DWQA QuestionsCategory: Channeling PitfallsWhen a seer speaks of a spiritual reality, they are supposedly speaking as a direct eyewitness. The same as one attempting to describe the Grand Canyon to someone who has never been there, one can never truly impart a full appreciation of the Grand Canyon through mere words or drawings, no matter how eloquent or gifted an artist they might be. What is Creator’s perspective?
Nicola Staff asked 1 year ago
This is a fundamental problem of physical existence, living on the physical plane within a physical body alone, to perceive things and to act in response to what one perceives. This is the basic dilemma of the artist, in wanting to share their vision, so to speak. What they see in their mind cannot be conveyed to another. That is why they engage with some artistic medium of expression—sculpture, craftwork, or painting, for example. What is seen and praised by viewers of art is the quality of the rendering, whether it is evocative, conveys a feeling, opens the mind to a wider perspective and appreciation of something, or perhaps even has a photorealistic level of accuracy in depicting something envisioned that could exist in the real world that truly comes to life as though the artist had been there and taken a photo. All such responses, the feelings, impressions, level of enjoyment, satisfaction, and even upliftment, are an end product of beauty shared in some way, whether the beauty of an idea or the beauty of nature or the beauty of life itself in depicting human activities in an endearing or inspiring or thoughtful way that is true to life. In a sense, you are all like the blind man because your third eye is weak, and often silent and inaccessible, so you are left with the ordinary senses alone, and then the inadequacy of language to truly encompass what is felt that is unique within you as an observer. That is the universal problem and dilemma of human existence and has been the springboard for countless artistic endeavors and literary works of the great authors down through history, all are attempting the same thing, to come to grips with reality and share what is moving to them about the experience. Most of the time they will fall short because it is life experience itself that is the great teacher in conveying the meaning of life and its value. You can read about many such experiences and encounters through books but it is not truly the same as having lived it, but all such works are a contribution because they keep hope alive in your quest for a reunion with the divine you seem to have left behind when you incarnated in the physical and are now cut off through the limits of your senses and understanding.