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.comwww.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