329 - Vision Mapping for the Golden Age

Program Notes

Guest speakers: Amanda Sage and Bruce Damer
Watch a video of this talk
Watch a video of Bruce Damer’s brief history of the Palenque Norte lecture series
[NOTE: All quotations are by Amanda Sage.]

“Let’s turn the museums into temples. I think the new museums are going to be temples.”

“I’m interested in this collaboration, because I’m interested in what can we do to wake people up, to turn people on.”

“And dream. I mean if this is about dreaming, what can each of us do to evoke the dream, a deeper dream, in another?”

Amanda Sage (official site)
eARTh Voyage:::
The mission is the art of transformation

Amanda Sage “Vision Mapping for the Golden Age” - Burning Man 2012 from Palenque Norte on Vimeo.

A brief history of Palenque Norte, from which the podcasts sprang … by Dr. Bruce Damer

Dr. Bruce Damer “A Brief History of Palenque Norte” - Burning Man 2012 from Palenque Norte on Vimeo.

http://astore.amazon.com/matrixmasterscom/detail/039332169X

The Twilight of American Culture by Morris Berman

http://astore.amazon.com/matrixmasterscom/detail/0393329771

Dark Ages America by Morris Berman

Transcript

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Greetings from Cyberdelic Space, this is Lorenzo and I’m your host here in the Psychedelic

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Salon.

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Now, the first thing that I

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want to say about today’s podcast is this. I’ve been doing these podcasts for over seven years

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now and this is the 329th edition. And out of all these programs, the one we’re about to hear has

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actually made me feel better about life and about the world than any of the rest of them have

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maybe even come close to doing.

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And since I don’t want to oversell this talk, I’m going to leave it at that for now, but

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after we hear Amanda Sage’s talk, I’ll be back with a few more thoughts about why I

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think her vision is so uplifting.

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And so, let’s now begin the first of what will be a series of talks that were all given

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at this year’s Burning Man Festival.

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And we’ll begin today with Bruce Dahmer’s introduction that includes a brief history of the Planque Norte lectures.

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And following that, we hear the moderator and main force behind the production of these talks this year, Chris Pezza,

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to whom I’ve now officially handed over control of the Palenque Norte lectures at Burning

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Man. And as you’ll hear Bruce mention, I stopped producing these talks after 2007, mainly because,

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well, they were a lot more work than I was up for. But this year, Bruce got the bug to revive them,

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and fortunately for all of us, Chris Pezza stepped up to help in a really big way,

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Chris Pezza stepped up to help in a really big way and essentially took charge.

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In fact, this year’s Palenque Norte Lecture Series was the biggest ever.

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And since I know quite well how much behind-the-scenes effort must have gone into them,

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I want you to join me in sending a huge wave of gratitude to Bruce and Pez and to everyone else in the camp and behind the scenes whose efforts were also crucial in pulling this event off. It’s very nice to know that the spirit of Palenque will live on.

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And just to be sure that we keep our stories as close to the actual facts as possible,

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in a few minutes you’re going to hear Bruce say that I was a stuntman in the movie South Pacific.

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Well, actually the movie was Hawaii, but at least they were both filmed in the same general part of the world,

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so Bruce’s memory wasn’t that far off.

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Now, the first talk in the revivified Palenque Norte lectures, I am very pleased to say,

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is by the extraordinary visionary artist Amanda Sage, who I was fortunate to meet a few years ago.

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visionary artist, Amanda Sage, who I was fortunate to meet a few years ago.

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And it’s only fitting that the first speaker in the 2012 edition of the talks is an artist,

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because our very first speaker back in 2003 was John Hanna, who, if you know him, is one of our tribe’s earliest and most knowledgeable commentators on visionary art and the artists

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who create this wonderful work.

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So now let’s go to Bruce, Pez, and Amanda

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at the 2012 Palenque Norte Lectures on the playa at Burning Man.

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So hello.

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This is the august 10th year of Palenque Norte,

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except we stopped in 2007 because Lorenzo got tired of this whole thing.

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He’s turned 70 this year, and he will be listening in, and I’m sending him Facebook postings all the time,

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and he’s very, very excited.

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But just as a brief history, Planky Norte had its roots way back.

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Planky Norte had its roots way back.

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We were all collecting the works of Terrence McKenna, Timothy Leary, recordings.

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Lorenzo had this interest in, he’s a radio guy.

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This is a retired naval officer from Vietnam.

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He was, just singing his praises, he was in the movie South Pacific as a stuntman. He was a Dallas, Texas Republican lawyer, fundraiser for

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the Republican Party. And then he discovered something, and he’s Irish, and he’s still Irish.

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And he still has his practice for law in Texas.

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But he also did, I think, probably 100 hours of public programming on television, radio.

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But he also did 1,000 public speaking engagements for motivational entrepreneurship and stuff like that. So this is why Lorenzo Haggerty is such quality, quality in his presentation.

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If you don’t know this, the introductions to the Salon podcast,

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he writes them and he rehearses them.

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That’s how careful this man is.

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And he’s done 321, 322 podcasts since 2005 or 2006 when it started.

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And so this is week for week for week.

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It’s one of the most durable brands,

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all thanks to Lorenzo Haggerty.

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A bunch of us behind the scenes

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were digitizing the trialogues tapes,

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and when Terrence’s archive was destroyed,

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we made a special put-humpty-dumpty-back-together project

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to get Terrence McKenna reconstituted for better or for

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worse and I wanted to say that Palenque Norte started in Podville in 2003 right across directly

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across the playa except of course it was a much smaller playa so it’s probably like over there

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and we were surprised I mean it was Loren’s initiative, but it was the first speaker series at Burning Man ever attempted.

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And now, if you look, there’s a whole guide into Leckie on the playa, right?

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So, yeah, we started that.

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We started that.

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This series started that.

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And from day one, I mean, there we were with, you know, tape-based recording media.

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Can you believe that?

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I had a little silver early digital Sony recorder, and we managed to get a bunch of talks.

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We had to tape it to a stick so people could hand it around.

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It was the only thing that captured several of the talks, so we’ve come a long way.

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But Palenque Norte got started, sort of like, can we do this on the playa?

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This is in honor of the Palenque Eth ethnobotany seminars that were held in Mexico,

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organized, co-organized by Ken Symington and others.

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And we decided that we were going to revivify Palenque.

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We won’t have a swimming pool to sit around, but we have this fantastic environment,

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and we’re going to bring it north.

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So that’s why it’s called Palenque Norte.

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We brought the spirit of Palenque here.

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And it really, for the first, for 2003 through 2007, they were rocking.

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And that was a huge portion of the early psychedelic salon material.

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And the energy that people have when they’re here on the playa,

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the openness, the ideas, the funny ideas that come,

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the group mind that happens made that magic happen

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and that injected juice into the podcast like nothing else could

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and it ejected new voices.

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I mean, when Daniel Pinchbeck was really starting to come out,

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his first book was out, he was here and he was high energy

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and it was fantastic and Alex was high energy and it was fantastic

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and alex and allison gray and their daughter all talking at once and i got my start in in this kind

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of strange rapping in in that year so it was hugely important for us and so to bring it back

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we were going to bring it back for 2012 or we were doing a program on Terrence McKenna’s life,

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and we thought, heck, you know, we’ve got to go back to Burning Man.

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It’s 2012, and it then became a revivification of Palenque Norte

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through Pez’s incredibly good works

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and everybody that you don’t know and don’t see that’s behind the scenes.

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And we found the camp and Annie Oak and the Saraswati Tea House,

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and it all just came together fantastically.

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And then we started cooperating with other speaker series.

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And with Fractal Nation, we agreed to share speakers.

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So this is kind of a partnership to Fractal Nation.

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So, like, I’m speaking at Fractal Nation tomorrow at 830,

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and they’ve sent people over here.

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So it’s across the playa. And there’s parallel tea houses, exactly parallel across the playa.

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Think of it.

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You know, it’s almost too coincidental to believe.

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So I’m taking too much time here.

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But just the joy of seeing this back and your faces and the new material the fresh material

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a lot has happened in five years and there’s a lot new and then this will keep our dear dear

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friend Lorenzo cranking away for a year with content you know if we get 25 hours you know

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probably you know 21.2 of them are going to be usable and and so you’ll all all your voices will go out

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again as a pulse to the world and one last note i mean the the salon podcast has i asked him

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recently and he said well how many downloads are he podcasted one of of my raps from esalen from

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june just on monday and he said it’s eight to ten thousand downloads per day when i put a new

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podcast like that up or something people are interested in so it’s huge i mean you’re talking

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net aggregate it’s probably five six hundred thousand people have listened to and we meet

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people that listen to that podcast to our that podcast atlanta’s podcast since they were a kid

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you know they’re 21 oh yeah I grew up on the podcast.

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So that’s what you get when you get this persistent quality

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over six, seven years, week to week,

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you get audience to Lorenzo.

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So this is a Lorenzo love fest

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and a relaunch of Palenque Norte,

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and I think a whole new generation can take it from here

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every year at Burning Man and elsewhere.

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And he wants to do salons that are remote where he will come in via Skype

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and you can do a salon in your living room anywhere.

