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Creating space for Spirit to speak

February 22, 2021

I have studied learning and creativity for thirty years. We humans think from our egos and we create from our egos. It’s all about “me me me.” Even people who are social activists often come from a place of “what can I do? I need to do more. I need to help.” Because of this [ Read more … ]

Staying present as I engage with the unknown

September 22, 2020

I hold my pen and engage with the unknown. I have to be present to move with Spirit. I can’t get ahead of myself. I can just be in the moment making decisions as I go.

Dissolving into something greater than ourselves

June 29, 2020

We are like soluble ink. In order to dissolve into Something greater than ourselves, we have to let go… we have to let go of what we think, believe and know.

Working with symbolic & metaphoric images

January 4, 2018

We live in a metaphoric world…meaning that we live immersed in the energies of the Deep Creative. But because we’re taught to perceive and learn about the world through our thinking minds, most of us aren’t consciously aware of how these powerful energies are “working us” in our day-to-day lives. Symbolic images show up in [ Read more … ]

Do you think like an artist?

June 8, 2013

“. . . artists are the harbingers of the future mentality required both by science and by the imperatives of living in our precarious times . . . we now truly stand in need, not only as scientists but as a civilization, of the artists’ cognitive capacities,” wrote physicist Arthur Zajonc. From my 20 years teaching [ Read more … ]

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