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Media Creates Culture

by Lakshmi Narayan | Feb 25, 2025 | Audio & Video Production, awakening, Branding, Learning Management Systems, Logo Design, Media Creates Culture Blog, Psychedelics, Technology, transcendental cinema, Transformation, Web Development

I conceived of using media to awaken consciousness 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. I decided to devote my skills as a designer and communicator to creating media that awakens.

For a long time it remained somewhat of a New Age aspiration, without any legs, but after my ibogaine journey in 2015, I began to see a purpose for Awake Media that could actually facilitate that spiritual awakening. Today, in 2025, as I witness the unravelling of our culture and species in so many ways, I see that the need for media that awakens has become urgent on many fronts– in transcending trauma, ending addiction, finding purpose, righting relationships, and reconnecting with the divine. Enter entheogens, my preferred word for psychedelics.

Awake Media offers integrated branding, design and technology services for the entheogenic and transformational wellness community. We can help you create a memorable brand and extend it across your website, membership platform, an email marketing campaign, a book cover, conference graphics, a video or documentary, or crowdfunding campaign. Click here to schedule a complementary discovery call.

From Hosting to Film: A Digital Media Ecosystem for the Psychedelic Community

by Lakshmi Narayan | Sep 2, 2022 | 3D Animation, Alliances, Audio & Video Production, awakening, Branding, Consciousness, Learning Management Systems, Logo Design, Media Creates Culture Blog, Psychedelics, SEO and Content Strategy, Social Media Management, Team, Technology, transcendental cinema, Transformation, TransTech, Video Editor, videos, Web Development

From Hosting to Film: A Digital Media Ecosystem for the Psychedelic Community

Awake Media has evolved from a solo studio into a digital media ecosystem with a renaissance team of media experts who can serve the transformational community to create and send out their awakening messages and teachings quickly and powerfully. Ease of use is a key consideration for us because we 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.

Services

hosting and domain management

wordpress web development

transmedia storytelling

entheogenic social network

books and ebooks

web video and animation

branding

film

print design

coalition of independent contractors

subject matter experts

global renaissance team

The Awake Media Ecosystem

We are careful about who we work with and are seeking to “find the others” those who know in their heart of hearts that “There is no Other.” We want to harness the power of media for you and with you to create culture and quicken an awakening. Email or text Lakshmi Narayan at 619-366-7788 or

A Classroom on Your WordPress Website: Learning Management Systems

by Lakshmi Narayan | Mar 31, 2022 | Branding, Learning Management Systems, specials

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.

Features:

Multimedia Lessons

Appeal to multiple learning styles with video, audio, text, image-based lessons, and more.

Quizzes

Create dynamic multimedia quizzes to reinforce learning or test competency of the material

Course Builder

Easily build online courses from one screen with the intuitive multi-tier drag and drop course builder

Drip Content

Protect your learner focus and future recurring revenue by making lessons available over time

Prerequisites

Require the successful completion of a specific lesson or even a specific course before another one unlocks

Course Tracks

Offer degree programs or certifications on completion of a group of courses taken in any order

Assignments

Assignments requiring manual grading are coming soon as an advanced add-on

Quiz Timer

Set a maximum time limit for a quiz so students can demonstrate learning within a certain time

Student Dashboard

Front-end student profiles so learners can track their activity and stay organized

Multiple Instructors

Multiple instructors can create and teach a course or courses.

Lesson Downloads

Offer downloadable worksheets, ebooks, PDFs, audios, and other files for offline learning

Course Import

Easily import a course from one site to another for migration, licensing, and more

Course Export

One click export a course from your website for migration, licensing, backups, and more

Discussion Areas

Enjoy multiple discussion areas including lesson comments, forums, private coaching areas, and timelines

Instructional Design

Allow the software to guide you in how to organize and structure the most engaging courses online

Form Integrations

Add form plugins to collect assignments, contact messages, other data, and more

Graphics Pack

Get beautifully designed royalty-free certificate backgrounds, achievement badges, and more

Course Reviews

Increase course sales by collecting testimonials and honest reviews of your courses

Make Money

Our LMS helps you build a strong income generating a teaching business or membership site

Credit Card Payments

Own your platform and revenue with simple conversion-optimized credit card payments

One-Time Payments

You can charge whatever you want for your courses or memberships including simple one-time pricing

Recurring Payments

Create business sustainability and continuous cash flow with flexible recurring payment options

Supported by the Awake Media Team

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DIY with Handholding or Done-for-You services by Awake Media

Awake Media offers brand, content, web, print, video, film, seo, and social media services and tutorials.

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HOSTED ON OUR 100% GREEN SERVERS

We’ve hosted our websites on GreenGeeks environment-friendly servers for over 10 years. We love working with them!

