Beauty rests only in the UNKNOWN. It never comes from the process of thinking. With that one may be fully assured that the term “conceptual art” is simply a worthless speculation about beauty. Ideation about the thing is not the thing itself! “I seek the knowledge of love but I have never been in love!” “What stupidity! Throw the bum out!” Thundered the Alpha Seer. By now it should be clear to all that thinking is from memory, and memory is dead. “There is nothing new under the sun!” declared Nietzsche. And amazingly he was right for once with art ! If a work has failed to transport your spirit to the beyond, or the absolute,–that profound realm of the mysterious, one might as well dismiss it altogether. It has no more significance in that room than any other object found therein! Never mind what the academics or art critics tell you! The most tragic thing in these modern eras of ours is not the fact that those “experts” cannot tell art apart from non-art,–the deep tragedy lies instead in modern man’s total reliance on those “experts” or “specialists!” I call it Humanity’s most unforgivable surrender to evil since the Holocaust, when apathy coupling with a herd’s instinct for self- preservation had vastly enabled Adolf Hitler’s twisted conceptualizations. Be fooled NOT by your own ego! NEVER trust your herd instincts or the so-called conventional wisdom! ( e.g. Oh, yeah, I think Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp, Turner, or Rauschenberg is great because important people say so, VIPs like Arthur Danto or Alberto Bingo said so!– even though I didn’t have the foggiest clue as to what they really wanted to say!–I ‘d better agree with them,–who am I to disagree with experts anyway? Yeah, it’s safer to do so or else I would become the laughing stock in my circle of friends!) A work of art, folks, is REALLY something else! Listen to the best of Mozart/ Bach/Beethoven, then suddenly blare out the Beatles, the Blues, the Jazz or whatever tunes that has found a path via the market to the public’s ears in the last 250 years. Make earnest comparisons and feel the difference. Anyone can do it! The difference is not such a deep thing to be yielded up. As long as you have patience,–you can be better than any “expert” on earth! Patience is itself from that inner beauty found within you. It is the only luxury you may enjoy when all else have failed you. The “experts/professors” may have known all the jargons, the technicalities, all the anecdotes, the names or events. But they are stupid! You only have to know one thing: the DIFFERENCE! That silence in the DIFFERENCE should trump all their petty knowledge! It is on the circumference of music that they have built their knowledge and livelihood, but your knowledge of DIFFERENCE is the most powerful of all,–since you have gone into the heart of an art and you have studied its very soul! An academic’s dictation, therefore, should no longer have any place in deciding which music provides the best benefit to anyone of us from now on. When an individual is thus rebellious, then there is still hope in the world! The art critics will cease to find a place in your heart, as in truth neither would you offer sanctuary to ANY of their conditioning within that deep hall of your soul! By the same token, set up a Titian, a Velazquez, a Frans Hals, a Rubens, or a Cezanne by your tea room, look intently at them for some time; making sure that you are fully taken in by their sublime forms; then place some of what the academia have the audacity to call “art” next to any one of them. It is then one may realize that, in all true art there is found the very magic to engage your soul! That is the very magic of beauty, from which the universe invokes a blueprint for wondrous relationships! Albert Einstein once exclaimed, ” Nothing in the universe can be more beautiful than the mysterious!” Beautiful is the mystery that resides in those sublime forms! All you ever need in determining what is beautiful is through the simple act of COMPARISON, since the very mystery that Einstein alludes to abides in the forms. Look deeply, making serious notes of their formal beauty. If you are aware enough, you can actually hear falseness drop away with an alarming throb. The work of impostors can never quite stand up to earnest scrutiny! Don’t let your own Ego fool you, though! Eager to achieve, the Ego is perpetually saying: “Okay, I’ve got it,”– while in truth, one remains in stupidity and ignorance!–go back to Square One!!! So watch your Ego! If you are not sure, be very honest with yourself since this is a great moment of reckoning! You must look at yourself in the mirror every day. Can one actually afford to be such a fraud,– day in and day out,– and with so much self-delusion? In the event that no difference can be yielded even after a long and painful scrutiny, as it may happen with a good percentage of humanity, ( please don’t feel sad: most are born blind to beauty anyway!) then art is probably not something for you! Look instead at the flowers,– or at a glorious sunset,–allow the happy sights of the mountains, trees or rivers to dissolve in it, never to wake up from that hilarious spell again! Beauty found in nature may prove more suited to your temperaments! Or you may try to find beauty in songs or in poetry. Existence can be so blissful,–and with beauty, so much more powerful. THE ALPHA SEER **** The seers are the Awakened Ones. The Alpha Seer is a seer who is awakened to Beauty.
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