BALANCE

By Suzanne Cheryl Gardner

Art Co-Creates Peace
Earth is heading for a major shift (change or metamorphosis) whereupon we are being given the chance to create a world more balanced and peace filled. Ancient cultures, such as Goddess related ones, speak about a time on earth that was peaceful and that lasted for approximately 2000 years, (see Marija Gimbutas, The Language of the Goddess). Gimbutas tells us of a time when women were revered and brought to their cultures a way of life that included respect for the earth and all of nature. It is the belief of many people around the world that it is time to call upon our feminine energy to balance the more dominant masculine energy. Feminine energy brings respect for and communication with nature, and a chance to bring us back into a peaceful balance with the energies of the universe. The universe has intention. In the universe and deep within our cellular structures lies what are called “innate intelligences”. (See Barbara Marx Hubbard and her Conscious Evolution information) When we can align with that intention we can become the co-creators of a new world. We can tap into the collective, discover our purpose and align ourselves with the intention of the universe. Becoming ONE with the universal forces is a major application toward bringing peace on this peace-starved planet.

Art As Co-Creation
In attempting to discover what art has to do with this co-creation I have integrated a technique into my artistic process called “co-creative science”. Based on Machaelle Small Wright’s work, it is a technique that invites nature intelligences and other consciousnesses into the human soul’s process of creating. Machaelle herself created a garden, but she has offered a process by which we can co-create with nature by what she calls “the soil-less garden”—which for me translates into my art projects and my life’s work.

Co-creation is about allowing nature’s intelligence a say in what goes into the creation of the image, and the created energy that the image eventually radiates. Co-creation is a direct communication with the energy of nature consciousness. It is our opportunity to work with nature to bring balance, harmony and peace back into our lives. My path is to create a new and unique art form in partnership with nature. I am cocreating art as a form of expressing vibratory healing energy. When my painting is viewed it touches the viewer on an unconscious level, triggering cellular memory—possibly the memory of a time and place where society lived in balance and in peace—activating the desire within the viewer to re-experience their own balance and inner peace. The viewer is empowered to follow their own dreams, find their true vocation in life, and live their own truth.

Nature is the consciousness that is intimately linked with form. Art (or anything you create for that matter) produced in conscious communication with nature’s intelligence can be a powerful way to spark inner and outer transformation—for the artist as well as the viewer. Here is Machaelle Small Wright’s understanding of nature spirits (intelligence): “My work with the nature spirits has convinced me that they are truly masters of understanding, bringing spirit into matter, energy into form. In short, they constantly work with the principle of manifestation on Earth.”

It is this cooperation with nature that I seek—to become a partner with nature. Nature as understood by Machaelle is not just plants and trees, but ALL FORM, remembering that everything is basically energy when reduced to it’s final equation. The paper is energy, the paint is energy, etc. Everything that has come into form has done so because nature has given form an order and organization. Bringing balance and inner peace into our lives is the key to joy filled living as well as bringing peace into our outer worlds. There was once a time on our planet when the human soul understood this connection with nature. Tom Kenyon says in his book The Magdelan Manuscript “The key to a fruitful creation, whether it be cosmic or individual, was seen (during pagan consciousness) as a balance between these forces (spirit and matter).” The forces he speaks of are the human soul spirit and its connection with nature. In Machaelle’s co-creative process books she says this partnership strikes what she calls an involution/evolution balance in our lives. A balance that we once had when we created hand in hand with nature; whereas today without this co-creation we have the human soul creating imbalance in every aspect of our world. When we can return to having respect for the forces of nature intelligence and elicit a conscious co-creation with nature we may have the opportunity to bring balance and peace back into our individual lives that make the way for peace in our outer world.

Suzanne Cheryl Gardner is calling up feminine energy. See her artwork on this month’s cover of Aquarius. Purchase Prints, one-time rights to Digital Images, or Note Cards. email her at suz@suzannesart.com