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TURNKEY INSTALLATION

You’ll be ready to build your first course within 7 days after purchase. We’ll need some details from you to activate the free migration if you have an existing site, or if you’re starting a new course site you’ll need to register a domain name and activate hosting after checkout.

Regular price $2400

Get a 5% discount if you join the Awake.net community as a FEAT Friend member

$2400 one-time payment includes design to launch turnkey installation. If hosted on our servers: Add $64 per month ongoing Hosting, Updates, Maintenance and Server management costs for a scalable Virtual Private Server with option to transition to Cloud Servers as your community grows. $300 per year plugin license renewal fees. Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back.

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Sacred Geometry in World Famous Logos

by Lakshmi Narayan | May 20, 2016 | Branding, Logo Design, Psychedelics, Transformation

Sacred Geometry in World Famous Logos

Sacred geometry is a map of the invisible. It’s the structures and patterns, atomic and galactic, that define forms and systems.

Understanding sacred geometry gives meaning to life, and simplifies navigating through an increasingly complex world. Consciousness is fractal and holographic. Patterns repeat themselves, by definition, in species and objects, in social systems, in behavior, and in cycles of change. They manifest as symbols—in business brands, in art and architecture, in mythology, and music, and religion, in number and word. Words, are made of letters and letters are FORMS, they’re Geometric, and Geometry is symbolic Mathematics. ‘LOGO’ means ‘WORD’. ‘LOGOS, is the ‘Logic of Word’ or ‘the person of.’ Here are a few corporate logos and the sacred geometry imbued in their symbols. We don’t know whether these symbols were designed with this understanding in mind, but it’s because of the meaning they imbue that people are attracted to certain forms. These forms keep repeating themselves through history.

The cross is a coordinate of a vertical and a horizontal ordinate. X and Y, which stand for direction, and also designate the male and female chromosomes. It symbolizes direction and crossroads, and of course, when viewed from below it is the Christian crucifix.

The pentagram is the five-pointed star, associated with Pentagonal symmetry, also associated with renewal and the Devil.

The Texaco logo derives it’s power from these 2 secular symbols, the pentagram and the cross, symbols of Christ and the Devil, or crucifixion and renewal, a union of polarities.

The Christian fish symbol, comes from the center carved out of the intersection of two circles whose circumference just touches the center of the other. This geometry is called a Vesica Piscis—’vesica’ means ‘bladder’ which could be likened to a sac containing something fluid, in this case “piscis” which means ‘pointed oval’. Two wholes, or two poles, left and right, male and female, good and evil, yin and yang — the sacred space formed by their intersection is, appropriately, the symbol of Christ. If you draw another vesica piscis inside the center and erase everything but the oval in the center, you get a pupil, a symbol used in Hindu mandalas, and geometric meditation diagrams symbolizing “vision.”

The Vesica Piscic geometry is the foundation of the Flower of Life symbol, as well as the Christian fish symbol

TWA used the same geometry in their original logo, symbolizing the union of different worlds through travel.

And Mastercard uses it to denote the power of credit.

In all these cases, the form derives it’s original power from the meaning of a union of opposites. The meanings associated with it by brand came later. Those are more individual to the brand. The power of the symbol is universal and archetypal. VIEW OUR PORTFOLIO OF SACRED GEOMETRY LOGOS

Brand Strategy: The Big Picture Process

by Lakshmi Narayan | Sep 5, 2022 | Branding

Awake Media’s Big Picture Process

This process is dedicated to my late friend, business partner and mentor, Dan Bockman.

When I met him, Dan was in his 70’s, at the tail end of a brilliant career as a Creative Director for an international ad agency in LA, with clients like Visa and Honda. Dan was primarily responsible for Honda becoming the “Number 1 car company” in the world in the 80’s. When Honda came to his agency, they just wanted a small piece of the American market share, and they had a new, as yet unnamed, fuel economy car to advertise. Dan named the car Accord and raised their expectations and window of opportunity by pointing out that a low-fuel car COULD become #1 during an oil embargo. And so it was. At the tail-end of his career, he was hired by Steven Spielberg to convert the characters in a commercial he had created into a feature length film called Gabe and Walker.

Dan taught me the Big Picture Process, and it is like a haiku in the world of overblown marketing processes. Before we sign a contract with a new client, whether for a website, an app, a crowdfunding campaign or an integrated marketing effort, we spend 1-2 hours in meetings with the client via skype or in-person. Our goal at these meetings is to discover three things about you and your business or subject matter:

WHAT’S YOUR STORY?
WHO’S YOUR AUDIENCE? (we create a profile of your ideal clients/customers)
HOW TO TELL IT? (identify media channels and messages)

This exploration is the seed of the strategy, design, media or technology we will create together and for you because it gives us the big picture.