For those who do not know this artist, he has some beautiful paintings which express the images from his deeper self.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Peter Birkhauser
Quote from Peter Birkhauser: “I experience a power within myself which is not the same as my conscious ego. It has forced me to adopt a path quite foreign to my conscious attitude, a path which totally contradicted my will and everything I considered important. Before I was able to obey this power, I first needed to be crushed and almost destroyed. I often felt it was a pity this process had taken so long, but now, looking back over thousands of dreams and the sacrifices of a long, hard development, I can see how valuable the experience has been.” (1975 in conversation with Dean Frantz) This quote says it all for me.
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I do so wish we had a record of the dreams he experienced while he was going through this process. Of course we have his paintings and MLF's commentary. But what could the dreams have been like? Dreams that told him first that he must change his life, change his conventional attitudes and values; dreams that first showed him what he needed to know about the unconscious, about how to work with the unconscious, about what the strange messages meant he must do differently in his daily life. How was he introduced to the shadow? to the anima? to the Self? I'm ready to look at his paintings again and see if I can pick up answers to these questions there. Pat
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