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]]> By: Harold Davis http://www.digitalfieldguide.com/blog/1208#comment-61400 Harold Davis Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:26:26 +0000 http://www.digitalfieldguide.com/blog/1208#comment-61400 Here's more about Finley Eversole and his book: FINLEY EVERSOLE, Ph.D., has taught and lectured widely on the arts, philosophy, psychology, metaphysics, creativity and meditation. His first foray into the arts and religion field was a book titled Christian Faith and the Contemporary Arts, 1962, after which he served as Executive Director of the Society for the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture, working with such people as Joseph Campbell and Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Art, Death and Transformation moves well beyond his early work and sets forth a new aesthetic and approach to art, striking a keynote intended to guide artists into the Aquarian Age. ART, DEATH AND TRANSFORMATION: The Journey of the Twentieth Century from Existential Despair to Spiritual Awakening is a meditation on art and cultural transformation and a spiritual journey in which the reader is invited to participate. Built around a study of the visual arts from 1945 onward, the book draws extensively on philosophy, psychology, myth and symbolism, literature, metaphysics and personal experience to explain the seven stages of spiritual death and rebirth. This book does via the visual arts something akin to what Joseph Campbell does in The Hero with a Thousand Faces. The reader is guided through the experience of self-loss, the journey into the underworld, the experience of the dark night of the soul, the conflict with and triumph over evil, the awakening of new life in the depths of being, and the return and reintegration of consciousness on a higher plane of being, resulting finally in ecstasy, transfiguration, illumination and liberation. Based on in-depth studies of individual works of art, these themes are approached so as to allow a slow building of insights aimed at nurturing in readers a new type of consciousness. The author sees in death and rebirth, as mirrored in the arts, a foreshadowing of profound social change and cultural renewal. Art is a moment of awakening, a record of ecstasy, a revelation of mystery, a ritual of rebirth, a recovery and realization of childhood, a return to eternal origins…. It is a powerful and liberating force in the evolution of human consciousness. FROM THE CONCLUDING CHAPTER Here’s more about Finley Eversole and his book:

FINLEY EVERSOLE, Ph.D., has taught and lectured widely on the arts, philosophy, psychology, metaphysics, creativity and meditation. His first foray into the arts and religion field was a book titled Christian Faith and the Contemporary Arts, 1962, after which he served as Executive Director of the Society for the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture, working with such people as Joseph Campbell and Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Art, Death and Transformation moves well beyond his early work and sets forth a new aesthetic and approach to art, striking a keynote intended to guide artists into the Aquarian Age.

ART, DEATH AND TRANSFORMATION: The Journey of the Twentieth Century from Existential Despair to Spiritual Awakening is a meditation on art and cultural transformation and a spiritual journey in which the reader is invited to participate. Built around a study of the visual arts from 1945 onward, the book draws extensively on philosophy, psychology, myth and symbolism, literature, metaphysics and personal experience to explain the seven stages of spiritual death and rebirth. This book does via the visual arts something akin to what Joseph Campbell does in The Hero with a Thousand Faces. The reader is guided through the experience of self-loss, the journey into the underworld, the experience of the dark night of the soul, the conflict with and triumph over evil, the awakening of new life in the depths of being, and the return and reintegration of consciousness on a higher plane of being, resulting finally in ecstasy, transfiguration, illumination and liberation. Based on in-depth studies of individual works of art, these themes are approached so as to allow a slow building of insights aimed at nurturing in readers a new type of consciousness. The author sees in death and rebirth, as mirrored in the arts, a foreshadowing of profound social change and cultural renewal.

Art is a moment of awakening, a record of ecstasy, a revelation of mystery, a ritual of rebirth, a recovery and realization of childhood, a return to eternal origins…. It is a powerful and liberating force in the evolution of human consciousness.

FROM THE CONCLUDING CHAPTER

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