Spirituality and Culture: Portraits (original) (raw)

2019, For: Progressive Connexions Conference: Spirituality and... Culture

A spiritual Connection with culture, lines Drawn from performance-Extracting from abstracts the Breath of a presentation. The process of drawing is a close study in attention. The process of writing poetry, a close study in listening. Both of these influence the way we interact with one another and can create a form of transcendence, where one learns to follow what and who is being observed, rather than the illusions of familiarity: following etheric trails in a search for the observed, learning about ourselves. Positioning oneself in this middle space, is perhaps a form of shamanism. In Progressive Connexions' CFP nestles the following incipit: "other forms of participation…" This invitation to innovate was also present for the last, which was the first, session on Spirituality and… Culture, resulting in my responding to the speakers through poetry and art. I propose to repeat this experiment, building upon the previous experience to see if the result is a refinement of practice, and if the conclusions that were drawn regarding cultural bias through representation, are resolvable by adapting to the needs of difference, uncluttered by personal orientation; where the intuition, becomes material. A spiritual study, a listening transcendence, observed illusions present poetry and art.

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