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@Peace and Love honey why do you give a fuck what others say?? You opened up such an enthusiastic, stirring topic and everyone felt so welcomed and comfortable to join you with whatever they had in their mind at that moment. You made everyone happy. Thank you. And because some of them didn't behave well; 'you' are going?? If they knew this could touch you this way, I'm sure they would have treated the subject completely different.

This is such a nice post! Thanks I like this part a lot:

@abgespaced hi kitty cat? So nice to oppose you again! But this time I'm gonna agree with your descriptions.. See, right there we call it 'proGresss'

Oh. Okay, if you feel this much intensity then you know what, do that again, but this time first find a way to find out what her reason was (I don't know her character but, of course I'd say best way is to talk to her directly) Honestly if I'd feel that way, I'd brute force myself to push every limit till I get like taken by cops. Good luck.

@username if it makes you feel that good why don't you pursue her and realistically deal with the situation? At least it would help the fantastic reflections to disappear? Then you'd be relieved anyways..

@Prabhaker I don't know.. probably not?

@d0ornokey he might and might not, but most likely he is aware of it. Sometimes it takes really long for some of the things to reach a balance point. To change one thing could be very easy for you but the same thing could be very difficult for me.. and even awareness shouldn't be pushed so harshly sometimes. But the thing here is, if you expect the other to accomplish something in a time frame you set; it is very likely for you to be doing the same thing to yourself too; you might make yourself unnecessarily unhappy this way, it's not worthed.

@Prabhaker Everyone can dance?

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Marketing as an artist: Issue Number 1: I am this such cool, deep, enlightened artist who can reach to the mysterious depth of existence; look at those petty, little shallow mainstream culture miserables! Of course they can not get it! ? First of all we need to remember that we are all together part of 'that' culture. It's not something over there, it's: us. Marketing=communicating to your audience/ your clientele: understanding them and their needs, their reasons and respecting their difficulties, their challenges; to be treatment to their issues. Oh! They ignore, they just want relief... well, sometimes to continue to the hardship there is no way other than disregarding something: Now I see that gap as an artist, so now it's my job to call them out, bring them about back to the wonders of life in my own artistic methodology: Everyone has their artistic side in them, but they don't have time, energy, courage to do the follow through, but, they can reach it through me: Hi! Come on here! I'm gonna hold your hand and guide you to a joyful beautiful mysterious little trip of our livelihood... wanna join me? Wanna see the world from my lenses? I sat and faced the life wildly at its edge for you; you might be tired a bit of your life, do you wanna give a little break and hold my hand? Then, who will not be willing to create a little difference and spice and taste in their lives? Here, at this point, pricing will be the factor. Then we need to know where is our audience financially and how I value my effort and my mastership. Issue Number2: "but I am an artist not a 'salesman'!" Well, I chose this as a profession, the way I contribute to society: it's like I'm baking all of those breads and then I'm keeping them in my kitchen cupboard, and no one knows about it. I may like to cooperate with someone else for it, but I need to let my audience know. Of course 'how' is a complete different thread topic:) Issue Number3: To keep it continues: when you start to do something artistic and different, yes scarcity arrives before than anything else? when you hold your ground and be very consistent about it, it's for sure you'll create your demand (of course if you are understanding and meeting their needs through your art). But it's like your baby, 24/7 you need to require your product; so it's about being really determined. The difficulty here is artistic personality generally doesn't like structural rules, wants to be 'free' and on the flow? but of course, for the sake of continuity of your profession, it's one of the sacrifices to make. Especially for the financial gain, consistency of your work is the most important element.

We don't bake our own bread every morning or sew our clothes; someone does it for us and through our profession we do something for others and we exchange our products and services through our (current) value system which mostly appears as money. So a baker bakes, a dry-cleaner cleans our clothes; what does an artist do for others to buy? (Here, we need to clear something: if someone chooses art as a profession, to appear in society as an artist than, that person there already acknowledges that his/her art is not just a personal journey anymore.) Now we have two questions: 1) what is the supply as in art form? 2) what do we buy other than our usual standard mundane needs? 1) What does an artist do? The answers can vary a lot. I'll give mine. An artist is a translator. Also transforms and heals. He translates images, dreams, emotions, deep undiscovered darknesses of psyche into the vibrations which can be sensed and experienced also by society. He transforms consciousness of the society. Not just consciousness but also the emotions. He transforms the collective subconsciousness into consciousness. Example: watching a play can do this for you, without you knowing the actors representing your deep traumatic experience you had with your uncle. It can release some of that steam for you. He can create a crack in your mind for light to seep in. He heals. By reading his poem that night, you can allow yourself feel the pain, feel the joy and might cry a bit and feel a relief without needing facing your own issues. So a painting on your wall can invite you to contemplate on relevant images pops in your mind. He creates a meaning, an escape, a connection. List can go longer. But let's cut it here for now. 2) What we buy, other than the necessity? Basically we buy hope. The possibility to something to happen. More specifically in our mainstream culture; we wanna buy some warmth, some escape, some attention, some friendship, some appreciation, some release for deep loneliness, some ideas to feed a lost, worn-out soul, some sensation that makes us still feel cool. Can art give some real medication to such cases without fooling those people? Not as permanent as actualization but yes it surely can. How? That's the real work of an artist of our age. Could some artists and media take advantage of this modern vulnerability of ours? Hell yeah. But there will be people with good work ethics and frauds in any profession. Editing: when we buy something luxurious, out of necessity: that's an emotional purchase right there: we want it emotionally then we justify it logically. It's important to know as an artist if we gonna market our product. So. This is the supply and demand situation. If we gonna create financial outcome we needed to know little bit about the value we are offering. Okay, I'll start a new post now for the marketing and the business uphold of it.

