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July 2009 
Ultimate Art: 2/11/1983
Posted on Feb 2nd, 2008
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jikishin
jikishin
I've been enjoying recollecting the idealism and positive orientation of my youth.
Having recently 'sent home', across country, for the notes and journals of my teens I want to share a page written 25 years ago this week.
Ultimate Art
February 11, 1983 Ultimate Art
1. manifests the (a) direct impression / expression.
2. comes from and is for the present.
3. is really alive.
4. is Holistic.
5. is Universally lawful.
6. is Naturally appropriate.
7. is indenpendent of limitation.
8. is dependent on Blessing.
9. is beneficial to local and global conditions.
10. exists only in service of Humanity [arrow] Divinity.
11. is an ever immediate challenge belonging to practical reality.
12. always involves utilizing comprehensive responsibility.
13. happens in significance.
14. effects life when and as necessary.
15. helps expand and extend the capacities and capabilities of its experiential participants.
16. is not necessarily placed in or on a vehical to facilitate its (solely) material passage through time other than its experiential acquirement and retainment by intelligence.
17. is presupposed by Empirical Engineering though unforeshown by such instrumentation, calculation and structural methodologies, thus characterized by Synergenic Revelation, the individual and collective sensing/perception of Glory.
18. in immediate retrospect exemplifies the Mystery of Birth/Growth.
19. augments, teaches, sanctions and fosters LOVE. (unity, wholeness-holiness)
The reverse of that page reads:
As if true Philosophy were Joseph, and true Religion, Mary, and Science and Technology the dream warning and burro in flight from Bethlehem, Ultimate Art can be likened to the arrival of Jesus Christ.
"As experience is directly related to religion, so observation is correlated to philosophy"
- Hall - The Culture of the Mind, pg. 23
Was that Edward T. Hall, or Manly P. Hall ?
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I find it humbling to notice how powerfully formative that phase was for me, and how, in revisiting earlier writing, I recall the authentic audacity of setting a course and embarking.
It might have been Wordsworth (who I haven't read since then) who said, "The child is father to the man".
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Amazing, Kerry. This piece of son-as-father-to-the-man. How old were you then? 19 - 20? What a course to set so young! I could see myself, having followed such trail that led you to this writing, having written it just so and then as me, proceeded to defy it, to not chop the wood and carry the water of art with such conviction in mind. This doesn't seem to have been the case with you. I ignored that part, until now, but didn't miss much of the rest. You have perhaps missed some of what I have seen, or perhaps not seen it yet. I can tell you that it does not matter, this part that might have been missed by you, as it, for me, though not regrettable, was still traffic away from the bridge.
Through this writing, I have come to remember my own youthfully “serious” musings and how many of them were subjugated to the immediacy of pleasure and quick reward. Now, through such painful wanderings, I feel returned to the morning shore where the muse is still the same but somehow the voice is no longer stilted.
love,
Michael
So it is , Michael,
I put this up and stepped away from the screen, walked across the house thinking of you.
I'm feeling a 'late on-set' of the implications of that early reckoning, re-warding the author with an attention suspended in a long and defuse exile from those convictions.
How happy I am that we are at this, respectively, poised at the habit of begining, following through, picking up where we were left off at our own further entering the world as it further entered us.
love indeed, K
Amen, dear brother, amen.
Hi, brother Kerry,
Thank you for this inspirational blog entry. It is remarkable, isn't it, when we peer through time and see ourselves as boys again, fathering who we are to become – sometimes, as you and Michael have both hinted, with a founding intention that is both naive and wise. Innocent and childish in its formulation, perhaps, and yet bearing seeds that are authentic, springing from the unseen depths of our spirits.
Inspired by your example, I dug out some old journals this evening and found something I wrote when I was the same age as you were when you authored this vision of “sacred art.” My mind was on a monastic vocation at the time. I have just posted two journal entries from this period on my blog – on purification and prayer.
Warm wishes,
Bruce