It is with deep sadness, mixed with appreciation for such a fruitful life, that we share the news that prolific author and a great scholar of East Asian art, Stephen Addiss, passed away on May 11th, 2022. Stephen was a Professor of Art at the University of Richmond in Virginia. A scholar-artist, he has exhibited [...]

Stepping into the Unknown  An Excerpt from Trust the Process By Shaun McNiff Paperback | eBook My belief in the intelligence of the creative process has been affirmed by people who struggle in workshop groups where they are given opportunities to express themselves in the arts. Sometimes, people who are invited to express themselves freely will [...]

Inspirations and Invitations for Writers, Artists, and Other Creative Minds Three Creativity Exercises from the Authors of Deep Creativity Grounded in Jungian psychology, Deep Creativity offers practical guidance for getting in touch with your own unconscious reservoir as well as engaging your everyday world to deepen the source of creative expression. Wherever one is on the creative [...]

The Ekphrastic Response An Excerpt from Deep Creativity Excerpt by Jennifer Leigh Selig EKPHRASIS When I was preparing to teach a class to my Engaged Humanities and the Creative Life master’s degree students titled the Complex Nature of Inspiration, I came across a word I had never heard that perfectly described that week’s subject matter. [...]

The Journey of Sacred Art When I was nineteen years old I had a dream in which I opened the lid of a trash can and saw myself with one side of my head shaved bald. The other side had long hair. This strange vision haunted me. Looking in the mirror I would imagine half [...]

The Power of Art This short essay was written in 1987, when no one had any idea whether the Cold War would ever come to an end. We are still in a global crisis, but in another form. The Necessity of Political Art Art in a period of widely-perceived global crisis can never be the [...]

by Kate, Production Coordinator/Designer I have a confession to make: I judge books by their covers. And I’m not even sorry about it. I’m baffled by how many amazing books there are in the world that I’ll never have time to read. And there are more being released all the time! It can be so overwhelming [...]

Creator of the universe, How infinite and astonishing Are your worlds. Thank you For your sacred art And sustaining presence Divine Imagination, Forgive my blindness, Open all my eyes. Reveal the light of truth. Let original beauty Guide my every stroke. Universal Creativity, Flow through me, From my heart Through my mind to my hand, [...]

Denma Tsemang Learn More A Reader's Guide to one of Guru Rinpoche's main disciples See Also:  Profiles of early Indian Mahayana figures | Tibetan Masters of the 8th Century | Tibetan Masters of the 10th-11th Centuries Guru Rinpoche | Yeshe Tsogyal | Mandarava| Kawa Peltsek | More of Guru Rinpoche's 25 Disciples Denma Tsemang: A [...]

City of Lingering Splendor: A Frank Account of Old Peking's Exotic Pleasures by John Blofeld On a stroll through the streets of Peking in 1934 you might meet beautiful courtesans, Confucian scholars, Tsarist refugees, aging palace eunuchs, teenage opium addicts, Taoist adepts or Buddhist monks. You might even run into Shura, the White-Russian hermaphrodite. The [...]