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The Artist's Workshop
The Artist's Workshop belongs to the Spirit of these artistic endeavors, Who is the Creator.
Kora Bales
Metaphysical Artist
"I watch; It appears."
Metaphysical Artist
"I watch; It appears."
What is Metaphysics?
It is the science of the individual's search for Absolute Reality, and the metaphysician's main practice is meditation upon the Presence of God. Concentrated focus upon this Spirit within meditation, results in the self-realization of one's identity within God. This understanding is the quiet moment of joy - the stopping of time within the meditative mind. It is the expansion of one's inner focus beyond the illusions and limitations of the ego. And, It is the subtle, vibratory, inner sight that is sound. Ultimately, one realizes his individual life experience as oneness with God's Spirit within his own mind, and this beautifully altered, meditative focus expands, exponentially adding to the life.
It is the science of the individual's search for Absolute Reality, and the metaphysician's main practice is meditation upon the Presence of God. Concentrated focus upon this Spirit within meditation, results in the self-realization of one's identity within God. This understanding is the quiet moment of joy - the stopping of time within the meditative mind. It is the expansion of one's inner focus beyond the illusions and limitations of the ego. And, It is the subtle, vibratory, inner sight that is sound. Ultimately, one realizes his individual life experience as oneness with God's Spirit within his own mind, and this beautifully altered, meditative focus expands, exponentially adding to the life.
Preparation to Draw
After completing the body scan from foot to head and back again, I relax into the Spirit. Time slows in this interiorization of the mind, and Who and What "I" find intently waiting is of uplifting, profound proportions. This shifting-of-the-mind cannot be fully understood without also understanding the multifaceted Spiritual 'counterpart' that is the Sound of Silence, and Who lives within oneself. Thus energized by this conscious meeting of God's Uplifting Spirit, a simple inner wish of expansion of the consciousness further, results in a superconscious state.
My Meditative Drawing Experience
Now changed in being, the consciousness has achieved access to the unending source of Creation within himself, and looks through the delusion of time and matter. This Spirit looks out through my eyes, and sometimes descends so far into the outermost consciousness, that a resonating devotion upheaves all inner remnants of the ego-mind, and bestows an elixer of Divine Grace in its place. The delicate echoes of Its Form within the mind and heart enrapture all parts, becoming silvery lines I intuitively know "I" Am to follow. This is my meditative drawing experience.
Soul Expressions
This notebook is meant to be shared as an expression of my soul's understanding of spiritual reality, through metaphysical explorations (and explanations), of inner and outer manifestations of the spiritual realm. This understanding is primarily expressed in the form of drawings, with reflective study and writing about these forms as soul-symbols. Overall, all 'characters' within the work are synchronistically connected with, and speak to the Spiriual Evolution of the artist.
Meditation is the State that is also the Lens of the Artist's Mind
Interestingly, sublimation of the 'egoic-I' completely, through meditative practices, transforms inner-self-consciousness to an observer state, and simultaneously disempowers conscious awareness of the inner, deeper, spiritual-creative faculties (it seems to the conscious mind that amnesia is the state achieved). Further, the ego-I dissolves, becoming unremembered, and the Spirit fills its place. This Spiritually-Shifting-Self creates through the Illumination of the Mind, and through what appears as silvery lines 'outside of consciousness' that form upon the paper. These spiritual lines are then followed with the pencil. Overall, "I" literally copy, or transcribe, all of this work.
Published Work
Meditation and "Me": An Exploration Through Art and Mind to Absolute Reality, by Kora Bales, published December, 2020.
After completing the body scan from foot to head and back again, I relax into the Spirit. Time slows in this interiorization of the mind, and Who and What "I" find intently waiting is of uplifting, profound proportions. This shifting-of-the-mind cannot be fully understood without also understanding the multifaceted Spiritual 'counterpart' that is the Sound of Silence, and Who lives within oneself. Thus energized by this conscious meeting of God's Uplifting Spirit, a simple inner wish of expansion of the consciousness further, results in a superconscious state.
