Beauty
Beauty is obviously very subjective. Still, there may be some underlying processes.
We experience beauty on several levels...
- In that which triggers attraction in the personality
Anything that generally supports life (biological bias)
Learned from our culture and personal experience (cultural/personal bias) - Gives us a sense of the transpersonal (the numinous)
Some art and nature. Anything that opens up a taste of the transpersonal for us. - In everything, when we operate from a fully transdual awareness
Any inner and outer phenomenon, independent of label, is experienced as beautiful. Everything is a manifestation of God.
Notes
Some examples for each level.
- Biological
Opposite sex: signs of health and vitality, youth, strength, symmetrical face, joyfulness.
Nature: lush and rich landscapes, landscapes that allow overview (savannas), rivers, lakes, clean air, green vegetation. - Cultural
Small or large feet, small or wide hips, thin or plump, tattoos or not, different clothing, art, music, philosophy, religion, social systems, social interactions, certain emotions/thoughts/experiences, etc. - Tastes/glimpses of the Transdual
Vastness - desert, ocean, starry sky
Refinement in art - Bach, Carlos Nakai, Rembrandt, Nerdrum, etc. - Transdual view
Appreciation and experience of God manifesting in every inner/outer phenomena.
A river, an emotion, a city, thoughts, a snake, a blossom, clouds, an ocean, a mountain, a human being, a galaxy, wars, joy, suffering, a skilled and an unskilled poem, a grain of sand on a beach, a fugue by Bach, heavy metal, a painting by Manet, a painting by an unskilled artist, a leaf on a tree, a nebulae, anger, peacefulness, blame, compassion, realizations, delusions, a car, a tree, someone logging a tree, a river, someone polluting a river, death, birth, cancer, a healthy organism, a skyscraper, a mud hut, a bird, a deep sea creature, a planet, a rock, sky, earth - these are all God, Spirit, the Ground, the Absolute manifesting in a myriad ways. There is no separation between any phenomena and God/Absolute, and no separation among phenomena, yet there is differentiation and distinctions.