1) I liked what you wrote. 2) I found that I am pretty weak at contemplation and I get off track so easily. Also I realized that I had been believing that I was doing some contemplation! and believing that I was even good at something that I was not practicing at all? what about that?! Good times!?

@Elena You're right, I've missed 'changing the world gently' part. Actually when you look that way it really gets more challenging to find the examples.. probably because such ladies really weren't into success and to be known but more of heartfully devote their help to others. May be you might like Beatrix Potter, the English children's writer and illustrator, I adore her Peter Rabbit stories, she made most of the children and their families happy through her stories. I even read them myself sometimes to have joy. And Mother Teresa is one of the most inspiring women in that delicate manner. In my field Isodora Duncan is an inspirational fluent feminine energy. By the way, I'm also foreigner too, I'm originally from Turkey. My former list was nothing to do with western feminism idea; I listed them because I like them a lot? Of course it's clear that you and me have different feelings toward to the concept? when I first came to America I had been annoyed with bunch of stuff too, but understanding the other side's approach helped me a lot to grow and now I am really appreciated to most of those things annoyed me once. I watched the video you shared, my heart goes to all of those suffered, which I also had my share... but I would like to note that because something is emotional and heartbreaking enough, it doesn't necessarily make that thing less political. Not related to this video but, it reminded me that: as women especially if something is evoking our very deep emotions, we can not just get all subjective about it; critical thinking should be still there with us at those moments more than ever; so we can be really growing our society, our children up in a healthy way.

@Leo Gura Although this is an out off topic question? yes I think it's a very good idea.

So ironically it is the embracement of separateness and connection? Kind of nothingness and existence comes together and forms non-duality? May be? Or saying this, is just demogogy?

Oh, thank you very much for your advice! I like it a lot! ? yeah.. how interesting?

@username this will be a little off- topic question but how do you stay anchored? Cause I'm lost in this part: Could you at least rephrase this in a more simple way, if you don't mind?

@username actually last one is a completely different question I was posing. I shouldn't have put 'so then'. Actually this is getting too abstract which is very delightful but I would love to see more practical approach which could create more efficiency in our lifes.

Coco Chanel: First one using pants for women. Before her, women were trapped, caged in corsets; her emphasis was placed on "how they feel in the clothes" rather than "how they appeal to men" First in having the lipstick in the tube form Creator of 'little black dress' phenomenon First designer ever land her name to a fragrance: channel no:5: transforms all haute-couture into whole new channel of business for luxury Chanel empire sells almost 3 billions in product each year. Channel no5 is still number 1 in the world, every minute it is sold (it's not my favorite though) You should see the movie about her; My God! empowering! Alva Vanderbilt Belmont One of America's richest and most powerful women Changes all the balances in New York high society, challenges Astors Fist to divorce a husband in her time in that society Socialite, supports woman's suffrage, well known quote: "well behaved women rarely make history" First one to call God as 'she' in her speeches Her biography by Margaret Hayden Rector is such a very very exciting thing to read, full of passion. Dr. Harriet Lerner Psychologist, a very important voice in the psychology of women Fist to say: call it 'vulva' it is not the vagina, if you don't name it, you'll only experience its absence. In her book " Dance of Deception' teaches the women what's lying and what's being truthful to your own being in the long run Supporter to feminist theory Oh boy, she is such empowering, inspiring to know. Madonna: a must see for every woman!

I can not think of existence of a relationship in non-duality. But can we talk about a relationship that oneness having with itself? In non-duality, could oneness raise its own awareness all by itself by just being? Or by just the relationship to itself? ------------------------------------------------------- So then, could the major reason for duality be raising our consciousness? (Through relating the other)

Oh, I see. You're right. Editing: Hahahah!!! I've just checked the posts; I would suggest just the complete opposites of all of your sayings? may be I shouldn't cause any further confusion to Magic! Guy to guy you'll strategize your own ways... I wish for an happy ending though?

@abgespaced I love you dear, I'm really sorry❤ ??

@blueTeacup In his well-known book, men are from Mars women are from Venus, John Gray says that, this is very common and normal in relationships. He says if the person feels loved and secure enough in the relationship, then it is expected that unsolved, painful emotions surface themselves. This generally is seen as a indication of healing process of those emotions.

@abgespaced I've read the article. What I understood is, I think I appeared to be attacking you, I hadn't realized that while writing it, but yes it's true. I apologize. Is that correct what I understand? Can we discuss some of your ideas?