Creativity, Madness and Drugs – disinformation
Would we have Poe’s Raven today if the tormented author had taken lithium to suppress his bipolar illness? Not likely, considering the high frequency of psychiatric illnesses among writers and artists, concluded psychiatrist Kay Jamison of Johns Hopkins Medical School speaking last week at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in San Diego.
The Advantages of Meditation for Students
Meditation is proved to not only bring harmony and happiness to people’s lives, but also to have some practical advantages. Numerous researches showed the connection between meditation and the progress in studies.
Gratifly Festival : Hosting an Evolution in Transformational Festivals
Something truly special happens when we join together in these powerful containers, share sacred space and our gifts, and bring our hearts close to the Earth with intention, love, celebration and togetherness.
“Let Mystery Have Its Place In You,” or Cultivating the Artist’s Sense of Interior Privacy
Matt Cardin of The Teeming Brain recently shared an illustrious passage from The New Yorker’s Joshua Rothman on Virginia Woolf and cultivating a sense of inner privacy. Prescient in our time for everyone, but especially the artist.
Experiential Reality
Imagination is the window into the infinite universe. Free of the boundaries of linear space and time, and cause and effect, imagination provides us the power to create “realities” where anything is possible.
Benton Rooks and the Mind Movers Podcast Discuss Entheodelic Storytelling
Benton Rooks discusses the internet as a proto-akashic record, the differences and similarities between Western and Eastern philosophy, ayahuasca, mythology, creativity and more…
A biopsychosocial approach to creative dissociation: remarks on a case of mediumistic painting
A biopsychosocial approach to creative dissociation: remarks on a case of mediumistic painting. Everton Maraldi and Stanley Krippner NeuroQuantology | December 2013 | Volume 11 | Issue 4 | Page 544-572
The Creative Process in 10 Acts
This week’s episode highlight (ep. 6 of 8) from our new series “The Future Starts Here” is all about the creative process. It’s a subject that I’m super interested in and have tried to understand more deeply since a big failure in my twenties…
Actipedia: Promoting Creative Activism
The Yes Lab and the Center for Artistic Activism are announcing the launch of Actipedia.org, an open-access, user-generated database of creative activism.
Coming Home, Broke Wide Open
Rock Wilk channels his personal story through storytelling and music, two mediums which can be incredibly open and communal for an audience. The "Broke Wide Open" experience is an intense and entertaining body of work. It is ultimately about a survivor who is not letting anything, fate nor past mistakes, keep him from soaring.