IS SEXUALITY WRONG?
WILL THE ME TOO MOVEMENT GO TOO FAR? Will we take this moment to reclaim sexuality as a means to celebrate life?
Acknowledging the dark hole in our culture that traps women in unwanted sexual situations provides an opening to discuss sexual issues and, if we can see it this way, an opportunity for healing sexual disparity and achieving gender balance. Just under the surface of legitimate practices, men have elevated themselves to positions of power using women like puppeteers to satisfy their sexual desires while blocking those women from expression of their own desires, satisfactions, and expressions of themselves. This system of overpowering and controlling women through sexual predatory behavior is collapsing.
It is an extraordinary moment that peels away the shroud covering manipulation that has been in position for 5000 years. Human history in those 5000 years contains other hopeful moments when women might have regained parity. Will this moment last until women regain their position as fully functioning humans?
As the truth of women as prey subjected to men’s sexual desires is exposed, the other half of the story must also be told. We must now learn the story of how women were deprived of their position in the culture. History must be opened to the events 5000 years ago that unfolded to deprive women of their place in the enactment of life. We must now know that invading iron-weapon carrying, horseback-riding, armor-wearing forces (the Indo Europeans) came across the Caucuses and over-powered the peaceful, unprotected, agrarian settlements of Goddess worshippers. Women, before the imposed domination of men, had been equal partners in societal activities. During 30,000 years of the early history of humankind, sexuality had been the means to celebrate life and the creator of life, the Goddess. The feminine was supreme because new human life emerged through women.
Hidden behind the ugly domination that is now being exposed is the early story of sexuality, a celebration experienced by women and men—a celebration of life, a celebration of the sacredness of life of each other and of the creator of life—the Feminine Principle. During the 5000 years since the initial invasions, women have been made subject to the will of men. Their sexuality has been labelled evil and they have been held in bondage from themselves and their ability to celebrate life.
It is time for us to know that it was just this sexuality that had been at the center of our earlier ancestors lives. In their temples the people celebrated their own highest energy and the supreme energy of their Goddess with sacred sexual encounters. The altars in these temples were platforms on which the priestess of the temple (each women of the community took her turn as priestess) enacted sacred sexuality with the men of the community. After the invasions and the imposition of a god, these ceremonies continued with the consequence that male children were born into the goddess community’s and could not be claimed by their fathers. This reality interfered with the now-dominant culture’s goal of accruing wealth to itself through patrilineal inheritance. The leaders of the conquerors claimed the sexuality in the temples to be evil and imposed strict rules that women be sexual only with their husbands or they be stoned to death. This was the beginning of the blight on sexuality. The withering has continued to our time through 5000 years of decline and distortion during which women have been prisoners to men in one form or another.
Now, 5000 years later, we have so totally corrupted what was beautiful and sacred that men use sexuality to entrap women and women allow this defamation of what had been so sacred to their ancestors
I worry that sexuality itself will be condemned as those who have misused sexuality to achieve power over another are exposed. Instead, let’s use this moment of revealing the truth to find out the truth about our sexual nature. Let’s use this moment to talk about our sexuality and explore the beauty of it. Let’s bring ourselves to admit the truth of the importance of sexuality in our lives. Let’s explore the means to make sexuality even more beautiful and powerful as the gift that awakens us to the most wonderful energy of celebration. And let’s let our children in on the secret.
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
The Problem and The Solution
Over many years of hearing women pray in the purification lodge and recount vision-quest discoveries, I know that women suffer from injuries of incest, rape, harassment, and molestation, and that these wounds are signs of the imbalance that still exists between men and women. As the leader of Native American transformational ceremonies, these facts were confirmed for me again and again over more than twenty years. Women are not full participants. One way they are kept in their “place” is by sexual injustices. Women have jobs. They make money, but they do not have an equal voice in setting priorities and goals in the agenda. Tell me: Why can’t we as a culture do our part to halt global warming? Why can’t we stop manufacturing of Styrofoam and throwing it into the ocean? The male owned corporations drive the boat and these are not priorities for them. Would we be more effective in finding solutions if women were more prominent in identifying the major questions?
