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There is a depth of meaning
…an underside… a hidden…almost instinctual side to every thing we do
…everything we do has a meaning more than can be seen at the surface of
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[85.1]
UNDERSTANDING AND KNOWLEDGE
There is something in our
brains that wants to understand “things”. The brain needs “rules” and
science explains experience by rules. Considering human cultures in the
past they sought order in religion- this was a natural thing to do. We
cannot expect that people dedicated to the "Abrahamic Religion"
based on late Iron Age knowledge embrace DNA. They had no science. Founders of the great religions
have influenced “part” of the human world. Yet, these religions have deep
disagreements as to “Truth”. What is important to understand- that
however important religious thought- “ the religions did not get it
right”? Belief in “Truth” implies ‘That Truth comes from observations and
experience- not personal Revelation’, the Darwin “got it right”,
“Cracked-It”. He was to see the proper place of man in nature. We now
with DNA, can “piece together, at the molecular core- and understand the
building blocks of all life.
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[85.2] DISCOVERY, TALENT, INTEGRITY
The learning experience
nourished by listening and reading and reflecting information gathered
from case studies.
The pursuit of the information
packed into the question: “What is going on here?”
We must learn to utilize the
case study so as to know and to learn by performing in the real situation
so as to develop the individual within the discipline.
The formal education cannot
provide talent however; education does maintain responsibility to develop
a discipline, an attitude of professional integrity. Everyone should be
taught to see the obvious. Talent has the ability to see beyond and
penetrate the opportunities that are hidden in the created work.
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The artist stands outside of
artificial boundaries
opening the horizon of possibilities relying on experiment and
measurement to realize the
ideal.
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[85.4] CREATIVITY AND REVELATION
We
must respect the inner need to just to be … creative. Doing things that are right and true … an
inner clean aesthetic that makes something new!
Creativity is essentially accidental … or 98% accidents
… and it is what we do with these accidents that in the end …counts.
Creativity …is released in resolving grief … released
with unresolved negativity … people try to complete something … talk,
write, build, or paint and sing.
To
create … to organize, material energy, truth, or beauty… brings with it
an inner torment which prevents
falling into a closed-life of only self regard. We must go beyond
ourselves … in search of new work/ or art … and not surrender to the
calm- peace of inaction.
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[85.5]
PROCESS, PROCEDURE AND THINKING
The
unique opportunities offered as we become architects:
1/
Receiving a problem to solve, 2/ The independent reflection of what the
solution (s) or the ways in which to solve it – thoughts and discussion
within the self, 3/ Imagined ideas of the solution as the individual
defines the design response, 4/ Making a drawing and receiving the
critique as is its refinement, 4/ Making a working model, 5/ Presenting
it to others, 6/ Including others in discussion of the best way to design
it. 7/ Developing finished models, 8/ Bringing in the contractors, 9/
Building it,10/ experiencing it, 11/ Moving on to the next problem or
project
(NOTE: THE 7- Ways of Leonardo da Vinci)
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[85.6 ] CREATIVITY CREATION LIFE
Sacred notes: creation and humankind, 2001
Where it would seem that only humans
developing an intellect and awareness of ourselves in time. Intelligence
and awareness of self evolving the past 7-million years, from rudimentary
awareness, to thought, to ideas, to reflections upon the universe itself: From nothing to something… a
miracle? A supernatural event? What is the lifetime expectancy of a
species on our earth? Or for that matter anywhere in the Cosmos?
We know life exists on this earth …does it
exist on other worlds? In the
same form? The same cumulative- evolutionary processes? Our science is
certain that life exists elsewhere in the universe. Other Earth’s? Maybe:
A Lifetime of a species 100-200million years? A lifetime of an individual
30,50,80,100 years? Life is like the ‘flickering’ lights of a Christmas
tree? Our lives can be compared to the on/off flashes: Life-Death. Depending upon our own lifetime
experience we may never know ‘’another’s’’ life.
We
are taught that life is seemingly rare in the universe.
