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The Human Bond Series : II

The power of beauty that draws on the observer's desire to identify with that, to hold and behold and to conduct a relation with that … is a very strong stimulus in the human experience. It moves the man from the sinews of the muscle to the sound of speech to undertake all that would bring him into contact with beauty. It draws on the eye to record the experience for reflection.

 

In relation to a painting, a sculpture, a poem, song or drama it stirs the impulses of the individual into a contact with ideas ... verbalized, animated, illustrated or modelled into an object of creation by human impulses. For a brief moment, the patrons at a theater enjoying a staged drama are no longer in control of their own minds … they have handed it over to a message, an expression or view.

 

The plays of Olympus … of Zeus and his family … are an enactment of an idea that suggests the creator's  mind regarding creation, the world and the human experience. Today these ideas receive a delicate treatment by the mind of man … he attributes it to forces allied with the human experience but is not likely to accept them faithfully … not until he is able to verify these ideas himself.

 

Hence these thoughts reside in us in a sea of uneasy suggestions, often in a mild schizophrenia and may on a positive occasion refer to a peripheral understanding of our environment … an epiphany of oneness. We use it as a companion to the passions to refer to common human experience … to coin the identity of friends and neighbors … and as a theme to the life of the world. 

 

On the other side of the schizophrenic experience man engages clinical logic in the service of the human condition to verify  the validity of these thoughts … however, undertaken in an atmosphere of uncertainty and fear … it results in a curious expression of the elitist or intellectual who isolates himself from the behavior of the social masses.  A true effort brings together man, the mind and the play … much like the play in the theater … to account for the human condition. It is suggestive of the unique way in which the play is made an added feature in the reasoning qualities of man … as if the creative forces lend themselves to a line of reasoning or are part players in our lives.

 

Indic practices engaged the play, much like the Greeks, to represent man in society. From the individual perspective each person in a community is assigned an identification with the qualities … these are held to be true in respect of each group … and thereafter they are observed to relate to each other much like role play. Such it appears is the nature of human social relations undertaken with the support of the temples, the institutions, family, ceremony, objects of possession, names, titles and social responsibility.

 

In the course of a lifetime it cultivates enduring bonds between individuals on the basis of cognition and is relied upon as a basis of action. The individual draws these into his personal review and meditations and observes the nature of the relations, its physical qualities, the social structures ...  and the part he plays as the observer.

 

Where the individual is able to put it together he may represent it in a play, literature, poetry or song … and where that brings a new affirmation to his relations ... it attracts others to read of the individual's experiences and perceptions. It constantly renews itself … generation after generation … and proceeds to a point when each individual writes the story of his life. So … how's the play going?