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[VIDEO] Loose Ends Sap Creative Energy
Do you have a pile in your inbox that’s just getting bigger? Are there unpaid bills, unreturned phone calls, repairs to your car, your bike, your home, or your computer that you’ve been putting off? What about your health? Do you have a sore tooth, a persistent ache, or something that you know needs […]
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 and Psychedelics: Religious Scholar Huston Smith and the Good Friday Experiment
..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 […]
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 […]
How to Create a Brand Identity: Guest Blog from Business Consultant and Fellow Creator, John Van Dinther
So many new entrepreneurs get lost in creating a brand identity for their business, often putting too much money and thought into how a logo or website should look, but not focusing enough on what impact that logo or website will have on their audience. This branding exercise should help you quickly create a solid […]
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. […]
Austin Hill Shaw Speaks on the Power of Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP)
This excerpt was taken from an hour long presentation by Austin Hill Shaw at the NLP Coaching Institute of California on Saturday, November 3, 2012. The full presentation was entitled “Creativity Demystified: The 3 Components of Creativity and How to Cultivate them Using NLP Techniques”. http://youtu.be/m-BknXbuiIs
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 […]
Austin Hill Shaw’s Will Be Presenting as Part of “The Self as a Creative, Embodied Process” at the Science and Nonduality Conference
I am pleased to announce that I will be presenting my talk, “Creativity and Nonduality: How the Tension Between the Egoic Identity and the Absolute Self Shapes the Creative Process” as part of a series of talks called “The Self as a Creative, Embodied Process” on Saturday, October 27th at the Larkspur Room of the […]