Dear Huber ( as your mother called you). Eduardo, Ramon, Alejandro, Ravi Gupta, and Ravi Singh -(altho I do not have his email- please forward to him)

There has been a shameful delay in my writing to send my extreme appreciation for having been part of a most excellent project and experience with you all in Lima.  

Your unusual confluence of energies produced a most compelling program. I was glad to be part of it.

I am sorry for not writing sooner. This has been an intense summer so am just now settled enough to gather my thoughts.

It was a pleasure to be with the kind and generous  Nios group, to be with Eduardo and Guida in Lima, to meet the attentive and shepherding Alejandro, to glimpse the full personality of Ramon.

I learned a great deal from Ravi Gupta, and felt at ease with the gracious Ravi Singh group.

I received your idea for a conference on art and the sacred while here on Naoshima, an art island in Japan's Inland Sea. It is extraordinary,  a Tadeo Ando mix of buildings and outstanding art on this island and several of the surrounding ones. There are works here be De Maria and Turrell that are religious experiences. It is an artlover's paradise.

Four years ago, I was part of the art and psyche working group that produced a four day conference in New York: Art and Psyche in the City. It was an excellent conference with artists, art teachers and critics, curators, art therapists, and analysts interested in art. I could send you the program to see what we organized if you like.

The visual arts are certainly a huge field. Are you thinking of focusing on the visual? or interested also in music and dance and literature?

If you proceed with this plan I could offer you some fine speakers. Kenneth Soehner, the chief librarian of the Metropolitan Museum Watson Library, and John Haworth, current director of the Museum of the American Indian in New York, He is very active in work with indigenous peoples and also in truth and reconciliation efforts.

One artist who it would be a coup to have involved is the video artist Bill Viola.

So yes your idea for the next conference is stimulating.

Next week is the Jungian International Conference in Kyoto, and then back to NYC mid September. If any of you come to New York, please let me know in advance as it would be a pleasure to greet you.

Once again I thank you for your invitation, for your kindness to me while there, and for allowing me to participate in such a fine enterprise.

With appreciation and the very best wishes,

Beverley Zabriskie

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HpS (Huber)

Jaya Sri Krsna,
We got your letter. Thank you. We have been drowning in our work also.
Thank you so much for your words.  We hope that you and your community can be excellent source of strategy for this 2018 conference that it can do great good for this world.   We were thinking of all art.
Marshall McLuhan: Art is whatever you can get away with.
We will send more news soon. Very best of wishes for your work.
Our dream in life is to be able to have a few words with Shonu to clarify his thoughts about Jung, India etc. Maybe you can find some chance for a little concentrated exchange with him.
Thank you.