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Deirdre Phd Barrett
£16.65 / $8.95
"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it." -- John Steinbeck
Scientific research confirms what people have always known: answers, ideas, and inspiration do come to us in dreams. Harvard psychologist and world-renowned dream specialist Deirdre Barrett, Ph.D., offers this rich collection of examples showing how some of the world's most creative people have used the revelations of their dream life to inform their work. From these, she draws lessons on lucid dreaming and its application to our problems great and small.
In the visual arts, for example, Jasper Johns couldn't find his unique artistic vision until he dreamed it in the form of a large American flag. Salvador Dali and his colleagues built surrealism out of dreams. Today, Lucy Davis, chief architect at a major firm, dreams her extraordinary designs into life. In film, "Twice I have transferred dreams to film exactly as I had dreamed them," confides director Ingmar Bergman; so have Federico Fellini, Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, Robert Altman, and John Sayles. From Mary Shelley's terrible nightmare, which became Frankenstein, to Stephen King's haunting dream as a little boy, which led to his first bestseller, countless writers have consulted the Committee. Musicians from Beethoven to Billy Joel and Paul McCartney have whistled the Committee's tunes. In science, many dream of winning a Nobel Prize, but physiologist Otto Loewi worked with the Committee on the medical experiment that earned him the real prize. In sports, Marion Jones dreamed she'd broken a world record, then brought the dream to life. Gandhi dreamed of resistance.
Since Freud, we have taken it for granted that our dreams tell us something about where we are and where we have been. Now, in The Committee of Sleep, Barrett vividly reveals how dreams can also tell us where we could possibly go -- and how to get there.
Read this book, sleep on it, and see what transpires!
Eric Maisel
R107.00
A complete creativity education in one volume. Everything you need to know to increase and unleash your creativity, by America's leading expert on the psychological side of creativity.
Whether you're a painter or a human resources manager, a novelist or an information services specialist, says Eric Maisel, whatever you do, creativity helps you do it better.
In this book, Maisel presents a complete one-year plan for unleashing your creativity. It uncludes two discussions/exercises per week, and culminates in a guided project of your choice--from working on your current novel to planning a new home business.
Tom Rauscher
$5.99
CAPTURE AND REMEMBER YOUR THOUGHTS AND IDEAS!
Whether you are a doctor, lawyer, businessperson, manager, inventor, writer, artist, or a housewife, creative ideas and thoughts will present themselves to you. And if you are a small business or a large corporation, ideas to better your company will present themselves to your employees.
Do you want to take advantage of these inspirations or ideas?
Creative thoughts come to everyone at any given time about anything they are (or were) involved in. By establishing a simple and consistent system for writing and capturing creative thoughts, you will have a tool that could benefit your work, home and hobbies.
You can take it anywhere!
Your mind is designed to think and grow and in the process solve many issues that confront your everyday life and lifestyle. However, your mind sometimes will not give you your required solution immediately. Sometimes it takes NOT thinking or focusing on an issue for a solution to occur.
Have you ever had important or valuable thoughts about something unrelated to what you are currently doing? Those great inspirations that come when you are not focused on the matter and doing something completely different. How about that 3 am brainstorm?
How many ideas have you written down? How many have you forgotten?
Ideas and thoughts will unexpectedly come to you and unless you have a system in place to record them, they can quickly be forgotten. And possibility the thought or idea may NOT be remembered.
The Pocket Journal for Creative Ideas, Thoughts, Notes, Drawings and Inspirations is a light weight go-anywhere pocket size journal, complete with 62 blank graph and lined pages divided into four sections, for writing down those valuable thoughts or drawings that come to your mind at the most unexpected times. It conforms to your lifestyle because it can be taken anywhere (from the beach to the black-tie affair). No batteries required!
Order now and begin Remembering and Capturing your ideas!
Julia Cameron
R101.00
This newly revised and cleverly repackaged edition of Julia Cameron's classic Artist's Way Workbook shows readers how to cope with the real nitty-gritty of being a successful artist. With a new introduction and additional exercises aimed at identifying and managing the Archetypal figures that all artists must confront, Supplies offers powerful tools for overcoming artistic problems and obstacles. A quirky and brilliant roadmap for fulfilling your creative destiny against all odds, this is a must-have for any aspiring or working artist.
