MSc Economics, Published Author since 1991
Sunday Times Art & Culture Interview with Nataša Pantović & 5 Stars Review of Novel A-Ma Alchemy of Love
Sunday Times Culture Art Section Interview with Natasa Pantovic
All my characters do have strong political, ideological and moral commitments, their ideas are ground-breaking; it is a science against the Church, male against female, East against West conversation.
Holding up a mirror to society of ancient worlds can be fanatical or too obvious within the storytelling environment, so I had to break the rhythm with myths, with art, with dreams.
In your book you explore ‘Western’ ancient Greek philosophers. Can you talk about your use of the Eastern concept of ‘mindfulness’ in this context?
There are a number of ‘instant happiness’ gurus out there, I do not believe in a ‘get rich in a day’ message, but I do believe that if we learn how to listen to our soul, we will be able to live our highest potential.
We live in a rapidly changing world. When I was born in Belgrade in 1968, at the time of no TV or internet, the population on the planet was three billion. Now they say it is seven billion.
The changes I have seen during my lifetime are huge. Emotionally, mentally and physically, we have to adopt different behaviour patterns, not just to survive, but to thrive without abusing other social groups or animals or endangering planet Earth.
The next stage, the stage of cultural life, is beyond the knowledge of more than 90 per cent of the population.
Having a percentage of the population that neither collects objects nor watches TV, nor reads newspapers, that is still capable of thinking, un-hypnotised, to appreciate art, or dance or sing, and is able to think creatively, is a part of my research fascination.
Malta Today Q&A Interview with Natasa Pantovic
Nataša Pantović is a Maltese-Serbian novelist, management consultant, adoptive parent, and ‘ancient worlds explorer’ based in Malta.
What’s the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning?
Meditate in an attempt to recall my dreams. A dream diary is the most beautiful technique I’ve learned from Jung – he understood dreams to be messages from the unconscious, and through his own self-analysis, containing imagery that illustrates our internal soul “messaging” system.
What is the best advice you’ve ever received?
My dad, who had a PhD in law, used to discuss ancient philosophers with me, introducing me to Aristotle’s ‘eudaimonia’ - the “long-term happiness” that achieved throughout a lifetime when human beings achieve health, wealth, knowledge, friends and this in turn leads to the perfection of human nature...
Research into Consciousness and Creativity. Applied Psychology and Philosophy from Tao to Jung to deeper understand Intuitive Wisdom and Pure Ratio, through Power of Mind.
Mindfulness exercises and personal development tools from AoL books and courses. How to creative thinking. with conscious living.
Books from the Author
AoL Mindfulness Books
Conscious Parenting Course by Natasa Pantovic MSc & Ivana Milosavljevic MEdu is AoL Mindfulness Book #5 designed for families.
According to the Widipedia Article Simplicity Parenting, "Nataša researches and supports the Finnish educational model where schools testing and homework are discouraged and where competition is not emphasized.". The Course is a continues success, by the words of Zerotoinfinitude - We chose Conscious Parenting as #4 of the 5 Best Personal Development Books for Kids, because: "The Course helps you employ mindfulness practices in parenting." The Course was also voted by Goodreads readers as #3 within the Goodreads List - Self Development Books that Actually Help, and Modern Parenting. In this Video Natasa Pantovic explains Why and How Conscious Parenting can help you.
Mindful Being towards Mindful Living Course, by Nataša Pantović, MSc Economics, AoL Mindfulness #4, Year: 2015, Size: 187 pg 8” x 10”.
This non-fiction book is a 12 modules personal growth course with self-growth transformation tools on nutrition, core beliefs, emotional intelligence, mind power, creative thinking. The course utilizes a variety of tools: mindfulness exercises, personality questionnaires, setting true personal goals, inner exploration through writing and drawing, creativity exercises, etc. With applied psychology exercises from both East and West philosophical schools.
Mindful Eating book is designed with the best AoL Mindful Eating Exercises and a collection of Delicious Raw Vegan Recipes. Mindful Eating Exercises help with over-eating, eating too often, eating too little, eating junk food, food allergies, etc. Vegan cooking book. ISBN: 978-9995754020
Mario Johns Buzzfeed Interview with Natasa Pantovic "While sitting and awaiting Nataša at the dawn of this wintry day, mid March, a ginger cat jumped onto my lap purring for attention. A lucky one really, doesn’t need to worry about mindfulness or what to eat and how. We on the other hand spend endless hours thinking and talking about healthy food, conscious living, the best ways to fulfil our highest potential..."
Tree of Life: a Journey into a Field of Dreams, AoL Mindfulness #4, Published: 2015. Released Year: 2017, Publisher: Artof4elements. Paperback: 326 pages. Size: 6"x9".
