Masculine and feminine, structure and surrender, discipline and play — what if you don’t have to choose? Artist-alchemist Neo Heart on coherence, the diamond heart and why the old game keeps us stuck.

Do you know the feeling of being pulled in many directions? Your head says one thing, your heart another. Part of you wants a plan and security, another part wants to let go, into play and creativity. And at some point we learned: you have to choose. That was the old game. What if, in the new game, we no longer have to choose? And what if it’s exactly this having-to-choose that keeps us stuck?

My guest is Neo Heart. He calls himself an artist-alchemist. Born in London in 1971 to an Egyptian mother and a British father, he studied at Goldsmiths, lived in Italy, New York and Tokyo, and has worked in London since 1998. Since a profound opening in 2003, he has been developing a path he calls Art-Alchemy. We met this summer in Avebury, among the stone circles. This conversation is the continuation. By the way, I’ve since started working 1:1 with Neo and I’m really enjoying the work!

Neo describes three forces within us: Structure — the part that plans and gets things done, the masculine principle. Stillness — the part that can rest in not-knowing, the feminine principle. And Spontaneity — the playful part in between, the childlike principle. Most of us live mainly in one of them. His point: balance doesn’t mean giving each of them a third. It means letting all three be fully alive.

And this is where it gets interesting. The real taboo of the old game isn’t belonging to the wrong camp — science, creativity or spirituality. The taboo is being all three. Neo calls this coherence: not 33, 33, 33 percent, but three hundred. And he locates it in the heart, in a space he calls the diamond heart. It doesn’t push away the mind, the body or the soul. It holds all of it.

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Kennst du das Gefühl, in viele Richtungen gezogen zu werden? Der Kopf will Plan und Sicherheit, das Herz Spiel und Kreativität. Und irgendwann haben wir gelernt: Du musst dich entscheiden. Das war das alte Spiel.

Mit Neo Heart, Artist-Alchemist aus London, spreche ich darüber, warum Balance nicht heißt, jedem Teil ein Drittel zu geben, sondern Struktur, Stille und Spiel ganz lebendig sein zu lassen. Und darüber, warum das Schwere nicht erst weg sein muss, bevor das Leben wieder aufgehen darf. Wir haben uns im Sommer in Avebury kennengelernt, inzwischen arbeite ich 1:1 mit ihm.

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