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Nostalgia for Dream Time

A major recent shift has been the imposition of human premeditation and devising upon the realm of dreams. People thinking they are doing the humanities when they are rather playing with a computerization antithetical to most human forms of wisdom can now plot as well as perceive the dreams of others. The type of thinking at the helm of such projects, since it identifies and defines, precludes what dreams once were as the realm of the unidentified and undefined.

A core question is about the fear of the right-brained form of wisdom by the left-brain. This has played out in the centuries via phenomena as varied as Nazi science, the medical study of Pablo Picasso in a glass cell by scientists who were bothered they could not understand him, and the extermination of right-brained thinkers from the earth. Science very recently backpedaled slightly upon seeing a scientific infographic of the darkness of computerization devouring the brightest auras on the planet.

The formlessness that emerged in art in the 20th century was so castigated by rigid society the artists were called degenerates. In the Toltec tradition, one of the most ancient wisdom traditions on the earth rooted in the North American southwest, rather, both the first attention – similar to left-brainedness – and the second attention – similar to right-brainedness, but medically that is the use of the more “primal” areas of the brain like the cerebellum, are requisites of the wisest. And Buddhism, perhaps because of China most connected to exacting wisdom and predictions, has suggested bright people remain on the earth to spiritually heal humanity.

What is the left brain afraid of? Computers don’t like surprises. My paintings and drawings in this series should ignite the right-brained, feeling, second attention capacities inherent to people whether they are left-brained dominant or not, because as humans we are all innately both thinking and feeling, but centering their “rational” awareness, if it can be called awareness, in the frontal cortex most people alive on the earth often cannot respond anymore to the experiences abstract art elicits. Those who think economics are more important than tens of thousands of years of human wisdom should taste their own medicine and wonder about morals. If samsara is real, the victims of exterminations might not really be gone from phenomena, but access to forms of intellect we cannot do without has been diminished.