POSTCARDS FROM PARIS: Turning the Intellect toward the Immaterial

 “Minds attached to the present form of things may be unable to give credence to their possibility” -Sri Aurobindo

 If you’ve visited LMI before, you have been initiated into Deborah Goudreault’s transformational impressions of a convergent Nature she calls Light Mind Images. You have felt how each new collection inspires and draws us further along with her into a world which senses and acknowledges a primordial Energy and Intelligence in all phenomena and transcends the boundaries and conditioned forms that frame our ordinary experience of nature and the self. For those new to LMI, you will find her work bears a seemingly future sent cosmic awareness and inner perception that sees beyond our patterned preconceptions and opens a reality in which the laws of matter and principles of Earth as we know them are more pliable and the whole of humanity integrated and alive with the potentiating forces of a multidimensional, universally networked totality. Somehow when the focus of most of humanity is narrowing into the space of one social media screen or another, or on what political action will temporarily release our unresolved aggression, Goudreault maintains an unclouded and constantly arising vision of an unlimited horizon of possibility, with an unvanquished virtue and richness that is neither tarnished or diminished by the dense layers of chaos, degradation and destruction entwined throughout our global culture.  The swords of transcendent vision, her Light Mind Images cut through the discordant noise of our outer world and harken an inner call to evolve a more intelligent relationship between the material and what to the physical senses is yet immaterial. Even when one may strain to grasp her vision or the images that manifest through her mind’s lens, we feel in them the power to awaken, and we seek to rise with her in the Light of a freer perception of Nature and our own human nature.

Before LMI: Previously Unrevealed Early Works

Although many are beginning to follow Goudreault’s work as portals through known objects to a more infinite Energy and Intelligence networked throughout Nature and the self, far less is known about how this vision emerged and where her current work with photographic impressions began.  Was there a point when she studied the familiar boundaries of form, searching for the openings to a more unlimited reality within them?  Few are aware of two early experimental phases in her work; one on the islands of Mid-Coast Maine and one in France, where Goudreault’s desire to project her inner sensory experience of multi-dimensional, universally networked forms in images was sparked and strengthened. While readers usually open these pages for fertile insight into Goudreault’s newest works, this entry takes us back to where the Artist’s work began to shift from sensitive editorial photographs of objects to impressions which translated form, innate energy and space as one convergent reality. In intimately small format rather than monumentally scaled images, Postcards from Paris reveals a selection of her never before shared ‘Early Works’; formative ‘Street’, architectural and landscape photographic studies made by the Artist in Paris, Mont Blanc, Provence, and a brief connection to Lake Geneva Switzerland. It marks the awakening of her intensified visual exploration of the relationship between material and immaterial aspects of being that would continue throughout her life. Nearly a decade after David McCullough’s book “The Greater Journey: Americans in  Paris” portrayed how intellectual and creative exchange in late 19th-early 20th century Paris refined visiting Americans’ expression in art, literature and science, Postcards from Paris offers a new chapter in the story of a still transformational Paris Light; a Light that continues to open the awareness and potentiate the abilities of those who come with a desire to elevate the human experience. It gives us access to the rich French laboratory of ideas and forms that fertilized Goudreault’s human and artistic transition, and set her creative course in the direction of images that would blur the lines of conditioned perception and loosen the boundaries of what we know of matter, nature and the self.

Goudreault often comments that, “the power to perceive and reshape reality lies in the mind and capacities of a more subtle and unlimited inner sensory system, of which our trusted physical senses are but a limited evolute.”  Quite unexpectedly, a life closely bonded to Nature, decades of yoga, inner directed focus and meditation would culminate in Goudreault as a more unlimited perception of being. When her inner vision of a multidimensional universally networked human totality grew so strong that it could no longer be contained within, its radiance sought expression in images. It was in Paris that she began to consistently breathe out the Light of her experience in photographic impressions, and to connect the harmonized union of the material and the immaterial she found within to the outer world of forms. 

Arriving in Paris

Arriving in Paris, she would come face to face with a nation of once dominant political power, intellect, social revolution and creative innovation, and many who seemed to be waiting to see how the French would perceive their own individual strengths and purpose amid the technologically driven transformation and integration of planetary life.  It was a period of deep inner exploration where a long invincible nationalist spirit would feel its past influence waning and rising doubts as to what they could uniquely contribute that would advance not only their own future but that of the world. It was a question that was yet unanswered, so Goudreault’s Paris visit seemed perfectly timed as she too came in search of a place to nurture the open and courageous evolution of her integrative inner vision of the world and confirm her purpose in it.  Although outwardly alone, she felt she endeavored there as part of a collective effort among the French to unveil more of the stream of pure and potentiating revelation that once transformed Paris into a City of enlightenment; a radiance that would once again be a force in evolving the minds and hearts of humanity. A trip which began as the fulfillment of a lifelong desire to reconnect with her heritage and aesthetic roots in France, would ultimately yield a much deeper realization; that apart from her New Hampshire solitude, a space existed where she was at home amid like minds aligned by intellect, sensitivity, and creative will. While her previous stay in India and the Himalayas had reinforced in her the tools for expanding awareness, she would find in France, a reflection of herself that would clarify what was essential to her evolution, and a place that would draw the Light of her meditative awareness and wakeful vision from its closely held inner seat out into the world. Many of the seeds of her future work would be planted there, in the nation where photography and the camera phone were first conceived, and couture designer, scientist, pastry chef and rural vintner were equal masters of the art of refined ordering and creating in the material. Paris would refine her as well, sparking an evolution in her work and impressions that would increasingly draw the hearts and minds of a new age upward toward a more unlimited conception and experience of nature and the potential of the self.

