EvolverIntensives - Visionary Art

Forging Community Through Visionary Art

How You Can Awaken Your Spirit and
Your Connection To Others

You are here to give your deepest gifts to this world -- but how do you re-create the world around you so it receives and celebrates those gifts?

How and where can you express the full spectrum of your creativity and uniqueness?

How, in a society that wants to commodify, isolate and reduce your creativity into just another consumer product like Tidy Bowl or Jolt soda, can you tap into your creative birthright, can you be inspired and inspire others?

How can you access your deepest creative birthright -- so you can inspire and be inspired, while connecting with the hearts and minds of others as you contribute to building a world that is joyful, authentic and celebratory?

How can you turn your art, your parties, your events -- your life -- into a vehicle of transformation and awakening?

Answering These Challenges Together…

Reality Sandwich and the Evolver Community are pleased to present our second Evolver Teleseminar Intensive to address these questions and offer you solutions.

This series gives you a rare opportunity to join in a live and lively exchange of ideas with some of the most inspired artists and impresarios in our world today.

Art and performance can inspire and delight -- but they can also transform your life. And, infused by the thrum and expanse of primal myths and rituals, these trail-blazing creative minds are reviving the visionary power of creativity -- opening eyes to the possible and reforging community in a society largely driven into pockets of isolation.

Join host Erik Davis for four sessions of illumination, revelation, inspiration and renewal…

OUR SCHEDULE OF LIVE TELESEMINARS

(All calls will be at 9 PM Eastern, 6 PM Pacific unless otherwise indicated)

JULY 30: BURNING MAN BEYOND THE PLAYA
with LARRY HARVEY

Burning Man is a unique expression of neo-tribal freedom and exuberance. It is a party. It is an experiment. It is a cry of joy, of desperation, of sexuality, of consciousness -- of a new way of being in the world.

Join legendary Burning Man founder Larry Harvey in a conversation about what his creation has wrought, what new doorways it has opened, and what Burning Man means for us now, and in the future. On this call Larry will explore, among other things…

What it means to live in a commerce-free zone -- and how to bring that consciousness and practice to your daily life
How you can apply the lessons and experiences gleaned from Burning Man to your personal expressive life and the way you create and participate in your local creative communities
How to connect your creativity to the making of a new world

Larry Harveyserves as chairman of Burning Man's senior staff and Black Rock City LLC, its executive committee. He also co-chairs the organization's Art Department, scripts and co-curates Burning Man's annual art theme, and collaborates with artists in creating aspects of the art theme and the design of Black Rock City. He produces Burning Man's annual newsletter and writes articles and essays for the Project's website on such diverse topics as art, religion, civic planning and the rise of cyber-culture in the era of the Internet. Larry is also a political planner. He supervises the organization's lobbying efforts and frequently attends meetings with state, county and federal agencies.

AUGUST 1: FEELING YOUR BODY OF LIGHT
with ALEX GREY

Once you experience an Alex Grey painting, installation, talk or film, you will never forget it. With his unique physiological and psychedelic insight, Alex Grey has devoted his life to bringing us all into the subtle flows of energy that animate and connect us to each other. During this discussion, Alex, perhaps the most well-known and celebrated visionary painter alive, will help you shift how you see and feel your body as a vehicle of light and consciousness. He will also explore…

How to express the sacred in your own art -- and life
How to live, work and create in community -- and why
How to discover and feel the invisible lines which flow through you, between you and your lover, and between you and the vibrant world around you
What sacred geometry reveals about the nature of being alive
What is the connection between Alex's art and the music of Tool?
How to make art catalyze consciousness evolution
How to best participate in the new alliance of creativity and spirituality

Alex Grey's visual meditations on the nature of life and consciousness, the subject of his art, has reached millions through his five books, the exhibition and extensive reproduction of his artwork, his speaking and live-painting appearances, his collaboration with major rock bands on sets, video animation, and Grammy award winning album art. Committed to art that celebrates oneness, Alex and Allyson Grey, his wife and companion of 34 years, co-founded the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, (CoSM) with Allyson Grey, a respected artist, speaker and editor of Alex Grey and CoSM Press publications. Because the Grey's have been a stand for "cognitive liberty", the international entheogen community has embraced the Grey's as important mapmakers and spokespersons for the visionary realm.

(This call is at 4pm ET, 1pm PT.)

AUGUST 3: HOLO-GREENING YOUR EVENTS AND YOUR LIFE
with JEN ZARIAT

What does it really mean to be Green?

