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.
[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, […]
[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 […]
[VIDEO] Creativity and Bay Area Innovation, Part VII: The Spirit of Transformation
To have a landscape peppered with snake-like rocks, as occurs in the Bay Area, is not insignificant for creativity and innovation. In every creative act, something is always transformed into something else. When you begin to adapt creativity as a way of living, you begin to see it flourishing everywhere. And part of living a […]
[VIDEO] Creativity and Bay Area Innovation, Part II: The Great Cultural Mashup
The Bay Area sits at the westernmost edge of Western culture and the easternmost edge of Eastern culture, setting up a cultural edge condition that fosters creativity and innovation. Culture and Creativity Last time in the “Creativity and Bay Area Innovation” series, I talked about the influence of the Asian system of Feng Shui on […]
[VIDEO] Creativity and Bay Area Innovation, Part I: The Feng Shui Factor
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 […]
[VIDEO] Transformation Happens in the Darkness
When considering our creativity, it’s helpful to think of it in this way: “Growth happens in the light, transformation in the darkness.” Growth has to do with creative manifestation, our ability to use our resources, planning skills, and volition to turn our insights into reality. Transformation, however, are those experiences that bring about creative insights in […]
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 […]
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 […]