(This material was written by Hunter Barnes December 9, 2001AD - Feel free to distribute.)


I have come to a conclusion on a matter, after many eons of contemplation and various trials of theory.

Each person is an artist. Each artist has a canvas.
The canvas is what the person calls their reality.

As we go through existence, we paint on the canvas.
After a while we notice that we have too much paint in one area or another and we don't like the way it looks.
We then try to paint over, but the old paint bleeds through.
We notice it is bleeding through and apply more paint.
After so many layers, the paint chips..
We then repaint over it.

Q: How do we apply the paint?
A: By intention

There is a balance to all contrasts...
and each side of a contrast has a counterpart.

There is a material that dissolves paint called turpentine.

Q: How is it applied?
A: The same way we apply the paint.

Q: What are we really talking about here?
A: Out-creation

Q: So then, if we could apply turpentine to the whole canvas, why don't we?
A: Because, we like various aspects of the painting we have created and want to keep those.

Q: So then, if we could apply turpentine to a small part of the canvas, why don't we?
A: Because we are usually to busy painting to even consider it possible.
  
The paint is Expression.
The turpentine is the dissolvement of Expression.

Only the Artist can decide where and what to paint.
Only the Artist can decide where and what paint to remove.
Too many artists are waiting for a cosmic bucket of turpentine to come flying
	from somewhere else, perfectly touching up the painting.
That fact remains, It's your painting, and you are the artist.


Yes, there is a balance... 
Too much paint, makes a mess, not a pretty picture.
Too much Turpentine, and you don't have much of a picture.

Every artist has used both paint and turpentine.
If this were not true, the painting would be pitch black from all the paint.

Both of these tools are available to us via intention.

Q: Ok, by intention, can you give an applicable example?
A: Consider something you can live without and are willing to do away with.
	
Poof... you just applied turpentine.
Amazing how it vanishes without a trace.
You just out-created something from your reality.

Q: How to you keep from painting it back in?
A: Paint something else.

Q: Why did I paint it back in at first?
A: Some other paint on the canvas.


It takes some practice to get good at, that's why art requires skill.

Q: Ok, I get the drift, but it seems like it will take a long time to get the painting perfect.
A: You have an unlimited amount of time, an unlimited amount of paint, and an unlimited amount of turpentine.

And it gets easier as you use it.

See, having the power to decide what to create and out-create gives you the freedom to continue using the same canvas.
That way, instead of seeing the Freddy Kruger you flash painted when you open your eyelids, the patch of
paint you created to have you see your room will still be in operation until you are ready to get rid of that too.

Yes, everything contained within your experience you have painted, it's all yours.
If you had never painted anything, there would be no picture to call your experience.

Q: So how do other people fit in? Did I paint them too?
A: Well, I can safely say that you didn't paint me.
	But I assume that we paint even our interactions with one another.
	(plug A fits into outlet B) kind of thing.
	There is a lot of paint out here.

Q: Is this message turpentine?
A: No just paint. We can view one another's artistry. 
	I only painted a small how-to picture.

Q: Are you saying that I can create my own perfect eden?
A: Why did you start painting in the first place?


(I mentioned before that time cannot be stopped or reversed. But that it can be looped. This is how.)
  (Let the reader understand.)
