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Becoming the Atma

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Sowiak, Christine
Author
Downey, William
Accessioned
2014-09-29T17:57:57Z
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2014-11-17T08:00:49Z
Issued
2014-09-29
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2014
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Fine Arts
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Abstract
Yoga is union. Sometimes defined in contemporary culture as a union between mind and body, it is in fact the union between our selves and the hidden sources of phenomenal reality. One of the primary features of a state of Yoga is a silent mind: meditation. My practice uses meditation as a creative instrument to generate forms and images that reflect or transmit an inner life and evolution. In particular, plastic elements like line, rhythm, colour and space can express a subtle knowledge, an "inner" knowledge which is spiritual, or non-phenomenal in nature. A key function of mental silence in the studio is to enable a state I call “vibrant flow” in which limiting ideas and conditionings are restricted in their ability to interfere with intuition’s hints from beyond the rational, time bound mind.
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University of Calgary
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Graduate Studies
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/25101
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http://hdl.handle.net/11023/1831
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