We humans are blessed with the ability to imagine a world beyond the ordinary. Let’s make good use of that gift.
deep knowing
Deep knowing is accessible when we move beyond the linear mind.
Creative power is Godlike. When we’re on fire, nothing can stop us.
Can a boulder block a stream?
No. The stream is going to go somewhere whether the boulder is there or not. A boulder can’t stop it.
The Deep Creative is the power of that stream and it’s possible for us to harness it. Deep Knowing is the divine wisdom and creative powers that are only accessible when we move beyond the linear mind. Because our culture has been so highly focused on knowing and perceiving through the left hemisphere, we’ve dismissed the extraordinary powers of our right cerebral hemisphere.
The language of the right hemisphere is metaphor and engaging with it in a deep way will shift your state of being, align you with your own deep knowing, and hook you up to an incredible realm of divine wisdom.
Check out my book Deep Knowing: Entering the Realm of Non-Ordinary Knowing on Amazon.
Just found out my new book Deep Knowing won a National Indie Excellence Award!!!!!
Teaching and writing are inquiries
I love inquiries.
My books have always been an inquiry…
an inquiry into art (Sky’s the Limit: The Art of Nancy Dunlop Cawdrey)
an inquiry into teaching (Getting Messy: Taking Risks and Opening the Imagination for Teachers, Trainers, Coaches, and Mentors)
an inquiry into how we know (Deep Knowing: Entering the Realm of Non-Ordinary Intelligence)
I love asking big questions that I don’t know the answer to and then going on a journey to discover what wants to be said about it.
My first teaching job was in the teacher credential program at UC Berkeley. Many of the students in the program had been teaching for years and they simply needed my course to renew their recertification.
My class was titled “Instructional Strategies” and…. I’d never taught a course before in my life.
I didn’t present myself to them as someone who had all the answers. My job was to be a guide, to initiate with my students a conversation about the subject of teaching.
It worked.
I worked with whatever arose and I drew the wisdom out of the room.
Students loved my classes. They weren’t asleep at their desks. They were participating in an inquiry that was ALIVE.
I didn’t need techniques and detailed lesson plans.
For three years, I taught classrooms full of experienced teachers with no real techniques or “strategies” under my belt. The only real method I had was to be a learner, to try things out and learn along with the students whether they worked or not.
Even though I was a novice teacher, I was an expert in inquiry. That made all the difference.
Pay attention to the spaces
In music, the space between the notes is what creates the melody. The beauty of a piece is formed in the pauses, the spaces in-between.
I’ve always been fascinated by these “spaces in-between” and have explored and written about them extensively in teaching (check out my book Getting Messy), art (check out my book Deep Knowing), and therapy
For example, when a work of art, performance, group space, lecture, or piece of writing doesn’t move me, I find myself saying, “It didn’t take me anywhere.”
It didn’t open a space “in-between.”
The spaces in-between are where we find healing, divine gifts, creative breakthroughs, and moments of evolutionary change.