Walking amid lavish gold adornments, awe inspiring cathedrals, historic icons and those which sought release from them, Goudreault would observe a long history of human-made forms and appreciate the minds and circumstances through which they came into being. Although her life had moved increasingly through periods of asceticism toward a reality of subtle etheric dimensions, in Paris she would concede that to exist in the material, form was essential, and not something which could be forsaken.  She acknowledged there was nothing spiritual about a forced abandonment of the physical and doing so would only further impoverish not potentiate one’s life, but neither was form as it was currently known enough.  She would write, “No matter how deteriorated or debased, it is not form itself which is unredeemable, but what we understand as the nature of matter in form which makes it so. To redeem what may seem a permanently lost and disharmonized nature, it is our conditioned preconceptions of matter, Earth, and our own selves that require redefinition and expansion beyond our current frame of physical and psychological awareness.”  As she passed through the shadows cast by Paris’ forms of exceptional material achievement and carefully preserved past, she would sense the yet unconceived higher sequel to those parts. Where others remembered songs of glory, she would hear cries of incompleteness and what must yet be refined, uplifted, illumined and ennobled to reflect a more wholly integrated multidimensional reality and human totality. Impressions fleeting like morning fog and moving clouds would cross her mind’s eye; the more unlimited shapes of what could manifest once the physical limits of range and use were removed; a human totality where our past susceptibility to defect and illusion, disease and impairment was eliminated, and intelligence, cognition, and perception far exceeded our present capacity. She would see a time where humanity and all matter existed not solely for its own end or as an inanimate resource for our use, but as an instrument of cosmic Energy and Intelligence.  From the streets of Paris, radiating forth into its rural farm and coastal lands like the tracks of the TGV, she would feel the power of the Sun that once lived so tangibly in the glory of the French empire was but the precursor of a subtle, more potentiating revelation waiting for the French, and all who came there to be infused by its rays; a revelation that would connect us through an interfacing dimension within physical forms to what was yet beyond the grasp of our outer senses. The thoughts of Sartre still vibrated undiminished around her, and his assertion that our individual thoughts, feelings and actions were responsible for the circumstances of our reality echoed within her.  In the halls of Versailles, she would write, “The Chinese character for king represented the trinity of the physical plane, the subtle plane and humanity, and imbedded in that character was the idea that a king was responsible not only for his kingdom’s physical welfare, but for successfully integrating the physical and the subtle to advance human society. In the absence of a king, this fell to the leadership of a nation and to those working in society’s institutions, but as we evolve the ability to consciously access and refine the physical and subtle aspects of our human totality to advance humanity will become the shared responsibility of the individual. This is where we find ourselves today. Open access to information and new technologies are supporting this shift, convinced that a more informed individual will automatically evoke a more wholly integrated and empowered humanity, but even with unlimited information and new technologically derived freedoms, it is like asking someone to cross an ocean without a boat. The present tools given the individual to discover the totality of their nature and potential are inferior to the task and long outgrown. A global culture which polarizes intellect and intuition; and either locks them in physical preconceptions or obliterates the physical in abstract idealizations is insufficient for permanently harmonizing and advancing either our individual or collective existence.” She would watch the first crest of the “selfie” wave take hold in Paris, wondering why we continued to accept a life in which we remained blind and bound within the limited human identity of our past while our outer technologically aided capacities expanded at an unfathomed rate. She would write, “As outer technologies evolve, let us not be so enthralled with our progress that we deem external advancement enough. Unless we evolve an even more potentiating capacity to intelligently access and refine all dimensions of the self as a framework for technological development, outer technologies will remain the exclusive foundation of our hope for the future, and further an advancement that is unnecessarily pressurizing and disharmonizing. Technology has the potential to liberate us from a life built solely around actions of survival, and to release us from many of the functions which now occupy our minds and time. As it makes more capacitated and efficient our outer experience, the technology revolution may also facilitate a greater inner evolution of humanity.  To reap this benefit, however, we must now be building the infrastructure in science and art which will help grow our awareness and experience of a more unlimited human identity and the possibilities of a more wholly integrated human totality; unbound not only from a life of endeavors focused solely on the survival needs of our physical nature, but free of our limiting preconceptions about matter and the network of our being. Otherwise the void of new potential that technology opens will, for all its outer advancements, be one of dark confusion rather than light.” Everywhere around her, against the backdrop of a once transformational past, she felt the force of a global game change and that to advance, we must now cut ourselves free of the clear and firmly held human identity and conception of matter we held onto as a reliable anchor.

