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Creative Codex

Creative Codex

MJDorian

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Peer into the minds of the greatest creative geniuses in history. Join us as we explore the mystery of how creativity works, art history and how you can improve your own creative process. The labyrinth awaits. Creative Codex is one-part podcast and one-part imaginative lecture series, featuring thoroughly researched insights into the creative process mixed with captivating soundscapes and original music. Produced & Written by MJDorian
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Can madness and genius be contained in one individual? Can psychosis and the rarest artistry be contained in one mind?

These contradictions pervade the story of Vincent van Gogh. And in the final three years of his life, they culminate in a whirlwind.

You may think you know Vincent, you may have heard about him on a TV show or a podcast. But not like this.

Over the next three episodes, we will explore Van Gogh’s personal letters, doctor’s reports, police reports, and family letters, to paint a vivid picture of Vincent in his three final years, these are the years that produced his most famous and beloved works, and the years in which Vincent’s final tragic descent begins.

Was he actually psychotic or just misunderstood? Did he really cut off his ear and commit suicide? Was he actually a creative genius or is it all just hype? Let’s find out.

Episode Notes:

• Here is a special gallery I made (as mentioned in the episode) where you can view selections of Vincent's paintings from 1880-1887: https://mjdorian.com/vincent/

• If you are enjoying CREATIVE CODEX please share it with someone! Anyone who you think would enjoy it. It is the number one way to help this show grow! And thank you in advance.

• If you'd like to become a patron of the show, and receive access to all of the exclusive patron-only Creativity Tip mini-episodes, please head over to my Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/mjdorian

• Thank you for your support!

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A full transcript of this episode is available here: https://mjdorian.com/transcripts/

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Creative Codex is written & produced by MJDorian.

All music in this episode was written & produced by MJDorian.

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Follow me on social media to stay up to date on all the new releases:

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/mjdorian

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Creative Codex - 2: Leonardo da Vinci’s Secret
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09/03/18 • 34 min

What made Leonardo da Vinci so consistently inspired? What was his secret? Take a walk with us through the streets of Renaissance Florence and find out.

If you're enjoying the podcast please consider supporting us at: www.patreon.com/mjdorian

For more MJDorian music check out: Spotify - MJDorian

Written & Produced by MJDorian

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Creative Codex - Guided Meditation: Inner Child (Active Imagination)
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05/12/23 • 33 min

This is a special guided meditation episode which takes you on a journey to meet your inner child and start a dialogue with them. It is inspired by Dr. Carl Jung's active imagination method.

My hope is that this meditation will introduce you to a new way of relating to your inner world. A way that is playful and engages one of the most powerful and seemingly overlooked tools humans have: imagination.

In becoming familiar with the method of active imagination, and how to engage a dialogue with a part of your unconscious, we will have a way to not only understand Jung's theories in the following Jung & Alchemy series, but to also experience them.

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Read the session notes from 3 of my Inner Child meditaitons here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/guided-inner-82881641?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

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Support Creative Codex on my Patreon and get access to exclusive episodes, including the Kurt Cobain series and all the Episode Exclusives:

https://www.patreon.com/mjdorian

Buy me a coffee or add to my fancy books fund on Venmo:

https://venmo.com/code?user_id=3235189073379328069&created=1681912456.228596&printed=1

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Executive Producers (Dream Maker Tier): Mike Hill, Kurt Ward

Written & Produced by MJDorian

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Connect with me on social media for all the newest updates:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/creativecodex

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mjdorian/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/mjdorian

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When the Nazi Party came to power in Germany, in 1933, one of their first goals was to reshape culture by force. The Nazis organized book burnings, stormed artist studios, confiscating work they disagreed with, and fired contemporary artists from teaching positions in universities. The goal was to place limits on human expression–an ominous display for what was to come.

Visit the companion gallery for this episode here: https://mjdorian.com/dangerous/

The celebrated 1800's German poet, Heinrich Heine, wrote: "where books are burned, there too, people will burn."

On this episode, we explore the Degenerate Art Exhibition of 1937, otherwise known as Entartete Kunst. The intended goal of the exhibit was to insult and ridicule the featured artists and kill modern art. Making it clearly known to the German public that the Nazi Party was forbidding any form of abstraction in painting, film, sculpture, or music.

The suppression or censorship of art is a symptom that something is desperately wrong in the cultural fabric of a society. What happened to the artists featured in the exhibition? Did they continue making art? Did they flee or stay and protest? Why is art so dangerous?

