Empowering Artists for Cultural Transformation with Raamayan Ananda

The role of the artist in culture has long been a central theme and when explored brings us to new insights into who we are as a people.  It also invites us to inquire into how we cultivate greater creativity globally.  We know this is foundational for a culture in crisis.  Without a vision, the people will perish.  When we look at how we have been neglecting this creative lifeblood in our educational system in the United States and many other ways, we can understand the necessity for finding new pathways to support the creator culture and the artist in our world.  I believe that we are all born creative and it is a God-given aspect of our nature.  So how we create spaces and systems of support for the creative voice and our emerging expressive capacities will determine the future health of our country and the world.  We will explore this and more in our conversation with Raamayan Ananda who is a mystic-preneur musician poet-author and perfectly poised to share his wisdom with us.  What I find inspiring about being with Raamayan and receiving his transmission offerings is that he takes everything up a notch; he does not stay at the current level of systems design or cultural innovation and evolution.  Feel the expansion of the realm of possibility.

Diving into the role of creativity reimagined, you’ll get the embodied sense of why artists are the “unacknowledged legislators of our time” and what happens when we become more visible and the structures, our enabling structures for our own creativity and our community building begin to take root as the new social DNA.  Ultimately, we can imagine how this supports us learning and experimenting with how we can coordinate locally to learn how to coordinate globally.

From Raamayan’s spiritual catalyst roots to getting down into systems thinking, he brings through some wonderful insights into what it is that calls us forth into our dharma, our higher shared purpose, and does so by bringing to us a beautiful upgrade of DAOs as a system architecture.  From DAOs to Dharmically Aligned Organisms.  There’s so much encoded in that - there's your dharma, your purpose, then there’s the alignment (beyond agreement), then the living systems, bringing in the power of the natural world as the ultimate teacher.  In this conversation, we’ll go behind the structure and stories of DAOs into the deeper inquiry around what are we learning as humanity, what are we experimenting with, why do we need to be experimenting, and what is necessary for us to learn.

One of the main things that I love about speaking with Raamayan is to notice how he’s weaving together art, media, culture and ‘spiritual unfoldment’ as a prerequisite for cultural evolution.  This is wholeness at its best.  How do we know ourselves even more deeply and our purpose in the world to catalyze culture to its next levels - the heart of community building and freedom.  When we take that combined with alignment, not where we all have to agree, but we have alignment around our principles and values and that alignment is around the common good, we find ourselves in new territory worthy of exploration. I really value exploring how this is the new training ground for humanity, and identifying the need for these kinds of communities of practice, training grounds and dojos.

Because what would an inspiring conversation be without our lived practice, in the closing we’ll hear about the power and beauty of Raamayan’s morning practice and then we close with a song.  This is a very special dialogue.  Please do join us and enjoy the process.

As always we welcome your participation, comments, likes, and sharing.  This is a small growing community everyone who is here and listening.  Soon we’ll be opening up some more participatory spaces.

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