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Grateful for All the Heart, Mind, and Creativity that Went Into The 2012 Lightning In A Bottle Festival!
Over Memorial Day weekend, I returned to the Lightning in a Bottle Festival for the 4th time, this time as one of the presenters speaking on the 5 Essentials of Designing and Building Sacred Space. It felt great to contribute in my own small way to the event and to know that I was but […]
Slivers of Eternity: One Minute Meditations On The Ground of Creativity, #18
In this clip, taken near the South Fork of Codornices Creek in Codornices Park in the Berkeley Hills, an unnamed spring feeding the creek rolls over the landscape towards the Golden Gate 14 miles to the west. Due to the geology of the Berkeley Hills, a folded geology that captures the winter rains and leaks […]
Creativity and Engineering: Last Sunday Marked the 75th Anniversary of the Opening of the Golden Gate Bridge
Last Sunday, the San Francisco Bay Area celebrated the 75th anniversary of the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge. Both the Golden Gate and the Bridge that spans it have been very influential in my life. I moved to the Bay Area when I was 18 and seeing that grand opening left me with an […]
It’s Official: Austin Hill Shaw Will Be Speaking on Creativity at the Science and Nonduality Conference in October
I am very excited to announce that this last weekend I received notice from the Science & Nonduality Conference (SAND). My talk, “Creativity and Nonduality: How The Tension Between Egoic Identity and the Absolute Self Shapes the Creative Process” will be part of this year’s line up. Here’s the official word: Thank you for your […]
Slivers of Eternity: One Minute Meditations On The Ground of Creativity, #17
In this clip, filmed at night at UC Berkeley, the bells of Sather Tower ring out into the night as the northern facade of Doe Library, which is celebrating its one hundred year old birthday this year, sits in the foreground. I love the UC Berkeley campus. Leaving my home as an 18 year old […]