Adam Blatner

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]