Palehorse

Palehorse recounts giving up a mean-spirited sense of humor after realizing it diminished who he was and his feelings of joy.

“I realized one day that that was really, really diminishing who I was and diminishing my feelings of joy”

Seekers of the Eternal: 60 ~ Unlocking Your Inner Genius w/ Palehorse (Feb 5, 2025) · Listen from 47:40

Palehorse asserts that politicians and billionaire CEOs are trying to hold on to old ways but will fail, though it will cause trouble for a while.

“the billionaire CEOs and the politicians are trying to hang on to the old ways of doing things, trying to go back in time”

Seekers of the Eternal: 60 ~ Unlocking Your Inner Genius w/ Palehorse (Feb 5, 2025) · Listen from 17:34

Palehorse contends that artists, rather than weapons or wealth, are what change the world, because emotional impact endures.

“It's artists that change the world. It's not the guns and the billions of dollars and the violent revolutions”

Seekers of the Eternal: 59 ~ Solocast w/ Palehorse - The Creative Muse (Jan 29, 2025) · Listen from 52:59

Palehorse argues that art and creativity always improve during times of chaos and fear, and that distraction by news is a form of resistance.

“whenever there's a lot of challenges and fear and uncertainty in the world, always, always, always the art gets better, the music gets better, creativity increases”

Seekers of the Eternal: 59 ~ Solocast w/ Palehorse - The Creative Muse (Jan 29, 2025) · Listen from 51:58

Palehorse recounts that in 2020 he left his illustration agent to pursue spiritual artwork despite not knowing how he would pay his bills.

“in 2020, actually letting go of my agent and wanting to pursue artwork that was of a spiritual nature. I didn't know how I was going to manage”

Seekers of the Eternal: 59 ~ Solocast w/ Palehorse - The Creative Muse (Jan 29, 2025) · Listen from 2:17

Palehorse, citing Rizwan Virk, warns that some apparent inspirations are 'anti-clues' that lead back into negative habitual patterns.

“We have these anti-clues that arise and they feel so right in the moment, but they are actually the dragon”

Seekers of the Eternal: 60 ~ Unlocking Your Inner Genius w/ Palehorse (Feb 5, 2025) · Listen from 43:08

Palehorse argues that chasing repeated success, fame and followers leads artists to anxiety and suffering.

“We've got to keep getting more famous or more followers. And all of this just leads to so much suffering”

Seekers of the Eternal: 60 ~ Unlocking Your Inner Genius w/ Palehorse (Feb 5, 2025) · Listen from 37:19

Palehorse urges artists to move beyond Dalí-style subconscious inspiration toward superconscious inspiration, which he says the present age demands.

“this is what salvador dali was doing was accessing the subconscious mind but here for our purposes i want to encourage us to move into a higher calling”

Seekers of the Eternal: 60 ~ Unlocking Your Inner Genius w/ Palehorse (Feb 5, 2025) · Listen from 34:58

Palehorse argues that war and violence produce only temporary change, while true change comes from uplifting oneself and thereby the world.

“The real true change, the real true way to make a good difference in this world is to uplift ourselves”

Seekers of the Eternal: 60 ~ Unlocking Your Inner Genius w/ Palehorse (Feb 5, 2025) · Listen from 16:27

Palehorse contends that despair, anger and division are 'dragons' that prevent people from making art and sharing compassion.

“The dragons, those are the things that are going to keep us from making our art”

Seekers of the Eternal: 60 ~ Unlocking Your Inner Genius w/ Palehorse (Feb 5, 2025) · Listen from 8:19

Palehorse reports that testing an exciting idea with calm love in meditation sometimes reveals he has no real interest in it, saving time before starting.

“I'll go into a meditation and water it with that calm love. And then when I'm done with that meditation, all of a sudden, I have no interest in that idea anymore”

Seekers of the Eternal: 60 ~ Unlocking Your Inner Genius w/ Palehorse (Feb 5, 2025) · Listen from 40:47

Palehorse describes keeping his mind on God and on the intended feeling with each brushstroke so that viewers can feel what he felt while painting.

“they have an opportunity to feel what I'm feeling as I'm creating the work, as that work is flowing through me”

Seekers of the Eternal: 60 ~ Unlocking Your Inner Genius w/ Palehorse (Feb 5, 2025) · Listen from 29:21

Palehorse describes a period in which deep meditation made art feel trivial, after which he turned to guiding meditations before returning to art.

“you may go through a period where you're like, wow, making art seems so trivial now. I don't have the motivation that I used to have”

Seekers of the Eternal: 59 ~ Solocast w/ Palehorse - The Creative Muse (Jan 29, 2025) · Listen from 1:05:01

Palehorse says he originally took up meditation for creative purposes, to receive visions and ideas for his artwork.

“I originally got into meditation for creative purposes, to tap into those realms beyond the thinking mind, beyond the physical realm”

Seekers of the Eternal: 59 ~ Solocast w/ Palehorse - The Creative Muse (Jan 29, 2025) · Listen from 1:11

Palehorse says each card will have a painting for sale and allow users to scan it with a phone to access a mythic story, meditation, or symbolism.

“the idea is that you'll be able to roll over this card with your phone, and then you'll have a series of options”

Seekers of the Eternal: 59 ~ Solocast w/ Palehorse - The Creative Muse (Jan 29, 2025) · Listen from 49:32

Palehorse announces that Thoth will be the first card of his oracle deck, which will expand to deities from cultures worldwide.

