The pencil sketch below, titled TRANSCENDANCE, is an idea I am presenting, for free, just sharing, to dance instructors and owners of dance studios who, with AI artwork programs (shudder), can replicate the artwork’s design, concept and message in posters and place their individual dance students (each one would have themselves featured as the three dancers) in the positions of the three dancers in TRANSCENDANCE.
A beautiful and wondrous new movement!
This is most important! The dancers must be dancing to beautiful, inspiring, uplifting music (not hostile, depressing or angry c-rap music) created by genuinely talented musicians and composers, past, present and future. Otherwise it’s not Transcendance, a specific dance such as Ballet or Hip Hop are specific.
The dance instructors and studios could sell these personalized posters to their students and financially profit from this endeavor. Also, these posters hanging in their students’ homes would most certainly encourage their practicing as well as inspire and uplift them. Again, I am not selling anything, just sharing and hopefully others will share this page and idea too.
Here is an oil painting of mine done without the aid of technology other than a film camera to photograph the models and scenery. Below is a link to the page that features the rest of my artwork.
The Musical Path oil – on canvas 36″ X 48″ – by Leslie Taylor
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Here are some examples of music I personally find to be transcendent:
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A Miracle Involving the Minstrel’s Song and Dancing With It.
A miracle in Niwot, Colorado, documented on January, 2015 documented on my miraclesforall.com website [see link below for that other miracles].
Learn How to Play a 36″ X 48″ oil painting by Leslie M. Taylor
I awoke early on a January morning and, while still in bed, I could see and hear outside my bedroom French doors a great deal of bird activity. So many birds and of different species, sparrows, finches, blue jays, doves, pigeons, etc., were joyously singing, chattering, flying to and fro from tree to tree and with some of them perched on my deck. It was exceedingly cold outside with snow on the ground therefore, this degree of bird activity struck me as odd on this winter morning.
I went downstairs, made some coffee, then went to the computer to send Chad, my partner, a good morning email. From downstairs the bird commotion was still quite apparent and to the extent that I mentioned it in my email to Chad along with my wonderment as to what could possibly be going on in bird land (as I described it to him). Following having sent the email, I headed back upstairs to the studio to read for a little while as I finished drinking my coffee. As I was reading I found it difficult to concentrate due to all the birds singing and flying past the large dome shaped window in the studio along with the many other birds flying from tree to tree that I could also see in the little park across the street.
Later, after breakfast, I planned to exercise. So at my computer I clicked onto Spotify (a digital music library) to play some lively music to exercise along with. To my chagrin the roughly 500 songs I had downloaded into my Spotify library were all grayed-out indicating that in all my five different libraries, or categories, of music (Pop, Rhythm and Blues, Classical, Christmas and Romantic) were inaccessible. By that I mean, in the menus the titles of all the songs, every single one, were gray and if I clicked onto any one of them a picture of a woman snoozing with her head resting on a skateboard appeared along with words stating that without internet access the song was not accessible. I had lost my connection to the internet and was unable to regain connection at that time. That is, every single song except “The Minstrel’s Song” by the Moody Blues, which I had downloaded into both my ‘Songs’ and ‘Christmas’ libraries. For some inexplicable reason I could play this song from both libraries and no others throughout my Spotify library!
The Minstrel in the song is Christ and this is why I also downloaded it into both my ‘Christmas’ library as well as my ‘Pop’ songs library. I had mentioned to Chad a few days prior that it was my favorite Christmas song and that I had only discovered it over the Christmas season a few years prior and during a particularly difficult time in my life. At that time I played The Minstrel’s Song over and over as I danced and sang along with it to cheer me up and, as I recall, it was quite effective. So, just as I did a few years ago, I played The Minstrel’s Song over and over as I exercised to it for, again, it was the only song I had access to this morning as my internet connection was down)
The words of the song are meaningful here. They begin:
Words a simple song
A minstrel sings
A way of life in his eyes
Hear the morning call of waking birds
When they are singing, bringing
love – Love.
Everywhere love is all around,
Everywhere love is all around.