Issues of immigration and national identity were also climbing to their present peak.  Individual identity was increasingly on display in social media and mass exposure to vastly diverse cultural norms and behavioral expectations was generating as much fear as acceptance in the face of France’s changing cultural landscape. In a nation who prided itself on being a reasoned secularized state, there was already a distorted notion surfacing that the once world colonizer was in some cruel karmic twist now becoming the colonized.  An historically self-conscious, intellectually brilliant, individual France had produced an intensely nationalistic spirit, but focused self-interest for all its successes was now becoming the precipitate of conflict in the context of a more multicultural France. Everyone was becoming more aware of how the power of idealistic aspiration and devotion guided our thoughts and actions and, when misguided or manipulated, lead to violent and unconscionable excesses is support of an ideal. Goudreault would write, “Of course, the formulation and communication of ideas is essential to our human evolution, unfortunately over time the perfect originating Light of ideas conceived to carry us forward has been lost in competing ideals, institutionalized beliefs, and increasingly extreme efforts to impose them.  Time and group specific ideas for preserving past conceptions or furthering human advancement need to be elevated in the context of a more universal, time transcendent evolutionary idea about matter and what constitutes our human totality; a new, more inclusively integrated awareness that surpasses the limits of both religion bound assumptions and the materially bound science of the past. We must facilitate new tools and impressions that open the conditioned framework of the self and our perception of external forms to occupy a space of greater plasticity and a more unlimited network of being.” Unlike the US, to become a multicultural melting pot was not France’s original design or intent, and yet its future face seemed to be one of increasingly diverse interests, competing ideologies, complex social issues and threatened security. Technological, social and political paradigms would all begin to shift in attempts to accommodate and balance the changes but the basic understanding of who we are as separate and finite human beings remained the same. Goudreault felt France and all humanity needed a new conception of shared identity which aligned us in a never before understood totality without sacrificing or denying the needs of the individual to self-evolve, and she would feel the seeds of such a conception magnified in and around her in Paris.  “What is essential to building harmonization without homogenization”, she wrote, “is an intelligent scientific advancement which redefines our human identity.” “I believe France is uniquely positioned to acknowledge the possibility that diversity need not be the reason for violence, but for unearthing a stream of new ideas which consciously supports the process of coordinating individual and group instincts, transforming our past conditioned reactions, and rendering a more intelligent and unlimited perception of nature and our human totality.  It is wasteful and fruitless to expend all this energy to dominate to survive, because we are innately and inseparably networked as a coexisting totality. Our energy and intellect are far better placed not in the fanatical defense of individual or group ideals, but in support of the universal idea that we are here individually and collectively to realize our unlimited potential for becoming more evolved versions of ourselves.  This sometimes requires us to sacrifice not who we are, but that which holds us to limited past conceptions of reality and the self. Within these challenging circumstances, France has the opportunity to rise as a nation where humanity matters as much as a once strictly defined “French”, and achieve the task of decentralizing herself in a more potentiated vision of the whole of humanity.  When such a sacrifice is accepted not as suicide, but innate to advancement, Paris will again embody and deliver a great revelation that will crystallize the efforts of a nation and the world toward a more universally integrated and harmonizing human advancement.  If she can demonstrate the positive transformation possible when illumination not dominance is the goal of all mental and physical efforts, she will once again be the source of enlightenment humanity cries out for. If the discipline and capacity of the French intellect is turned toward discovery and exploration of the immaterial planes of operation within matter, France will be uniquely positioned to lead her greatest empire; an empire of the mind liberated from its past constraints, based on a multidimensional universally networked experience of matter in nature and the self.”

As she felt a unique potential in Paris for the process of enlightenment to intervene again and focus minds on delivering a new awareness, she knew she too would remain enlisted in the fulfillment of that purpose even after returning to her New Hampshire woods.  It was then that she accepted her work in words and images would serve to direct humanity’s passion and intellect toward realizing and integrating more of the immaterial aspects of matter and the Self, with a focus equal to that which magnetized us to their physically sensed material qualities and forms.

Waking the Next Revolution

 

While many continued to visit Paris from all over the world seeking  some experience of the resplendent depth and grandeur of French culture, Goudreault looked for the nexus of what had been idealized there over time; reaching to align with that underlying force which had guided all its greatest minds and manifestations; what had given birth to cycles of new Light throughout France’s history and would again.  She felt building in the essential nature of Paris what would be the future revolution of her own existence, that of France and all humanity, and in Paris she would understand with greater clarity that “a new Earth requires more than just new technology”. The subtle energy propelling France, that she now realized was mirrored in her own self, was leading them not to follow and compete with the actions of others, rather to dedicate their own minds and vision as vehicles for communicating what would revolutionize our human capacities, awareness and intentions from within; what would redefine all forms in matter; natural and human-made, including technology, as vehicles of a more harmonized and unlimited expression of cosmic Energy and intelligence.  

As she traversed the space of Paris, she would see the trail of Light that had awakened progress in the past as revolutions in awareness which advanced the rights and understanding of France and humanity as a whole. But the form of that revelation, which once illuminated with blinding new truth and reason, having finished its work of evolving our past minds and motives was now an empty shadow of the coming Light. “We have come far”, she would write, “and yet we remain the captives of a present still bound by a revolution of enlightened intellect which separated the material and the immaterial, the objective and the subjective into a science of matter which from its inception sought to dominate and negate the value of seemingly opposing spiritual principles, leaving two parts of a whole equally incomplete. We have undoubtedly benefitted from our specialized focus and endeavors and, motivated by a desire to better understand and advance our existence, a wider scope of understanding has indeed been established. In doing so, however, we made what is not separate, separate, even labelling various religions as exclusively separate when the essential purpose of all religion as well as material science has always been to realize the innate unity and universally networked fact of nature and our human totality. The more potentiated reality we seek lies in the unpenetrated void of what we have labelled unreal, whose point of access lies on a path of intelligent endeavor bound neither by the ideologies of current science or religion.”  She would add, “The Light of the coming revolution is of a more refined and subtle frequency, and to translate and project that frequency of Energy and Intelligence into forms which further our advancement we must learn to manage the energy of our own being and open wider the network for it within ourselves.”  In Paris it would become clear to her that we must go beyond all approaches which perpetuate an exclusive finite separateness of matter in form and establish a new angle of perception that exceeds the operation of our conditioned physical senses and rejoins what once served us in separation. She would write, “When the connection between the subtle and the physical is consciously accessed and those dimensions within our human totality and outer nature are more fully integrated, the Earth will once again out of scarcity and degeneration yield, and humanity too will discover its power to heal and advance without conflict. Artificial intelligence will not be a permanent compensation for our perceived limits rather a useful tool and placeholder pending our inevitable inner evolution.”