This
may be the whole point of life itself.
Evolution, mutating into more complex
intelligent- life forms, new levels of inwardnesses that may flow as
“spiritual” or “supernatural” energies in the cosmos: One bird vs. a
flock of birds, one whale vs. a school of whale, one musician vs. an
orchestra.
Life energy, a supernatural life, a spiritual
life, and a resurrected life that returns to its source to live forever
my : Celestial Palace.
I AM
WHO AM
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[85.7] TIME, MYSTERY AND CREATIVITY
Christology: 2004The Mystery of Time (Rv 1:7-8)
The universe is a complex place. Take Time, for
instance. Time is a
continuum: no beginning, no end. How do we ‘land’ where we do? Is our
place in time by chance? Random selection? Or as many say, ‘simply our
personal destiny? What am I asking?
I am saying nothing is fixed permanent everything is changing.*
Who shall speak for our hopes, our needs, and our desires? There! Seek
Christ! In the Light of the Advent Star, at the edge of the past, the
future made present where all things are…“Mystery” is Christ Himself and
everything that God has willed for this world. God from eternity willed that Christ be above creation
and time … past, present, and future. Everything leads to Christ and all leads from
Christ [Rev1: 4].
We are creatures of time,
bound to it, unable to make peace with it. How many times have we asked, “What do these endless hours that
flow into days, weeks and months mean in our daily lives?” Human life is a sequence of
moments, a “straight” line having an absolute beginning and ending.
We describe life as
chronological with a world that has been created once: One beginning, one
ending.
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[85.8 ] VISIONS AND THE
INVISIBLE
There is a place for the “invisible” in education
and learning provided we do not teach that what is “invisible” is a
substitute for what is visible. We must keep our feet anchored in
reality. An “exaggeration” in the teaching-workroom emerges as a disaster
in the real world. Honesty and integrity is a must. Students are capable
of transforming ordinary things, notions theories, ideas and activities
into extraordinary events in light and through their beliefs and their
faith. This is especially the case for a teacher, mentor, and counselor.
We are led to the canvas, to the music score, the stone quarry, and the
construction site by our beliefs. We are led by our “faith” * in our
self, our mentor, or our God. We …create something visible and real …out
of something invisible and not real…. Do we not “mix and Blend” the
images of past experiences with the present circumstances of daily life-
our dreams and inspirations- a sketch becomes the vision of something
that does not yet exist. The past future is made present in the painting,
sculpture, space we will sit to contemplate? Unbelievable to those who do
not believe: invisible to those who are not able to see. By “mixing” the
perceptions of our past memories and future visions we create images that
give physical form to things in the present reality. In the end, we draw
from our memories, exaggerations, perceptions, struggles, and fictions to
create and make things to be experienced and used in the present moment.
Here in the present moment all that we know and have experienced is
focused and integrated to form: the unit.
The EUREKA!
The
Vision. That we pursue in a sequence of positive jesters.
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[
85.9] INTELLIGENCE AND TALENT
How the does the teacher
provide the learning environment that reveals the unique talents of the students
who come to discover, recognize, and improve their skills and capacities?
The
teacher might explore the following suggestions:
(1) What are the possibilities
of “connecting” or “linking” Reflective Intelligence to Individual
Competencies?
(2) Is talent a direct result
of Genetic history of the individual?
(3) Are Individual
Competencies something that is learnable and developable or basically
innate to the individual? (Genetics?)
(4) And, if it is both
genetic (innate) and reflective (learned) is talent then a “
personal” or “collective” event? Or “Both
And”?
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[85.10] Imagination
created by a father
These
stories fueled my “imagination”, and they still come alive at the
slightest encouragement. I credit my father for giving me a “creative imagination”
that would be fundamental to the work I was and still do after 50 years:
Art/ Architecture.
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[85.11]
EDUCATION, SURVIVAL AND WORK
Education is eternal,
everlasting, and supernatural process. Education is the survival effort that
continues beyond the classroom of the elementary school, the university,
and the workroom or any specific field of activity including the
boundaries and limitations that lurk within the designers mind.
