Atlantogyptus: Redefinition of art Itself in this late great 20th Century

A: Getting into the mediumistic method a bit more, one soon recognizes this metaphysical philosophy demands a congruent redefinition of art Itself in this late great 20th Century of ours. Idea Game Players employing the method of Metapsychological Art primarily use round or perfectly square canvas because it is the most primitive symbol of the SELF. To start the process the canvas can be broken down through a stained glass effect using primary colors, or can be broken down through the use of primary colors in relation to symbols or sentences of symbols, which produces a very powerful result, very, very powerful, and the surprising thing is that it works, and it is rather easy to initiate. The issue is understanding the depth at which one operates with a medium that deserves the title master class medium. One of the best techniques is very similar to hypnosis or unconscious drawing in a state of perception very similar, if not identical, to that forwarded by Tantric Hinduism, Buddhism or Tibetan Yoga. Meditating on the symbols or blank white canvas causes certain shapes and colors to appear. The individual creates the Rorschachian Mosaic thusly and draws further and further into the Self as one carries this alchemical process further. This is so simple in many senses that I passed it off as absurd the first time I heard of it. I just could not pass off the individuals who were using it though. They were/are Real Artists and these individuals were and are producing. They were driven. When I first used this method with the medium I was amazed. I painted a series of symbols in white paint, meditated on the canvas and gradually my hand became like a magnetized limb of a power that spoke through my body with a force. In conjunction with this field of white appeared images as if being pushed through a water line towards me, swimming in a sea of oils. I began copying them as fast as I could. It is physically exhausting if nothing else, but when I stepped away I could not believe how reflective of my being the mosaic of shapes had become. It reflected a primitive portrait of my self and it just kept going. It is hard to get accustomed to this technique is called "left-handed drawing," but it can yield incredible results. I have taught people this technique, and I have never seen anybody use it for more than a year, and not get something very significant out of it. Most people I have taught this technique to take right off with it. Many have improved my art immensely with their insights. You really ought to try it.

I: From what I have seen in the art world, at least the majority of shows, teaching, and writing....

A: It is decorative trash...And if it is allowed to pass for a master class art...

I: I want to have you make a comment on Modern Art made in Jung's book about Pollock and Abstract Expressionism. You claim Metapsychological Art to be a new school of art, and I believe the reader deserves some clarification of how Metapsychological Art has taken a step forward in this field of The Idea Game.

A: This ought to be good. Fire away.

I: This quote comes from pages 308 and 309, the paperback, Part IV, "Symbolism in the Visual Arts," by Aniela Jaffe, and refers to Jackson Pollock, in particular, and Abstract Expressionism, in general. Please elaborate on this in a precise manner.[1]

A: Go ahead.

I: Well here is the quote I have selected. Regarding the "unconscious spirit" that inhabits painters in particular, and artists, in general, Jaffe states: "In My Painting, Jackson Pollock revealed that he painted in a kind of trance: 'When I am painting I am not aware of what I am doing. It is only after a sort of "get acquainted" period that I see what I have been about. I have no fears about making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.'...Pollock's pictures, which were painted practically unconsciously, are charged with boundless emotional vehemence. In their lack of structure they are almost chaotic, a glowing lava stream of colors, lines, planes, and points. They may be regarded as what the alchemists called the massa confusia, the prima materia, or chaos-all ways of defining the precious prime matter of the alchemical process, the starting point of the quest for the essence of being. Pollock's glyphs represent the nothing that is everything-that is, the unconscious Itself. They seem to live in a time before the emergence of consciousness and being, or to be fantastic landscapes of a time after the extinction of consciousness and being."

I: Let's stick to Pollock, Rothko, and Abstract Expressionism, your family or school of artists and Metapsychological Art...similarities and differences.

A: We are on an alchemical theme in both cases. We are using a very similar technique, unconscious drawing, left-handed painting and deriving images from the medium, as opposed to beginning with preconceived shapes, or shapes from three dimensional space. I also have to continually acquaint myself with the paintings, even after seeing what I have done. I am always trying to find out what I have been about, viewing the past and synchronizing these shapes with the present, symbolically. This is not always the case though. Not as often as I would like it to be the case. We are clarifying the images, the empirical egos and jivas that account for reason and order in existence; Pollock and Rothko could not make these visible, they could not clarify them and this in itself is a dramatic step forward, plus the creation of a new school of art equally valid both East and West. Asamprajanatah and Samprajanatah Samadhi applied to the medium of oils and canvas.