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So that’s an initiative we can talk about more later.

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But with that long, too long introduction.

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And did I mention this thing?

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Okay, so this strange looking thing is carol

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in here i guess she’s over in the tea house so uh six years ago about the time we did the last

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palenque norte i met dennis berry who’s the trustee for the leary archive and uh she’s kind

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of is interesting you meet someone at a party and you don’t know what they do.

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And then five minutes later, it sort of changes your life.

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When you find out that she was carrying around 500 boxes of Timothy Leary’s personal effects, books, manuscripts, recordings, 500 boxes.

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And this is about the time that Terrence’s archive burnt.

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So there were no physical archives left for Terrence McKenna.

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And here was Leary with 500 boxes.

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And she took me to the storage unit, two big storage units.

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We started going through them.

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And they’d been going through them for years.

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And film projects had been based and research and stuff.

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But it was astounding.

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It was the whole counterculture.

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Because Tim was a pack rat.

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I mean, there were hundreds of thousands of newspaper clippings

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of all the stories from that entire era.

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There were books.

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And I just mentioned the reel-to-reel, boxes of reel-to-reel tapes.

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Cooper Union speech, 1964.

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It’s like, okay, has this been digitized?

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So we started the project of dumping the Leary archive into the salon.

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Under Creative Commons license, the family had no issues.

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There were no, you know, we could use Creative Commons again.

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So we had another huge thing.

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And in a box was this thing, which we kind of ignored.

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It was like a thing in a box.

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We didn’t know what it was.

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And so we, it came the magic day

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when we finally found a home for the archives,

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a New York Public Library.

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Wanted to take them for their American history,

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you know, master’s collection or whatever it was.

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Their truck came from Queens,

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came backed up into the

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warehouse in livermore and loaded and loaded and loaded and i wasn’t there and then suddenly i got

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this call from dennis saying i’m crying they left 150 boxes that they didn’t want and they were

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supposed to take everything and i don’t know what to do so So I said, I’m coming with the RV.

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Would you give them to me?

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You don’t want them.

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No, the family doesn’t want this stuff.

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So I took his library, his record collection, the remains of it, clothing, some ashes, the ashes distribution kit.

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They took the ashes by mistake.

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They’re in the warehouse in Queens.

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We have to get them back.

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And there was a wallet.

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There was a date book with Woody Allen’s home phone number in it, which probably still works because I think he lives with his parents, right? Probably. Sorry, Woody. Marlon Brando’s home phone

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number. Anyway, and in a box, one of the last things I was able to stuff to the gills in the motorhome

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on top of 2,000 pounds of books and newspaper clippings was, I said, well, what is this thing?

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Oh, I’m just going to, you know, that’s going to the dumpster.

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I said, no, it’s not.

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There’s a story behind this.

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And it turns out this was the chandelier that hung in Tim’s house in Beverly Hills over the dining table all those years.

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And one day, Carolyn Ferris, who’s in this camp, she’s working the tea house now,

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it was gold.

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And she said, Tim, this is so freaking ugly.

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And Carolyn’s an incredible artist.

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And he said, well, yeah, what do you want to do about it?

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I want to paint it.

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So they ripped it out of the ceiling, and she painted it, and her name is underneath it.

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And it hung over

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a Keith Haring kind of table and then it hung there for years so what things this has overheard

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but for us this is like Tim is here we brought Tim to the playa and we didn’t even have it was

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already dusty and dirty and crappy so I didn’t have to clean it up. And Ken Adams in the back here is bringing Terrence McKenna to the playa, you know,

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with the film tonight of Terrence McKenna Experience.

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Two screenings.

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You’ve got to see it.

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It’s unique new material.

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It’s a unique way of doing an art-slash-psychedelic-slash-joy-filled, idea-filled collage.

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I don’t even know how to describe it.

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It’s a new kind of film.

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So it’s tonight.

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And so that brings and revivifies McKenna here.

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So the dream we had years ago,

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bringing Terrence and Tim to Burning Man,

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is now happening right here.

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You know, right here, right now, right today.

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So I’m way over my time.

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There’s a hook somewhere behind the stage,

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so I better…

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The hook.

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The rubber bands.

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We ought to hand out Nerf bats and stuff.

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Okay, thank you very much for being part of this.

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Thanks, Bruce, for that wonderful introduction.

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Yeah, without Lorenzo and Bruce’s help, this would have never come together.

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So it’s been amazing to revive Blanque Norte.

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So I’m going to go ahead and introduce our first speaker.

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To kick us off today, we have Amanda Sage.

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She’s a visionary artist.

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She uses painting as a tool for spiritual and planetary growth and transformation,

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and her paintings represent multi-dimensional aspects of humanness and harmonious balance.

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She has a lot of her artwork over in the Fractal Nation village, and I encourage you all to go visit her over there later on.

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So with that, here’s Amanda.

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Hello, everybody.

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It’s exciting.

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I’m really happy to see so many people here. I was kind of thinking at this time on a

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Tuesday, well, you know, it’s not quite the Saturday. You know, we maybe did get some sleep last night,

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but thank you for coming. And I was almost in tears now through this little introduction from

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Bruce. And it’s just so wonderful to to know the history of these

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the history I’m just so turned on by the history and to know what kind of lineage um I am a part

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of and it’s that’s that’s a large part of of my journey and of my talk is about that discovery of

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why I’m here what what I’m doing.

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And I feel like that’s a direct reflection for everyone

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because I really believe we all are here for incredible purpose.

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And it’s about finding that.

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And some of us know it and we go after it.

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Some of us discover it along the way.

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And my path has been very much about discovering it

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and it being right in front of me and me just allowing it and learning and stepping up to the plate.

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And so part of that stepping up to the plate is speaking lately, and that’s been happening a lot more.

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And Lorenzo, I got to meet him a year and a half ago in Los Angeles at a MAPS conference where I did a talk.

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I’d never met him before, but I’d listened to plenty of the Psychedelic Salon series.

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It was a big honor when he introduced me for my talk.

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He read in my biography that I went to a Waldorf school and that was really

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exciting for him and I was it’s always exciting for me to know also when someone else acknowledges

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that and knows what that school system is about and I’m also really honored that Eden Rocks and

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Bobby Robb are here because the two of them have known me since I was pretty much a little kid and it’s

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a surprise to see them right here we didn’t I didn’t know they would be here so there’s all

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these things coalescing coming together and and being here 2012 at Burning Man

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you know we all went to a lot of effort to be here and I know for me there was a lot of feeling

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well there’s so many places on in

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the world right now that I could be that I feel like I could be really doing a lot of good and

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do I really need to go to Burning Man again I mean there’s a lot of talk a lot of people with

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a whole ticket system and everything I just I listen I try to listen to where I need to be and

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and Burning Man called me and I felt very strong desire and purpose to be here,

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and I was really, really grateful when Pez asked me to speak here.

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And then when I got the surprise of being the opening speaker,

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I felt even more honored, even though it’s maybe not the best time slot,

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not the most people here, but to me it’s really symbolic

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because my work is a lot about planting seeds.

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And that’s also fertility being the theme for Burning Man this year is an even greater reason why I felt such the need to be here.

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How many of you here know about my work and know my paintings?

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A few, just a few.

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Okay, that’s great.

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I have a few little prints here that I brought with me

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that are in a little plastic and a little protected.

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I didn’t put together a slide presentation

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because I wasn’t sure how it would be with the lighting.

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And I’ve got so much to talk

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about anyway so I figured we just share space and make eye contact and and you know this would be

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a little bubble of of inspiration and by the time we live leave here you know we’ll have a lot a few

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more seeds in our system that that that will continue to grow so So I think I might just pass around these images,

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and you can hold on to them, pass them on, look at them as I talk.

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I mean, this is a visual language.

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This is something that, to me, I’m discovering more about constantly as I go.

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It’s an unfolding, eternal, limitless language that is ancient.

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And it’s one of the oldest forms of communication too.

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And I’m going to give you a little bit more history on my education

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and how I’ve gotten to be where I am now because it’s very relevant.

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And there’s certain synchromystic experiences.

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I feel like that’s the best way to describe them

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that has happened in my life

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that have been undeniably important,

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pointing me in a direction.

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And I’ve just really been called

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and had enough mentors around me

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to also help me to understand and also support

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support this discovery and support the work that I’m doing and as an artist you know everybody

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hears this oh here’s the starving artist you know how are you going to survive and you know the

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parents are a little like oh you know how is this going to work shouldn’t you get a teaching job

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and all this stuff and at least get

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a degree? I did none of that and I’m doing all of it now. I’ve made my living through art my entire

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life. I mean I’ve never had a real job in that sense and it’s just that the path has continued

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to show me that this is what I should be doing. So I’m going to pass these around.

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You guys can divvy them up.

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So some of these paintings, most of them here are actually done in the past two years.

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And I’d be happy to talk about individual pieces, too,

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that are being passed around a little bit later on once you get a chance to look at them and i am exhibiting that um three different uh camps here one is at

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fractal nation that’s where i’m camped this year and i’m also i have a we’re calling that the

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vision seed dome it’s a 30-foot dome that’s connected to the 60-foot dome which is the art

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gallery and uh it’s a it’s a think tank, in a sense.

