This post is the first chapter of Painting A Pathway Home, by Ross Drago. Painting A Pathway Home is designed to encourage visual thinkers and spiritual seekers to use the act of painting as a means to bring about spiritual awakening. Works of art can be windows of opportunity for receptive viewers to gain tremendous spiritual ground in their own journey toward a realization of their true Self.
As with awakening itself, no words can describe the teachings intrinsic to that state, and no words can teach what painting itself teaches. Indeed, I have found through a lifetime of painting, that painting itself is a master teacher, an intelligence that works with whomever opens to this spiritual act. This Masterful Intelligence used to be seen as inspired by the Muses, but this source of inspiration has since lost it’s meaning in the modern aesthetic of a disposable world. This world is largely devoid of consciousness of the living spirit in objects, places and even processes such as painting. To believe that there is no living spirit in things and places and planets and even minerals and elements is a blind spot designed to facilitate indifference to the world we inhabit. Read More
