The splicing of realms

On a boat there can be a cargo of wisdom. I’ve brought along some marvelous books. Samuel Adoquei’s “How Successful Artists Study” is an up-to-date, practical guide for the transition from art school to the professional world of art. In it he talks about the “Five worlds of artists”:

1.    The inner, personal world.
2.    The real and practical world.
3.    The outside, commercial world.
4.    The future, aspiring world
5.    The fantasy world of dreams.

Adoquei suggests budding artists need to get their worlds separated from one another. Mixing fantasy with practicality is a leaky proposition.

—Robert Genn

How I wonder: is this the source of humanity’s crisis? Could the universal consolidation of - in Adoquei’s language - our “worlds,” be the key to overcoming the challenges, sufferings, misfortunes and cruelties that plague our existence. What if we enable our higher selves to consistently function in all situations, for all purposes; let go of the facades, remove our masks. What if we crushed the stoicism only sought to protect us from our own projected fears.

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