Adam Blatner
Words and Images from the Mind of Adam Blatner
Metaphysical Art Explained : The Spiral of Star Formation
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 […]
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The Relevance of Play
Play is not just a bit of frivolity. It is deeply connected to psychological freedom, spontaneity, and creativity. To illustrate the power of overlapping properties of a dynamic, consider electricity: In the 19th century electricity was found not just to “flow,” but also to have many properties not envisioned at first, such as its relationship […]
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All Are Prophets
I was looking through one of Neal Donald Walsh’s Conversations With God series of books and other media, and this notion occurred to me: You and I can imagine vividly, too. It’s just that there has been a cultural taboo against speaking or writing one’s inspiration and then claiming as did the prophets of yore […]
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Novelty in Philosophy
Let’s begin with a quote of a passage—one of m favorites—by Alfred North Whitehead, found near the end of his book, Modes of Thought. He wrote near the end (pp.237-238): “The use of philosophy is to maintain an active novelty of fundamental ideas illuminating the social system. It reverses the slow descent of accepted […]
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Mandala As Primal Diagram
Circular, vaguely or finely symmetrical drawings that usually show a center and a periphery—such are called “mandalas,” a word used in India. They recognize that certain kinds of art can stimulate meditation. I began drawing mandalas when I was about 30 years old. I was influenced in 1972 by a book titled “Mandalas” by Jose […]
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Metaphysical Art Explained : Six-Dimensional Leaf
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 […]
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Metaphysical Art Explained: Multi-Dimensionality
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 […]
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An Invitation to Imagination
We are working on a revision of our book, The Art of Play. Its thesis is that imagination is related to creativity, and this is related to envisioning, and there may be further potentials of all this not yet envisioned. One aspect of this is realizing that we can say “yes-and” rather than “no but” […]
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Commandments & Guidelines
The following cartoon has interesting wording: This is a deep misunderstanding of the nature of law. For the word “government” substitute “necessary,” because it is childish to think that the ten commandments are not ambiguous. For “guidelines” substitute the word “interpretations.” Think of what the Talmud was about, and modern-day Bible classes in many mainstream […]
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Social Sensitivity (or its lack)
Many qualities are enjoyed or missed by various people according to the varying distribution of talents. Howard Gardner, a psychologist, in 1983 wrote about eight that he identified in his book, Frames of Mind. One of these, interpersonal intelligence, is the focus here. My career in part is a healing of the wound, a compensation […]
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