Carolyn’s birthday CD

I just listened to Carolyn’s birthday cd.

I’m very impressed with the following:
1. Her sonorous, mellifluous, strong voice, and
her seamless reading,
2. Her acknowledgment of those assisting her
in the midst of her reading and at the end,
which shows how people friendly she is,
3. The music which does not over dominate
the words, but truly complements them,
gently in the background where it belongs.

Wonderful!

Stanley

Stanley H. Barkan, Poet/Publisher
Cross-Cultural Communications

Mathew/Tim Leary & Friends

Were Tim still alive, he might put it this way: “Carolyn Kleefeld is one of the four or five most beautiful, intelligent (and intelligence is beauty) and fabulous free-thinking proponent of Human potential that we are blessed enough to have with us on the planet right now. I can’t think of any others! (short-term memory loss? … or is it something specific and immaculate about Carolyn only)”

Much Love,
Mathew/Tim Leary & Friends

Upcoming Art Exhibit

September 13, 2008 | Art Exhibit at Pepperdine University

Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Presents “Visions from Big Sur”
Artist Opening: Saturday September 13, 2008
Exhibition Enddate: Sunday December 14, 2008
5 PM – 7 PM

In the first retrospective of Carolyn’s art work, over seventy five of her paintings and works on paper will be showcased. Like Henry Miller before her Carolyn draws inspiration from the grand beauty and stark isolation of Big Sur to create art that explore the wondrous mysteries of human nature and the natural world. Painting in the manner of an alchemist, Carolyn creates imaginative scenes that convey the full range of human experience from the dark to the joyous and celebratory. She sees her art as a conduit of unconscious, universal truth that can help raise our self awareness. Her joyous art draws from the diverse currents ranging from Action Painting to Surrealist Fantasy, and celebrates the unbounded capacity of the human spirit to experience, dream and imagine.

Dear Carolyn

Dear Carolyn,
I have just been looking at your site. Your paintings are beautiful, I especially loved the abstracts, embryo, clay into spirit, neptunes playground, vissitudes, soul grotto and reflection of reality. Your use of colour and your imagination are amazing, I love the way the colours mix and mingle and there is so much to look at and I love the way you paint birds. I took up painting last year as a hobby and a local gallery have just put a couple of them up but mine are rubbish compared with yours (That sounds sycophantic and it isn’t, I just know my own limitations!!!). I would love to buy some of the cards (so I can admire the paintings better- the internet is not the ideal medium for art viewing and also cards in the uk for any occasion tend to have an ‘amusing’ grey bear on them – no matter what the occasion, there is one with a grey bear on, unfortunately the whole uk is becoming a shade of corporate grey/beige). Do you ship cards to the uk?
PS: Any tips on how to get the kind of mottled many colour background effect would be gratefully received, I use oils and have read about building up colour washes but the long time they take to dry and my impatience tends to put pay to that, also yours are much more delicate and intricate – thats the sort of thing I see in my head, but when I paint it, it looks clumsy more like the work of a small child!!
Look forward to hearing from you shortly.

Kindest regards
Amanda

I found my Soul

Your poem ” I found my Soul” is simply brilliant, a gem of spiritual insight. The latest poems that you’ve sent me have been truly amazing. Your ability to uniquely craft unusually creative, meaning-imbued word sculptures, and exceptionally imaginative language paintings, has unquestionably evolved in quantum leaps over the time I’ve known you. Your use of language is more enchanting than ever, and your work always makes me feel good (even when you write about death). I think that your work – your poetry and prose, your paintings and drawings — consistently radiates more positive, light and life-filled energy than any other art on this planet.

David Brown

To be human in our times

The human of our times is mutating so rapidly that we have no historical reference, except to a blurred past. With the population explosion, accelerating chaos, violence and terrorism, inhumane systems, pollution and ignorance, we are unrecognizable even to ourselves.

And I, who live as far away as possible from the homogenization of it all, can’t escape the contagion of our sobering times.

But being alive in these times also presents a unique opportunity to meet the Grist of Challenge – to expand, even further, the dimensions of our awareness, to delve ever deeper into the universal laws of existence.

Having a Cosmic reference point brings a much-needed relief from the prisons of limited perspective fueling our world.

December 18, 2004

Fourth International Aldous Huxley Syposium in Los Angeles 2008: Aldous Huxley in America

Carolyn Mary Kleefeld was commissioned to paint a portrait of Aldous Huxley and one of her poems “Being Silence” is being used for  a commencement for this very important event.

Being Silence

In Commemoration of Aldous Huxley

Being silence,
the lucid lake,
an empyrean expanse,
a highly organized weaving
is silence
woven intricately within

In being silence,
each transmitting thread
virtuous unto itself
is a vital stream
in tantric connection
within the vast design

Venue: Huntington Library, San Marino, California
Date: July 31 – August 2, 2008

For further information please visit the homepage of the center for Aldous Huxley Studies

www.anglistik.uni-muenster.de/Huxley

Thoughts

“Everything has its time – if it has a destiny”.

Carolyn Mary Kleefeld 

Translation of Carolyn’s Poems.

I recently had the opportunity to translate some of Carolyn’s wonderful poetry into German…

English

Perhaps in grasping to explain life’s meaning,
we dissipate its pulse.

–

The mind can be our ultimate torturer.
Entanglement in the net of excessive thought
can clip and cramp our wings.

–

Our minds cannot know the greater destiny.
We can only yield, and with awareness, live what Is.

–

Are we capable of standing steadfast, receptive and noble,
bathed in the quietude of no mind’s interference?

–

Why toil with concepts
when the essential occurs from a more discreet design?

German

Vielleicht verbrauchen wir den Puls des Lebens,
indem wir es zu begreifen versuchen.

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Der Verstand kann unsere entgültige Qual sein,
Verknüpfung im Netz maßloser Gedanken
kann unsere Flügel trennen.

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Sind wir in der Lage aufnahmebereit, großmütig
und standhaft zu bleiben,
gebaded im Frieden, ohne Störung der Gedanken.

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Warum sich über Grundsätze quälen,
wenn das Grundlegende
aus einer verschwiegenen Form ensteht.