Spinning Gold from Straw: The Magical and Transforming Roots of Creativity
In the deep recesses beyond what we can see or touch , in the world where the Great Mystery dwells and where our greatest works of art germinate, are the intertwining roots of MIND, BODY and SPIRIT. Our literature, our music, our paintings, our sculptures, our architecture, our textiles - all these expressions spring from the creative synergism between mind, body and spirit. How do we transform our creative visions into artistic expressions? How does the intellect imagine form, and then breathe life into it, animating it, imbuing it with spirit? What magic ingredient gives one story the deep resonance of soul, while another lies limply on the page? To embody is to make manifest, to bring forth - whether on the page, on the stage, on the screen, in clay, or marble, or paper, with raw earth or molten glass, whether tempering steel or spinning gold. In the classic Grimm's fairytale Rumpelstiltskin, it was the magic words of an old song that turned the spinning-wh...