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It’s a place of collaboration, of inspiration.

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And what I’m really interested now, more than ever,

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we’re 2012, we’re in a place of transition.

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We’re poised right now as a, where humanity is right now to make a huge, huge change on this planet.

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We can do this.

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And I see that we’re doing this.

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And I have this vision into the future lately that just is, will not leave me alone.

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I dream about it.

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I feel it, I think, more than anything.

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And my paintings are very much come from a place of feeling.

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And they evolve through a feeling and then a collaboration with the way I understand what is happening.

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And it’s very much, I’ve learned a lot,

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it’s very much about channeling.

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And this is where I feel like the most profound work

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is happening, is this collaboration

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with the greater spirit

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that is here to support us very deeply.

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And I would like to to make work that that speaks to millions of people if not billions of people if at all possible i mean the the

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integrity and desire and hope that i have for humanity is something that i think everybody

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should know and i i would like i would like that to see more people come forward

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like this as well and to have more platforms and mediums for this and it’s happening the more you

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when you start thinking about this talking about this you’d be surprised how many people are doing

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really awesome things and you meet them in airports you meet them in grocery stores

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they’re all over the place. And it’s incredible.

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This is, you know, and you look, the crystals and the mushrooms around here, you know, are like

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things that one of my paintings, Regeneration, that’s going around here with the Buddha face.

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There’s crystals and mushrooms down there. They find their ways into my paintings.

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I don’t know why. I just let them come. I love for other people to

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tell me about what’s going on in my paintings and to name them. I don’t claim a lot of ownership

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over them. And I would like to see work, especially artwork and these contributions, become much more open source.

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I’m very interested in the open source communities and bringing our resources together to really do some incredible things.

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And we are.

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That’s the big joy of it.

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It’s like I’m not just living in the future, even though I’d say I do primarily in many ways have that opportunity to live in the future.

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But I am seeing what’s happening right now through a lens that gets me so excited.

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That it’s just like it’s the biggest high.

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It’s the biggest high I know.

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And I have journeyed into plenty of different realms.

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into plenty of different realms and I do enjoy the different dances with the plants and these spaces that they’ve done. They’ve helped remind me of where I was when I was a child. And I was

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giving you a little bit of background of the journey of my being to where I am now, I’m 34, and I was born April 19th, Bicycle Day.

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And I was born in Rose Hospital in Denver, Colorado.

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And as a child, well, my father was a pilot,

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and we lived in Florida, South Florida, until I was about nine.

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And I was homeschooled.

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My brothers were born at home.

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I have two brothers and through this, this period of time where I was homeschooled,

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um, I feel like now I look back on that and I’m very, very grateful for this. Grateful for the

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space that my parents, um, revolutionaries at the time in their community gave my brothers and I. And there was a few

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families. We hung out together a lot and we got to play and dream and draw and build and do

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whatever we really wanted to. I taught myself how to read. I got support for whatever I really

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wanted. And the transition, we moved then to Colorado when I was in

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fourth grade when I was nine and that was a difficult thing going into a social setting in

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a school even though it was a Waldorf school I don’t know how many of you know about Waldorf and

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Rudolf Steiner but the Waldorf school is a it’s a it’s a private school but there’s also many

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charter schools there’s there’s they’re all over the world now,

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and they’ve been around for over 100 years. Rudolf Steiner, who is an incredible revolutionary,

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was the one that built this system in Germany. And I love his quote,

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receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.

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And if that was just those three little statements there, man, if we could do that for the children of the world,

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we’d have a lot of empowered people running around.

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the system and I support even more more alternative systems such as the Sudbury Valley School which is something that I think is is very worthy to look up it’s

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a school that’s been around for 40 years the original one is in Massachusetts and

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there’s no curriculum and these children kindergarten through 12th grade they

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basically are free to to investigate

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and do what they want and they have the support there of the staff not the teachers to realize

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these dreams there’s incredible books out there about this school so i really i’m i’m more and

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more interested in education as i’m also teaching now and um i i would love to see this conversation more within schools and within

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communities and this education of knowing what’s out there is i feel like what you know these

00:29:14 ►

speaker series are about and and these new portals of of media and thank god for the internet i mean

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this the internet is is this incredible tool that is bringing this community, this global family together, this global tribal family.

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That is true.

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I really believe it’s true.

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I believe we’re the majority, you know.

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And people are waking up every day.

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People are waking up by themselves every day in front of their computers.

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Really, you know, they find going a little search here go on a little search over there

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something pops up on facebook wow that’s interesting that never happened before when

00:29:50 ►

did you get a book book in your hand before uh you know if somebody saw in somebody’s coffee

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table i mean there’s a very different in the newspaper it’s much more controlled free the

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internet keep it free i mean this is something that something that I will stand up for as long as I’m around for sure.

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So my artistic

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career is something that was very much supported by

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the Waldorf School and certain individuals within the Waldorf School that

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recognized my skills, recognized my friend’s skills.

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And the beautiful thing about Waldorf is

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that you make your own textbooks from kindergarten through eighth grade. You make your own textbooks.

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You don’t learn from them. And so you create them through learning, through writing papers,

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through taking notes from presentations and making beautiful borders and drawings.

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And it’s such an incredible way to learn.

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And it’s a way to integrate what you’re learning through a creative meditation.

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And it’s something that maybe we don’t know so much.

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It doesn’t seem like it’s doing so much.

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But I really believe when you’re painting and you’re listening and you’re doing these things at once, you’re learning.

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This is integrating into our magnetic field, into our grid that is vibrating out in a way that’s so much more powerful than just if you’re just absorbing something.

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If you’re absorbing something and doing something, I would would imagine the field if you could see it

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would be would be pretty powerful and i love then settings where there’s a group of people doing

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this this is where i really love the the live painting settings also the workshop the intensives

00:31:38 ►

there’s a power that’s happening that is it’s it’s to be reckoned with. And so this is something that I feel more and more,

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this call to get more people to create, to go back to,

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you know, if you ask a little child,

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or even look, everybody has painted and drawn when they were children.

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As a child, they’re an artist.

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What’s that? Do you paint? Of course I do.

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So when did we stop?

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And why did we stop?

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And that’s not to say that everybody should be doing this,

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should be painting or drawing,

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but everybody, I think, should have a creative practice

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and be connected to a creative practice

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because it is something that is allowing a channel,

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allowing an opening to come through

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where you become a conduit.

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You become a conduit and you also become an inspiration

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and a role model.

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I mean, you see other people doing this.

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It’s a welcoming, it’s an inviting thing.

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And this is where I’m even more, like,

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I just spent 10 days with Alex and Allison Gray

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at their home in upstate New York in the new Cosm on the Hudson River, just an hour and a half north of Manhattan.

00:32:52 ►

Absolutely incredible place.

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And they invited me to come and assist in teaching their first painting intensive at Cosm.

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And the way they work, these these people I’ve admired them for

00:33:07 ►

years that these people are the real deal they’re so incredible in in in that they’re what they’re

00:33:14 ►

talking about what they’re doing and then how they’re living it I saw they they they taught

00:33:19 ►

workshops for two three weeks straight and then still still had the desire and the energy and the and to cook

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a beautiful gourmet home meal for me and my friend at their home to share together when this was

00:33:33 ►

their night this was their night that they could have had just with themselves they chose to share

00:33:38 ►

that with us and i feel like there’s a they’re true leaders in the community of of being not

00:33:43 ►

just artists but they’re being role models.

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They’re true bodhisattvas, too.

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And this is what it showed for me being with them, to be in their home.

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And I did already trumpet their vision of Cosm and going around the world and doing what I do.

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But to actually be there.

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This is something, this is a point that I really want to make.

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The point, the physically being there bit. You know, you can listen and listen to the podcast,

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listen to different things, and you are a part of it then as well. But when you’re physically there,

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there’s something that’s happening where our eons, where our energies are interlocking and

00:34:23 ►

connecting and enforcing each other in a way

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that’s so important. And I think going to sacred sites, going to powerful places, you take that on

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with you. It’s like there’s something that attaches itself to you. And if you do it with intention,

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wow, there’s a lot. Yeah, it’s powerful medicine. I really believe that.

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Yeah, it’s powerful medicine.

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I really believe that.

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So to continue with my art education,

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because this weaves into where I was just now in New York with Alex and Allison.

00:34:52 ►

In high school, I had a teacher, an art teacher.

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His name was Hikaru, a Japanese fantastic realist.

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And he opened my eyes to many different artists.

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I don’t think I paid attention so much.

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I was probably

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more interested in doing various other things, writing notes to friends and doing whatever. But

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drawing was one of my great passions. And he showed works of Ernst Fuchs. Have any of you

00:35:15 ►

out here heard of the artist Ernst Fuchs? A couple hands. So this man is actually, he’s 82 now.

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So this man is actually, he’s 82 now, and he’s a Viennese artist.

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He was born in 1930 in Vienna.

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And he’s one of the godfathers of the visionary art movement, for sure.

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And he’s one of the most unrecognized in many ways, too, because of lots of little intricacies.

