| Volltext: | Index aborigine, Australian, 199. See also pretechnological culture abstract art, 189-203; groundwork for, 119-20; offshoots of, 178, 182; transcendentalism of, 187-8; defined, 188; and mass-media, 177-8; as pure aesthetic, 119-20,123; as reflection of neotechnic, 177-90, 256; as return, 210-2, 228. See also Abstract Expressionism ; techno-abstraction Abstract Composition (van de Velde), 183-4 Abstract Expressionism, 1, 24, 253-5. See also expressionism absurd, theater of, 255 academicism, dissolution of, 113, 148-9; formalism of, 31, 43-5; withering way of, 152-3, 256-7, 263 ; destroyed by photography, 140-1; institutionalized, 41-50, 53; and Leonardo, 24, 28; and oral culture, 64; as repression of psyche, 41-3, 57; as safeguard of history, 50, 52, 57, 268; as university, 177, 259-60, 263. See also classicism; fine arts, elitism; humanism; museum; one-point perspective Academy. See English Academy; French Academy acausality, perception of, 208. See also simultaneity Adam, 37, 172, 237-8 Adams, Henry, 37, 135 Adolf II, Saint. See Wölfli, Adolf Adoration of the Kings (da Vinci), 25 advertising, and anticulture, 257-9 aesthetics. See art, autonomous; art, as pure technique; art critics; art history; avant-garde, psychophysics age of anxiety, 63, 102 African, role of, 77. See also, colonialism Age of Approaching Peace, 136-8 Age of the Center, 291 Age of Disorder, 136-7 age of history, contradictions in, 53; defined, 52—3. See also history Age of Universal Peace, 136-8 age theories. See Aztecs, cosmology; Great Wheel; Greco-Roman, cosmology; Hinduism, cosmology; historical cones; Three Ages The Agony of Christ in the Garden (Gauguin), 172 Alberti, Leon Battista, 28, 47 Albion, 89 alchemy, persistence of, 273, 278; transformation by, 30, 171, 212, 220-1 ; transition to science by, 20, 41, 94, 265; and discipline, 232; as will to harmony. See also internal technology; magic; psychophysics; science Alpert, Richard, 269-70, 275, 280 Altdorfer, Albrecht, 106 America. See New World; United States American Book of the Dead, 236, 318 American Revolution. See war anaesthetics, 83, 256 anarchism, 57, 71, 81, 159, 205. See also individualism; industrial anarchy anima, 84-5, 89. See also psyche animus, 89. See also techne "Annotations to Reynolds" (Blake), 97 anticulture, 257-9. See also counter-culture; Dadaism antitechnologism, 120-1. See also anticulture; Romanticism anthropomorphism. See Christ, humanization; Renaissance Anthroposophy, 188 aperspective manner, origin of, 147-8. See also perspective apocalypse, 263-95; transformative aspect of, 206, 247; as collective catharsis, 76, 292; as collective revelation, 272-3. See also bardo realms; chaos; consciousness, crisis of; death; history, threat to; matter, climax of; transformative vision Apotheosis of Homer (Ingres), 74 applied art. See crafts Appollinaire, Guillaume, 206 Index 341 Arago, François, 117 Arasteh, A. Reza, 30 archaic experience, 64, 277-9, 284. See also archetypes; internal technology; purposive regression; shamanism archeology, 45, 58, 61-2 archetypes, 6-8, 23, 227 clarity of, 189-90; negation of, 51; psychogenic character of, 6n, 221-3, 280, 293-4, 316; as simultaneous past and future, 229. See also archaic experience; gods; Jung; masculine archetypes; serpent archetypes; symbols architecture, Art Noveau, 184; Greco-Roman, 34, 42; Hindu, 216; impact of archeology on, 58; Medieval, 18; secularized, 49; space-age, 275. See also cathedrals; neoclassicism ; skyscraper Aristotle, 21, 31, 34 Arp, Hans, 208, 210-1, 315 art, alientated from society, 20, 36, 42, 53, 65-6, 203; autonomous, 19, 47, 181-2, 208, 252; as by-product of art criticism, 58-61; childlike qualities in, 210, 220; as conceptual snare, 39-40; as critique, 81, 95-7; as decoration, 19, 42, 95-6,113-4, 119, 183, 275; destroyed by money, 92-3; distinct from life, 275, 289; and dissolution of ego, 284 ; as energy, 82-3; as entertainment, 218; and environment, 183-4, 209, 285 ; as externalization of psychic states, 184 ; as fantasy of ruling class, 74-5; hierarchy of, 45-6; as history of consciousness, 1, 16-27, 82, 185, 261, 263, 290; integrated with science, 4, 6, 15, 19; as internal technology, 277-87; as magical utterance, 229-30, 261 ; and mathematics, 28; as natural science, 110; as novelty, 16, 255-7, 262; and politics, 123-4; primacy of psyche in, 37-40, 210, 216-7, 220; as process, 109-12,122, 171, 212, 263, 283-4; as pure technique, 1, 19, 47, 66-9, art (continued) 119-20,123,180-1,186-7, 191-3, 207—10, 217; and religion, 107-8, 166, 284-5; as ritual, 255, 261, 284; spontaneity in, 109; subsumed to history, 51-62, 74; subverted by techne, 269; as support to history, 59-62, 66-7; as talent, 283-4; as tool for self-transformation, 91-2, 199, 216-7, 222, 253-4, 261; as transubstantiation of materiality, 281-2; as vision, 140-3, 147-9; and war, 19-20, 40, 191. See also aesthetics; academicism; alchemy; art criticism; art history; artist; creativity; crafts, fine art; psyche art brût, 314 art criticism, abuses of, 259; first modern works of, 58-61; isolating quality of, 256; origin of, 30, 43-4; and avant-garde, 155-6, 161. See also art history art gallery, 209, 259, 263 art history, categories of, 104, 260-1 ; origin of, 43-4; and art-historicism, 58, 180-2, 255-61, 290; as history of perceptual modes, 1-2 art magazine, 1, 259. See also art criticism Art Nouveau, 182-6 Art as Release of Power (Rudhyar), 229 Artaud, Antonin, 69; and purposive regression, 213-5, 220, 280; quoted, 65, 164, 166, 213-5 artisan. See crafts artist, anti-social stance of, 42, 53, 62; as avatar, 231; as clown, 95-7; denigration of, 19-20; divine role of, 131-2, 137, 194; divorced from scientist, 15-27, 93, 268; insecurity of, 36, 42, 45, 118; as internal technologist, 199, 279-80; as madman, 23, 128, 193, 198-9, 210; as midwife of death, 235-6; as power-acquirer, 6; responsibility of, 232, 286; right-handed archetype of, 342 THE TRANSFORMATIVE VISION artist (continued) 6, 16-7, 20, 23-4, 41; as seed, 230-4, 243, 275; as seer, 82, 128, 138, 231; and sickness, 23, 99-101, 198-9; as unique ego, 20; tuned to own center, 232, 286, 291; as visionary, 3, 36, 62, 82, 200. See also art; individualism; professionalism; psyche; specialization; techne; transformative visionaries "The Artist as Avatar" (Rudhyar), 231, 252 The Artist's Studio (Courbet), 123 arts, dramatic, 3, 214-5, 255 Arts-and-Crafts Movement, 182-3 art-whole, 231-2, 275, 287; fragmentation of, 231-2, 234 "Ascent of the Jaguar" 56, 58n, 298. See also hell periods, Aztec asceticism, 23 astral plane, 189 astrology, 225; Breton's evocation of, 212 , 220, 273; resurgence of, 231-2, 273 The Astrology of Personality (Rudhyar), 231 Atala and René (Chateaubriand), 72 Atharva Veda, 54. See also Vedas atomic bomb, 23, 248-9, 254; as abolition of history, 269; as penetration of matter, 266 Auden, W. H., 63 aura, 189 automatic writing, 208, 223 automatism, psychic, 211, 217, 252. See also art, autonomous "Autumn" (Rudhyar), 233 avant-garde, alienation of, 150-5, 158, 164, 167; assimilation of, 257-62; establishment of, 144, 146-7, 150-63; support system of, 153; and Duchamp, 209; as militaristic concept, 206n; and neotechnic, 177; as pawn of society, 150-2, 155, 257; and transformative vision, 180. See also anticulture; counter-culture Aztecs, 236, 245; Calendar Stone of, Aztecs (continued) 14; militarism of, 14, 56, 245; cosmology of, 14, 88, 291, 302-4. See also hell periods; Mexico; Quetzalcoatl Babbitt, Irving, 69, 71, 307 Bach, Johann Sebastian, 278, 283 Bacon, Francis, 85 Ba'hai, 134, 228 Baha'ullah, 134, 135 Baird, James, 127, 310 Barbizon art, 112, 122 bardo realms, 213-4, 225-7, 282. See also history, as mythic cycle; Tibet, cosmology of Bardo Thödol. See Tibetan Book of the Dead Barnett, Lincoln, 25-6, 46 Baroque period, art in, 32, 44, 48, 260, 278; artist in, 36 Baudelaire, Charles, 23, 69, 144, 155, 170; anti-technological views of, 120-2; and dreams, 126-7; and imperialism, 126, 130; quoted, 99, 120, 121,124-5, 126; and women, 135, 196 Bauhaus art, 209 Be Here Now Ram Dass, 275 Beatles, 271. See also rock culture Beatnik movement, 159, 270 Beethoven, Ludwig van, 72, 100-1, 291 being, Romantic confrontation with, 69-70, 82-3 Belson, Jordan, 282 Bernini, Gianlorenzo, 32, 49 Besant, Annie, 188-9 Bierstadt, Albert, 113 Birth Patterns for a New Age (Rudhyar), 231-2 Black Elk, 194, 