“he is going to be the first card in the Oracle deck and that this Oracle deck is going to be... I'm feeling so enthusiastic about it”

Seekers of the Eternal: 59 ~ Solocast w/ Palehorse - The Creative Muse (Jan 29, 2025) · Listen from 48:23

Palehorse believes that the artist's enjoyment while making a work is transmitted to the viewer.

“if I'm enjoying drawing this line, painting this line, then chances are someone who's looking at it will enjoy it as well”

Seekers of the Eternal: 59 ~ Solocast w/ Palehorse - The Creative Muse (Jan 29, 2025) · Listen from 45:56

Palehorse cites Kirby Surprise's book to argue that noticing synchronicities can tip into paranoia and conspiracy thinking.

“synchronicities turn on for them. It turns into paranoid schizophrenia, that sort of like people think that everything is a conspiracy”

Seekers of the Eternal: #57 ~ SKINNER: Art, Mythology, Monsters & Self Love (Dec 22, 2024) · Listen from 1:13:58

Palehorse relays Kriyananda's distinction between inspiration reformed in the thinking mind and superconscious inspiration that brings something entirely new.

“there are inspirations that come from the superconscious beyond the thinking mind to bring something completely fresh and brand new into the world”

Seekers of the Eternal: 59 ~ Solocast w/ Palehorse - The Creative Muse (Jan 29, 2025) · Listen from 36:25

Palehorse asserts from his own practice that it is possible to cultivate inspiration on demand, emphasizing clarity of request.

“from my practice with this, I say, yes, this is possible. Swami Kriyananda even talks about how inspiration can come to us on demand”

Seekers of the Eternal: 59 ~ Solocast w/ Palehorse - The Creative Muse (Jan 29, 2025) · Listen from 30:32

Palehorse describes resistance as the ego trying to preserve itself, appearing as self-doubt, distraction, or vices.

“it's really just the ego trying to preserve itself. It's trying to keep you from transcending yourself”

Seekers of the Eternal: 59 ~ Solocast w/ Palehorse - The Creative Muse (Jan 29, 2025) · Listen from 21:21

Palehorse argues that the resistance met when undertaking good work should be seen not as an enemy but as a guardian testing readiness.

“I also like to think of it as not an enemy, but rather a guardian that is really just testing us to make sure that we are ready”

Seekers of the Eternal: 59 ~ Solocast w/ Palehorse - The Creative Muse (Jan 29, 2025) · Listen from 20:19

Palehorse says he has drunk ayahuasca around fifteen times and uses it to practice tolerating discomfort rather than for psychedelic effect.

“over the years, I've probably drank ayahuasca maybe 15 times, something like that”

Seekers of the Eternal: #57 ~ SKINNER: Art, Mythology, Monsters & Self Love (Dec 22, 2024) · Listen from 48:16

Palehorse recounts an ayahuasca life review in which a feminine presence stopped giving him insight once he began self-criticism.

“if you're going to be beating yourself up and taking this, I'm going to stop giving you these introspections”

Seekers of the Eternal: #57 ~ SKINNER: Art, Mythology, Monsters & Self Love (Dec 22, 2024) · Listen from 45:34

Palehorse, citing Kriyananda, recommends prompting the superconscious with a very specific feeling rather than a general theme when seeking creative inspiration.

“don't just say to the super conscious, I want to write a song about peace. He said to get really specific about it”

Seekers of the Eternal: 60 ~ Unlocking Your Inner Genius w/ Palehorse (Feb 5, 2025) · Listen from 27:03

Palehorse recounts that a Gene Keys reading identified his core wound as fear of rejection, which he says has shaped his life.

“he read mine to me last night that my core wound is... The fear of rejection”

Seekers of the Eternal: 60 ~ Unlocking Your Inner Genius w/ Palehorse (Feb 5, 2025) · Listen from 21:09

Palehorse, following Steven Pressfield, warns that committing to creative work will provoke an opposing force of resistance and moments where all seems lost.

“there's going to be an equal and opposite force, a reaction, a resistance to that, that is going to try to stop us”

Seekers of the Eternal: 60 ~ Unlocking Your Inner Genius w/ Palehorse (Feb 5, 2025) · Listen from 19:54

Palehorse argues that loving one's time, body and circumstances, rather than wishing them different, is the way to overcome suffering.

“to love this place that we're in, to love the time that we came in, to love the bodies that we're in”

Seekers of the Eternal: 60 ~ Unlocking Your Inner Genius w/ Palehorse (Feb 5, 2025) · Listen from 3:28

Palehorse states his belief, grounded in Eastern teachings, that people are formless eternal beings rather than bodies.

“I believe that we're all formless, infinite, eternal beings just having these experiences, having these human experiences in these bodies”

Seekers of the Eternal: 59 ~ Solocast w/ Palehorse - The Creative Muse (Jan 29, 2025) · Listen from 1:03:49

Palehorse says experimenting with AI prompting has helped him better ask the universe for specific inspiration.

“I feel like my experiments with AI have helped me to better prompt the universe and to ask for inspiration”

Seekers of the Eternal: 59 ~ Solocast w/ Palehorse - The Creative Muse (Jan 29, 2025) · Listen from 1:01:23

Palehorse recounts encountering Thoth three times in a row, in two books and a Crowley tarot deck, prompting him to paint the deity.

“this is an Alistair Crowley, uh, a tarot deck and the name of it is Thoth. And so I was like, okay, there's, there's three in a row”

Seekers of the Eternal: 59 ~ Solocast w/ Palehorse - The Creative Muse (Jan 29, 2025) · Listen from 41:13