Let’s meet Baroness Gloria Von Rysdale who says, “I can only give you what you already possess.” There is so much wisdom floating in the background, the real knowledge lives in the primary processes of consciousness unseen until the pictures are unlocked. How do you unlock this storehouse of Aladdin? Where is the “Open Sesame” key? Who has the key?

YOU have the key! YOU are the Baroness! The key is simply gratitude. As a working artist, isn’t it your desire to show the world the gifts you possess? To be the key for others to open their own Alladin treasure caves? What follows are little vignettes as links that show some examples. My suggestion is that you allow your own mind to dig in the soil of your own experience, then open the links.

Let’s start with a list:

• Movies & Books that have taken you across the invisible line of your own resistance.

Tell the Baroness why you liked a certain movie or book. How did it alter your relationship to your place in the world? Has that experience changed your idea about what is important?

• Teachers who have shown the way. Mud? Mud!

• Landscapes riveted into the brainpan. Sheer of Light

• Art that has become radioactive (in a good way). Art you can’t forget.

Enough of this for now, but now that you are acquainted you can call on her, “Show me a picture, Baroness.” She never fails, so long as you feel gratitude. 

She can only give you what you already possess—you have a treasure house of gifts waiting to be opened, and the most important gift can be the gift of grief. What you have lost, though it is painful, it is the final gift to be grateful for.