Adam Blatner

Words and Images from the Mind of Adam Blatner

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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Metaphysical Art Explained: Types of Love

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 […]

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The Inadequacy Complex

I wasn’t sure if I had an inferiority complex—it just wasn’t the right word. (The term was originated not by Freud but by Alfred Adler.) If you left me alone with my books or play I was fine. Finally at age 76 I found a better word: Inadequacy complex, which senses and feels bad about […]

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Metaphysical Art Explained: Squiggles

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 […]

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Metaphysical Art Explained
: Symbolic

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 […]

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Metaphysical Art Explained: Pseudo-Mayan-Letterform Origins

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 […]

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