Despite the fact that mystics will tell you we all have a unified field beneath the cloak of our material bodies, we are not all at the same level of awareness or in the same morality grid. I doubt very much Trump's field will ever meld with Dalai Lamas'..
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Thus the billionaires are on one end of the spectrum and the poor on the other and good and evil exists depending on your particular level of consciousness and distance of separation.
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Andrew Harvey, contemporary mystic says that we are experiencing the dark night of the soul and that will change. We are on the cusp of a new evolutionary cycle. Just wondering if some of us will be left by the way side, like Trump and Putin.

The problem is that everyone discovered that creativity is a good thing that makes one happier. And everyone can be creative. But that does not mean everyone should be a professional artist. As soon as one took some courses or spilled something on canvas they wanted to be famous and sell that thing.

Abstract art facilitated the death of professionalism in art. Kandinsky created something new he had something to say in a new way, but after Rothko any monkey and elephant and dog could then paint.

Anyone in any field could be creative and a few art courses might facilitate a doctor or lawyer or teacher being more creative in their field. That is what creativity is about, not competing with artists who studied their craft for years and dedicated their time and poverty to it...because that is their real vocation and they had something to express that way.
I am sick of all the pollyannas that tell me anyone can be painter, you don't need talent or a calling. Just enough money not to have a real job and enough contacts to invite to an exhibition you foot the bill for.
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We don't have an Art World but an Art Mafia!

It's interesting how people react to art. There are the ones who follow the art world and know that an art piece besides grabbing your attention usually has something to say. Others less knowledgable just think art is a decoration and should be pretty. They may also be in awe of technique, usually when painting looks like a photograph.
I am happy when my art moves people even if it is to be disgusted, because then I know that the viewer has discovered something about themselves.