00:35:45 ►

And these intricacies are, you know, there’s so many things that happen in life.

00:35:48 ►

You know, you got family, you got this, you got all these different things.

00:35:51 ►

A manager that thinks you should do that or do this.

00:35:55 ►

But his production and what he has done, he’s a true Renaissance man.

00:35:57 ►

He has 17 children.

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I don’t know if that means he’s a Renaissance man or not.

00:36:08 ►

But he has thousands of paintings and sculptures and architectures and music and, and, and, and.

00:36:14 ►

And he’s been a great inspiration for many artists, including Alex Gray, Robert Venosa.

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I imagine some of you know who Robert Venosa is.

00:36:22 ►

Also studied with Ernst Fuchs in the 70s.

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And Ernst Fuchs brought back this medium this technique called the mish technique which is an early renaissance method of painting that is about

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layering the paint and building up an underpainting using egg tempera and white pigment and painting

00:36:40 ►

basically the skeleton of the painting and um all the values through painting the light.

00:36:46 ►

And then you glaze with thin glazes of fine oil paint on top.

00:36:52 ►

And then you keep working this in layers.

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The egg temper, the water-soluble paint, and the oil-based paint.

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You think they shouldn’t work, but they do.

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And this is a beautiful, beautiful technique that’s not taught anymore.

00:37:08 ►

So this is something that’s being passed down started with Ernst Fuchs again and he’s taught many many people and this is

00:37:13 ►

Robert for nosa has taught this Phil Jacobson there’s many different people

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out there doing these workshops that are in a setting of you know it’s a 20

00:37:22 ►

people at the most very intimate and I think there know, it’s 20 people at the most, very intimate.

00:37:29 ►

And I think it’s about so much more than just painting.

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These things are transformational experiences.

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Because what are, I mean, people that are drawn to these workshops aren’t just drawn to the technique, which in and of itself is,

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no matter what you’re going to do with it, I think is very important to know.

00:37:44 ►

It’s a lovely tool but it’s more what this is attracting through ernst fuchs alex gray robert venosa you

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know and all these people that are also talking about the meaning and the purpose behind the art

00:37:58 ►

you know this is the actual um content of a lot of their work is in the lineage of a lot of the great,

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the surrealists, of the mannerists.

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There’s a whole lineage that goes back very far,

00:38:15 ►

and Alex Gray traces it back to cave painting,

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and the imaginary worlds.

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It’s bringing the imaginary worlds onto the canvas

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and in a format to communicate that.

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And now we have computers

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and we have all these incredible programs

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to explore these worlds even more.

00:38:33 ►

Andrew Jones, who’s a good friend of mine,

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and he’s the one that started Fractal Nation.

00:38:39 ►

If any of you know his work,

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I would really…

00:38:42 ►

He’s pushing the boundaries in an incredible way.

00:38:47 ►

He does a performance called Phaedroid that he paints on a Wacom kind of tablet and projects

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onto his wife, who’s a dancer, Phaedra, and they do this performance called Phaedroid.

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There is a performance, there’ll be a couple performances here at Burning Man, and if you get a chance and you happen to be there keep an eye out for it

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um so going back to this lineage a little bit um i was asked to well i had the option in high school

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to go to to go to a forty thousand dollar art school school. Chicago and New York were two options,

00:39:25 ►

and they had accepted me,

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but it didn’t seem right to me.

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I was a little bit like,

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it just seemed weird.

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Like, how am I going to go to a school like this

00:39:32 ►

and pay all this money?

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And then it just didn’t make sense.

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To me, it was,

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and have to pay all this back

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through doing paintings,

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and God knows what.

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It just didn’t make sense.

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And another opportunity came up for me,

00:39:45 ►

and this was one of Ernst Fuchs’ sons. Michael Fuchs invited me to come to Austria to do an apprenticeship.

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And this apprenticeship was something like the old masters did. And it was a two-year commitment.

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And this is, I was the only person that he ever did this with. And my parents had to agree to pay

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for two years of food and board. And,

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you know, I had to be on my own. He didn’t want to have anything to do with me besides showing up

00:40:10 ►

at his studio at nine o’clock in the morning and leaving at a certain time. And he was incredible

00:40:15 ►

because he really stuck to the program. And this program was to teach me to paint what I saw,

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what I could see, to paint this physical world and give me the tools to then go further.

00:40:27 ►

He wasn’t interested in influencing the content, you know. And then I got this opportunity. He

00:40:33 ►

introduced me then to his father, Ernst Fuchs. And he, at the end of this whole, this apprenticeship,

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he said, he introduced me with the best marks, with the best introduction,

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and said he taught me everything,

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and he would really advise him taking me on as a paid assistant.

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And so when I was 20, 21, I started working with Ernst Fuchs,

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mostly throughout Europe, but I got to paint on one of his life projects,

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The Apocalypse in southern Austria.

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It’s in an old broke church.

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And it’s an insane project, the apocalypse.

00:41:11 ►

He worked on it for almost 30 years.

00:41:13 ►

And many different artists worked on it.

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I worked on it for about five years with him in the summers.

00:41:19 ►

And so I got to work with him for 10 years as an assistant.

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And I lived in Austria for 11 years.

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And I bounced around a bit, but I was very focused there.

00:41:31 ►

I also had the opportunity of getting a studio in this incredible place called the VUK,

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Werkstatt und Kulturhaus.

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And it’s a 12,000 square meter old locomotive factory in the middle of Vienna that is a culture house.

00:41:46 ►

This is what they call it.

00:41:47 ►

And I think it’s the only one of its kind out there.

00:41:51 ►

I mean, there’s different models that are similar to this

00:41:53 ►

that maybe sprouted out of the 80s

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where people were squatting buildings in communities

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and having this experimental self-reliance group community

00:42:05 ►

living and expressing projects.

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And so the VUCA is something that nobody lives there,

00:42:12 ►

but it has over 30 studios.

00:42:15 ►

It has multiple alternative schools.

00:42:18 ►

The basements are filled with musicians.

00:42:22 ►

Big concert hall, exhibition halls, restaurants. It’s just, it’s an incredible place,

00:42:28 ►

refuge for people. There’s lawyers and a place where you can come if you don’t have any papers.

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You know, if you showed up, you escaped from Africa, you escaped from the East. There’s a

00:42:39 ►

lot of people that end up in Austria. Austria is their first land that they come into, and they have no help.

00:42:46 ►

So there’s a lot of social…

00:42:47 ►

This place was also built out of the genius

00:42:51 ►

of taking youth off of the streets

00:42:54 ►

and making programs to teach them hands-on skills

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of building walls, painting walls, carpentry. Those are the three things. And

00:43:07 ►

this is how they renovated this building. And these are situations that I would say are win,

00:43:14 ►

win, win. I like the win, win, but I like the win, win, win. And you get all kinds of good

00:43:20 ►

things coming out of one action. And this is what I see we’re really capable of doing now with all

00:43:26 ►

of the things that we have available to us. So my experience being there, it was interesting

00:43:34 ►

because I was kind of thrust into the circle of being this kind of right-hand person for Ernst

00:43:40 ►

Fuchs. And I can’t say I really chose it, nor would I have maybe chosen it.

00:43:47 ►

It was something, though, that happened.

00:43:50 ►

And it was the best thing that I,

00:43:53 ►

it was the best opportunity at the time.

00:43:56 ►

And so I went towards that best opportunity

00:43:59 ►

and made the best out of it with my full heart,

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which is everything that I’ve done.

00:44:03 ►

And that has, in return everything that I’ve done. And that has in return, you know,

00:44:05 ►

given me a lot, given me a lot. So, but through this, through this journey, working with Ernst

00:44:12 ►

Fuchs, I started to meet so many other artists that were seeking him. And I met artists from

00:44:19 ►

all over the world that would show up, you know, Isaac Abrams from New York. So many people.

00:44:25 ►

And I started to realize

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that there was a much bigger movement out there.

00:44:29 ►

And that got really exciting

00:44:31 ►

because I felt very alone in Vienna

00:44:33 ►

in my generation.

00:44:34 ►

The art school there was something

00:44:35 ►

that was not very…

00:44:38 ►

It was very conceptual

00:44:41 ►

and very anti-traditional media.

00:44:45 ►

And here I was learning this early Renaissance technique.

00:44:49 ►

And on top of that, I was painting with this fantastic realist.

00:44:53 ►

This is a group of them.

00:44:54 ►

They’re called the fantastic realists.

00:44:56 ►

Hundertwasser, Ernst Fuchs, Arek Brauer.

00:44:59 ►

There’s about five of them.

00:45:00 ►

And they all came out of Vienna in the late 1940s,

00:45:04 ►

around the time when the the war was

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ending and um through i i had a really hard time integrating in vienna finding other young people

00:45:17 ►

that felt in a similar way as i did and and could understand what i was doing and who i was working

00:45:23 ►

with so i had a battle.

00:45:25 ►

I was hanging out with the electronic music kind of crew.

00:45:28 ►

Those were like my buddies.

00:45:30 ►

And some of them thought it was pretty cool because it was kind of different what I was doing.

