The Medicine of Your Creative Voice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1GPjqxbi-o (Old Fascianed Way — performance and video by Sasha Dodo and Dolores Dewhurst Marks, song by Jamie Wrate)

Creativity is a vital aspect of our journey towards self-knowing, peace and finding belonging in our inner and outer worlds.

In the hallucenogenically spectacular documentary Moonage Daydream, David Bowie speaks of the life of the artist as being an attempt to understand their relationship to the universe.

It is something we all need to do. In our own way. And perhaps that is why we venerate artists like Bowie, Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo who fully embrace this living at the edge of the unknown. And who’s transmissions from that journey seems to speak to and for all of us, our collective unconscious.

They are the Magellans and Neil Armstrongs of man’s quest for meaning. Fulfillment. And transcendence. Alchemists of our often painful and confusing human condition, into sometimes lasting works of beauty.

We may not all have the focus, compulsion or skill of exceptional artists. But we all have a unique perspective of life, of our place in the universe. And articulating this in some way — perhaps in humour or music or movement is a way of contributing to human culture. Adding our fruit to the banquet.