Writing as Architecting the Space for the Sacred in Other's Mind
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Writing as Architecting the Space for the Sacred in Other's Mind
Create sacred physical and/or psychological space to make your art. This may be a corner in your bedroom with your laptop and an altar, a garage with an AM/FM radio, or an office with windows that open. “Space” could be your walk after dinner or the half hour you take in the morning to journal, a weekend in a motel with Wi-Fi, or a yearly silent re
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- Philosophers and practitioners of architecture have long studied the relationship between physical spaces and ritual, ritual and the creation of culture, culture and the embodiment of thought.
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sacred space is vacated space, a place of emptiness and flow.
from Be Still and Get Going: A Jewish Meditation Practice for Real Life by Alan Lew
The invitational field we are creating is a form of prayer—it is the starting point for all sacred connection. You can think of it as clearing an emptiness for magic to descend into your life, a sacred enclosure for the holy to enter. Whether you are listening to an elder’s story, comforting a person in grief, learning how to track an octopus, or c
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- you’re not writing by yourself. There is a multiplicity of beings who are co-authoring your work.
Whatever you are writing — however academic or poetic, practical or abstract — let in otherness into your creative process.
By opening our writing habits towards newness and unpredictability, we can find that there’s so much more written at the end. Ri... See morefrom From Garden to Wild Herbal Meadow by Rūta Žemčugovaitė