A metaphysical novel by Nataša Pantović set in Findhorn, the UK, as a Journey into the Field of Dreams. The Tree of Life in various religious interpretations, within myths, and as a mystical concept represents the inter-connection of all life on our beautiful planet. A true adoption story venturing into Serbia, Africa, Ethiopia, Kenia, Malta. In What the Expert Say Interview with Joyce “Nataša Nuit Pantović brings us her ninth book, TREE OF LIFE, as part of the AoL Mindfulness series. She considers the Alchemy of Love Mindfulness a spiritual rather than a religious endeavor. TREE OF LIFE is a novel with poetry — spiritual not religious — that is an “inspirational and motivational encounter with various spiritual journeys into Love, Consciousness, Bliss.” ISBN: 978-9995754136
A-Ma or Playing the Glass Bead Game with Pythagoras, a Historical Novel by Nataša Pantović, Year: 2017, Publisher: Artof4Elements. Paperback: 207 pages, Size: 6"x9, a historical fiction novel set in the 17th century Chinese Macao.
A Beautiful Mind Sunday Times "Seated on a panel with her fellow writers, Maltese-Serbian novelist Nataša Pantović has been known to use slam poetry to perform her poetic body of work. Like her prose, the improvised words, tribal music, percussionist sounds, lengthy ‘aum’ chanting, are neither too preposterous nor too earnest but endlessly curious. A bridge builder between East and West, following ancient archaeological findings, she often dives into historic settings more than 2,000 years back in time.
In her novel, Ama: Playing the Glass Bead Game with Pythagoras, the 52-year-old author makes a bold swerve into less-travelled territory. She chooses for her protagonists Ama, an African priestess, living in China’s Macao in the 17th century; Ruben, a Portuguese Jesuit priest; and Fr Benedict, an Orthodox Christian.
The book explores the rapidly-growing Macao, its changing sights, sounds and smells from different perspectives, from that of a bat to a goddess to a spirit. Its miracle and its enigma are within the worlds of inner alchemy of the Age of Enlightenment.
Can you tell us about Ama: Playing the Glass Bead Game with Pythagoras?
Both Hesse and Tolstoy were my first spiritual gurus. Through their deep insights and soulful messages, for the first time I experienced the world of spiritual growth and deep contemplation. Many artists have inspired my writings, the likes of Leonardo da Vinci, Lao Tzu and Giordano Bruno. Pythagoras lived on the crossroads of civilisations, as I see us, and he has given us his fascinating research into music and numbers. With my deep respect towards ancient worlds, Pythagoras with his ancient Egyptian mystical knowledge had to be my protagonist.
In your novel, you follow the famous reform of the Chinese calendar during the 17th century. Can you tell us about your research?
I started writing this as a 17th-century novel. In this novel, it was easy to write from the point of view of the main character, a priest or Ama’s mother or a man without a name or a goddess, Lilith.
Holding up a mirror to society of ancient worlds can be fanatical or too obvious within the storytelling environment, so I had to break the rhythm with myths, with art, with dreamsI wanted to bring in the many first-person singular voices, starting with an animal ‒ a bat, as a story-teller, moving to Pythagoras, to people who meet Ama within the setting of her coffee house. This narrative framework is 50 per cent inspired by the ‘yin’ mindset; dreamy and emotional, and five per cent factual, male and mind-driven.
What is it within this black main character that fascinates you so much?
Ama lived with me for 10 years before I knew I would adopt two kids from Ethiopia, yet Ama as the main protagonist of the story has decided to be black.
Was Athens black at the time of the ancient Greeks or was it full of Slavs that during the Dark Ages were not allowed to have their own European history?
All my characters do have strong political, ideological and moral commitments, their ideas are ground-breaking; it is a science against the Church, male against female, East against West conversation."
Conscious Creativity: Ancient Europe's Mindfulness Meditations by Nataša Pantović.
