Mind Jazz: Neo-Illumination #14.......

For those of you who read Mind Jazz and don't know about Neo-Illumination I can't really blame anyone but myself. It's been 15 years since they stopped (except for one that might or might not be one that appeared about six years ago) and I'm always very cautious when talking to people I don't know about them, even though certain individual messages do get mentioned on a regular basis depending of course on the situation.

There has never been a single time when all of them have been discussed at the same time.

During my The Other God Particles art show in September of 2014 each one was separated from the artwork and placed in between the work I was showing. I have yet to frame any of the original Neo-Illumination art pieces and watching myself write these words truly gives me pause.

WTF is the matter with me?

Last Saturday night I went to Bergamot Station in Santa Monica, which is an art complex that houses over 30 galleries, with the sole intention of attending an opening of a new gallery called Beyond The Lines, owned and curated by Brittany Davis.

At that opening I encountered a very interesting artist whose work I respected and felt very relaxed while viewing....and when an abstract artist creates work that generates a feeling of relaxation I regard that as a very good thing. Her name is Brigit Bell Ritchie and I look forward to watching her career unfold.

Neo-Illumination came up in my conversation with Brigit's husband Noah and the fact that I was talking about it in public might be why I'm writing about it now.

I had stopped at the gallery a few days earlier because it was two doors down from one of my favorite stores in the Los Angeles. The store, Hiromi, a hand made Washi paper store, had moved to Culver City after 20 years due of the increased rents being charged by the new owners of the complex...along with four or more other galleries that had been there for years. I was slightly bummed because it means I'll have to travel south of Santa Monica at some time in the near future. I prefer traveling north of the 10 Freeway and in fact the further north I go the better my skin feels.....it's a negative ion thing that actually exist.....maybe.....but again that's another topic for another time.

The light rail system running from Los Angles to the pier in Santa Monica has a Bergamot Station station and the new landlords obviously have the concept that the station will make increased traffic for the complex. Unless they do some drastic advertising and visual improvements to the building I'm not sure their conceptual theories will be achieved.

The city of Santa Monica seems to have total artistic control over what is allowed and not allowed regarding improvements to the property.

At this point you might be asking yourself....what the hell does any of this have to do with Neo-Illumination #14.

Relax....it's my story and I'll tell it my way and hopefully everything will make sense.....or it won't, and then what difference did it make anyway? Everything about my life makes perfect sense or it doesn't.
That's one thing for sure most of us have in common.

What I will do is post Neo-Illumination #14 and then get back to how it actually became a heading on Mind Jazz for the first time since I started writing this blog in 2006.

                                             Love
                                                 can follow suffering
                                   everytime

                                                IF

   Soul Awareness
                                               has
      been
                  properly
                   developed

Now, you might notice two things....everytime is not an actual word but that's the way it was written when it arrived and if you can't figure out how to look past that type of grammatical variance then your issues run so deeply in another direction that this might be a time to stop reading and go to Costco or Ikea or maybe see a movie.....Kong might be the one to see even though somehow they spent 200 million dollars and didn't think it was a good idea to give the heroine blond hair. HUH?

Second thing to notice on #14..........the big IF.
The big IF applies to anything regarding non-physical reality, of which we have written about many times, and yet the concept of non-physical reality continues to be an enormous big IF....which makes the concept of Soul Awareness an IF the size of Detroit.

Things that are hidden inside the world of Quantum Mechanics don't count as non-physical realities because they are new physical realities that we continue to learn about.

Love is generally a noun that promotes a type of behavior that falls well within the boundaries of physical reality. When regarding language we encounter many words that explain emotional, rational and even mathematical awareness.

SOUL AWARENESS is not regarded as an actual thing when one looks in the dictionary. I'm from the school that thinks it should be one word....

Soulawarenss........and yes I do admit that it seems to be a rather small school at this point in time.

I will suggest that you take a minute and read the first definition of SOUL in your dictionary of choice. I use the New World Dictionary and it's an actual blue book that I hold in my hand and turn the pages. Probably not your choice but most likely neither is the term old school relevant to you on any level.
The words no physical or material reality.....