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Artists featured in this episode: Otto Dix, Max Beckmann, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Emil Nolde, and Conrad Felixmüller. Explore their work in this special companion gallery I put together: https://mjdorian.com/dangerous/

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If you'd like to become a supporter of CREATIVE CODEX, and obtain access to all the exclusive content, such as the Kurt Cobain series and all the Creativity Tip episodes, head on over to: https://www.patreon.com/mjdorian

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All music in this episode was produced & composed by MJDorian.

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Creative Codex is written and produced by MJDorian.

More info here: https://mjdorian.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mjdorian/

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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/creativecodex

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Today in Creative History: August 18th, 1969, Jimi Hendrix plays a visionary rendition of The Star Spangled Banner for a stunned audience at Woodstock. It's a performance that will go down in history as the musical climax of a tumultuous decade in the USA. Decades later, this rendition still sounds as startling to our ears as it must have to the tens of thousands in attendance.

If you'd like to become a supporter of Creative Codex and receive access to all of the patron exclusives (including the Kurt Cobain series and the Sermons Only version of Jung's Seven Sermons) check out my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mjdorian

If you'd like to buy me a coffee or some new guitar strings, now you can on Venmo! Just search @creativecodex, and click the businesses tab. You can also open it directly at this link: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=3235189073379328069&created=1635357384.800416&printed=1

Thank you for your support!

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Watch Jimi Hendrix perform The Star Spangled Banner in this Woodstock clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjzZh6-h9fM

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Music featured in this episode:

Continuum by MJDorian

Foxey Lady (performed at Miami Pop, 1968) by The Jimi Hendrix Experience

The Star Spangled Banner (performed at Woodstock, 1969) Jimi Hendrix

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Creative Codex - Creativity Tip 19: The Subtle Art of Mirroring
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12/06/22 • 8 min

Have you ever noticed that you mirror your closest friend's habits and interests? Have you ever wondered: 'how do I think like Leonardo da Vinci or Albert Einstein?' On this creativity tip, we are going to explore something we all do naturally: mirroring. And how we can use to inspire our creative work in new and unexpected directions.

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Want to buy me a coffee or throw some coin in my 'fancy books fund'? You can do so on Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=3235189073379328069&created=1663877262.670737&printed=1

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Want to become a supporter of Creative Codex and gain access to all the exclusive content? Just head over to my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mjdorian And thank you in advance for your support!

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Check out the Creative Codex YouTube Channel for special videos, including my experimentation with art generation A.I. technology: https://www.youtube.com/creativecodex

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Connect with me on social media for all the newest updates:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mjdorian/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/mjdorian

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mjdorian

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Creative Codex - 1: The Origin of Art

1: The Origin of Art

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08/18/18 • 23 min

Travel back 40,000 years to the first known art made by human hands. How did creativity begin? Why does 'art' exist? Dive in to find out, in the first episode of Creative Codex.

If you're enjoying the podcast please consider supporting us at: www.patreon.com/mjdorian

For more MJDorian music: Spotify - MJDorian

Written & Produced by MJDorian

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Is art dangerous? On this minisode, I share a personal story about the art project that almost killed me. I call this: The Devil Wood Incident. This is Exhibit A in a miniseries exploring the theme: Art Is Dangerous.

Here is a link to the Devil Wood music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TTL-GKBMTk

If you would like to share your own Art Is Dangerous story for a future episode, reach out to me: [email protected]

Instagram of singer / songwriter / vocal alchemist, Shelley Thomas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TTL-GKBMTk

The song featured in this episode is called Dwell Within Me (feat. Shelley Thomas), on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/track/45TKlkP734PwRGYbhKaLzZ?si=9f6e26d2826444a2

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If you'd like to become a Patron of Creative Codex, and gain access to all the Creativity Tip episodes as well as Episode Exclusives, head over to: https://www.patreon.com/mjdorian

Thank you for your support!

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Creative Codex - 41: Carl Jung & Alchemy • Part III: Magnum Opus
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08/31/23 • 74 min

Join me for a journey back to a time when alchemy was revered by Kings & Queens and practiced in the courts of nobles. A time when Prague was the alchemical capital of the world–drawing occultists to it from all of Europe, and ruled by a King who supported esoteric spiritual practices. Along the way we will find direct parallels between Jung's Red Book and the work of the alchemists, leading us to Jung's most misunderstood psychotherapeutic method: active imagination.

We will also explore these questions: What can a two hundred year old Grimm's fairy tale teach us about alchemy? What value did Dr. Carl Jung see in fairy tales? Why is a scholarly mind one of alchemy's virtues? Is Hermes-Mercurius the God of Alchemy?

