In celebration of the 2017 Psychedelic Sciences conference, the largest of its kind ever, here’s a gift to help you in your creative pursuits. To get your high-resolution, one page two side copy of The Plant Medicine Creator’s Cheat Sheet, just click on this link or on the image to the left. Be patient, though. […]
Cosmic Jokes and Creative Cataclysms: The Inner Work of Creativity
In celebration of April Fools’ Day, including the memory of a dear friend, the conception of my first child, and all the learning that’s resulted, here is the complete last chapter from The Shoreline of Wonder: On Being Creative, a chapter that gets into the transformative messiness and healing required to truly take our place as creators. Interested […]
[VIDEO] From Blunt Trauma to Bold Awakenings: An Interview with Psychiatrist and Neurologist, Dr. Dan Engle
Interested in a truly life-changing experience? Apply now for this year’s Healing and Self-Expression Plant Medicine Retreat The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure that you seek -Joseph Campbell Dan Engle (@drdanengle), M.D., is a psychiatrist and neurologist, who combines functional medicine with integrative psychiatry to enhance regenerative health and peak performance. His prior and relevant experience […]
Creativity and Intoxication: How Our Natural Desire for Altered States Fuels the Creative Process
Apply now for the annual Healing and Self-Expression Retreat in the Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu, Peru My fourteen-month-old daughter loves to swing. I take her down to the playground near our house, slot her little legs into the safety seat, position her hands on the chain, give her a dramatic countdown as I lift the […]
You get to decide what has meaning and what doesn’t
If you really learn how to think, how to pay attention, then you’ll know you have other options. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow consumer hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with same force that lit the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness […]
[VIDEO] How to make yourself a better person
Apply now for the annual Healing and Self-Expression Retreat in the Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu, Peru “Am I good enough?” It’s a question, unfortunately, that many of us wrestle with much of the time. Am I good enough? Am I successful enough? Have I made it? This week, I turn to a luminary much wiser than […]
[VIDEO] Creativity in action: How we work with our architectural design clients
By tapping into the beliefs, values, and cosmologies of our clients, and setting intentions based on these values, our architectural designs take on the imprint of these cosmic musings as well as whole, new levels of vitality. -Austin Hill Shaw, 3 Lights Design Architectural design as a grand opportunity for co-creation I am eternally grateful […]
[VIDEO] How do the feminine and the masculine express themselves in creativity?
Apply now for this year’s annual Healing and Self-Expression Retreat in the Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu, Peru The play of the feminine and masculine How do the play of yin and yang, the so-called feminine and masculine energies, contribute to the experience of being creative? In this week’s video, filmed in a place that is […]
[VIDEO] Have I always viewed myself as a creator?
To be or not to be a creator? Even though I now see creativity as the defining trait of all human being, there certainly were times that I doubted my own identity as a creator. In this video, during a Q and A session at SF State, I explore the time in my life that […]
[VIDEO] Creativity, insight, and intoxication in everyday life
Apply now for this year’s annual Healing and Self-Expression Retreat in the Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu, Peru What are the links between intoxication and insight? At a recent presentation on creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship at San Francisco State, a shy student in the audience wrote a note to the professor, Andy Lambert, who then asked […]