This introductory presentation explores what is conscious media and conscious media-making, what are some of the different potential forms of conscious media-making, and how different states and stages of consciousness effect the media-making process. We also explore how these structures of consciousness within us are communicated between us, the works we create and the individuals and collectives that experience our works…and how this knowledge can be used to create deeper and more transformative media experiences for creators and viewers on the individual and collective levels. Mark Allan Kaplan, Ph.D. is an award-winning filmmaker, transdisciplinary artist and media psychologist and researcher. As an artist and media-maker Mark has been exploring conscious art and media since childhood, attempting to use these creative mediums to help himself transcend his own communication challenges of being a severe childhood stutterer and find his "voice" and use that voice to help raise the consciousness of himself, others and the world. He is considered by many to be one of the pioneers in the conscious and transpersonal media movements and is the world's leading researcher and theorist in the application of Integral Theory to the cinematic arts. www.markallankaplan.com & www. integralcinema.com. Conscious Media Creators Network is a community-driven online media platform for visual storytellers dedicated to raising consciousness. Conscious Good launched the Creators’ Network as a place where conscious creators and audiences can connect. It’s a place to interact with fellow conscious media tribe members, share resources, ideas and support one another. Use the following link to join the network: https://conscious-good.mn.co/share/7i... This talk was presented on Sunday February 24, 2019 between 12pm to 1:30pm PST on the Conscious Good Creators Network as part of their "Stream of Consciousness" speaker series.

1. Conscious
Media-Making
101
A Conscious Good Creators Network Course
With Mark Allan Kaplan, Ph.D.

2. Course Overview
What is Consciousness
How Consciousness is Communicated Through Media
How Consciousness Affects Media-Making
What is Conscious Media-Making
Forms of Conscious Media-Making
Conscious Media-Making Practices
Conscious Media Design

3. What is
Consciousness
Consciousness is like light in
that it is multi-dimensional.
Just as light is both particle
and wave, consciousness has
many different patterns of
being. There are many maps
or lenses we can use to look at
consciousness and all them
have something to tell us
about consciousness itself,
revealing its many different
patterns of being.

4. Maps/Lenses of Consciousness
LEVELS – Conscious, Pre-Conscious, Sub-Conscious, Unconscious
STATES – Waking, Dreaming, Sleep, Witness, Non-Dual
STAGES – Archaic, Magic, Mythic, Rational, Pluralistic, Integral, Transpersonal
PROCESSES – Streams, Fields, Arcs
DIMENSIONS – Individual/Collective, Local/Non-Local
TYPOLOGIES – Left/Right Brain; Three Brains; Normal/Altered States

5. Levels of Consciousness
Higher-Consciousness
Conscious
Pre-Conscious
Sub-Conscious
Unconscious

6. Major States of Consciousness
State Body/Energy Mystical Associations Brain Waves
Non-Dual State Trans-Causal Unitive Mysticism Gamma
Witness State Meta-Causal Integrative Mysticism Alpha
Sleep State Causal Formless/Conceptual
Mysticism
Delta
Dream State Subtle Deity/Archetypal Mysticism Theta
Waking State Gross Nature Mysticism Beta
There are many sub-states within these major states, including various
types of psychological, emotional, spiritual and altered states.

7. Major Stages of Consciousness
Stage (Worldview) Circle of Care &
Concern
Techno-Economic Base
Transpersonal Trans-centric Trans-Tech/Trans-Human/Trans-
Economic
Integral Kosmo-centric Convergence; Global Stratified
Meshworks
Pluralistic Global-centric Informational; Decentralized Value
Communities
Rational Socio-centric Industrial; Corporate/Nation State
Mythic Ethnocentric Agricultural; Authoritarian State
Magical Egocentric Horticultural; Tribal
Archaic Pre-Egoic Hunter-Gatherer; Nomadic
Development occurs both vertically, from stage to stage,
and horizontally, healing and growth within a stage.

8. States and
Stages in
Relationship
Wilber-Combs Lattice
For the Conscious Media-
Maker it is important to
remember that State
experiences are translated
through the lens of the
viewer’s current stage of
development.

