{"id":6,"date":"2007-05-17T10:16:54","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T10:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/blog\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2017-05-16T00:38:06","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T00:38:06","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/?page_id=6","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
\n~Carl Jung<\/strong>
\n***<\/p>\n

>My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
\n~John Lennon<\/span><\/span><\/strong>
\n***<\/p>\n

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty “yes” to your adventure.
\n~Joseph Campbell<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\n***<\/p>\n

I live on Earth at present,
\nand I don’t know what I am.
\nI know that I am not a category.
\nI am not a thing — a noun.
\nI seem to be a verb,
\nan evolutionary process —
\nan integral function of the universe.
\n~ R. Buckminster Fuller
\n***<\/p>\n

> And those who were seen dancing
\nwere thought to be insane
\nby those who could not hear the music
\n~Frederick Nietsche
\n***<\/p>\n

Psychonaut (or Psychanaut) – a modern portmanteau of the Greek words for soul and sailor i.e. a traveler of the mind\/soul.\u00a0 A person facinated by our boundless inner universe.\u00a0 A person who experiences intentionally induced altered states of consciousness in order to investigate the mysteries of his or her deepest inner space, and address consciousness\/spiritual questions through direct experience.\u00a0 Someone more attuned with philosophy, morality, and consciousness than with trivial persuits and mass distractions.
\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(PsychAnaut instead of PsychOnaut sometimes denotes a female psychonaut.)<\/p>\n

\n

I couldn’t say it any better than that. So, here’s labels that could be applied to me: vocalist, performer, songwriter, psychanaut, visionary, wildlife protector, poet, ecologist – and generator of glorious ideas.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

I have many interests and skills, but all come from my main joy and personal passion: the evolution of our species.\u00a0 What is our potential as human beings?\u00a0 How much wiser can we be?\u00a0 How much more loving?\u00a0 I understand that all of our challenges, from environmental degradation to animal exploitation to greed to violence…all come from a lack of consciousness.\u00a0 And so, to improve every aspect of our personal and global reality, we must open ourselves up to a higher level of consciousness that is available, right now, to us.<\/p>\n

It is my dream to live in a world of beauty, where all living beings are valued…a world where humankind has grown beyond violence and exploitation and instead embrace our role as creatives and caretakers.<\/p>\n

Sometimes this dream feels so close, as if we could move into it today… and other times it seems like only a fantasy. \u00a0I do not pretend to know which way this particular species will choose…but for myself: I choose to expand into conscious life, whatever that may mean.<\/p>\n

If this resonates with you, then we are perhaps on the same journey! I’d love to hear from you.<\/p>\n

Peace!<\/p>\n

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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. ~Carl Jung *** >My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all. ~John Lennon *** […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1126,"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/1126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}