a time to grieve; a time to dance

Have you ever found a glistening coin on the bed of a flowing stream? You point at it but your friend isn't quite able to see it. Or maybe your friend is pointing at something at a short distance and, for all your neck-craning, you can't quite see what it is.

This blog is exactly that. This is me pointing at something that I know is there and hope you'd see, too. Whether it's at a golden mask at the bottom of the well or an eagle soaring high in the sky, I wish you Happy Looking!

19 November 2015

Spiritual electricity, or creative energy

"the force that through the green fuse drives the flower" ~ Dylan Thomas


I am deeply enjoying my studies in Big History, and I am being led to return to a course I have embraced some fifteen years ago: The Artist's Way.

I come to re-examine my beliefs about Creative Energy aka Spiritual Electricity, the transcendent something that moves an artist to create, as possibly also what begun the Big Bang.

I also acknowledge that TAW's author, Julia Cameron, learned her lessons when she gave up alcoholism and fully embraced her creativity.  I think all forms of addictions that lead us to destructive lives are idolatry, and that embracing a god concept that works for the artist and leads him or her towards a fuller, more creative life can be a mark of spirituality.

I am ready to let go of my addictions: surfing (the Internet mindlessly), sex, sugar...as Julia let go of her crutch on vodka and gin.  I shall follow the path carved before me.  I want, finally, to be functional artist.

I am excited by all of this.
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