Artists engage in a process that lets them touch Something that’s alive. Joseph Campbell said, “The way of the artist and the way of the mystic are very much alike, except the mystic does not have a craft.” The creative process allows us to have a conversation with Something greater than ourselves. It puts us in…
Inner visions, creative nudges, and musings are never rational or logical. It takes courage to follow them. It takes fortitude to go against the norm and follow an inner call. Creative musings can’t be understood from the logic of the thinking mind and we typically don’t have the proper training or credentials for them. How…
The physicist Arthur Zajonc says that our culture needs the artist’s cognitive capacities. But what is it that poets and artists do that take them beyond ordinary capacities of knowing? Perhaps it’s the artist’s willingness to be confused, welcoming any unlikely connection that shows up; or his or her sensitivity to nuance and qualities…
When there are no words, something else appears. When I work with clients, I don’t engage with their thinking because what they think is likely keeping them stuck. Instead, I shift my clients to a place of higher wisdom where there are no words. In that place of higher wisdom, they have access to deep…
No matter our culture or upbringing, metaphor helps us process our inner world. At any given time, we may be “on fire,” “stuck,” “in over our heads,” “overwhelmed,” “burnt out,” or “in flow.” Metaphor helps us understand how we’re feeling and thus, better navigate our lives. What is not so well known is that metaphor…
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