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September 24, 2019 Robert

on creativity and the mythic return to origins University of Dallas, September 2019

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From log to lumber; the beginnings of creation

June 6, 2019 Robert Leave a comment

This squared up log came from the pin oak in our front yard. We have history with that pin oak.…

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Reading Jung: Psychology as Art

April 2, 2019 Robert Leave a comment

I first read Jung in an introductory class taught by Robert Romanyshyn. His instruction for our reading was to take…

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How music heals

March 29, 2019 Robert

Trees are constantly growing. When a limb is cut off the tree grows around the cut to seal the wound…

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Posted in: creativity, music, music ministry, spirituality Filed under: creative, creativity, healing, play

“Shrink!” The constriction of creative imagination

March 17, 2019 Robert

Slang for therapist, shrink is an intriguing word; rather it is a fascinating image. One story goes that it arose…

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Posted in: creativity, psychology Filed under: becoming, identity, imagination, play, shadow, shrink, therapy, winnicott

Language embodies imagination

March 10, 2019 Robert Leave a comment

Language embodies imagination; its diastole and systole, its expansion and constriction. Our proclivity for constricting imagination by turning everything into…

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What the body knows

February 20, 2019 Robert

A friend reported the following experience: “Being an empath can be an odd thing…I was introduced today to an art…

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where does our creativity come from?

February 15, 2019 Robert Leave a comment

Let’s say you invest yourself in a task that calls for some resourcefulness. You run into an impasse. Working more…

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can we own a work of art?

February 9, 2019 Robert Leave a comment

…we no more own art by buying it than we own nature by buying land.

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Posted in: creativity Filed under: art, commerce, encounter, ownership

when a metaphor runs wild

January 28, 2019 Robert Leave a comment

Be aware: some metaphors are a force of nature. A metaphor, charged with numinous force can spread like wildfire until…

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creative by nature: the tree on a hill

January 24, 2019 Robert Leave a comment

There on a grassy hill stood a tree, old, vibrant, captivating in its beauty. People of all sorts traveled the…

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an example of being figured by the work

June 16, 2018 Robert

in the essay, “the dream-ego in the dream, the waking-ego in creativity,” i write of how we (in this case,…

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the dream-ego in the dream, the waking-ego in creativity

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JSSS Conference presentation Robert Sandford, M.A., June, 2018 In this talk, the dream-ego in the dream, the waking-ego in creativity,…

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love, freedom and creation

February 28, 2015 Robert 1 Comment

What if we are so much of creation that the gift of free will, given in love, had consequences for…

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Posted in: creativity, philosophy, psychology, theology

transformative ideas

August 2, 2014 Robert Leave a comment

“Perhaps ideas are the single most precious miracle in human existence. For ideas determine our goals of action, our styles…

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Posted in: creativity, psychology Filed under: ideas, transformation

group mind V: connection to the audience

January 3, 2013 Robert Leave a comment

Related posts group mind I: like conversation group mind II: transcendence group mind III: the nature of music group mind…

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group mind IV: chemistry

December 31, 2012 Robert Leave a comment

Related posts group mind I: like conversation group mind II: transcendence group mind III: the nature of music group mind…

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creativity and possibility

December 1, 2012 Robert 2 Comments

For a creative person, what could be is as tangible, if not more real than what is. A piece of…

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