In me it feels as if so much more is possible.
This wonderful planet is a paradise within which to celebrate and we are given all the means to enact a totally joyous life. We have the place, the potential energy, the gifts of imagination and physical abilities, even, often, the insight into what must be done. Why isn’t life a continuous enactment of joy for all of us?
We do not know that what is given is perfect for the enactment of full-time celebration, or we act as if we do not know the blessing of all the gifts given individually and collectively that could be used to make each moment a pleasure, filled with desires and the possibility of satisfaction. Instead we walk around with scowls not knowing what to do, asking for more, and waging war against our brothers and sisters. What is the matter with us?
Right now, today, people everywhere are living in fear and dying because someone else wants power over them. In the United States a few really wealthy men have taken the right to dominate the outcome and the reality of the way my life is. How is it that unlimited sums can be spent on directing the outcome of elections, but those same dollars cannot be counted to help defray the national debt?
We are drowning in an awful tide of forgetfulness comprised of lust, greed, and power quests. We must fight back. We really cannot allow someone else to say whether and how we will mother our children.
Where does the energy come from that will make change happen, and how does fighting back bring to life a better picture in which everyone regains the right to find the joy in their own lives?
I believe that the energy called for is radically different from the energy existing all around us that is being used to forge the way into lust, greed, and power. The radically different energy will be found as women lift themselves from the cocoons of restraint and identify their own true natures. Women acting as women have potential to access answers that have been hidden while their energy and voices have been repressed. We are given the problem and the solution. The point is: 1) We are urgently in need of a solution that will allow the truth to reign and the people to experience freedom to make their own choices; 2) The truth of women’s energy, long hidden, holds the potential to alter our course and bring us back to balance and health. When women have the courage to choose to be themselves and function in a reality that nourishes them, they will find that energy.
That energy is found in our sexuality. Yes, the very act that we have been taught to hide and fear holds the potential to heal us. Sexual energy already exists in our physical bodies but we have been disconnected from its availability and its power to inform and direct us by declarations of immorality made by leaders in ancient times who eradicated the Goddess cultures in which sexuality was the means of celebrating the Divine and the divine in the beings of the people. The fear and denial surrounding sexual activity is a learned trait imposed by religious leaders who wanted control over women in their Goddess centered societies in order to install their own God centered religions on the people. The reclaiming of memory and accessing the reality of the power of sexuality to empower and enhance the quality of our lives will be no small task. Major religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Mohammadism, hold strongly to the principle of women’s fundamentally evil and immoral being revealed in their sexual nature and activity. Established on the foundation of Goddess worshipping cultures, these major religions wrote into their religious codas, the Koran and the Bible, the instructions of their Gods to overthrow the religions existing in the areas of their emergence. Those were the Goddess worshipping religions, well established for tens of thousands of years. Because sexuality was the major means of celebrating and worshipping the Goddess in the temples, and because the fathers of children born of this worship could not be identified, sexuality was attacked by the new, male oriented religions and cultures that were seeking dominance. So, even though access to the source of energy that will return women to their former knowledge of their own wisdom and power and their potential to bring light to the problems we currently face already exists, the forces acting against this memory are very strong and present. Even though there is no need to search in unknown corners for re-empowerment of women, we must find the way to remember the legitimate place our sexuality holds in the five aspects that make us human and reinstall it there. We must remember even while we continue to be taught that pleasure in sexual experience is evil. We must remember and begin again to practice the fact that the pleasure and magnified energy of our sexual experience identifies us as human as much as our opposing thumb, our conscious mind that does math problems and tells stories, our emotions that direct our attention to significant action, and our ability to identify the sacredness of life. This memory must be pulled back from its hidden place in the collective consciousness in spite of the influence on major segments of the world’s population still imposed by the Koran and the Bible which have been constructed to keep us from doing just this. Even though the answer is at hand, the resistance will be great.
