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January 19, 2006
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I'm not sure how these things happen. I followed a link from a link from a link, and there I was at some page discussing automatic drawing:
Spare and Carter say further:
The ongoing (see infinity sign) process of dialogue with mySelf (see 'two heads', indicating the two forms of consciousness...): This is how I view the 'automatic' process. This is NOT 'non-conscious', as S.& C. say, but a Different type of consciousness. Self talks to self. See there the one with the crown has her mouth open.
Meanwhile, surface mind must get itself out of the way. It must listen. It maintains only the basic function of keeping hand and pen to the paper, and then it steps out of the way for the 'subconscious', which speaks mostly in symbols, to step forth. Mostly, it seems, I wait for transmission of impulse to make a line.
"So Automatic drawing, one of the simplest of psychic phenomena, is a means of characteristic expression, and if used with courage and honesty, of recording supconscious activities in the mind. The mental mechanisms used are those common in dreams, which create quick perception of relations in the unexpected, as wit, and psycho-neurotic symptoms. Hence it appears that single or non-consciousness is an essential condition and as in all inspiration the product of involution not invention."
Austin O. Spare and Frederick Carter
"An "automatic" scribble of twisting and interlacing lines permits the germ of an idea in the subconscious mind to express, or at least suggest itself to the consciousness."
You know how it is, I get weary of words, and want images. I reached for the pen. Here are some words to help explain my image:
