Lightning: A Manifesto
Similarly, the total output of human creativity, in all its kaleidoscopic breadth, pieces together the fabric forming our culture. The underlying intention of our work is the aspect allowing it to fit neatly into this fabric. Rarely if ever do we know the grand intention, yet if we surrender to the creative impulse, our singular piece of the puzzle
... See moreRick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
toward embodiment have often seemed radical, even iconoclastic, to the more conventional researchers around them. Yet in many ways their claims have simply resuscitated a long-overlooked, centuries-old approach to the mind-body problem—an approach developed in the seventeenth century by a young lens-grinder and philosopher named Baruch de Spinoza.
David Abram • Becoming Animal
No matter what tools you use to create, the true instrument is you. And through you, the universe that surrounds us all comes into focus.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller
cognition isn’t an abstract process happening in our heads, but inseparable from our physicality and our environment. All our mental concepts come from our bodies, and understanding what that really means that can help us reconnect to authentic conversations, re-establish trust in the social contract, and kick-start cultural evolution.
Ocean of Elephants: Embodiment, Trans Women & Digital Otherworlds
When you contribute your point of view to the world, others can see it. It’s refracted through their filter and distributed again. This process is continuous and ongoing. Taken all together, it creates what we experience as reality. Every work, no matter how trivial it may seem, plays a role in this greater cycle. The world continually unfolds. Nat
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