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