221-2 Blake, William, 19-20, 99, 106-7, 112; quoted, 19, 26, 38, 89, 97, 100, 107, 112, 165, 249, 288; as visionary, 81-93, 98, 116, 199, 279 Index 343 Blavatsky, Madame, 188 Blowsnake, Jasper, 318 body, denigration of, 21-3, 26; divisions of, 8-9, 289-90; revitalization of, 285 ; as ground of being, 37; as manifestation of divine, 173; polarized from eye, 21-2; polarized from mind, 2, 10, 29-34, 41-45; polarized from soul, 22-3, 25, 29, 38; as techne, 6; as transformer, 229. See also dualism; psychophysics body/mind, unity of, 37-8, 86, 143, 170-1, 175, 290-1, 304. See also dualism; primal unity; sensory modes Body of Fate, 223-5, 227 Boehme, Jacob, 105, 124 Book of Changes, 29, 136, 246 Book of Chilam Balam, .302-4 boredom, 65-6, 274 Bosch, Hieronymous, 36-40 Bouché, Henri-Pol, 195, 314 Bouguereau, Adolphe William, 119 Boullée, Etienne Louis, 78-9 bourgeoisie, aesthetic of, 67, 119, 151. See also values Brave New World (Huxley), 263-4, 266, 268, 274 Bresdin, Rodolphe, 106, 126 Breton, André, 211-2; and magic, 220, 222, 231, 269, 273; quoted, 211, 272. See also surrealism Bretonne, Restif de la, 64 Breughel the Elder, 106 Bronze Age, 13, 17, 19 Brown, Norman O., 10, 265 Brücke art, 179 Buddha, 71, 102, 174, 200, 240 Buddha Amitabha, 269 Buddhism, 14, 104, 146, 149; Gauguin and, 172-5; Mahayana, 53, 138, 267, 312; Vajrayana, 202. See also China; Hinduism; Tantra; Tibet; Zen Burckhardt, Titus, 34, 36, 43 The Burning of the Houses of Parliament (Turner), 109-10 Burroughs, William, 26 camera obscura, 116-7 capitalism, 10, 13 ; as mirror-image of communism, 83, 93, 122-4. See also dialectical materialism The Caprichos (Goya), 99-100 caricature, 95-103; limits of, 96, 98-9 Carra, Carlo, 206 Cartesian dualism, concept of man in, 46, 285; coordinate system of, 25, 35, 105, 137; departure from, 146; prefigured in Raphael, 33; rise of, 22-3, 211. See also body; dualism; perspective cartography, 105 Castalia Foundation, 270 Castaneda, Carlos, 214, 285; and visual knowledge, 7, 8, 18, 21; quoted, 7, 21 cataclysmic evolution. See apocalypse; evolution cathedrals, organic unity of, 49, 125; and feminine principle, 11, 225-6 causality, 51. See also history, as rationalization of time Caylus, Comte de, 155 celestial bodies, painting of, 113 Celestial Body, 223-4 celestial mechanics, 26 Cendrars, Blaise, 206 centralization, danger of social, 95 cerebral hemispheres, definition of functions, 4, 8—9, 16. See also left cerebral hemisphere; psyche; right cerebral hemisphere; techne Cervantes, 45 Cézanne, Paul, 156, 166, 180-1 chaos, as generative medium, 142, 197. See also apocalypse Charles IV (king), 99 Chateaubriand, Vicomte de, 72 chiaroscuro, 43 China, 14, 53, 219; art in, 17, 104, 109; Ch'an art in, 109; cosmology of, 39, 136-7, 310, 311; decline of, 57; 344 THE TRANSFORMATIVE VISION China (continued) symbols of consciousness of, 7-9, 90. See also Buddhism; Tantra; yin/yang dialectic Ch'ing Dynasty, 311 Chopin, Frederic François, 79 Christ, betrayal of, 194; event of, 53-4; humanization of, 33-5, 45; suffering of, 167—8, 172; as abandoned model, 165, 167-8; as alpha and omega, 138; and other gods, 174, 288 Christian gnostics, 316-7 Christianity, advent of, 210; concept of arts in, 18-9; denigration of body in, 21 ; disappearance of Christ from, 33-5, 138; impact of decline of, 127; mysticism in, 31-2, 53-5, 316-7; political influence of, 29; rise of militarism in, 11, 14, 56; split in, 11-2. See also Christ; Reformation The Chromatic Circle (Henry), 186, 220-1 Chuang-Tzu, 39 Church, Frederick, 113, 119 cinema, 152; advent of, 158, 177; and academicism, 217-8; and neoclassicism, 67; and romanticism, 73 civilization, defined, 40, 169-70 Civilization and Its Discontents (Freud), 221 Clark, Kenneth, 24 classicism, decline of, 31-3, 140-1, 147-9, 178-9, 184-6, 261, 284-5; first wave of, 61 ; nostalgic quality of, 11,15, 31-2, 35, 42, 50, 58-63, 77, 105-7, 219, 232; as devitalized process, 48; as hardening of consciousness, 116; implicit in Raphael, 37-8; and Leonardo, 24, 28. See also academicism; art; fine arts; humanism; neoclassicism; one-point perspective; rationalism; Renaissance clock, invention of, 48, 51, 56 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 69, 107-8; and drugs, 101, 115, 264; quoted, 107-8 collective unconscious, fractures in, 212-3; and art, 231, 252, 292. See also archetypes, psychogenic; history, as collective psychic experience; unconscious Collin, Rodney, 223 colonialism, impact of, 48, 127; rise of, 11, 56-7. See also imperialism; New World, conquest; noble savage; primitivism color, denigration of, 43-4; modern revitalization of, 109, 148-9, 184-7 comic strip, 95-6, 258 communes, 274-6, 284 communism, 10, 13, 57; as mirror image of capitalism; 83, 122-4, 137-8. See also dialectical materialism ; Marx Communist Manifesto (Marx and Engels), 134 computer, 177, 282 concentralization, principle of, 142 concept art, 209, 255, 258, 263 conceptual systems, absurdity of, 285. See also form, as emptiness; knowledge Concerning Human Liberty (Luther), 11 Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Kandinsky), 186-7 Confucius, 136. See also Three Ages; yin/yang dialectic Conrad, Joseph, 72 conscience, sick, 213; and consciousness, 6, 290, 292 consciousness, climax of, 14-5; cosmic, 6, 143-4, 199; crisis of, 263, 292-3; cycle of, 220-1; defined, 6-7; dominated by media, 251; fragmentation of, 6-10, 141-3, 156; grounding of, 37, 82-4, 104-5, 124; individual, 85, 235; mechanization of, 26, 48-50, 52-3, 58-62, 65,116,137, 306; as psychoglobal process, 7; responsibility to, 279-80; as synergistic interplay of psyche and techne, 7, 10, 75, 85, 289-90; transcendental processes of, 15; as Index 345 consciousness (continued) vector of force, 46, 184-5. See also art-whole; ego; history; mythic consciousness; primal unity; transformative vision Constable, John, 110-2 Constructivism, 209-10, 230 continuity, principle of, 185 Coomaraswamy, Ananda, 120, 122 Copernicus, 20, 38 Cortés, Hernando, 11-2, 239, 246-7 Cosmos and History (Eliade), 51 counter-culture, 12, 150; drug use in, 264; media arts used by, 264, 271-2, 274-5; protests by, 270, 273-4. See also anticulture; avant-garde; psychedelic revolution; rock culture; Romanticism Counter-Reformation, 32, 56 Courbet, Gustave, 122-3 A Courtesan (Hokusai), 148 Couture, Thomas, 122-3 Covarrubias, Miguel, 302 Cozzens, J. M., 109 Crabbe, George, 114-5 crafts, denigration of, 18-9, 29-30, 41, 49, 120, 182-4, 231-2, 234, 256; destroyed by Industrial Revolution, 19, 46, 49, 77; in Pre-Renaissance culture, 17. See also fine arts; specialization Creative Mind, 223-4 creativity, alienation from, 191-3, 283-4; cleansing of, 282; cultural independence of, 217; divine nature of, 172, 174, 176, 194; psychotic attitude of society toward, 164-76; universality of, 169 creativity, and boredom, 65-6; as dissolution of duality, 172, 284-7; distinct from artifact, 181 ; and madness, 179, 194-203; polarized from intellect, 2; polarized from life, 256-7, 275, 289; as "talent" 283-4. See also art, as process; art, as pure technique; Great Artist; imagination; intuition; madness; psyche; transformative vision criticism, art. See art criticism Crow Indians, 238 Cubism, 159, 181-3, 209 Dadaism, 208-10, 315; as destruction of culture, 68, 256, 272; and Great Return, 220; as nihilistic individualism, 36, 159 Daguerre, Louis-Jacques Mandé, 117-8,120 dakini, 286 Dali, Salvador, 213, 217 Damon, S. Foster, 82, 85, 88 Dante, 126 Dante and Virgil on the Crossing to Hell (Delacroix), 74 Dark Ages, 52. See also Pre-Renaissance culture Darwin, Charles, 38, 85, 130 Daumier, Honoré, 97—8, 118, 121, 126 David, Jacques-Louis, 63-8, 116 da Vinci, Leonardo, perspective of, 25, 116; as artist/scientist, 20-2, 24, 28; as Great Artist, 20-2, 36, 155; and idealization of human form, 46; as model for academicism, 44; quoted, 21-2 The Days of His Wrath (Martin), 114 death, 221, 226-7; collective, 243; interaction with life, 7, 41, 225-7, 241, 269; land of, 238; poem of, 236-7, 249; and rebirth, 219-20, 225, 288, 291-5, 318. See also bardo realms; ego, transcendence of; self-transcendence; Tibetan Book of the Dead Death of Sardanapalus (Delacroix), 73 The Death of Socrates (David), 64 decadents, 154 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Gibbon), 59, 219 The Decline of the West (Spengler), 219 Degas, Edgar, 148, 153-4, 170; and