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Chats With Dead Artists

Chats With Dead Artists

Carl Jung was writing to his friend about “The Red Book,” a record of his mystical journeying. He mentioned that its contents would be viewed as pure madness if they were not contained within an appropriate worldview that could make sense of it. The book had to have a...
Mystery of a Story

Mystery of a Story

Trying to wrangle the subconscious is part of the excitement and part of the burden of the artist. By its very nature, it does not follow a rigid path forward. The shadowy subconscious meanders. And sometimes we lose sight of it along the way. Often, in the midst of a...
The Inspiration

The Inspiration

The title “Daylight for Dreamers” first came to mind a long while ago. I had the phrase floating around in my head for a number of years. But I never had a place to put it. I wonder if others have the same predilection for conjuring up titles for books and stories...
More on the Creative Conversation

More on the Creative Conversation

I realized that the last posting fell short in terms of suggesting any practical way in which such a conversation can take place – how to develop that creative interplay. I suppose that the paths into this back-and-forth are myriad. I find that I need to build a...
Jung, Tarot and the Creative Conversation

Jung, Tarot and the Creative Conversation

The creative process is a tricky one, for it involves a dialogue between both sides of the brain – the rational and the intuitive. The unconscious and the conscious mind exist in a profound state of interdependence. The well-being of one is impossible without the...
Guilty Pleasure

Guilty Pleasure

I have a guilty pleasure.  It involves secondary characters that crop up when I am putting pen to paper.  I like them, oftentimes more than the main character, for the main character has quite a bit of heavy lifting to be done.  He or she has to carry the weight of...