A Study Of Seeking The Numinous Through Personal Writings And Observations On How The Works Of James Turrell and Jenny Holzer Break Through To Unvisited Realms That Make You Feel
A Study Of Seeking The Numinous Through Personal Writings And Observations On How The Works Of James Turrell and Jenny Holzer Break Through To Unvisited Realms That Make You Feel
The repetition the routine of establishing space for crickets to creep in. Silence. The moment
you get to consider your relationship to yourself, your bed post, the candle you lit, and the
night that’s drooped in at the outside of your bedroom window. And it doesn`t need to be to
God your ritual of noticing, it can be to the things you`re noticing. Through this you lead
yourself to the experience of presence. How lucky is that, and how easy it seems. I`ve noticed
that when I notice, recognized that in recognizing the things that I am being met with in and
at any given moment, I somehow begin to breath more slowly, and I am somehow connected,
synced in, and at the same time, free. I think this is the kind of state Mary Oliver seeks to
reflect on in most of her work. In “Praying” she touches on yes the value of a moment taken
to make room for another link, intuition, and the element which she suggests will allow for
the experience of connection is, the ritual of prayer, being in ode to something outside the
self. Prayer as ritual. The motions performed to prepare for prayer, the laying out of the
carpet, the kneel, the weave of your own two hands and the folding of your fingers, the arms
lifted, they exist in order to create a physical state, a physical state, that operates as a
transformative tool, that then has the capacity to shift your perspective and relationship to
reality.