Creating from the Spirit: Living Each Day As a Creative Act
Language: English
Published by Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Ballantine Books, 1996, 1996
- First Edition
- Softcover
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This is an unrevised proof. Light shelf wear to the wraps. Small patches of light creasing to the corners of the wraps. Sporadc light dust-staining to the wraps / to the bottom edge of the pages. A few of the internal pages have small creases to the top corners. This is minimal. The internal pages are clean and the binding is sound. A solid copy.
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- Title
- Creating from the Spirit: Living Each Day As a Creative Act
- Author
- Wakefield, Dan
- Publisher
- Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Ballantine Books, 1996
- Publication year
- 1996
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0345374304
- ISBN 13
- 9780345374301
- Edition
- First Edition
Drawing on examples from religion, philosophy, and literature, and exercises such as journaling and right-brain drawing, Creating from the Spirit teaches us that the key to creation is clarity of body, mind, and spirit. This book challenges the "dangerous nirvanas" of drug and alcohol as false agents of inspiration, examines the stereotype of tortured artists like Dylan Thomas, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jackson Pollock, and Kurt Cobain, and contrasts them with portraits of fulfilled and healthy creators, such as Toni Morrison, Rabbi Harold Kushner, Michael Jordan, and Hildegarde of Bingen. Creating from the Spirit guides us into the art of "emptying" ourselves of the incessant chatter that deadens both senses and soul. It teaches us the wisdom of "filling up" by accessing our natural perceptions and hidden creative resources. This cycle is brilliantly expressed in the lives and words of twenty "creators of the spirit" - from artists and writers to scientists and athletes, to CEOs and chefs - who have learned to embrace each moment as a creative act.
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Dan Wakefield recounted his own pilgrimage through the heady peaks and grim gulches of a creative life in Returning: A Spiritual Journey, which Bill Moyers called "one of the most important memoirs of the spirit I've ever read." Now, in Creating from the Spirit, this award-winning journalist and novelist reveals how writers, artists, musicians, and creative people of all kinds can unleash the principle of creativity within, so that it can infuse every aspect of our lives.
Wakefield explodes the many myths often associated with the mysterious creative process: that creativity is only for the artistic elite, that women's work is less creative than men's, and that to be creative means one must be tormented, alienated, neurotic, irresponsible, and a failure at relationships. The truth is that many of us are blocked by low self-esteem, unrealistic expectations, stultifying routine, or the double demo
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