Faces of Bearcloud

Bearcloud has a stu­dio in Sedona. He is a Native Amer­i­can artist that is more than gifted. He is one of those few indi­vid­u­als able to open doors of con­scious­ness that have long been for­got­ten. His paint­ings are mys­ti­cal scenes of the Desert South­west, as seen through the eyes of a young mys­tic (who, by the way, spent twelve years of his life study­ing the mys­ter­ies of the pyramids).

After the first cou­ple of sec­onds, you begin to see that the paint­ings are actu­ally faces — all with sto­ries behind them. The faces are mix­tures of peo­ple, ani­mals, and spir­its. The more you look at one of his paint­ings, the more it draws you into his world and into greater realms almost forgotten.

Every­thing has a face — both out­wardly and inwardly. Creation’s ani­mals all have faces. If some­thing sees or feeds, it has a face. With a lit­tle imag­i­na­tion, you can begin to see that even plants and trees have faces and char­ac­ter — each as unique as indi­vid­ual snowflakes. The dif­fer­ences are so sub­tle, but it is just those dif­fer­ences that make all of the dif­fer­ence in the world. Pay atten­tion to the eagle’s beak or a puppy’s nose; they are both pow­er­ful tools. It is no acci­dent that all humans (even iden­ti­cal twins) have great or slight facial vari­a­tions. To read the face is to see the soul’s themes or where the mind has tem­porar­ily fix­ated (smiles and frowns). “It was writ­ten all over her face…” is more than some poetic line.

How well do you face things? Can you face up to your life his­tory? Are you in a face-off with a prob­lem per­son? How well do you face the facts? Can you save face after every choice? Ever won­der if tech­nol­ogy is truly face­less? Can you face God? Why do we see so many faces in the night sky or in clouds? The ocean itself is but a sea of faces — all telling you the dif­fer­ence between a shark and a dol­phin — friends and foes.

For a very few years, in the life of Jesus, God had a clearer face. It was not a final one but an eter­nal one. If you have the faith for it, you will con­tinue to see the face of the Cre­ator every­where. There is a lit­tle bit of Bearcloud in all of us…behind our eyes…able to see the Uni­ver­sal Face.