The challenge Goudreault faced artistically would be the same challenge she felt France and its people were uniquely positioned to address; the work of opening a pathway toward freedom beyond the tomb of an exclusively outer sensory data and physical form-based reality.  Everywhere she saw a heightened search for an enhanced self and status, but one that continued to choose facebooking over interfacing with the more potentiating dimensions of the self. In Paris like most of the world, people lined up for the latest superhero movies and video games for the chance to imagine having greater human capacities, while drifting further from the inner source of their own unrealized superpowers in the sea of chemically induced and virtual substitutes flooding global culture. Would France recognize her capacity to help build “the ark” that would carry humanity through this great flood? Where gifts of discriminating taste in food, color, art, architecture and all branches of science and human knowledge reached a high stage of development and evolutionary achievement, would Paris once again find the Light that would stimulate minds toward continued refinement and expansion? Would the French realize what higher correspondences they could now discover through transmuting their refined sense of taste in the physical into a capacity for equally intelligent and discriminating inner perception as an example for all humanity? Would they see that waiting for Paris’ old attachments to loosen was the energetic fulcrum of a new age of global enlightenment; a transformational awareness that would emerge from an empiricism of inner sensory experience that expanded the realm of science and its potential beyond the exclusive limits of physical sensory experience alone? Would they feel within themselves a more unlimited integrative stream of Intelligence that would reconfigure the form of humanity’s life, reorganize the structure and focus of world thought, and overcome the inertia of an exclusively material nature? Would they bring to light an experience of multidimensional life in matter which exists simultaneously in finite physical form and universally networked to an energy and intelligence which transcends it? Would they make this illumination the goal of all their mental and creative efforts, and not just for themselves or to reclaim their past position as a dominant global power, but as a beacon which transcends all boundaries and elevates and advances what is harmonizing, unique and the best contributions of  every individual and nation? Would they see before them an art and science which leads humanity through the impasse of the intangible and the boundaries of the physical senses; where the interfacing function of the subtle in the physical redefines our conditioned preconceptions of Nature and the nature and potential of the self?  Could they heed the call of the mind to evolve and turn their refined intellect toward further discovery of the immaterial dimensions of matter and the self and deliver a new conception of matter and human totality to the world? In asking these hard questions of Paris, she was also asking them of herself, and would refine the focus of her own work to inspire a revolution of this age that ends not only with vastly expanded technologies, mass particle accelerator breakthroughs, and Mars settlements, but a revelation which blows open the frame of matter and the limits of our human identity and elevates our experience and potential without obliterating form itself. A revelation which recognizes the value of conscious individual evolution as a force of collective advancement and benefit, and understands that where the individual remains an enslaved casualty of limited collective ideals and interests, the collective will also find itself a casualty of its ignorance.

 

What’s Stopping Us?

Even in a culture of richly refined intellect and material expression, Goudreault would write, “There remains a limiting and destructive flaw conditioned into mass thought, even among many intellectuals. It is a thought pattern which accepts the only way to elevate and ensure the long term survival of humanity is to leave the planet, the only way to experience a life of permanent peace and abundance, free of suffering is to leave the body, and the only way to expand our human potential is through educating the intellect and advancing outer technologies. We have accepted these self-diminishing thoughts as inevitable truths, labelling conditions outside our physical sensory limits as unattainable, and having lost faith in the potential of our own nature to advance, rely increasingly on outer technologies as the sole vehicle for expanding human capacity. We have allowed our questions to remain bound within these false parameters, and whatever darkness we perceive characterizes our Earth existence is made more impenetrable by our lost hope in the possibility of alternative answers and our ability to harmonize the chaos and disorder we have created. This we must now overcome!”  If our only answer to end conflict, scarcity, disharmony and disease she thought, is to find a way to leave this planet and evolve beyond these human forms; if we believe the possibilities of this planet have been tapped out and unlimited future opportunity lies only in exploring and colonizing other planets, how will we ever create a foundation for harmonized existence anywhere? She would write, “We must continue to expand our human experience here and now as a foundation for achieving it elsewhere. The Light guiding the efforts of past revolutions advanced human rights and released humanity from a bondage of misconstrued power and continues to burn through all levels of discrimination today.  Now there is an opportunity to once again evolve those efforts to release humanity from the bondage of an exclusively physical conception of matter, and a human identity that is solely finite and separate. The way for this new revelation is being paved everywhere on Earth by difficult circumstances which are slowly wearing down the borders of our conditioning and making possible our acceptance of the idea that an evolved awareness of the material alone is not enough to permanently harmonize, heal and elevate the physical. But we have reached a point where this slow unconscious process need not continue unaided, and we have within us the capacity to bring new ideas and systems to light that will consciously expedite the upliftment of our shared human experience. How long will we wait to cultivate this capacity? How long will we pursue a transformation of our existence based on outer technology alone, devising faster and more efficient information and communication networks, when what is required is a synchronous transformation of our inner perception and an experience of a more potentiated network of being. Unveiling the Light of the future requires a more unlimited understanding and experience of our human totality and the operating interface between the material and the immaterial.  The discovery of what was termed the God particle was a brilliant advancement, but it does not empower the individual or refine the potential of the mind unless we understand how the self operates multidimensionally and is universally networked within its material form. We have established that all matter exists in a unified field of being, but now we must turn our focus to how we are networked to consciously interact with the Energy and Intelligence of that Field.” In Paris she would write, “One is closer here to the forces of intellect and creative mind that must be wielded to bring about a new expression of physical matter and human totality and the capacity to do this more scientifically than elsewhere. Waiting palpably beneath the surface of Paris’ physical boundaries and finite mind is a new relationship between form and energy that will facilitate more intelligent work on the physical plane and manifestations that are more harmonizing, less disastrously managed, and gradually alleviate the repeated cycles of human suffering. I am infused by it and what it has encouraged in me will remain a Light in all my endeavors.” 

