Part 1 of 2. Jennifer Lipski is a strong advocate of growth through community. Through her organization, My Meta World, she helps others find their inner wisdom in community, and builds community through her program “8 Minutes of Awesome: Must-Watch Videos with Awesome People” In March 2015, she interviewed me for her show. True to form, we failed […]
[Article] Creativity and Healing: Re-Establishing Wholeness through Self-Expression
Here’s an article I wrote for Common Ground Magazine’s May 2015 Creativity Issue. To check out the article as it appeared in the magazine, go here. It’s true the wind blows terribly here but moonlight also leaks between the roof planks of this ruined house. —Izumi Shikibu What do the origins of Newton’s law of universal gravitation, the […]
[VIDEO] Creativity, Cosmology, and Communion: A Buddhist View of the Sacred Significance of Psychedelics
Austin Hill Shaw is interested in exploring the peculiar ability of psychedelics to root out both the karmic challenges and opportunities of the individual who ingests them, and their powerful way of delivering messages that, when seen in the appropriate light, allow an individual to move forward in life with a deeper sense of meaning, […]
Is it possible to marry the spiritual and the material?
At the 2014 Wisdom 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, a woman from England, Harpal Datt of Glow at Work, a business psychology consultancy specializing in unleashing talent and potential, came up to me and said, “Your friend says you’re a Buddhist hipster. What does that mean?” To be honest, I wasn’t quite sure either. But […]
Creativity and Psychedelics: Religious Scholar Huston Smith and the Good Friday Experiment
..listening to the angelic music from the choir being piped down into the basement room, and having his consciousness greatly expanded by the chemicals in the mushrooms, Huston experienced a homecoming he’d longed for all his life: a direct, personal encounter with God. Psychedelics: An important tool for creativity and innovation As a creativity expert, my […]
[ARTICLE] The Psychedelic Miracle
Apply now for this year’s Healing and Self-Expression Plant Medicine Retreat in The Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu, Peru. “[Ayahuasca users] have become better partners to their spouses, better parents to their children, better children to their parents, better employees, better employers, just more responsible overall, bringing a higher level of ethical integrity to everything […]
Creativity and Surfing: Creative Flow and the Seduction of the Tube
The allure of a barreling wave is an undeniable force. It resonates deep within us like the drone of a bagpipe—strong and steady, raw and primordial—allowing all other notes a point of origin, a point of origin from which to soar. But what can waves and surfing teach us about our own desires for creative […]
7 Reasons Creativity is Essential to Your Personal Life
1) Survival That which can be automated and outsourced will be automated and outsourced. Here’s the tough news: As the global market place continues to become more and more competitive, those jobs and enterprises that a machine can do faster or someone else can do cheaper will go the way of the dinosaur and the […]
Creativity and Healing
In this video, creativity expert Austin Hill Shaw talks about the relationship between creativity and healing. For more information on creativity, healing, and how you can have more of both, sign up to receive inspiration, step-by-step instruction, and healing today!
Creative Insight and the Golden Gate Bridge
This video is part of a series on San Francisco Bay Area creativity and innovation by creativity expert, Austin Hill Shaw. In this edition, Austin used the origins of the Golden Gate Bridge to explain the nature of creative insight and how the Golden Gate can be seen as the engine of innovation in the San […]