Think of the higher vibration you experience in the moments of orgasm. That is energy. Think of the alignment of molecules you know has occurred in the instant of climax. That is energy free of kinks and barriers: totally available. We trivialize this blessing while advancing the importance of the other aspects of life: mind, emotions, physical body, and spirituality. We put it after dark in hidden places often with people we do not know or have any feelings for. This is not the sexuality I am speaking of. This is the perversion that has developed as we have remained in hiding from the essence of our own being and the power released by the spark of orgasm, as we have allowed ourselves to be indoctrinated by forces seeking power over us
I am trying to do what must be done to redirect our energy and allow truth to prevail. I am one of the ones who has been silenced. I am still encountering resistance.
In me it feels as if so much more is possible.
This wonderful planet is a paradise within which to celebrate and we are given all the means to enact a totally joyous life. We have the place, the potential energy, the gifts of imagination and physical abilities, even, often, the insight into what must be done. Why isn’t life a continuous enactment of joy for all of us?
We do not know that what is given is perfect for the enactment of full-time celebration, or we act as if we do not know the blessing of all the gifts given individually and collectively that could be used to make each moment a pleasure, filled with desires and the possibility of satisfaction. Instead we walk around with scowls not knowing what to do, asking for more, and waging war against our brothers and sisters. What is the matter with us?
Right now, today, people everywhere are living in fear and dying because someone else wants power over them. In the United States a few really wealthy men have taken the right to dominate the outcome and the reality of the way my life is. How is it that unlimited sums can be spent on directing the outcome of elections, but those same dollars cannot be counted to help defray the national debt?
We are drowning in an awful tide of forgetfulness comprised of lust, greed, and power quests. We must fight back. We really cannot allow someone else to say whether and how we will mother our children.
Where does the energy come from that will make change happen, and how does fighting back bring to life a better picture in which everyone regains the right to find the joy in their own lives?
I believe that the energy called for is radically different from the energy existing all around us that is being used to forge the way into lust, greed, and power. The radically different energy will be found as women lift themselves from the cocoons of restraint and identify their own true natures. Women acting as women have potential to access answers that have been hidden while their energy and voices have been repressed. We are given the problem and the solution. The point is: 1) We are urgently in need of a solution that will allow the truth to reign and the people to experience freedom to make their own choices; 2) The truth of women’s energy, long hidden, holds the potential to alter our course and bring us back to balance and health. When women have the courage to choose to be themselves and function in a reality that nourishes them, they will find that energy.
That energy is found in our sexuality. Yes, the very act that we have been taught to hide and fear holds the potential to heal us. Sexual energy already exists in our physical bodies but we have been disconnected from its availability and its power to inform and direct us by declarations of immorality made by leaders in ancient times who eradicated the Goddess cultures in which sexuality was the means of celebrating the Divine and the divine in the beings of the people. The fear and denial surrounding sexual activity is a learned trait imposed by religious leaders who wanted control over women in their Goddess centered societies in order to install their own God centered religions on the people. The reclaiming of memory and accessing the reality of the power of sexuality to empower and enhance the quality of our lives will be no small task. Major religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Mohammadism, hold strongly to the principle of women’s fundamentally evil and immoral being revealed in their sexual nature and activity. Established on the foundation of Goddess worshipping cultures, these major religions wrote into their religious codas, the Koran and the Bible, the instructions of their Gods to overthrow the religions existing in the areas of their emergence. Those were the Goddess worshipping religions, well established for tens of thousands of years. Because sexuality was the major means of celebrating and worshipping the Goddess in the temples, and because the fathers of children born of this worship could not be identified, sexuality was attacked by the new, male oriented religions and cultures that were seeking dominance. So, even though access to the source of energy that will return women to their former knowledge of their own wisdom and power and their potential to bring light to the problems we currently face already exists, the forces acting against this memory are very strong and present. Even though there is no need to search in unknown corners for re-empowerment of women, we must find the way to remember the legitimate place our sexuality holds in the five aspects that make us human and reinstall it there. We must remember even while we continue to be taught that pleasure in sexual experience is evil. We must remember and begin again to practice the fact that the pleasure and magnified energy of our sexual experience identifies us as human as much as our opposing thumb, our conscious mind that does math problems and tells stories, our emotions that direct our attention to significant action, and our ability to identify the sacredness of life. This memory must be pulled back from its hidden place in the collective consciousness in spite of the influence on major segments of the world’s population still imposed by the Koran and the Bible which have been constructed to keep us from doing just this. Even though the answer is at hand, the resistance will be great.
