Salvador Dali
June 10, 2008
I will reproduce the following link:
Dalí was able to create what he called “hand painted dream photographs” which were physical, painted representations of the hallucinations and images he would see while in his paranoid state. Although he certainly had his own load of mental problems to bear, it can be said that Dalí’s delusions and paranoid hallucinations did not totally dominate his mind, as he was able to convey them to canvas.
Being a painter of miraculous skill, he was capable of reproducing his myriad fantasies and hallucinations as visual illusions on canvas.
“The only difference between myself and a madman, is that I am not mad!”
In Dalí’s own words, taken from his Conquest of the Irrational:
“My whole ambition in the pictorial domain is to materialize the images of my concrete irrationality with the most imperialist fury of precision…
He then goes on to say:
“Paranoiac-critical activity organizes and objectivizes in an exclusivist manner the limitless and unknown possibilities of the systematic association of subjective and objective ’significance’ in the irrational…”
“..it makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality”
The Essence of Family and Freinds
June 1, 2008
There is nothing quite as sweet and simple as spending with faithful companions such as family and freinds: it is truly a blessing. And let it be known: i use the word faithful to imply the fact that in the presence of such people one feels significantly more essential. I am bringing back the importance of defintions: i am deciding to enlighten myself on the pleasure of accuracy.
Perhaps it is that these people, whether they be newfound strangers which welcome you in thier homes shaking with a firm hand insisting on comfort, or family from birth that provide you with love, the result is the same: faith. I speak of faith in the sense that its essence attributes not only to your overall well being but to your accumalated worth: your essence
Essence is a term that signifies not only what the metaphysics call “the soul” but also what you as this human experiance has managed to understand and, essentially, undertake as a responsibility…It is a responsibility of the mind to perceive both matter and time and formulate existence, and thus essence is best understood in your entire connection to the term consciousness.
What are you then concious of? The answer is essence, of self-worth and understanding, knowledge- of your experiances both in and out the mind. Acknowleding the essence of the self is perhaps one of the most important and essential aspects of Man.
In the same way a musician relates his essence to a fretboard and plays upon certain tones and sounds, human beings must also play upon the hearts of others. Our vocal chords speak and communicate stringing together sounds to formulate coherent thoughts derived from the mind- this is the essence of the mind.
Let this not be confused with the essence of the self. Although they are similiar in nature and highly relevant to eathother, they are both independent in that they unique aspects which attribute to our understanding of the phenomena of being…of us as entity-beings. It is easiest to understnading this by believing in that memorable feeling of faith…
And thus we return to our family and freinds. How obvious it is to you I do not know, but we can speak genetically and say that our mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, even strangers and the unknown pose some relevance to our essence. As relatives at a thanksgiving dinner one could perhaps feel the self being much more vibrant and alive. It is in this awesome power of love and faith that humans exist most happily.
What is the purpose of life? I believe the universe exists as a perpetual cycle of intricate both complex and individual creations as small as a pebble or tall as a rock- it is as varied as the shells by the sea. The purpose of life is to create.
The universe, life and its many facets is like an endless ocean bursting with waves and energy with no end going beyond the shore. The sky and sea are tied together and physics can state the states: our human eye perceives solids, liquids, and air- we are a collective jumble of Jargon and we listen to Jung or Freud or our fathers or mothers, our sisters and brothers, our teachers and enemies alike.
The universe is then perhaps just a constant flow of inspiration that determines its dynamic energy in an endless manner. Take music for example: it is a metaphor for what is constantly fluctuating around us: frequencies both high and low, good and bad, major and minor, black and white, hate and love-
Life for the human mind is emotions just as it is essential and this is how we perceive.
And so let it be known: Live.
