Author name: Joseph Arnold

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An Initiation into an Evolutionary Artistry

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An Initiation into an Evolutionary Artistry
“We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of great courage. We enjoy and even thrill to godlike possibilities we see in ourselves in such peak moments. And yet we simultaneously shiver with weakness, awe, and fear before these very same possibilities.”
― Abraham Maslow, Motivation and Personality

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The Preconventional Stages of the Arts: Spiral Dynamics Purple and Red

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“[Egyptian art] was…a continuous exercise in the development of individual consciousness.”
— John Anthony West, Serpent in the Sky
The analysis of each stage includes the following:[1]
· The basics of each stage, including an overview of its worldview and sphere of concern, core values, motto, and percentage of world population at this stage[2]
· The role of the arts in a society at that stage
· That stage’s approach to the arts
· How the stage views mistakes and success[3]
· A list of examples of art forms at that stage

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Why Artists Need More Holistic Values

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As a young boy, I often struggled to make sense of the world and my place within it. There were simply so many perspectives on life, art, relationships, and everything else. What made this so confusing and difficult was that the people in my life from whom I sought guidance—parents, teachers, friends, favorite authors, political figures, and others—spoke so compellingly and with great confidence, as though they held the one truth about what’s most important in life. The trouble was that, despite their confidence, the perspectives they espoused often contradicted what others said, and so were a source of conflict. Inhabiting this complex and confusing landscape, I sometimes felt like a helpless billiard ball, bouncing from one perspective to another as I sought to make sense of it all.

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