Becoming the Atma
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2014-09-29
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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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Downey, W. (2014). Becoming the Atma (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/25101