Projects
Spirit Depiction Art
1. Introduction
One great mystical project you can do is to exercise your drawing abilities (we all have some!) to depict your spirit friends and the place you visit astrally. In your journals of dreams and inspirations, you will often discover that the time will come when only a diagram will do to carry further the complex meanings and relationships that your spiritual growth is uncovering. My own journals are full of little quick sketches, of cosmological maps, unusual environments, and spirit poses and faces. From these starting points, you can use easy materials like lead pencil, colored pencils, or pastels to further develop the scenes that your clarivoyance (clear vision) has been glimpsing.
You can keep a drawing simple to record only what you saw directly, or you may experiment with trusting your imagination to fill in some more detail. Many people find that even the most primitive spirit drawing is tantamount to taking another step in growth, because ensuing meditations and dreams may re-engage the scenes and beings with increased clarity, purpose, and intimacy.
For example, Monica Szu-Whitney's wonderful book Portals and Corridors boldly presents the pastels she did of outer/inner space beings, whom she later could journey out of body to visit and learn from, each time discovering that yes she got by clairvoyant intuition all the details right. Beings will often come again just to say thank you for drawing me; I know a friend for whom this happened after she felt moved to do a repainting of a classic image of Emanuel Swedenborg. Even if a revisitation does not occur, it is just plain comforting to have some "photos" of your spiritual encounters. The motivation and ability are entirely up to you, because at least for now you are your mind's own and only camera.
To get my own spirit depiction muscles moving, in July of 2000 I attended with my fiancee a workshop led by famed visionary artist Alex Grey. Alex revealed to us that he was also the Belgian symbolist painter Jean Delville ( - 1953), who has returned just as he said he would to continue to lead and teach as necessary the Mission of Art, which is that of making the soul visible. Alex and his soulmate Allyson are very approachable and supportive people, candid about the paths which have gotten them this far (ways which were not always clear and easy!), and the facilities of surrounding camp Omega were well worth a solid fee.
It makes sense that it might take an extra commitment of time, money, effort, etc. for anyone to activate their artistry, since spirit depiction requires both the sixth chakra (the third eye) for the initial imagery, as well as the third chakra for the action in the world and commanding of resources which can produce the drawings that others will be able to hold and find inspiration within. Even if you never show your drawings to anyone else (from lack of courage or for just plain personal psychic safety reasons), you will yourself at times be an other who is in need of boost and spiritual reminding. You can look back through your portfolio on a so-to-speak rainy day and say wow, was I really there?! And you will say yes, yes, that does seem familiar, beautiful and right. It's making more sense now, it's coming back to me.
Spirit depiction is in this way a bold transportation device, a mission reactivator, and a step toward living in the spiritually illustrative world which we all have with God created but forgotten how.
