Episode 218: Gemma Danielle is an artist and certified Reiki Master instructor. She has studied traditional Usui Reiki for over a decade and combines shamanic journeying, plant medicine ceremonies, akashic record reading and sound healing in her private practice. She seeks by contemplation and self-surrender to obtain unity with the absolute, and pursues universal truths that are beyond the intellect and the individual. Inspired by a personal healing journey, her work points beyond the illusion of separation, to express the ineffable mystical experience of transpersonal consciousness.
Her fine art began as a medium for the healing energies of Reiki, and she often references the ancient meditation tool of the mandala as a conductor and generator of this energy. She repeats silent prayers, or mantras, with each line drawn in her intricate webs, and labors over the precise straight lines without the aide of a ruler, attempting to mimic the technical precision of a computer by embracing the powerful capabilities of the human hand. She claims these works exist in multiple dimensions and can elicit an involuntary emotional response. She believes that art can serve as an antidote to the spiritual apathy of contemporary culture, beyond the fashionable expression of ego, to bring profound personal transformation and catalyze global spiritual evolution.
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