Eric Maisel, in his book Coaching the Artist Within, declares that one of the primary skills in living successfully is to “passionately make meaning.” I’ve read a couple of Maisel’s books. Maisel’s a family therapist and creativity coach, with a Phd in psychology. He may not believe in God, but he’s a good writer, and …
Making Worlds
We encounter the world through our senses. Light hits the eye’s photoreceptors and the optical information starts its split-second journey toward the visual cortex in the occipital lobe, then on to the frontal cortex, and perception begins. Same with sound, smell, taste, and touch; the various systems involved in each leap into action as stimuli …
Plumbing a Rich and Diverse World
The choices are endless. Input of imaginative material is ever-streaming: books, songs, films, adverts, emails, voicemails, snailmail... There are the daily tasks of work and family, hobby and friend, thought and action. The mental life that Dallas Willard asserts is our life of both spirit and body is ever-present, ever-flowing, ever-full. I said yesterday that …
A Year of Going Deep
It's an oft-cited complaint: American Christianity is three-thousand miles wide and litte more than an inch deep. So they say. The four of us, Anjie, Amy, and Daniel and I sat over dinner last night and re-upped on an old family tradition. Well, that may be overselling it a bit...we did this particular activity several …
Alone
Musical theatre types exude energy; young, beautiful people (or those who used to be) who sing like angels, though what they sing about often falls somewhat short of angelic. I'm sitting in the Falls Theatre at ACT last night at a showcase for New Musical Theatre songs and shows, waiting, along with Anjie, my daughter …
JEFF BERRYMAN 