The Complete Artist's Way: Creativity as a Spiritual Practice (39 page)

Holmes, Ernest.
Creative Ideas.
Los Angeles: Science of Mind Communications, 1973. A tiny, powerful and important book of spiritual law as applied to creative manifestation.

James, William.
The Varieties of Religious Experience.
Boston: Mentor Books, 1902. Seminal fountainhead describing different forms of spiritual awakening, much insight into creativity as a spiritual matter.

Jeffers, Susan.
Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway.
New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1987. An into—the-water book for getting past fear.

Leonard, Jim.
Your Fondest Dream.
Cincinnati: Vivation, 1989. Another into—the-water book; many brainstorming techniques.

Lewis, C. S.
Miracles.
New York: Macmillan, 1947. Inspirational, prickly and provocative. A challenge in open-mindedness.

Lingerman, Hal A.
The Healing Energies of Music.
Wheaton, Ill.: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1983. Excellent book on music as medicine, learned yet friendly.

London, Peter.
No More SecondhandArt: Awakeningthe Artist Within.
Boston: Shambhala Publications, Inc., 1989. A manifesto for personal art as process, not product.

McClellan, Randall, Ph.D.
The Healing Sources of Music.
Rockport, Mass.: Element Books, Inc., 1994. A kindly yet wide-ranging source.

Maclean, Dorothy.
To Hear the Angels Sing.
Hudson, N.Y: Lindisfarne Press, 1990. A lovely book, a fascinating spiritual autobiography by one of the founders of Findhorn.

Mathieu, W.A.
The Listening Book: DiscoveringYourOwn
Music. Boston: Shambhala Publications, Inc., 1991. A companionable book that demystifies music as a life path.

Matthews, Caitlin.
Singing the Soul Back Home: Shamanismin Daily Life.
Rockport, Mass.: Element Books, Inc., 1995. A wonderfully rich book for grounded spiritual practice.

Miller, Alice. The
Drama of the Gifted Child.
New York: Basic Books, 1981. Seminal book on how toxic family dynamics dampen creativity.

Nachmanovitch, Stephen.
Free Play.
Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1991. A wonderful book on creative freedom.

Noble, Vicki.
Motherpeace—A Way to the Goddess Through Myth, Art, and Tarot.
San Francisco: Harper & Row Publishers, 1983. Creativity through the lens of the goddess religion.

Norwood, Robin.
Women Who Love Too Much.
Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1985. Seminal work on codependency.

Peck, M. Scott. The
Road Less Traveled.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978. A book for early spiritual skeptics.

Shaughnessy, Susan.
Walking on Alligators.
New York: HarperCollins, 1993. A companionable, savvy guide for anyone working to appreciate the worth of process as well as product.

Sher, Barbara, with Annie Gottleib.
Wishcraft: How to Get What You Really Want.
New York: Ballantine Books, 1979. A potent, catalytic book for creative living, similar to my own work and my current thinking.

Starhawk.
The Fifth Sacred Thing
. New York: Bantam Books, 1994. Mesmerizing novel of spiritual ecology.

Starhawk.
The Spiritual Dance.
New York: Harper and Row, 1979. Brilliant on creativity and god/goddess within.

Tame, David.
The Secret Power of Music.
New York: Destiny Books, 1984. A lucid introductory overview of the healing powers of music.

Ueland, Brenda.
If You Want to Write.
1938. St. Paul, Minn.: Schubert, 1983. The care and maintenance of the writer as a creative artist. Shrewd, personal and pragmatic.

W., Bill.
Alcoholics Anonymous:The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have
Recovered from Alcoholism.
Akron, Ohio: Carry the Message, 1985.

Wegscheider-Cruse, Sharon.
Choicemaking: For Co-dependents, Adult Children and Spirituality Seekers.
Pompano Beach, Fla.: Health Communications, 1985. Recommended for dismantling co-dependent workaholism.

Woititz, Janet.
Home Away from Home: The Art of Self-Sabotage.
Pompano Beach, Fla.: Health Communications, 1987. Important for arresting the mechanism of aborting success.

Wright, Machaelle Small.
Behaving As If the God in All Life Mattered.
Jeffersonton, Va.: Perelandra, Ltd., 1987. A spiritual autobiography about work with “earth” and other energy forms.

SPECIAL INTEREST

These Books Are Intended as Special Help on Issues that Frequently Block Creativity.

Alcoholics Anonymous.
The Big Book.
New York: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services. Care and maintenance of a sane and sober lifestyle for alcoholic and nonalcoholic alike. Inspirational guide.

