The Unmanifest Canvas

In this era when the functioning of the brain physiology increasingly informs our understanding of the creative process, Maharishi’s teaching on the nature of the arts, creativity, and perception—compiled and presented in The Unmanifest Canvas—brings deep, unparalleled insights into these relatively uncharted realms of human experience. Art, Maharishi states, is the graceful method of accomplishing anything, and the art of living any phase of life is the ability to master that phase using latent potentialities and correct techniques. Maharishi explains how art has its source in the transcendent—the universal, unbounded basis of life and individual awareness. When the artist’s awareness is in tune with this fountain of infinite creativity, this field of bliss, art breathes the fullness of life and inspires people throughout eternity. This fascinating book is an indispensable, enlightening resource for creative producers, artists, art educators and art lovers, today, and for all future generations. The Unmanifest Canvas contains 22 chapters with titles as follows: 1. Art and the Artist, 2. The Supreme Role of Art and Science, 3. Training in the Creative Arts, 4. The Mechanics of Perception, 5. Identifying the Source of Universal Creativity, 6. The Relationship of Creativity and Suffering, 7. The Nature of Genius, 8, How Creative Intelligence Expresses Itself in Waves of Happiness, 9. A Press Conference with Buckminster Fuller, 10. Creativity and Creative Intelligence, 11. The Artist and the Scientist, 12. The Mechanics of Creation: Pure Intelligence Unfolding and Rejoicing within Itself, 13. Art and the Mechanics of Expressing Creation, 14. Expressing the Fuller Values of Life through Art, 15. Art, Creativity and World Problems,16. The Role of the Artist, 17. Art to Articulate Life, 18. Art and the Field of Infinite Correlation, 19. Art and the Ultimate Reality of Life, 20. The Ideal of Art, 21. Harmony Produces Art, 22. World Parliament of Peace an Art and Music