HeyJaredCreative Alchemy
Meditations on Exiting the Matrix, Being an Artist, and Awakening to Your Nature
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Being an Artist in the Age of Algorithms (opens the original)
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I was in college when Facebook and MySpace came out. It was an exciting time to be on the internet. Social media felt like an inside joke, a relatively small circle of friends and peers. We wrote embarrassing diary entries on MySpace and posted shameless party pics on Facebook. Our online presence was an uncontrived extension of ourselves, not a brand we were building or trends we were following. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_yB8!,f_a
Being a Creative Channel (opens the original)
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The act of creation is a dance between worlds.Think about it. The artist, the poet, the musician send their imagination or intuition into an unseen landscape to bring back what they find in the form of expression.People often ask me how to become a better writer, and I tell them to start meditating. The mind needs stillness to hear the quiet voice of the muse.Most artists agree, their best ideas don’t come from them, but through them.The creative act is not a mathematical equation, but an openin
I Left Society and Found Myself (opens the original)
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The morning sunlight enters the window to warm my face as I look upon the quiet landscape. A horse lazily grazes in the grass while a rabbit hops across the lawn. I’ve been living on this Texas ranch for the last few months, in the aftermath of a separation with my wife.<so
What Happened to the Spirit Quest? (opens the original)
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There’s a question I’ve been pondering, more or less, my whole life:How does an artist find their way in the demanding and disempowering modern world?In many Indigenous cultures, upon entering the threshold of adulthood, young people embarked on a spirit quest, an initiatory journey into the wilderness to discover the depth and definition of self and role within the tribe.Such ritualistic passageways are historically common, from the psychedelic Eleusinian Mysteries in Greece which initiated phi
Being an Influencer is Cringe (opens the original)
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I never had any intentions to be a so-called influencer.I started posting my writing on social media in 2017 after my first book was released, as suggested by my publisher.As the years went by, I found digital content to be a fun and effective form of art. As a poet, I saw the short form nature of the platforms to be a stimulating creative challenge, not so different from writing a haiku.I liked how you could share your thoughts and art instantly without the usual gatekeepers (publishers, galler
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