Pete Hubbard's Art

My view is that pain and suffering in the world is finite. That it behaves somewhat like a gas or liquid; that is it acts through displacement. The prospect for the human race is hopeless unless and until we learn how to raise our consciousness. This is essentially self motivated evolution. Without a change in our evolution or consciousness all efforts such as politics are doomed to failure.

So how do we raise our consciousness? It’s very simple and very complex at once. John Lennon paraphrasing Jesus “All you need is love”. One practical application of this on the material plane is making art. Everybody make art. Think of this: everybody make a commitment to making art. That is, the widest definition of art: painting, writing, filmmaking, dance, theater, etc… I don’t mean the art of making a better Uzi. Everybody makes this commitment. Also everyone reorders all other priorities in their lives to support that commitment. The allegory being the man who goes to church on Sunday and then the rest of the week he robs & kills & whores & so-on is just wasting his time and offending everyone else while he’s at it. But the man who goes to church on Sunday and then the rest of the week acts in a spiritual manor is helping the world not harming it. The thing about making art is that it’s fun. And there is a feed back when you’re doing something right. It’s much more sustainable then going to church. But as well as being fun it’s also spiritual and life affirming.

Making art raises your consciousness. That’s what the world needs now; to paraphrase Petula Clark. The key is both commitments not just one. I believe if everybody could do that 90% of the world’s problems would go away.