(Wait a sec...my daughter just asked me to go to the market....I'll be right back)
Ok....did you get bored while I was gone?
Probably didn't seem very long did it?
Time
is
so
tricky
and is extremely weird for something that might not exist....but that really is another story so let's get back to the elusive and always.....
NOW.

Since 2/3/1994 the words joy and happiness have been sequestered to a certain part of my brain that might sneak a peak outward every so often but for the most part remain hidden behind a facade of theatrical behavior created to make others feel less bummed out when contemplating what had happened on that day in 1994. Acting is not my profession but I think I do a pretty good job of pretending from time to time and so maybe acting is my hobby.
If you checked with close friends of mine they might tell you that from time to time I've seemed happy and I've displayed moments that appear to contain joy.

Since I've analyzed Neo-Illumination #14 quite a few times and have come to accept the reality that love can follow suffering everytime if soul awareness has been properly developed I still realize that properly developing soul awareness is a true challenge.

What in the world does properly mean when applied to developing soul awareness?
What in the world does the word properly mean when applied to any type of spiritual or non-physical reality awareness?

And therein lies the rub, so to speak.

I know one thing for absolute certainty......

Soul Awareness is an individual challenge and no one person can tell another person how to develop that awareness. If you go back and read #14 again, you will notice that the statement isn't explaining how...it's simply saying that if it is done then Love can follow suffering....everytime.

I FULLY UNDERSTAND THAT IF THE SOUL EXIST THEN OUR LINK TO ETERNITY IS SECURE AND KNOWING THAT PART OF US WILL ALWAYS BE AND THAT THAT PART IS QUITE A BIT LONGER THAN THE PHYSICAL REALITY WE ACTUALLY EXPERIENCE AND THAT HAVING THAT AWARENESS CAN ACTUALLY MAKE ONE LAUGH AND CAN THEN RESULT IN A RARE MOMENT THAT SCREAMS HAPPINESS AND JOY.

But the other day I saw joy and happiness in the face of someone who hadn't felt either of those emotions in totality since Sean left our physical reality in 1994.

My ex-wife Kerry, who I definitely have issues with and am constantly reminded of those issues, has experienced both those emotions repeatedly over the last few weeks.
I'm truly not sure what she believes regarding the existence of the soul but a part of her I haven't seen in years came alive and happiness and joy were present...and when happiness and joy are present then LOVE becomes a reality and even though it might only last for a minute or two each time it happens it is happening over and over.

It takes something very very special to help mend a heart that has been shattered. But keeping in mind that the soul can't be shattered starts to even out the playing field. Becoming aware of the strength and power that resides in the word eternal, which in turn applies to the soul, makes it possible to understand how we can properly develop our awareness of our souls.

If you have a problem with accepting the concept of non-physical reality then the soul issue might seem hard for you to comprehend.

I saw a soul within a shattered heart emerge for a few minutes and while that soul belonged to someone else it reinforced another Neo-Illumination....#18
Soul Awareness Development is SAD for awhile and then it becomes obvious that SAD can't be.

And believe me I understand the challenges regarding anything having to do with anything we can't see, feel, hear, touch or taste but there are things that transcend physical reality and strengthen non-physical reality realities.

And I accept that it probably takes a physical reality to initiate that type of experience.

THIS IS THE PHYSICAL REALITY THAT INITIATED THE EXPERIENCE THAT I SAW HAPPEN TO MY EX-WIFE....and please note that not only would she not get what I've just written but it would reinforce her theory that I'm not only wrong about EVERYTHING but that I'm extremely delusional....

There's a very solid reason they are called EX wives.

BUT DISPLAYED BELOW IS
A REALITY

AND JOY
AND HAPPINESS
HAS VISITED A DAMAGED HEART
AND THE SOUL OF AT LEAST ONE PERSON
THAT I WASN'T SURE
COULD EVER FEEL
OR
HOUSE THOSE
EMOTIONS AGAIN.......DID.

Maybe more than one............