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View my Atalanta Fugiens gallery (containing all 50 artworks) here: https://mjdorian.com/alchemy/

Join the Creative Codex mailing list: https://mjdorian.com/mail/

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Support Creative Codex on my Patreon and get access to exclusive episodes, including the RED BOOK READING series and all the Episode Exclusives:

https://www.patreon.com/mjdorian

Buy me a coffee or add to my fancy books fund on Venmo:

https://venmo.com/code?user_id=3235189073379328069&created=1681912456.228596&printed=1

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View a transcript of this episode here: https://mjdorian.com/transcripts/

Prague's historic alchemical laboratory, Speculum Alchimiae: http://www.alchemiae.cz/en

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Cover art: detail of a Ripley Scroll (1600's)

Christies auction house video about a Ripley Scroll: https://www.christies.com/features/The-fantastic-world-of-the-Ripley-Scroll-8760-3.aspx

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Research Sources:

• The Red Book by Carl Jung

• Psychology and Alchemy by Carl Jung

• Alchemical Studies by Carl Jung

• Mysterium Coniunctionis by Carl Jung

• Alchemical Active Imagination by Marie Louise von Franz

• Alchemical Imagination by Jeffrey Raff

• Atalanta Fugies by Michael Maier

• Spagyrics by Jean Dubuis

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Audio Editor: Donald Martin

All Music by MJDorian

Written & Produced by MJDorian

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Thank you to my Dream Maker tier!

Executive Producer: Mike Hill

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Thank-you's & 'shout outs' to the Shadow Fam!

Shadow-Fam: AKD, Anna Wolff, Aranea Push, Arturo Barrios, Barak Talker, Brandon Massengale, Cesar Roman, Chee Sing Kam, Clark Price, Clinton King, Dallas O’Kelly, Danny Olague, DVM, Elle, Ellis Morton, Gabriel Trudeau, Geo_H, Hamed Iranmehr, Jane Lopardo, Janet Roccanova, Jaskaran Purewal, Jasmine Carroll, Joe Boland, Kahlil Pyburn, Kawika, Kayla Dawson, Kristin Richard, Kristina Lamour Sansone, Maurus Fitze, Michael Lloyd, Nicole Wessel, Owen McAteer, Rach, Rachel Schultz, Rebecca, Ricky, Robert, Romina, Scott Wierzbicki, Sigitas Treciokas, Simon Bonanno, Sowmya Hariharan, Tamara, Terry W, Uppity Mantis, Venetia Nadin, Yadie Cisneros, Zarja Menart, and Zuzana. Thank you for your support!

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Connect with me on social media for all the newest updates:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/creativecodex

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mjdorian/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/mjdorian

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mjdorian

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The Middle Pillar is a unique and profound meditation popularized by Israel Regardie. Regardie was a writer on Western esoteric traditions and a ceremonial magician during the 1900's. The meditation we explore in this episode is based entirely on Regardie's description in his book of the same name, released in 1930, entitled: The Middle Pillar. During his lifetime, Regardie was a prominent member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. One of the benefits of practicing The Middle Pillar is that it centers you and brings your energies back into balance. This is achieved through the visualization of spheres of energy along the center line of your body, called sephiroth. These spheres are activated using ancient Hebrew names, traditionally believed to represent emanations of the divine. As a memory aid, below are the five sephiroth which The Middle Pillar focuses on, and the respective divine name that is chanted, along with a pronunciation key in parenthesis. The Middle Pillar: 1. Kether • "AHIH" (pronounced "Eh-he-yeh") 2. Daath • "YHVH ALHIM" (pronounced "Yod-heh-vav-heh E-loh-heem") 3. Tiphareth • "YHVH ALOAH ve-DAATH" (pronounced "Yod-heh-vav-heh El-oah-ve-Da-ath") 4. Yesod • "SHADDAI AL CHAI" (pronounced "Shah-dai El Chai") 5. Malkuth • "ADNI HARTZ" (pronounced "Ah-doh-nai ha-Ah-retz") Creative Codex is written & produced by MJDorian To support the show and gain access to exclusive episodes please visit: https://www.patreon.com/mjdorian Find out more at: http://www.mjdorian.com/
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Creative Codex currently has 86 episodes available.

What topics does Creative Codex cover?

The podcast is about Podcasts and Arts.

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The episode title '22: Vincent van Gogh • A Strange Boy (Madness, Genius, & Tragedy: Part 1)' is the most popular.

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The average episode length on Creative Codex is 52 minutes.

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Episodes of Creative Codex are typically released every 23 days, 23 hours.

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The first episode of Creative Codex was released on Aug 18, 2018.

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