Michal Beaurcaire - The Art of Mandala Meditation: Mandala Designs to Heal Your Mind, Body and Spirit

I have put into words what Ive been exploring over the course of some fifty years of life. During that time, much of it spent becoming and being an artist, I have come to know the soul, and I have come to understand that the journey of THE ARTIST is the discovery of the soul.

For me, finding, facing, and knowing your soul is the ultimate purpose in life. This is the foundation of all my teaching, be it through painting, writing, or simply living life. Learning to see with your hearts soul, as an artist, is the result of a long transformation, an evolution from a business life to a creative life. After years of developing and practicing the medium of painting, I am able to share the path to the heart through the soul. I am able to communicate the range of feeling and seeing that I experience day by day, both in my artwork and in my life.

For instance, the soul is outside of time and space. Sharing a communication directly from the soul creates a dynamism based on the difficult task of attempting to explain what appears to be invisible. Yet sharing from the souls eyes reveals a depth and perception not available to ordinary eyesight. So only with the long body of this journal, along with my own long journey, can we truly understand the realm of the soul and its value to all artists.

In my experience, the soul is the artist and true art merely passes through the artist. Our infrastructure of museums and the societal-based valuation of art are, in fact, soul-based. It follows that the heart can be used continually as a soul organ for perceiving the value and sacred nature of soul art.

I use the teachings of famous and honored artists throughout time to amplify and explain how the soul cooperates in the paintings, teachings, and lives of these masters.

During the twenty-five years of my business career, I felt that something major that lived at a certain depth was missing from my life. Though I always felt creative, I now realize that I was not consciously connected to my living soul. This connection developed over time as a result of artistic exploration, numerous epiphanies, countless inspirations, the blessed intervention of teachers, synchronistic events, unexpected pain and loss, and most importantly through endless hours of painting and exploration in my own studio.

It has become my deep desire to share my lifes work, to express what I see and feel in the mystery of painting, and to help others make similar connections. I truly feel that once you have been given the gift of seeing the mystery, of a direct connection to the Divine, this experience will be sufficient to fuel an entire lifetime of creatively revealing and translating, through art, your own spiritually based experiences.

It has been my destiny to achieve a radical personal transformation from a business life to a creative life and, finally, to a spiritual life through ART. When I first began to paint, I didnt see the soul or realize my souls desire for my life. I didnt know that I had already begun my search. It was through painting that my inner eyes began to open and, miraculously, began to see the SOUL!

I have learned that once we have seen the soul in multiple ways and on different levels, it has a profound and direct influence on our lives. I have found the presence of the soul to be prevalent in paintings and in the lives of artists through the centuries. Painting is the journey of the artist searching to reveal that which he both feels and sees. Picasso found that, Painting is a blind mans profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels. In my own experience I have learned that art is the soul manifesting in time and space.

When we learn how to open to the soul, we begin to feel connected with it, like a Buddhist practicing nonduality. First, we connect in our paintings, and then we connect to life.

I share many of my findings and discoveries of other great artists as a way to further strengthen my teaching that art reveals the soul. I understand that some of what I am saying will seem very different from our societys common thinking, but I am sharing the souls wisdom. Simply put, the souls wisdom is the essence of my life. Here, my work will be to put into words a way of seeing and connecting to life. My teaching is to reveal a new reality (soul) at all levels, in this writing as in my painting and in my life, just as it exists in TRUE works of art.

Michelangelo found that, good painting is nothing but a copy of the perfection of God. In my experience, from a soul level, the Divine is working mysteriously through the soul in all true works of art.

The soul naturally connects, unifies, and sees in patterns. We have to know this to enter her realms!

Paul Heussenstamm