335. How Painting in Turbulent Weather Awakened The Divine Within - Alexander Inchbald

Kara Goodwin: [00:00:00] Welcome to the meditation conversation, the podcast to support your spiritual revolution. I'm your host, Kara Goodwin,

and this is a really special discussion with a really amazing guest, Alexander Inchbald. We go deep into the mystical waters in this episode. Alexander shares fascinating encounters with the divine in the creation of his art, and we also cover some fascinating philosophical ground and apply that directly to our practical, physical reality.

Alexander Inchbald is a climate activist and the visionary behind the hashtag masterpiece movement. He's on a profound journey to inspire creation in sync with mother nature. His experiences painting in some of the world's most breathtaking locales have led him to a revelation. We're not mere spectators in an uncontrollable universe, but active architects of our own [00:01:00] destinies.

And this is such a rich discussion, not only in the content of the words, but in the beautiful creative energy that flows through the episode. It was really an honor to be a part of this, and I hope you get as much out of it as I did. I do recommend watching this one as a video if you can, rather than just listening to the audio as there are some key visual aspects to the episode and you can get to the video on TheMeditationConversation.

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So welcome, Alexander. I'm so excited that you're here today,

Alexander Inchbald: Thank you so much for having me. I'm delighted to be

here. so I can't wait to dive into your journey. Can you talk to us a a bit about your journey and how you came to be a climate artist, and maybe a little bit also about what a climate artist even is.

look, it's a beautiful sunny day here. You might be able to see the sun moving across my face. I'm looking out that way, right? And I can see the Alps. So I'm sitting here in Switzerland [00:03:00] and there's a little bit of snow. It's actually on the French Alps. So the French border is right. There and there's Lake Geneva in front of me. And then this way is more Switzerland than behind MCM Switzerland. So I'm above a city called Montreux, which is at one end of Lake Geneva. And over there is, some people may know that ski resort just over the mountains is a ski resort called Shamini.

Mont is

there and in between.

Kara Goodwin: shaman.

Alexander Inchbald: Ah, okay. In between the alp. So I moved here 20 years ago and I moved here because I was living in the uk and we don't have mountains in the UK. Now, if you're listening to this in the uk, I know we have Snowden in Wales, and I know there are a few mountains in Scotland, but let's be honest, they're not on the same

magnitude and breadth

as the Alps.

Kara Goodwin: Thank you for saying that because I have talked to my in-laws about that and they're like, we're gonna go to the mountains. And I'm like, you don't have mountains. I'm like, have you seen a mountain? Do you know what [00:04:00] they look like? These are hills.

Alexander Inchbald: Beautiful

hills. Let's be clear. You know,

Kara Goodwin: Beautiful.

Alexander Inchbald: beautiful hills, beautiful hills. You know the rolling hills of England. Beautiful green, but let's be honest, mountains are mountains. And there's something about mountains that called me. So I moved here 20 years ago. I was 29 and a half. So for those of you who follow

Kara Goodwin: astrology,right, Saturn Saturn's return.

Alexander Inchbald: right, returning to the same point in

the

birth chart, 29 and a half, and I moved, I leave the uk.

I was working in advertising at the time and I moved here. To take up a role, running a communications agency actually in a tech company. And at that point I had stopped painting for about 14 years. And the reason I stopped was very simple, and it's an archetypical story, so it's not about me, it's about the story that this reveals enormous. At the age of [00:05:00] 16, my dad came to me and he said. I've seen your latest painting. I think it's great. But I've just spoken to your art teacher and your mother, and we've all come to the conclusion that you're not good enough to make enough money as a professional artist. And my dream at that point was to go to St.

Martin's in the field, which is the number one, fine art college in London. and my hopes were die. That was, it was the same year that you remember dead

part society.

Kara Goodwin: Mm-Hmm.

Alexander Inchbald: Robin Williams. when, when the kids will stand on the school desk and say, captain, my captain, and it's all about the artist and it's all about this young boy in his class who, sadly, maybe I shouldn't give the whole plot away.

In case you haven't seen it. You haven't seen it, go and watch it. But it's all about the artist inside. It's all about the artist, and it's all about belief. And having seen the film, I didn't stand up to my dad and say, you know what, I'm an artist. That's who I am. It doesn't matter what you say, I'll do it with or without you.

It doesn't matter. I'm an artist. [00:06:00] I didn't have the courage to do that, and part of that was nothing to do with my dad at all. It's just the ecosystem in which I found myself in the UK was not supportive of that. we're very intellectual culture. We are smart, we're intelligent, we make great strategists, but not necessarily great creatives.