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But nobody was quite sure what to do with it.

00:45:37 ►

And I had heard about Burning Man at the time, for sure.

00:45:40 ►

I had heard about Burning Man in about 97.

00:45:43 ►

But I was always over there in the summer.

00:45:44 ►

So it was kind of this distant thing that was happening and wasn’t quite sure how to integrate

00:45:49 ►

into. But through meeting these other artists and these artists in the U.S., I started to

00:45:53 ►

make this connection again with my roots of where I came from and connecting with the West Coast.

00:46:00 ►

And this West Coast tribe that has been going pretty strong for a while,

00:46:04 ►

and this West Coast tribe that has been going pretty strong for a while,

00:46:09 ►

they invited me in, and I kind of got a front row ticket,

00:46:14 ►

like right from the get-go because of working with Ernst Fuchs.

00:46:18 ►

It was like, wow, you know, like he was this guy from over there, and I was like, really?

00:46:19 ►

Most of the people that I know over here, like you don’t want to mention his name.

00:46:24 ►

It was very strange, like the politics within the art movement.

00:46:29 ►

And to me, I was like, what does any of this matter, really?

00:46:32 ►

I mean, shouldn’t we be talking about what we’re doing?

00:46:35 ►

And to me, I was really, it was very frustrating to go to a lot of the galleries in Vienna, and to have, to be so distant, to be so far removed from an immediate understanding.

00:46:50 ►

And it doesn’t have to be immediate.

00:46:52 ►

Some things need a certain degree of discovery.

00:46:54 ►

But I really think that things should be, not should be,

00:46:58 ►

that’s not a good way to put it,

00:47:01 ►

but I like things that will speak to me and are made to speak to me in a way that I can interact with it.

00:47:11 ►

And there’s so much mystery that is also important with the arts.

00:47:15 ►

And, you know, if you go with me to a museum, I’m just going to be googly-eyed over everything

00:47:19 ►

because I kind of like the diversity of creative expression.

00:47:23 ►

I kind of like the diversity of creative expression.

00:47:27 ►

But still, more and more now with my own work,

00:47:34 ►

I’m very interested in it being accessible to a much grander and broader public.

00:47:39 ►

This is where getting out of the gallery system, getting out of the museums.

00:47:42 ►

And let’s turn the museums into temples. I think the new museums are going to be temples.

00:47:45 ►

And also bringing art into the public space.

00:47:49 ►

Art into, how do you bring this into, even on labels.

00:47:54 ►

You know, on wine bottles, on whatever.

00:47:58 ►

I see the visual language and the knowledge of what it can do.

00:48:06 ►

And that collaboration.

00:48:13 ►

I’m interested in this collaboration because I’m interested in what can we do to wake people up, to turn people on.

00:48:20 ►

I wouldn’t still be doing what I’m doing if it weren’t for people telling me that it’s turning them on.

00:48:25 ►

Because, I mean, for one thing, I’m getting something out of it for sure.

00:48:27 ►

Like, it’s an experience that’s kind of like this never-ending, like, perpetual thing

00:48:30 ►

that is like painting.

00:48:32 ►

Should I ever stop painting?

00:48:33 ►

I don’t know why I would ever stop painting

00:48:35 ►

because it is, I mean, it’s magic.

00:48:38 ►

It’s magic.

00:48:38 ►

It’s magic running straight through my hand

00:48:40 ►

onto this canvas, and it can be anything.

00:48:43 ►

And when you start to realize that pressure and

00:48:45 ►

that like that can be almost too much it makes you just want to sit down there just look at that

00:48:49 ►

white canvas and so i fully understand artists and people that are like let’s just let’s just

00:48:54 ►

let’s just enjoy the simplicity of of the blank canvas and dream i mean this is about dreaming

00:49:02 ►

how can what what can we do what what can each of us do to evoke the dream, a deeper dream in another?

00:49:10 ►

And so now I’m not just painting.

00:49:13 ►

I’m talking about it.

00:49:14 ►

And one of the things that I’m really interested in talking about is the future and something that I see coming.

00:49:20 ►

And I see something coming that is so beautiful and it’s so magnetic and it’s so

00:49:29 ►

filled with light that it could potentially really be one of the big game changers on this planet.

00:49:35 ►

And it’s, and I, I don’t think there’s going to be any political movement. I don’t think there’s

00:49:39 ►

going to be any current religious movement. I don’t think there’s going to be any one person that’s

00:49:47 ►

going to make this happen. And I don’t think there’s anything that already exists. It’s actually

00:49:52 ►

about bringing together all the things that do exist into a vehicle of transformation,

00:50:01 ►

an umbrella, creating an umbrella for the mushrooms to pop out you know where where

00:50:07 ►

there you don’t have to be afraid anymore of ridicule ridicule or in in science in the

00:50:14 ►

sciences and technology and all these amazing inventions that have been have been pushed down

00:50:19 ►

because of powers that be for so long it’s it’s It’s time for these things to come forth.

00:50:27 ►

And there are, the thing is,

00:50:28 ►

the powers that be, that power structure,

00:50:31 ►

doesn’t actually, I’ve been told by certain people

00:50:34 ►

that I think know a few things or two,

00:50:37 ►

that they actually don’t have a hold

00:50:38 ►

like many of us think anymore.

00:50:41 ►

They don’t.

00:50:42 ►

The thing is, the power structure is so disseminated

00:50:46 ►

now into so many different fields.

00:50:48 ►

Huh? It’s crashing.

00:50:51 ►

It’s cracking.

00:50:52 ►

The thing is, is this, this, this,

00:50:54 ►

it’s already happening, or it

00:50:56 ►

has already happened. And so,

00:50:58 ►

I think we need to be as loud

00:51:00 ►

and clear and, and, and

00:51:03 ►

in a, and

00:51:04 ►

exposing that this is exposing this truth to get this fear issue out of the way.

00:51:11 ►

People are so ingrained with fear.

00:51:13 ►

Our media and the way that information is given to people is horrific.

00:51:22 ►

I mean, I grew up without television, and I never had a television,

00:51:27 ►

and so it was never really a part of my life.

00:51:29 ►

But I’m around it in airports,

00:51:30 ►

I’m around it in different places,

00:51:32 ►

and I am always so shocked.

00:51:34 ►

And then also being around some people,

00:51:36 ►

friends, people that live with it on all the time.

00:51:39 ►

How many people out there have that in the background

00:51:42 ►

that have to sleep with it?

00:51:44 ►

There’s a lot of these things that are okay it’s there it’s okay we don’t we don’t need to like label it as as bad

00:51:50 ►

that’s a really important thing this is our where i the occupy movement incredible right incredible

00:51:56 ►

linking people all over the world thank you internet to linking linking people and standing

00:52:02 ►

up and saying you know you, this is not right.

00:52:05 ►

Something here is not, you know, let’s expose this.

00:52:09 ►

This isn’t right.

00:52:10 ►

But I see this next step is actually focusing on what is right and what is happening.

00:52:17 ►

And this is the trick.

00:52:18 ►

This is the diversion.

00:52:20 ►

This is the prank, maybe, in a sense.

00:52:23 ►

Because it has a little bit to do with

00:52:26 ►

trickery has a little bit to do with with the fool almost you know but it’s this is where I

00:52:32 ►

see the deepest wisdom right now and I feel like it’s not it’s not something that you’re trying to

00:52:39 ►

tell somebody else this is right or wrong just saying saying, look, isn’t this fun? Isn’t this exciting? Doesn’t this

00:52:46 ►

make you feel good? Doesn’t this make you feel alive? You know, and places like this, where

00:52:51 ►

we’re coming together with the art, the music, the information, you know, we’re sharing all of these

00:52:56 ►

things. This is the biggest turn on, right? I mean, to me, this is the biggest turn on is like having the diversity and genius

00:53:05 ►

of humankind to be around it. And, and when I get to see one avatar after the next, you know,

00:53:12 ►

all of you are avatars. I mean, we all, I mean, especially if we make it all the way out here,

00:53:17 ►

we sure, we sure as heck like believe in something too. And so there’s even more specifically, there’s a vision that I’ve been

00:53:26 ►

working on and, and it’s just planted itself into me sometime, maybe when I was a kid and I was in

00:53:32 ►

my mama’s belly and they, she was listening to Cat Stevens and the peace train. But I, I don’t know.

00:53:40 ►

I mean, this is, it’s, it’s come up over, over years and different times. But a friend of mine and I were hanging out in Vienna last October.

00:53:47 ►

He’s back there.

00:53:49 ►

And we got to talking and something clicked.

00:53:54 ►

Something clicked for both of us.

00:53:56 ►

We started talking about this and we’re like, wow, maybe this is really, really, really something that’s going to happen.

00:54:02 ►

And so more specifically,, more specifically is about

00:54:06 ►

taking a journey around the world, taking kind of like something that’s happening here, a little

00:54:11 ►

bit of this, a little bit of, you know, the World Fair, a little bit of the essence of,

00:54:16 ►

of all the greatest movements that have ever happened, liberation movements in history.

00:54:21 ►

This is, there’s going to be another big one, right? And we’re in it right now.