style, 156, 180; and Ukiyo-e style, 146, 148 de Haan, Meyer, 172 346 THE TRANSFORMATIVE VISION Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Manet), 148 Delacroix, Eugène, 44, 68, 73-4, 76, 155 Delaroche, Paul, 117 Delaunay, Robert, 186-8 Delaunay, Sonia, 186,188 délia Francesca, Pierro, 25 democracy, religious element of, 235; rise of, 53, 60; of being, 37-8 "Democratic Vistas" (Whitman), 234-5 De Quincey, Thomas, 37-8, 101, 115, 126-7, 264 de Sade, Marquis, 23, 73 Descartes, René, 22, 41. See also Cartesian Descent of Man (Darwin), 85 De Stijl art, 209 dialectical materialism, advent of, 13, 57, 134; nontransformative nature of, 86, 93, 122-5, 137-8. See also materialism dialectical process, defined, 53, 137. See also dialectical materialism; dualism ; Great Return ; transformative vision ; war Dickens, Charles, 170 Diderot, Denis, 155 The Disasters of War (Goya), 99, 101 discontinuity, principle of, 185. See also psychophysics Discourse on Method (Descartes), 22 Discourses (Reynolds), 44 The Discs of Newton (Kupka), 186 disease, origin of, 9 disegno, 43 the Disparates (Goya), 99, 102 Disputa (Raphael), 28-9 Divine Comedy (Dante), 126 Don Juan, 285. See also Castaneda; shamanism Don Quixote, 97-8 Doors of Perception, (Huxley), 266 Doré, Gustave, 115, 126 Dostoyevsky, Fëdor, 36 drama. See arts, dramatic dreams, omnipotence of, 211; as dreams (continued) artists' domain, 79, 121, 125, 187, 209; and drugs, 114-5; of Jung, 222, 226; and visions, 170. See also drugs; imagination ; madness ; psychedelic revolution; Romanticism; Surrealism; visionary experience drugs, artists' use of, 71, 114-5, 126-7, 213-4, 264, 266-9; control through use of, 263-4; cultural use of, 2, 270; sacred use of, 214, 265, 280; study of, 265-6. See also psychedelic revolution ; visionary experience dualism, Freudian irreconcilibility of, 221 ; paradoxes of, 63 ; transcendence of, 2, 90, 211, 238, 240-1, 286-7, 292. See also body; body/mind; Cartesian dualism; creativity; death; dialectical materialism; mind; nature; primal unity; transformative vision Dubuffet, Jean, 314 Duchamp,-Marcel, 208-9 Duino Elegies (Rilke), 219-20, 272-3 Durer, Albrecht, 20, 116 Duval, Jeanne, 196 Dylan, Bob, 271 earth, division of, 5, 7, 11, 14 ecological value system, disruption of, 52-3, 66, 103-15, 135; prerequisite for, 84; re-emergence of, 242; in Renaissance, 37-9 ego, alchemical transformation of, 30; death of, 267-8, 284-5; illusoriness of, 215; origin of belief in, 22, 51; as cult of personality, 192-3; entitized by visual mode, 25-6; polarized from art, 34-5; as portraiture, 67. See also history, as egotistic illusion; individualism; self Et Ego in Arcadia (Poussin), 106 egotism, insubstantiality of, 188; Renaissance fixation on, 20, 30, 46, 149. See also ego; history, as egotistic illusion; humanism Index 347 Einstein, Albert, 21, 85, 250 electronic age, 57, 157-8, 177, 251. See also neotechnic Elements of Psychophysics (Fechner), 146 Eliade, Mircea, 51-3, 87, 197, 277, 289 Eliot, T. S., 215-6 Ellul, Jacques, 58 emotions, denial of, 23-4, 73-4; excesses of, 71, 73; as mode in art, 34-5, 71. See also sensationalism; sentiment Engels, Freidrich, 137 engine, internal combusion, 177, 219 English Academy, 44 Enlightenment, Age of, 58-69 ; aesthetic of, 59-60; dogmatism of, 52, 72; as twilight of the gods, 79-80. See also humanism enlightenment, 267 "Entropie Art" (Van de Bogart), 281-2 eotechnic period, 48, 55-6, 306 "An Epic of American Civilization" (Orozoco), 245-6 Ernst, Max, 215, 263 "Eroica" (Beethoven), 72 Eskimo shaman, 197 Eternal Return, 53. See also Great Return "Eureka" (Poe) 141-3, 147, 163, 311 Europe, destiny of, 293; dissension in, 12, 14; dualistic legacy of, 9-10; rise of, 3, 7, 11, 15, 48, 56-7 European world view, bankruptcy of, 47-9, 53, 61-2, 100-1, 218-31; insecurity of, 58 , 63 , 67, 107 ; psychotechnical imbalance of, 7-9, 11-2, 21, 19, 24, 31, 49; secularization of, 29, 32-40, 44-8, 58, 100-1; as Faustian culture, 217, 219, 234, 265-6, 290; as pathology, 9-11, 13, 15. dualism; See also Christianity; dialectical materialism; dualism; humanism; intellect; materialism; progress; rationalism; science; technocracy Eve, 37, 237 evil, 289-90; as creative impulse, 86 evolution, cataclysmic, 292-3 ; Darwinian concept of, 38, 85, 281; dialectic of, 5-15. See also transformative vision exile, 129. See also outsider existentialists, 159, 266 Exotic, European quest for, 76-8, 169, 236-8, 243, 260-1; See also colonialism; primitivism, fascination with experience, simultaneity of, 185, 208. See also visionary experience Expressionism, 159, 179, 230. See also Abstract Expressionism Fantasia of the Unconscious (Lawrence), 10, 292 Farbenlehre (Goethe) fatalism, 110-2. See also redemption; tragedy Faust (Goethe), 75, 135 Faustus, 41, 75, 265. See also Europe, as Faustian culture Faustus (Rembrandt), 41 Fauves art, 179 Fechner, Gustave, 146, 160 feminine archetypes. See anima; archetypes; artist; dakini; Eve; God, as Mother; Great Mother; Hina; Jerusalem; Madonna; Mother Earth; muse; nature; New World; outsider; psyche; Soul; Spirit; Woman-Soul; yin feminine principle, divorce from, 225-6; domination by, 89; interaction with masculine, 6-7. See also feminine archetypes; psyche; psyche and techne; woman Fénéon, Felix, 155, 161 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 271 Fermi, Enrico, 250 fête galante genre, 45 The Fifer (Manet), 148 Fifth Sun, 14, 55, 247, 249, 291. See also Aztec cosmology; Kali Yuga 348 THE TRANSFORMATIVE VISION fine arts, elitism in, 29-30, 41, 44, 46, 49, 66, 151—3, 256, 314; impact of photography on, 117-20, 125, 140; objectification in, 36, 41; origin of, 18-9; theory and practice schism in, 41. See also art; crafts; specialization; visual arts Finnegan's Wake (Joyce), 250-2, 272, 315 Flaxman, John, 61 Fleurs du Mal (Baudelaire), 124 folk art, 31, 261. See also crafts; fine arts form, world of, 43; as emptiness, 161, 269, 312. See also psychophysics Form in Gothic (Worringer), 12 formalism. See academicism; classicism ; one-point perspective forms, thought, 188-9 Fragonard, Jean Honoré, 48 Francis, Saint, 37-8, 40, 194 Frankenstein, 23, 69, 217. See also scientist Franklin, Benjamin, 103 Freemasons, 234 French Academy, 42, 44, 48, 63 French Revolution, aesthetics of, 61. See also war Freud, Sigmund, 212, 283; theories of, 178, 215, 221, 229 Friedrich, Caspar David, 76 From Declacroix to Neo-lmpressionism (Signac), 162 Fuller, Buckminster, 226, 275, 281 Fung Yu-Lan, 310 Futurism, 204-6, 208, 215 Gachet, Dr., 166-7 Galileo, 28 Garden of Earthly Delights (Bosch), 36-9 Gauguin, Paul, 153, 168-76, 185; flight to Polynesia by, 112, 169, 172-6, 210, 261, 288; quoted, 171, 173-5, 180; and theme of Great Return, 112, 220 Géricault, Théodore, 76-8, 84 Gernsheim, Helmut and Alison, 117 Gerôme, Jean-Leon, 122 Ghost Dancers, 238, 273. See also Indians, American The Ghost in the Machine (Koestler), 10 Gibbon, 59, 219 Giedion, Siegfried, 50 Ginsberg, Allen, 270-2, 280 gnosis, 285, 311 gnostics, Christian, 316-7 God, as Mother, 135. See also archetypes, feminine; feminine principle; psyche gods, manifestation of, 13 ; wrathful, 227; as immanent psychic forces, 127, 174. See also archetype Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 21, 75-6, 101, 279; subjectivity of, 62, 71, 109; quoted, 71, 75, 221; and regeneration of psyche, 75, 135 Golden Age, 13,15,17, 54, 304. See also history, as mythic cycle Golgonooza, 90-1 Gombrich, E. H. 38n good, principle of, 86, 289-90 Gothic art, 48-9, 68. See also cathedrals; Pre-Renaissance culture Govinda, Lama, 146 Goya, Francisco, 88, 99—102, 103, 116 gravity, law of, 26, 85, 141-2 "Great Artist" ideal, 18-20; political nature of, 29-30, 40. See also art, elitism in; fine art; individualism great mother, 6. See also archetypes, feminine; psyche Great Painting (LeSage), 216 Great Purification, 242. See also Great Return; purification Great Return, principle of, 219-33, 289. See also Ouroboros; Quetzalcoatl; return, principle of Great Seal, 248 Great Wheel, 223-7, 232, 248. See also Great Return; Yeats Greco-Roman culture, 77, 126; Index 349 Greco-Roman culture (continued) architecture of, 32, 42; cosmology of, 13, 17, 19; myths of, 151, 275; statuary of, 42, 47; as European spiritual source, 11, 77. See also classicism; Golden Age; Iron Age; neoclassicism ; neo-Platonism; nostalgia; Renaissance, nostalgia