Creativity and Spirituality: the Enduring Path

27 February 2008

Creativity Is a Connection to Soul

Creativity as Mediator Between the Worlds

Creativity is a mysterious journey that connects us to the unseen worlds.
There was a time when all people had access to the unseen worlds, although it was the shamans, story tellers and healers who mediated between the worlds as they journeyed into the Mystery and interpreted the images found there.

As a culture we have lost the connection to our instinctual nature.
Today we have our contemporary journeyers into the cosmic unseen worlds--many creative people are such journeyers--but as a culture we have lost the connection to our instinctual nature. With the development of the human brain and the march of history, the pendulum has swung so far that an overwhelming majority of people do not consider the journey into the unseen worlds a possibility, much less a necessity...

22 February 2008

Guidance for the Inner Critic

Love and honor yourself always and you will do fantastic work.

Here is a letter that Irene Kessler wrote to her Inner Critic. I was so moved, I asked if I could reprint her.

Dear Inner Critic,

What you have said to Irene is not reality and harsh and there is no reason to be harsh. The best things happen when you come from love.

Love and honor yourself always and you will do fantastic work. You have it in you and you see that in bits and pieces of writing you have already done.

Before you write, love yourself. Fill your being with compassion for yourself and the world. Shine a light on yourself and the universe. Know they are there to help and guide you and that is the strongest force there is. Nothing can override it. Go and write my child, and be happy.

21 February 2008

The Inner Critic and the Creative Unconscious

The Inner Critic is terrified of the creative unconscious because it is the home of feelings, emotions, images and it is chaotic and unexpected.

The Inner Critic likes order and loves the status quo, which is antithetical to the creative unconscious. That's why if you "fall down the rabbit hole" the Inner Critic won't follow you! Free of the Inner Critic, you have the possibility of experiencing real creative freedom and passionate stories awaits you.

Only then can the creative dance begin!

13 February 2008

Have You Traveled to the Land of Betwixt and Between Lately?

The land of Betwixt and Between is a boundary of neither/nor, the place where objects touch, auras blend and energy is transformed. It is midnight, the bewitching hour, the time of neither day nor night but mysteriously both. It arrives unannounced like creativity itself.

The place of Betwixt and Between is the magic, the mystery, the essence of creativity where nothing is what it seems and everything is possible.

The time of Betwixt and Between is the waxing of the moon becoming the waning of the moon becoming the waxing of the moon. Appearing full for three nights, absolute fullness is only a moment, then passes into the land of betwixt and between.

What else is betwixt and between?

12 February 2008

Awake My Soul: A Message from the Muse

“People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.”

~ Joseph Campbell

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Creativity Is a Connection to Soul

Guidance for the Inner Critic

The Inner Critic and the Creative Unconscious

Have You Traveled to the Land of Betwixt and Between Lately?

Awake My Soul: A Message from the Muse