Those who are creative, you know, the Beatles, they're reactionary. So we react to that. but pure creativity, Uhuh. I know there are gonna be a few people who are gonna criticize me for that, but, we are great creative. we're great strategists. We're great thinkers we're, we are head people and so I suppressed my, my, my creativity.

I stopped painting for 14 years and 14 years later I moved to the Alps. Why? 'cause I was just drawn by the

mountain.

Kara Goodwin: You were drawn to the I love it. I love it. Just keep the puns coming.

Alexander Inchbald: so I was drawn to the mountains and I thought I wanted to ski here. I had skied from the age of 12, actually started skiing, a little ski resort, about an hour's drive from here. And I went up close to [00:07:00] the other day and was painting up there. And I lived on top of a mountain, a place called the Celeb, just outside Geneva for the first 18 months. On my 30th birthday, I remember I was sitting in this, hotel room with a friend and I turned to him and I said, you know what? I'm gonna start painting again. And I was just filled with all this energy, and six months later I picked up a paintbrush and I painted my first painting and I'd missed it. This painting and in between I'd gone really to the bottom of the ocean. I'd gone as low as it's possible to go. I'd stopped eating properly at university. I'd gone to study business. I'd started drinking in order to relax myself so I could eat properly. I. And I thought, what's the point of life really?

I got to that low and then I got a job immediately afterwards working in marketing and I thought, this is what I wanted to do with my life. And after two years of this very prestigious marketing training scheme, head of HR called me and said, we need to have a conversation. I said, okay, great. You[00:08:00] can offer me a new job, a different placement. She said,no. I've looked at your appraisal and we don't think you are. You're good enough, so we're gonna have to let you go. I said, what do you mean I'm not good enough? She said, look at your appraisal. Like your lowest score is on creativity. You're not creative enough to be in this company. So a man at 26, not creative enough to be in a, in an uncreative company and a boy of 16 who wanted to be an artist. And really that story for me is the story of so many of us that we suppress that aspect of ourselves. We suppress who we are. Four months later, I'd been on my first personal development program and actually the same company invited me back and said,come and do something more interesting and we'll pay you 50% more. So I saw the power of personal development. I saw what could happen when you really unlock the tension inside you. And then I moved here and started to paint. And first of all, painted in a studio, which I designed and built, and then started to paint more and more outside. just guided, just drawn to the mountains to paint outside. [00:09:00] And then what started to happen is I started to end up painting in, more and more, turbulent weather.

And I was curious why that was happening. And I started to have these mystical experiences, which initially I couldn't explain and you can't actually explain without a fair dose of. You can explain a little

bit

with psychology and neurology a little bit with metaphysics.a little bit with epigenetics, but actually you need a little bit of, wisdom, culture, belief systems to complete the picture, complete the puzzle,

and

Kara Goodwin: And

a healthy dose of open. Mindedness in the receiver, I think too, who's willing to like, okay, I'm going to play with this and Yeah,

in order to be able to communicate it, right?

Alexander Inchbald: actually to begin with, I wasn't open-minded enough,that was the journey. So if I go back, I'll take you to, I'll take you to Provence. [00:10:00] So imagine Provence Summer, right? So, Alps, winter painting, and Alps. We can come back to that. but I'm gonna take you to, to Provence, and there's a feel of lavender in front of you.

If you can imagine this, like rows of lavender and the bees are buzzing round and the tree is in the middle of this. Beautiful field of lavender and you're at an altitude of about, I'd say, maybe 5,000 feet. And right behind is Tu, which is the big mountain in the middle of province where they cycle up on the Tour de France and it looks like the snow on top.

It's not, it's just Geologically, that's the way it is. And the wind is blowing the misra, like this really strong wind is blowing and it's blowing about 50, 60 miles an hour, And the canvas, if you can imagine, I've got the canvas here and I'm taking my paintbrush to the canvas, except I'm not the canvas is moving so strongly that it's hitting the

brush,

Kara Goodwin: Oh, interesting.

Alexander Inchbald: so I have no control.

So we all know what it's like to be outta control. [00:11:00] You know what it's like, like sometimes things happen and you are outta control. if it keeps on happening and you don't intend it to happen, like it can

trigger you.

Kara Goodwin: hmm.

Alexander Inchbald: there am I in front of this beautiful landscape and I've traveled all this way down to this area in order to create this painting.

