Visual Poetry Kintsugi Installation ‘In the tsunami’s womb’
by Dr. Regina U. Hess, Visionary Founder/Director Birthing an Ancient Future
Transpersonal Art Exhibition, 24th EUROTAS Conference, Alef Trust, Oxford, UK, Sept 2024
About the Poem – in the tsunami’s womb
The poem synthesizes evocatively my survival of the 2004 Asian Tsunami with my near-death–rebirth lived-through experiences, which led to an ongoing awakening process into cosmic consciousness and initiation into humanity’s sacred mission on Earth.
This narrative, "Tsunami Survival Rebirth Poem," was flushed through me in an epiphany as powerfully as the 30m high wall of the tsunami wave that hit me in Thailand.
It was a moment when the veil of creation lifted and revealed the sacredness of our being and oneness with all within our all-encompassing universe.
Such a perspective places embodied understanding on a nondual spectrum intertwined with art, culture, spirituality, nature, and the cosmos. It provides an existential resource-oriented perspective on healing, well-being, and psycho-spiritual awakening—an approach relevant to interdisciplinary fields that can add epistemological breadth and ontological depth.
Publication of the Poem in this Article
An embodied phenomenological archetypal analysis along with the tsunami poem has been published in the Journal of Archetypal Studies and is available on my academia.edu page:
Visual Kintsugi Installation
The poetry is enhanced through visual storytelling of the tsunami encounter: (1) Going Down Under in the Tsunami, (2) the Wave, and (3) Near-death experience and experience of oneness with everything.
Kintsugi is the Japanese ancient art practice of gluing broken pots with gold as an expression of art, life and death, and rebirth. Dr. Regina U. Hess draws on this Kintsugi technique in new, unique ways – using different golden threads as another level of storytelling and connecting the visuals and poem into an interconnected installation.
Dr. Regina U Hess created her unique form of Kinstugi in her art installation: The ZigZag golden thread represents the Tsunami wave, the thin shinning golden thread represents life with its vulnerability and preciousness, and the golden tape connecting the different layers of experiences and creative expressions represents the cycle of life—death—rebirth—as a wave of life and death—eternal and infinite – tapped together in a Kintsugi sacred way of restoring regeneration within the wheel of life of existence.
About the Artist
Regina U. Hess, Ph. D. (Netherlands/Portugal) is a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, and shamanic practitioner who works with expanded states of consciousness. She holds a joint Ph.D. in transpersonal psychology (USA/UK).
Regina is the visionary founder/director of Birthing an Ancient Future—Multidisciplinary Psychedelic Council, which bridges ancient wisdom traditions and modern (psychedelic) science with art and Nature immersion. Birthing an Ancient Future offers international integral transpersonal events, retreats, transformative educational programs, and global community projects.
Regina is a faculty member at international universities, including the Alef Trust, UK, and transpersonal educational institutes, and is an independent researcher. Regina is on the Board of Directors of the EUROTAS Global Transpersonal Network and the International Transpersonal Association, is Chair of the EUROTAS Department of Transpersonal Research, and Vice-President of the European Transpersonal Psychology Association.
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