Automatic drawing

Wise words from Rabbi Moses ben Maimon

From the concept of automatic drawing to Rabbi Moses ben Maimon (1135-1204) is not a great step. Maimonides, or Rambam as he was called, reflected upon Aristotle when he wrote in his famous Guide to the perplexed: “For you will never find in scripture any activity done by God except through an angel. And angel, as you know, means messenger. Thus anything which executes a command is an angel. So the motions of living beings, even those that are inarticulate, are said explicitly by scripture to be due to angels.”

A mysterious and occult calling

Any drawing created as a result of executing an occult command is an angel drawing. The nature of the command is occult, but physically and emotionally perceptible. It feels like an inner calling, a drive or a force, so very strong that it cannot possibly be denied or suppressed. Much like an obsession, the inner force seems to have a will of its own and aggresively plays itself out, like a river on drift. It seeks acceptation, release, expression and solution in order to be free. The angelic command and the force of its inner calling leads towards the execution of it, often an expression or a message in the form of a writing or drawing, or behavior of any kind.

TIA: Trancendental Ideomotoric Automatism

Regarding the case I represent, the devine calling leads to the development of automatic drawing, icon of trancendental ideomotoric automatism. Let me try to explain what I mean by this. Experiencing something transcendentally is being conscious beyond every category or any previously known experience. Every transcendental experience must therefore be a new experience and one of supernatural perception. Examples of my own trancendental experiencing are memories of encounters and present interactions with UFO’s, aliens, ghosts, archangels, spirits and the like. The ideomotor effect involves physical movement that occurs involuntarily and subconsciously, rather than by deliberate decision. Some psychologists describe it as a form of dissociation, since the brain sends signals to the muscles directly, bypassing human consciousness. Automatism is the practice or theory of the spontaneous production of words (speech or writing), drawing, painting or other creative production, or behavior in general, without conscious self-control or self-censorship. TIA is thus the practice or theory of spontanious communication without concious self control or self censorship, that involves physical movement that occurs involuntarily and subconsciously rather than by deliberate decision, and is perceived as being conscious beyond every category of experience.

Are we dizzy yet ? Hey... are Angels surreal ?

Automatic writing and drawing were fundamental aspects upon which surrealism was built. As long as the drawings were attributed to the subconscious, we speak of surrealist automatism. Most of us remember surrealist Salvador Dali, but not many of us know that the father of surrealism was Andre Breton, writer of the Surrealist Manifest. Andre Masson (right), member of Breton's group, is known as the most dedicated of surrealist automatic drawing artists.

Automatic drawing is contributed to Angels!

The quote from Rabbi Maimonides covers one of the most intriguing mystical subjects in today’s religious, spiritual and scientific discussions. A sense of movement following a supposedly angelic command. Not much about this is heared in the open and perhaps this is the worlds best kept secret. But we all know about automatism, automatic writing, automatic drawing and perhaps even automatic speech. These are mystical phenomena, often viewed as paranormal phenomena, and aspects of psychomotorics coinded ideomotor effect by William B. Carpenter in 1852, in a succesful attempt to debunk spiritist fraud.

But what does automatic drawing have in common with angels ?

So what do all these concepts have in common with angels ? Both trancendental ideomotor automatism and angels are the spiritual lifeforces that make us act and move thoughtlessly. Today we'll look into the concepts of angels, being the devine and intelligent spiritual lifeform that is manifesting the completion of its lucid awakening in all of us.

Again, we won't be flying the skies nor widely spreading our white and feathered wings. We will not stroll down moonlit avenues with bright and glowing halos above our heads that light up the night. But capturing the still of the moment the absolute intellect, always seeking manifestion through the means of angels, may be experienced one day as flowing right through us like a warm and gentle touch of the mother goddess, automatically moving our limbs and bodyparts from the inside outward, just as if we were temporarily lamed or hypnotised.