My State of Being: The Articulated Attitudes is both memoir and manifesto. It chronicles the intimate journey of one who has traversed the shadowed landscapes of psychosis, not merely as illness but as a threshold into deeper dimensions of consciousness. In these writings, schizophrenia becomes less a diagnosis and more a mirror?reflecting the tension between self and society, silence and noise, madness and truth.
This work is an inquiry into being itself. It dismantles the illusions of control, morality, and convention, pointing instead to the radical simplicity of existence. Here, freedom is not granted by society or law but realized in the dissolution of ego and surrender to the universal order. Love, sanity, and art are reimagined as acts of alignment with the divine essence within, not as external validations.
The text journeys through philosophy, spirituality, and imagination, but always returns to the same ground: the self as the site of truth. Society, with its demands and insecurities, is seen as a construct; the individual, in their solitude, silence, and vulnerability, as the true creation. Madness here is not pathology but an unmasking, a raw authenticity that refuses the compromises of convention.
Written in the spirit of testimony and reflection, The Articulated Attitudes is not a system of thought but a living document?a voice of certitude born from uncertainty, of clarity drawn from chaos. It is an invitation to listen inwardly, to embrace silence, to create fearlessly, and to discover in one's own being the fullness of freedom.
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Arthur O. Odhiambo?known in his creative journey as Essence?is an expressive painter, poet, and metaphysical thinker from rural Kenya. His work does not emerge from strategy or ambition but from presence itself. He creates when led, speaks when moved, and writes when the voice within gives utterance.
Arthur's journey has taken him from silence into voice, from stillness into expression. Rooted in philosophy, scripture, and lived experience, he embodies a meditative awareness that breathes through his art, prose, and spoken word. His works are seeds planted in the consciousness of others?subtle, raw, and authentic?calling people back to themselves.
Through projects such as Essence: A Manifesto for Being, The Rhythms and Expressions of Necessity, and Being: The Narrative of Silence, Arthur continues to explore presence, necessity, and the embodiment of being. His vision is not to instruct, but to remind; not to demand, but to reveal.
He lives and creates by a single principle: to be is enough.
