ÀLÏEN shared their story and experiences with us recently and you can find our conversation below.
ÀLÏEN , we’re thrilled to have you with us today. Before we jump into your intro and the heart of the interview, let’s start with a bit of an ice breaker: What are you most proud of building — that nobody sees?
My world. For the past two years, I’ve been deep into uncovering myself. I’ve been exploring paths unknown, decluttering, rebuilding, pushing for true authenticity. I want to create a world of worlds. I want all of my multifaceted self to be expressed. Of course, some things will forever remain unseen, but ultimately, I want to share my world with the world. I want to offer an experience unlike any other. I want to build a legacy wonderfully unique, inspiring, and unforgettable.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
Hi! I’m ÀLÏEN. I am a multiverse of expression and existence. I have many names. You may have once known me as LINA. I have since transformed and undergone a beautiful rebirth. I’d say overall that I’m a visionary. I want to birth visions I receive from the ethers, from my surroundings, from my dreams. This translates well into my music, my style, my art, my movement. I have had many people say I am an experience, that I’m unique, that I’m this or that. I enjoy the way I shift my state at any given moment. My aspiration is to be an artist in continuous divine flow. Maybe you have known me one way at one point, but I am always unfolding and strangely unfamiliar.
I plan on releasing more music soon for those with a hungry soul and open mind who wish to listen.
Thanks for sharing that. Would love to go back in time and hear about how your past might have impacted who you are today. What did you believe about yourself as a child that you no longer believe?
That I had to be understood and follow the rules. I know it’s such a rite of passage to realize this, but the moment varies for everyone. I was rebellious, bold, naive, sensitive, dramatic, and very empathetic as a child. I wanted love to change the world. I wanted to be famous. I wanted to listen to everyone’s story. I wanted to be understood for being eclectic, for traversing the worlds of culture, genre, humanity, pleasure… and I wanted everyone to be on board and to support my vision no matter how grandiose. I wanted to control the way people viewed me.
Control is overrated.
What did suffering teach you that success never could?
It showed me why I fight. At my lowest nihilistic point, I could not figure out how to continue as who I was in a world constantly pushing to deny me rights. I grew up in a religious house, in a religious community, but I always knew who I was outside of religion. I believe that threatened the people around me. I was very different in my way of being. I had to over explain why I existed and believed the way I did. I kept fighting for others to see me. I would make every space available for them, and I would not receive the same in turn. Suffering reminded me pain is inevitable, but if I stay stuck and hurting, if I let them win, it will be me who let myself down. So, now I win for the little child in me who just wanted to be accepted and to be celebrated and loved. Now, I do not choose to endure when it hurts too much. I know how I would love myself. I know how those who genuinely love me love me. I do not desire suffering, because I know that lessons can be easy when you are being true to yourself.
Suffering taught me that if I want it to stop, it is my choice. I know now why I fight: it is so that I may embrace peace in My spirit and be unshaken in who I am and what I came here to do.
Sure, so let’s go deeper into your values and how you think. Where are smart people getting it totally wrong today?
If you can not maximize your intelligence, it doesn’t really bring much systemic value. Sure the universe exists… and it is aware that it does… and we are discovering every day why that matters. Even if the end means nothing, here we still are. Products of primordial ingredients and strange coding that we have evolved to replicate and to dissect. What does any of our intelligence or awareness of knowledge mean if we are not helpful to one another? I’m speaking on this broadly, but to be more specific: if you cannot balance details with the bigger picture, if you cannot articulate with purpose, if you cannot self reflect intimately, what do you truly know? It’s like having medicine and not knowing how to take it. Sure, you may know its ingredients, but not how it works and why it must and how its effects can change you. Smart people adapt. Smart people know that sympathy has its place and its power. Smart people know that in the pursuit of truth, they will fail and recorrect course. They know that all of the knowledge in the world is rendered useless in a human vessel if they cannot share this wonderful humanity with others. That’s just me talking though haha.
Thank you so much for all of your openness so far. Maybe we can close with a future oriented question. What do you understand deeply that most people don’t?
NUANCE! That the observable universe doesn’t prescribe good and evil. There is positive and negative. There is push and pull…and entanglement. People are so quick to forget that in this world, as it pertains to humans, there are beings smaller than color. Think about that! Imagine how much of the world we cannot even observe! But just because we cannot see it, doesn’t mean it does not exist. There is space for mystery and the gray areas.
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