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THIS IS FROM VICTOR GREENTREE'S BOOK 2003 CHANNELS WHICH FEATURES THE WIZARD OF IYYD. IN THIS SECTION, THE WIZ EXPLAINS WIZARDRY TO TANYA & TOMMY:
"In the past, a few artists have been special. Shall we call them the sexy ones or 'sexists'--who are not unlike 'pianists'--let's use this term as it's supposed to be used for once. The passionate ones. People like Whitman, Isadora Duncan, Dylan Thomas, Joyce, Van Gogh, Blake, Gauguin, Mozart, Nijinsky, and others. What distinguished them as such would be hard to characterize because their sexiness was not conscious and thus took sublimated forms. They didn't have the 'body awareness' we moderns have thanks to the work of Reich, Lowen, Perls, and other organism-oriented psychotherapists. And so, what we experience with their work is a blinding force of energy. You can feel it in Whitman's endless enumeration of the details of life that is so loving, as in Joyce's 'Molly Bloom's Soliloquy.' And in the blinding violence of Van Gogh's canvases, or in the costumed, slow-motioned life-as-a-drama of Fellini's 8 1/2. It's what might be best put in Goethe's dying words, 'More light, more light.'
But these people never lived or performed with intensity very long. Why? Because they believed in something called 'art' and 'art object.' Western culture in the 19th century, Victorian and anti-sexual, dreamed up Romanticism and art as tragedy. Because of its own repressions, it conceived this objective vehicle, art, for expression of this sexy state. Then one didn't conceive it as being a part of oneself. Consequently, once the person expressed this vision in art, orgasmed on the canvas so to speak, he or she didn't really have much reason to continue and contracted a terminal disease, opted for suicide, or faded into the woodwork.
Of course, if one, rather than writing the poem, is the poem, one has everything to live for. And that's the wizard's secret, because poems live forever. NEVER FORGET TO TAKE A BITE OUT OF THE WORLD BECAUSE HOW ELSE CAN YOU TELL THAT THE WORLD'S TAKING A BITE OUT OF YOU.
So, what I'm saying to you is this: a wizard's born fresh into the world like everyone else. He looks around at life and the earth and sees how fantastic being alive is. And then he meets the human race--and he is shocked. For he sees that all of these adults around him and almost all of the children don't see this. They're drugged, in a daze, a stupor. 'What are these people doing?' he asks himself. He can't figure it out. This makes him confused. Then these humans start to try to "educate" him. But what is this education? It's a system of knowledge to convince him that his view of life, beauty and adventure, is wrong and their view is right. Now, he is really confused. But, one day, when he gets older and begins to have more confidence in his inner knowledge, he begins to fight back. To say NO, I DO NOT ACCEPT THIS. At the same time, he finds that his view of the world--because it affects his mind--gives him strange powers. Animals are attracted to him. He looks more youthful than others his age. He finds that by believing in a protective Goddess power, it often seems to be there. He heals more quickly than others and rarely becomes ill. But his beliefs isolate him and, first in his loneliness and then in the pride of his loneness, he turns inside himself. That is how he discovers these certain abilities that his view of the earth and God/Goddess give him. He learns how to enter a trance where he is unified with the earth and nature. Nature is his teacher, his all, his Higher Self. When he learns the secret techniques of observing nature minutely, he discovers a presence. There. In the leaves, the sun beams, the air. He learns about music and what he hears to be true. He learns to dance and walk and move in a way that takes him beyond himself.
So, now he looks at the human race and says: 'We have to change this. There is no reason for this. You are like me. You were born, as I was; you came from the love of God and Goddess into this beautiful earth and you know in your hearts what is true. Who we really are. How we should treat each other and how we should treat the earth. There is no reason for this AND IT MUST BE CHANGED. '
Thus comes the wizard, the artist, whose purpose is to tell humankind the True Story." ..............THE WIZARD OF IYYD
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