e-mail: v-p-valius@narod.ru

Global grief, 1999,  oil/canvas, 60х100 cm

Valery Valius

Small addition

Till now I consider mainly 2 questions: about art criticism - features of semantic painting, in which I am engaged myself, in a wide spectrum of other functions of the fine arts (the resume: pictures are written for heart and mind of spectators!), and religious: creativity and Christianity (in nowadays both are practically incompatible, painting for a long time was beyond illustrating church doctrines).

Thus I have left aside two other themes essential to understanding of creative "kitchen":

1. The description metaphysical (mystical) components of creativity and

2. The question - whether a direct religious  experience (experience outside of church and outside of other widespread religious beliefs in general) is madness.

I shall try now to touch its.

Why experience outside of church? Let's listen, what the Christian mutters to himself , for example, orthodox and if does not mutter, at least, read these words in the Bible and holds them for absolute true: " Abraham has given birth to Isek; Isek has given birth to Iakob … ", " Our father who lives in heavens… "

It sounds that perhaps he does not know, who is  mother (1-st citation), he does not know, who is father (he names the God the father, and common father besides), about heavens somehow vaguely, looks so as if  he does not have elementary school knowledge about Space. He asks the God about what? To add strength? In the magic way? In general, looks so as it is time to help the person, to treat, for the beginning to diagnose. But for this purpose the competent person, the doctor, the psychiatrist is necessary.

And psychiatry perform 2 functions: to treat patients and to protect a society from patients, to hold them in psychiatric clinic. In those societies which consider believers as acceptable and even as desirable members of a society, and it is not a modern humanitarian invention, it is checked up by centuries, it has been checked up still before the psychiatry has arisen, psychiatrists are not called to believers, if, certainly, they have not done something mad or have not asked  to help them.

The same, approximately, is with others mystics. If, say, the Lord has sung a melody to composer, or has whispered a theme to the poet, or has shown vision to the photographer, or has pushed under an elbow the artist, and the line another way has gone, a new picture has prompted, or has thrown idea to the scientist, or has arranged to the young man a casual meeting with the girl, that for all life, in such cases nobody is drugged in psychiatric clinic.

But if by circumstances he will get to the psychiatrist, in such case the protective function of religion which would allow to draw the conclusion "simply believing" or " shares the standard belief ", on mistic does not extend.  Also  all his "has sung", "has whispered", "has shown", "has pushed", "has thrown", "has arranged" will give the diagnosis the paranoia, a schizophrenia, delirium of the relations, megalomania, etc.  -  shorter, a heavy psychosis. And, without any doubt. Because direct mystical experience  is described in books on psychiatry thus, and those experience, which is known to me, and, probably,  some different, I do not apply on all possible diagnoses.

So, the answer is found on first of questions: those, who interested in descriptions of mystical experience, can find them in works on psychiatry. Though, certainly, not only there. It could be found during last times only in books for  doctors. And since the ideological control has failed in our country, the extensive literature became accessible on esoterics, parapsychology, extrasensoric, unusual conditions of mind, prophetic dreams, spiritual practices, etc. Surely, you can find among these books treasures of spiritual culture, but others, in my opinion, are full delirium though I met adherents and admirers of absolutely senseless texts. Well, and in an overwhelming part it is result of work, and creative work, of many authors. Those to whom it is interesting, let understand. Because I am the useless guide in these books, I have received the mystical experience independently.

And on a question, whether such experience is the madness, the full answer is not present. It is clear, that it is not necessary to come across to psychiatrists. But it is not all. Because a sequence of life sometimes come such a way: at first the normal life which can take out the person on wild stresses from which he goes in psychosis, and from this unimaginable porridge the person is born as though anew, often with the new kind of occupation: independent and creative.

Normal life has deceived him strong, he does not trust it and cannot think of return to a former life. I emphasize just in case that it is not a confession.

Also there is a question about those, who received the diagnoses, tablets, rates of treatments and sitting in psychiatric clinic or being outside of its: in fact the Lord, the Supreme mind, the Information channel, Somebody - name as you want, has touched  them so, that they became a little bit cleverer, more talented, sincere on the ways. Why they have got stuck at a stage of obvious absurdities, new embodiments of well-known persons, the Messiahs, etc. -  shorter in delirium? Let alone maniacs-villains. Or sick of a delirium tremens. Too in fact mysticism. In the latter case the reason, usually is well known.

On creative "kitchen" the symptoms can be same as in case records, but functions are other, influences are similar, but result different: one talks rubbish, and another moulds imperishable works of art.

I can not explain all possible deviations of mentality from norm. And I depart far away from doctors, loonies, their problems. I am occupied by something another: visions, pictures, friends and an other life.



Adam and Eve - lines on plywood (wood figure is led simply round).