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    The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart

    The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart

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    by Julia Cameron


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      ISBN-13: 9781101666821
    • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
    • Publication date: 09/22/1997
    • Sold by: Penguin Group
    • Format: eBook
    • Pages: 400
    • Sales rank: 366,888
    • File size: 5 MB

    Julia Cameron has been an active artist for more than three decades. She is the author of more than thirty books, including such bestselling works on the creative process as The Artist’s WayWalking in This World, and Finding Water. Also a novelist, playwright, songwriter, and poet, she has multiple credits in theater, film, and television, including an episode of Miami Vice, which featured Miles Davis, and Elvis and the Beauty Queen, which starred Don Johnson. She was a writer on such movies as Taxi DriverNew York, New York, and The Last Waltz. She wrote, produced, and directed the award-winning independent feature film God's Will, which premiered at the Chicago International Film Festival, and was selected by the London Film Festival, the Munich International Film Festival, and the Women in Film Festival, among others. In addition to making films, Cameron has taught film at such diverse places as Chicago Filmmakers, Northwestern University, and Columbia College. She is also an award-winning playwright, whose work has appeared on such well-known stages as the McCarter Theater at Princeton University and the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.

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    Table of Contents

    The Vein of Gold Acknowledgments

    Setting Out
    In Your Backpack: The Basic Tools Morning Pages Why by Hand?
    Task: Morning Pages
    Artist Dates
    Task: Do a Weekly Artist Date
    Clusters: Your Traveling Companions
    Task: Cluster List
    Your Mode of Transportation: Walking
    Task: Walk Daily Task: Walk an Hour-Long Walk Weekly Task: Walk Prayerfully
    The Gateway: Entering the Imagic-Nation
    Task: Manifesting—Enter Your Imagic-Nation
    Creativity Commitment

    The Kingdom of Story
    The Narrative Time Line
    Task: Filling in Notes Task: Post a Sign on Your Mirror Task: Contact Someone and Commit Task: Do Your Narrative Time Line Task: Filling in Blanks
    "Cups": The Key to Self-Disclosure
    Task: List Five Secrets Task: Make a Narrative Time Line Photo Album for Yourself
    Words Do It
    Task: Alchemy—Converting Dross to Gold Task: Post Your Golden Words Where You Can See Them Task: Kill a Creative Monster Task: Celebrate a Creative Champion
    The Wizard of Words Secret Selves
    Task: Name Five Secret Selves Task: What's in Those Closets?
    Task: What Would Your Life be Like?

    Cinema Self
    Task: Cinema Self
    The Vein of Gold Technique One: Favorite Films
    Task: The Vein of Gold Quiz Task: Binge Reading Task: Grab-Bag Collage Task: Matching Task: Write Up Your Findings
    Robert's Field Report Breaking Camp

    The Kingdom of Sight
    Sight
    Task: Time Capsule Collage Task: Create a Treasure Map
    Color
    Task: "Fabricate" a More Colorful Life Task: Speculate on a Different Spectrum: Try On Colors You "Never" Wear
    Doll
    Task: Make a Creativity Doll Task: Make a Creativity Monster
    Basic Black: The Mystique—and Mistake—of the Suffering Artist
    Task: Dress as a Serious Artist Task: Dress Like You Might Be Having Fun
    Cracking
    Task: Look at It This Way—On the One Hand . . . On the Other . . .
    Task: Mirror, Mirror: Apply a Facial Mask Task: Face It: Make a Power Mask

    Breaking Camp

    The Kingdom of Sound
    Sound
    Task: Sing a Spirit Song Task: Lullaby Task: Washing with Sound Task: Forming a Sound Round Task: Songlines
    Silence
    Task: Silence
    Safety
    Task: Building a Sound Shield Task: A Sense of Safety Task: Playing It Safe Task: Expanding Your Light Through Sound
    Breaking Camp

    The Kingdom of Attitude
    The Paydirt in Pay-tience
    Task: Patience Task: Use "Just a Little" Patience
    Courage
    Task: Dance a Power Dance
    Baby Steps
    Task: Playing House Task: List Every Place You Have Ever Lived
    Boredom
    Task: Do Something That Has Been Done Before Task: Oh, All Right! Make Something Unique
    Time
    Task: I Never Have Time to . . .
    Task: I Never Take Time to . . .
    Task: Stay Up Late and Read a Book Task: A Stitch in Time

