The Dionysian

In follow up to the last post and discussion that I had with Aussiescribler, it seems that Nietzsche understood this deeper  process of reconnection and wrote  further about human kind having had lost touch with his nature through this separation. The slaves of ” modern ideas” are the children of a fragmented, pluralistic, sick weird period that had lost the capacity for true happiness.

Nietzsche defines the Dionysian experience as  “A drive toward unity, reaching beyond personality, the quotidian, society, reality, across the chasm of transitoriness: an impassioned and painful overflowing into darker fuller, more buoyant states; an ecstatic affirmation of the toatality of life as what remains constant – not less potent, not less ecstatic – throughout all fluctuation; the great pantheistic sharing of joy and stress which blesses and endorses even the ghastliness, the most questionable elements of life; the eternal will for regeneration, fruitfulness, recurrence;the awareness that creation and destruction are inseparable.”

Author: Gord Clements

I find some satisfaction in the act of attempting to express my experience of life through painting, writing, language and other art forms. I have been painting for over thirty five years and combine my love of art with a meditative and contemplative way of life. I have an intuitive sense that true creativity is something that arises from beyond and through the self that can be explored and shared through some form of expression although I always hope to open to the influence of that which is beyond my limited sense of self. View all posts by Gord Clements