RONDA LARUE
THE HUMAN PSYCHE - CULTURE. - CONSCIOUSNESS
Calling all Poets of Life
Your Hole-y service is required on Center Stage... where
The Human Condition
Is Showing
Current Act:
Actors seen storming the castle (aka earth) at one of history's
more revealing passages, when the extraordinary powers of
human invention, fear and division-mongering are exposing
an equally extraordinary depth of human shadow and folly.
Shakespeare, Jung, Leonard Cohen, the Walk for Peace Monks, and
millions upon millions of inspired misfits throughout all time - those who
could not help but to see, show and tell truth, surround this moment waiting
to see how we will play it....
A Callout to the Hole-y-Whole Misfits: The Scribes, the Fire Dancers, the Poets, Weavers, Healers and Visionaries.
THE HUMAN PSYCHE - CULTURE - CONSCIOUSNESS
Calling all Poets of Life:
Your Hole-y Service is required on Center Stage ....where
The Human
Condition Is Showing
Current Act: Actors seen storming the castle called earth) at one of history's more revealing passages, when the extraordinary powers of human invention, fear and division are exposing an equally extraordinary depth of human shadow & folly.
Shakespeare, Jung, Father Merton, the Walk for Peace Monks, and millions upon millions of misfits throughout time who could not help but see and show and tell truth, surround this moment waiting to see how we will play it...
It is my hope that this website will help spark your own creative ways of becoming ever more human, creative, artfully-present, daringly-inspired, and compassionately-awake to the place we face today as a culture, as a collective psyche called to determine what humanity and our consciousness is called to become...
I've spent a lifetime studying the human condition - most notably through the seeming mistakes along the way. Many false turns were heart-wrenching. Each took a chunk of my body, heart and buried psyche.
Yet each and all of life's experiences offer the unavoidable schoolroom that makes a human, human. The trick I've slowly learned is how to unmask the buried treasure troves of healing wisdom embedded within the journey and what life presents.
My life's work, like many a good misfit has taken every turn and trail it could find: early study of the Bible and comparative religion to the caves of the eastern mystics and poets; the holy grail of our seer singers and songwriters, and the study of social behavior and research methods in graduate school, to the hallowed street art and performance art as social commentary and visual bard.
I have gathered a lifetime looking at what moves human beings, both individually and collectively, through the trials and tribulations, hopes and dreams, fears and loves, identifications and false gods; through health and illness and till death do we wake up...
I've come to see first hand, first through my own foibles and folly, then through my formal academic studies, and later, much more richly through offering decades of SoulArts private retreat mentoring, and now- most sharply at our present cultural moment in time, this: we are in a pickle! We are at a stunning crossroads for humanity and for the planet itself.
Allow me to ask you a personal soul-question here and right now
If you were to take this moment in time, and to pause, look inward, gather around you all the curious open-hearted compassion you can muster for what you yourself have lived, witnessed, questioned, hoped, dreamed of, lost... and not yet healed within your soul... what song might you write today that could help to stir, gift, soothe, awaken, shake loose and heal our next human chapter?
This is what this site and my life work as I step into my 70's hopes to help inspire in you now today...
— Ronda LaRue, M.S.
Social Research Scientist
Conceptual & Cultural Commentary Artist
Author
Founder of SoulArts Studio
CURRENT FEATURE:
Earth Sings the Blues
(Earth Tell'n It Like It Is)
Ecological Commentary - Wry Blues
Earth takes the mic, with weary wit and plenty to say about the species running the show. A sassy-blues sung by Earth — weary, clear-eyed, and still standing — telling the truth without flinching.
→ Listen
Three conceptual installations exploring cultural perception and the media, hidden identities, and contradictions in our social story.
FROM THE EARLIER ARCHIVES - 1998-2000
Social Contemplation Art Installation Works
REMOTE VOYEUR: OUTSIDE IN
1998
DREAMING THE UNVEILING
1999
ALTAR TO HUMAN WASTE-FULLNESS
2000
SoulArts Mentoring & Consciousness & Contemplative Writings
Decades of direct inquiry into healing transformation, consciousness, and the SoulArts Practice of awareness in action
