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Allyson Grey. "New Secret Writing in Spectral Rain."

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Allyson Grey

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Collective Consciousness in Art

So, as crazy as it may sound, I’m pretty confident in saying that artist Allyson Grey and the original creative team of “Digimon Adventure” unknowingly pulled inspiration from the same place within the collective consciousness. 

This is a very common phenomenon, and explains why many writers/creators will create stories with similar premises all at the same time, without ever being consciously aware of each other’s work. I’m not talking about the “Simpson Did It” concept, where creators take inspiration (or out right copy/recreate) preexisting work, though occasionally that is a result of this phenomenon as well. But essentially, it’s the concept that ideas have agency, even more so than humans do, and humans all have access to this collective space of thoughts and inspiration hidden in their subconscious mind. Like a back door that most people don’t know how to open, but constantly opens from the other side, letting ideas from somewhere else settle in. In religious text, we call this Divine Inspiration. Sometimes a particular idea wants to manifest in the physical world, so they start in the minds of artists with intent to spread across the globe as a meme (internet memes being a recent example of the term, but not the original or full intention of the meaning, as explained here - wikipedia article ). With this in mind, I think it’s only natural to assume that the idea would originate in multiple hosts, each adding their own personal spin or interpretation of the idea into their work. This increasing the meme’s ability to spread, especially since artists don’t always act on every instance of inspiration they receive. 

Here is but one example that I like, Allyson Grey’s Scared Alphabet, and the Digimon Alphabet that was first majorly seen in the episode “Kabuterimon's Electro Shocker” (season 1, episode 5). Allyson Grey’s art is pure spiritual expression, and while it’s clear to me that most/all popular media is created with esoteric symbols for various purposes, I find Digimon to be a highlight of that - maybe i’ll discuss why later. 

Haha, don’t tell me that Izzy didn’t just wonder into Allyson Grey’s own sacred space in this scene. Allyson describe’s her work as a sort of sacred language, and while Digimon now has an established and translatable alphabet, the similarities are hard to ignore, for me at least. Izzy even demonstrates that tampering with letters inside this room effects the entire factory the room is located in, a metaphor to show how language shapes our entire reality on both a conscious level of communication, as well as a subconscious level of audio and vibrations. This is also described in the Bible- John 1:1 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

Anyways, I don’t really know where i was going with this post, I just think it’s cool that one of my favorite artists and one of my favorite childhood cartoons have a spiritual connection that will probably never be known by any of them.

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