Artistic Mind is a contemporary term referring to the more ancient concept of nous. Nous has been interpreted in numerous ways in different contexts. Our use of it aligns with the Greek νοῦς (British: n aʊ s), a liminal state in which humans experience the presence of an infinitely generative field.

Noetic sage Ted Falconar refers directly to the “infinite playing fields” of nous as a vivid wonderland of immersive experience which transcends the limitations of conceptual language. Film-maker David Lynch has spoken of “an ocean of pure, vibrant consciousness”, a field that unfolds and grows as you enliven it. Buckminster Fuller recognizes it as “a creativity that is a priori to the integrity of the universe”. Other titles have been bestowed on it at different times and places including “the Mystery”, “the Imaginal”, “the Unknown”, the “Liminal”, the “Collective Unconscious” and “the Dream”, a shared acknowledgement being an awareness of a state of being in which there there is an ecstatic dissolution of the commonly perceived divisions between past and future, self and other, or form and intention.

Unmediated visions, synaesthetic sensations and gestalt feelings can, and do, arise spontaneously from nous. But nous can also be purposefully collaborated with through active imagination, contemplation, psychedelic or mystical experiences, and embodiment practices.