October 19, 2010

Step 3: Synectic Bridges

Recently, a prophetic little book coincidentally made its way into my hands. Sometimes a book is classic for its age, but this book is a classic for its vault of suppressed ideas. Art Synectics by Nicholas Roukes is a sage-like manual on communicating incredible levels of connection between art and its audience. Synectics derives from the Greek word Synectikos: “brining different things into unified connection."

After sewing this glorious seed, Roukes continues:
"This is a term of creative thinking that combines imagination and analogical thinking in order to transform commonplace, familiar elements into new and unusual structures. Since Art Syntectics involve the process of fusing disparities, it demands tolerance for ambiguity and for the initial chaos that accompanies the process of mixing highly diverse elements”
Does this jog your memory?
Recess and Ocean's 11: Two tales of recurring, epic heists from an assemblage of individual specialties. Collaboration and synectics seem to go hand in hand. The next part is crucial:

"Synectic thinking appeal to the integrated brain: to the intuitive intelligence that stems from our emotional and psychological makeup, and to the logical and more rational brain that allows us to “nail down” feelings and perceptions into hard facts and tangible structures."


Nailing down hard facts into tangible structures: The word pontifex means "builder of bridges" in Latin. Usually a Catholic term, it applies to anyone that chooses to benefit mankind or other people on a daily basis. Alex Grey, the world's foremost transcendental artist, chooses to use the idea of a 'Chapel' to describe the unity he seeks to build: http://www.cosm.org/. Similarly, the Om-derived band Shrinebuilder is also a purveyor of unifying wisdom. This blog's title is also an underground or "under temple" community. To take pontifex to the next level, we must use the term templifex.
Templifexes will become conduits of truth to the observant eye. They will be the card-carrying result of which bridges can be made to. In this way, other pontifexes will kinetically strengthen the templifexes, Lightworkers, truthseekers and activists of every kind.
The skeletal construction of the underground will begin to strengthen to a new level of interconnection. From the framework only true, tightly-woven structures will emerge. Construction is only a matter of connections away.
Tenebrarum Turbae Cecidebit!
-SubTemplum

No comments:

Post a Comment