And it's a beautiful day and the wind is blowing and this is happening.the canvas is hitting the brush and I have no control. So after a while of this, I just lose it, just absolutely lose it. And I start shouting at the wind, what are you doing? How are you doing? Why you imagine this dumb Brit,literally standing, right? So after three hours of this getting more and more irritated, I give up, abandon ship, take the painting, TRAs off like some angry artist and, abandoned for the day. I'm not painting wind's ruined it. Following day I get up, I hide from the wind, I paint this painting, it's [00:12:00] okay. I go to lunch and I get back into my car after lunch and I'm like, okay, I'm ready.

I'll drive back to Geneva and. there's a queue. My, my GPS says there's like a four hour queue on the alter. I'm like, okay, I'm not taking that foot desing. And I go immediately back past where I painted the previous day, like, maybe this is a sign you do. Sometimes when you get those signs, you're like, synchronously and maybe this is a sign.

So I pull in and I get this message to get out, and I get out and I get the message to put up the canvas again. So I put up the canvas. And I get the message to sit down and meditate. So I always meditate before I paint. 'cause you need to connect to the nature, you need to connect to the lavender, to the mountain, whatever. And I get this message to paint. So I stand up and this time rather than take a paint brush, I grab, you know where those organic sponges you get

in the ice?

Kara Goodwin: Yeah.

Alexander Inchbald: and I grab it and I put paint on the palette, like lots of different colors. And I dab this, sponge into all these different colors. And this [00:13:00] time I put the palette down and the canvas is still doing this.

It's still vibrating the wind. And I grab the side of the canvas and I just feel like the wind is flowing through me and I follow

the wind.

Kara Goodwin: Ooh.

Alexander Inchbald: And in 10 minutes, the whole painting transforms and it becomes the best painting I've ever painted. Now, it took me many years to work out what had happened, but I'll give you the short version and it's inspired by a quote by Kaung.

So Kaung said, what we resist persists and gross, and that Ali said, whatever we resist in another is also in us. What both of them really reinterpreted as in other humans. So whatever we resist in another is also in us. Whatever, whatever we resist persists and grows. But actually it works with nature too. So when you resist the wind, the wind resists you. When you stop resisting the wind, the wind doesn't just stop resisting you, it [00:14:00] appears to partner with you. For a period of time, we think we get into a state of flow, but actually we are a state of flow and the only thing that takes us outta that state of flow is our resistance to the wind, to another person, to our government. To the system, to big business, whatever it is, to our partner, to our parents. But actually when we stop resisting it, it stops resisting us.

And in that moment we see we are in flow and that is our natural state. What I started to observe, the more I painted in blizzards and gale force winds and at the top of mountains and when mountains disappeared, is that we are not passive recipients of a world beyond our control. We are [00:15:00]active creators of the canvas, and it all depends on our frequency, so we can act as a victim. And everything happens to us. We can act with our mind and we think we delude ourselves into creating, into thinking we have choice and we can transcend all of that and connect to who we truly are. And then we are it and we are shaping it all the

time.

Kara Goodwin: Mm. Wow. That's profound. I love the wisdom that came through in that experience, and there was something, as you were talking about that, that made me wonder, this is a little bit different, but while you're in these. Landscapes, you know, you're a part of what you are painting. You're taking this profound multidimensional experience that you're having because [00:16:00] you're in these profoundly beautiful and natural settings with great energy.

I mean, just talking about the wind, it's like how much energy was actually moving through for the wind to be that strong. So you are taking that And like stamping it into 2D, right? Like you're translating it into the second dimension. And do you get the sense that you're taking that energy and moving that into the painting into the second dimension?

Do you feel that it's another creative force that's being birthed? Does it feel like both? Does this question even make sense?

Alexander Inchbald: Yeah, it's a great question.I'll take you to a blizzard. Okay. so now you're in France again? not far from Geneva and it's March. These were the days when it really snowed low at March, so it was about eight, nine years ago [00:17:00] probably. And I went out with a friend and he was gonna video me and there was snow on the ground, but there wasn't that much snow. And we set up and it was this beautiful avenue of trees and I was just really drawn by this avenue of trees, like this perfect avenue, you know, in France. Like they build these avenues, like they grow the trees on either side of the road. And I was just drawn by this path, like going into the distance and I thought, I'm gonna paint this. So we set up, start painting and as we start to paint the first flakes of snow start to land on the canvas. And I'm like. Uh, here we go again. and the paint starts to run. Like it's no longer, this lack of control. It's not, the paint is literally running off the canvas. I'm like, okay. And then the snow gets a bit heavier. So I'm trying to still my mind, and at a certain point I just let go and I start to observe that the paint and the snow are mixing. On the

canvas and they're creating these really interesting patterns. I'm like, wow, okay. Who's doing [00:18:00]this

Kara Goodwin: Wow.

