Saturday, April 10, 2010
MetaCreative Magazine - all issues to date!
MetaCreative Magazine was a free, full color, digital quarterly magazine featuring metaphysically infused art and culture. It was published from 2007-2010
11 back issues are online for your viewing on both Issuu and Scribd:
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
Myka Jelina Interview by: Mystikka Jade
Myka Jelina is a modern gothic fantasy artist who's paintings of edgy, unique fairies are sold in stores such as Hot Topic. Myka also has her own line of fragrances, jewelry and more.
If you had to label your art, what would you call it?
First off, I truly have a hard time talking about myself. If there is something in which I feel needs expressed. I tend use art to express myself. You might better understand more about me the person through my art.
I don't know if this is a tip or trick, but the first panels I painted on I made. I used a plywood or masonite panel, cut it to size and made gesso from latex paint and plaster of paris. I then gessoed a piece of muslin to the board wrapping it around the corners. After that dried I applied two to three layers of gesso, sanding between each layer. It made a very solid, smooth surface. I prefer acrylic paints but I also like the extended drying time of oils, it seemed like making panels and using an extending medium added to my paints allowed for a longer amount of blending time.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Mystikka interviews legendary psychic and author Sylvia Browne
Sylvia Browne is the #1 New York Times best-selling author and world-famous psychic medium who appeared on The Montel Williams Show for years and Larry King Live, as well as making countless other media and public appearances. With her down-to-earth personality and great sense of humor, Sylvia thrills audiences on her lecture tours and still has time to write numerous immensely popular books. She has a master’s degree in English literature and plans to write as long as she can hold a pen.
Sylvia is the president of the Sylvia Browne Corporation; and is the founder of her church, the Society of Novus Spiritus, located in Campbell, California.
Mystikka Jade: First, I wanted to ask you about one of your latest books, ‘Mystical Traveler.’ What exactly is a mystical traveler? What is the difference between that and a mission-life entity, which you also speak about in the book?
Sylvia Browne: Well, most of us are mission life entities. I mean, we come down here on a specific mission. There are certainly people that are more driven than others, who like to create something like Oprah has, or some bigger thing, like to work for animals.
But a mystical traveler is someone who gives up his or her will totally to God. In other words, you don’t have any free will choice anymore. So you decide to take on all the keys; the fortitude, the mercy, honesty, loyalty and gratitude. But there are a lot of plusses with that. You get psychic and healing ability, more levity, infused knowledge and greater intelligence. But you really have to take the oath.
I’ve talked to so many people before I wrote the book, and people would say to me, ‘There’s something more inside of me that I want to do to gain higher intelligence or higher spirituality.’ And that’s the person who is really a candidate for a mystical traveler.
Mystikka: Wow! It sounds to me like, when you’re describing a mystical traveler, that it’s someone who has no ego. Do you feel that a mystical traveler is someone who has eliminated the ego, or do they still struggle with it?
Sylvia: You know, all my life, I’ve heard this word ‘ego.’ And not because you asked me, but it makes me crazy. I am who I am. I am Sylvia. And, ‘ego’ taken from the Greek is ‘I am.’ If you know who you are, you’re happy with who you are, and you know you’re doing God’s work, you don’t have to worry about ego.
Mystikka: I guess where I am coming from when I use the word ‘ego’ is more to describe the side of ourselves that is based in fear or the dark side… So concerned with image that we often will overlook the greater picture of things…
Sylvia: Oh yeah but see, the more you get out with people the more you lose that. That’s too self- centered. It’s like, so many psychics are afraid to be wrong. And I say, well good Lord! Anyone who has any brain cells is going to be wrong.
I even said to John Edwards, ‘Don’t get caught up in your own press releases!’
Mystikka: (Laughs) Right! That’s a good one.
Sylvia: The bigger you are and the more you’re doing, the less time you have to think about yourself, or how you look, or what you’re doing or what you’re saying. I go out on stage and say ‘God, hit it!’ That’s all.
Mystikka: Or we have less time to be concerned about what other people are saying.
You can read the rest of this interview and much more in the Spring 2009 issue of MetaCreative Magazine! Check it out in PDF format on:
http://mystikka.com/spring09.pdf
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