My internet connection was restored a couple of hours later. I shall add that a friend researched all technical possibilities seeking an explanation as to how this could have logically occurred and found none. For example, I could not have accessed any of the songs without an internet connection which otherwise, as I later learned, is only an option for a paid subscription to Spotify. I had the free version and even if I had a paid subscription that does not explain why only that one song was accessible for listening to.
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How Our Dreams During Sleep Can Greatly Help
Psychoanalysts regard many dreams as a substitute for actually fulfilling one’s wishes, but they may be a means toward making one’s dreams or wishes come true by helping us develop the skills we desire or need. Diane H. Powell,, M.D. in her book The ESP Enigma – The Scientific Case for Psychic Phenomena, reports that Michael Jouvet of the University of Lyon proposed that dreaming permits the testing and practicing of activities and behaviors in sleep. To the body, doing things while dreaming is just like them when awake therefore they can be extremely helpful in developing skills for children as well as adults. For example, the famous golfer Jack Nicklaus claimed that he discovered a different way to grab his golf club in a dream that improved his game by ten strokes overnight.
My own similar, and rather trivial, experience with waking up from a dream and suddenly excelling at something was soon after I purchased and started playing the game Tetris (before it was an app). I awoke one night then went into the living room, sat on the couch and picked up the little digital game box. My score was immediately three times higher than it had been and it stayed at that very high scoring level from then on..
Several major scientific discoveries are attributed to dreams. Dimitri Mendeleev, the Russian chemist, claimed he envisioned the complete arrangement of the periodic table in a dream after struggling for months to organize the known elements; upon waking, he immediately wrote down the structure he saw, which became the foundation of the modern periodic table. Similarly, August Kekulé, a German chemist, discovered the ring structure of benzene after dreaming of a snake biting its own tail, an image that inspired him to conceive the molecule as a closed ring of carbon atoms.
Many songwriters and musicians’ songs came to them in dreams. Billy Joel’s River of Dreams was the result of a dream. Joel woke up one day singing what would become the title track to his 1993 album. He states that “It wouldn’t go away” and took it as a sign that he should work on it. It’s a great song and video. Joel is a master singer, songwriter, musician and performer. The melody to Yesterday came to Paul McCartney in a dream. He woke up and stumbled to the piano by his bedside to work out the chords. “I just fell out of bed, found out what key I had dreamed it in … and I played it.”
This was posted on my miraclesforall.com website [see link below to MFA webpage] titled: A Miracle – The Minstrel’s Song by the Moody Blues – Niwot, Colorado, January 2015 [click on video above to listen].
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The Wonders of Lucid Dreaming
Lucid dreaming is the experience of becoming aware that one is dreaming while still within the dream state allowing for varying degrees of control over the dream’s narrative, environment, or characters. This state typically occurs during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, when brain activity increases and the mind experiences heightened awareness, though the individual remains asleep. The awareness of dreaming can be fleeting or sustained, and while some dreamers report vivid, lifelike experiences, others describe a hazier sensation.
Lucid dreaming is a trainable skill with techniques such as reality checks while dreaming. For example, if something absolutely absurd occurs in a dream, one can then realize that they are dreaming. Or if one encounters a deceased individual, they then may realize that they are dreaming. Keeping a dream journal and performing pre-sleep repetitive suggestions to increase the likelihood of becoming lucid. It is estimated that about 55% of people have experienced at least one lucid dream in their lifetime, with a smaller percentage experiencing them monthly or even weekly. An individual can work out problems, confront a monster or a frightening person (it is suggested that the dreamer ask the fearsome entity who they are or what they represent) or just have fun flying around. Lucid dreaming has been used therapeutically to address nightmares, PTSD, anxiety, and depression, and is central to spiritual traditions such as dream Yoga in Tibetan Buddhism.
Nights of Wonder a 30″ X 40″ oil painting by Leslie M. Taylor
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My portfolio of artworks can be viewed on this website at:
Link to my miraclesforallwebsite.com page originally reporting The Minstrel’s Song Miracle and many more reports of miraculous events, my own and others, some from historically renowned individuals. A few are repeated on that page here on this website. But look around, most are not.
Leslie Taylor, Boise, Idaho on December 2025 and January 2026
I can be reached at: leslietaylorpaintings@gmail.com