Alexander Inchbald: now? is it the paint? Is it the snow? It's not me. Well, not, not the ego, me, this something greater that is creating with me as me. Now words don't properly describe it. So you know, some people would say through me, I'd say no actually, because you're an aspect of it. But the words don't describe it. What I'm really trying to get to here is the energy. And maybe you can feel this in your body. 'cause this is it, right? This is it. This is the Shakti, this is the Kundalini, this is the Qi moving through our body right now. This is what's creating and it is us and we are it. That's what's creating, it's not something separate from us. We are it, and it is creating and it's magical. It's it's really magical.

It's like in that moment and you observe and you feel, and there are chills running through you. Like you get goosebumps. You get chills running up and down your spine. [00:19:00] Anyway, we were in the state for I a couple of hours. Painting probably for four and a half, five hours. And then a certain point in the snow stops and I finished the painting and I turned to my friend Tony used video, me, Tony Johnson, and I said, Tony, it's done.

And he goes, ah, I don't think it is, and it's another 15 minutes. So I paint for another 15 minutes and he was All right, okay. I looked at, I was like, yeah, you're right, it's not quite finished. So I painted for another 15 minutes and I was done. And at that moment. That exact moment they should be standing back.

he's videoing it and saying that the sun comes out, it melts the ice, which is holding the snow. the paint to the canvas and the paint runs off. I'm not talking, just some of it, all of it runs off the canvas. So I started with a blank canvas. I ended with a blank canvas. Pretty much. I mean, just this paint run off it, and all I have is the story, [00:20:00] but the story is the story of really how creation happens. Creation isn't something that we impose on something. Creation, true creation is something that is happening in harmony. Everything. So when we believe what we are impacting, something that's the mind wanting to impact, but when we were in harmony with Mother Nature, it doesn't matter what we do, it will create positive vibes and herein lies, by the way, the secret to climate change. We think we have to do something in order for the climate to change. What if we were just acted in harmony with the climate? It doesn't necessarily mean you have to pull CO2 outta the atmosphere or plant more trees. if you plant more trees and put pull CO2 of that outta the atmosphere and you do that from a state of fear, it's gonna create more adverse ripples then. Then actually doing nothing if you do that same [00:21:00] action and it is fully in harmony. Then it will accelerate it, but you could also jump on a plane as long as it's the intention, the purative, the intention is in harmony with Mother Nature. If it's really that you are called to go to that retreat or go to that event, you're gonna have as much impact by doing that or putting a brushstroke on a canvas or doing something you love as attempting to pull CC O2 outta the atmosphere.

Kara Goodwin: I love that. Yeah. Well, and I think in, I think you've beautifully, if we come back to, what even is a climate artist, I, I definitely get the sense of it now, you're not just, as you say, kind of imposing this creative process onto the canvas, but it's this whole, like the whole atmosphere is a part of the creation.

Including potentially its destruction. it might be a very quick cycle.

Alexander Inchbald: yes. [00:22:00] You've absolutely nailed it. So every aspect is creating all the time, and all we become is the channel for that. So we often think, oh, I created it. no you didn't. Your ego thinks it created, your mind thinks it created it, depending on your definition of that, but actually it, like you can't even begin to explain the influences you've had that led you to create in that moment. You could talk about your teachers, you could talk about your parents. You could talk about your siblings. You could talk about, your children. You could talk about your mentors. But actually, if you just go back through your lineage, you'd have to go back. Your parents, your grandparents, your great grand, but it wouldn't just be them because they've all been influenced by other people, and you've been influenced by other people, and we've all been influenced by other people.

So every single piece that is created. Just, if you look at it on the human dimension is influenced by all of us. And we say, Vincent Van [00:23:00] Gogh created that painting, and Michelangelo created that painting. Yes. They channeled it. They were the ones who were holding the brush or the painting knife or the pen or whatever it was. And then you look at Mother Nature and the influence of Mother Nature,

a whole other dimension on the influence of the universe. so every single piece is created

by everything.

Kara Goodwin: It's a whole big, everybody's, everything is conspiring, like wants in on it if you allow

Alexander Inchbald: Yeah, yeah,

Kara Goodwin: it. That's incredible. I love

Alexander Inchbald: You got it. You

nailed it. Right. So, so the idea of, we, we talk a lot about co-creation. Co-creation for me is massively misunderstood. We perceive that we are co-creating with another person, and that leads to all sorts of confusion. And I'm co-creating my marriage. I'm co-creating this business.

