Adam Blatner

This mandala is a semi-schematic hint at how the Divine desires to bring forth the entelechy, the innate potential, of each being at every level, each according to its structure, environment, and varying inclinations. It’s a valentine message pulsing through the cosmos: “I love you not only for what you are, but also for what […]

Some of Adam’s mandalas, set in motion:

For those of you who enjoy mandalas or who have seen my preliminary mandala coloring book, here are some others I’ve done this year.  Click here to read about the meanings of my mandalas.   Here are a few of my mandalas drawn in 2007. See other pages for more drawings:   Cartoons 2          Cartoons 3    Cartoons 4

Images cannot suffice. On this planet people need words to help intuit the many connections implied by these images. The word-juggling left brain offers the advantages of helping to make connections to a wide variety of categories that then invite those parts accessed by the right brain to figure out what all this “means.” (On […]

Consider that it is supposed to be a creative exploration, not a finished, fixed product. It’s a becoming, not a being, a dynamic evolution, not an ordered arrangement. It’s okay if it breaks down a bit into much and the reforms. This is metamorphosis. It happens in a few weeks in some butterflies and a […]

I asked my dear wife, Allee, who is the smartest person I’ve ever known, what it was all about. This was some few decades ago and we were sitting in some barbecue joint in Texas. She looked up and said, offhandedly, “It’s all mush. You can do anything you want with it.” This struck me […]

Prehension is a word used by the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead (1865-1947) to refer to a type of perception or vulnerability to influence that includes and transcends ordinary understandings of sense perception. It includes such subtly meaningful qualities such as belonging, feeling of self, meaning, time, whatever. It’s close to experiencing, but Whitehead wasn’t yet […]

In south Asian Indian, the letters of their early writing system was called “Deva-Nagiri,” the letter-forms of the gods. It’s sort of true, in that all forms emerge from pre-form patterns in space that reflect to some degree their essence. Some is chance and the art-forms projected by the early inventors and then elaborated by […]

Order and disorder are distributed in varying ways—sometimes it seems as if it’s in layers. That is to say, there may be patterns of seeming regularity, approximately, within which are patterns of rough-regularity, a little different, but roughly the same. That represents us in a seemingly regular world, yet one in which it seems chance […]

This mandala uses the symbol of love in Western culture, the stylized “heart,” but presented in such a way as to suggest the many forms that this takes. Fundamentally, it is the archetype that powers social bonding, which for humanity is pro-social. Thus we idealize it as a value, even romanticize it. Cosmically, though, it’s […]

It’s an adventure, the height of creativity, a synthesis of order and disorder on a cosmic scale. It’s a game, and this diagram presents it as a maze, although that’s slightly misleading, as a maze is out there to be solved, and you are a maze-ing insofar as your challenge is to integrated the many […]

This is a stylized “valentine” from the cosmic heights. It’s a simple message: “Yes, and….” In other words: Do your thing. Add some creativity. Surprise me. Ride with me! I want you to be the most of what you can be, without your having to force yourself to be someone else, thinking you’re busy doing […]

Elsewhere on my website I explain the symbolism of the Shree Yantra (also spelled Sri Yantra). Here I cast off more imaginatively. In this picture it’s all getting ready, the material and spiritual realms are preparing to inter-penetrate. Spiritual is symbolized by the downward-pointing triangles, and material, the upward pointing triangles. This is also mentioned […]

It is difficult to find adequate explanations because English is inadequate to express the types of “higher consciousness” and related ideas that may be common a few hundred years from now. But we try: “Seed packet” is the best equivalent to suggest that creativity emerges into your 3-D world in mysterious ways—an idea, a fragment […]

Leaves are energy transformers. Just as leaves in our world—a major element of most “plants”—transform solar light energy into useable food for animals and humans—which in turn fuels thought as we know it—so too does divine energy need transformation into star-fusion energy. And just as life on this planet absorbs less than 1% of solar […]

There are innumerable stories. It’s a more complex form of individuality. This unique person meets that one, the dynamic takes some twists and turns. It all unfolds within a circle of other individuals with their own quirks, and a setting, club, organization, with its own norms. All this happens in a larger culture and time […]

This is a view of the world and the human-type species, embedded in the thick covering of your own beliefs. You are but the smallest eye-markings and all the rest of each figure is the secreted matrix. Just recently you’ve learned that many microbes in the world generate mucus matrices around it  through which it […]

Things can become a symbol, a cross, a star, a triangle, a square, a squiggle—well, until now not many people use squiggles, but that’s because the quintessential spontaneity of the Divine hasn’t been readily appreciative. The picture below is a symbol or the layout-plan of a multi-dimensional cathedral or a diagram of the what’s-it-all-about from […]

Yet another metaphor for the way the Expanding, Becoming Everything, the Source, the Beyond that exhilarate the mystics, what some call God (but distinctly not a person-like being with all the faults accompanying the limitations of our species), is that it “plays,” in the sense of unendingly experiments. It plays with the way it forms […]