Think of the higher vibration you experience in the moments of orgasm. That is energy. Think of the alignment of molecules you know has occurred in the instant of climax. That is energy free of kinks and barriers: totally available. We trivialize this blessing while advancing the importance of the other aspects of life: mind, emotions, physical body, and spirituality. We put it after dark in hidden places often with people we do not know or have any feelings for. This is not the sexuality I am speaking of. This is the perversion that has developed as we have remained in hiding from the essence of our own being and the power released by the spark of orgasm, as we have allowed ourselves to be indoctrinated by forces seeking power over us
I am trying to do what must be done to redirect our energy and allow truth to prevail. I am one of the ones who has been silenced. I am still encountering resistance.
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
The Sham of Equality
In modern times we have not been aware of the moment in history when this curtailment occurred, or even that there was such a moment when limitations were imposed on our being. The suffragists of the 1850’s began a call for liberation without awareness of the goddess worshipping cultures in which women organized and managed the growth of what we now call civilization. Brave women of the 19th Century saw inequity between men and women with no means of reflecting back on their ancient sisters, who, following the melt of the ices learned from gathering that planted seeds could produce multiple new grains. These women, eons ago, nourished the growth of agriculture and the storage of grains which became the measure of wealth of those people.
In the early part of the twentieth century, another eruption of feminine energy brought pressure to the male dominated government to allow women to vote. The equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution finally adopted by Congress went down to defeat in the states after a hard fought battle. In 1982, time expired for ratification by 38 states with approval by 36, certainly a strong indicator of remaining resistance to women occupying their full position in the culture. But still, now, women own property, sign their own checks and credit charges, get loans for new automobiles, graduate from undergraduate and graduate schools in large numbers with high achievement, hold responsible jobs, become CEO’s, and achieve closer and closer salary parody. Things have changed. The situation is much different than it was in the childhood of my grandmother—even my mother—even my childhood. Women have choices and possibilities for high degrees of success in expressing themselves through the way that they live.
So, why do I still feel concern around the issue of where women are in the use of their life-force compared to where they could be? Why do I want more? Why do I feel that so much more is possible?
In spite of the changes and women’s increased contributions to who we are as a culture, what we think is important, how we act, and what we do, there remains the imposed limitation of a framework within which all of life takes place, a framework that would not have been chosen if women had been using their voices and summoning their intent as the plans were being drawn up, a framework that does not include a focus on what women find important in life and how it is lived. It is where we are going and the means we choose to get there that concern me. It is the choices women are making to fit in to the way things are that bothers me. It is the focus of intent and effort on getting ahead in a system that is known to be harming the planet and everything on it that raises my alarm and forces me to look closely at the problem of who women are and what they must do. Women are, after all, at least half of the wisdom and energy available for solving problems, setting goals, designing a way of living that allows joy and abundance for everyone. Do they really want to fit into a system that puts lust, greed, and power in front as guiding principles for life?
My questions are: “How can we make a new framework?” “How can the voice of women connected to the truth of who they are be integrated into society’s plans?” “What would the guiding principles be of a plan agreed upon by men and women awake and aware of their true natures, their actual needs, their gifts in life, and the purpose of living?” I am not talking here about needs contrived by industries that manipulate minds to create needs for their products. I’m talking about the authentic woman aware of herself, her true needs, her actual connections to life and what is important about living.
The women’s movement of the 70’s and 80’s brought awareness to everyone that women could participate more profoundly in their own lives and in life around them. The men moved over a little bit. They harnessed their fears and shut their mouths and gave a little.
OK-we will not open doors for you.
OK-we will not stand back and let you go first.
OK-we will not lay our coats in the gutter to keep the filth off your dress (and we will clean those gutters).
We might listen to what you have to say.