for Greco-Roman culture Gros, Antoine-Jean, 72 Guenther, H. V., 306 guild system, decline of, 40-1, 49, 58 Gulliver's Travels (Swift), 96 gunpowder, 13, 56 Gurdjieff, G. I., 2, 223 Gutenberg, Johann, 25, 64. See also printing press; visual arts, and written word Hamilton, Gavin, 32, 58, 61 happenings, 255-6, 263, 272 harmony, 187. See also alchemy; psychophysics; synesthesia; Will to Harmony Hartmann, Eduard von, 143 hatha yoga, 285. See also yoga Hauser, Arnold, 28, 30, 45 Haydn, Joseph, 101 Hazan, Ali, 116 health, definition of, 9. See also psyche and techne, integration of; Shamanism heaven and hell, imbalance of, 208, 212; marriage of, 86, 173, 287. See also dualism; primal unity heaven periods, 13-4, 302—4. See also Aztecs; Golden Age; hell periods Hegel, Wilhelm Friedrich, 52, 126, 224 hell, in Blake's vision, 86-8; in Bosch's vision, 38-9. See also heaven and hell hell periods, Aztec, 13-4, 55-8, 87, 118, 134, 154, 158, 227, 247-8, 302-4. See also Iron Age; Kali Yuga Helmholtz, H. Von, 146, 160 Henry, Charles, 171; and cycles, Henry, Charles (continued) 220-1; and harmony, 160, 162; and perception, 43, 184-9; quoted, 73. See also psychophysics hero, cult of 71-80; as prophet, 81-92. See also Great Artist; individualism; warrior Hesse, Herman, novels of, 223, 270; and Journey to the East, 129, 139, 289; quoted, 195, 203 Hina, 175 Hinduism, cosmology of, 13, 86-7, 304; culture of, 14, 216. See also Buddhism; India; Kali Yuga; Tantra; yoga hippies, 159. See also counter-culture Hirohito (emperor), 17-8, 250 Hiroshige, 145 Histoire Ancienne (Daumier), 97-8 historical cones, 224-7. See also tincture history, archetypal imbalance of, 8; collapse of, 264-5 ; as collective psychic experience, 2-3, 26, 55, 147, 289; as conflict of consciousness, 6-7 ; as death of myth, 51-62; as destiny, 204; as dialectical process, 5, 13-5, 53, 125; distinct from natural history, 51-4, 59, 63; as egotistic illusion, 51-3, 204, 261-2, 273, 279-80; as fall of sacred, 277; as ideology, 4, 50—65, 277 ; as mandala, 221 ; misuses of, 65-7 ; as mythic cycle, 3, 7-8, 13-5, 35, 53-5, 219, 221, 224-33, 250-2, 287, 294-5; narrow limits of, 2 ; oriented toward future, 52, 64, 279; as prophecy, 64, 103; psychoglobal nature of, 10, 15, 294-5; as rationalization of time, 1, 26, 51-8; as sensory overelaboration, 86-7; as struggle to be open, 26-7, 170,185, 285-6, 312; threat of visionary experience to, 267-9, 272-4, 277-8, 288; as thrust to collective industrialization, 263; transformation of, 4, 10, 53, 217, 226, 288-95; as transitional hell, 3, 7, 15, 213-5, 225-7; value system 350 THE TRANSFORMATIVE VISION history (continued) of, 16, 45, 47, 103, 279. See also ages; consciousness; evolution; transformative vision History of Art (Janson), 37 A History of Chinese Philosophy (Fung Yu-Lan), 311 history painting, impact of archeology on, 58, 61 ; impact of photography on, 117-20, 125, 140; primacy of, 45-7, 50, 63 , 74, 268. See also art; fine arts ; history Hitler, Adolf, 67, 203, 248, 250; as frustrated artist, 40, 218 Hobbema, Meindert, 106 Hoffman, E. T. W., 101 Hofman, A., 266 Hogarth, William, 77, 96 Hokusai, 145, 148 Hölderlin, Friedrich, 101 Holocene, 5-6 Homage à Edgar Poe (Redon), 163 Hopi creation story, 289-91, 294 horoscopes, 232 "Howl" (Ginsberg), 270-1, 280 Hugo, Victor, 126 huichol yarn painting, 279 humanism, centrality of man in, 37, 45, 59, 128; defined, 32, 34, 45-8, 132; prefigured in Raphael, 32-8; technical, 59-62. See also Academicism; Egotism; Enlightenment; progress, rationalism; Renaissance; science Husk, 223-4 Huxley, Aldous, and Brave New World, 263, 266; and Freud, 283; and Goya, 99,102; and psychedelics, 264-9; quoted, 76, 99, 102, 267-9, 275; and religious revival, 268, 274-5 hydrogen bomb, 266, 271. See also atom bomb "Hymns" to Quetzalcoatl (Lawrence), 288 identification, with objective reality, 284; with transcendental forces, 53. identification (continued) See also art as tool; transformative vision Illuminations (Rimbaud), 128, 134, 136 image-fix, defined, 26-7 imagination, recovery of, 89-90; repression of, 19, 83, 93, 121, 127, 152, 263; standardizing of, 42-3; as artist's realm, 125. See also Blake; creativity; dreams; Los; muse; psyche, repression of; symbols imperialism, pre-technological, 14; rise of European, 11, 56-7, 60; and democracy, 60; as door to primitive, 127. See also colonialism; militarism; New World, conquest of Impressionism, 145-63; assimilation of, 149-53, 155, 170; cleansing of consciousness by, 156, 170; contradiction in, 157; non-elitist quality of, 155-6; and color, 43; and subjectivism, 109, 123, 146-9, 156-7, 180. See also avant-garde; subjectivism "Impressionism" (Laforgue), 157 Impressionism: Sunrise (Monet), 149 Inca militarism, 14, 56 indeterminacy principle, 141 India, 14, 57; art of, 199, 282, 284. See also Hinduism; Tantra Indians, Native American, 284, 291. See also Aztec; Black Elk; Crow; Eskimo; Ghost dancers; Hopi; Joseph, Chief; Inca; Mayans; medicine man; Pawnee; sand painters; shamanism; Toltecs individualism, 20, 34-6, 58, 71 ; and avant-garde, 151, 156, 188, 192-3, 212-3, 275. See also egotism; Great Artist; subjectivism individuation, true, 286, 293-5 industrial anarchy, 281-2, 285, 294 Industrial Revolution, 48, 57-8, 113, 177 ; aesthetics of, 59-62 ; craftsmen destroyed by, 46, 49; integration destroyed by, 290-1. See also machine; materialism; Index 351 Industrial Revolution (continued) mechanization; paleotechnic; technocratic state; technology industrial state. See technocratic state industrialization, collective, 263. See also Industrial Revolution Ingres, J. D., 74, 116 initiatory practices, 197-8, 288, 318. See also shamanism Inquisition, Spanish, 57 intellect, as Europeon mode, 7-8, 16, 22, 28-9, 36-8, 215, 283; as techne, 4, 6. See also left-hemisphere tyranny; one-point perspective; psyche, repression of; rationalism; techne intellectuality, transcendence of, 283—4. See also transformative vision internal technologist, artist as, 199, 279-80, 284; as healer, 286. See also transformative visionaries internal technology, 15, 277-87; see also alchemy; shamanism; tranformative vision Interventionist Manifesto (Carra), 206 Intervision (Matta), 264 Intimate Journals (Gauguin), 173 "Intimations of Immortality" (Wordsworth), 108 intuition, as psyche, 6, 107, 217, 286, 289; repression of, 19, 26-7, 29, 41, 107, 121, 152. See also creativity; dream; imagination; psyche inverse symmetry, principle of, 5, 8 Iron Age, 17, 19, 100; equated with Aztec calendar, 14-5, 55, 118; equated with Kali Yuga, 13. See also Fifth Sun; Kali Yuga irradiation, principle of, 141-2 Islam, 14, 33, 56-7 Island (Huxley), 268-9 Izambard, Georges, 128 James, William, 265 Janson, H. W., 37 Japan, 14, 53n, 219 Japanese art, impact on Western art, Japanese art (continued) 148, 150, 156; nature painting tradition, 104; Ukiyo-e school, 145-6, 148; Zen painting, 109, 110, 145 jazz, 264 "Jerusalem" (Blake), 83, 89 Jones, Marc Edmund, 231 Joseph, Chief, 294 Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still (Martin), 114 Joyce, James, 250-4, 315 Julius II (pope), 28, 30 Jung, C. G., dream of, 222, 226; rediscovery of mandala by, 90, 221-3, 227, 232, 281; quoted, 127, 222; and symbols, 189, 223, 280; and Tibetan Book of the Dead, 227, 248, 310. See also psychology Kalachakra, 227. See also Tibet Kali Yuga, 86, 100, 117; equated with Aztec calendar, 14-5, 55, 291; equated with Iron Age, 13. See also Fifth Sun; Iron Age Kandinsky, Wassily, 186-8, 190-2, 198, 220, 279 Kang Yu Wei, 136-7 Katchongva, Dan, 289-90 Kennedy, John, 269 Kepler, Johannis, 28 Kierkegaard, Sören, 36 King Kong, 217-8 The King of Pandemonium (Martin), 114 Klee, Paul, 191, 198, 220, 279 Klein, Yves, 255 knowledge, direct experience of, 7, 267, 279, 285; immanence of, 285; human body and, 8-9, 289-90; splintering of, 47-50, 141—2; through visual mode, 21-2, 25-6. See also archetypes, psychogenic nature of; gnosis; objective knowledge; perceptions as reality; reality; science; specialization; subjectivism 352 THE TRANSFORMATIVE VISION Koestler, Arthur, 10 Kosmos (von Humboldt), 130 Kundalini, 240 Kupka, Frank, 186-8 Laffoley, Paul, 281 Laforgue, Jules, 157, 159 Lake Poets, 109 Lama Foundation, 274-5 L'an 2000 (Bretonne), 64 L'an 2440 (Mercier), 64 landscape painting. See painting, landscape Lang, Fritz, 114 "Laocoon" (Blake), 91 Laocoon (Lessing), 58-60, 91 