"Tapping the buried fountain': Emanations & Flow of Creativity, Consciousness, and the Sacred through the Arts

Poet Denise Levertov wrote of the "tapping of a buried fountain in the poet from which the music flows." The source of creativity is the inner wakefulness of transcendental consciousness, the "buried fountain" in each of us. This interdisciplinary book examines the unseen, subtle mechanics of the creative process; connecting with the source of creativity through making and viewing works of art; the sacred purpose and profound effect of creative work on artist and viewer; how creative work can connect us with the divine, evoking tranquility and expansiveness; and archetypal motifs of the creative process seen in art and literature. More art with this healing and enlivening energy is needed. 
In addition to scholarly research, this study is intuitive, poetic, and experiential. The author reports from her experience as a poet and artist and as a person with thirty years of meditation practice when this dissertation was written. 
Creative work places artists in the timeless present moment where they can experience the flow and mechanics of creativity. Patanjali's Yoga Sutras describe a quiet level of the mind near the Transcendent called ritam bhara prajna, "that level that knows only the Truth." At this level, names and thoughts materialize and are created as forms. The forms emerge through the junction point (bindu) between the unmanifest and the manifest fields. Poets and artists have depicted thought/speech becoming concrete.
Archetypal concentric circles or squares (that can be perceived on the field of inner vision during meditation radiating out from the source through the bindu) is a motif in art and architecture. These concentricities are waves of manifestation of the creation process. A related motif echoes rashmis, rays of light that extend out into the material world from the central point, depicting creation manifesting. 

Newly edited PDF of my 1996 doctoral dissertation. Taking pre-orders now. 241 pages with 70 illustrations, bibliography, footnotes, and appendix with 69 illustrations. (Illustrations are mostly black and white photocopies).