"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, accurately reflecting 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." James e. woody, 1991.

Questions to ponder:

• What do you think the quintessential art movement will be that accurately reflects the moments of our time?

• How will our collective creative visions survive the external, the digital and the cyber-worlds?

• What is the imagination when the ego is anaesthetized, can we behold the world anew?

Transpersonal Art is the "new" modernism, its not magic, it's the creative imagination.  

I believe that paints and pigments can be approached as ritual objects, magical energetic substances, that we create a space for manifestation, we don't need to invent or devise from our minds. Painting or the ownership of them can be a meditative ritual, a ritual of affirmation and manifestation. When I am present with the actual reality of what I am doing, breathing, with a ritual object, my paint, paper or canvas in hand, only then am I clear what is before me. 

I only ask of myself to take the space-time to dwell with the work in its such-ness, making every part of the process a trance inducing play, rather than racing to a foregone conclusion that I hold somewhere in my head. It's the difference between goal-orientated behavior, contrasted to the attitude of appreciating every phase, every process as an end in itself. Because, no part of life or art should be merely rushing from A to Z without appreciating the journey in its fullness along the way. Every moment is complete in itself. With art and life, there is space and opportunity at every phase for invention. james e. woody 2008

All significant events in life reflect a deeper sense of purpose, meaning and direction in this, the human experience!  

Transpersonal art will continue as a growing trend among academics; because it focuses on self-realization and design psychology will be the tool used increasingly to create inspiring places. One might say, spiritual considerations and psychology are now the principal design tools used to create aesthetically and functionally beautiful places, emotionally  and socially fulfilling spaces.

The scientific and artistic communities have already begun to define transpersonal art as the spectacular divide, the space between two worldviews, one slowly dying, one not yet born.  As for the definition of "transpersonal" it has come to simply mean; those realities that include but go beyond, the personal; a wider sweep across the skin-encapsulated ego and touch other beings, the cosmos, the spirit, and places kept secret to those who surround themselves with themselves. 

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 would spot, and depict, the coming worldview, while breaking decisively with the old. The art world might be invigorated by something wholly new, 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. 

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.  Historically art has it's center, 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.