Brett Manning: Bridging Realms Through Art, the Fae & Otherworldly Relationships (Ep. 3, Pt. 1)

Part 2 of this episode airs Saturday, March 15 @ 3:00pm Eastern!GuestBrett Manning Brett is an artist and illustrator living in rural north central Indiana. She works in many mediums including photography, short films, watercolor, plush toy design, and candle making, but her absolute favorite, and possibly what she’s best known for, would be her ink drawings. She finds inspiration for her art in many things, such as plants and animals, patterns, textures, folklore, dreams, synchronicity, Deja vu, the supernatural, spontaneity, truth, isolation, community, and the exploration of the self… and her process for creating tends to feel more meditative and alchemical than anything, with all the repetitive inking and line work and sigil-like patterns. She also attempts to recreate the images seen within dreams, and to capture the beings and creatures who seem to want representation in our world.******* Episode Summary In this episode, we introduce you to Brett Manning -- an amazing artist that entered our orbit through a synchronistic encounter with Anthony at the Frogman Festival in Loveland, Ohio, involving an entity she helped bring into our world through one of her many amazing illustrations. Brett discusses her artistic process, which sounds truly like an alchemical act of co-creation, how entities and beings from the realm of the Fae work with her to come into our reality, her encounters and shared experiences with an entity likened by some to the Celtic nature god Cernunnos, and her permeable self experiences with what she calls "The Great All" -- akin to a non-dualistic Source consciousness that transcends and obliterates the reigning physicalist paradigm and Western worldview!*******Chapters0:00 Intros04:30 Frogman Festival Encounter07:30 The Fairies "Reach Out to Me"11:20 Relationship With a Masculine Forest Guardian Entity21:00 Beings With a Foot in Both Worlds26:00 Non-Duality & Transcending Good Vs. Bad Encounters28:00 Fae-Like Tricksters Help Break the Illusion of Duality35:00 Brett's Experience With "The Great All"40:00 Experiences Centering Love & Jest Toward Reality46:00 Community, Relationality & Radical Transparency *******Credits: "Celtic Impulse" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Last but not least: If these conversations matter to you, please consider supporting us!📲👍🏽🔔 Please rate, follow, and turn on alerts for our podcast to stay up to date with our releases, and we encourage you to ask questions and give us feedback and thoughts in the comments section!🗣️ The Fire In The Cosmos can only be kindled through an open dialogue on all these topics, so we want this to be a space where YOUR voice can also be heard!To support us please join our ⁠Patreon⁠ & follow us on our socials!⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠ (To watch our episodes) ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠X/Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠📩 Substack coming soon — stay tuned!