Taking the Leap

What flowed through Goudreault’s mind in France was not just an art of new perception but a more unlimited and intelligent awareness of form, matter and the dimensions of the self that she would champion the rest of her life. She would write,  “If we can stand free of past perception, unattached to the limits of past achievement, and on the forefront of integrating and potentiating the multidimensional operating network within all forms including our own, we can help crystallize human endeavor toward that which advances humanity from within and  harmonizes and potentiates the focus of all our outer actions and efforts. If we can initiate a more balanced inner and outer advancement, we can revolutionize the structures of thought, art, science and technology in a way which tangibly resolves the opposition between the material and immaterial, and between the form and formless dimensions of nature and the Self.  It is in accessing and harmonizing the unacknowledged subtle aspects of the self that we will see the end of conflict. When we are individually operating as a more completely integrated totality, we will begin to see ourselves in the whole of existence. And when cosmic Energy flows less impeded through the self, the competition which feeds on assumptions of limited energy and resources will give way to more efficient cooperation. It is through a revolution which expands how we define and experience matter and our human totality that we will transform the limited perception now culminating in a growing distrust of nature, leadership, humanity and ourselves. Releasing matter and humanity from the exclusive limits of their physical form will release new potential and restore a lost trust in the phenomenal world where both on and off planet exploration and research can continue not merely as a survival strategy for a failing Earth but for realizing our innate connectedness to a more infinite existence, Energy and Intelligence. Such a revolution will resolve the cleavage between orthodox science and religion once and for all, and the tendency toward fanatical devotion to each which having carried us forward in the past must now evolve to serve the shifting needs of an evolving humanity.”

Out of the symphony of time-layered intellectual and material forms resonating in the space of Paris, the message that Goudreault would hear and later amplify in the impressions of her own work was that, “It is now time for us to go through the door Yves Klein and others like him used every last breath to reach. A door which opens more than a shift in technological, philosophical or theoretical framework, and introduces a human identity, structure and potential no longer bound by the limits of current material science.  In a world whose national boundaries and identities are rapidly shifting in waves of mass migration and unplanned integration, our need of a science which identifies us as more than separate finite bodies grows more apparent every day.  While technology advances the outer infrastructure of our future, even more critical is a science which can identify the infrastructure within our human totality that facilitates group coordination and optimization without forced conformity or the dissolution of conditions required for individual advancement. Science must now see that more important than protecting past assumptions, they must deliver a new idea and context of being that prepares us to jump into an ocean and excel where all humanity and nature is vibrating and evolving in uniquely individual forms as a universally networked whole! This deeper understanding of the space and networked operations of our own being is critical in elevating and sustaining life on Earth and even more critical as we move our human experience further into space. It is not enough to recognize that all matter is energy. The revolution we need lies in the scientific relationship between physical form and energy, and in opening our minds to advance a science not of the laws of matter, but of the multidimensional relationship of form to life, of the material to the non-material, and of a human that is both physically finite and universally networked; composed of matter but with an energetic interface to dimensions of more unlimited cosmic intelligence and power.” In a city where devotion to science and art was pursued with near religious fervor, it became apparent to Goudreault that “now we must question through what innate interfacing system energy manifests and expresses itself in form, specifically the human form, and how we access and refine the operations of this system.” “Advancing the mind, perceptive faculties, and innate harmonizing and renewing capacities within the self,” she would say, "requires a redefined and expanded inner operating system, not just an outer technological one.” And laid out like a tactical map for conquering the limits of the past, she would clearly see in her mind’s eye the tenets of a new revolution fueled by a will to pursue and evolve a Science and Art which offered a more unlimited expression of nature and an expanded human identity as multidimensional universally networked beings climbing together toward a new summit of existence.

