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| 1. timelessness–potentiality |
Although most people don’t want to acknowledge it, we are facing a devastating multidimensional crisis on the earth.
We are running out of fresh water. We are running out of food supplies. We are running low on fossil fuels. The system is broken because it’s not delivering justice, and its not delivering environmental protections, it’s not delivering human rights.
All of this; it can, and it won’t.
I think it’s becoming more and more obvious that this is a crucial time of transformation on the earth. It’s just the initial resistance to change. That’s how we progress; we put ourselves out of the comfort zone.
This question of what will happen in 2012 may just be the wrong question.
We should be asking what type of change we can bring about in this time. It doesn’t happen by someone snapping their fingers. People have to do something to make it happen. Social, big, huge change can come through personal change.
This is it… I mean this is our source of life.
The only way we can possibly take care of everybody is to design a revolution doing more with less. Just that idea can shift the worldview. Why can’t we repurpose the technical genius of the modern western consciousness to sustainability?
The potentiality in this time is enormous.
Climate change is accelerating. The melting of the polar icecaps are exceeding predictions that even came from a year or two ago. In 30 years 25% of all species will be extinct. Our civilization as we have constructed it is completely unsustainable.
I mean it’s very confusing; we are in this affluent society, if you live in the modern world you still have everything you want. The fish comes right to your plate. You can go and buy any fabric from any country in the world.
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| 2. fallacies of man |
It’s very confusing, when you begin to read about all these changes that are happening to the planet.
Time has become so central to this crisis we are in. It’s pretty interesting if you think about the metaphors we use when we talk about time.
We talk about wasting time, spending time, not having enough time, running out of time, and time is money. So we are constantly thinking about time as something spatial; something that is ahead of us, which we can somehow reach out and grasp, and every time we try to grasp it; it’s not there anymore.
In a way it’s very ironic if you think about the whole purpose of creating industrial civilization, and learning how to do all this stuff with technology and machines. You’d think it would be that we could take it easy.
It’s like some strange trick has been perpetrated upon us.
The modern way of thinking about indigenous tribal cultures is that they were mis-based and superstitious. It may be that cultures like the Mayans and other indigenous cultures did have their own knowledge system that was as meaningful as ours, but they were just interested in very different aspects of reality.
Different aspects of “being” and "experiencing".
There is this whole dimension of the psyche that needs to be explored.
You can demonstrate quantitatively and statistically that the biosphere is in terrible shape. You can demonstrate quantitatively and statistically that our technology is continuing to accelerate and change our possibility.
There is this aspect about the psychic evolution.
This is something that can’t be quantified or understood statistically. So someone who has just a rational, scientific mind is going to find it very hard to accept that there is some kind of change happening in the psyche.
In my own life, and the lives of many people that I am connected with, there seems to be an incredible upsurge of synchronicities. So if you begin to have an intention about something, you can get a quicker level of manifestation.
It’s almost as if the boundary between the psychic and the physical is becoming thinner. It’s becoming more permeable, it’s becoming more subtler.
We are on the cusp of breakthrough and new level of consciousness.
The way to view this period leading up to 2012 is a kind of window of opportunity to catalyze transformation and build a consciousness. We have a lot of fundamentalist here in the United States, who are actually thinking about the Rapture and Armageddon, but they are seeing it in this very literalist and negativistic way. The Apocalypse does actually literally mean revealing, or uncovering. So rather than being destructive, it’s a time when everything hidden becomes revealed, and available. (wikileaks, 9/11, Federal Reserve).
So this apocalyptic process would be the coming of the self into conscious realization.
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| 3. new beginnings, new endings |
A lot of people when they are confronted about this 2012 paradigm they can lapse into some kind of passivity. I think the shift is really about the individual taking responsibility for the whole planetary situation, and actually reorienting their physic energy towards the positive process of transformation.
As Friedrich Nietzsche talks about the deed creates the doer, almost as an afterthought. It’s actually by dealing with the situation that is unleashed on the planet, we therefore create the next level of consciousness on the planet.
If we don’t do that, then I think we are going to be in bad shape.
Here are just a couple of questions we need to start answering.
How do we move towards a sustainable planetary civilization in a short period of time?
How do we make something positive and transform something out of it?
A post-industrial Rococo master, Kris Kuksi obsessively arranges characters and architecture in asymmetric compositions with an exquisite sense of drama. Instead of stones and shells he uses screaming plastic soldiers, miniature engine blocks, towering spires and assorted debris to form his landscapes. The political, spiritual and material conflict within these shrines is enacted under the calm gaze of remote deities and august statuary. Kuksi manages to evoke, at once, a sanctum and a mausoleum for our suffocated spirit.
1. This sculpture speaks of a timelessness–potentiality and motion attempting to reach on forever, and yet pessimistically delayed; forced into the stillness of death and eternal sleep.
2. In personal reflection, he feels that in the world today much of mankind is oftentimes frivolous and fragile, being driven primarily by greed and materialism. He hopes that his art exposes the fallacies of Man, unveiling a new level of awareness to the viewer.
3. He soon discovered his distaste for the typical American life and pop culture, feeling that he has always belonged to the ‘Old World’. Yet, Kris’ work is about a new wilderness, refined and elevated, visualized as a cultivation emerging from the corrupt and demoralized fall of modern-day society. A place were new beginnings, new wars, new philosophies, and new endings exist.
I am so happy to see that the entire world is awakening and coming together! We are right on the brink of a brand new, and delightful world! Thanks so much for this website! Namaste my friend!
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