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[85.12]
LOVE WORK AND KNOWLEDGE
There
are three stages of learning: possession, loss, and the recovery of one’s common sense.
We discover the world and
bits of the Cosmos and develop a vocabulary to unlock the secrets that
are hidden beneath what we see, hear, touch, taste ,and smell. For some, they “feel” or “sense” the
invisible world about them and tease out from this place of mysteries
things not available to our senses. Discovery and vocabulary the ever
present cycles that is the foundation of our learning.
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[85.13]
TRAVEL STUDY AND ART
We
learn through personal experiences. The stages of learning: (1)
Collecting and analyzing facts, (2) Reflection and organizing concepts,
(3) and, for the few integrate this information to create and to design
beautiful things.
These
experiences and the “abstractions” that are created by the searching
individual define the disciplines we retreat into to make our
contributions and receive the recognition we so desire.
We discover that our reading
must be focused choosing and selecting those discreet works and authors
that provide purpose and meaning to the initiatives we undertake. There is also, that cauls walk,
the sunset, the morning rains, moments in time. Thought is natural,
spontaneous, and creative when we are inspired.
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[85.14] ART/ARCHITECTURE:
CREATIVE SPIRITUALITY
We can direct our passions
towards the Good.
Recognizing that our
Passions are not in themselves evil; all emotions, without exception be turned to
the GOOD:
1/Love and Joy: Directed
toward the affection and in the service of others through one’s your
gifts and GIFT.
2/ Hatred and Aversion: Can be
turned from injury and destructive acts to acceptance and desire for the
excellence of all
situations.
3/ Desire: Must be
“Transformed” into positive ambition. Doing honor to one’s family,
country, friends and true integrity of ones character.
4/ Sadness: Turned from
melancholy. Endurance under the pain of suffering, insults, and fears
into understanding and compassion for others in distress.
5/ Hope: Unfailing Trust in Providence,
the Universal Cosmos, in the Higher Power of human existence.
6/ Despair: Turning away from
the rightful distrust of one’s self. Acceptance of one’s self, value,
worthiness due to inherent uniqueness. 7/Freedom: embracing the four Great Freedoms
that strengthens the inner spirit freedom from: Fear, Expression, Faith,
and Want.
8/ Peace and Anger: Self-Control of anxieties.
Courage and Boldness: Prowess in the face of obstacles and dangers. Greater
the difficulty the more we overcome it. Perseverance.
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[85.15] ART/ARCHITECTURE: Creativity
F or
every guy I run into who is a “slug” there are 10 more people who are
absorbing their opportunities and chances they have to fill their lives with
purpose and meaning. Initiating activities that help them grow and
develop into better people than they were. When others do their very best
they, in a way, help the rest of us to do more with our lives then we
might have done, as well. The world is better off with creative and
productive people in it.
1/
What we “think” we will do. The issue remains how is the mind to be
formed so to have a least a chance of developing the capability to design
meaningful works?
2/
“Problem solving”, and “Innovation” are the engines that drive design.
3/ Unfortunately, as a result
of the information explosion, the chain of diversification, speculation,
and compartmentalization this condition does not exist in the educational
process today. 4/ Only a few people are capable of relating their work
within their field or other fields of study.
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[85.16] ART/ARCHITECTURE: CREATIVITY
1/ Amazingly “creativity” is
stimulated in the struggle between these extremes of emotions, mind-sets,
stresses, intellectual initiatives, and facing those that resist,
support, and contribute to the work you are involved in the daily
decisions and routines of your creative life.
2/ As leaders the key to
success is to recognize the uniqueness of each individual and that we are
all different.
3/ Try to understand the
personal goals and recognition needs of those being served ( Identify 5
things they need) 3/ Key question: Are you seeking the good of those you
work with?
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[85.17]
SACRED ART: 4TH DAY CREATIVE IMAGINATION
Humankind is given a glimpse of the divine
within the order and wonder of the universe.
