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My Creative Mission

Drawn at Sep 01 2008 | vision

Ever since I was introduced to Marshall McLuhan in 1999, I have been in love with the power of media in expanding our minds and awareness. I have felt that much of the media is used for distractions, but I know that it has massive potential for facilitating education and awareness. Meeting the branding, identity and marketing requirements to compete with the noise of the information age is challenging but vitally important.

I enjoy and am good at taking profound concepts and conveying them to others in a passionate and engaging way. I find myself the type of person who can talk to anyone and whether speaking privately or publicly, writing or making art, I have long been interested in raising the consciousness of those around me to enrich their lives and the worlds they live in.

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Psychotopography of the Future

Drawn at Sep 01 2008 | vision

The human spirit has exploded into reality. Every single problem our world faces has now become a problem of human psychology. From the temperature of seas and health of species at the very bottoms of the deepest oceans to the quality of the air we breathe the world over. The last unclaimed tract of land on the Earth was absorbed into the nation-state system a year before the twentieth century dawned. After two frightening wars, the world is held hostage by weapons and transnational corporate greed. The unconscious forces that have allowed us to burst into being on this incredible level of existence and master our environment must now, themselves, be mastered. It is our own shadow that haunts us now.

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A Vision of Planetary Awakening

Drawn at Sep 01 2008 | vision

There’s plenty of pessimism about our civilization’s future. I’ve been there. Lots of people seem to think that we’re in for trouble. I’m certain we are, but extinction? Well, I don’t know about that — Certainly change. Perhaps ‘Correction’ to use a soulless economic term. Ecological Correction.

The truth of spiritual awakening is that it generally comes from extreme pain and suffocating fear. Some people even have to die, or almost die, to have their lives changed in a radical enough way to see Life as a miracle. Our collective suffering and fear for the future is the most powerful prophecy of our rise as an enlightened, planetary civilization.

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Praxis

The Poetic Terrorist

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I am a poet. I believe that words can touch and paint and that the language of the universe is poetry. However, no word will ever hold the truth. It can only represent it.

I am an artist.
I believe that nothing is black and white, nor is everything shades of grey. There is black, and white, and grey… millions of colours in the visible spectrum… and qualities of things which our eyes are yet not evolved enough to see.

I am a teacher. I do not believe that people are stupid, and I don’t believe it’s stupid if you think they are. The stupidity and insanity of this world can be very convincing. However, I have chosen an axiom as my operating principle: people are not stupid, people are not evil and everyone has a profound place in my life and on the dimension of the sacred.

I am a student. I believe that the universe is infinitely and incomprehensibly more intelligent than myself, but that that is not a good reason to try to simplify it or give up trying to understand it. I believe our ability to grasp complexity, subtlety and nuance is infinite if we have the courage to admit that it might be. I bow to the unknown and wander in the darkness. I feel better knowing I am lost.

I am a visionary. I believe that no one way of thinking, that no one system of belief is useful without others to compliment it. The greatest human skill is to not need to believe in anything at all. To see from any angle. Every system of rules crumbles around the edges – therefor overlap systems. You don’t need eyes to see, you need vision.

I am a lover. I am truly heartbroken and therefor forever free of heartbreak. My mind may be sharp and guarded, but my heart is hot and passionate from the tenderness that makes me strong.

I am a servant.
I believe there is one unalterable, inalienable, ever expanding, ever evolving truth and I do not believe in giving it a name. It will never be grasped by the mind. Never be explained. It is the one most obvious and yet most secret of things. And I pledge loyalty and servitude to this truth alone: love is my only master and peace my only oath.

I am a warrior. The true warrior is at once healer and a warrior, because to heal is a powerful weapon. Each movement, every utterance is a weapon against the manifestation of wickedness. This is grace. By healing, he is attacking. By curing, she is combating. By fixing, he is not allowing his true enemies to form. By waging peace, health, love and life, her machinations stalwart, vigilant, ceaseless… she guards against evils unimagined.

There is a saying: Know thy Self. There is also a saying: Know thy Enemy. Trust that there is only a very subtle difference and then find this very subtle difference in everything your mind happens upon, until its questions are tamed and you know what to do.

Axiom