NEW DIRECTION

⚪️🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣⚫️ NEW DIRECTION Ed. No. 127 - STOP, LOOK & LEAP

TIME TO TAKE OUR HEADS OUT OF THE SAND

BONDI MIRAGE (Summer 2022) [DETAIL]

Artist: Neville Williams ©️Arts Law Australia

Size: 177cm (W) x 122cm (H)

Media: Mixed Media on stretched canvas (unframed)

To read a synopsis of this artwork

and to see more of this artist’s work go to:- NevilleWilliamsArt

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What have we done to the time and space to experience our own life?

It seems to have been taken up by doing stuff and the accumulation of stuff.

Our life or our being seems to have been smothered by our doing.

I mean we are supposed to be human beings not human doings.

There are people in our midst who are so full of their own self generated busyness they no longer can enjoy themselves. So overworked that they are making themselves sick. That is not respecting one’s self. When did enjoying ourselves - a simple thing - become not so simple?

We have given ourselves to a world that is now exploiting us for its own benefit. And we wonder why we are tired, empty, hesitating and baulking to move anywhere let alone forward.

Have you noticed how increasingly difficult it is to get even the simplest of things to happen? That is without having three goes at it. Heads full of distracting stuff is the reason. This is of course wasting good energy that can be used productively creating elsewhere.

When did we forget majorly how to give and instead become adept at creating the illusion of giving while placing ourselves on an increasing slippery slide into becoming a bunch of takers? Oh yes we are.

We’re so living in our self created illusion bubbles that quite a few have even convinced themselves that we are all knowing?

Somewhere along the line we thought we were in charge but are learning that we control very little. Even our lives are only on loan to us for a given period.

Talking about lives when did the value of a human life become so cheap and dirty and disposable?

Humanity has become ‘disconnected’ from its own self.

One terminology for it is that our world populace is heading into the storm of “an identity crisis”.

Covid made us stop and take the enforced time with ourselves. Some found they could not cope with what they discovered they were living with inside themselves. And too there were those who quite enjoyed the time alone in their own company.

But if we don’t know ourselves then we are only contributing to the mess our world is increasingly becoming. The person who doesn’t know themselves is constantly looking outside but not finding a contentment within inside themselves. The unfulfilled searching contributes to the mess.

Some think that those who seek out answers are somehow weak. Actually the reverse is true. As I stated in my previous blog “It involves real courage to take on the challenge of yourself”.

It means having the courage to say to yourself that you don’t know. That is scary to most…too humbling.

Most believe they know themselves. But just maybe there’s more!

I have found most (but not all) just echo the world around them. A construct of beliefs and ideas and values and symbols that they wrap themselves in making a barrier to experiencing their own solid foundation.

We got lost in the illusion of wanting to create our own paradise on earth only to find that when we scratch the surface all too often we find an absence or even an abscess of emptiness that not only needs but demands succour.

All the righteous talking that is going on is basically the desperate and needy wanting to fill their own emptiness…at others expense. This is all making this loud, noisy and demanding landscape we now find around us. Or is it better described as a desert of echoed emptiness?

We’re living in a time when ‘reconnection’ should be on the agenda for us all but are so blinded by our own ignorance that this is nowhere near the table let alone on our agendas.

Our own being asleep is the very thing that is waking us abruptly and discomfortingly.

Get with it.

The theme for our times (if it were ever any different) is:

“RECONNECTION to our larger world environment, each other

but most importantly to ourselves.”

This should be celebrated as long as we understand that is what we are celebrating.

BUT WE DON’T.

We get lost in one confused idea or another ultimately manufacturing meaningless drivel.

How can you celebrate something that you don’t understand is of the most importance????

There’s a thing keeping us each alive called a life that most don’t even acknowledge let alone enjoy. Neville

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⬇️ MEDIA LETTER
A WAY FORWARD

THE FOLLOWING LETTER WAS ALSO SENT TO THE EDITORS OF THE AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPER & DAILY TELEGRAPH

From: NEVILLE WILLIAMS
Date: 30 September 2025 at 08:52:28 AEST
To: The Editor THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
Subject: A WAY FORWARD

Dear Editor,

A WAY FORWARD

Have we ever seen so much discord and confusion across the spectrum of our World society in our lifetimes?

What is starting to emerge in these post Covid times is worse than Covid itself.

We are all party to a growing World Identity Crisis that is beginning to separate us from ourselves.

How do we diffuse the rising tensions in our world and what is bringing all of this to a head?

If the first step to solving a problem is to face up to the fact that we have a problem then the acceptance of this reality needs to be placed as a priority for our attention.

If it is a case that we are the problem then commonsense governs that we are also the solution.

Shouldn’t our focus be on creative rather than destructive solutions?

Why is it that our default mode seems to be locked on a defensive posture when we need to be focussed deeper inside on our better selves?

In fact we should be celebrating our better selves.

Wouldn’t then our problems begin to resolve themselves? Isn’t that just common sense?

One view is that our world is in the state it is because too few individuals are prepared to take on the challenge of getting their own house in order. And that’s tough work. The toughest.

The biggest challenge of our times is “reconnection” to ourselves.

As a follow on we’ll then start to better connect to each other creating the collective self value towards better stewardship of our greater world environment.

There are a lot of questions here.
It is up to all of us to share the responsibility to come up with the workable solutions.

But is anyone listening anymore anyway?

Regards, Neville Williams

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