The Insurrection of the Poetic Imagination with Antero Alli

It was my great honor and pleasure to drop in with astrologer, author, filmmaker, and prolific, creative badass, Antero Alli, for a chat about aaalllll the things. Find the second half of our conversation at danikatz.locals.com and/or patreon.com/danikatz Find Antero Alli at: www.verticalpool.com Redeemingly pathological: Serving your dreams and valuing your own time. Time as a life currency Astrological Transits: The timing of change but not the cause Combatting the over literalist mindset and reigniting the faculty of imagination and its relationship to intelligence. Following a singular vision: Stimulating the Insurrection of the Poetic Imagination Politics of Poetics and the resurrection of the imagination The inner child and conscious imagination resurrection The birth of the age of reason and the deification of intellect over all other functions 8th circuit brain model and the humbling task of confessing ignorance Too much certitude and its relationship to a closed mind The overuse of the collective “WE” and the experience of the individual Testing one’s own Individual integrity Maturation through real suffering and learning to respond more productively to threat Having a “self” is a necessary part of giving of one self The leap from ME consciousness to WE consciousness Coping, transforming and getting over trauma What even is perfection? The creation of separation: YOU and ME Approaching each individual on a case by case basis by turning in to each person Helping yourself as a rite of passage to help others Experiential Astrology: Relating to language in an embodied way The planetary forces as experienced by the individual Tracer the movie will premiere for free on YOUTUBE on 9/21/22 The Muses Dialogue The predictable Hollywood Studio System Advancing our being through moving into the unknown by use of character Receptivity and Intimacy with the void and with the potential energy of existence itself Love is the center: Attracting the muses to stay receptive and creative First Attention: The Intellect; Meaning as an expression a process of assignment Second Attention: The Intuition; The awareness links with presence, phenomena, energy and is absence of label and meaning Approaching the creative process from a new perspective after shattering into humility Finding purpose through grief Taking on responsibility of our own pain but not for the world