We will raise your pay.
We might vote for you if you run for political office.
But we will not give you all the secrets that we have horded for 5,000 years. We will not let you into our inner world, and we will not share the greater wealth. We will pretend that you are one of us, but we will continue to incest our grandchildren and rape your daughters. We will act kindly, but we will know that we are still in charge and you have little hope of rising to the top of our system.
It is this sham of equality that bothers me. It is women’s willingness to accept only one piece of their own pie that forces me to speak out. It is the lack of courage among women to address the real and lasting pain of their own betrayals and the hands ruined in ineffectual hammering on the door to possibility that cries for attention. The problem of women being fully alive in their own lives is not solved.
You may not think this is a problem. Maybe you have beaten the odds and risen to a very high level in the activity of life. Maybe it doesn’t take much to allow you to feel happy. Maybe you haven’t noticed sisters languishing, or the ones who are hiding because their uncle incested them or their school mate raped them. Maybe you are satisfied with your minimum piece of the pie. Maybe you think that is all there is.
I am not satisfied. I know that something truthful and abundant is missing.
In the early part of the twentieth century, another eruption of feminine energy brought pressure to the male dominated government to allow women to vote. The equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution finally adopted by Congress went down to defeat in the states after a hard fought battle. In 1982, time expired for ratification by 38 states with approval by 36, certainly a strong indicator of remaining resistance to women occupying their full position in the culture. But still, now, women own property, sign their own checks and credit charges, get loans for new automobiles, graduate from undergraduate and graduate schools in large numbers with high achievement, hold responsible jobs, become CEO’s, and achieve closer and closer salary parody. Things have changed. The situation is much different than it was in the childhood of my grandmother—even my mother—even my childhood. Women have choices and possibilities for high degrees of success in expressing themselves through the way that they live.
So, why do I still feel concern around the issue of where women are in the use of their life-force compared to where they could be? Why do I want more? Why do I feel that so much more is possible?
In spite of the changes and women’s increased contributions to who we are as a culture, what we think is important, how we act, and what we do, there remains the imposed limitation of a framework within which all of life takes place, a framework that would not have been chosen if women had been using their voices and summoning their intent as the plans were being drawn up, a framework that does not include a focus on what women find important in life and how it is lived. It is where we are going and the means we choose to get there that concern me. It is the choices women are making to fit in to the way things are that bothers me. It is the focus of intent and effort on getting ahead in a system that is known to be harming the planet and everything on it that raises my alarm and forces me to look closely at the problem of who women are and what they must do. Women are, after all, at least half of the wisdom and energy available for solving problems, setting goals, designing a way of living that allows joy and abundance for everyone. Do they really want to fit into a system that puts lust, greed, and power in front as guiding principles for life?
My questions are: “How can we make a new framework?” “How can the voice of women connected to the truth of who they are be integrated into society’s plans?” “What would the guiding principles be of a plan agreed upon by men and women awake and aware of their true natures, their actual needs, their gifts in life, and the purpose of living?” I am not talking here about needs contrived by industries that manipulate minds to create needs for their products. I’m talking about the authentic woman aware of herself, her true needs, her actual connections to life and what is important about living.
The women’s movement of the 70’s and 80’s brought awareness to everyone that women could participate more profoundly in their own lives and in life around them. The men moved over a little bit. They harnessed their fears and shut their mouths and gave a little.
OK-we will not open doors for you.
OK-we will not stand back and let you go first.
OK-we will not lay our coats in the gutter to keep the filth off your dress (and we will clean those gutters).
We might listen to what you have to say.
We will raise your pay.
We might vote for you if you run for political office.
But we will not give you all the secrets that we have horded for 5,000 years. We will not let you into our inner world, and we will not share the greater wealth. We will pretend that you are one of us, but we will continue to incest our grandchildren and rape your daughters. We will act kindly, but we will know that we are still in charge and you have little hope of rising to the top of our system.
It is this sham of equality that bothers me. It is women’s willingness to accept only one piece of their own pie that forces me to speak out. It is the lack of courage among women to address the real and lasting pain of their own betrayals and the hands ruined in ineffectual hammering on the door to possibility that cries for attention. The problem of women being fully alive in their own lives is not solved.
