Favorite Books

Favorite Books and Links

The Mockingbird Next Door
Life with Harper Lee
Marja Mills
The Penguin Press
New York 2014
memoir

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
8/22/00
Enhancing Creativity and Artistic Confidence
Theory and exorcises to experience the shift from
one side of the brain to the other, sensation.
Dr. Betty Edwards http://www.drawright.com/

Georgia O'Keeffe
the poetry of things
Elizabeth Hutton Turner with an essay by Marjorie
P. Balge-Crozier
The Phillips Collection and Yale University Press
in Association with The Dallas Museum of Art.

Wise Woman
Over 2000 Years of Spiritual Writing By Women
edited by Susan Cahill
W.W. Norton & Company N.Y. , London

Concerning the Spiritual in Art.
and painting in particular 1912
Wassily Kandinsky,
Ohio University Library

Shamanism
As a Spiritual Practice for Daily Life
Tom Cowan
The Crossing Press/ Freedom California

Miraculous Living
Rabbi Shoni Labowitz
A Guided Journey in Kabbalah, through the Ten
Gates of the Tree of Life
Simon and Schuster

The Soul's Code
In Search of Character and Calling
James Hillman
Random House, N.Y.

Habits of the Mind
It's all in your head
edited by Arthur Costa & Bene Kollick
Brain theories/Multiple-intelligence/Using Total
four quadrants of the Brain

HELLENISTIC Religions
The Age of Syncretism
edited by Frederick C Grant
The Library of Religion, Liberal Arts Press, New
York

Knocking at the Gate of Life
and other healing exercises from the Official
Manual of the People's Republic of China
Translated by Edward C. Chang, PH.D.
Albany College, Albany, N.Y.

The Artist's Way
A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
Julia Cameron
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam a member of Penguin
Putnam Inc. N.Y.

The Delight Makers
by ADOLF F. BANDELIER with an Introduction By
Charles F. Lumas, Illustrated
New York, Dodd, Mead and Company publishers 1889

"Old Father, the Story Teller"
By Publita Velarde, Born Santa Clara Pueblo, NM
1918
Studied under Dorothy Dunn, Santa Fe Indian
School 1936

Seven Arrows
Hyemeyohsts Storm
Ballantine Books, New York

Women Who Run With the Wolves
Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D
Ballantine Books 1992

The Hero Within
Six Archetypes We Live By
Carol S Pearson
Harper, San Francisco

Annie Dillard

By Linda L. Smith, University of Toledo

Literature

Toledo County Public Library

818.5409 Dil Smi

Pilgram at Timber Creek
Annie Dillard
Lucas County Public Library

Xaviera Hollander
Child No More
A memoir
(ca. EUR 18.61
Lucas Public Library

Emissary of Light
My adventures with the Secret Peacemakers
James F. Twyman
Time Warner September 1996
BP605 N48199 1997

A New Earth
Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
Eckhart Tolle
A Namaste Publishing Book

Favorite Links

Understanding the phenomena that takes over when
we are creating. That sense of OTHER which comes
through us. Learning more about that driving
Force which takes over in our creative moments.
That spirit that moves us. The Spirit of
Creativity is alive in all humans , only, to
awaken as we pursue the arts. The feeling of
necessity to express our selves   as we abstract
our emotions into songs in poetry or paintings
and dance, music to our ears. Something comes
over us.

We actually enter a state of Bliss. An altered
state of consciousness. A separation of mind and
body from the work we do. Coming to know what it
is to be in this state of Grace where in we
receive this Gift, is so very important to our
sense of well being. A well balanced existence.

Much of my life was lived in a state flux of
betwixt and between, in the as yet to be
,creating and crashing which all artists
experience, out of the chaos into being and it
was not until I came upon the book describing
what I had been going through in a language I had
never heard spoken before.

It was through   working out the lessons in
"Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain".
http://drawright.com, that I became more
and more in tune with what I was experiencing as
a creator person.   Learning how to make the
cognitive shift between the left and right side
of the brain which made a huge change in my every
day life. I no longer came away from my painting
only to be disoriented, some times walking into
walls, and not really being able to talk.

Understanding this phenomena became my mission.

It is with this spirit of creativity that I hope
to share a good list of reading   that will help
each of us to come to know and experience the
sensation that informs you.