Lapis (Whitney), 282 Last Supper (da Vinci), 24—5 Lautréamont, Comte de, 170 Lawrence, D. H., 112, 236-43, 274; quoted, 10, 237-43, 288, 292-4 Leadbeater, C. S., 188-9 League for Spiritual Discovery, 280 Leary, Timothy, 264, 269-70, 272, 276, 280 Le Brun, Charles, 44, 67 left cerebral hemisphere, functions of, 4, 105, 226, 289-90; inadequacy of, 267; values of, 37. See also intellect; linearity; psyche, repression of; psyche and techne; techne left-hemisphere tyranny, defined, 9-13. See also consciousness, mechanization of; dualism; humanism; intellect; materialism; objective knowledge; one-point perspective; psyche, repression of; techne, domination of Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm von, 266 leisure time, 290 Leo X (pope), 12, 28, 30 LeSage, Augustin, 216, 316 Lessing, Gotthold, 59-60, 155 "Letter to the Buddhist Schools" (Artaud), 213 Levi-Strauss, Claude, 17 Lewein, Ludwig, 265 libertinism, nature of, 23; and avant-garde, 152, 154; and Romantics, 71-3; and Wölfi, 195-7. See also sensationalism Liberty at the Barricades (Delacroix), 74 Lichtenstein, Roy, 258 light, as servant of techne, 118. See also photography Lilien, E. M., 204 linear perspective, 25, 40, 147. See also one-point perspective; single vision linearity, 8-9, 116, 137, 185. See also Cartesian dualism Liszt, Franz, 283 literary humanism, 45 "Lives" (Rimbaud), 129 Locke, John, 85 A London Life (Doré), 115 Lord of the Dawn (Shearer), 302 Los, 89-90 Louis XIV (king), 47, 67 love, as colonial device, 56; in Gauguin, 172, 174-6 love visionaries, 191-203. See also artist, as visionary; transformative visionaries Love's Body (Brown), 10, 265 Loyola, St. Ignatius, 32 Lun Yii, 17 Luther, Martin, 11, 29-30 machine, assimilation of, 306; exploitation of, 81; Romantic rejection, 69—71, 81, 121; slaves of, 77; as black magic, 246; and leisure, 290; and neoclassical art, 68. See also Industrial Revolution; mechanization; paleotechnic; technology McLuhan, Marshall, 18, 33, 177-8, 251 A Madman Artist (Morganthaler), 314 madness, 23-4, 101, 191-218; divinity of, 64, 193-4; and artist, 36, 128, Index 353 madness (continued) 198-9, 210; and creativity, 179, 193—4; as function of Kali Yuga, 15; as mythological invention, 78; reflected in art, 166-7, 213; and shamanism, 197. See also artist, alienated; creativity Madonna, 11, 28, 135, 175. See also feminine archetypes Maeterlinck, Maurice, 188 magic, revival of, 2, 95; and art, 212; as release of power, 229-30; as revolt, 269. See also alchemy, astrology, pentacle Magister Ludi (Hesse), 270 Magritte, René, 217 mahapralaya, 304 Maharshi, Ramana, 203 Male and Female (Pollock), 253-4 Mallarmé, Stéphane, 171 man, as microcosm, 46. See also humanism; nature; woman Man at the Crossroads (Rivera), 244 Manas Chakra, 294-5. See also mind mandala, rediscovery of, 221-3, 232; as symbol of primal unity, 3, 90, 248, 281-2, 284; as tool for integration, 199 Manet, Edouard, 146, 148, 153-5 Mann, Thomas, 39, 250 mantram, 288 Mao Tse-tung, 53 Mara, 240 Marat, 64-5, 213 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Blake), 87-8 Mars (planet), 228 Martin, Mad John, 114-6 Martindale, Andrew, 18 Marx, Karl, 52, 81, 132, 137, 212. See also communism; dialectical materialism masculine archetypes, 6-8, 23. See also Adam; Albion; animus; archetypes; artist; medicine man; scientist; shamanism; sorcerer; techne; Taaroa; warrior; Yang; Yogi masculine principle. See psyche and techne; techne; woman Mask, 223-4 mass, Catholic, 278, 282-3 mass media, criticism through, 96; influence of, 30, 67, 96, 158, 177-8, 251, 263, 287; need for, 65, 274 Massacre at Chios (Delacroix), 73-4 materialism, dialectical. See dialectical materialism materialism, dematerialization of, 158; domination by, 47, 52-3 ; 83-6, 123-4, 134, 137, 234-5; rise of, 12, 23, 26, 48, 57; rebellion against, 69-71, 121, 210; transformation of, 132, 157-8, 162, 280, 282-4 materialism, as attribute of Iron Age, 15, 55-8; confirmed by photography, 116, 118; and war, 247-8. See also dialectical materialism; dualism; Iron Age; left-hemisphere tyranny; matter; mechanization; objective knowledge; paleotechnic; reality; psyche, repression of; techne; technology mathematics, 4, 8; Pythagorean tradition of, 279; as bridge between science and art, 28 Mathieu, Pierre, 255 Matisse, Henri, 153 Matta, 226, 264 matter, climax of, 85, 205-6; as techne, 6. See also apocalypse dualism; materialism; mind, polarized from matter Maxwell, James Clark, 157 Mayans, 14, 302-4 measure, principle of, 185 mechanization, 17, 24—7, 93-4, 103-4, 290-1 ; destruction of crafts by, 19, 46, 49, 77; and abstract art, 177; embraced by Dada, 208-10; embraced by Futurists, 204-5; of time, 48, 51-3, 56. See also consciousness, mechanization of; Industrial Revolution; machine; materialism; neotechnic; paleotechnic; technocratic 354 THE TRANSFORMATIVE VISION mechanization (continued) state; technology; visual arts, and printed word media, mass. See counter-culture; mass media medicine man, 7, 229, 290. See also shamanism Medieval, art-historical definition, 260. See also Pre-Renaissance culture Mengs, Anton Raffael, 61 Mercator projection, 106 Mercier, Louis-Sébastien, 64 Metropolis (Lang), 114 Metzner, Ralph, 270, 280 Mexicana, 236 Mexico, 214-5, 238-49; art of, 42, 243-4, 279; calendar of, 11-2; conquest of, 11, 13, 15, 245. See also Aztecs; hell periods, Aztec; Mayans; New World; Quetzalcoatl; Toltecs Michelangelo, 30, 36, 155 Michelet, Jules, 127-8, 130-1 Milarepa, 202 militarism, rise of, 14, 55-6. See also colonialism; imperialism Milton, John, 114 mimesis, 177. See also naturalism mind, divisions of, 294; polarized from matter, 12, 22-3, 25, 29, 36, 41; as psyche, 6, 132. See also body; body/mind ; consciousness ; dualism The Mind Parasites (Wilson), 101 Minimalists, 255, 257-8, 263 Miro, Joan, 220 Moctezuma, 12 modernism, aesthetic of, 178-81; circumscribed character of, 2, 198; development of, 181-90; defined, 260; and classicism, 28. See also abstract art; avant-garde; concept art; Constructivism; Dadaism; Minimalists; Surrealism; Symbolism Modersohn-Becker, Paula, 179 Mondrian, Piet, 188, 209 Monet, Claude, 146-9, 153-4, 156, 160,180 Moore, Henry, 223 More, Thomas, 96 Morganthaler, Dr., 198, 200, 314, 315 Morning Star. See Quetzalcoatl Morris, William, 182-3 Morse, Samuel, 134 Mother and Child, 294 Mother Earth, 135, 294 Mozart, Wolfgang, 101, 278, 283 Müller, Max, 139, 188 Mumford, Lewis, 48, 55, 92, 306; quoted, 81, 94, 100 Munch, Edvard, 178-9 mural art, 3, 34, 243-7 muse, 6, 23, 47, 230, 286-7. See also imagination museum, 258-9; and academicism, 263; attacked by Futurists, 205; as entertainment, 287 ; as tomb, 79, 256 music, 48-9, 79, 101, 185, 278 Muslim. See Islam mysticism, everyday, 268, 278; as source of wisdom, 266-8 mythic consciousness, cessation of, 26, 107-8, 275; inherence of, 158-9; need for, 78; reality of, 168-9; return to, 287; as integration of psyche and techne, 6. See also archaic experience; archetypes; consciousness; psyche and techne Nadja (Breton), 272 naga, 172, 240 namarupa, 43 Napoleon, 63 , 66-8 , 72 , 78 narrative mode, 35, 184-5 , 278; linearity of, 117, 119, 184-5; destroyed by photography, 140. See also cinema; history painting; novel; realism, anecdotal; visual arts, and written word naturalism, 59, 117-8, 121, 178, 189-90; flight from, 178-9, 188, 210; as perceptual mode. See also abstract art ; narrative mode, realism nature, alienation from, 10, 45, 52-3, 59, 63, 103-15; feminine aspect of, Index 355 nature (continued) 4, 104-5, 128, 135, 218, 287; idealization of, 104-6, 108-15, 130; primal unity with, 10, 63, 104-11, 132, 211, 232; tyranny over, 37, 59, 45-8, 59. See also ecological awareness; dualism; noble savage; primitivism; Romanticism Nazarenes, 78 Nebuchadnezzar (Martin), 114 neoclassicism, 66-9, 278, revival of, 228; and fascism, 63, 228, 259; as first paleotechnic style, 63, 66; transplanted to America, 235, 243-4. See also academicism; classicism Neo-Impressionism, 155, 160-2. See also Impressionism Neo-Platonism, 29-32, 34, 304. See also classicism; Greco-Roman culture; Renaissance neotechnic period, defined, 56-7, 157-8, 306. See also electricity Neptune (planet), 134n, 143, 205 "New Heaven and Earth" (Lawrence), 237-8 New Realists, 123. See also Realism New Text School, 311. See also Three Ages New World, 5; artistic conquest of, 42, 235; conquest of, 