00:54:25 ►

I think this is a big one.

00:54:27 ►

But there’s another one coming that’s going to connect the communities,

00:54:33 ►

the tribal communities of this world.

00:54:35 ►

And we’re doing it, but I see like a perpetual voyage happening

00:54:41 ►

that can really, really bring it to the people.

00:54:45 ►

It’s about bringing it to the people and inviting participation.

00:54:51 ►

Participation, education, action.

00:54:54 ►

And it’s very, so we’re here, we build.

00:54:56 ►

We’re here at Burning Man, we build.

00:54:57 ►

We put a lot of work and sweat into being here.

00:55:00 ►

And then we party.

00:55:01 ►

This is what this is going to be too,

00:55:03 ►

but this is going to be more like permanent infrastructures,

00:55:06 ►

going through communities and building gardens,

00:55:09 ►

working with schools, building new schools,

00:55:12 ►

cob buildings, showing people, giving them tools

00:55:15 ►

also that they can work with when we leave.

00:55:19 ►

Because you don’t just come to town,

00:55:21 ►

throw a huge spectacle,

00:55:23 ►

and then leave everybody just like,

00:55:25 ►

what do we do now?

00:55:27 ►

I would like to just see empowered people.

00:55:31 ►

So it’s this journey of regeneration and a journey of healing.

00:55:35 ►

Symbolic.

00:55:35 ►

Symbolic things have a lot of power just by saying them.

00:55:40 ►

I mean, some of you may know about the Ho’oponopono.

00:55:43 ►

I love you.

00:55:45 ►

I’m sorry. I forgive you. I’m sorry.

00:55:45 ►

I forgive you.

00:55:47 ►

And thank you.

00:55:48 ►

And by just saying these things and meaning them,

00:55:52 ►

something is happening.

00:55:55 ►

There is healing happening.

00:55:56 ►

And so I see this journey.

00:55:58 ►

This journey could be happening on trains,

00:56:01 ►

happening on big vehicles.

00:56:03 ►

It’s a migratory process,

00:56:07 ►

getting on big ships,

00:56:09 ►

using containers to transport lots of things,

00:56:14 ►

laboratories,

00:56:15 ►

you know,

00:56:16 ►

you have Tesla coils,

00:56:18 ►

all kinds,

00:56:19 ►

like I see this journey as being the cutting edge of technology

00:56:22 ►

and also showcasing the genius of our history from all over the world,

00:56:27 ►

using nomadic structures from all of the great cultures and honoring,

00:56:32 ►

honoring our past and going forward in our future in a, in a,

00:56:36 ►

in a way of empowering the little ones all the way,

00:56:39 ►

all the way up to the grandparents and the people that are,

00:56:41 ►

that are in nursing homes that are twiddling their thumbs. Hey, we can activate each other people want to to be a part and this is what i’m so

00:56:51 ►

like this turns me on more than anything and this has given me a more of a purpose to paint

00:56:55 ►

so when barbara marx hubbard some of you may know of her um she was in the movie thrive and

00:57:03 ►

and the secret and she’s on the

00:57:05 ►

Evolutionary Council and one of the most

00:57:07 ►

inspiring women that I

00:57:08 ►

know of speaking and

00:57:10 ►

doing incredible work

00:57:12 ►

she gave a talk at

00:57:15 ►

Lightning in a Bottle

00:57:16 ►

a few months ago

00:57:19 ►

and I got to be

00:57:21 ►

there and she asked everybody well what are

00:57:23 ►

you really doing? We all know something is happening, but what are you doing for this?

00:57:28 ►

What are you doing now, and what do you want to do?

00:57:31 ►

And she got people to stand up and say what they were doing.

00:57:35 ►

And I got to stand up, and all I wanted to do was talk about the train.

00:57:39 ►

But then she was like, okay, this is a great idea, but what are you doing now?

00:57:43 ►

What are you physically doing?

00:57:45 ►

And I was like, well, I’m painting it.

00:57:47 ►

And so that’s my contribution right now.

00:57:49 ►

I talk about it. I paint about it.

00:57:51 ►

And I feel like this is, through talking about it,

00:57:57 ►

what I’m doing is I’m sowing seeds.

00:58:00 ►

I’m sowing seeds, and I’m giving it out.

00:58:03 ►

To me, I don’t own this. This is something

00:58:06 ►

that, that came to me. I see it. I feel it. And every time I talk about it and think about it,

00:58:10 ►

it pulls me up into its little rainbow cloud that I can’t pull down. It’s like completely

00:58:16 ►

of its own nature, you know? So to me, like my, when I talk to people, I say, this is,

00:58:22 ►

this is something that I like to daydream about. I like to think about before I go to sleep.

00:58:26 ►

I like to talk about it because it makes me feel so good.

00:58:29 ►

And it’s not that I’m just living in the future.

00:58:31 ►

It’s because when I get in that state of feeling and seeing this, seeing this journey,

00:58:35 ►

and how many billions of people could get on board with this and realize that they’re the majority

00:58:40 ►

and they have a choice and they are empowered and they can follow their dreams,

00:58:49 ►

that they’re not alone. They’re not alone in front of their computers discovering these things they are maybe right now you know but we’re out there and we’re here like the people that are

00:58:56 ►

coming to burning man we’re we’re a part of this we have an incredibly important role when we go

00:59:02 ►

back out into the go back out into the world. And this is something that is

00:59:07 ►

sometimes daunting and sometimes difficult to integrate. But we’re ambassadors. You know,

00:59:14 ►

if you’re a Burning Man once, you’re an ambassador as far as I’m concerned. And so, you know, no

00:59:20 ►

matter where you are, you get into a state of sharing.

00:59:28 ►

You don’t always have to share, but even just the way you look sometimes or the smile you give somebody or how you treat somebody.

00:59:32 ►

This is how it’s happening.

00:59:34 ►

And I feel like I’ve got this golden trumpet now.

00:59:37 ►

And I get to run around with it and tell everybody,

00:59:41 ►

I got some good news, really good news.

00:59:43 ►

Just keep doing what you’re doing.

00:59:47 ►

You don’t have to change anything, really.

00:59:50 ►

Just keep going. Keep doing it.

00:59:56 ►

Dream. Dream.

00:59:57 ►

I feel like this dream space is the most important.

01:00:01 ►

I also have a little poem that I want to read.

01:00:08 ►

And this is something that I’ve been reading along the way.

01:00:13 ►

The past three months I’ve been on tour.

01:00:15 ►

And this is 2012.

01:00:16 ►

I didn’t expect this.

01:00:18 ►

But it’s something that happened.

01:00:19 ►

And as things do, if you’re open and you’re flexible,

01:00:26 ►

the universe will point you in all kinds of directions.

01:00:28 ►

And I’ve been on this really cool tour that led me.

01:00:31 ►

I was at the Boom Festival.

01:00:32 ►

I don’t know if any of you have heard about this a few weeks ago in Portugal.

01:00:37 ►

And I also taught a painting workshop in Italy at an eco-village

01:00:41 ►

right on the border to France on the

01:00:45 ►

Mediterranean and

01:00:47 ►

incredible people from all over the

01:00:50 ►

world came together for three weeks and

01:00:51 ►

we got to paint and talk and go

01:00:54 ►

super deep into all of

01:00:56 ►

these topics and

01:00:57 ►

empowering each other you know

01:00:59 ►

and we got to visit

01:01:01 ►

Damanhur I don’t know how many of you have heard about

01:01:04 ►

Damanhur this is an incredible know how many of you have heard about Damanhur. This is an incredible community

01:01:06 ►

that has the temples of humankind

01:01:09 ►

that they dug underground

01:01:13 ►

as a secret.

01:01:16 ►

And now people can visit it.

01:01:18 ►

They made it as a secret to avoid judgment

01:01:22 ►

from the government and the locals,

01:01:26 ►

thinking that this was a sect and scary people doing scary things.

01:01:32 ►

Quite the contrary.

01:01:33 ►

I mean, the work that they have made there is absolutely incredible,

01:01:36 ►

and their community.

01:01:38 ►

I think there’s over 6,000 people that are actually citizens of Damanhur now.

01:01:43 ►

I think around 2,000 people actually live there.

01:01:46 ►

There’s communities all over the world,

01:01:48 ►

and there’s this network that is undeniably, like, surfacing.

01:01:53 ►

It is happening all over the world.

01:01:54 ►

And because of what I am doing and my paintings,

01:01:58 ►

because I paint about it, people write to me quite often.

01:02:02 ►

And I’ve become one of the nodes.

01:02:05 ►

Maybe I’m not in one location.

01:02:07 ►

I’m one of the moving nodes.

01:02:08 ►

There are some of us that are building the physical nodes.

01:02:12 ►

There are some of us that are connecting the nodes.

01:02:16 ►

And there are these little light beams.

01:02:18 ►

We’re creating this light network.

01:02:20 ►

And this is the title of my talk, the vision mapping for the golden era.

01:02:25 ►

I thought that was, I came up with it kind of probably like four o’clock in the morning when I was in Italy teaching and just like, you know, hardly could I imagine what I was going to talk about at Burning Man.

