bernard Beckwith who was Derek Rydall’s mentor and Derek himself. Of course all of that is a lineage from innumerable personal development masters from throughout time known and unknonwn including common everyday people who were true life artists and for whom being itself was a medium through which to express themselves. Frederick Franck articulated that sentiment in his book The Zen of Seeing.
Wow I have really been missing myself. But believe you me it has been for good purposes. I have been giving it all to the library in a ginormous way. Because get the soul role as librarian was the realization of a dream. It is a dream job. And it is the expression of my life art. It is the teachings finding fuller and fuller fruition in the world through a human life lived showing what life art can do. My, my, my how visioning from Michael Bernard Beckwith and emergination from Derek Rydall have folded into, nourished, fueled, propelled my own unique expression in and as my life which I call life art. And really in line with what Derek says about how the workshop you are living is the workshop you are meant to be giving. That says it all right there. Also Michael Bernard Beckwith four registrations of life visioning including victim mentality, manifester, through you and as you tells all about the transformation that I myself went through. That is why I was drawn to their work. It mirrored what I was experiencing in the flesh and were precursors of what was inside me wanting to manifest as my life and my teachings which is life art.
I constantly have the notion come to my mind that I must be teaching the principles of life art. That is the number one vision that I have. And I am doing it. Wow! I am doing it. I still have all of my avenues. I have my newsletter, my blog, my website, Instagram, LinkedIn, Medium, The Life Art Institute housed on Mighty Networks, Insight Timer, The Life Art Podcast and much more including talking with people in person through lecture presentations and just everyday conversations. The work is emerging in the world in a big way. This blog is a generative aspect of that. And I am talking with people at all the time about life art in my own way whether directly or indirectly because I am an expression of life art. My character, integrity, dignity, grace, humility, humbleness and gratitude all arise through my cultivation of personal development that I maintain through the life art lifestyle and mentality, soul understanding, deeply psychological resonance that I keep up with and that serves me to no end.
Earning the money I do of a living wage now was once something I never could have really imagined for myself. There was a time when I had literally $0 in my bank account which I then had to close down. To go from that to a living wage is truly a miracle. It took a lot of hard work as well and belief, belief in myself and belief in a higher power of which my own tiny little self is an expression of and a fractal of meaning that the part resembles the whole. I am imperfect. I am human. But wow there is a miracle working through me as my life. To come back from the complete disarray that was I experiencing while in the depths of mental illness and Depression with a capital “D”, I mean that is a miracle. There are no guarantees with something like mental illness. And it truly is my calling and wish to speak to how this miracle has worked through me. Life art is a big part of it. And Love is what makes life art truly possible.
I know that I need to do more speaking engagements and to go into my lived experience to tell of this story going from complete discombobulation of my mind to a thriving professional in a caring field doing world changing for the better work. It really is a miracle. And I am telling of it now. This right now counts. I am telling my story. I have written a book called Life Art which I have talked about in other parts of this blog I am sure. It still has not been published yet. I have written to some agents. The bulk of my energy has been trained in on working professional in the field which has given me so much. I am seeing now that life art is wanting to be heard even more, including in that field. It is poised to help the world. To lift people up.
The life art movement. It is happening now. Many people are doing work like this. I see Insight Timer as a New York City of our times for a spiritual nexus. We are all meeting up in a state of mind, a direction of the heart and a welcoming of the soul. It is non-local to use a term that Michael Bernard Beckwith uses from time to time. There are a lot of people who can’t move to New York City. We are meeting within. Life artists are meeting with in through corresponding practices that place personhood as the art of our times. As Yuval Noah Harari has said we need to know ourselves better that the artificial intelligence does in order to stay viable and also along with plumbing the depths of what is possible with artificial intelligence we need to continue to plumb the depths of human potential. Life art does precisely this. I wonder very much should I go back to school to get a PsyD and administer the life art healing modality clinically? Should I get a PhD and set the stage for art schools to incorporate life art into their programs or even have entire life art programs on their own with all of the branches being taught in depth about the art of living?