Jen Zariat, one of the world's leading experts on full-spectrum green consciousness and action, walks us through the mindset and planning that goes into making an event seriously "Green." With her background in planning large events and festivals, Jen will demonstrate how to undertake a holistic approach, starting from the initial visioning, through how space is properly used, materials are procured, energy is supplied, people are moved, volunteers are chosen and mentored. Discover how art and entertainment can be vehicles of transformation, not only in their over messaging, but through the way they are constructed, and when they are finished, whether we do or do not leave our trace. On this call, Jen will open your eyes to new shades of green -- both in your mind and in your world.

On this call, Jen will explore with you...

How to shape elements of an event to encourage guests to grow into genuine Participants -- and 'take co-ownership' in the community experience
How to craft rituals, body language and avenues of communication to include rather than exclude others
Secrets of how to consciously create new opportunities to engage others in creative community projects
What visionary art adds to the aesthetic of a tribal or community event that transform the overall experience

Jen Zariat, co-founder of Symbiosis Events and EcoGatherings, is an event producer and new media specialist with over 10 years of global experience. She has worked on the production crew of events from Rainbow Serpent (Australia) to Soulclipse (Turkey) to Boom Festival (Portugal), and many in her local California. She also contributes as a guest speaker and panelist on topics of community building and 'conscious' event production. Her continuing goal is to integrate the insights from these experiences into meaningful innovations. www.zariat.com

AUGUST 5: THE ENERGETIC BODY AND SPIRITUAL FREEDOM
with ANTERO ALLI

Are you ready to explore to the edges of your intelligence? Your ability to perceive? To dream with clarity and freedom from others?

Antero Alli is an author, ritualist and visionary filmmaker researching non-interpretive forms of somatic dreamwork, who is also a leading authority on Leary's Eight-Circuit Brain model for intelligence increase. Across his many fields of work, Antero's focus remains on guiding you to redefine the terms of your life according to your most direct, firsthand experiences. And then to help you tend to the inevitable transformation of self arising from the embodiment of your truth, while awakening this new freedom in others.

In a call brimming with edgy techniques, rituals and practical mediations for intelligence increase and fine-tuning your internal BS detector, you will

Learn how to approach your night dreams as you never have before, with a unique ritual that uses movements recalled from earlier dreams to create a "dreaming ritual choreography."
Learn how to combine the two levels of awareness -- thinking/language and presence/phenomena -- to restore your full power of vision.
Explore how to experience concept-free ritual without dogma -- so that you can tap your own instinctual centers and create a truly meaningful personal ritual.
Learn how to cope with the shocks of ecstasy, uncertainty, indivisibility and impermanence -- so that you can allow in a greater influx of happiness, freedom, rapture, unity and creativity.

We are excited that this reclusive author will make a rare public appearance to participate in this series.

Antero Alli is founder/director of ParaTheatrical ReSearch (since 1977) which is dedicated to a group ritual technology for Self-initiation as documented in his book, "Towards an Archeology of the Soul" and three videos. He is devoted to paratheatrical research and its impact on the energetic body, dreams, self-image and the sources of inspiration for his many visionary films. Since 1993, Alli has produced eight feature-length art films including "The Greater Circulation", a critically acclaimed cinematic treatment of poet Rainer Maria Rilke's "Requiem for a Friend". His 2008 feature, "The Invisible Forest" explores the radical ideas of French Surrealist, Antonin Artaud. Antero is also a world renowned astrologer and the author of numerous books including Angel Tech, Astrologik, and The Vertical Oracle. His forthcoming book, The Eight Circuit Brain: Navigational Strategies for the Energetic Body is an exhaustive compendium of practical techniques, rituals and meditations for intelligence increase, real self-work and fine-tuning your B.S. detector.

Hosted by Erik Davis

Your host for this series will be the renowned, award-winning author Erik Davis. A San Francisco-based culture critic and frequent speaker at universities and festivals around the world, Erik is the author of The Visionary State: A Journey through California's Spiritual Landscape, as well as TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information, which has become a cult classic of visionary media studies. Some of his work can be accessed at http://www.techgnosis.com.

You Can Be A Part of This Intensive…

Participation in this important and landmark series is only $50. As an active participant, you will…

Participate in each of the live calls and have the opportunity to have your most pressing questions and challenges answered by our guest teachers.
Receive a recorded copy of each of the calls for download once the call is over, for your review and audio library (and, in case you have a scheduling conflict).
Participate in our new exclusive "Forging Community Through Visionary Art " online forum where you can meet the other participants, share ideas, tips, tools, questions and knowledge.

We created the Evolver Intensives to bring you the best, most useful and most inspiring thought leaders alive today to help you prepare for, and thrive in, a time of radical change. We deeply appreciate your support and your ideas, and hope you join us for this series. Once you register, we will send you all the information on how to join the calls and the online forum. To join us, please register here.

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