11-3; cross-fertilization with Old World by, 131, 138-9, 244, 247-8, 260, 293; purification of, 247-8; as fulcrum of energy, 234-50; as primary tincture, 226, 228, 234; as psyche, 234, 236-8, 294. See also Indians; Mexico; United States; Whitman Newton, Isaac, 26, 44, 57, 85; eulogy to, 78-9 Nicoll, Maurice, 223 Niépce, Nicéphore, 117 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 101, 124, 219 Nijinsky, Vaslav, 193-4, 203, 220 1984 (Orwell), 263 nirvana. See vision, nirvanic Nirvana (Gauguin), 172 Noa Noa (Gauguin), 173 noble savage, idealization of, 60, 72, 76, 108. See also nature; primitivism; romanticism Nolde, Emile, 179 nonduality, 284-5. See also consciousness, cosmic; dualism; primal unity nostalgia. See Renaissance; Romanticism Novalis, 80-1, 220 novel, 49, 140, 152. See also narrative mode nuclear energy, 57, 248-9. See also atomic bomb ; hydrogen bomb objective knowledge, triumph o f , 36, 41, 56, 59-60, 101, 118. See also Cartesian dualism; dualism; realism; reality; knowledge occult, 2, 212. See also alchemy; magic; shamanism Oedipus, 126 Ollin. See Fifth Sun Olympia (Manet), 148,156 "On Light" (Delaunay), 186 On My Way (Arp), 210 one-point perspective, 25, 29, 31, 33; contradictions in, 41 ; institutionalized, 27, 41-50, 56, 137. See also linear perspective; single vision open way, 170, 185, 286, 312 opera, 140, 278. See also music Oppenheimer, Robert, 249 optics, development of, 22, 44, 117 organic culture, defined, 65. See also pre-technological culture Orient, as state of mind, 129, 133. See also China; exotic, European fascination with ; India ; pretechnological culture; Primitivism Oriental art, art-historical definition of, 260-1 Ornstein, Robert, 8, 9 Orozco, José Clemente, 42, 243-8 Orphism. See Delaunay, Robert. 356 THE TRANSFORMATIVE VISION Orwell, George, 263 L'Oeuvre (Zola), 152 Ouroboros, 221, 223, 239, 265; evolution as symbol, 316-7. See also Great Return Ouspensky, P. D., 223 outsider, 23, 101, 215; artist as, 101, 164-76; distinct from visionary, 98-9. See also artist, alienation of painting, landscape, 45, 104, 109-15; optical, 147-9; watercolor, 109; and academic training, 153-4. See also Abstract Expressionism; art; history painting paleotechnic culture, aesthetics of, 58-62, 68-9; contradictions of, 137; Romantic rejection of, 69-72, 76; defined, 56-9, 306; and oral tradition, 64; transition to neotechnic, 157-8, 177 Palmer, Samuel, 112-3,116 Paradise Lost (Milton), 114 Parnassus (Mengs), 61 "Passage to India" (Whitman), 131-6 Passionate Body, 223-4 Pawnee Indians, 238 pentacle, 95, 249 Pentagon, 95, 249, 273 perception, art as, 2, 109-12 ; reality as, 140-9, 158-63; standardization of, 25, 42-5, 48; of acausality, 208; inducing psychic states, 184. See also consciousness; knowledge; perspective; subjectivism Perennial Philosophy, 3, 4, 266-7, 280. See also Alchemy; Buddhism; Hinduism; Mandala; Psychophysics; Transformative Vision perspective, mechanization of, 25, 33-4; study of, 43; and aperspective manner, 147-8. See also linear perspective; one-point perspective; topographical perspective Philosophy of the Unconscious (Hartmann), 143, 146 photography, 34, 116-25, 140, 148; as fine art, 119-20 Physiological Optics (Helmholtz), 146 Picasso, Pablo, 30, 192-3, 204, 261, 279; radicalism of, 123; subjectivism of, 181-2 Piscean Age, 225 Pissarro, Camille, 151, 154, 156, 161 Planck, Max, 158 Plato, 31, 304 The Plumed Serpent (Lawrence), 238-43 Plumed Serpent. See Quetzalcoatl Poe, Edgar Allan, 69; and "Eureka" theories, 141—4, 147, 149, 163 , 311 poet. See artist, pointillism, 161-2 Pollock, Jackson, 252-8, 261, 279 Polynesia, 14; cosmology of, 173-6, 288 pop art, 255-8, 263 Popper, K. R., 52 pornography, 154 Portrait of Félix Fénéon (Signac), 162 Portrait of Zola (Manet), 156 Post-historic Man (Seidenburg), 76 Poussin, Nicolas, 44, 48, 106 Poussinistes, 43, 74 power, release of, 229-30 Prajnaparamita Sutra, 161, 312 precision, 120; of symbol, 189 Pre-Raphaelites, 3, 119, 155, 182 Pre-Renaissance culture, crafts in, 17-9, 31, 41, 43, 46-7; integration of, 11, 14, 18-9, 30, 33; and madness, 194. See also pretechnological culture pretechnological culture, flowering of, 14, 245; guides to self-discovery of, 70; negation of history by, 51; organic nature of, 6, 17, 63. See also China; India; Indians; Islam; Mexico; Pre-Renaissance; shamanism; Tibet prima materia, 222 primal thought, 135, 137, 222 primal unity, 107-8, 228, 277; mandala as symbol of, 216, 281, 284. Index 35 7 primal unity (continued) See also body/mind; dualism, transcendence of; nature; Romanticism; psyche and techne, integration of; transformative vision primitivism, prejudice against, 60, 261; fascination with, 72-3,126-39, 172-3; as Return, 225, 228. See also Colonialism; exotic, quest for; noble savage printing press, 13, 18, 25, 56. See also visual arts, and written word professionalism in art, 42, 49; and avant-garde, 150-4. See also fine arts, elitism progress, myth of, 50, 55, 57, 88, 262, 272, 288; in Hindu tradition, 13; identified with technology, 69, 122, 141; threatened by tradition, 279 "The Prose of the Trans-Siberian" (Cendrars), 206-7 pseudo-religions, 127 "Psyche" (Coleridge), 108 psyche, atrophy of, 265-6; free-fire zone of, 283; primacy of, 4, 6, 15, 104-5; rebellion by, 13, 206n, 217-8, 265; repression of, 6, 10, 12, 25, 28, 43, 56, 63, 192, 265; and alchemy, 94-5 ; and color, 43 ; as East, 126-39; and Faust myth, 75; and feeling, 71; as mind, 6, 132; and nature, 104-5, 218; as New World, 236-8; as open way, 286; and primitivism, 60; and religion, 107; and right cerebral hemisphere, 4, 9, 289—90, 294; and sexuality, 178-9, and transformative visionaries, 73, 75,124, 132. See also artist; feminine archetypes; imagination; intuition; left-hemisphere tyranny; right cerebral hemisphere; techne, domination by psyche and techne, integration of, 6-7, 9, 15,112, 282, 286-7, 293; polarization of, 6-7, 11, 17-9, 24, 29,40, 100-1, 119, 252; war between, 12-3, 291; wedding of, 9, psyche and techne (continued) 289-90; as dialectic of evolution, 5-6, 15, 55-7, 75, 100-1; as Eyes Within, 105, 112. See also alchemy; shamanism; transformative vision; yin/yang dialectic psychedelic art, 199 Psychedelic Prayers (Leary), 280 psychedelic revolution, 211, 223, 266-75 , 280-1; as abolition of history, 268-9, 272-4, 277. See also counter-culture ; drugs psychology, behavioral, 26, 157, 280; Freudian, 215, 229; Jungian, 146, 157, 253. See also Freud; Jung; psychophysics Psychology of the Unconscious (Jung), 222, 315 psychoglobal process, defined, 7-10 psychophysics, 3-4, 310; and arts, 160; and harmony, 184-5, 220-1; and perception, 146-7, 149 purification, 55, 242, 288, 291 purism, 209—10, 230, 256-7 Pythagoras, 279, 304 quantum physics, 57, 142, 158 Quetzalcoatl, 12, 238-43, 288; study of, 302; in Orozco, 245-8. See also Great Return; Lawrence, D. H. radio, 177, 226. See also neotechnic Raft of the Medusa (Géricault), 76-7 Rain, Steam and Speed (Turner), 109-10 Ram Dass, Baba, 129, 275. See also Alpert, Richard Ramakrishna, 134-5 Ramana, Maharshi, 203 Raphael, prefiguring academicism, 28-31, 36-7, 40, 42, 116, 171, 259 rationalism, monsters bred by, 64, 100, 217-8, 250; revolt against, 4, 78, 210, 213; rise of, 4, 7, 12, 15, 36-8, 50, 84-5, 89, 211, 290; 358 THE TRANSFORMATIVE VISION rationalism (continued) transcendence of, 3 ; and neoclassicism, 66. See also academicism; classicism; consciousness, mechanization of; humanism; intellect; history as rationalization of time; left-hemisphere tyranny ; science Read, Herbert, 223, 275-6 realism, anecdotal, 144-5, 148; retinal, 144-5, 157; socialist, 68, 123, urban, 170. See also naturalism reality, as concept, 26, 146-7; as congelation of matter, 204 ; expropriated by media, 264; manipulated by ruling class, 63 ; transformed through art, 284 ; as visible, 36. See also consciousness; dualism; history; knowledge; materialism; objective knowledge; perception as reality; transformitive vision rebirth. See Bardo Thödol; death; ego; reason. See intellect; rationalism Great Return; redemption; reincarnation ; self- transcendence ; transformative vision redemption, European inability to conceive of, 35, 48, 98-9; confused with nostalgia, 78; through psyche, 81, 89-91; through visionary experience, 298. See also apocalypse; death; fatalism; tragedy; transformative vision Redon, Odilon, 162-3, 170 Re-Entry (Belson), 