The Artist's Adventure

Influences: A very personal selection

Cycle of Life & Adventure from Various Traditions

Joseph Campbell, Hero With A Thousand Faces (1949). (Link) This analysis of world mythologies develops the theory of the hero's adventure. Linked to Jungian psychology.

Robert Thurman

Chakras

Readings about chakras, a way of thinking about the body's energy centers originating in India and used in various spiritual and healing traditions.

Chakra videos from YouTube:

Learning Cycle

George Pólya, How To Solve It (1944). Source of the "learning cycle": Understand, Plan, Do, Reflect.

Meditation and Night Journeys

David Lynch, Catching the Big Fish

Muses and Spirit Guides

Lewis Hyde, The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World. Source of ideas about the muse, which he refers to as the daemon or genius.

4.13.08 (rev 9.30.10)

Aren't we always the hero of our own drama?

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