My Meditative Drawing Experience
Now changed in being, the consciousness has achieved access to the unending source of Creation within himself, and looks through the delusion of time and matter. This Spirit looks out through my eyes, and sometimes descends so far into the outermost consciousness, that a resonating devotion upheaves all inner remnants of the ego-mind, and bestows an elixer of Divine Grace in its place. The delicate echoes of Its Form within the mind and heart enrapture all parts, becoming silvery lines I intuitively know "I" Am to follow. This is my meditative drawing experience.
Soul Expressions
This notebook is meant to be shared as an expression of my soul's understanding of spiritual reality, through metaphysical explorations (and explanations), of inner and outer manifestations of the spiritual realm. This understanding is primarily expressed in the form of drawings, with reflective study and writing about these forms as soul-symbols. Overall, all 'characters' within the work are synchronistically connected with, and speak to the Spiriual Evolution of the artist.
Meditation is the State that is also the Lens of the Artist's Mind
Interestingly, sublimation of the 'egoic-I' completely, through meditative practices, transforms inner-self-consciousness to an observer state, and simultaneously disempowers conscious awareness of the inner, deeper, spiritual-creative faculties (it seems to the conscious mind that amnesia is the state achieved). Further, the ego-I dissolves, becoming unremembered, and the Spirit fills its place. This Spiritually-Shifting-Self creates through the Illumination of the Mind, and through what appears as silvery lines 'outside of consciousness' that form upon the paper. These spiritual lines are then followed with the pencil. Overall, "I" literally copy, or transcribe, all of this work.
Published Work
Meditation and "Me": An Exploration Through Art and Mind to Absolute Reality, by Kora Bales, published December, 2020.
Title of Writing Underway (begun 02.06.21):
The Intuitive Artist’s Workshop: Creating Superconsciously Through the Soul, by Kora Bales
Chapters (highlighted chapters are complete)
Introduction
Chapter 1: Intuitive Methods and Meditation
Chapter 2: The Observer-Self and Spiritual Gifts
Chapter 3: God's Presence and Spiritual Master-Guides
Chapter 4: Spiritual Matter
Chapter 5: Devotion, Rapture, and the Functional Geometry of the Higher Mind
Chapter 6: Amnesia, Humor, and Self-Analysis (because aliens don't wear hats!)
Chapter 7: The Soul
Chapter 8: Space, Time, Intuition, and Other Fluid Concepts
Chapter 9: The Multidimensional Self
Chapter 10: The Mechanics of Illusion and Paradox Within the Mind, and Developing Spiritual Sight
Chapter 11: Focusing Spiritual Sight and Seeing Through Multiple Dimensions
Chapter 12: Drawing with Spirit: The Experience of Superconscious Sight
Chapter 13: Projection of the Soul's Symbols and Spiritual Transcription
Chapter 14: Understanding Soul-Symbols Through Intuitive-Conscious Deconstruction
Chapter 15: The Devotional Drawing of the Inner Room
Chapter 16: Physical Reality Considerations: Work Space, Tools, Music, and Posture
Chapter 17: All Practice is Perfect
Chapter 18: The Soul's Self-Realization
**If you have suggestions for topics you'd like see developed in this book, please post them on the Workshop Critique page, as the project is underway.
**If you would like to donate toward the publication costs for this book, please see The Art Shop page.
The Intuitive Artist’s Workshop: Creating Superconsciously Through the Soul, by Kora Bales
Chapters (highlighted chapters are complete)
Introduction
Chapter 1: Intuitive Methods and Meditation
Chapter 2: The Observer-Self and Spiritual Gifts
Chapter 3: God's Presence and Spiritual Master-Guides
Chapter 4: Spiritual Matter
Chapter 5: Devotion, Rapture, and the Functional Geometry of the Higher Mind
Chapter 6: Amnesia, Humor, and Self-Analysis (because aliens don't wear hats!)
