Spirit and Art: Pictures of the Transformation of Consciousness: Literary essays Night is falling on the

Night is falling on the Republic for perhaps the final time

dream again

What connects a botanical illustration of a butterfly with a missing baby and an enigma fifty years in the making

decades of self-analysis

She thought she was keeping her fears at bay

Spirit and Art: Pictures of the Transformation of Consciousness: Literary essays Night is falling on the"As an art student in the late sixties, I recall how painfully dry and intellectual my art history classes were. I thought to myself, or rather felt to myself, There must be something more" (Van James). Artist Van James offers that something more. This is a richly readable and lavishly illustrated text that reveals how, at every stage, human consciousness has evolved through the medium of art. It makes the case for a hidden stream that has put forth