I'm co-creating this idea, but actually really what's happening is the source energy is flowing through each of us at specific moments in time, and we are each sourcing an aspect of it. Now when we appreciate that, [00:24:00] that's what co-creation is, we are actually in communion with all, not just in communion with the mother nature. We're in communion with everything. We just become a channel, a conduit that the can French. So the cannel, the channel through which that creativity is, bought into form.

Kara Goodwin: What, what I love too about what you're saying is this like. It's happening now. it's this immediate, like summoning is the word that's coming, but it's not even, it's, it's this allowance. But it also is this, kind of reclamation of each moment of I am allowing this again. Not like, ' Oh, I achieved this state. So like you achieve, you had that experience with the blizzard and the canvas and you know it was there and you created it and then it was gone and you had that whole cycle. And so it, we could be tempted to be like, oh, now I do that. You know, now, now I've [00:25:00] opened myself up to it and it's just there. And it's, and, and maybe to an extent, but it's also this continuous renewal and choice. To keep doing that is, has been my experience where it's like this, this, today again, I open myself up, I choose again to be that divine channel, to be that, to let that come through me.

This is my, it's my choice and I, want that, and not taking it like, well, I did that once, so that's just gonna carry me through, it's this. This is what the present moment is come is is offering and I open myself up to it.

Alexander Inchbald: Yes. it's in each moment you and I are. or unconsciously influencing it. And there are many different views on this for many amazing writers and [00:26:00] thinkers and we often talk about choice. You even used the word. Now it is the mind that perceives there is a choice. So as Richard Rudd, the author of the Jean Keys told me once, he said, when we're operating from the shadow, in other words, we are acting from a victim state. It's happening to us. We perceive we have no choice. The government does this. I have to pay my taxes. I was taught that my boss told me I am, it is happening to me. I have no choice. When we operate from the mind, what he calls the gift frequency, the mind perceives it has a choice. I could do this or I could do this. When we operate from our highest frequency, which by the way is our natural state. We perceive we have to get to that, but actually it is the mind that takes us outta that state when we operate from that frequency. There is no choice.

Kara Goodwin: But would you say we have the choice to get into that state? To an extent [00:27:00]because I think that people can take it for granted that, oh, this happened to me once, or I am doing the, I'm doing the practices, so I, you know, but then we can kind of get this egoic like. Almost laziness, I guess, of just like, okay, whatever comes out is divinity and but we're actually not keeping that alignment, which I think we do foundationally keep

choosing at some level.

Alexander Inchbald: Yes in the sense that you are talking about it, kind of. But again, like co-creation, co-creation, the word can be massively misunderstood. And the key component here is the misunderstanding of the power of the mind. So if we come to this model here, right? This infinite loop we have here, and over here we have like, it's, it's, it's just a model, okay?

And as with all models, it tells a story. So I'll just very briefly tell the [00:28:00] story,the 200,000 years ago. When humankind was born in the great Ellian Africa, we were connected to all of it. We weren't. We weren't, we weren't disconnected. We were as aware as a tree in the forest, or as aware as a leopard on the savanna. In other words, we had no conscious awareness that we existed. It was only as we went on this journey 40,000 years ago, the prefrontal cortex is created, gives us conscious awareness. The larynx is created, gives us a voice. Now we can communicate that we are aware. I am, I exist and we continue on this journey.

10,000 years ago, we settled down in the first villages. We create crops that allows us to store seed for the first time that leads to hoarding, but it also leads us to put ourselves very slightly above nature. I am now

in control. I am the master. I can cultivate, I can, domesticate animals, I'm in charge. [00:29:00]Civilization 5,000 years ago. We create money, time, first clocks, first marriage, which by the way was not about love. It was about man controlling, being able to control who was giving birth to his child.

