“Art and Science: A Shared Purpose”

While art may sometimes become narrowly focused on expressing the vast possibilities of creative mind, and science on the richly analytical answer to a specific material question or cure, we must each with integrity and unwavering commitment never lose sight of the ultimate purpose of both Art and Science, which is to make tangible a more advanced and infinite experience of our human potential. It is our shared responsibility to perceive, project and realize a more unbound, wholly integrated experience of who we are are, that transforms the reality in which we live beyond any past patterns or limiting pre-conceptions of what it is to exist in matter. Regardless of our individual areas of endeavor, no act of supposed art or science should occur without also asking the question, ‘How does this expand our capacity to grow as a balanced, more unlimited, wholly integrated human being? How does this enable us to radiate and project higher frequency thoughts, feelings and actions, self-regenerate, or resolve the inner conflicts which become platforms for outer destruction?’ As a photographer, I may work more directly and with greater awareness of Light, but if we persevere with enthusiasm for the unknown, the new, and our evolution beyond ordinarily pre-conceived limits, all arts and sciences are potentially instruments of illumination. The outcomes if successful, leading us toward new theories, assumptions and experiences which challenge and expand our understanding of who we are, how the physical and non-physical aspects of our human nature integrate and operate, and what is the inner technology which connects us to the vast outer network of being in which we exist.

Art and science at their best move us steadily with hope, certitude and confidence beyond the known boundaries of our solely physical existence. This is certainly not to deny that we exist, in part, as physical bodies. We cannot excel with spiritual attitudes that leave the material behind and expect transformation without collaboration with the physical. We do not need to be carried across and delivered from this finite world ocean, rather helped to discover the more boundless depths of our own Nature and that what we often seek to escape to, by one means or another, lives right here in every moment and molecule of our being. Arts and sciences, specifically those with an interest in our regenerative capacities, are both positioned to lead our exploration of a more expanded and optimally integrated experience of human Totality. As we pursue this with more refined focus, we must each carefully avoid the past mistakes of seeking to materialize more of the the intangible as if these exist as separate dimensions. What creates barriers of separation is not real boundaries in this network continuum, but the limits of our own perception.

How we sense will determine what we sense, and is at the root of advancing both art and science, as well as our human potential. True, innovative science like art, is an experience not just of superior intellect and indomitable curiosity, but of inner sensory refinement and expanded awareness, perception, intuition and instinct. We must each cultivate the willingness and ability to see not only with our outer physical sensory organs or the technologies which magnify their capacity, but with an open mind that reaches beyond finite pre-conceptions and assumed limits. It is not enough to observe what is in “the frame”. In order to excel in either art or science, to really “see” and advance our human potential, we must have a mind that is able to “blow” the frame of any object of study and witness its more unlimited context. We must also share a well developed faculty of progressive imagination. Our ability to observe, differentiate and concentrate our thoughts on positive ends is not developed in our culture with the same importance as intellect, so the value of imagination is often overlooked. But in artists and scientists alike, highly refined imagination is a powerfully creative action that can open the door and lay the path for realization of positive human advancements. Without imagination we would never discover anything new, because by definition “it is the capacity to project oneself beyond already realized things and towards things we aspire to realize”. Without it it is very difficult to move forward, let alone into realms of more unlimited creative manifestation whether expressed as word, music, visual arts or science.

Essentially when we refine our outer investigative tools and technology we can expand the dimensions of our known field of observation. But refine our inner sensory technology and self-awareness and we begin to develop our capacity to transform the field of experience and observation beyond all preconceived limits. This is where art and science best serve each other. On a neuroscience level, right brain development is key to left brain optimization and visa versa, so it serves both art and science if we evolve these disciplines in tandem. All of the arts are preparation for more subtle development of our inner faculties of perception and the ability to experience life as a more pure and unencumbered witness. Science prepares us to analyze and organize what we experience, and translate what we perceive into material innovations which help us live more of our human potential. Medicine is a science and will continue to offer valued intervention for long term imbalances which manifest in the physical body as disease. Healing is comparatively more of an art, and requires a different consideration, depth of awareness and point of intervention if we are to ever understand and touch the capacity to restore our innate wholeness with perfect integrity. As we move further beyond disease state treatments to studies of our potential for prevention, restored equilibrium, regeneration and transformation, the interaction of art and science will become ever more essential and fruitful. Together as art and science, we remind each other of the value of searching as deeply within ourselves as outside ourselves for answers. Together we explore, experience and, in refining our own perception, become the field of action and realization of our more potentiated human Totality. It should be considered an honor to serve in either capacity.

Science helps us understand our finite self and the outer physical form aspects of our human system. It deals with the most dense plane and those entities which can be physically sensed. Abstract art connects us to the inner aspect of life beyond the physical through more subtle imagined or felt impressions. It is not real in the way dense matter is real and objectively measurable and able to be duplicated. It is a uniquely subjective experience of life born of that stream of energy as idea or feeling, a process all creation shares prior to physical manifestation. Even as these powers and disciplines are combined however, we still do not have what is required for understanding the whole or totality of who we are and more optimally evolve our human potential. We must go further still. We must cross the boundaries of both these perspectives, and all the exclusive limits of past religious and political ideologies, while refining both intellectual and intuitive mind. Re-envisioning new, more integrative systems of advancing economic and social organization requires that we first access, integrate and potentiate all aspects of our individual human operating systems; the physical, mental, energetic, and explore our multidimensional being as flesh feelings and thoughts, but also more…as existing as part of an interfacing dimension as Consciousness in which we are networked with a more infinite Source capacity and all existence. As we continue to move toward this integrated experience of self, the nature of our shared reality will be wholly and permanently transformed and harmonized.

Deborah GoudreaultAugust 24, 2017