Alcoholics Anonymous.
Came to Believe.
New York: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, 1973. Useful and touching book about embryonic faith.

The Augustine Fellowship.
Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous.
Boston: The Augustine Fellowship, Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous Fellowship-Wide Services, 1986. One of the best books on addiction. The chapters on withdrawal and building partnership should be required reading.

Beattie, Melody.
Codependent No More.
San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1987. Excellent for breaking the virtue trap.

Cameron, Julia, and Mark Bryan.
Money Drunk, Money Sober.
New York: Ballantine Books, 1992. A hands-on toolkit for financial freedom. This book creates new language and a new lens for money management. It grew out of
The Artist’s Way
because money is the most often cited block.

Hallowell, Edward M., M.D., and John J. Ratey, M.D. Driven to Distraction. New York: Touchstone Books/Simon & Schuster, 1994; first Touchstone edition, 1995. Invaluable book on attention deficit disorder.

Louden, Jennifer.
The Women’s Comfort Book (A Self-Nurturing Guide for Restoring Balance in Your Life).
San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1992. Applicable to either sex as a practical guide to self-nurturing.

Orsborn, Carol.
Enough Is Enough:Exploding the Myth of Having It All.
New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1986. Excellent for helping dismantle the heroic workaholic personality.

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INDEX

Abbott, James

Abundance, spiritual, recovery of sense of

Academia

creative spirit and

Acceptance

Addictions

to fame

process type of

to substances

Affirmations

creative

defined

written

Affirmative Reading

Age, using as block to creativity

Agents

Al-Anon

Alcohol, as block to creativity

Altar, artist’s

Anger

listening to

over lost years

in midsection of course

as sign of health

as tool

Anxiety

addiction to

using

Appreciation, lack of

Archeology (exercise)

Arias-Misson, Alain

Armstrong, Louis

Artist brain

mulling and

Artist child within

and artistic losses

artist’s altar and

faith in

listening to

nurturing

parenting

parents and

play and

possessiveness of

protecting

shame and

Artist date

commitment to

contract with self for

defined

difficulty in keeping

extended

life as

resistance to

weekly

Artist’s block. See Blockage, creative

Artist’s Prayer

Artist’s Way

basic principles

basic tools

Attention

as act of connection

and capacity for delight

focused

healing through

to moment

Attitude(s)

toward God

toward morning pages

positive

shifts in

of skepticism about creative recovery,

Audacity

Auden, W H.

Austen, Jane

Autonomy

recovering sense of

Awful Truth, The (task)

Babitz, Eve

Bacon, Francis

Bannister, Roger

Bargaining period

Barker, Raymond Charles

Baziotes, William

Beauvoir, Simone de

Beginners, willingness to be

Beliefs

negative

positive
(see also
Affirmations)

Bengis, Ingrid

Bernard, Claude

Bhagavatam, Shrimad

Birthing process, creative recovery as

Black, Claudia

Blame, and crazymakers

Blockage, creative

acknowledging and dislodging

blasting through

competition and

and focus on product

gains of

laziness not cause of

signs of

Blocking devices

Blocks to creativity, toxic

Blurts

defined

Bly, Robert

Bogan, Louise

Boredom

Botero, Fernando

Bottom line

Bottom Line, Setting (task)

Boundaries

creating

of self, discovering

Brahms, Johannes

Brain hemispheres.
See also
Artist brain; Logic brain

meditation and

Bridges, William

Bristol, Claude M.

Brontume sisters

Brown, Les

Bryan, Mark

Buber, Martin

Buddha

Buried dreams (exercise)

Burnham, Sophy

Busoni, Ferruccio

Caddy, Eileen

Calcagno, Lawrence

Campbell, Joseph

Camus, Albert

Cantor, Eddie

Capra, Fritjof

Careers, shadow

Cassavetes, John

Censor, internal

blurts and

detaching from

as part of logic brain

speed and

spontaneity and

visualizing

Chandler, Raymond

Change(s)

and clarity

with growth

through taking small steps

Chaos, and crazymakers

Check-in

week 1,

week 2,

week 3,

week 4,

week 5,

week 6,

week 7,

week 8,

week 9,

week 10,

week 11,

week 12,

Chekhov, Anton

Child within. See Artist child within

Childlike spirit, of artists

Chirico, Giorgio de

Choquette, Sonia

Clarity

Clarke, Shirley

Clearing.
See
Discarding

Codependents.
See
Crazymakers

Collage

Color Schemes (task)

Commercial artists

Commitment

in advance of availability

to further creative plans

to health

inner

to quiet time

synchronicity and

of time
(see also
Artist date)

Communication

Compassion

recovering sense of