..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 […]
What do unexpressed emotions (and untapped creativity) have to do with disease?
The most important relationship for us to develop is the one with our authentic Self. Such has been the message from numerous traditions for thousands of years. Likewise, over the last decade, it has also been one of the most important discoveries in my exploration of the nature of creativity. The authentic Self provides us […]
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 […]
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 […]
Transcendence, Transformation, and Transmutation: The Secret Links Between, Insight, Innovation, and Healing
This is a follow up talk to the Creativity and Healing: Re-Establishing Wholeness through Self-Expression
Creative Insight, Wisdom, and the Feminine
Here is one of my favorite articles that I had the pleasure of writing, which appeared in the October 2013 Women’s Issue of Common Ground Magazine. The article is called “Wisdom and the Feminine” and explores the links between the feminine expression of wisdom and creativity at the levels of body, mind, and spirit. It is […]
What does the Innovation Required to Restructure the Military Have to Do with the Improv of The Jam Band, The Grateful Dead?
Here is a fantastic discussion on chaos, creativity, and innovation on KQED’s Forum, where Ori Brafman, author of The Chaos Imperative: How Chance and Disruption Increase Innovation, Effectiveness, and Success and Keith Sawyer, the Author of Zig Zag: The Surprising Path to Greater Creativity examine some really profound ideas.
Austin Hill Shaw Speaks on Creativity to Dr. Shauna Shapiro’s Positive Psychology Class at Santa Clara University
Here’s a link to an hour long presentation I gave on creativity at the Santa Clara University for a group of graduate students in the emerging and important field of positive psychology. I was invited by Dr. Shauna Shapiro, an internationally recognized teacher and advocate for mindfulness in all aspects of life. The presentation contains […]
The Wondrous Creativity Available at the Science and Nonduality Conference
Here’s an excerpt from a fantastic article by Mark Matousek on the powerful creativity available at the Science and Nonduality Conference, where astronomers, cosmologists, and particle physicists comingle with Sufis, Buddhists, Christian mystics, and nondual practioners. Read this and get a sense of what’s possible when there is real dialogue across seemingly different disciplines: The philosopher orders the pancakes and sausage. […]