9. Processes of Consciousness
Now Now Now
I
ItYou Egocentric
Ethno-
centric
Socio-
centric
Global-
centric
Streams of Consciousness (Being)
Fields of Consciousness (Belonging)
Arcs of Consciousness (Becoming)

10. Dimensions of Consciousness
Collective
(Non-Local)
Collective
(Local)
Individual

11. Typologies of
Consciousness
3-Brain
Typology
Left/Right Brain Typology

12. How Consciousness is
Communicated
through Media

13. Forms of Communication Media
Visual Art
Music
Spoken Word
• Storytelling Written Word
Theater
• Opera
Photography
Film and Video
• Movies, TV
• Online, Mobile
Interactive
• Video Games
• New Media
Immersive
• VR/AR/MR

14. Communication
Media Sensory
Channels
Each form of communication
media uses select sensory
channels through which to
communicate. The more
sensory channels a medium
uses, the greater the
potential impact because, the
closer it gets to actual lived
experience
Interactivity/
Immersion
Textual
Visual
Auditory
Kinesthetic
SpatialTemporal
Olfactory
Gustatory
Visceral

15. How Consciousness
is Communicated
through Moving-
Image-Based Media
One of the unique qualities of
moving-image-based media,
including film, Video, Video
Games, Multimedia and
VR/AR/MR, is their
similarities to how human
beings imagine and dream.
Because of this, this type of
media has greater potential
to penetrate us more deeply
and profoundly.

16. MEDIA
The Co-Evolution
of Consciousness,
Media, Culture
and Society
There is a great deal of
qualitative and
quantitative data that
suggests a deep co-
evolutionary
relationship between
consciousness, media,
culture and society.

17. How Consciousness Affects Media-
Making
Projection/Identification
Social Contagion Effect
Group Field Resonance
Local/Non-Local Resonance

18. Conscious Media-Making is
media created
with the intention of
elevating, honoring, and
transforming consciousness
in some way, for both creators
and receivers
of the media-work. This
includes…
What is
Conscious
Media-
Making?
Transforming Consciousness Around
an Issue, Situation or Idea
Transforming the Consciousness of
the Individual (Individual Change)
Transforming the Consciousness of
the Collective (Cultural/Social
Change)
Transforming Consciousness Itself
(Evolutionary Growth and
Development)

19. Forms of
Conscious
Media-
Making
Conscious Intention
and Effort
Personal Vision
Quest
The Holy Media
Encounter
Co-Creating with
the Universe
There are many
different forms of
Conscious
Media-Making,
including
the following…

20. Conscious Media Practices
Individual
Consciousness
Practices
Media-Maker
Consciousness Practices
(Alignment of Creative
Intention with Individual
Reality)
Collective
Consciousness
Practices
Group Field Entrainment
and Conscious Team-
Building Practices
(Alignment of Creative
Intention with Collective
Reality)
Enactment
Consciousness
Practices
Sanctification and
Ritualization of Media-
Making Processes,
Procedures and
Technologies (Alignment of
Creative Intention with
Material Reality)

21. Conscious
Media
DesignCreator
Consciousness
Intention
Inception Text
Image
Sound Time
Interactivity
Receiver
Consciousness
By synchronizing creator
consciousness and intention
with the inception and creation
processes of the textual, visual,
auditory, temporal and
interactive dimensions of the
media-work one can produce
powerful and
transformative lived experiences
for the receiver.
By mapping the structures of
consciousness embedded in a
work we can design works that
transform consciousness itself…

22. Structures of Media Consciousness

23. Qualifications
and Data Sources
This material is based on…
 My over 40 years of experience as a conscious media artist and researcher;
 My educational and professional art and media training at the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago, USC School of Cinematic Arts and the American Film Institute
with mentor and masterclass training with masters in the field including Robert Wise,
Alfred Hitchcock, King Vidor, Lestor Novros, George Lucas and Sam Shepard;
 My educational and professional training in consciousness, transpersonal psychology
and integral theory at Sofia University and Fielding Graduate University with mentor
and masterclass training with leaders in the field including Ken Wilber and Charles
Tart;
 My years of applied research on the connection between consciousness and media at
Interval Research Corp and William James Center for Consciousness Studies;
 My over 30 years of personal and group consciousness training with consciousness
teachers and masters from various traditions and cultures including the Shamanic,
Judaic, Christian, Sufi, Yogic, Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Tai Chi, Chi Gong and Aikido
traditions along with various other esoteric and metaphysical traditions and systems;
 And Data collected from numerous conscious media interventions, experiments and
studies for the University of Chicago School of Medicine, University of Illinois at
Chicago School of Medicine, Sofia University, Transpersonal Institute, Esalen Institute,
the American Film Institute and the University of Southern California; along with
years of independent research through my Integral Cinema Project, sponsored by the
San Francisco Film Society and Integral Institute.
 Looking back on this journey I am in awe of how my life has given unfolded in a way to
give me all the pieces I need to bring together and share this wisdom from so many
different convergent streams and to contribute to our shared journey as humanity faces
perhaps the greatest evolutionary leap of our existence.

24. Mark Allan Kaplan, Ph.D.
www.markallankaplan.com
www.integralcinema.com
Conscious Good Creators Network
February 24, 2019