A Gate to Our Garden
Several of this first group of watercolors are responses to my excitement over the central insights revealed in the new story. They are gates or doors to important changes in understanding ourselves and the earth and cosmos. The wholistic (holistic) worldview of the new story can be of great healing importance for individuals and groups. Some of the changes have been healing for me as I could leave the objectified world I was taught as a science student. In addition, the new story offers a fundamental spiritual grounding and depth of belonging which has brought for me healing, at least in part, from the wounding described in the essay included in this website, “Trauma to Incendence.” The new story carries new insights as well as many insights from the past that are carried forward although freshly understood and expressed.
Click on the first image below to view each of the paintings in the series and to read the accompanying text.
Gate to the Garden
Click image above to view in full screenThis open gate to a garden invites us to awaken to the full spiritual identity of the person and other earth beings, the intrinsic creativity of our person and world and to the beauty and unbelievable diversity of the natural...
Belonging
Click image above to view in full screenThis painting Belonging, expresses my joy as I came to know, both by understanding and by spiritual experience, that I fully belong integral to the sacred earth. Human experience over the centuries and understandings of our...
The Great Red Oak
Click image above to view in full screenThis magnificent 500-year-old red oak stood until recently on the bank of the Hudson River across from the 200-million-year-old geological formation known as the Palisade escarpment. The tree was in the yard of the house where...
Everything Has a Within
Click image above to view in full screenScientists have discovered, most unexpectedly, what we call matter, the stuff of which we and the earth are made, is 99.99% nonvisible. Sir James Jeans, the British physicist and mathematician, suggested that we think of the...
The Unfading Light
Click image above to view in full screenThe pathway in the woods is an image that invites us to the search to know the interior Light. The interior Light is not visible in the painting nor is it ever visible to us but it is experienced internally within and around us....
The Magnificent Cosmos
Click image above to view in full screenIn the background of this painting is the Hubble deep field that became visible for the first time in a most remarkable photograph taken of outer space by the Hubble telescope. The telescope, with the lens open for an extended...
A Many Centered Universe
Click image above to view in full screenI find it encouraging to understand that the universe is about making centers of being; centers that include galaxies, stars, cells, starfish and people. The recognition that the universe makes centers of being, and, that the...
A Tree of Life
Click image above to view in full screenUpon understanding our radical new understandings of the nature of matter, I understood the wisdom of the traditional image of the Tree of Life. The colorful interior design within the tree celebrates the sacred depth. People...
A Tree of Life
Click image above to view in full screenUpon understanding our radical new understandings of the nature of matter, I understood the wisdom of the traditional image of the Tree of Life. The colorful interior design within the tree celebrates the sacred depth. People...
Awakening Human Consciousness
Click image above to view in full screenAlthough disputed, there is much evidence that a basic sentience, a capacity for knowing — not by our rational thinking but by a non-rational (not irrational) knowing — is a fundamental property of the universe. Dramatic...
The Recovery of Wisdom
Click image above to view in full screenAs we now have knowledge of the earth and universe and know something of the millennial-long story of its unfolding to become what we know today, we can discern, in part, what the universe has been up to, its powers and patterns...
The Faces of Gaia
Click image above to view in full screenAll the creatures in this painting are within the Celtic Knot. One-part flows into another part of the knot as it is an image of the whole. It has become an image, for me, of our seen and unseen belonging within our home, the...
A Remarkable Abundance
Click image above to view in full screenThe farm in the rich, sandy soils of New Jersey where I grew up was a big garden while requiring a great deal of hard work. One of the main crops was tomatoes. In the middle of the summer when the tomatoes were ripe, there was a...
Nothing is Inconsequential
Click image above to view in full screenI’ve been watching the flowering crabapple tree out my window and I worry that I don't see any bees busily flying from blossom to blossom. If this year the blossoms are not pollinated, I would sorely miss the delicious...
The Unfurling of Surprise
Click image above to view in full screenIt gives great pause for thought and wonder to learn that the powerful forces of a supernova explosions created the elements that comprise the morning glory. And it was in the 1920s that we learned that the light of the sun that...
The Hydra and Other Delicate Creatures
Click image above to view in full screenAs a student in an invertebrate zoology class in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, I was scuba diving around some pilings to observe the creatures living under the water on the pilings. A colony of hydra, a most delicate, small, nearly...