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Transpersonal art will continue as a growing trend among academics; because it focuses on self-realization and design psychology, it will be the tool used increasingly to create inspiring places.
Spiritual considerations and psychology are now the principal design tools used to create aesthetically and functionally beautiful places, emotionally and socially fulfilling spaces, because all significant events in life reflect a deeper sense of purpose, meaning and direction in this, the human experience!The scientific and artistic communities have defined Transpersonal art as the spectacular divide, the space between two worldviews, one slowly dying, one not yet born. Transpersonal "simply means those realities that include, but go beyond, the personal and the individual wider currents that sweep across the skin-encapsulated ego and touch other beings, touch the cosmos, touch spirit, touch patterns and places kept secret to those who hug the surfaces and surround themselves with themselves. We might look to the past for those rare occasions where a subculture plugged into the transpersonal realm and brought it forth in art and architecture, poetry and painting, crafts and compositions. But we can look to the past only for hints, because the house of our tomorrow can only be decorated by artists standing now on the threshold of that unfolding." Excepts contributed from Tom Armstrong, editor of Zen Unbound
Only a few years ago, Ken Wilber wrote an essay for the opening of an art exhibit. The essay, called "To See A World--Art and the I of the Beholder," gave Wilber the opportunity to explore the many ways that experience can be organized and interpreted, where experience and art was, and where art must be headed. A perspective madness is the general term he used to describe much of the art, art criticism, literary criticism and cultural studies of the prior two decades. Wilber goes on to write. "The reason that art in the postmodern, the existential world has reached something of a culde-sac is not that art itself is exhausted, but that the existential worldview is".
If Wilber is right, art might be invigorated by something wholly new, and because the leap to a higher spiritual plane, in art, could be in fomentation. We can then hope, or even expect that art might then be the cutting edge for changes in the culture, social and political spheres. This new art would spot, then depict, new ways of seeing, new modes of being, new forms of cognition, new heights or depths of feeling and in all cases, new modes of perception. It would spot, and depict, the coming worldview, while breaking decisively with the old.
"Transpersonal Art is one of the disciplines considered by Boucovolas (1999), in listing how transpersonal psychology may relate to other areas of transpersonal study. In writing about transpersonal art, Boucovolas begins by noting how, according to Breccia and also to the definitions employed by the International Transpersonal Association in 1971, transpersonal art may be understood as art work which draws upon important themes beyond the individual self, such as the transpersonal consciousness. This makes transpersonal art criticism germane to mystical approaches to creativity. Transpersonal art criticism, as Boucovolas notes, can be considered that which claims conventional art criticism has been too committed to stressing rational dimensions of art and has subsequently said little on art's spiritual dimensions, or as that which holds art work has a meaning beyond the individual person. Certain aspects of the psychology of Carl Jung, as well as movements such as music therapy and art therapy, may also relate to the field. Boucovolas' paper cites Breccia (1971) as an early example of transpersonal art, and claims that at the time his article appeared, philosopher Ken Wilber had made recent contributions to the field. More recently, the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, in 2005, Volume 37, launched a special edition devoted to the media, which contained articles on film criticism that can be related to this field.
Reference: Boucovolas, M. (1999). Following the movement: from transpersonal psychology to a multidisciplinary transpersonal orientation. Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, 31 (1) 27-39 Wikipedia information about transpersonal art. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Transpersonal art". "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transpersonal_art
What is the historic reference of Transpersonal Art?
Transpersonal art primitive origins originated from an expression that sought to intimate the shamanic, mystical, spiritual realms of consciousness, realms beyond -yet including- the personal, entering into the subtle, collective and universal fields of nature, realms accessible to consciousness that is healing, is moving toward wholeness and experience of oneness with the unbounded, interconnected, quantum-coherent universe. Within the realms of prehistory we find that art was much more fundamental than a mere pastime, a simple way to reflect social concerns. Its place was not only a passive one. Art was central to the process of connection with life, enabling the participant to cooperate with his environment through his religion and magic. According to a fundamental magical belief throughout the ages, the part is integral with the whole. -Larouse Encyclopedia of Prehistoric and Ancient Art. Frazer goes on to discredit these principles in the same vein as we would today; that they are based on fear and superstition. The old cave paintings depicting religious rites, fertility cults and hunting scenes are simply the products of a less civilized humanity and are not the carefully crafted talismans they were meant to be.
According to, Sir James Frazer, The Golden Bough, A History of Myth and Religion. "If we analyze the principles of thought on which magic is based, they will probably be found to resolve themselves into two; first, that like produces like, or that an effect resembles its cause; and second those things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act at a distance after the physical contact has been severed."
Having read the manifesto of the artist, James e. Woody, we share this his definition of his work: "Transpersonal art is the symbolic reenactment of the abstract imagination, images of a timeless and internal universe, that are reflective in accordance with the knowledge of our time, organic expressions that demonstrate the eternal magic of the human condition. Transpersonal art is the modernism of the art movement, it accurately reflects the multiplicity of our reality, by expressing the realm of our primary meaning, a universal mode of consciousness that envisions life as sacred. these images may appear mystical, literal or conceptual, because the abstract elements vary as representation of the know, the less known, and the unknown. Whether you view Transpersonal art as simply a mirror of ordinary biological urges or as contact with other worlds filled with living beings, what is certain is they are our collective dreams and visions, the dramatic personae of our your own imagination realized as an independent entity with a life of its own." by James e. woody, copyright 1991
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