As her stay in France continued, she would feel a force drawing all life, including herself, into becoming a more vital focal point of cosmic Energy and Intelligence, and an example of elevated and sustainable human coexistence, where individual expression evolved freely in a context of harmonized unity, integrated vision and goals. She could see material science becoming one stream of a greater intellectual discipline dedicated to exploring the interrelated nature and effects of humanity as multidimensional, universally networked beings; where both the subtle energetic and physical aspects of our human totality were the domain of waking consciousness and experience. She would write, “We have created a past and present art and science which serve our instinct for self-preservation and advance our capacity to feed our physical senses, needs and material desires, and yet there is still suffering, conflict and longing for something more that is unfulfilled. There is a part of us which seeks to know more than the physical dimension of matter and the self and it is that part of us that a new revolution in science and art will help integrate and fulfill. The material will remain, but how we perceive matter, reality, and what comprises the self will be revitalized and potentiated from a more unbound, interdimensional, inner sensed perspective.” 

In a city that stood like a library of human history, she would write, “Variation of form is the only means of evolution, yet while we have always associated human evolution with a change in physical form, now it is a variation in frequency, operating system and faculties of perception that will redefine and mark the next evolution of humanity. We have also been perpetual seekers of knowledge, bound by the limiting belief that we do not innately possess it. Even outer technologies have emerged as a more unlimited outer means to access and possess information and evolve new capacities which compensate for and expand the possibilities of what is considered a limited and imperfect human form. Universal access to information has transformed a global culture where information was once held as a power over those without it. Now with unlimited access to information, however, we can see that information was not itself the power we ascribed to it, and much ignorance in discerning, processing and to what ends we apply that information remains. It is this blindness of matter and exclusively outer directed search for knowledge that must be revolutionized in a new science, so our experience of the totality and potential of both forms of Nature and the self may evolve. More and more tangibly I feel a science emerging which changes the ground of our existence by revealing that within each form lies not only the possibility, but the certainty of a reality beyond its currently accepted limits, and that within the human form waits the unintegrated aspects and inner networking technology for our minds’ continued ascent.” 

She would write, “Germinating in the intellect and aesthetic of Paris and the endeavors of all who walk upon the soil of its yet veiled Consciousness, is a science which studies the integration and operational synthesis of all dimensions of our human totality as receivers, transformers and distributors of cosmic Energy and Intelligence, with the capacity to radiate definitive effects beyond our physical form and influence the experience of life on Earth and the infinite network of being in which we operate. We need only remove the inner obstacles to its manifestation.” She was filled with the vision of an attainable new science she would further describe as, “A science which brings an idea forth that links us to everything in existence, dispels our preconceptions of exclusive separateness, and studies all forms as an expression of one life force; one universally networked Energy and Intelligence. A science of inner exploration and experience that delivers a mind more sure of itself, refined in its workings, and capable of revealing our true power.  A science which gains more unlimited access to immaterial phenomena by beginning to work with intelligently subjective as well as objective research methodologies.  A science which studies the physical elements not merely as physical phenomena, but as energies in nature and potentiating forces interfaced within our own human totality. A science which establishes the energy interfacing dimension of the body and its centers of operation as a scientific fact and seeks to understand how those energies are accessed, organized and expressed as potentiating forces for evolving the self, humanity and the environments we inhabit. A science which recognizes the existence of inner sensory capacities as subtle refined complements of the physical senses and discovers how they can be optimized through a systematic applied inner technology of rightly synchronized and directed force.  A science which asks how the distribution of vital energies within the self drives the mind’s evolving desires and potential, and how we can consciously interact with that process. A science that enables seekers of energy and intelligence, no longer wholly divorced from their totality, to transcend the body of limited physical sensory data and information gathered by the finite mind and become the inhabitants and instruments of more unlimited Cosmic Energy and Intelligence and the leaders of evolving and perfecting both earth and human nature. A science that opens the way for new Light and forces which connect the known self with a greater totality of being and a new phase of human evolution with the power to perfect the imperfect, overcome the insurmountable, and transform both ignorance and intellect by increasing the bandwidth and flow of Energy and Intelligence in the subtle dimensions of the self.

When Goudreault was asked recently about whether we are progressing toward this “new science”, she commented, “Through CERN’s work with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), we are learning that accelerating proton packets beyond the speed of Light and focusing energies in magnetic circles to put it very simply…is leading scientists beyond the laws of physics as they are currently understood and toward unexpected and previously unobserved phenomena. Much excitement is also being raised as Astronomers identify magnetic fields of radio wave “threads” connecting vast galaxy clusters, making our concept of a web of existence more tangible. All of this far reaching research is expanding our understanding and awareness of matter and lesser known dimensions of being, but while we continue to study the nature of pentaquarks, radio filaments, and the like, focusing only on the discovery itself and how it can be monetized and support outer technological advancement, we are missing their greatest human benefit. What we discover in all these endeavors must also drive a more open consideration of the parallel and equally unexplored universe of the self. To be measured as true advancements, we must remember that the essential purpose of all that we pursue in the study of external phenomena is to facilitate and support our inner evolution of our human totality. The next revolution in science will balance and further potentiate our externally focused investment of financial and intellectual resources through a stream of endeavor committed to accessing and potentiating all dimensions of our universally networked human totality. It will determine how sound influences our own inner circles of energy and connects our individual magnetic fields. While mechanically accelerating proton packets and focusing those energies in the LHC is yielding a new range of previously un-sensed phenomena, a new science will discover that as humans we also have the innate system to operate as a point where multiple dimensions collide and previously un-sensed phenomena become known. In what may seem somewhat of a reverse process compared to the LHC, we will do it directly and consciously. We will begin to understand that more than finite, we are ourselves universally networked ‘colliders’ capable of accessing and focusing more magnified energies through our own interfacing energy vortices for harmonizing and refining the frequency of our magnetic fields, our minds, our perception, and the physical matter of our human forms.”

