All Is Chosen

"All Is Chosen" is based on a series of eight paintings done over 10 years, each representing an archetypal image of what it means to be a human being. We are currently confronted, on a global scale, with the possibility of making choices from love as opposed to making choices from fear. What we mostly see through our media is the stronghold of fear influencing choices that are taking a tremendous toll, both on our humanity and on our climate and planet. Fear is strong, but love is stronger. As more of us continue choosing from love, we can radically change any previous negative historical trajectory to one of healing, possibility, and peace.

This book is based on Choice, Love, Fear, the seven archetypal Roles in Essence, the archetypal interval Role between lives, and a few of the Universal Truths which resonate throughout all physical plane realms. Universal Truths interpenetrate the consciousness of all forms of sentient beings. This means Universal Truth is available to all of us, according to our level of awareness. Inculcating this perception allows us to awaken to the realization of Oneness. We can awaken not to an unfounded ideology, but to a ballast which can free us from bondage to the illusion of separateness. Each Role in Essence has a perceptual difference in how it approaches life experience. Understanding these perceptual differences allows for a curious listening of others, rather than judging others or trying to persuade or coerce them to your point of view. Seeing life from a different perceptual vantage point can simply become fascinating, as opposed to challenging or threatening. Becoming familiar with the differing perceptions intrinsic to each Role in Essence brings a grounded ease in living. We can begin to see that different perspectives do not impinge on freedom. Rather, acceptance of different perspectives brings ease and freedom to relationships, as well as to the life of self and others. This acceptance facilitates a return to seeing the Oneness of all sentient beings. Differences in form distract us into thinking there is an inherent difference between us. Despite all of this, it is the One formless energetic frequency within each differing form of each Role, through various expressions over many lifetimes, that awakens the realization of Oneness. The realization of this Oneness foreshadows the realization of the eventual return to the Tao, the Source of All That Is. Awakening to Oneness expands the capacity to be present, in the moment, accepting what is in form with the wisdom of knowing its temporality. We are accustomed to learning through pain and struggle. We are not particularly practiced in learning through Joy, but it is possible. Life experience is meant to be challenging. Freedom from struggle in the face of challenge is available through awakening to these Universal Truths. This study, if you are willing to consider it as a possibility, can free you from suffering. It won't free you from the challenges of life experience, for we are all here to learn and evolve. But braving to pull the veil back far enough to witness, and perhaps even inculcate, the eternal Truths upon which we reliably rest will allow you to navigate the challenges of the physical plane with stability, equanimity, and peace of mind.

Dr. Laura Basha - author, artist, certified trainer, and organizational psychologist - is the Founder and Creator of WhiteBird Rising, a resource and guide for a transformational lifestyle of ongoing awakening. She received her BFA from Beloit College in WI and has lived in northern California for the last 40 years. In the process of raising her two children, her creative energies were expressed through living and working as a single mom, studying for the ministry, becoming a senior color artist for an international color consulting firm, and finally completing a master's program in counseling psychology followed by a PhD in both clinical and organizational psychology. After creating a successful consulting practice with leaders from global Fortune 1,000 companies, she returned to her artistic roots as an author and fine artist. Her paintings and artwork are in private collections across the United States and in Australia. This book, "All Is Chosen", is preceded by her first book, "The Inward Outlook".