Media Creates Culture: A Blog by the Awake Media Coalition
I conceived of what later became Awake Media while I was witnessing the Twin Towers toppling on TV. At that moment I knew that we as a species were going to need to spiritually awaken to transcend the trauma and turmoil that we have created at this level of consciousness, in it’s materiality. Awake Media offers integrated branding, web development, design and media services for the entheogenic and addiction recovery community.
From Hosting to Film: A Digital Media Ecosystem for the Psychedelic Community
Ease of use is a key consideration for me because I find that if the processes have been streamlined, the creativity flows and we can create something great together. In the world of design, this is called Design Thinking, and we apply this to all our work.
Servers that Serve
I want to update you about recent streamlining improvements in Awake Media’s server management team and process offering you different upgrade tiers so you can scale as you grow.
Lakshmi Narayan, Creative Director
I'm from India, but I learned Swiss typography during my Master's program at University of Illinois in Chicago, where I also learned design history from a professor who was as passionate about it as myself. I am a conceptual designer. I understand branding and how to...
Rowan Gabrielle, Conferences & Events Producer, Business Coach
I began my business career at the age of 19 when I started my own company importing cutting edge superfoods from the US to UK (Spirulina etc). This led to my participation and co-founding a variety of different companies, in the sustainable living arena. Culminating...
Elizabeth Thomas, book designer, painter
As a graphic designer, I’ve worked with varied audiences. From symbols and logos, brochures, and books for urban readers, to developing and testing teaching aids for village health workers and exhibitions about women’s struggles in village Panchayats. Worked with a...
A Classroom on Your WordPress Website: Learning Management Systems
The movie The Social Dilemma revealed the extent of the censorship and social manipulation we currently experience on Facebook and other platforms. Building your classroom and student community on your WordPress website gives you 100% ownership, privacy, and an ad-free environment.
Sacred Commerce
Awake Media creates films, apps, and books about a very important topic: entheogens, a.k.a. psychedelics. I have decided to put the power of my 40 years of experience with branding and design, as well as the power of media itself, wholly to work on communicating and...
About Awake Media
Why Awake Media? In this corporate controlled dis-information age, it sounds like an oxymoron. We should not let it be so! The intention of Awake Media, and awaken-ing, its mission, flows from it's founder, me, Lakshmi Narayan, a sentient life manifested in the corpus...
Iboga Saves: a documentary
I'm very happy to announce that Lakshmi Narayan of Awake Media has joined forces with Producer/Director Eric Thiermann, founder of Impact Creative and Academy Award Nominee and DP for Oscar winner "Women for America" to make a documentary about ibogaine, the...