This supernatural truth is revealed and
re-discovered in nature, events, things, and people.
Cultures throughout human history find
expression of the “belief” in the making of places and spaces:
Sanctuaries for public worship and prayer.
The desire to re-create the “Cosmic Image” in
a specific time and place is an ancient yearning in the spirit of the
humankind.
Religions do not “create” holy places but
through rites and rituals they teach that sacred space can be
“consecrated” to acknowledge God in time and place:
… Space in harmony with the Cosmic Image…
Objects that are placed or found within holy
places, sculpture, paintings, carvings, tapestries, stained-glass
windows, relics of the saints, remind us of the presence of God.
The personal histories and accomplishments of
individuals form the abstract instruments through which the Holy
Spirit sanctifies and makes present the image of
Christ in sacred work of art and architecture:
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Sanctified persons who have the grace to make beauty …
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[85.18]SACRED ART:Architecture and Mysticism
WHAT IS THIS STUFF????
‘ … The
misty light streaming through the windows create a glow that make one
want to lose oneself in mystical contemplation the visitors, people of
every hue under heaven, most who are unaware that this is a sacred place
and what one ought to be doing there.’
‘Unable to impose virtue on its members or to impart
much religious education the Church shaped faith by shaping imaginations
the stories of the cathedrals flowing out into the marketplace revealing
merciful love, eternal life, miracles of healings, casting out Satan.’
Liturgical Imagination: linking the images of our
stories to the grace of God. Sensing the Divine Presence and nearness of
the Holy Spirit.
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SACRED ART: 4TH DAY CREATIVE IMAGINATION
Reflection: The Amber Light
The
light of the Lord
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Christ’s hope has been revealed and it is good and it is beautiful
…this
is the gift that cannot be given back
… it
must continue with its positive gestures until the light of the artist
fails or dies.
This
is the Hymn of Praise we seek! The hymn we sing! In this we find our
purpose, mission vocation.
… As
an artist I must be “obedient” to that inspirational urge that emerges
within me
…always
seeking to create works that are beautiful and good. (Hard work yes often
it is
…and to endure the
responsibility for what you create well that is also a challenge that has
been accepted.
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[85.20] SACRED ART: CREATIVE
IMAGINATION
Reflection: Those shinning things
To
create is to “bestow”.
Mixing
past memory imagery with the sights and sounds of the living things all twisted
and dipped into those snapshots of what could be bestows - brings about
something out of what seems to be nothing is anything.
Design,
is the messy process of making things. Things made to be seen, to be
enjoyed, or used.
God
called many to this task of creating things making us into a kind of
craftsman with this “artistic” activity that consumes the mind, body
& spirit day and night as we cry out to God
“Where
are you Lord?”
“Here beneath your Gaze
sensing the divine urge!!!”
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[85.21] SACRED ART: CREATIVE
IMAGINATION
Artists and
Architects have the responsibility to create authentic beauty in Church
building.
Artists and Architects must be
committed to fulfill the vision of an authentic spirit filled with notions and ideas that flow from
the sacred:
…Sacred ideas are the reflection of an important,
compelling inner experience from the artist’s spirit expressed in paint
and stone, space and form, word and sound.
Artists and Architects, holy persons pursue the
beautiful:
… Creating individual works of Sacred Art,
Architecture, Sculpture, Music, and Literature, prayers of the inner
spirit longing for unity and harmony, and communion with Christ.
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SACRED ART: CREATIVE IMAGINATION
The Artist draws, paints, sings,
designs, and builds expressing the compelling personal experience of God:
This burning love forms a
SACRED ART and ARCHITECTURE revealing the splendor of God’s Promise,
Creativity, and Beauty.
God has entered the musician, sculptor, painter, author,
and architect… Has taken on human flesh: Transforming the expressions of
the Artist into images of the Creator.
Everything
has meaning: God is present and transforms the moments of silence and
solitude providing the hidden purposes of our lives.
