Media Creates Culture
A BLOG BY THE AWAKE MEDIA COALITION
Servers that Serve
Servers that ServeI want to update you about recent streamlining improvements in Awake Media's server management team and process: ♠ 1. Shared servers: $8 per month, free with Awake.net membership Wordpess + Divi pre-Installed plus a suite of speed and security...
From Hosting to Film: A Digital Media Ecosystem for the Transformational 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, Founder, Creative Director, Designer, Writer
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 a company importing cutting edge superfoods like Spirulina from the US to UK. This led to my participation and co-founding a variety of different companies in the sustainable living arena culminating in...
Jeffrey Detrick, Creative Director, SEO, Ads, Tactics
I love the creative process and enjoy working with entrepreneurs and innovative marketing partners. I am an Award-Winning Creative Director and entrepreneur with 30+ years of experience in creative direction, strategic brand positioning, marketing project management,...
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...
Brand Strategy: The Big Picture Process
In the course of an hour-long meeting we will hear the narrative behind what you're doing whether it's a personal narrative or a social or cultural or business narrative. The story is going to be different for different people and businesses, but there is always a...
A Classroom on Your Website
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...
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 &...
Famous Corporate Sacred Geometry 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...
Brand Strategy: The Big Picture Process
Awake Media’s Big Picture Process by Lakshmi Narayan 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...
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 interested in altered states of consciousness, that involved a...
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
TransMedia Storytelling
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 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...