心智的居民——赛斯谈罗的肖像作品（下）

此段摘自《个人与群体事件的本质》第五章“经验的运作机制”第八三四节

你画的脸代表了这样一个认识。你一直认为你的绘画天分应该足够了。你认为它应该是你最大的热情所在，但你从未感觉如此——因为如果它是的话，你早就心无旁骛地追求它了。对你而言，绘画必须与一种更深的了解结合起来。绘画甚至在扮演一个老师的角色，领你穿越并超越画中形象，而又回到形象上来。

你的绘画意在从你生命的隐密处激发出累积的知识，通过人像的形式——那并非你现在会在街上碰到的人，而是“心智居民”的画像。心智的居民是非常真实的。以某种方式，他们比你的亲生父母还要亲，而当你表现他们的实相时，他们也在表现你的。所有的时间都是同时的。只因你的每个部分对时间的幻觉才使得你们无法彼此问候。在某种程度上，当你画这种肖像时，在你自己与那些其他的自己之间，你正在形成心灵的桥梁：你自己的身分扩大了。

仅从某种意义上说，存在着某些——用一个必要的界定词——“威力自己”或者说人格；他们是你更大身分的一部分，以非常建设性的方式利用相当不得了的庞大能量。那能量也是你自己人格的一部分——而当你在画这种形象时，你无疑会感到一阵阵雄心勃发，甚至兴高采烈。这些感受会让你认出它就是这种人格的形象。

（“我想上星期我就有这种感受，在画我的最后一个“头”时。那就是我为什么要写那些笔记——但我还没花时间去和珍讨论。”）

这就是我为什么提到它。我知道你没有告诉鲁柏。当然，画笔真的可以是一把通往其他世界的钥匙。你自己的情绪感受在这些画里保留下来。

无论如何，你一定要鼓励梦的活动，而在你的梦、绘画和写作之间将会有一种对应关系。三者之间相互促进。你的写作从你的绘画中获取活力，你的绘画也得益于你的写作——而做梦的自己或多或少与你实相的方方面面都有联系。

罗注：赛斯提到在我的梦、绘画与写作之间有一种“对应关系”，因为就在最近我画了一些比较生动的梦中形象的小油画。当我试着把游移不定、光辉灿烂的梦中元素缩减成我们在醒时实相中如此习以为常的静止画面时，我发现那非常好玩——而比我预期的具有多得多的挑战性。无论从技术上还是情感上，每张小画都变成了一次独特的探索，但并非每一次都成功。但我追悔莫及地想，为什么我没在很年轻的时候就试着画我的梦中形象；而且为什么很少听说其他画家在做同样的事。我个人并不知道有任何画家以这种方式作画。

Your painted faces represent such a recognition. You always thought that your artistic talent should be enough. You thought that it should be your consuming passion, but you never felt that it was ? for if it was you would have followed it undeviatingly. For you, painting had to be wedded to a deeper kind of understanding. Painting was even to be a teacher, leading you through and beyond images, and back to them again.

Your painting was meant to bring out from the recesses of your being the accumulation of your knowledge in the form of images ? not of people you might meet now on the street, but portraits of the residents of the mind. The residents of the mind are very real. In a certain fashion, they are your parents more than your parents were, and when you express their realities, they are also expressing yours. All time is simultaneous. Only the illusion of time on each of your parts keeps you from greeting each other. To some extent, when you paint such portraits you are forming psychic bridges between yourself and those other selves: Your own identity as yourself grows.

Only in a manner of speaking, there are certain ? a necessary qualifying word ? "power selves," or personalities; parts of your greater identity who utilized fairly extraordinary amounts of energy in very constructive ways. That energy is also a part of your personality ? and as you paint such images you will undoubtedly feel some considerable bursts of ambition, and even exuberance. The feelings will allow you to identify the images of such personalities.

("Well, I think I felt that way last week, when I was working on my latest head. That's why I wrote those notes ? but I didn't take the time to discuss them with Jane. ")

That is why I mentioned it. I knew you did not tell Ruburt. The paint brush can indeed be a key to other worlds, of course. Your own emotional feelings carry over in such paintings.

By all means encourage the dream activity, and there will be a correspondence between your dreams, your painting and your writing. Each one encourages the others. Your writing gains vitality from your painting, your painting from your writing ? and the dreaming self at one time or another is in contact with all other Aspects of your reality.

Note: Seth mentioned a "correspondence" among my dreams, painting, and writing because just lately I've been doing small oil paintings of a few of my more vivid dream images. I've discovered that this is great fun — and much more challenging than I'd anticipated, as I try to reduce the shifting, brilliant dream elements to the motionless painted surfaces we're so used to in waking reality. Each little painting becomes a unique adventure both technically and emotionally, and I hardly succeed in solving every attempt I make. Now, futilely, I wonder why I didn't try painting images from my dreams at a much earlier age; and why one so seldom hears about other artists doing the same thing. I don't personally know any other artist working with dreams this way.

——摘自《个人与群体事件的本质》（The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events）Laujenny 校译

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