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Creativity and Intoxication: How Our Natural Desire for Altered States Fuels the Creative Process

Apply now for the annual Healing and Self-Expression Retreat in the Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu, Peru My fourteen-month-old daughter loves to swing.   I take her down to the playground near our house, slot her little legs into the safety seat, position her hands on the chain, give her a dramatic countdown as I lift the […]

Filed Under: Religion + Spirituality, Science + Technology, Self-Expression Tagged With: Insight, Psychology

[VIDEO] Do I ever hit a wall?

Recently I had the opportunity to present to a class on innovation and entrepreneurship at San Francisco State University. They had some great questions for me, including how to get unstuck when I feel stuck.  

Filed Under: Art + Business, Science + Technology, Self-Expression Tagged With: Blog, Health, Insight, Psychology, Spirituality

[ARTICLE] The Body, Mind, and Spirit of Bay Area Creativity

Apply now for this year’s Healing and Self-Expression Retreat in the Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu, Peru. Each retreat limited to 10 participants only. The Bay Area is the single most creative and innovative region in the United States, if not the world. Home to such major players as Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, You Tube, […]

Filed Under: Art + Business, Religion + Spirituality, Science + Technology, Self-Expression Tagged With: Bay Area, Blog, Ground of Creativity, Innovation, Insight, Psychology, Science, Spirituality

[VIDEO] Creativity and Bay Area Innovation, Part X: Burning Man and the Primordial Ground of Creativity

“It is, we are, I am,” is the secret mantra of creativity that drives people back to the desert each year, to return sleep-deprived, covered with impossibly fine dust, and, though there is an outward call for self reliance and Self-expression, to return with a felt sense of having participated in something much, much larger […]

Filed Under: Art + Business, Religion + Spirituality, Self-Expression Tagged With: Bay Area, Blog, Insight, Psychology, Spirituality

[VIDEO] Creativity and Bay Area Innovation, Part VIII: The City of Gold

Gold is revered cross-culturally because it seems to build a bridge between this world and some other. The City of Gold The peninsula currently known as San Francisco has had many names, and based on the number of indigenous tribes living in the area before the Spanish arrived, many more than I’ll be able to report. […]

Filed Under: Art + Business, Religion + Spirituality, Science + Technology, Self-Expression Tagged With: Bay Area, Blog, Design, Innovation, Insight, Psychology

Enter to win a FREE subscription to my number one resource for creative inspiration

Click here to enter to win a FREE year-long subscription to The Sun Magazine. Want inspiration? Want inspiration on a consistent basis? Want inspiration that you can hold in your hand, return to when you need it, and look forward to when it, like clockwork, comes to visit you again and again? Today I want […]

Filed Under: Art + Business, Religion + Spirituality, Self-Expression Tagged With: Blog, Collaboration, Ground of Creativity, Insight, Spirituality

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 […]

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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 […]

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Creativity and Gender Equality: The Need for True Empowerment in Both Women and Men

Here’s an amazing TED talk from a new friend of mine, Joselyn DiPetta, whom I fortuitously met in the final moments of the 2015 Wisdom 2.0 Conference after party.  Her above talk,”The Missing Piece in the Gender Equality Puzzle” is fantastic, and is a must see for anyone wanting to: transcend the limitations of stereotypes […]

Filed Under: Self-Expression Tagged With: Collaboration, Health, Innovation, Insight, Psychology, Spirituality, Women

Transcendence, Transformation, and Transmutation: The Secret Links Between, Insight, Innovation, and Healing

This is a follow up talk to the Creativity and Healing: Re-Establishing Wholeness through Self-Expression

Filed Under: Art + Business, Religion + Spirituality, Science + Technology, Self-Expression Tagged With: Health, Innovation, Insight, Psychology, Spirituality

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