The Bay Area is hands down the single most creative and innovative region in the United States, receiving a whopping 32 percent of all the venture capital invested in the United States. Introduction to the “Creativity and Bay Area Innovation” series The Bay Area is hands down the single most creative and innovative region in the […]
Release, Receive, Return Anew: The Creative Power of The Labyrinth
Want more creativity in your life? Download your FREE copy of The Creator’s Cheat Sheet today! The labyrinth at Grace Cathedral has been one of the most important portals for both creative insight and healing in my life. It seems strange that a single path winding about 11 concentric circles could be so powerful. Now, having walked them […]
Creativity, Destruction, and the Power of Fire
This week, one of the most important and tranquil retreats for Bay Area dwellers, burned in a massive fire two hours north of the San Francisco Bay. For well over a hundred years, Harbin Hot Springs had been a sanctuary for healing, rest, and rejuvenation, and with its loss, many of us who took refuge […]
The Lowdown on Bassnectar: How a 7.0 Earthquake Inspired The Bay Area’s Most Indigenous Musical Genre
On Sunday, September 27th, Lorin Ashton and Bassnectar return to the Bay Area to play at the Bay Area Vibze Festival. Bassnectar shows have been some of the most profound and joyful experiences of my life. And because Lorin’s music has touched me so deeply, as a student of creativity and Self-expression, I’ve asked myself, and had […]
Marketing and the Tree of Life
Do you long to THRIVE both CREATIVELY and FINANCIALLY? Check out Ann Rea’s course Making Art, Making Money Today. Marketing has been an essential and super-fun aspect of growing Creativity Matters. But it wasn’t always that way. There was a time, not so long ago, that I viewed marketing as a total drain, and something […]
[VIDEO] Creativity and Healing: Re-Establishing Wholeness through Self-Expression
Shakespeare grieved the loss of his 11-year-old son while writing Hamlet. Picasso’s most impactful painting mourned the atrocities of Guernica, the first civilian bombing in the history of the world. Pearl Jam’s Ten, an album that has sold over ten million copies, was created as the founding members, Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament, mourned the loss of their […]
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 […]
Slivers of Eternity: One Minute Meditations on the Ground of Creativity, #32
In this video, filmed on Sunday morning 2012 after the highly energized, yearly ritual of burning the man, festival goers continue to go strong, enjoying the life giving qualities of destroying, then being born anew. At Burning Man, creativity and creative expression are everywhere, in costumes, in communication, in performances, and in the prolific outpouring […]
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. […]
Slivers of Eternity: One Minute Meditations on the Ground of Creativity, #31
In this video, taken in the spring of 2012 near Codornices park in North Berkeley, California, a redwood tree trunk outside my kitchen window sways with the wind. I find it incredibly powerful to see an organism standing over a hundred feet tall, with all it has built by converting sunlight and water into sugar […]