How to Get Out of Your Own Way and Unblock the “Spiritual Electricity” of Creative Flow
by Maria Popova “No matter what your age or your life path … it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.” “Art is not a thing — it is a way,” Elbert Hubbard wrote in 1908. But the question of what that way is, where exactly it leads, and how to best follow it is something artists have been grappling with since the dawn of recorded time and psychologists have spent decades trying to decode, outlining the stages of creativity, its essential conditions, and the best technique for producing ideas. In 1978, a few months after she stopped drinking, artist, poet, playwright, novelist, filmmaker, composer, and journalist Julia Cameron began teaching artists — by the broadest possible definition — how to overcome creative block and get back on their feet after a “creative injury.” Art by Sydney Pink from 'Overcoming Creative Block.' Writing in the introduction to the 10th anniversary edition, Cameron adds to the most beautiful definitions of art:
6 Things {Sexy Consciously Awake} Women Want From Sex
About Me I am a lover of words and all things true. I am an awake women who will not be held down. “If you want to be the kind of lover women never forget, then it’s time to seriously educate yourself on the art of sex. Contrary to popular belief, women are not less sexual than men, we’re just wired differently. While men can get an erection and go from zero to hero in less than five minutes, most women need a whole heck of a lot more than that to feel sexually satisfied. Let’s get one thing straight: women love sex. Men, do you want to see your woman’s body convulsing in orgasms? Then listen up! “Consciously awake women want more than physical sex. You are more than your physical body, which is but one level of your existence. Physical sex will only take you so far. When two people connect energetically – not just physically – MAGIC happens. “Consciously awake sex transcends basic sex on ALL LEVELS. #1 Emotional Vulnerability MEN!! #2 Passion Passionate men cannot be underrated. #3 Skills
Joan Didion on Keeping a Notebook
by Maria Popova “We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.” As a lover — and keeper — of diaries and notebooks, I find myself returning again and again to the question of what compels us — what propels us — to record our impressions of the present moment in all their fragile subjectivity. From Joan Didion’s 1968 anthology Slouching Towards Bethlehem (public library) — the same volume that gave us her timeless meditation on self-respect — comes a wonderful essay titled “On Keeping a Notebook,” in which Didion considers precisely that. Though the essay was originally written nearly half a century ago, the insights at its heart apply to much of our modern record-keeping, from blogging to Twitter to Instagram. Portrait of Joan Didion by Mary Lloyd Estrin, 1977 After citing a seemingly arbitrary vignette she had found scribbled in an old notebook, Didion asks: Why did I write it down? What, then, does matter?
a good question - my attempt in answering it
Children of Hags: photographer captures heterochromians with different-coloured eyes – Llamas' Valley
By Llamas' Valley | “Heterochromia – Children of Hags” is a conceptual photography project by Amsterdam based Lithuanian photographer and Llamas’ Valley contributor Maria Cavali. The photographer keeps looking for people who have differently coloured eyes and photographs them. The project started as a conceptual idea of an identity project. It continued as mythological research and now it has developed into something extremely adventurous. The website of “Heterochromia – Children of Hags” is coming soon.
Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists
by Maria Popova On love, liberty, and the pursuit of silence. “Good music can act as a guide to good living,” John Cage (1912-1992) once said. But what, exactly, is good music, or good living, or, for that matter, goodness itself? Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists (public library) is a remarkable new intellectual, creative, and spiritual biography of Cage — one of the most influential composers in modern history, whose impact reaches beyond the realm of music and into art, literature, cinema, and just about every other aesthetic and conceptual expression of curiosity about the world, yet also one of history’s most misunderstood artists — by longtime art critic and practicing Buddhist Kay Larson. From his early life in California, defined by his investigations into the joy of sound, to his pivotal introduction to Zen Buddhism in Japanese Zen scholar D. Where to begin? Xenia Kashevaroff Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Further:
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Study Finds 1 in 3 Americans Have Been Implanted With RFID Chips: Most Unaware
Tiny RFID chips can be implanted anywhere in the body, including during dental work. Scientists at the Wyoming Institute of Technology (WIT) have determined that a shocking 1 in 3 Americans has been implanted with an RFID microchip. In an article published this week, they detail a study of nearly 3000 individuals, in which they identified nearly 1000 individuals that had been implanted with an RFID chip. Most were unaware that they had been implanted with such a chip. This finding comes amongst increasing predictions that RFID chip implantation will become common place in the next decade. Lead scientist on the study, John Brugle, Ph.D. offered the following: We were motivated to perform this study by all of the public interest in RFID implantation and fears that it would be common place. The study looked both at the prevalence of RFID implantation, as well as the common implantation locations. source Founder of WorldTruth.Tv and WomansVibe.com Eddie (5134 Posts)
The 7 Laws Of Attraction
By following these 7 essential life principles and making conscious choices with your thoughts, words, and actions...you are certain to attract the same right back to you. Did you know there were 7 Laws Of Attraction? Well, it was a surprise to me. Though after I sought more information about the 7 Laws of Attraction, I found that they really are just individual elements broken down into subsets of the main Law. If you read them closely, they are familiar concepts included within the best Law of Attraction teachings. They teach that we attract things into our lives based on our beliefs (being), thoughts, words and actions. When the tools are used in that specific order, that is how we are able to consciously create our world. Here Are The 7 Laws Of Attraction 1) The Law of Manifestation: Consciousness is always a choice. 2) The Law of Magnetism: We can only attract the same kind of energy frequency that we put out ourselves. 3) The Law of Pure Desire (or Unwavering Desire):