And we create the first, power structures, cigarettes and temples and, a few, get more than the rest. Oh, and first slavery. So that's 5,000 years ago. And then every sub civilization sense moves us this way. So we move from being a part of all of it to the pinnacle, which is the industrial world. And that is all about us being a cog in the wheel. So from all of it to being a coggan machine, right? And then some of us have gone back this way. So this is what we call the pathway of separation. And you can also see this, by the way, in a lifetime. So we're born, we're connected to all of it. Delta brainwaves shift at the age of two into theta brainwaves shift at the age of seven [00:30:00] into, alpha brainwaves. And the age of 12, we shift into, beta brainwaves, state of doing, and then we become an adult. So childhood, teenager, adult. This is the power of the mind. I. This is where big business was created. This is where, wealth was created. This is where all the systems that we see today were created, and this is where all the money sits. And this is a dam here, and this is where all the money sits, and this is where all the love sits. And some of us have jumped across the dam and we're operating down here. But what happens, what I observe is that we face resistance down here. So we're trying to reach the top of our mountain. Forgetting that actually we're already at the top of our mountain. There's an aspect of us already there, and it's only the parts of ourselves that we have separated from along this journey that are left not at the top of the mountain. So you mentioned rec, reclaiming, you mentioned choice. The, we can [00:31:00]reclaim those aspects, but we can't do it by forcing it this way. We actually have to back up. We have to go back into our adulthood. We have to unravel the things that happened here. We have to go back into our teenage years, unravel the things here.

We have to go back into our childhood and unravel the things here. Now you say, is there a choice? There appears to be a choice. The mind perceives as a choice. The mind goes, yeah, there's a choice. I have a choice to come on this podcast today. I have a choice to listen to this

podcast.

I have a choice to meditate today.

I have a choice to, to paint or to run a retreat or whatever it is. I have a choice, but actually that's an illusion. The, it's an illusion that we have a choice. The choice is to separate or to stay in connection. To stay in connection is actually not a choice at the highest frequency, it just is. That is our natural state. So the mind is choosing to not be in separation. Is that a choice? [00:32:00] I guess to the mind? It's a choice, but to the essence, it's no, what are you doing that's dumb? That is out of harmony with your true nature. That's out of harmony with Mother Nature. That's just. you call it a choice.

The mind calls it a choice, but it's ridiculous.

 It's like,

Kara Goodwin: I love it. I mean, it's so philosophical, right?You know, I mean, and it, it's almost like a geometry that keeps building out and then eventually folds back in on itself. because you can keep kind of going out like is because you could think of it as will as well, right? Like is it my own will?

Is it a divine will? Is it a bigger will? And it's a yes and a no. it's like there, yeah, we do have this human experience, which ultimately. I would argue, part of it is that free will, it's what are we gonna do? What are we what are, are we going to be aligned or are we not? And that is within our range of experience.

It's accessible. we. [00:33:00] Have access to either being aligned or not being aligned or, and both, but it it always like the way that you're talking about it, it's like you keep branching out. Branching out. Because ultimately we all go back to one thing and there isn't a choice. It just, who is what we are?

It's who we are. But, and then it folds back in on itself, because then you come back to this individual expression and you're, you're kind of back to where you started. Right? It's fascinating.

Alexander Inchbald: It's,

there's a wonderful, quote in, it comes from a meditation on the Venus sequence of the Jean Keys, and it's one of Richard's partners who says, you are going on a journey from home to home.

Kara Goodwin: Hmm. Yeah.

Alexander Inchbald: is the infinite journey. And what you don't realize is that actually what you need to do is reverse back up and unravel it. But once you've unraveled it and you go this way, there's no resistance to creating a masterpiece, [00:34:00] right? So this is how you come back and you create the masterpiece, then you use the mind. See, what most of us have done is in the process of trying to get here, we've rejected this. But actually you need the mind in order to place the brush stroke on the canvas. No mind, you can't do it. So the mind or the intellect, as Albert Einstein says, becomes the servant of the

gift.

The gift is this

Kara Goodwin: often we have it the other way around.

Alexander Inchbald: way around. So once you come this way and you use the mind, nothing wrong with mind, no mind, you can't place yourself in time and space. You're now using it intentionally to be fully aligned and bring everything into the world that you are being called to bring into the world. There is then no choice.

It's like I come from here, there is no choice. That's what I'm being called to do. Okay? I use the mind

to do that. I place the brushstroke on the canvas. I go back resource myself. I place the next brushstroke on the canvas, and I keep going.[00:35:00]

Kara Goodwin: It's amazing. There's so many I I, there's like, ugh, I want to go this way. and that way, and that way and that way. But it, what I love, one of the things I love so much about what you're saying is the embracing of the human aspect of ourselves. Because we can go on a philosophical journey of, and that oneness and that we are spirit and get so far into it that we negate.

The importance of the human opportunity that we have. As we come more and more into this understanding of this divinity that flows through us, we recognize that we have this incredible opportunity. I. Here in these bodies and it's in that alignment with the divinity and with the oneness, with the nature, with, all of that, that we actually can actualize that and if we get so caught up in that.

Yeah. But it's all one, and I'm all one. And it's like we don't actually, we can run the risk of not [00:36:00] actually. Doing anything, which is okay for some people, but there are also change makers who came here to use the vehicle of the body and the life experience to affect change, to create this different experience here on the planet.

