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Mano Sotelo, B.F.A., M.F.A., M.B.A., is a visual artist, author, and educator with over 20 years of higher education teaching experience. He currently serves as Visual Arts faculty at Pima Community College. Mano’s artwork has been exhibited at museums including the Coutts Museum of Art, Tampa Museum of Art, and Tucson Museum of Art, and featured in competitions by The Artist’s Magazine and International Artist Magazine.

Mano has presented at spirituality and arts conferences at Harvard Divinity School, the University of Oxford, Sapienza University of Rome, and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He has also led a mindfulness drawing workshop at TENWEST’s Wellness Summit at the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine.

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“In certain moments, Heaven feels less distant. Perhaps Heaven reveals itself through awareness and attention.”
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“After a third of Heaven's angels rebel, a fearful archangel struggles to save Heaven, humanity, and his older brother from absolute ruin.”
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“They said, “let me tell you a story, a true story, a story about good and evil, … a story that lives inside of you.”
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“After a third of Heaven's angels rebel, a fearful archangel struggles to save Heaven, humanity, and his older brother from absolute ruin.”
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“The war represents internal conflict, while Heaven symbolizes the present moment.”
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“The celestial battle serves as a metaphor, reminding us that both war and peace unfold in the present moment.”
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“In The War in Heaven, angels and demons dramatize moral tension. Appearing across Eastern and Western traditions as good and evil spirits, they point inward to the divided human condition — where aspirations toward heaven coexist with the pull of what we might call hell.”
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