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Religion + Spirituality

“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

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Austin Hill Shaw Talks on The Five Essentials of Designing and Building Sacred Space, Part II

In this talk, filmed at the Lightning in a Bottle Festival on the morning of Saturday, May 26, 2012, and Part II of the hour long talk (for Part I click here), I continue building the framework, bringing sacred outlook and a profound sense of connection into the process of designing and building specifically and […]

Filed Under: Religion + Spirituality Tagged With: Design, How To, Psychology, Spirituality

Austin Hill Shaw Talks on The Five Essentials of Designing and Building Sacred Space, Part I

In this talk, filmed at the Lightning in a Bottle Festival on the morning of Saturday, May 26, 2012, I create a framework bringing sacred outlook and a profound sense of connection into the process of designing and building specifically and creativity in general.  The framework comes from Vajrayana Buddhism, also known as Tantric Buddhism, […]

Filed Under: Religion + Spirituality Tagged With: Blog, Design, Education, Ground of Creativity, How To, Psychology, Spirituality

Embrace the Spiraling Nature of Creativity

Do you ever find yourself circling back around to a familiar place every so often—a certain part of town, a grove in the woods, the home where you grew up?   Do you keep coming back to landscape photography over other subjects you might explore with the precision of celestial bodies?   Do you notice how that […]

Filed Under: Religion + Spirituality Tagged With: Blog, Ground of Creativity, How To, Insight, Science, Spirituality

Life Before Death: Creativity and Impermanence

“People living deeply have no fear of death.” -Anaïs Nin This last weekend, I had the pleasure of working at the Wisdom 2.0 Business Conference in San Francisco, California. One of my speaker liaison team members was  Alison Raby, founder of “Life Before Death,” an organization dedicated to teaching others to embrace the finality of […]

Filed Under: Religion + Spirituality Tagged With: Blog, Education, Ground of Creativity, Psychology, Spirituality

Wisdom and Creativity in Business: I’m Enjoying Being the Speaker Liaison at the Wisdom 2.0 Business Conference

Wisdom and Creativity in Business:  I’m Enjoying Being the Speaker Liaison at the Wisdom 2.0 Business Conference Today I have the honor of being the Speaker Liaison at the first Wisdom 2.0 Business conference at the historic Palace Hotel in downtown San Francisco.   The Wisdom 2.0 Tech Conference is well known in the region as […]

Filed Under: Art + Business, Religion + Spirituality Tagged With: Blog, Collaboration, Education, Psychology, Science, Spirituality

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