Creators On Creating: Awakening And Cultivating The Imaginative Mind (New Consciousness Reader)

Creators on Creating: Awakening and Cultivating the Imaginative Mind (New Consciousness Reader)

This collection of over three dozen essays ponders the essence of creativity. Includes selections from Henry Miller, Federico Fellini, Rainer Maria Rilke, Isadora Duncan, Frank Zappa, and Mary Shelley. A New Consciousness Reader.Introduction /? Frank Barron1. Why Don't You Try to Write? /? Henry Miller2. Miscellany /? Federico Fellini3. The Interviewer /? Pamela Travers4. The Process Is the Purpose /? Anna Halprin5. The Name and Nature of Poetry /? A. E. Housman6. Letters to Merline /? Rainer Maria Rilke7. Lost in the Woods /? Cathy Johnson8. The Dignified Professor /? Richard Feynman9. The Screwdriver /? Kary Mullis10. Living in the Medium /? J. G. Bennett11. The Symbolism of Poetry /? William Butler Yeats12. Heaven and Earth in Jest /? Annie Dillard13. The Genesis of Frankenstein /? Mary Shelley14. First Years /? Carl G. Jung15. Visibility /? Italo Calvino16. The Order of Things /? Michel Foucault17. The Plunge into Colour /? Marion Milner18. Evening over Sussex: Reflections in a Motor Car /? Virginia Woolf19. Edge of Taos Desert /? Mabel Dodge Luhan20. The Shape of Music /? Maurice Sendak.21. A Life in the Day of Maya Angelou /? Maya Angelou22. The Magic Lantern /? Ingmar Bergman23. The Second Line /? Sidney Bechet24. Is It a Fiction That Playwrights Create Alone? /? Tony Kushner25. Odyssey /? Irving Oyle26. The Magic of Words /? N. Scott Momaday27. Why World Music? /? Brian Eno28. How to Manage an Advertising Agency /? David Ogilvy29. Anatomy /? Leonardo da Vinci30. Composing a Symphony /? Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky31. The Genesis of Orpheus /? Muriel Rukeyser32. Poetics of Music /? Igor Stravinsky33. All About Music /? Frank Zappa34. Zen in the Art of Archery /? Eugen Herrigel35. The Mother Cry of Creation /? Isadora Duncan36. License for Madness /? Karen Finley37. Lessons from the Past /? Laurence Olivier38. Creation Myth /? Mat Callahan39. The Fisherwoman's Daughter /? Ursula K. Le Guin.