And I love, like this is so like that infinity loop or whatever you wanna call it. Is the encompassment of that that masterpiece of the, the, of the brilliance of the human life, you know?

Alexander Inchbald: You absolutely nailed it, Kara. Absolutely. that to me is really where humankind is right now. Look, e everyone listening and watching this, episode, all of your listeners,you've done immense work. You've been meditating for years, probably. If you're listening to this show, you've done, decades of work and it takes weeks to get to base camp of Everest. Two weeks to get there. But it takes months of training, buying the right equipment, learning the techniques [00:37:00] in order to be able to climb your mountain.that's the inner game work. But if you only stay on the inner game, you end up in what I call a woowoo mountain,And Woowoo Mountain is where we just get lost.

we're lost in the clouds. We don't dunno where we're going, and we dunno whether

we

go this way or this way. And anything can distract us. Oh, look at this. Oh, look at this shiny new thing, syndrome. Nothing wrong with it.you can spend decades going around here, but most of us, we've spent time in monasteries, maybe not in this lifetime, but we've spent time, we've done that, we've done that journey. Change makers are not called to go back into a monastery and sit in the clouds on top of a mountain. They're called to bring what they are called to bring into the world, and that requires us to reintegrate the masculine. That is the hardest task because the masculine looks like it's destroying the planet, but actually the masculine is part of us. And if we are connected to all of it, Rumi, you know, drop in the ocean, you're the entire ocean and drop. [00:38:00] If we are all of it, not we connect to all of it, but we are all of it. That includes the masculine. So how do we then use that as a force to bring our essence, what we're being called to bring into the world?we'd have to stop resisting it, huh? What you mean? We'd have to stop resisting all those people we don't like. Yes. What does that mean? We'd have to reclaim those aspects to ourself. What you mean all the horrible stuff going on in the world. Yes. My wife is Ukrainian. My children are half Ukrainian. My mother-in-Law has lived with us now for 10 years. Ever since pro-Russian forces invaded Donette's in Eastern Ukraine where she was living. She was hold held for 10 days illegally underground, and the only reason they didn't kill her is 'cause they didn't have enough time.

They were called to the front line. We had, red Cross looking for her. Her husband never recovered, fully died in 2018. Now to be a refugee, we don't understand what it means. It's not [00:39:00] losing your home, it's not losing your family, it's not losing your possessions. It's losing the thing which defines who you perceive. You are, your identity. That's what it is. And you'd have to reclaim the resistance to all of that, to war, to brutality, to abuse, and most of us aren't ready to do that. If you're not ready to do that, then you aren't connecting to all of it. And if you're not connecting to all of it, then you're not bringing to life what you're being called to bring to life. You are in resistance to it, and if you're resistance to it, your canvas is gonna be doing that, and you won't understand why the money's not flowing, why the creativity's not flowing well, the clients aren't flowing well. All of these things aren't flowing. Look at me. Isn't it strange, right? I'm sitting here and the sun is just steadily gone like this up my body, right?

You can see this, maybe some of your, people can't, listeners can't because it's just on audio, but the sun is literally moving up my body. It's on my nose right now. And at the beginning of the show

it wasn't there.

Kara Goodwin: speck.

Alexander Inchbald: [00:40:00] Yeah. So what's happening is the light, the climate is responding to the conversation. That's what it

does.

Kara Goodwin: Mm. Well, thank you for sharing that. And what I love too with what you're saying is, that you're putting that in the collective. Framework. So it's that reclamation within us of the things happening within the collective, which is so valid. And there's, because you've, you've oscillated as you've taken us through that, that infinity between.

The collective and humanity and the individual. Because what I was thinking when you started talking about that that reclamation and how we have to come to acceptance was within us the, the wounded parts of us that we so often don't wanna look at in our own personal history, in our own story, and the importance of when we're ready, being able to integrate those, which means courageously.

 integrating those and, and, [00:41:00] accepting things that are really, really difficult in our personal history. it's an, and it's, it's, yes, as we go and mature along our path, we have to integrate all of that and and be out of resistance of of all of the things that we don't want to look at and don't want to accept.

And so it's amazing.

Alexander Inchbald: Absolutely. it's Carl Young and Richard Ru, both, but it, and Peter Konick, who's my partner, who developed a tool called, reclamation work. Literally a simplified way of reclaiming the aspects of ourselves that, that we have rejected and we integrate his work. All of that work actually into the Masterpiece retreats.

we run.really that process is a process of becoming whole again and then acting from that state of wholeness. And when we do that, that's where the miracle really happens. But the mistake that most of us make is we think [00:42:00] that those aspects are personal to us. No, as Carl Young pointed out that in the collective, they are not ours.