God
is present here … the places of God … holy ground … this is our home …
your place to return and stand before the Father
…Imagine
God’s Promise as the Maker of light, color, and form.
…Imagine
God’s Creativity in word, sound, and image.
…See!
The God’s Beauty done through His children in brick, glass, stone, and
marble.
May we come to know the
light God has placed within us … and the courage to fulfill his desire.
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SACRED ART: CREATIVE IMAGINATION
The
language of the New Jerusalem is a Spiritual language,
… a poetry we must as artists and
architects embrace and love with our hearts and souls:
+ STAR + ANGEL + DOVE + LIGHT + FLOWER + DOME +
+ SKY + ARCH + TOWER +
CROSS + BREAD + WINE +
+ SILENCE +ALTAR + BOOK + SPACE + FONT + CHAIR
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Jesus made our work sacred …
sent His Divine Spirit to sanctify the labor of our minds, spirits,
and hands … teaching that
our work is a continuing prayer … the way we disappear into God and
return to the source of our creation.
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ART: CREATIVE IMAGINATION
1/ The Old and New Testaments have provided a great deal of
inspiration to the Christian artist
and architect:
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Noah’s Dove returning with an olive branch, the Tongues of Fire of Pentecost,
the Cloud at the Transfiguration of Jesus, Advent Spirit that guides the
Magi to the cave of Bethlehem, the Dove at the Baptism of Jesus, the Holy
Wind of Ezekiel .
4/These
images have deep symbolic meaning and through the power of the Holy Spirit
lead many into the presence of Christ.
5/The artist and architect,
throughout the centuries, have returned to scriptural images to make the
Sacred Art and Architecture that is continuously prompted by the Holy
Spirit.
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[85.25] MYSTERY AND CREATIVITY
There
is a depth of meaning…an underside… a hidden…almost instinctual side to
every thing we do…everything we do has a meaning more than can be seen at
the surface of things…
God,
in a way, has made the whole world a symbol:
Through the images of the stars, winds, sky, trees,
people, places, dreams, memories, ideas these are the sacred things we
experience to discover our way to the holy and the divine. We, in a way,
do not live by what we see, but by what we believe. We become a people
who see in the ordinary things of life, simplicity, solitude, and
silence. The Presence of God. (A belief system such as this does not
necessarily deny “evidence- facts-science- technology”. This way of
thinking does allow for the mystery and “supernatural” forces released in
creative thought and a spirituality centered in “creativity”.
Holiness is our sacred journey of trust …it is mystical…and at the
same time personal and firmly anchored in the day-to-day duties and
activities lived out in daily life in the service of others. Awareness of Christ Light …the
reality of Presence …allows one to become a master to fulfill God’s hope
that has been placed within you while in the womb.
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[85.26] LITURGICAL TIME
Worship and our prayer are, in many ways; a means of
coping with the terror of time. Worship allows us to :
“Stop” the clock
“Stop” time.
We relive the great moments of the past and live the
future in the Present Moment.
Christ is outside of human time there is no Past-Present-Future
with Christ:
He was, He
is, and He will be at the end of the ages...NOW
A: Liturgical time is circular…. Is
re-created…Re-enacts the great moments of new beginnings…focuses on the
Birth of Christ to the Ascension…breaks out of the “chronological” and
opens into eternity…
B: Liturgical time is where the past is made present
…the future is made present…we are called into Christ’s presence…we stand
in the sight of angels [Psalm 138; Rv. 4:8-11]…we are called into the
presence of Christ…and transformed.
C: The Liturgy, The Holy Mass, in its continuing prayer
of praise and thanksgiving of
the religious and supernatural experience of sacred time .
We re-enter the
time of origin
becoming contemporary with the event (not commemorating) becoming contemporary with the
act.
Christ is truly present in His Last Supper, His
Crucifixion, Ascension, Resurrection and the Present Moment
… CHRIST IS THE CENTER OF SACRED AND
HISTORICAL TIME …
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