282 Reformation, Protestant, 11-2, 29, 32-3, 35, 56 regression, purposive, 210, 212-3, 220. See also internal technology reincarnation, 53-4, 215 Reinhardt, Ad, 256-8 Rejlander, Oscar Gustave, 119 relativity theory, 57, 158 religion, modern revival of, 81, 228, 268, 274-6, 287; as cement of culture, 107-8, 127. See also religion (continued) Buddhism; Christianity; Hinduism; Islam; Reformation, Protestant; sacred art; shamanism Religion of the Great Unity, 136-8 Rembrandt, 34-6, 41, 106 Renaissance, 16-40; anthropomorphology in, 29, 35 ; artistic insecurity in, 35-6, 41; cult of culture in, 28-31; dominance of techne in, 11-3, 21, 211; high point of, 12; nostalgia for, 177 ; standardization of perception in, 25, 31, 42-5, 48. See also academicism; classicism; crafts, fine arts; Great Artist; humanism; one-point perspective; visual arts, and printed word Renan, Joseph Ernest, 165 Renas dam ento, 13. See also Renaissance Renoir, Pierre Auguste, 154, 156, 180 return, principle of, 130, See also death; Great Return; history; as mythic cycle, Romanticism, as return ; transformative vision revolutions, impact of, 65-6, 68, 139; rise of, 50, 53, 57. See also war Reynolds, Joshua, 44-5, 47, 97 rhythm, principle of, 185 Riegl, Alois, 210, 220 right cerebral hemisphere, functions of, 4, 9, 105, 289-90, 226; rebellion by, 13; and artist, 16, 19, 221; and surrealism, 210; and theology, 29; as yin, 9. See also artist; body; imagination; intuition; left-hemisphere tyranny; psyche; psyche and techne; techne, dominance of Rilke, Rainer Maria, 179-80, 219-20, 272, 289 Rimbaud, Arthur, 23, 69, 128-30, 170; and flight from civilization, 124, 128-30, 138, 210; and female principle, 128, 135 ritual theater, 214-5 Index 359 rituals. See art, as ritual; mass; sacred art Rivera, Diego, 243-5 Riviere, C. M. de la, 64 Road of Life, 294 The Road of Life and Death (Blowsnake), 318 Robartes, Michael, 223 Robert Macaire (Daumier), 98 rock culture, 192, 271-2, 274. See also counter-culture Rockwell, Norman, 123, 265 Rococo art, 48, 62-3 Rodia, Simon, 314 Rolling Stones, 271 Roman culture. See Greco-Roman Romans of the Decadence (Couture), 123 Romanticism, birth of, 41, 57 ; rebellious stance of, 69-71, 121, 232; rejection of reason by, 69; assimilated in culture, 57 ; as creation of critics, 155; as irrational force, 269; and Leonardo, 24, 28; and neoclassicism, 62, 69-71; as Return, 130, 137, 220, 229-30; and return to nature, 63, 111, 130, 166, 289; and sensuality, 73; and Surrealism, 210—1; as thrust to unity, 130, 232 Rosenberg, Harold, 254, 258 Rousseau, Jean Jacque, 62, 72 Rowlandson, Thomas, 96-7 Rubenistes, 43, 74 Rubens, Peter Paul, 44 Rudhyar, Dane, 228-34, 269 Runge, Philip Otto, 109, 116, 210 Ruskin, John, 155, 182 Ruysdael, Jacob van, 106 Ryder, Albert Pinkham, 243 Sacre du Printemps (Stravinsky), 211, 228 sacred art, authentic function of, 199, 230-1; destroyed by humanism, 29-35, 46-8; and ecstasy, 202. See also Buddhism; China; Christianity; sacred art (continued) Hinduism; India; Indians; Islam; mandala; Mexico; pre-Renaissance culture; pre-technological culture; Tantra; Zen Sacred Art in East and West (Buckhardt), 34 sadhak, 288. See also Tantra sadism, 73 St. John (da Vinci), 24-5 Salon des Indépendents, 150 samsaric principle, 145, 149, 172 sand painters, 253-4, 261 Sattya Yuga, 13, 304. See also Golden Age Saturn Eating His Children (Goya), 102 School of Athens (Raphael), as model for Renaissance, 28, 30-5, 37-8, 41-2, 259 Schopenhauer, Arthur, 170 Schuffenecker, Emile, 171 Schulze, Heinrich, 117 Schumann, Robert, 101 science, dualism of, 41; rise of, 12, 41; codified, 48 ; integrated with art, 6, 15-6, 19, 110-1, 281-2, 311; polarized from art, 10, 16, 19, 48, 56-7, 92-3, 95, 256; study of psychedelics, 263-6; without conscience, 290. See also alchemy; art, as natural science; Faustus; left cerebral hemisphere; left-hemisphere tyranny; psyche and techne; techne; technology scientist, archetype of, 16-7, 20, 23-4, 48; obsession with techne, 94, 101, 288. See also science; techne Scriabin, Eugène, 188, 232 A Season in Hell (Rimbaud), 129 Second Coming, 53, 210-1, 226, 243. See also Great Return "The Second Coming" (Yeats), quoted, 207 Secret of the Golden Flower (Wilhelm), 222 secularization. See Christianity; Renaissance 360 THE TRANSFORMATIVE VISION Seidenburg, Roderick, 76 Séjourné, Laurette, 291 self, abiding in, 203; death of, 267, 295; identification with object of experience, 284; transcendence of, 267. See also dualism; ego; egotism; history, as egotism; individualism; subjectivism; transformative vision self-doubt, 35, 41 self-integration. See art, as tool; ego; transformative vision ; visionary experience sensationalism, bourgeois, 119; insatiability for, 39, 65-6, 274; Romantic, 70-4, '76, 151-2. See also libertinism; sentiment sensory modes, artifical, 39; decapitation of, 61 ; fragmentation of, 37-8, 49-50, 59-60, 65, 206; interfusion of, 87. See also body; perceptions; psychophysics; specialization; synesthesia; vision sentiment, aesthetics of, 119; excesses of, 71-3 ; as failure to integrate cerebral hemispheres, 24-5; of mass-media, 177; and nature, 105-6, 130 serpent archetype, 172, 240. See also kundalini; naga; Ouroboros; Quetzalcoatl Sesshu, 145 Seurat, George, 159-62, 171; and academicism, 153; as visionary, 159-62, 185, 279; quoted, 21 sexes, differentiation of, 6, 17, 287. See also woman sexuality, abstraction of, 178-9. See also feminine archetypes; masculine archetypes sfumato, 25 Shakespeare, William, 45, 232 shakti, 286 shamanism, initiatory experience of, 197, 288, 292; intuitive mode of, 7; persistence of, 278; and discipline, 280; as healing art, 282; as integrator of psyche and techne, 282, 286, 289; as power acquisition, 6, 229. See also shamanism (continued) magic; medicine man; sorceror; internal technologist; yogi Shearer, Tony, 302-4 Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 101 "The Ship of Death" (Lawrence), 243 Shortshanks, 103, 111 shunyata, 312. See also form, as emptiness Signac, Paul, 153, 160-2, 180 simultaneity, 205, 208, 251; as function of right cerebral hemisphere, 8 simultaneous contrast, law of, 184-6 single vision, 26-7, 48, 116. See also consciousness, mechanization of skyscraper, 89, 177, 209, 219, 243-4 Smith, Adam, 47 Social Contract (Rousseau), 62 socialist realism, 68, 123 Socrates, 36n, 47, 64, 70 "Songs of Experience" (Blake), 84 sorceror, 7, 214, 288. See also shamanism Sorrows of Werther (Goethe), 62 soul, Christian concept of, 21, 26; eye as window of, 21-3; polarized from body, 22-3, 25, 29; rebirth of, 294-5; science of, 230; transcendent, 22; as psyche, 4. See also body; dualism; mind; psyche. Le Sourire (Gauguin), 173 Soviet Union, 209, 219 specialization, cultural, 16-20, 49, 170, 275, 290-1; reversal of, 289; in human brain, 8; and nonspecialization, 17, 26. See also art, polarized from craft; fine arts, elitism; professionalism; sensory fragmentation; science, polarized from art Speculum Angelorum et Hominim (Robartes), 223 Spengler, Oswald, 219, 231, 260 spirit, conscious destruction of, 210—1 ; as psyche, 4, 6, 217. See also psyche; soul Spirit, 223-4 Index 361 spirit of the whole, 10; See also art-whole Steiner, Rudolph, 188 Stravinsky, Igor, 211, 228, 250 style, and technique, 67-9. See also art, autnonomous; art, as pure style; technique subjectivism, conceptual basis for, 119-21, 144-7; in neotechnic period, 157-9, 162; in paleotechnic, 62, 109-10. See also Dadaism; Impressionism; individualism; perceptions as reality; Romanticism; Surrealism suffering, as process of transformation, 128, 172-3, 289 Sullivan, Louis, 243 Sun of Movement. See Fifth Sun Sunday on the Isle of the Grande Jatte (Seurat), 161 Surrealism, 36, 159, 206n, 208-17, 269; manifestos of, 211, 273; and Great Return, 220-1, 228-30 swastika, 95, 218, 250 Swift, Jonathan, 96 Sybils (Michelangelo), 30 Symbolism, 159, 162, 170-3, 269; thrust toward unity of, 232 ; as origin of abstract art, 178-9 symbols, clarity of, 189-90; function of, 184 ; magic, 95 ; psychogenic nature of, 221-3 ; spontaneous expression of, 127; system of, 281-2; as compressed information, 287. See also archetypes; mandala, pentacle; swastika synergy, 7 ; Fuller's revelation of, 226 synesthesia, 87, 160, 170—1, 232; simultaneity of, 251. See also psychophysics Synthetic Drama, 232 Taaroa, 175 tai-chi symbol, 7-9 tai-chi chuan, 285 