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
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
..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 […]
