Creativity Matters
“The imagination is not interested in…naively pitting one side against another, dark against light. It is interested in the place where the two sides meet, and what they give birth to when they cross-fertilize each other.”
John O’Donohue, Irish Poet, Author, and Priest
This is a follow up talk to the Creativity and Healing: Re-Establishing Wholeness through Self-Expression
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 […]
In this video, Austin Hill Shaw, founder of Creativity Matters and author of The Shoreline of Wonder: On Being Creative explores the parallels between three vehicles of Tibetan (Vajrayana) Buddhism– the path of renunciation, the path of service, and the path of integration–and the three components of creativity–insight, manifestation, and Self-expression.
There are many ways to greet a fellow human being. And from the point of view of creativity, there is one greeting that I find to be particularly powerful: Aloha! Like many traditional greetings, greetings that recognize and honor the dynamic, interpendent world around us, the word “aloha” has many translations, one of which is […]
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. […]
