Delos island in Greece was once the center of religion and money in the western world. It was as my friend Yorgo told me, “the place of miracles and manifestion on earth.”  Ok, thank you Yorgo, and now….what is the present contemporty version of this on earth now?
In Delos you could come as  a pilgrim, and like a buffet taste many methods of spiritual manifestion magic. There was the Egyptian temple of Isis, the Syrian, the Jewish, the Greek Gods of Apollo, Artimis , the only stock exchange, the only place youchould change money on earth etc etc.
In this power place with the brightest light on earth, the most UV on earth, a portal of energy allowed promoted manifestion from the spiritual world on earth. The land, the light, the temples the priests the ceremony , all promoted positive change. It was one of the most beautiful places, it had central plumbing, sewage, houses so beautiful art, mosaics etc etc
Again. Where is a place like it on earth now???
The answer- inside each one of us, we are the place, we make sacred space, make ceremony with art and healing and are the ones we have been waiting for to manifest change. Art and healing is a way of manifesting change in sacred space.

The tile wall at Shand Hospital arts in medicine, dreamed by Lee Ann Stacpole before installation in the atrium of the hospital, tiles painted by cancer patients and families and caregivers

Art and healing changes art, it is no longer mercantile, galleries, museums, but is transformation to heal.
Art and healing changes healthcare, it is no longer only scientific, it is now spiritual
Art and healing by bringing the divine feminine into healthcare and art, changes the world.
And the synthesis: you as an artist healer can and will change art, healthcare and the world by bringing spirituality and love to scientific and material realities.

Love involves the merge of opposites, feminine and masculine energies.
When people give birth or experience a death they often experience love
Love from the source makes everything reproduce, makes babies
For thousands of years, sacred lovers gave birth to a sacre baby. That is the basis of many religions and ceremonies. This was the basic art and healing performance/ceremony.
And the synthesis: art and healing is a simple method of doing a ceremony to unite the lovers and make a sacred baby to heal yourself, others, community and the earth.

Ok folks its time for a dramatic syntheses

My first vision of art and healing was that art and healing were one like lovers. I saw the lovers embracing and heard that phrase.
Spirit Body Healing research study at University of Florida showed art and healing healed by taking people from darkness to trancendence, basically people had an experience of being loved, a peak spiritual experience of being loved.
Jean Watons, first Caritas precept is: Embrace altruistic values and Practice loving kindness with self and others.  She teaches heartmath,  a technique of opening the heart to love
Lee Kaiser talks about art and healing in terms of soul substance and relationship with the source – which is love.
Soo.. campers, art and healing is about love. The artist healer frees a person to experience and feel love. The images seen in making art are messages of being loved by the source.
And the syntheses: art and healing is a simple method to help people connect to the source and feel loved.
Simple? What do you think about this?

http://www.alexgrey.com/

Alex Grey tells us about his vision of transcendence that changed his life:
    My wife and I lay together and closed our eyes and saw visions as one.  One of the first visions was of a mind lattice. a realm of complete interconnectedness with all beings and things via a love energy that was in an infinite, omni-directional grid, a sort of fountain drain, a toroidal shape.  Each being and thing was one of the cells interlocked in this ongoing network.  It was there with totally no reference point to the external world or external reality - it was all the energetic realm and it felt like the total bedrock of reality.  This was the scaffolding of creation that the dreamlike world of mundane manifestation was draped over.  It felt like a veil had been stripped away and I was seeing the way things really were.  It was beyond time, and it changed my entire point of view about what we are. 
    I came back from that experience, and looked at my wife Allison.  She saw the same transpersonal space at the same time that just drove it home to me.  I’m not saying that that’s it, and that’s the only space.  But it was my initiation into the mystic headspace that I feel is profoundly true.

ancient lovers in the museum on Delos

In this life, we can dream together. When you are in love, you can have the same dreams as your lover. When you are working on an important project you see the same visions and the world appears to you to teach you what you are learning.
If you dream/work on bears, you will find a bear sculpture by ancient Indians in a museum. If you dream of ancient lovers you will find scultptures of ancient lovers. If you work of oracles you will find a temple of oracles. As lovers, you dream and your work are one because the Spirit Lovers dream you and your work in to being.
They do they are.

Jill Sonke Henderson, dancer in residence at Shands Arts and Medicine Gainesville, UF, does a summer intensive
It is the most comprehensive program for becoming an artist in residence that exists

http://www.arts.ufl.edu/CAHRE/summerintensive.asp

her work at Cahre, is also amazing.

http://www.arts.ufl.edu/CAHRE/news.asp

bless you Jill for your amazing work

my bedroom at home

For people who have trouble with guided imagery it is very useful to practice going in and out. To do this, start any guided imagery , choose a light one first, like picturing you bedroom at home. Close your eyes, relax, take a deep breath in, then let it out, let your abdomen rise as you breath in and fall as you breathe out, then picture you bedroom, see the bed windows, feel the texture of the bedspread or covers, touch the window sill, then come back, come back to your center and push you belly there. Push your feet down to the actual floor in the room you are doing the guided imagery in. then do this over and over , go in go out.

It is very useful to keep yourself light, let sounds distract you while you do guided imagery, instead of chastising yourself for not being able to do guided imagery, reward yourself for doing it, being distracted, and coming back, its more practice in going in and out.