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"Flame Swan" by Denita Benyshek
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Dr. Denita Benyshek is a professional visionary artist, an
internationally recognized researcher on contemporary artists as shamans, and a
psychologist who provides psychotherapy and coaching services to artists and
creative individuals. Dr. Benyshek recently composed an article in which she
explains how contemporary artists serve as shamans and demonstrates the
transformative benefits offered by art. According to Dr. Benyshek, art can
provide for psychological, social, physiological, and/or spiritual needs of
individuals and communities. When an individual is engaged with art (as an
artist, member of the audience, or collector), art can evoke memories, make new
connections, heighten awareness, discharge repressed emotions, halt patterns of
repression, lead to self-discovery, create empathy with individuals or
cultures, remind society of social ills needing attention, and lead to
individual and societal healing. To learn more read "The Transformative Power of Shamanic Art" by Dr. Denita Benyshek.