Chapter 7: The Soul
Chapter 8: Space, Time, Intuition, and Other Fluid Concepts
Chapter 9: The Multidimensional Self
Chapter 10: The Mechanics of Illusion and Paradox Within the Mind, and Developing Spiritual Sight
Chapter 11: Focusing Spiritual Sight and Seeing Through Multiple Dimensions
Chapter 12: Drawing with Spirit: The Experience of Superconscious Sight
Chapter 13: Projection of the Soul's Symbols and Spiritual Transcription
Chapter 14: Understanding Soul-Symbols Through Intuitive-Conscious Deconstruction
Chapter 15: The Devotional Drawing of the Inner Room
Chapter 16: Physical Reality Considerations: Work Space, Tools, Music, and Posture
Chapter 17: All Practice is Perfect
Chapter 18: The Soul's Self-Realization
**If you have suggestions for topics you'd like see developed in this book, please post them on the Workshop Critique page, as the project is underway.
**If you would like to donate toward the publication costs for this book, please see The Art Shop page.
Learn & Grow Through Metaphysical Art & Writing
Metaphysical art is created as representational images of one's superconscious self-concept. Ease of transcription of the spiritual-lines the artist sees is most naturally expressed with graphite pencils. Current experiments with color have included the addition of a single-color of blue or green painting pigment powder.
I am propelled inward when focusing on the paper. Through this focus, an inner mechanism of sight is stimulated, and is "seen" simultaneously in the point of pencil on paper. This moment is a full realization of the now, and it is as if a switch is flipped, a peddle is pushed, and I am now in a Higher Perspective, watching apart from it, and simultaneously within it.
This perceived dual-placement-of-self is the realization, ultimately, of Higher inner superconscious constructs that exist. Through the interiorization of the mind upon Itself, an observer state is achieved, and "I" then focus my mind upon the blank paper. I watch in this altered state-of-inner focus, and the subtle lines are now apparent and drawn faithfully, overlapping and intertwining until visual paradoxes are formed. Once identified, these paradoxes easily out-flow into whole interwoven and interdependent symbol-forms. Each individual consciousness has the ability to place itself in this shifted state and achieve this transcription ability. The direction and intent of individuality is not removed, but enhanced.
If you are a student of art, meditation, or Higher Understanding, and desire to observe and learn about the processes of Living Enlightenment through the lens of discovery within the artistic process, please return and enjoy the experience that is the blessing that I live.
This master's thesis is included here, as it provides relevant context to the artwork: Knowing Enlightenment Now.
Metaphysical art is created as representational images of one's superconscious self-concept. Ease of transcription of the spiritual-lines the artist sees is most naturally expressed with graphite pencils. Current experiments with color have included the addition of a single-color of blue or green painting pigment powder.
I am propelled inward when focusing on the paper. Through this focus, an inner mechanism of sight is stimulated, and is "seen" simultaneously in the point of pencil on paper. This moment is a full realization of the now, and it is as if a switch is flipped, a peddle is pushed, and I am now in a Higher Perspective, watching apart from it, and simultaneously within it.
This perceived dual-placement-of-self is the realization, ultimately, of Higher inner superconscious constructs that exist. Through the interiorization of the mind upon Itself, an observer state is achieved, and "I" then focus my mind upon the blank paper. I watch in this altered state-of-inner focus, and the subtle lines are now apparent and drawn faithfully, overlapping and intertwining until visual paradoxes are formed. Once identified, these paradoxes easily out-flow into whole interwoven and interdependent symbol-forms. Each individual consciousness has the ability to place itself in this shifted state and achieve this transcription ability. The direction and intent of individuality is not removed, but enhanced.
If you are a student of art, meditation, or Higher Understanding, and desire to observe and learn about the processes of Living Enlightenment through the lens of discovery within the artistic process, please return and enjoy the experience that is the blessing that I live.
This master's thesis is included here, as it provides relevant context to the artwork: Knowing Enlightenment Now.