Goudreault would see art too as a transformational vehicle for illuminating our human existence and supporting the efforts of a science whose endeavors would release Nature and the self from the limits of their conditioned forms into new more integrative expressions, and impel a deeper understanding of the universally networked relationship between Cosmic Energy, Intelligence and matter.  It was an art that would cultivate and support a more open curiosity and desire to work intelligently and reverently with all dimensions of matter, Nature and ourselves. An art that moved from conditioned finite realism and its counterpoint in abstraction toward that which tangibly integrates and illuminates an experience of Nature and the self where the physical and subtle are no longer held as separate dimensions, rather challenged to open and merge in a realization of their essentially networked totality. She would write, “Neither our own bodies and minds or the body of Earth are capable of sustaining the individual and collective chaos, economic and religious competition and conflicts created by the contrived walls of separateness we have constructed between the physical and the subtle aspects of nature and the self.  Art that exists solely as an exploration and re-representation of the known material world is no longer enough. Abstractions and idealized interpretations of a world broken of its forms are no longer enough. Abstract form in art has been of critical significance and will continue to break our conditioned preconceptions of form and open our minds for more unlimited thought, but it was never going to be a stopping point for the experience and expression of our evolving human totality. Endeavors in art must now open a path of creative expression from which we have room to move from both the physical limits of material science and idealized abstract expressions into the space they have been a part of building; a more tangible convergent realism which projects a multidimensional perception of Nature and a universally networked human totality. Art as a reverberation of a dark or self-destructive subconscious is also no longer enough.  Neither is a conditioned portrayal of exclusive beauty enough, or an art of instinct and impulse that excites the physical senses and emotions but does not illuminate the mind.  We cannot hope to refine and uplift our actions by constantly seeding the mind with repetitive images and impressions which follow and perpetuate these patterns. It may be the ongoing mission of news media to keep retelling stories of humanity acting at its worst and driven by its basest instincts. They may continue to replay endless examples of human suffering and by stimulating the negative aspect of mind with such information attempt to unite us or strengthen our will to change.  But with an ever-increasing volume of accessible information and impressions, one can see that much of the will toward constructive change has either been numbed into inertia or distorted in violent rebellions which further disharmony and destruction, and art cannot afford to be influenced or motivated by the same. Although we are all affected to varying extents by individual and group conflict, creators of ‘Aquarian Art’ will endeavor to find the beauty, energy, art and science of our own being. We will rediscover an art whose Source is beyond known material forms, and the instincts of finite mind and emotion driven impulses, in the underlying union and universal infrastructure and order of being innately woven through Nature and the self. From attuning ourselves to the flow of universally networked cosmic Energy and Intelligence rather than conditioned forms and ideals, we will manifest an art which leads others to pursue their own inner discovery of the same.” She would add, “An art capable of refining others will come from devoting ourselves to evolving not only our perception and capacity for projecting Light, but for discerning the effects of what we create with greater awareness, integrity and responsibility. We all have within us the possibility to create, but as ‘Aquarian Artists’ we will learn to cultivate the capacity to create art which is itself more wholly integrated and purifying, not just reflections of what cries out to be purified and evolved within us or society.  Rather than art as the physical equivalent of inner torment, outer conflicts, and emotional and mental catharsis, we will rediscover the value and purpose of an art which elevates those who contemplate it; that propels hearts and minds upwards to where hope is restored and new wonder leads us toward a more potentiated experience of Nature and what it is to be human. ‘Aquarian Art’ will find its way beyond the outer layers of surface beauty, conflict, and disorder and illuminate an expanded perception of form for a new age that not only takes down the masks of personality and conditioned physical forms but also offers a glimpse of our multidimensional universally networked human nature. Its forms will make us question the mind’s physically sensed view of reality, and instill confidence in our capacity to experience Nature and a self whose totality transcends the limits of past pre-conceptions, potentiated by a Cosmic Energy and Intelligence networked within us and throughout all dimensions of existence.

More and more we will learn the impact of the impressions we surround ourselves with and the need for more conscious curating and discernment of what occupies our outer environments and fills our minds. It will be apparent that if you elevate that which the mind concentrates on, you will elevate your experience, and art will begin to flow more consciously from a greater understanding of how to feed what we seek to nurture and grow within the self. The desire to optimally manage our outer visual and auditory influences will increase, and focusing on illuminating images which lead the mind past physical sensory conditioned material or emotionally derived forms and base imaginings will play an increasingly supportive role in all our inner efforts to advance. At present people may not have the experience of those more refined ideas and impressions yet within their own minds or in the culture around them. They may remain blocked and dormant even though they are universally networked within to access this information, so what repeats in their minds are the references that keep them bound in the past and present. More positively potentiating energies and actions will eventually follow higher thought forms, and it is the responsibility of ‘Aquarian Art’ and Science to introduce more refined thought forms, impressions and principles; to translate the highest ideas and an experience of being which exceeds the conditioned boundaries of the self and transcends the visible constructs and conflicts of our present reality. This art which calls to me here in Paris, and to the many who will come after, will take a technologically networked humanity yet estranged from its inner totality, innate beauty and harmony, and transfuse it with a Light of new awareness and the capacity to excel beyond all perceived limits. As an art dedicated to human advancement, it will offer more than impressions and information, and function as tools for preparing and refining the mind and our inner sensory system for accessing, integrating and consciously operating all dimensions of our human totality in a way that harmonizes and potentates our existence. It will be an art that helps deliver us once again into a cycle of immanent evolution in which a new totality of form and human potential arises from within.”