    Containment
    Task: Creative Snipers Task: Believing Mirrors
    Getting Current
    Task: Getting Current Task: Get Current in Your Household Task: Get Current in Your Spiritual House
    Breaking Camp

    The Kingdom of Relationship
    Equality
    Task: Write a Positive Prayer Task: Illuminate Your Prayer Task: The Blame Game, Round One—Events
    The Voluntary Victim
    Task: The Blame Game, Round Two—People Task: Play a Little
    Where Does It Hurt?
    Task: Taking Back Your Power Task: Relationship Collage Task: Abundance Collage Task: Counting Coup Task: Who's Got the Gold?
    Batteries
    Task: Assault on Being a Battery Task: Write Your "Shadow Résumé"
    Obsession
    Task: Obsessions (Past Tense)
    Task: Obsessions (Present Tense)
    Task: Snap Out of It Task: Get On with It

    Breaking Camp

    The Kingdom of Spirituality
    Name That God
    Task: Recall Your Childhood God Task: Invent a Creativity God Task: Invent a Creativity Totem
    Guidance
    Task: Clearing a Clearing Task: Spend One Evening in Silence—of All Kinds Task: Write a Spirituality Cup Task: Create a Deck of Spirituality Cards
    Spiritual Experience
    Task: Open the Door Task: It's a Wide World After All
    Saying "Thank You"
    Task: Accepting Gifts Task: Synchronicity Notepad Task: The God jar Task: Accepting Help Task: Watch Your Tongue Task: Walk Prayerfully Daily
    Breaking Camp

    The Kingdom of Possibility
    Passion
    Task: Valentine to Your Past Task: Valentine to Your Present Task: List 100 Things That You, Personally, LOVE
    Risk
    Task: Taking Your Life into Your Own Hands
    Ceilings
    Task: Remembering the Possible Dreams Task: Playing at Dreams Task: I Trust Myself Dance

    Breaking Camp
    Tribal Rules
    Artist's Tribal Rules
    A Guide for Starting Creative Clusters
    Artist's Way and Vein of Gold Glossary of Tools Discography
    "Pop"ography Filmography Bibliography
    "Avalon"
    Index

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    Julia Cameron's Artists's Way has been embraced by many thousands of people and in connecting creativity to spirituality it has uncovered the potential of millions of people. In The Vein of Gold Julia Cameron uses her experience and world-renowned techniques as a creativity coach to challenge her readers to go deeper within themselves and to uncover wider horizons.

    Cameron draws from her remarkable teaching experience to help readers reach out into ever-broadening creative horizons. The Vein of Gold features inspiring essays on the creative process and more than 100 imaginative, engaging, and energizing tasks that involve the reader in the "inner play", leading to authentic growth, renewal, and healing.


    In The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart, Julia Cameron again draws from her extensive artistic and teaching experience to steer readers towards ever-widening creative horizons. This extraordinary book of learning through doing features inspiring teachings on the creative process and more than one hundred imaginative, involving and energising tasks. Each task engages readers in 'inner play', leading to authentic growth, renewal and healing. The Vein of Gold assures readers that creativity can be a spiritual path and a means of personal growth. Julia Cameron takes readers on 'a journey to the heart of creativity' through seven kingdoms: The Kingdom of Story, where language animates our guiding self-image. The Kingdom of Sight, where we honour our most personal feelings. The Kingdom of Sound, where we tune in to the melodic flow of creative life. The Kingdom of Relationship, where we sharpen the skills to choose companions. The Kingdom of Attitude, where we cast off negativity. The Kingdom of Spirituality, where we strengthen contact with the higher realms to discover unsuspected inner resources. The Kingdom of Possibility, where we inhabit our creative life vision. Whether you are already actively pursuing a creative enterprise or are just beginning to nurture your own creativity, this powerful book provides the innovative and practical tools for mining the vein of gold within you.

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