01:02:36 ►

But I mean, in essence, just give me a microphone now and I’ll just go off because I’ve got so many good things I feel like to share. And it’s about, it’s, it’s,

01:02:45 ►

to me, it’s the linking together of my story, you know, of like all these different patterns that

01:02:50 ►

have happened in my life that I get to look back on now. And I’m incredibly grateful for

01:02:54 ►

and get to speak out now in a, in a, in a role of, of, of sharing and, and inviting you to also look at the patterns in your life because there are

01:03:07 ►

lots of them if you look for them and the more you get into that state too of like

01:03:13 ►

what do i really want what is my deepest heart’s desire then you it’ll come to you it’ll just it’ll

01:03:22 ►

just start it’ll just start coming to you. And the law of attraction,

01:03:26 ►

I don’t know how many of you are familiar with that,

01:03:29 ►

but the law of attraction is something that is,

01:03:32 ►

it works.

01:03:33 ►

I know it works.

01:03:34 ►

It’s something that you have to experience

01:03:36 ►

and experiment with.

01:03:41 ►

But it’s very much a,

01:03:46 ►

I think part of the transition that we’re going into

01:03:49 ►

where

01:03:50 ►

the transparency

01:03:52 ►

is becoming

01:03:54 ►

very transparent

01:03:56 ►

the walls are breaking down

01:03:58 ►

between this veil of separation

01:04:01 ►

and

01:04:02 ►

it needs people to know this realize it support it and

01:04:08 ►

support the others i feel like there’s a time i don’t know what’s coming we’re talking about 2012

01:04:14 ►

what’s going to happen at the end of 2012 i know just as well as you do i would like i would like

01:04:20 ►

to see a vibrational shift that would be the best thing maybe a vibrational shift. That would be the best thing. Maybe a vibrational

01:04:26 ►

shift that we wake up and we’re, you know, we were, our hearts are connected again, our hearts

01:04:32 ►

and our minds and connected to the great heart, you know, or we realize that we actually are.

01:04:37 ►

I think that it’s possible. And this is what I’m rooting for. And if not that, then, then as well,

01:04:44 ►

what about the and this is something that I’ve

01:04:46 ►

also gotten really into for a while. It’s like the and, not either or, and how can we do it all?

01:04:53 ►

And I love to surround myself with people that do it all. And they blow my mind. I’ve got a

01:04:59 ►

couple of friends out there, actually multiple ones that just are some of the most inspiring people to me because they

01:05:06 ►

stop at they don’t stop at anything they just go for it you know and we can we can and and we do

01:05:12 ►

this together we inspire each other to go forward and to and and to believe what can we believe in

01:05:18 ►

again bring back meaning so what why does visionary art matter i? I think a large amount of visionary art is a word in general that is very, very large.

01:05:30 ►

And I think everything fits into it in a lot of ways, or many things can.

01:05:34 ►

But the visionary art that I, or the definition that I see it as now,

01:05:39 ►

is something that is very, very loaded with a sacred message,

01:05:44 ►

is something that is very, very loaded with a sacred message,

01:05:50 ►

with a lineage, too, of sacred geometry,

01:05:56 ►

of things of our commonalities, of awaking the spirit within.

01:05:58 ►

And it’s medicine. It’s something that’s also not necessarily,

01:06:00 ►

you don’t need to understand necessarily.

01:06:04 ►

It’s something that actually

01:06:05 ►

you’re is speaking to your genetic code and this is where my paintings wherever they they’ve landed

01:06:11 ►

around here um the prince so i paint the egg a lot and i’d like to say this real quick before i end

01:06:18 ►

here the egg is a very important symbol for me and it was brought to me about six years ago

01:06:26 ►

is a very important symbol for me and it was brought to me about six years ago um in a painting that i titled dreams and it was a kind of a real automated painting when i took myself on a vision

01:06:32 ►

quest to bali indonesia for two months just with a box of paints and my paint brushes and um the

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first painting that i did there was this piece that I allowed. I allow a lot of my pieces to just start on their own

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and work with my feeling of which colors I’m going to choose

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and try to really stay attentive to the process.

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And it’s very exciting and kind of dangerous sometimes

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because anything you do can change the entire world, right?

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But it’s also incredibly exciting if you open up to that experience.

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And this painting turned into a self-portrait of me sleeping. And out of the sky came this

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rainbow serpent. And in its mouth, it was holding an egg. And I just, it just happened. It literally happened. I mean,

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I did paint it for sure, but it was something that happened. I didn’t have the idea and then paint it.

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And then when I saw it, there’s this moment, you know, it’s about three, four, five o’clock in the

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morning when everybody else is asleep and you actually have the time or all the non-physicals

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and whoever else is hanging out, you know angels and guides are just right there at your back

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and you can hear them better.

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I sat there and I was like, oh my God,

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I could probably be painting eggs for the rest of my life.

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And I probably will.

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Because as it has unfolded, it’s the most reduced organic form.

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as it has unfolded, it’s the most reduced organic form.

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And it’s this symbol that is so profoundly a part of our existence that I feel like it’s a doorway, it’s a portal.

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It’s of infinite possibility.

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And so this became this shape that I could put anything into.

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And I hope to someday, and soon enough

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I’ll start on this series, of painting them like doorways, the size of doorways.

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And in an interesting

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synchromystic way, I feel them very resonant with Alex Gray’s

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Sacred Mirrors work. And I feel like

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the shape of the egg

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is something that is actually

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able to penetrate and go

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and speak to our cellular memory.

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And it’s maybe even the shape

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of the wormhole.

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All of these things. And so this is

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a beautiful, for me to be, for the

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theme of Burning Man this year being

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fertility, and it being 2012,

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I really, really dig it. Like,

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I think that it’s a time of rebirth. And it’s a time that we really, it’s a time to dream now

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more than ever and talk about it as much as you, you know, get out of the boring conversations

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and just get into something that’s really exciting. And you can do this in most conversations,

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just weave a little bit in a different direction.

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And I mean, I do this with the train all the time.

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You guys can talk about the train too if you want.

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Trains and boats and this migratory movement,

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it’s happening.

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And I have actually, there’s this little think tank that we have over at Fractal Nation.

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And I would love to invite all of you to come over.

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I’m actually kicking off the speaker series at 5 o’clock at Fractal in a couple hours as well.

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And I don’t know if you want to come listen to me talk even more.

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It would be somewhat along similar lines,

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but different space, different words.

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But the think tank is very much inspired

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by this space of conversation and dreaming

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and that everybody has a place at the table.

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So we have a round table that’s in the shape of an egg.

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And it’s a place that I…

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We have a few collaboration paintings going on.

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We’ve got one for everybody to paint on.

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We’ve got a vision board.

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I don’t know if that’s all set up quite yet.

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A chalkboard and all these kinds of fun things.

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And so I’d really love to know what you, what, what you, what you would like to offer.

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I mean, you guys want to get on the train too?

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Like, you know, this is where we’re starting

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kind of like a little campaign here.

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And it’s happening very organically.

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So we did just buy earthvoyage.org.

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We’re going to be building that over time now.

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And a nonprofit and all kinds of different things

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are being born at the same time.

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And I would love for you all to be a part of it

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and be a part of the puzzle.

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And I feel like you all are.

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So I’m going to read this short little poem

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by my friend Layla Love.

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And I see some dear friends that just showed up.

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Thank you, Jay Brave, for being here.

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And this is by my friend, Layla Love.

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And she has a vision with the boats.

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I have this vision with the trains.

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But she has a vision with think tank boats.

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And so we’re linking up in this journey along with many other people.

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And this is a beautiful little poem that she wrote.

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The darkest hour is always before the

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dawn. We have the honor of living through the dawning of a new era. It is indeed a time of

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golden crisis in which the intolerable must not be tolerated. You are the solution. You are a beacon of light waiting to be turned on. You are the

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torchbearer. Ignite

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your golden core.

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Peace begins within.

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Thank you.

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And I don’t know, do we have time

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for some questions or anything?

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Yeah? Is there any questions?

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Amanda, in a beautiful talk,

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thank you very much.

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It put me into a reverie there.

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In your paintings,

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I’ve been noticing over the years

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that you have this wonderful way

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of showing breath,

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showing breath through the nose, through the mouth, and then showing breath showing breath through the nose through the mouth and

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then the breath that comes through sort of the face the hair how does breath factor into your

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philosophy your artistic philosophy well i think it’s a very natural thing that is around us all the time.

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And this energy is more, this energy, this connecting of things,

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as I feel like where that comes from, is the desire to weave it together.

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And so this breath, this connecting through breath,

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through the third eye, into the cosmos,

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and down into our core,

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it’s about translating in some way

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this feeling and this desire to see past the density

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of maybe not being able to see the breath so much.

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So for me, when I paint,

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I really enjoy painting things that I

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that I imagine to be there and I can feel and I saw as a child I saw the colors and all these

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things and I remember that very well and I see it now through painting so it’s something that I feel

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that I it’s it’s there it’s just about mapping, bringing it forward, and it’s something that is very healing, I think, too,

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to remind us about this breath and the grounding aspect of it,

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remembering to breathe.

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I have to remind myself to breathe when I paint all the time.

