“Art is a communion with the divine, it’s access to our souls, it’s the creation of our interconnection and our community.”
Art is for everyone.
“Every human being has a vibrant soul that needs expression and artistic medium in order to express one’s own being.”
How modern art often avoids the spiritual dimensions.
More about our guest:
Dana Lynne Andersen is a multi-modality artist with a Master’s Degree in Consciousness Studies (JFKU). A pioneer in the field of Art & Consciousness, she is the founding Director of Awakening Arts Academy (USA) and Arte Spirito; the Academy of Art, Creativity & Consciousness (Italy). She is also the creator of the Transformative Arts Method and Certification Program that uses the creative process as a vehicle for personal healing and spiritual awakening. Dana has taught and exhibited on three continents.
She writes, on the Awakening Arts Academy page
“In perilous times we need precisely what the arts have to give; the capacity for profound insight, generative creative possibility, expanded vision, epiphany and revelation. We need our prophets and visionaries, our artists and troubadours, seers and mystics. We can no longer afford a shallow and superficial kind of art. For decades the Arts have pursued the ‘cutting edge’, a mercurial periphery of fashion and fad. The arts, hijacked by materialism and nihilism, must rise from these ashes to re-inhabit the spaciousness of the soul – a territory alone sufficient to meet the pressing needs of our time.
The role of the artist living in watershed times must be to awaken. We are moving from an age of matter to an age of energy. We are operating in a world that is fundamentally different than the world of our forebears. We must all learn to navigate in territories outside the boundaries of what we already know and this is the provenance of the Arts. Throughout the ages, the Arts have propelled the human mind to territories beyond the confines of ordinary reality. Art has the power to penetrate to core levels of our Being, reaching below the surface to the primeval substrates of the subconscious and above to the highest levels of super-consciousness. Graced among our many human endeavors, the arts have a unique capacity to transport us past the confines of matter, time, and space. Intuitive revelations, discoveries and inventions, ‘super-conscious’ solutions and inspired visions stream from this potent font of Being beneath the surface of Becoming.”
The Show Notes
Learn more about Dana here at DanaLynneAndersen.com
Learn more about the Awakening Arts Academy: www.awakeningartsacademy
Listen to the last Vital Presence interview here,
Learn about the Ancient Futures performance she did with a group of actors and audience participants and watch the full performance here.
I recently have felt drained and weepy. Come to find out after my heart sound Recording on Saturday my heart was weaker. It was caused from drinking caffeinated drinks like coffee and Yerba Mate. I stopped drinking caffeine back in the 60’s. Long story short when I feel weepy and drained it’s a real challenge to keep my spirits up especially with all that ‘s been going on . As I’m going through withdrawal I’m grateful for my friends, family and classmates in my life. So I understand what you were talking about. Fortunately I’m passionate about my profession.