Part 2 of my podcast interview with Beth Lapides

Part 2 of my conversation with Shane Sedore. Part 1 is available on this channel and danikatz.locals.com

Artist, teacher, wise woman and friend, Lauren Mantecon, joined me on the podcast to talk art, creativity, and how to keep on keepin’ on, when your creative community goes batshit. Find Part 2: danikatz.locals.com www.patreon.com/danikatz Buy my new book: https://www.amazon.com/Language-Betterarchy-Blueprint-Uniting-against/dp/B0CH23Z4P2/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1697389310&refinements=p_27%3ADani+Katz&s=books&sr=1-1 Find Lauren: https://www.laurenmantecon.com/ Show notes: Facing our shadows~ Wetiko, art & spirituality Censorship vs free speech Artists & woke ideology~ an absence of individuals within a homogenized community Lonely & rejected~ being free-minded inside mass psychosis Keeping vibes high to quench the spirit Mind viruses~ a loss of rational debate “Can’t wake people up who are pretending to be asleep" Paul Levy~ imagination, creativity & lucid dreaming Follow the money & follow your gut Normalization of the narcissism of victimhood Soul preservation on an AI trajectory to eliminate it Being fully expressed~ reinventing herself in a brave new world Perceiving from all angles & pursuit of truth Zombie formalism in art & journalism and astrology Heartbreak & the loss of old heroes New galleries, new paintings & new future possibilities

A little riff on why we are wise to STOP self-identifying as "old" and some prompts to start to recognize temporal comparison, and the pointlessness of stapling our identities to our sun spins.