A Little History

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At a very young age, as soon as she could pick up a crayon, Ms. West began a journey toward becoming proficient in many of the arts: drawing, grafitti (age three making a nice formal expression on the wall behind her much older sister's canopy bed which took quite a bit of strategizing in order to accomplish a hand between the head board and wall. Then, there were other other grafitti's murmored of later on down the road that happened during that same time period. Only one firmly relayed: that of using a rock to delightufully carve her name on an expensive vehicle owned by her father's associate. Interesting ways to be seem or heard. Ah, the idles of a child....

As early as three (as some children do), she also began her training as a young ballet dancer.

This form became tremendous mental, physical and emotional training which she took to the limit. Sarah reached into the elite and rarified world of professional ballet when she was spotted by a renowned ballet master at a regional performance with her school/company at the age of twelve. An invitation to join the professional company and to study at the associative professional school.

There was no hestitation in young Sarah's mind. "It was as if it was an answer to a prayer," she offers.

Her passion for the expressive arts found its way into many forms in her young life and carried through into adulthood (published, collected and exhibited): from sculpting to professional photography and videography, painting on commission and acting and composing for film, studying quantum physics, our nuclear history to neuroscience and alternative medicine, to writing for magazines, plays and newspapers to ushering forth mystic and prophetic utterances.

All of these things began their roots very early on. As a care-taker and healer for injured wild and domenstic animals in her pre-teens and counseling and "as a way of struggling offering that unconditional love that seemed just beyond human grasp."

"Each of these acts of creation, modalities for expression," she reveals, "differs not from the other. They all are born from a deep desire for peace -- for wholeness expressing itself fully, perfectly, in this world, around and within."

She continues, "We each have access to an infinite number of aspects, or what we call "personality", perspecitive or tendency.

"There is never a time when I didn't remember the truth of my being as timeless consciousness. I remember being just a toddler, as we say, and being terribly annoyed, discouraged, when I was asked the three most common questions in our human world: "Where are you from?" "What is your name?" and..."How old are you?"

"Well, before you balk, let me explain -- or at least try.

"These questions floored me. They were insults (and, I was only three, four to put that time table to it). I couldn't conceive of other's not realizing their timeless, nameless, ageless beingness.

"It was not just a tempertantrum against reality - or maybe it was - but really simply the painful, excruciating experience of feeling knowing that we are all spirit, immortal and timeless embodying this body as an expression and expansion from the mystery of the Greatest Silence.

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Speaking on her creative expression: "On the one hand, there pours forth this divine message, this immortal wisdom, patience, compassion and love that is both timeless yet also informed utterly of time and this dimension.

"Then, there is the girl, the human, the being, mortal who leans ever so suredly into the Silence that I remember as home to keep from losing all sanity in this mysterious dualistic world."

- Interview Sarah West

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