| If you ever pondered the reality of the new age, | | | | learn to tap into it. Meditators learn how to tap |
| you may have stumbled upon some fundamental | | | | into this subtle energetic flow through spiritual |
| questions. You probably wondered what it will be | | | | practice; poets, musicians, writers, and composers |
| like to be alive in the coming era, how our lives will | | | | often do so spontaneously. The special gift of |
| be different from the way they are now. We | | | | artists is their capacity to make that creative |
| know from the Ageless Wisdom that human | | | | flow visible for others to perceive. In so doing, |
| beings will learn to think and act from a higher | | | | they provide us with a glimpse of the future that |
| plane of awareness--that of the Soul. But how will | | | | awaits us. |
| this play out in our daily lives? | | | | We are told that as the soul of humanity |
| Through a chance encounter with an artist in the | | | | awakens and the new age unfolds, each of us will |
| spring of 2009, I discovered how much the lives | | | | become a conduit for spirit in our own unique |
| of spiritually conscious artists can tell us about our | | | | way. The motivating impulse of our lives will be |
| future. Brilliant colors streaming from the paintings | | | | the spiritual source that makes us whole and |
| of Ray Hart caught my eye at an outdoor arts | | | | brings the soul into outer expression. The |
| fair and I stopped to learn about how he works. | | | | personality, the separated self with which we've |
| Shortly thereafter I happened to meet two other | | | | been identified for eons, will become merely the |
| Virginia artists, Fred Kahler and Patti Chisholm, and | | | | vehicle for the soul's expression in the world. |
| discovered striking similarities in their creative | | | | There will come a time when human beings in |
| processes. Later I interviewed all three to | | | | every walk of life will seek guidance and inspiration |
| discover what the inner lives of artists can tell us | | | | from the soul, the higher self, whose primary |
| about our potential to co-create a new world | | | | impulse is to serve the greater good. |
| culture. | | | | Take a moment to imagine a world in which |
| What most impressed me from these interviews | | | | doctors, scientists, entrepreneurs, farmers, |
| was that each artist had found a way to connect | | | | teachers, architects, engineers, journalists, |
| with the flow of Spirit and allow that flow to | | | | politicians, financiers, legislators, bankers, |
| enter the world. When doing their best work, | | | | administrators, builders, gardeners, and people in |
| each is aware of being "plugged in" to the Source | | | | every sphere are seeking to connect with the |
| of life-giving energy-the energy that heals, nurture | | | | higher source of life as they do their work. More |
| and inspires. Each one has discovered how to "flip | | | | important than reward or remuneration will be |
| the switch" and release the current of energy | | | | their contribution to community, society, the |
| that is always present but inaccessible until we | | | | greater life. |