I love working with artists and writers and I have a class for artists and writers coming up this weekend at Book Passage in Corte Madera, I hope you can join me! Scroll to the bottom for details. This month I spoke at the California Writers Club. It was their super fun Halloween meeting, and [ Read more … ]
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Upcoming Experiential Event at Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA!
Hi folks, Next Saturday, April 14th, I’m doing an experiential class at Book Passage in Corte Madera and I’d love to see you there! Here’s the info and link to register: The Power of Metaphor to Unlock Creative Genius Saturday April 14th. 10 am – 1 pm PST Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista [ Read more … ]
God is unknowable. All we have is metaphor.
The same could be said for knowing anything of any depth or complexity … our universe, each other, or how to navigate through a turbulent situation. The metaphors that we hold are what enable us to construct meaning and find our way. Metaphor is much more than a tool of language–it’s how we make sense [ Read more … ]
Metaphor in Everyday Life: workshop at Book Passage
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 [ Read more … ]
Everything of which we are conscious is an image
… said Carl Jung, which segways nicely to my upcoming workshop April 16, at Book Passage. Here’s the description: Images lie at the heart of the creative process. They are the language of the “middle realm,” a place where literal words don’t yet exist. Depth psychologists believe that images are animate and in this seminar [ Read more … ]