You may not think this is a problem. Maybe you have beaten the odds and risen to a very high level in the activity of life. Maybe it doesn’t take much to allow you to feel happy. Maybe you haven’t noticed sisters languishing, or the ones who are hiding because their uncle incested them or their school mate raped them. Maybe you are satisfied with your minimum piece of the pie. Maybe you think that is all there is.
I am not satisfied. I know that something truthful and abundant is missing.
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
5000 Year Journey
After a journey lasting 5,000 years, women are at another moment of breaking the barricades set up to surround their energy and activity with resistance. Right now, there is a chance that gender balance can become a reality. We could find a way to achieve balance and harmony within, between, and among women and men in a celebration of life.
Women must make changes because it is their energy that has been curtailed. When appropriate shifts have been discovered and made by women, it will be apparent what men must do to achieve and maintain the outcome of gender balance.
What is it that women must do to make this shift occurs? How is it that we are to be women in the truth of that form? How is it that we are to discover our true natures and their appropriate behaviors? How do we remove the restraints? How do we draw a new picture of cultural form and practice that takes into account the authentic contribution of women? How do we find the form of these contributions untainted by the colors and shapes of the dominant description of what life is and what is meant to happen? How do we bring into focus the faint image that has appeared as women have taken the brave steps of breaking out of the cocoons built around them in order to keep them in check? Is there a role for men as women re-awaken to their ancient roots and their innate power and worth?
These are some of the questions that must be faced.
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Time Running Out
My time is running out because my progress has been slow, caught in the barbed-wire of early training and experiences. But, no problem, I would not have had the insight if those barbs had not poked holes in the fabric of reality I had been given.
“Time running out” sounds like a lament. People out there now want to believe that the problem surrounding women’s place and being in society is solved. They no longer have to deal with it our think about it. The traces of misogyny, disrespect, resistance to equality have gone underground, not recognized by even by those who harbor them Resistance to women as equal participants is not gone; it has receded and now hidden so that it is more difficult to treat and eradicate.
In our attempts to know everything we miss the obvious fact: what is known and does not need to be studied.
I wish to tell this story from the perspective of “What I Would Say to My Granddaughter If I Could Get Her Attention”. Her eyes cannot see me: they are occupied with beautiful guys. Her ears cannot hear me: one is blocked by her Ipod, the other by her cell-phone. Her hands cannot touch me: they must tech-message. So, I will speak to all women and through them to all the people.
So, I ask, is there actually any more work for women in finding the truth of who they are in how to inact it in their lives?
“Time running out” sounds like a lament. People out there now want to believe that the problem surrounding women’s place and being in society is solved. They no longer have to deal with it our think about it. The traces of misogyny, disrespect, resistance to equality have gone underground, not recognized by even by those who harbor them Resistance to women as equal participants is not gone; it has receded and now hidden so that it is more difficult to treat and eradicate.
In our attempts to know everything we miss the obvious fact: what is known and does not need to be studied.
I wish to tell this story from the perspective of “What I Would Say to My Granddaughter If I Could Get Her Attention”. Her eyes cannot see me: they are occupied with beautiful guys. Her ears cannot hear me: one is blocked by her Ipod, the other by her cell-phone. Her hands cannot touch me: they must tech-message. So, I will speak to all women and through them to all the people.
So, I ask, is there actually any more work for women in finding the truth of who they are in how to inact it in their lives?
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Galleria Leukos Artist Article by Frederico
Sisterhood in no way implies misandry.
According to Corbet, woman is the origin of the world. Without a doubt
Lynn Creighton wouldn’t contradict him. At the very most would she find him a bit faint-hearted, falling far short of the truth. The work of this American artist is entirely vested in the celebration of the feminine principle.
For all that, let us not think that Lynn Creighton is like Egeria (a nymph
advisor to the second legendary king of Rome, Numa Pompilius), a
representative of political feminism, a worshipper of canonical feminism, as a fixed caricature. No, she is an ambassador of femininity in its globalness, its cosmic aspect, its reality as universal vector of the continuity of existence and perhaps also of the continuity of more subtle principles (which still elude our understanding) of the deep reality of appearances.
