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Creative consciousness

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Creative consciousness

This is an excerpt from an artcle/blog post by Pamela Jaye Smith that I have found inspiring.The entired article is available at http://www.writersstore.com/conscious-media-part-5

"...Art, by its very nature, is the translation and transmission to others of perceptions of those numinous worlds through various media – petroglyphs, music, dance, drama, novels, movies, games, etc.
"Yet how can you the artist possibly transmit the ephemeral, the ineffable, the sublime? How can you take what you have perceived in your own altered states – whether reached via meditation, movement, marijuana, martinis or any other consciousness-altering tool – and make it accessible to the rest of us?
"Symbols and images affect people emotionally – hence their exceptional effectiveness. Because there is no particular rational attachment to them, visuals are a universal language that engages our intuition and imagination...."