The Creative Soul: Art and the Quest for Wholeness
by Lawrence H. Staples
ISBN 9780981034447
Product Description
Who we most deeply are is mirrored in our artistic work. Our need for mirroring simultaneously attracts us to and repels us from our creative callings and relationships. It is one of life's great dilemmas.
Artist's block and lover's block flow from the same pool. Often, we fear deeply the very thing needed to create original art, to experience intimate relationships and to live authentic lives: we are frightened by the impulse to be fully revealed to ourselves, and to others, as this most often entails exposing the unacceptable shadowy aspects of our humanity and risking rejection.
Mirrors in all their manifold guises permit us to safely see and experience ourselves in reflection and become better acquainted with the rejected, ostracized aspects of our personalities. Creative work is one of the few places where we can truly express and witness lost aspects of our authentic selves.
Within us a treasure beckons. This is what we spend our lives pursuing. What slows and distracts us is not the object we long for, but where we search. To find this precious gem, we must eventually return to our own creative spirits.
Topics explored in THE CREATIVE SOUL include:
- OPPOSITES AND CREATIVITY
- THE CREATIVE INSTINCT
- OUR UNIQUE IDENTITY
- SOME ELEMENTS OF CREATIVITY
- SOME PREREQUISITES OF THE CREATIVE PROCESS
- LA PETITE MORT
- GIVING VOICE TO THE MANY LIVES WITHIN
- DREAMS AND ACTIVE IMAGINATION AS TRIGGERS TO CREATIVITY
- CREATIVITY AS AN INNER PARENT
- CREATIVITY WITHIN BOUNDS
- THE CREATIVE GAP
- THE POWER OF SMALL
- CREATIVITY AND INDEPENDENCE
- ART AND THE QUEST FOR WHOLENESS
- THERAPY AS ART
- FEAR OF SELF-REVELATION BLOCKS CREATIVITY
- INTIMACY AND CREATIVITY
- THE IMPORTANCE OF MIRRORING
- CREATIVITY, GUILT, AND SELF-DEVELOPMENT
- CREATIVITY AND LONELINESS
- LIFE AND THE TENSION OF OPPOSITES
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Guilt with a Twist:
The Promethean Way
by Lawrence H. Staples.
ISBN 9780977607648
Product Description
In Guilt with a Twist Lawrence Staples bumps us up against the 'tip of the guiltberg' and then guides us down into the murky depths of our beings were the raging, or occasionally subtle, sources of guilt are discovered—good, bad, and at times even indifferent.
With a spirit similar to what moved Galileo, Copernicus, Socrates, Rosa Parks, and Susan B. Anthony to violate conventional boundaries, Guilt with a Twist: The Promethean Way suggests that 'Good Guilt' is incurred for the sins we need to commit if we are to grow and reach our full potential as individuals, as well as a society. "'Sins' that benefit us," Staples claims, "could not be committed without a creative, Promethean spirit that is supported by an obstinate and irreverent insolence toward authority that is informed by a love of freedom."
Staples shows us how guilt may not particularly feel so 'good' at the time of a transgression, yet in retrospect the perceived 'sin' that originated feelings of guilt often turns out to be of great value materially, as well as spiritually. This timely publication sheds light and brings valuable meaning to feelings that for ages humanity has deemed 'bad' and undesirable and will benefit many who suffer from life's existential pains brought on by divorce, separations, addictions, and a host of socially imposed rules that crush the spirits of those who challenge prejudice attitudes toward race, religion, gender, and other social norms.
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