4.9 - The Mandala Message with Morgan Manley
Topics
⦁ Rainbow Serpent Festival 2018
⦁ The beautiful by-products of creating your own path
⦁ The selfless synergy between visionary creators
⦁ Big Threyda collaboration Morgan recently worked on
⦁ Morgan's take on symbolic literacy and archetypal reality
⦁ The "Portal" series with Morgan's frequent collaborator Randall Roberts
⦁ The mystical power of art that's created with an excessive amount of attention to intention
⦁ Morgan describes the Ayahuasca experience
⦁ How communities collectively create what individuals are consciously experiencing and how different beliefs could literally change reality
⦁ How studying philosophy and art influenced Morgan's life direction
⦁ The fractality of the universe and the infinite dimensions of zooming in or out of the micro and macrocosms
⦁ Speculations on the simulation theory of the universe
⦁ The artist as decider of their own value systems
⦁ Morgan describes the goddesses that inspired her recent painting, "Trinity,"
⦁ The mythos of the muse and her requirement that you show some discipline
⦁ The dual nature of the archetypal goddess as both creator and destroyer
⦁ A visit from Morgan's cat Moo Moo
Morgan Mandala is a mindful master of the imagination who merges the world of spirit with matter in her magical artwork. As a painter, Morgan travels the world to perform her art on stage during live music events at some of the coolest transformational festivals on Earth. Join us for a conversation about symbols, spirit, and sychronicity. You might just take away some inspiration for your own creative journey!
Check out Morgan's visionary art: https://www.morganmandala.com/
Music in this episode:
Kalpataru Tree
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⦁ The equality conspiracy and celebrating differences
⦁ How art teaches us that freedom and personal responsibility are connected
⦁ Coming together to imagine solutions to society's ills with transformational festivals
⦁ Morgan talks about what it's like to live paint on huge stages and create installations at festivals like Electric Forest
⦁ How the visionary artist serves as a neo-shamanic guide to those going through the early adulthood festival psychedelic rites of passage
⦁ How creative expression inspires the genius in others
⦁ Working through mental, physical or emotional stagnancy to make flow states easier to attain
⦁ Using nature and mindfulness practices to ground and discharge negative thoughts
⦁ The artist as a messenger between the platonic realm of idea and the human universe of matter
⦁ Finding beauty in the mundane by slowing down and paying attention to the moment
⦁ Morgan's adventures in the Amazon, Cambodia, and many other places around the world and synchronicity stories
⦁ How talking about and paying attention to synchronicities increases their occurrence
⦁ The mystery of memory and the doppelganger effect the traveler experiences