Ariel's Abstract Art Collections: Eight Stages of Self-Mastery

Tribal Spirit

Tribal Spirit commemorates the memory of those who have walked before us, teaching us how to live in balance and make peace with nature.

Although many believe the Americas to be a young culture, the land carries memories of the ancient traditions which existed thousands of years before us. Although most of the native American history has been lost along the time line, many of the Native American earthen ways could aid humans in leading a more harmonic relationship with mother earth.

The elders among us carry numerous life experiences that could benefit the younger generations. It is important for us to begin traveling back toward familial and communal living, the competitive pressures of society has made it so easy to forget about people and what it means to share.

Fast paced living has stripped us of personal power and replaced it with objects. Our objects have become our objectives, leaving us empty inside and leading us to rely on materialism to fulfill our means.

Such a disgrace to one's true self to be held hostage in exchange for a substance of soluble means. The contrology of localized, national and international powers have left little room to clean up striations of a system that are no longer functional.

Now is the time for us to stop looking outside ourselves, seeking escape from a life of nine-to-five. The moment at hand is to allow the seed of creation its right to bear the fruits of unity, let us honor the one tribe of earth.

Humanity.

Peace in Unity

Each individual must come to a place of peace within, before the whole of society follows course. One by one it can be done, through the power of self-acceptance, understanding and wisdom, we can each develop a greater tolerance for all apparent differentials present in the world. It must be understood that war only perpetuates itself, to wage war in order to claim peace is oxymoronic.

Albert Einstein believed the military system to be the worst outcrop of the herd nature, which he abhorred. He states, "This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism by order, senseless violence, and all the pestilent nonsense that does by the name of patriotism ... how I hate them! War seems to me a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such an abominable business. And yet so high, in spite of everything, is my opinion of the human race that I believe this bogey would have disappeared long ago, had the sound sense of the nations not been systematically corrupted by commercial and political interests acting through the schools and the Press."

Unity stretches beyond race, religion, creed and country.