The Way of Inspiration

Joseph Rael (Beautiful Painted Arrow) is a Native American visionary whose teachings have gained international attention. Though strongly rooted in native traditions, he has lived his life from inspiration. This is Rael's teaching about inspiration itself, "and how," as he says, "inspiration is in all things." Here, in the simple act of counting from one to ten in his native Tiwa tongue, Joseph Rael explores the mysterious connections between energy and matter, between spirit and manifested reality.

Native American visionary and artist Joseph Rael eloquently presents in its ten stages the entire process by which inspiration brings new life into form, expresses its nature, then dies back into a state of non-form to await a new inspiration.

This is Rael's teaching about inspiration itself, and how, as he says, "inspiration is in all things." In the simple act of counting from one to ten in his native Tiwa tongue, Rael explores the mysterious connections between energy and matter, between spirit and manifest reality.