Media Creates Culture
A BLOG BY THE AWAKE MEDIA COALITION
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.
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.
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...
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...
Transformative Technology: Brain Waves of the Future
Last month I attended the transformative technologies conference at Sofia University in Palo Alto California, where some of the brightest minds on the planet discussed the next billion dollar industry: technologies for self awareness and awakening.Quantitative &...
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.
Brand Strategy: The Big Picture Process
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...
Repositioning Psychedelics in the Collective Consciousness
Repositioning Psychedelics in the Collective Consciousness This article was originally published in the MAPS 2012 Winter Bulletin and is reproduced with their permission. "I once heard of a behavioral study conducted at a university, years ago, long before I became...
In memory of Stuart Wilde who delivered to me my first and biggest awakening
Stuart Wilde passed away a few months ago of a heart attack at age 66. I am eternally grateful to him for giving it to me straight and simple. He awakened me through his powerful ideas and actions at the Warriors Wisdom workshop in Taos, new Mexico. I was 33 then....
Are you Awake? YouTube campaign
Seeking Transcendent Media Collaborations
Entheogens awaken one to a higher view of reality, a holographic view, and in order to communicate the truths that transcend the current views of our culture you need Transmedia Storytelling, an entirely new form of storytelling where the inner experience as well as the outer experience is elucidated, so that a species and culture in the grip of prohibition can understand why entheogens are a powerful savior and why we need to awaken to their decriminalization.
The Secret of Synchronicity
The Buddha questioned the necessity of suffering. He is represented as having withdrawn into pure detachment, and to me there has always been something partial about this interpretation of his teaching. No-mind, in my experience, is a very heartful place. I am drawn...
Design Renaissance 2010
Press Release: SANTA CRUZ, California. March 9, 2010 – Awake Media closes Earth Day weekend celebration with Design Renaissance 2010, a one-day event on Sunday, April 18, 2010 from 9AM– 4PM at the Dream Inn. Envisioning a global renaissance in creative...
Awakenings
Five Years Old, New Delhi, India: An afternoon with hailstones big as marbles. Myself, excited about going to the circus. Circus cancelled. I lived in New Delhi, I had never seen hailstones before. I ran to the front stoop and watched them fall on the grass. Then...
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