Sacred Foothill

Sol Luckman

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The Sacred Foothill
Becomes especially important
In wintertime

When the driving snow comes
And you can no longer see
The Sacred Mountain above

Small though it may be,
As one ascending
Out of the darkness
Toward the Light,

I need this foothold in sanity
To remain steady
In the whiteout of chaos
That is the world

Copyright © 2012 by Sol Luckman. All Rights Reserved.

[Sol Luckman is a prolific visual artist and critically acclaimed author of fiction and nonfiction. His numerous books include the international bestselling CONSCIOUS HEALING: BOOK ONE ON THE REGENETICS METHOD and POTENTIATE YOUR DNA: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO HEALING & TRANSFORMATION WITH THE REGENETICS METHOD. Sol is also author of the BEGINNERS LUKE Series of seriocomic novels that hilariously foreground the role of imagination in creating our individual and collective reality. You can learn more about Sols nonfiction, fiction and art at www.CrowRising.com.]

Snowy Canyon

Sol Luckman

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First there was a canyon.
Then there was snow.

Copyright © 2012 by Sol Luckman. All Rights Reserved.

[Sol Luckman is a prolific visual artist and critically acclaimed author of fiction and nonfiction. His numerous books include the international bestselling CONSCIOUS HEALING: BOOK ONE ON THE REGENETICS METHOD and POTENTIATE YOUR DNA: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO HEALING & TRANSFORMATION WITH THE REGENETICS METHOD. Sol is also author of the BEGINNERS LUKE Series of seriocomic novels that hilariously foreground the role of imagination in creating our individual and collective reality. You can learn more about Sols nonfiction, fiction and art at www.CrowRising.com.]

Share Your Work at Contemporary Southwestern Painting

Ghost Ranch

Contemporary Southwestern Painting is an FAA (Fine Art America) group for creators and lovers of high-quality contemporary painting, both abstract and figural, inspired by the American Southwest.

Join us today at ...

http://fineartamerica.com/groups/contemporary-southwestern-painting.html

Painting in any medium is welcome. Style should be fresh and original. Color is a plus. Experimentation is encouraged. No realism or kitsch.

IMPORTANT: Please limit submissions to two (2) paintings per day.

NOTE TO ARTISTS: Be sure to introduce yourself and share where folks can connect with you and your art, on and off FAA: website, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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Eight New Paintings for Summer, with Commentary

SOL LUCKMAN 

One of the most effective ways to deal with the increased energy and time acceleration of these fast and furious days is to engage one’s creativity—pragmatism be damned.

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When we’re authentically engaged in our personal creative space, time ceases to exist—rather, we tend to lose our old self-limiting habits of attachment to time’s clever tricks and inconvenient whims.

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The move here, one that is as simple as it is powerful, even reality-altering, is from (not) living in the past and future, to fully inhabiting the Now.

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Perhaps this helps explain why I’ve been so busy lately, without feeling particularly busy: I’ve been “in the zone,” so to speak, creating with abandon.

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Let me assure you, this way of living internally beats the socks off waiting around for some good news to happen externally. Because, who knows, you may be waiting a while.

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And maybe, just maybe, following our bliss, harnessing the “Power of Positive Feeling,” is integral in generating the very good events that will eventually make the news.

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For the most part, I've continued my passionate love affair with painting transcendent Southwestern landscapes designed to inspire deep appreciation of the magic inherent in creation.

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Nothing is more in the Now than painting—especially with fast-drying media such as ink and gesso, when there’s no time to think about anything except what's happening on the canvas, in the Moment.

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And perhaps, just looking at the results, you will find yourself, however briefly, existing entirely in the present as well.

Copyright (c) 2011 by Sol Luckman. All Rights Reserved.

[Sol Luckman is a prolific visual artist and critically acclaimed author of fiction and nonfiction. His numerous books include the international bestselling CONSCIOUS HEALING: BOOK ONE ON THE REGENETICS METHOD and the newly released POTENTIATE YOUR DNA: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO HEALING & TRANSFORMATION WITH THE REGENETICS METHOD. For information on the “revolutionary healing science” (NEXUS) of the Regenetics Method, check out www.PhoenixRegenetics.org. Sol is also author of the BEGINNER’S LUKE Series of seriocomic novels that hilariously foreground the role of imagination in creating our individual and collective reality. Characterized by Reader Views as a “modern-day ALICE IN WONDERLAND” and by Apex Reviews as a “mind-bending journey through the mind of the ultimate iconoclast,” BEGINNER’S LUKE is also, as literature professor Niama Williams has written, a “spiritual journey that you do not want to put down.” Share the Adventure of an imaginary lifetime by visiting www.BeginnersLuke.com. View Sol’s paintings and learn more about his work at www.CrowRising.com.]

Eight New Paintings

Sol Luckman

"Beneath Sol Luckman's spare lines are universes of strokes, careful and conscious applications of brush movement to impart unseen dimensions, hint at that which we only experience subtly. This is amazing work." Art Rosch, professional photographer

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As a longtime novelist and writer of nonfiction books, that I have been drawn to paint with ink certainly is not lost on me.

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And as I am when composing actual words, in my paintings I am committed to exploring and depicting energy—specifically, that engrossing spiral of universal creative energy that is consciousness.

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I see the world, and paint it, with a shaman’s eyes, as a place not wholly solid, but informed by a kinetic vibrancy that is fundamentally intelligent.

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I am describing, of course, Great Spirit.

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For Great Spirit is the world, just as the world is Great Spirit.

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And not one of us is left out of this simple, all-encompassing equation.

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It is my intention that you, too, will see this universe of energy in my paintings—as objects condition space with their essence, and vice versa, and the outside conflates with the inside because All Is One.

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Copyright (c) 2011 by Sol Luckman. All Rights Reserved.

[Sol Luckman is a prolific visual artist and critically acclaimed author of fiction and nonfiction. His numerous books include the international bestselling CONSCIOUS HEALING: BOOK ONE ON THE REGENETICS METHOD and the newly released POTENTIATE YOUR DNA: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO HEALING & TRANSFORMATION WITH THE REGENETICS METHOD. For information on the “revolutionary healing science” (NEXUS) of the Regenetics Method, check out www.PhoenixRegenetics.org. Sol is also author of the BEGINNER’S LUKE Series of seriocomic novels that hilariously foreground the role of imagination in creating our individual and collective reality. Characterized by Reader Views as a “modern-day ALICE IN WONDERLAND” and by Apex Reviews as a “mind-bending journey through the mind of the ultimate iconoclast,” BEGINNER’S LUKE is also, as literature professor Niama Williams has written, a “spiritual journey that you do not want to put down.” Share the Adventure of an imaginary lifetime by visiting www.BeginnersLuke.com. View Sol’s paintings and learn more about his work at www.CrowRising.com.]

Introducing the New Crow Rising!

Dear Reader,

Finally, after several months of dedicated work, Im truly excited to announce my brand-new personal website featuring many of my original paintings, as well as my unique offerings in fiction and nonfiction.

Please check out the new and improved Crow Rising Transformational Media today at www.CrowRising.com.

In addition to browsing my expressionistic artwork, you can download your complimentary copy of my literary-visionary novel BEGINNERS LUKE (called by Apex Reviews a modern-day ALICE IN WONDERLAND) and enjoy a lot of other paradigm-altering free content.

Thanks for flying high with Crow Rising today!

Sol Luckman
Artist, Author, Alchemist
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