Julia Cameron
R147.00
In this landmark book on the creative process, the bestselling author of The Artist's Way reveals the intricate soul work artists must undertake in order to find inspiration.
In The Sound of Paper, Julia Cameron delves deep into the heart of the personal struggles that all artists face. What can we do when we face our keyboard or canvas with nothing but a cold emptiness? How can we begin to carve out our creation when our vision and drive are clouded by life's uncertainties? In other words, how can we begin the difficult work of being an artist?
Drawing upon her many years of personal experience as both an artist and a teacher, Julia Cameron guides readers to a place where they can find the strength and courage to create. Demonstrating how this involves a process of constant renewal, of starting from the beginning, she writes, "When we are building a life from scratch, we must dig a little. We must be like that hen scratching the soil: 'What goodness is hidden here, just below the surface? we must ask."
With exercises designed to develop the power to infuse one's art with a deeply informed knowledge of the soul, this book is an essential artist's companion from one of the foremost authorities on the creative process. Julia Cameron's most illuminating book to date, The Sound of Paper provides readers with a spiritual path for creating the best work of their lives.
Gloria Page, Sharilyn Miller
$11.67
Eric Maisel
R101.00
Jeanne Carbonetti
R147.00
For artists and painters who wish to create not only projects of beauty, but ones that also reflect inner spirituality, this is a primer for expanding creativity and spirituality in every area of art and life. Through dozens of reflective paintings the reader is taken step-by-step through the seven stages of the creative cycle: waiting, opening, closing, holding, releasing, emptying and sitting. Within each chapter are several evocative essays and inspirational exercises that demonstrate how each of these creative stages affects the mind, body and spirit. Chapters also include meditative exercises as well as an evolving painting project that serves as a microcosm of the full creative process. This reflective guide demonstrates the essential process and purpose of creativity: to make pearls of meaning and beauty of ourselves and our lives.
Keri Smith
R131.00
Remember those childhood days spent running in your bare feet, playing make-believe, and most of all, living life with wonderment? That youthful enthusiasm and playfulness are key to discovering who you are and what you love to do. Living Out Loud is the perfect prescription for a creative jump start to your life. Included are games, projects, activities, crafts, postcards, and playful ideas that will send you off on an exciting adventure, where you'll discover inspiration around and within you.
Danny Gregory
R122.00
"Two years before I started drawing, my wife was run over by a subway train. Sounds really terrible, I know. But, well, this book is about how art and New York City saved my life." When Danny Gregory's wife was severely injured, his life was changed in an instant. Searching about for meaning for what had happened to his little family, he began to create a richly illustrated journal of his life. Gregory as driven to record and comment on every aspect of his life, from dirty dishes to cathedrals, from hospital wards to life-drawing classes, from brunch with Hell's Angels to book shopping at the Strand. This unique book chronicles his discovery of drawing, his wife's rehabilitation, his son's infancy, and the life of the city he loves. Funny, bittersweet, romantic, and perverse, "Everyday Matters" is an inspiration, an invitation to look for the beauty and significance in the details of our daily lives.
Karlyn Holman
Used Only
Taking books like The Artist's Way a step further, this guide provides a paint-and-paper approach to the quest for enhanced creativity and personal satisfaction.
Why do we need to create? Searching for the Artist Within challenges artists to answer this question through stimulating prompts and hands-on, artistic exercises. Designed to build confidence, develop artistic skills, and break through creative boundaries, this guide blends warm encouragement with inspiring visual examples and insights from dozens of accomplished artists. With this liberating, no-fear approach to painting, artists will discover new things about themselves, their art, and their will to create.
Eric Maisel
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Danny Gregory
R148.00
The author of "Everyday Matters: A New York Diary" teachers readers to open their lives to creativity and fulfillment by relearning how to draw. Handwritten and illustrated in color throughout.
Using drawing as an example, offers an approach to reconnecting with one's own creative energies that can ultimately lead to self-expression and creativeness without fear.
Roger Von Oech
R220.00
The revised version of Roger von Oech's book A Whack on the Side of the Head is available only in this set from U.S. Games.