“I have always found that if you want to expand your awareness, go to the places within which feel dark and empty and find light. Look into fields of idealized objects and long pre-conceived outcomes and try to feel only the space which contains them and what causal forces breathe and bring form to the experience. If you are going to look outside yourself for answers, let the purest experiences of Nature reveal the network of its Totality. And if you hope to perceive anything of its lesser known subtleties, you must endeavor to make yourself more subtle, more sensitive, more “inner-sightful”. You must be as disciplined in developing an unlimited mind as your sharply analytical intellect, and move always along paths which lead you beyond your well worn areas of expertise. In this way, we will all continue to play a significant role in humanity’s transformation and advancement.”
–Deborah Goudreault
“So Many of the challenges we face as humans are the result of external advancements that, while increasing comfort and efficiency, have too far outpaced our inner advancements in understanding the totality of our own human operating system.”
–Deborah Goudreault
“Silence is a very useful practice in self-understanding, and it would also be of great benefit to refrain from image making for a period of time. Even a brief retreat, withdrawing from our outer visual sensory focused experience can provide a beneficial opportunity to refine our inner perception, and our capacity to concentrate, witness, and receive from beyond the self rather than just creating images of outer sensory experience or imagination. I do this from time to time as a kind of purification; to unbind myself from the limiting patterns that constantly condition our perception of Nature and our own human nature, and see further beyond the dense forms of the known world. We are all to some degree intoxicated by the power of the visual experience, so it serves us in many ways to step back and press the pause button instead of the shutter. We may find it also evolves the kind of images we make; images that serve more than ourselves, with the power not just to document what is, but to permanently transform it.”
–Deborah Goudreault
“With or without camera in hand…I am drawn into a relationship with what is universally and eternally present, even in what appears inanimate matter on the surface or void of life. I follow the song of Consciousness harmonizing and uniting all; the omnipresent Light, spinning in Nature’s most subtle and most dense forms. I follow it into shadows and dark space too, in stages of involution and evolution in that which is visible to the eye and invisible but for intuited sight. With or without a camera in hand, the only thing I sense, the only form I perceive, is the energetic matrix of our infinite totality, vibrating with the seed of Consciousness, the one unfathomable Source that veils itself in our humanity and every particle of matter so that it may evolve without end unto infinity.”
–Deborah Goudreault
“All of this visible universe has come out of the void; as one Causal Force sounding through elemental forms, and as subtle energies concentrating and evolving in density into objective matter and the structures of our reality. I follow the Light back, toward the Source. I follow it reverently, where visible nature opens its invisible dimensions, and from the bridge within I may cross the boundaries of the finite and enter the Matrix of existence. I work within the seeming paradox that infinity is accessible from within the self and sings from the heart of all Nature. With senses withdrawn and my perception refined and strengthened by inner capacities, I see through a lens of intuitive sensibility in which natural spaces reveal their unbound worlds; multidimensional spectrums, mesmerizing and transcendent, pure in essence, and radiant in their truth. I have become a receiver of impressions, not given to be viewed in the frames of past conditioning, but to be surrendered to. And I give them back in return, inviting others to surrender their own conditioned preconceptions, and to be guided through these images of outer nature to that bridge of expanding awareness within, back to the Light which ultimately reveals the Infinite Nature and unlimited potential of the Self.”
–Deborah Goudreault