Leaving Paris

Where the sacred geometry of her totality intersected with the geometry of Paris’ streets, bathed in dominant frequencies of gold and blue, Goudreault’s visual work in Light Mind Images would be conceived and find its purpose in creating resources for concentration which advance, transform, and uplift.  From there would emerge her endeavor to visually evoke the experience of a more unlimited multidimensional perception that transcends duality and opens minds to their own radiance and capacity for evolving a more potentiated human totality. She would find herself part of a coming revolution, where humanity would advance not solely through creating outer means for invoking artificial intelligence and augmented realities, but through an art and science which would help us open ourselves as vehicles already universally networked for embodying and projecting unlimited cosmic Energy and Intelligence. She would become a part of nurturing the idea that we are creating a virtual reality in our minds every day, and that mastering the inner system for creating a consciously potentiated reality is of equal importance to exploring a technologically created virtual one. With her time in France coming to a close, she would try to drink in every last drop of its Light. It was an infinite well, and she would inevitably leave some behind, but know the well it carved in her would also flow unending through every expression of her being. Even when an ocean stood between them once again, she would go to that well of Light within and quench her thirst for realizing a humanity that hungers not just for information, but to experience the mechanism through which life manifests and operates in infinitely evolving matter and the self.  In the last days before leaving France she would write, “Where Yves Klein leapt unhesitatingly to rise beyond the past limits of a solely material reality, we too must now go; each a part of discovering and accessing the inner paths to a universally networked capacity which opens a new more unbound experience of Nature and the nature of the self. This is the work of unearthing and bringing forth the Light that is essential to individual and collective human advancement, sustaining a harmonized planet, and preparing ourselves as constructive partners in an interplanetary existence.”

But the revolution she envisioned would not enter easily on roads already paved by existing forms, ideas and patterned actions. Even with France’s history of countless contributions to human and scientific advancement and a Light she felt Paris carried uniquely and unceasingly for humanity, there were hurdles to be faced. She would feel the negative effects of a world trying to fuse a global synthesis based on material issues and a physically bound vision of matter bombarding the sensitively attuned minds and hearts of the French. She would observe how the Nation continued to fight a reputation for being self-centered, and against circumstances which challenged its strength and capacity to project higher values and principles universally in a culture of increasing diversity. She would watch as people came with greater and greater frequency, drawn to the Light of France, seeking advancement like moths to a flame, and knew it would be the challenge of Paris to concretize that Light in a new science and art which would not only elevate the world within its boundaries but radiate outward, because it would be the migration of new human intelligence and experience that would harmonize the physical migration of an evolving global existence not technology alone. She would release these parting words upon the air of Paris, while one last time she watched the dawn sun rising through the structure of the Eiffel Tower. It was to her a perfect representation of the energies of a universally networked human totality rising upward through the subtle body along the spine on an unlimited path of evolving potential.

“May you continue to refine your individual and national life in a way which serves the interests of the whole of humanity as well as the preservation of your highest integrity and unique purpose. May you and all who are drawn to the Light of Paris increasingly discover within themselves the refined potential to illuminate more of what are as yet the immaterial dimensions of our reality. If you are going to be selfish, do not be materially selfish, but in your desire to integrate and evolve more of the totality and potential of the self. Humanity has accepted confusion, aggression and disease as innate characteristics of a rapidly evolving global culture, but we have the capacity to both excel and make optimum use of expanding technologies if our outer transformation is balanced by a science and art of inner transformation. It is our lack of individual self-harmonization and the inability to integrate and operate all dimensions of our human totality that expresses itself in so much global fear, anxiety, and disharmony. We do not have to sacrifice individual needs to serve the cause of human advancement. But we do need to know how to integrate all dimensions of the self, cultivate contentment and refine the minds which shape our desires. May you now find your power to steadily release the Light through which a new individual, national and global culture may be harmonized and sanely and wisely evolved. May you endeavor to make more tangible a revolutionary understanding of the multidimensional nature of matter and the self. May you help bring a science and art refined for the minds of this age to light, through which humanity learns to consciously access the cosmic Energy and Intelligence universally networked and subtly interfaced within our physical bodies. May its revelation expand our awareness, perception and capacity for more constructive interactions with nature, all humanity and non-Earth life forms alike. May all human endeavors find new purpose and benefit in supporting this end; focusing science and intellect, art and creative will on illuminating the multidimensional nature of our human totality beyond the preconceived limits of matter. May all who are called by its Light, find in Paris a gateway which potentiates their efforts to realize a more unlimited and harmonized existence as partners capable of renewing and elevating the space of ourselves, the nature of Earth and all realms of being. May Light prevail from its centers across the planet and within the multidimensional network of our human totality.”

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