That, and we come in this essence, soul, whatever you wanna call it, comes into a physical form and literally dives into this sea of suffering. The sea of resistance, the sea of pain, but forgets that around. It is the notion of love, and when we actually embrace the resistance. The wind, the blizzard, the snow, whatever it is, it dissolves. And all we're left with is love, but we have to go into the resistance in order to do that. Now does that mean it's ours? No. It's our responsibility to transmute it, but it's not our, it's the collective and we are just transmuting on behalf of collective. That's our responsibility in this lifetime.

To transmute it, to reclaim it, [00:43:00] and to turn it into light. And the more that happens, the faster the shift that we can all sense happens on the planet. But if we go after it to try and make it happen, it wasn't, won't happen. If we just focus on the next brushstroke, it happens automatically. And what emerges is a collective masterpiece created by humankind,

which is really what we're seeing right now.

It doesn't look like it 'cause we still see the war in Ukraine and the war in the Middle East. And the $3 trillion being invested in defense around the world and all the other budgets being cut. That's what we see on the surface, but beneath the surface. You and I are having this conversation five years ago, would we have had this conversation? Maybe 10 years ago? No, 20 years ago. Definitely not 30 years ago. You're joking me.So in 30 years we have shifted to this point. How [00:44:00] fast is it gonna go from here? Not by sitting on Woowoo Mountain, by bringing into the world what we are called to bring into the world by painting the next brushstroke on the canvas. That is so beautiful. Alexander, this is, this has just been amazing. I've gone, I've gotten so much from this conversation. I thank you so much. Can you tell people how they can find out more about your work?

Sure. Look, Kara, thank you so much for having me on your show. I really appreciate it and, amazing conversation. Amazing, amazing questions. And my wish is just that people feel the energy of this. And that to me is enough. if you wanna find out a little bit more about me. You can go to my personal website, alexander buld.com, and there you'll find pictures of me painting in the mountains.

You'll find, galleries, virtual galleries of my artwork. You'll find videos of me painting in the mountains. You can go into the galleries. There's 3D virtual galleries, and you can actually [00:45:00] look at the individual canvases and you can even download an app. Onto your phone from a Google Store app store, and, pick out your favorite painting and imagine it on your wall.

Literally, it's virtual reality and augmented reality. Yeah, augmented reality. And you can literally place it on your wall,

which is cool. imagine you can imagine having the power of Mother Nature, literally in your living room or in your favorite space and. My experience, always has been that it has elevated the space.

And if you take this canvas off, for instance, or you take the canvases out of this room, the energy of the room drops. Why? Because it's the power of mother nature. So that's one thing you can do. And you can also then go to the masterpiece.agency. So the Masterpiece Agency is where you'll find all of the retreats and pathways that we design.

So we design personal pathways for people literally. To tap back into this, and to go on their journey, actually, I should say the other way round. So,to unravel [00:46:00] this, to go backwards, unravel all of this, and go back in here and then go this way. And we, really look from the perspective of the outer.

So what's happening with. Clarity, how clear are you? What's your purpose? What's your mission? What are you being called to do? What's the summit of your mountain? And then we look at, how to, develop the content which reflects the journey in your lifetime. So my journey, it's all about creativity, suppressing, unlocking it.

So I wrote a book around that and then develop these programs to help you do that. your content could be booked, podcast.course, whatever it is. but it's always the antidote to what you've learned, your greatest karmic wound. Then we look at the communications, and as I mentioned, I spent 15 years in the world of communications, so we actually channel the communications not at the frequency of the shadow, which is where the majority of marketing is, but the frequency of the summit of the mountain. And then finally we look at the cash flow to ensure that you have. Got money flowing through your system, and we design a regenerative business model to make that [00:47:00] work. And that's the kind of idea behind all of the different, journeys that we run. And then we just design the personal journey for you.

So come along to a purpose session. work out your purpose. That's always the key, the route to. Tree your mountain, or, come along we, we'll probably be having a, another beginner ascent workshop, which is basically designing how you get to the summit, and what steps you need to take to do that.

So you can find out more about that on the Masterpiece Doc Agency.

That's beautiful. what? Amazing work. Thank you so much for being here, Alexander. This. I have loved every second of this conversation. It has really, really been, empowering and full and divine, and it's really been an honor. Thank you so much.

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