Creative individuals mentally play with images all the time, no matter what field they work in. But research shows that all of us are embedded in the world of mental imagery all the time… and our cognitive systems are based in metaphor. Even individuals who define themselves as “less creative” are at their most creative…
In the case of every historic scientific discovery and invention that is researched carefully enough, we find that it was imagery, either in dreams or in a waking state, which produced the breakthrough. –John Curtis Gowan Humans have four ways of knowing: thinking, feeling, physical sensing, and imagination, but we tend to favor only…
The creative process is how we engage with life, and all of us engage with life in a variety of ways. Teaching has been my creative passion because it seems to me to be the ultimate “meeting of life.” When we work with a new group, we have no idea who is going to show…
Before the 2009 Bioneers conference, I’d never heard of Lily Yeh. She was one of the main speakers and I cried through her entire presentation. Yeh is an artist whose mission is to heal. Among other courageous things, she went to Rwanda and made art with the survivors of the 1994 genocide. Below is an…
I just read a book (Trent Jacob’s The Authentic Dissertation) about alternative dissertations—-using art, fiction, dialogues, indigenous ways of knowing and so on for doctoral dissertations. I have to admit, my dissertation process was completely the opposite of anything vaguely related to “experimental.” My process was about jumping through hoops to try to please my…
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