Adam Blatner
Words and Images from the Mind of Adam Blatner
September, 2013
Vitality Enhancement
I am concerned with the gradual growth and seductiveness of an increasing number of media that make it easier to “veg out” as a “couch potato” spectator. To challenge that, I want to remind people of a category of “folk art” activities that can happen in neighborhoods and communities of all types. This may include […]
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Psychodrama: Changing Word Meanings
Words change their meanings over time. In the 1930s “gay” was carefree, but now it’s homosexual. I’m in a field that uses the term psychodrama—a type of therapy, mainly, that uses the activity of role playing to raise consciousness. But psychodrama as a word drifted into the mainstream and become a term for a situation […]
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Morbid Humor
I generally try to accentuate the positive, as the song lyric goes, but when I was younger (and still, a little) I cultivated a degree of morbid humor. I liked the characters of the cartoonist Charles Addams and the gross stuff in the EC horror comics line. In my own fantasy-art I have imagined various […]
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Explanations : An Introduction and Index
I have created drawings that illustrate various metaphysical concepts. The first series is more in the shape of somewhat-symmetrical, circular drawings that often have central and peripheral elements. In India such drawings are called “mandalas.” Mine are less precise and exhibit more spontaneity than most mandalas now search-able via the internet. I acknowledge that these […]
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Metaphysical Art Explained: Angel-Wing Expansion
This mandala expresses the great mystery of becoming from yet another angle. Imagine that angels are dimensions or realms of being—meta-oversouls that facilitate a whole field of endeavors, such as Twitter, or Sports Cars, or mud wrestling. Some are deeply traditional, such as Yoga, and others quite new to human consciousness. Some express an old […]
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Metaphysical Art Explained : Cosmic Yes-And
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 […]
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Spontaneity Development
There are needs for this skill set in a rapidly changing world. When once young people had been taught to simply follow directions, now they’re expected to not only think for themselves, but also innovate. We’ve discovered that the key to creativity is improvisation, and spontaneity development is improvisation training. For example, Justine Jones and […]
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Metaphysical Art Explained : Stuck
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 […]
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Metaphysical Art Explained : A-Maze-ing
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 […]
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Beyond Psychiatric “Sickness”
A friend wrote and said, “Recently there was a finding that male holocaust survivors lived longer than male Jews who left Europe before WW II. A sociologist speculated that the holocaust survivors became more adept at survival under extreme stress and called it “post traumatic growth.” Note that it was not labeled as a disorder. […]
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