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Invisible input - wisdom
Perception recall
Pure or enhanced perception

Background

Although this is simply an hypothesis, I feel that Stanley tried to do two things with his painting. 

In the first place he tried to represent the enormity of what spiritual experience can mean - and he did this by the use of Light and the size of his paintings. 

But I also think he was trying to compile a complete set of the symbols in mystic thinking.  By incorporating each symbol into a picture he was 'keeping the baton going' passing on this knowledge in a form that those who know would know and well ............

But this latter task is an enormous job.  Even those who wrote books like Lewis Carroll found it something of a challenge.  There are literally thousands of symbols and of course painting them does not help anyone understand the meaning - incidentally this is not a criticism just an observation. 

But I think his aim was to keep all the symbols in the subconscious of people, to reinforce their existence until - well until we were able via the computer and the Internet - to make them accessible!

Circus and fairgrounds do the same thing as does pantomine, he was lucky to be born in a culture where there was so much reinforcement around him

The Art and Vision of Stanley Spencer - Kenneth Pople

Stanley's several Crucifixions and the paintings he derived from them (The Scarecrow is an example) show Stanley in the depths of a periodic frustration at being unable to suppress an intrusive 'disturber of the peace' (look for the disturber biographically.)

The source of the experience

Concepts

Symbols

Science Items

Activities

Suppressions

Commonsteps

References