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The Call to Create: Listening to the Muse in Art and Everyday Life

Linda Schierse Leonard, renowned Jungian analyst, teacher, and best-selling author, demonstrates the many parallels among the cycles, moods, and landscapes of nature and the phases of the creative process”parallels that can foster inspiration, renewal, and hope. Many artists face profound challenges in the course of their creative work, and many more people do not think of themselves as creative at all, though their everyday discoveries, work, and personal lives can be deeply creative acts. Leonard shows how nature and creativity are healing and even necessary tools, and how we can use our energies to move through dark times so we can be ready to receive and actualize creativity. By understanding how to cultivate our inner helpers”characters and archetypal patterns that rise up within us as we go about imagining a better life”we can appreciate and develop creativity in all our endeavors.

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The Call to Create: Listening to the Muse in Art and Everyday Life

Linda Schierse Leonard, renowned Jungian analyst, teacher, and best-selling author, demonstrates the many parallels among the cycles, moods, and landscapes of nature and the phases of the creative process”parallels that can foster inspiration, renewal, and hope. Many artists face profound challenges in the course of their creative work, and many more people do not think of themselves as creative at all, though their everyday discoveries, work, and personal lives can be deeply creative acts. Leonard shows how nature and creativity are healing and even necessary tools, and how we can use our energies to move through dark times so we can be ready to receive and actualize creativity. By understanding how to cultivate our inner helpers”characters and archetypal patterns that rise up within us as we go about imagining a better life”we can appreciate and develop creativity in all our endeavors.

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The Call to Create: Listening to the Muse in Art and Everyday Life

The Call to Create: Listening to the Muse in Art and Everyday Life

by Linda Schierse Leonard
The Call to Create: Listening to the Muse in Art and Everyday Life

The Call to Create: Listening to the Muse in Art and Everyday Life

by Linda Schierse Leonard

Overview

Linda Schierse Leonard, renowned Jungian analyst, teacher, and best-selling author, demonstrates the many parallels among the cycles, moods, and landscapes of nature and the phases of the creative process”parallels that can foster inspiration, renewal, and hope. Many artists face profound challenges in the course of their creative work, and many more people do not think of themselves as creative at all, though their everyday discoveries, work, and personal lives can be deeply creative acts. Leonard shows how nature and creativity are healing and even necessary tools, and how we can use our energies to move through dark times so we can be ready to receive and actualize creativity. By understanding how to cultivate our inner helpers”characters and archetypal patterns that rise up within us as we go about imagining a better life”we can appreciate and develop creativity in all our endeavors.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781935528012
Publisher: Spring Journal, Inc
Publication date: 11/01/2009
Pages: 223
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Linda Schierse Leonard, Ph.D., is a philosopher who trained as a Jungian analyst at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich. She has been in private practice for forty years and is the author of many best-selling books, among them The Wounded Woman (translated into fifteen languages), Following the Reindeer Woman: Path of Peace and Harmony (Spring Journal Books), On the Way to the Wedding and Meeting the Madwoman. Leonard lectures and gives workshops on creativity internationally, has held teaching positions in the California State Universities and the University of Colorado at Denver, and provides private consultations on creativity, dreamwork, and writing. She is in private practice in Boulder, Colorado.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments i

Preface: Creating from the Wilderness iii

Introduction: Adventure of the Soul 1

Part 1 The Seeding

1 Inspiration: The Muse of Nature 19

2 Commitment: The Sower 29

3 Doubt: The Cynic 45

Part 2 The Caring

4 Courage: The Witness Confronts the Tyrant and the Victim 63

5 Consciousness: The Sentinel Awakens the Escape Artist 87

6 Discovery: The Adventurer Challenges the Conformist 107

7 Toil: The Artisan Teaches The Star Humility 129

Part 3 The Blossoming

8 Play: The Dummling Shows the Perfectionist How to Play 147

9 Compassion: The Lover Opens the Critic's Heart 167

Part 4 The Harvesting

10 To Praise Is The Whole Thing: The Celebrant 189

Notes 205

Index 209

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