Transform, Transcend & Transmit!

A manifesto for the creative affinity group You may already have the group. People you would text a strange idea to at midnight. But, many of us don’t have a circle of friends who build us up, help us transform and transcend our past selves and turn into something more interesting, more strange. How many of us understand ourselves as an autonomous force; forging ourselves into the people we are as a creative act? Find people that are creating themselves and want you to flourish, and you have all you need. Almost everything else in this document is detail added on to this essential. What follows is not a doctrine to sign. It is a set of conditions for a room to become itself. The content is left empty on purpose — that emptiness is the whole design. What is not empty is the practice. It prescribes the verbs and leaves the nouns to you. 1. Practice, not meaning. Communities that last are built on a shared, repeated, embodied thing people do — not a shared belief about why. The monastery…