Archive of Author | Alan MacDonald

Born in Scotland in 1956, we emigrated to New Zealand in 1962.  My first career was graphic design with a parallel passion in metaphysics that introduced me to comparisons between Vedic philosophy and quantum physics as a describing system for existence. Through a meditation organisation I was introduce to the notion of a source of thought / creative solutions.  I became aware of two streams of thought, reactive and creative.

I learned to trust my intuition when designing for clients and expanded on the idea when creating and directing performances that required amateur performers to generate their own performances around a given framework that produced astonishing results.  Success in attracting governmental and sponsorship support for Freedom Behind Bars, a meditation programme for corrections department prisoners encouraged my notion of a field of solutions that can be tapped into. Twelve years as an academic tertiary assistant introduced me to many disciplines from Architecture to Zoology from which I derived fundamental patterns.   A lecture on electrical systems generated an epiphany that remains the cornerstone of my art practice today.  The notion of existence as a source generating infinite power, that flows through a circuit, resistors that generate various outcomes, to return to the source, fits perfectly with the Vedic notion of consciousness (subject realm) creating the object realm in order to know itself via a feedback system. Since graduating in 2011 with a Bachelor of Design and Visual arts, I exhibited paintings alongside my similarly inclined wife, before finding support from SciArt Center, NY, in the form of a virtual exhibition, magazine interview, and a pop up exhibition opening in December 02 2017.

Articles with Alan MacDonald


Three In One Nature of Consciousness & Dream Seequence

Alan MacDonald was a graphic designer and illustrator for 40 years.
“As a metaphysical artist I am concerned with a three-way comparison between: metaphysics (science of subject / why), Science of object (how), and information technology, the most important metaphor we have for the nature of consciousness. Vedic philosophy, describes the three in one nature of consciousness; rishi, devata, chandas (knower, known, process of knowing). My ‘Dream Sequence’ series proposes dreams as daily status reports from the source regarding our level of alignment with the source. I record every dream, interpret upon waking and illustrate it.”