Creating from the Spirit: A Path to Creative Power in Art and Life

Wakefield, Dan

ISBN 10: 0345413431 / ISBN 13: 9780345413437

Editore: One World/Ballantine, 1997

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• Titolo: Creating from the Spirit: A Path to Creative Power in Art and Life
• Editore: One World/Ballantine
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0345413431
• ISBN 13: 9780345413437
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: New

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Analyzes the traditional myths associated with creative inspirations and uses twenty real-life examples to explain how to unlock natural perceptions and inner creative resources. Reprint. Tour.

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OOK WILL STRETCH YOUR MIND AND HELP YOU FIND THE SOURCE OF YOUR OWN SPIRITUAL AND CREATIVE POWERS."
--Yoga Journal

In this passionate, clearly reasoned book, award-winning journalist and novelist Dan Wakefield explodes the many myths often associated with the mysterious creative process. Drawing on examples from religion, philosophy, and literature, and exercises such as journaling and right-brain drawing, Creating from the Spirit teaches us that the key to creation is clarity of body, mind, and spirit. Wakefield also challenges the "dangerous nirvanas" of drug and alcohol as false agents of inspiration.

Creating from the Spirit teaches anyone who wants to be more creative how to access our natural perceptions and hidden resources, a process brilliantly expressed in the lives and words of twenty "creators from the spirit." Wakefield interviews artists and writers, scientists and athletes, CEOs and chefs--all who have learned to embrace each mome