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I’m playing in another world.

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Yeah.

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Anybody else?

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in another world.

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Yeah.

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Anybody else?

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Yesterday I was at center camp and I overheard my first conversation

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for this burn

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in which someone was sharing their playa name

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and it’s snake and eggs.

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Snake and eggs.

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That’s sweet.

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So my question is,

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I’m not an artist.

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I know that like fear can be instilled in artwork

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like you can look at at art and become fearful based on the imagery that’s that’s shown

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but what imagery or how would we instill imagery in our work that has a healing effect so so it

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it it defears like what would that look like

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that’s a really lovely question um i feel like it has a lot to do with the intention and the state

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that the artist is in when they’re creating um and that is that that language is is in

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that those feelings those emotions those intentions are all in the lines, in the colors, in all the choices.

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Because you’re constantly making choices when you’re painting.

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And I think there’s something about spectral colors and harmonizing with color, how color vibrates, how composition works, how you use light and dark,

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very fundamentals of the visual world.

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And through using these tools, you can create a very clear message.

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So are you making something that’s a crystalline structure?

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Are you making something that’s very dense?

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Are you making all these different things?

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And it has very much to do with the intention of the artist.

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And I think that feeling is then transported.

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I really believe it has a lot to do with the intention.

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And the technical skill behind it is something that can then be looked at from various perspectives.

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There’s a lot of art that I feel like is done because it just needs to get out. can then be looked at from various perspectives. Yeah.

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There’s a lot of art that I feel like is done because it just needs to get out.

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People need to get this out.

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There’s something they don’t know any other way to express it,

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and that’s incredibly important, too.

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I’m really interested in just being like,

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well, if you’ve gotten past that bit,

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well, there’s a lot more work to do.

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Let’s start painting things that are really messages gotten past that bit, you know, well, there’s, there’s a lot more work to do, you know, like,

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let’s start painting things that are really, um, messages and signposts for the future,

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you know, take on that role, you know, there’s all, there’s always a deep personal process. It’s a part of it too. I mean, to me, the deep personal process is also pushing through the

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boundaries of also my limitations of where I was like, I don’t know. I don’t, I don’t know what to do with that. You know, you give up. Well,

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sometimes you got to admit you give up, you put it aside, you know, for a while and you look at it,

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you know, in dark light in a mirror every now and then you don’t paint on it for five years.

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You know, there’s a whole process that happens with paintings. They’re their own creatures,

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you know, listening to them. This is something that Ernst Fuchs said to me once.

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He’s like, you have to learn to listen to the painting.

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And I really

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believe that. It’s much less of something that

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I am

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necessarily having to say.

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But now it’s changing a little bit because

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I see a vision that’s so clear. I’m wanting to

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integrate that a lot more

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with the intuitive process

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and then also with things that I feel

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like I know and am tuning into. Happy burn, everybody. Thank you.

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You’re listening to The Psychedelic Salon, where people are changing their lives one thought at a time.

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You know, it’s quite easy these days to get where my mother would have said that we’re sort of down in the dumps,

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which is just an old-fashioned way of saying you seem depressed.

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And whether you’re following the news headlines of the whole world or just those in your own country, there is little in the corporate-owned and controlled media right now

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that gives any of us much to hope for. But just now, listening to Amanda with you, I have suddenly

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remembered that the world always seems to remain in balance, and for all of the bad news out there,

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there is an equal amount of good news.

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And Amanda’s positiveness and excitement about being alive at this particular moment in time is really contagious.

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You know, sometimes it’s easy for me to forget that you and I, right now, are living during an extraordinary moment in human history.

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A moment unlike any other that has ever come before.

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It’s, I think, a truly psychedelic moment in human history, a moment unlike any other that has ever come before. It’s, I think,

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a truly psychedelic moment in time, and we should not lose focus on that fact.

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Well, Amanda, thank you ever so much for reminding me, reminding all of us here in the salon,

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that we can actually change our lives by simply changing our attitudes. And if everybody had an attitude like yours, we could probably transform the entire planet in a single day. In fact, Transcription by CastingWords pass messages of their work along to us here in the salon. In fact, why don’t you visit that site yourself right now and get involved?

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You know, you don’t have to become a nomad like Amanda appears to be,

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and you don’t need to be a hermit like me.

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With the vision that earthvoyage.org is pulling together,

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well, it seems to me that there’s a place for each of us

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to do whatever it is that we do best and add it to the mix.

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So why wait?

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I’ve just changed my attitude from negative to positive and it feels great.

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So now it’s your turn.

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There is actually a great deal more that I’d like to say right now, but to tell the truth,

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I think you’d be better served by re-listening to Amanda’s talk and try to visualize yourself working with her and her friends

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when they come to your town to begin building and teaching how to build

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a more sustainable future and a permanent infrastructure

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of gardens, lectures, festivals, and more.

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Not since the Middle Ages, I think, has such an effort been more important.

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You see, unless you are purposely keeping yourself uninformed,

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you already know that our civilization has reached a tipping point of sorts, and not

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just here in the U.S., but all over the world, wherever the American McWorld is wired up.

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Now, this isn’t just doom and gloom, it’s simply a fact that a hundred years from now,

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the world is going to be completely restructured.

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That seems inevitable to me. How it will be restructured, of course, remains to be seen,

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but don’t kid yourself. Global change of epic proportions will be the rule for the foreseeable

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future. But in my view, it will most definitely not be a Mad Max or a Blade Runner future.

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You know, just study your history and learn what happened at the end of other empires,

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the Roman Empire being the most obvious example.

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But before that came the fall of China’s Middle Kingdom,

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the Great Persian Empire, the British Empire,

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and the fall of the Soviet Union, just to mention a few.

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With few exceptions, when civilizations come to an end,

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it seems to be more of a disintegration over time than a violent upheaval.

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And every empire comes to an end. I don’t see how anyone can dispute that fact.

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So, over the next hundred years or so, the American empire will also be coming to an end.

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And there is simply nothing that you can do about that.

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end, and there is simply nothing that you can do about that. However, there is a lot that you can do to ensure that you and your loved ones can not only weather the changes that are sure to come,

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you can actually thrive as long as you’re willing to reset your priorities from consuming every new

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item that the advertisers are pushing on you, and instead taking the time to sit down and seriously

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consider what you want to do with your life here on earth.

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Granted, you may have another chance at another life or an afterlife, but the only thing that

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we know for sure is that we are here right now, so maybe we’d better not take this opportunity,

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this wonderful gift called human life, so much for granted.

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And in order to help you keep up with the wonderful spirit of hopefulness

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that Amanda lives with and passes along to all who will listen,

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I’m going to recommend a little homework for you today.

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And I can hear the groans now.

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Oh boy, Lorenzo’s going to recommend yet another book.

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And if that’s what you’re thinking, well, you’re right.

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The book that I think fits perfectly with Amanda’s vision isn’t a new book.

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In fact, it was first published 12 years ago.

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And it was written by Morris Berman and is titled The Twilight of American Culture.

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And if you read it, my guess is that his recommendations

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as to how one goes about preparing for and living through a difficult period

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will be very valuable to you to help you learn to live with grace and joy

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and not in hopelessness and despair.

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Now, don’t get me wrong, it’s not a motivational book at all.

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It’s actually a history, and I think you’ll do yourself well to read it.

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In it, I think you’ll find a few pointers that I believe fit right in with Amanda’s vision,

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and you’ll most likely resonate with Berman’s concept of an NMI, and I’ll let you read the

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book to learn what an NMI is. And I guess that I should add something else here about the book

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recommendations that I make.

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Not long ago, I received a message from a young listener who told me that he had been buying a lot of the books recommended by various speakers here in the salon.

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However, his parents were beginning to wonder about what he was taking an interest in reading.

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Well, how about challenging them to read one of the books themselves, and then you can have a family discussion about what was written.

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And The Twilight of American Culture would be a perfect book to begin with.

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First of all, there really isn’t anything about the book that is now controversial,

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since it was published 12 years ago, there’s really no longer any speculation to it.

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And the events that Berman predicted have all essentially not only come to pass, but have even been worse than he predicted.

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And what I’m talking about are things here in the U.S., such as the situation with health care, education, poverty, homelessness, things like that.

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But his suggestions about how to transform this disintegration of society into a new and better way of living,

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disintegration of society into a new and better way of living, maybe not immediately, maybe not even in any of our lifetimes, but at least beginning the journey in a better direction.

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Simply by doing some of the things that you know will be of positive value 100 years from now,

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well, I think that it’ll amaze you to realize how fulfilling something like that can be.

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Simply much more rewarding than buying the newest electronic product

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or earning a little more money.

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Well, enough of my preaching.

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Hey, just buy the book, read it in a group if you can, discuss it,

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and then play Amanda Sage’s Palenque Norte lecture once again.

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And I think that you’ll be on a path that you not only find more fulfilling,

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but one which provides you with a lot of happiness and joy along the way.

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And for now, this is Lorenzo, signing off from Cyberdelic Space.

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Be well, my friends. Thank you.

⚗️ alembic

Explorer

329 - Vision Mapping for the Golden Age

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