To say of her that she is a priestess of Demeter, a messenger of Tiran
(island and narrow straits in between the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea),
perpetuator of the cult of Aphrodite, would be dismissive; to convince oneself (of this) it is only necessary to examine her sculptures. Looking them over one soon understands that beyond the representation--often hyperbolic--of physical characteristics that are specifically feminine, she speaks to us above all of the body: not at all searching to flatter the plastic for its own sake, but for the purpose of making us rediscover fundamental principles which centuries of obscurantism--cultural, religious, and social--have desperately tried to destroy, but which have succeeded only in masking them.
Lynn Creighton makes herself a proselyte of that femininity which
ancient cultures, ever since the Aurignacian and its steatopygous Venuses had, through anthropomorphism, transformed into deities named Gaia, Inanna,
Astarte--all incarnations of primordial forces at once ephemeral and immortal, which support the essential energy transmitted along the thread of existence by the omnipotent entity called Life (capable of taking many forms). Complex form, at once universal and unique, of which the ineluctable apoptosis (falling away, like petals and leaves) appears indispensable to subsequent cosmogenesis and which, by some disruptive procedure, slips at the moment of death into the following abstract expression of entity which, by doing this, teaches us that existence is discontinuous but also at the same time eternal Life.
2011 april 9
According to Corbet, woman is the origin of the world. Without a doubt
Lynn Creighton wouldn’t contradict him. At the very most would she find him a bit faint-hearted, falling far short of the truth. The work of this American artist is entirely vested in the celebration of the feminine principle.
For all that, let us not think that Lynn Creighton is like Egeria (a nymph
advisor to the second legendary king of Rome, Numa Pompilius), a
representative of political feminism, a worshipper of canonical feminism, as a fixed caricature. No, she is an ambassador of femininity in its globalness, its cosmic aspect, its reality as universal vector of the continuity of existence and perhaps also of the continuity of more subtle principles (which still elude our understanding) of the deep reality of appearances.
To say of her that she is a priestess of Demeter, a messenger of Tiran
(island and narrow straits in between the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea),
perpetuator of the cult of Aphrodite, would be dismissive; to convince oneself (of this) it is only necessary to examine her sculptures. Looking them over one soon understands that beyond the representation--often hyperbolic--of physical characteristics that are specifically feminine, she speaks to us above all of the body: not at all searching to flatter the plastic for its own sake, but for the purpose of making us rediscover fundamental principles which centuries of obscurantism--cultural, religious, and social--have desperately tried to destroy, but which have succeeded only in masking them.
Lynn Creighton makes herself a proselyte of that femininity which
ancient cultures, ever since the Aurignacian and its steatopygous Venuses had, through anthropomorphism, transformed into deities named Gaia, Inanna,
Astarte--all incarnations of primordial forces at once ephemeral and immortal, which support the essential energy transmitted along the thread of existence by the omnipotent entity called Life (capable of taking many forms). Complex form, at once universal and unique, of which the ineluctable apoptosis (falling away, like petals and leaves) appears indispensable to subsequent cosmogenesis and which, by some disruptive procedure, slips at the moment of death into the following abstract expression of entity which, by doing this, teaches us that existence is discontinuous but also at the same time eternal Life.
2011 april 9
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Celebration of Life exhibit opens at Studio at Channel Islands Art Center in Camarillo
“Celebrating Life” reflects three artists’ interpretations of the potential for life to be a celebration as each person recognizes the gift of who he or she actually is. When all of these blessings are manifest the energy to live fully increases. Life becomes a celebration with the personal strength and wisdom gained by moving through pitfalls, trials, problems and distractions. Loss causes pain that fully infuses the will to live with energy to engage in the whole process. How we use our time and attention, how we focus, how we laugh, sing, dance, play and make love reflect our decision to fully celebrate ourselves and kindle the spark of life within us all."
Lynn
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