All Is Chosen
A handmade artbook where poetry and paintings point toward the questions at the center of Laura’s work: freedom from habitual thought, access to essence, and awakening to conscious choice.
“How does our humanity limit us, and how do we get free from habitual ways of thinking and acting?
How do we self-realize and quietly access our eternal essence?
What is meant by “all is chosen”?
What is meant by “choice”?
How do we awaken to conscious choice?
It is my hope that the symbolic signposts to those answers lie within the poetry and paintings in this book.” ~ from the Introduction of All Is Chosen, by Laura Basha, PhD
Why this book exists
All Is Chosen is a handmade artbook, based on a series of eight paintings painted over the last 10 years, each representing an archetypal image of what it means to be a human being. It is also a compendium of a particular focus of my life’s work, the spiritual underpinnings, if you will, of my transformational coaching over these last 35 years with thousands of multi-cultured, multi-generational, multi-gendered people from all walks of life.
All Is Chosen is also inspired by this time period in our human history. We are currently confronted on a global scale by the rise in consciousness of the possibility of making choices from love as opposed to making choices from fear. What we are mostly seeing through our media is the stronghold of fear influencing choices that are taking a tremendous toll both on our humanity as well as on our climate and planet. Fear is strong, yet Love is stronger.
To support this influx of Love infusing choice, such that the possibility of Love awakens and takes deeper root in our human awareness, I created this artbook to be a legacy of my understanding of truth. As more of us continue choosing from Love, we can radically change any previous negative historical trajectory to one of healing, possibility, and peace.
My intention and my hope is that the images and words within its leather bindings will inspire and awaken in the reader the truth of who we really are: magnificent beings united as One through the evolution of consciousness.
Laura Basha · Piedmont, CA · August, 2019
The Archetypes
Eight archetypal images and their haikus. Explore each role, then view in the Shop to purchase the artwork.
The Text
Selected passages from the book: essence, choice, love, fear, and the evolution of consciousness.
The Book
The story of how the book came to be: inspiration, paintings, writing, and making.
The Archetypes
“It is necessary to point out ... that archetypes are not determined as regards their content, but only as regards their form … there are present in every psyche, forms which are unconscious but nonetheless active – living dispositions … that preform and continually influence our thoughts and feelings and actions. … the archetype in itself is empty and purely formal … a possibility of representation … the representations themselves are not inherited, only the forms … a primordial image is determined as to its content only when it has become conscious and is therefore filled out with the material of conscious experience.”
~ Carl Jung
One
Service · nurturing · hearth & home
Two
Creation · originality · structure
Three
Challenge · courage · mission
Four
Knowledge · contemplation · assimilation
Five
Expression · wit · joie de vivre
Six
Compassion · awakening · service
Seven
Mastery · leadership · command
Zero
Between lives · review · possibility
The BOOK
The story behind All Is Chosen, organized into four chapters of making: inspiration, paintings, writing, and the craft of assembly.
The Inspiration
Spirituality, metaphysics, ontological study, and a reverence for awakening human consciousness.
The Paintings
Eight paintings over a decade, unfolding through intuition, metaphor, and symbolic form.
The Writing
Early mornings, listening into the unknown, and the discipline to meet resistance with devotion.
The Making
Goat vellum, letterpress, linen, Italian leather, gold leaf, chemises, and master craftspeople.
Continue Exploring
A contemplative gallery of writings, paintings, and symbolic inquiry.
Books
Through poetry, reflection, and lived inquiry, Laura’s books invite a return to what has always been present, a quiet mind, an awakened awareness, and a deeper sense of purpose.
Art Prints
High-quality fine art prints of Laura Basha’s original paintings, created to preserve the depth, symbolism, and contemplative presence of the work.
Videos
Short, contemplative video reflections exploring what it means to be human, listening beyond thought, meeting life’s challenges with presence, and rediscovering peace beneath the noise.
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