Tan Ssu T'ung, 136-8, 311 Tantra, 202n, 284, 288, 306; symbols Tantra (continued) of, 175, 240, 294. See also Buddhism ; yogi Tao, 90. See also tai-chi symbol Tao Teh Ching, 280 Tapu'at, 294 Tarot, 212 Tauber, Sophie, 211 techne, actualizing function of, 4, 6, 110; dominance over psyche by, 6, 8, 10, 12-3, 53, 75, 89, 100, 126, 265, 290; hypertrophy of, 266; secondary nature of, 4-6; subversion of art by, 286; as East, 294; as flesh principle, 105, relation to left cerebral hemisphere, 4, 9; and light, 118; as masculine principle, 6-9; as philosophy, 29; as specialization, 170; as way of power, 6, 286; as yang 8-9. See also intellect; left-hemisphere tyranny; masculine archetypes; psyche, repression of; psyche and techne; science; technique Technics and Civilization (Mumford), 48, 306 technique, inadequacy for self-realization of, 275; supremacy of, 9, 58-62, 207, 231; as abstraction, 178. See also art, as pure style; left-hemisphere tyranny; psyche, repression of; techne techno-abstraction, 209-10 technocrat, 6-8, 286. See also scientist; technocracy technocracy, blurred distinctions in, 204; control in, 263-4, 282; drugs in, 269-70; free expression in, 96-7, 156-7, 245; museum as center of, 258-9; secrecy in, 93-4, 263; time in, 51-8, 103; violence in, 52-3, 57, 73, 204-6, 264, 270, 273-4. See also Counter-culture; Industrial Revolution; materialism; mechanization ; neotechnic ; paleotechnic technology, internal. See internal technology 362 THE TRANSFORMATIVE VISION technology, contrasted to archaic, 278-9; rise of, 17, 40, 55-9, 93-4, 247. See also Industrial Revolution; machine; materialism; mechanization; science; technocracy Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, 57, 281 television, 152, 177, 219, 226. See also mass media Tezcatlipoca, 239, 248, 264, 291. See also Quetzalcoatl Theosophical Society, 139, 172 Theosophy, 57, 188-9; influence of, 172, 228, 253 Theresa, Saint, 32 Thoreau, Henry David, 111-2, 130 Thought Forms (Besant & Leadbeater), 188-9 Three Ages, Doctrine of, 136-8 Tibet, 14, 90, 175, 202n; art of, 199, 284; calendar of, 227-8, 248; cosmology of, 175 , 213-4, 226-7; destruction of, 57, 227, 248. See also Buddhism; Kali Yuga; Tantra Tibetan Book of the Dead, 264-5, 269, 282; doctrines of, 226—7; Jung's preface to, 248, 310; and psychedelic experience, 280. time, polarized from space, 26, 53, 116, 143; as deity, 310; as medium of consciousness, 51 Time Machine (Wells), 114 time-saving ethic, 103-4 tincture, doctrine of, 224, 234; interchange of, 225, 228 Toltecs, 14, 238-9 topographical perspective, 105-6, 110 Toulouse-Lautrec, Henry de, 258 Toynbee, Arnold, 139 tragedy, as European mode, 35, 64, 106, 172-3. See also redemption Transfiguration (Raphael), 28 transformative art, 91-2, 274-5, 282-4. See also sacred art; transformative visionaries transformative vision, dialectic of, 53, 125, 131—2, 139, 157; homeopathic character of, 221, 239, 265; transformative vision (continued) persistence of, 53 ; religious character of, 107; suffering as process of, 289; universality of, 3, 83, 131 transformative vision, and avant-garde, 180; as dynamic of human development, 3, 4, 131; as restoration of psyche, 73, 75, 124, 132; as transcendence of history, 4, 10, 224-5, 288-9, 292. See also apocalypse; consciousness, as mythic cycle; evolution; Great Return; materialism, transcendence of; primal unity transformative visionaries, advent of, 62; character of, 73 , 75, 77, 132; as integrators, 15, 16, 279. See also Blake; Gauguin; Lawrence; love visionaries; outsider; Poe; Rudhyar; transformative vision ; Whitman Tree of Life, 294 truth, as inner realization, 275, 285, 311 Turner, J. M. W., 24, 109, 113, 116, 155 2001 (film), 91, 217, 282 Uccello, Paolo, 25 Ukiyo-e, 145-6, 148 Ulro, 88-9, 308 unconscious, fear of, 310; historical origin of, 35-36; rediscovery of, 143, 146; surrender to, 208, 210; in art, 250-2; movement to consciousness, 185. See also collective unconscious; consciousness Underground, as state of mind, 115. See also counter-culture Unground, 124 United States, 234-49; art in, 243-4, 253; destiny of, 248-9, 293. See also New World; Whitman, Walt unity. See primal unity Universal Spirit, 52 universities, 46, 259-60 Uranus (planet), 65, 100, 205 Index 363 urbanization, 150, 169-70, 177; rejected by Romanticism, 69, 112-4, 166,168; in art, 3, 8, 40, 77, 170. See also industrialization USCO (collective), 272, 274 Utamaro, Kitagawa, 145, 148 Utopia (More), 96 Vajrayana, 202. See also Buddhism; Tantra; Tibet values, competitive, 45, 47, 279; utilitarian, 16, 230 ; and art history, 260-1; of ideological history, 103, 154, 279. See also Academicism; ecological awareness ; Enlightenment, Age of; Humanism; Materialism; pretechnological culture; Rationalism; religion Van de Bogart, Willard, 281-2, 287 van de Velde, Henry, 183-5 van Gogh, Vincent, education of, 153, 164; suicide of, 124, 168, 193, 283; as outsider to society, 23, 69, 164-8, 194, 203; quoted, 165, 167; and religion, 166-7, 196 Vedas, 54, 280. See also Hinduism Velikovsky, Immanuel, 292-3 Venus (planet), 238 Vermeer, van Delft, Jan, 34-5, 116 Verne, Jules, 170 Vico, Giambattista, 54, 225 La Vie Boheme (Murger), 152 vision, analysis of, 43; left-handed nature of, 21; nirvanic, 145, 172; as highest sense, 18-9, 21-3, 61, 186. See also perception; perspective; visual arts A Vision (Yeats), 126, 223-5 visionaries. See artist as visionary; transformative visionaries; visionary experience visionary experience, threat to history of, 267-9, 272-4, 277-8, 288 visual arts, and perception, 116; and written word, 18-9, 25, 35-6, 41-50, 61, 259, 272. See also art; visual arts (continued) fine art; perception; perspective Vitruvian proportion, 34, 40 von Humboldt, Alexander, 130, 311 Von Weizsäcker, Carl Friedrich, 134 Vuillard, 180 Wagner, Richard, 232 Wallace, Alfred Russel, 130 war, nuclear, 248-9; transformation of, 6-7 ; varieties of, 12-3 ; between blood and money, 260; as conflict of psyche and techne, 12-3, 207 ; in Kali Yuga, 55-8, 191, 205-6; of magical forms, 273; reflected in art, 19-20, 40, 191. See also dualism; militarism ; psyche and techne, conflict between; revolutions war, American Revolution, 50, 57, 61, 65, 234; French Revolution, 50, 61, 64-6; World War 1, 191, 193, 206-8, 211; World War II, 226, 250-1; Vietnamese War, 271. See also New World, conquest of Warhol, Andy, 257 warrior, acquisitive psychology of, 306; idealization of, 23, 72; transformed to seeker, 76-7 water clock, invention of 55-6 watercolor painting. See painting, watercolor Waters, Frank, 294 Watteau, Jean Antoine, 44-5 Watts Towers, 314 Weber, Max, 103 Weitlaw, Robert, 265 Wells, H. G., 114 Wheel of Time, 227 Whistler, James, 146, 148 White, Lynn, 37-8, 55 Whitman, Walt, 131-7, 199, 234-6; and concept of poet, 131-2, 137; and future of America, 234-6; and masculine principle, 135; and Passage to India, 129, 132-4, 136, 289; and poem of death, 236, 249; and primal 364 THE TRANSFORMATIVE VISION Whitman (continued) thought, 137, 222; quoted, 131-4, 234-6 Whitney, James, 282 Wilhelm, Richard, 222 Will, 223-4 Will to Harmony, 70, 75-6, 110-2. See also transformative vision Wilson, Colin, 23, 98, 101-2 Winckelmann, Johann, 32, 59-60, 155 Winnebago Indians, 318. See also Indians, American wisdom, and art, 83, 288. See also knowledge; sacred art Wölfli, Adolf, autobiography of, 252, 315; innocence of, 215; as love visionary, 195-204, 220; quoted, 200-2. See also madness woman, equality of, 175, 287; tyranny over, 205, 208, 290; veneration of, 75, 128, 135, 175; as sex objects, 23, 74-5, 237. See also psyche Woman-Soul, 75-6, 89. See also feminine principle; psyche Wordsworth, William, 108, 111 World War I. See war World War II. See war Worringer, Wilhelm, 1-3 Wray, Fay, 218 The Wreck of the Hope (Friedrich). 76 Wright, Frank Lloyd, 243 Wright of Derby, Joseph, 61 Xolotl, 249. See also Quetzalcoatl. yabyum, 175. See also Tantra Yeats, W. B., 126, 207, 210, 223-7, 232 Yellow Christ (Gauguin), 172 yin/yang dialectical process, 7-9, 136, 175, 224, 286 yoga, 131, 278, 285 yogi, 7, 199, 280, 288; as healer, 282; as integrator of psyche and techne, 282, 286, 289. See also Shamanism; T antra Youngblood, Gene, 282 Yuan Dynasty, 17 Zen, 53n., 271; art of, 109, 110, 145. See also Buddhism; Japan; Ukiyo-e Zen in the Art of Photography (Leverant), 121 zero point, 252 Zola, Emile, 152, 155-6, 170 |
