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If you've been following my art, you already know the influence that Buddhism has played, particularly in my series of "Urban Mandalas". But I am also drawn to the art of Christianity.
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![AI is Coming (for You)](http://nealpeterson.com/cdn/shop/articles/ai-happy-JOURNAL-TEMPLATE_{width}x.jpg?v=1681854573)
The world is changing fast and the primary cause is the exponential growth of technology. Often referenced as Moore’s Law, it’s the reason why your pocket-sized smartphone would have been a multi-billion dollar, warehouse-sized computer that could barely run Pong fifty years ago.
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![What is a Mandala?](http://nealpeterson.com/cdn/shop/articles/mandala2-JOURNAL-TEMPLATE_{width}x.jpg?v=1679582836)
According to the dictionary, a mandala is an “integrated structure organized around a unifying center,” but I prefer to define it using its nickname, “The Magic Circle”. The more simple the definition, the more often one can see them in the world.
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![Megalopolis vs. Ecumenopolis](http://nealpeterson.com/cdn/shop/articles/ECUMENOPOLIS-JAKUB-GRYGIER_{width}x.jpg?v=1677079142)
Every city was once an uninhabited patch of land. Billions of years on, a few tribes decided to stick together in the same place. And now, a very short time later, we have massive megacities spanning our relatively tiny planet.
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We live in unique times. If given 24 hours and the proper resources, one can reach just about any physical point on the planet. From a technologically-advanced, urban center of a city like Hong Kong, to the primitive, remote wilderness of the Amazon. But that’s just the physical locale...