Conscious Creativity:
Ancient Europe's Mindfulness Meditations by Nataša Pantović, AoL #7, Year: 2017,
Paperback: 128 pages, Size: 6"x9"
Art of 4 Elements: Discover #Alchemy of Love through Poetry
BY NATASA PANTOVIC, JASON LU, JENI CARUANA AND CHRISTINE CUTAJAR
"Like her prose, the improvised words, tribal music, percussionist sounds, lengthy Aum chanting, are neither too preposterous nor too earnest but endlessly curious." Sunday Times
Transforming the visible into words, and words into images, The Art of Four Elements artists gathered together with a common dream to explore the manifestation of: Earth that is fixed, rigid, static and quiet, and symbolizes the world of senses; Water that is the primordial chaos, is fluidity and flexibility, and symbolizes the world of emotions; Air that has no shape & is incapable of any fixed form. It is a symbol of thoughts; Fire that is boundless and invisible, and is a parching heat that consumes all, or within its highest manifestation, becomes the expression of Divine love, and Spirit that stands at the center of the 4 elements as an essence, an observer, consciousness coming forth to experience the magic of life. 4 artists, a poet Nataša Pantović, a photographer Christine Cutajar, and two painters Jason V Lu and Jeni Caruana, worked together to create The Art of Four Elements book, which comprises 120 art works and 120 poems. Launched and exhibited at Spazju Kreattiv St James Cavalier, Valletta
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Spiritual Symbols and their Meaning, AoL Book #8. by Nataša Pantović
Spiritual Symbols with Their Meaning, AoL Mindfulness #8, by Nataša Pantović. Our Holographic Universe resonates with the most amazing precision creating Realities of our Choice. Using the sound (Aum, Amin, Allah) resonance to mediate, today & in the past our artists use symbols to enter higher states of consciousness. From Neolithic wisdom of Ancient Temples' carvings of spirals, Pythagoras numbers, Leonardo da Vinci's paintings, ancient wisdom of magic, mysticism, occult travels to our worlds giving us conscious / subconscious gift from Greek Philosophers, Neolithic Temples Goddesses, Alchemy. Year: 2018, Format: Paperback, Size 152 pg 6" x 9"
In her novel, Metaphysics of Sound: in Search of the Name of God, or a Brief History of the World beyond the Usual Nataša cruises through the Ancient History beyond the Usual. What do we know of our ancestors’ myths and who’s tales can be trusted and why?
Followed by the "classical antiquity" with the Hellenistic, Eastern European history in the Ancient Mediterranean, from the beginning of recorded Ancient Greek history in 776 BC. This roughly coincides with the Golden period in Ancient Greece in Balkan. Following the development of the languages researching the Ancient Egyptian Rosetta Stone, the Ancient Homeric Ionic Greek, using the Slavic Cyrillic script to map the oldest Phoenician Alphabet to the European development of languages.
MSc Economics,
Management Consultant
Adoptive Parent
Nataša Pantović is a published Author since 1991, Management Consultant and Consciousness Researcher. With 30 years of research in Ancient Philosophy, and Applied Psychology she runs personal growth workshops and writes about variety of spiritual subjects.
Personal Highlights or some weird and wonderful things about me:
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- I've never had a TV yet I traveled through more than 50 countries and lived in 5: UK, New Zealand, Holland, Serbia and Malta
- The early eMalta years saw a heavy investment by Government in its ICT infrastructure to transform Malta into an Information Society. As Management Consultant working within the MEU, in the Office of Prime Minister, I worked on large number of management and HR consulting projects throughout the various Ministries and Government Institutions.
- Some years later, while heading a large UK IT company (Crimsonwing, later KPMG) that has set-up its operations in Malta, she was in charge of expanding its markets in Europe, and invited by Malta Enterprise, promoting Malta as a European near-shore IT outsourcing destination.
- Published my first book in 1991, Belgrade, Serbia, About Cooperative Law, with Dr. Miomir Pantovic, Contracts for Companies and Individuals, and started Management Consultancy work within the Maltese Government in 1993.
- - My soul is the one of a nomad and during my life-time I visited more than 50 countries, set foot on all the continents, and lived in five. During my life-time I visited Rome more than 30 times, explored all the corners of Europe: visiting Spain, France, Switzerland, Germany 20 times. My friends are from all around the globe. My home is in Amsterdam, London, Belgrade, Sliema, Rome, wherever I find my heart beating the same rhythm.
- - My life story book has many pages within the world of Management and Business Development, as Trainer and Facilitator of Workshops in: Mindfulness, Goddess Within, Stress Management, True Communication, Magic of Creativity.
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- Some of the more intriguing pages talk about 30 years of Consciousness Research, and my spiritual exploration journey through Philosophy, Yoga, Applied Psychology and my health conscious vegetarian life-style where I danced barefoot in the rain, meditated for hours in search of God, as a volunteer organized 6 Body, Mind and Spirit Festivals in Malta, and was one of the organizers of a 10 days Megalithic Conference in Malta, read 1,000s of spiritual books
- After helping Father George build a school in a remote area of Ethiopia, entered the most amazing world of parenthood adopting two kids from Ethiopia as a single mother (now imagine that!). My children Ema and Andrej are my biggest Conscious Parenting teachers. They love and train basketball, play music instruments, act within a Music Theater Group and were Chess Champions of Malta.
- The world of love and relationships is deep and soul enriching and I had the most amazing opportunity to explore its riches in over 18 years of relationships. I now regularly publish Articles on Relationships, Mindfulness and Personal Growth
AoL Mindfulness is published by Artof4elements
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According to Greek creation myths Chaos (Greek: χάος, khaos) is the initial "gap" created by the original separation of heaven and earth. This disorder is beginning of creation, place to search for inspiration.
In modern world Chaos is a gap in creativity, disharmony between science and art, rational and irrational, the world of reason and the world of emotions, the gap we are trying to bridge, to unite by our organization.
