Soul Art

From The Marriage of Sense and Soul by Ken Wilber:
“…the point is that soul are, of any variety, is not metaphoric or allegorical; it is a direct depiction of the direct experience of the subtle level. It is not a painting of sensory objects seen with the eye of flesh, it is not a painting of conceptual objects seen with the eye of mind; it is a painting of subtle objects seen with the eye of contemplation.
That means that artist and critic and viewer alike must be alive to that higher domain in order to participate in this art. As Brancusi reminded us, “Look at my works until you see them. Those who are closer to God have seen them.” As Kandinsky put it, the aim is to “proclaim the reign of Spirit… to proclaim light from light, the flowing light of the GOdhead,” all seen, not with the eye of flesh or the eye of mind, but with the eye of contemplation, and then rendered into artistic material form as a reminder of, and a call to, that extraordinary vision.
As the eye of contemplation deepens, and consciousness evolves from the subtle to the causal (and nondual), subtle forms give way to the formless (e.g., nirvikalpa, ayin, nirodh) and eventually to the nondual (sahaja), which I will together treat as the domain of pure Spirit. The art of this domain takes no particular referent at all, because it is bound to no realm whatsoever. It might therefore take its referent from any or all levels- from the sensorimotor/body level (such as in a Zen landscape) to the subtle and causal levels (such as in Tibetan thangkas). What characterizes this art is not its content, but the utter absence of the self-contraction in the artist who paints it, an absence that, in the greatest of this art, can at least temporarily evoke a similar freedom in the viewer (which was Schopenhauer’s profound insight about the power of great art: it brings transcendence) … “