Deborah Anne Quibell - Deep Creativity

Deep Creativity will live on my favorite bookshelf, alongside The Artists Way, Bird by Bird, Flow, and Big Magic, all books that inspire the creative spirit. What Deep Creativity adds is inspiration for the creative soul, diving deep as the others fly high. The authors, three voices from three generations, draw the reader into an open-hearted, open-ended conversation. They share personal stories and universal struggles, then invite us in to creatively examine our own thoughts, feelings, memories, and dreams as we explore and deepen our own creative potential.

Cheri Steinkellner, corecipient winner of four Emmys, two Golden Globes, a Writers Guild Award, and multiple other awards for writing and producing Cheers and Teachers Pet

Deep Creativity is a call to acknowledge each persons originality that inspires their creativity. The authors tell us that if we are faithful to our own idiosyncratic gifts and ignore the voice of the critic, desire and love will fuel our creative fire. What inspires me most about this delightful book are the stories told by each author about their unique creative process and the reflections they offer the reader at the end of each chapter to spark our creative spirit.

Maureen Murdock, PhD, author of The Heroines Journey

Deep Creativity is an appeal, reminder, and summons to engage the autonomous Other that resides within each of us, just outside the range of ego intentionality. The authors appeal to our innate desire to create the world around us and to reclaim our coauthorship of experience that seeks incarnation in the world through us. Through examples and precepts, they lead the reader into a new experience of what is oldest in each of us.

James Hollis, PhD, author of Living an Examined Life

The title alone calls one to reflection and adventure. The chapters propel us deeper while the topics assist in our souls singing when engaged in the art of creativity, an act that makes us all feel alive. These three muses touch our souls in ways only poetic writing can, while simultaneously providing the inspiration for the reader to reach for a pen, brush, instrument, or their creative method of choice. The readings are like medicine, with a probable side effect of propelling others to be creative.

G. Kwame Scruggs, PhD, founder and director of Alchemy, Inc.

For those whose creative life could use a boost as well as a grounding, reading and engaging with Deep Creativity offers a warm breeze of inspiration, as if from the original Altar of the Muses in Athens. This unique work combines probing essays into both the madness and euphoria of making art with a range of practices designed to rekindle the love and attentiveness needed for soulful self-expression.

Phil Cousineau, author of Burning the Midnight Oil

This is a must-read for anyone looking for insight or inspiration into the creative process. Learn from the master teachers.

Selden Edwards, author of the New York Times best seller The Little Book

Deep Creativity is a joy to read. Its creative format combines meditations to enhance seven creative gifts, providing essays on how each of the three authorsnotable scholars allexperience each path. My stereotypical expectations about the creative life were continually upended by surprising, delightful, and unexpected twists and turns. I never before thought that a meditation book could be a page-turner. This one was, for me.

Carol S. Pearson, author of Awakening the Heroes Within

The practices within this book are like portals into which one enters a deeply creative and healing space. Without much effort, and in a myriad of ways, we are led closer to the creative force that calls to each of us. The poems, images, stories, and contemplations in Deep Creativity stir even the dimmest of embers within the reader, and page by page the creative fire is reignited. Thank you to Deborah, Jennifer, and Dennis for weaving a path that leads us back to the creative life. Your collaborative voices in Deep Creativity make a sum much more generous than its parts.

Kim Krans, creator of The Wild Unknown

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2019 by Deborah Anne Quibell, Jennifer Leigh Selig, and Dennis Patrick Slattery

The essay Creativity, Nature, and the Field of Play was previously published in Grace in the Desert: Awakening to the Gifts of Monastic Life by Dennis Patrick Slattery.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

Cover design by Kathleen Lynch/Black Kat Design

Ebook design adapted from printed book design by Liz Quan

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Quibell, Deborah Anne, author. | Selig, Jennifer Leigh, author. |

Slattery, Dennis Patrick, 1944 author.

Title: Deep creativity: seven ways to spark your creative spirit / Deborah

Anne Quibell, Jennifer Leigh Selig, Dennis Patrick Slattery.

Description: Boulder: Shambhala, 2019.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018033642 | ISBN 9781611806762 (paperback)

eISBN 9780834842014

Subjects: LCSH: Creative ability. | Jungian psychology. | BISAC: SELF-HELP /

Creativity. | SELF-HELP / Meditations. | PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / Jungian.

Classification: LCC BF408 .Q53 2019 | DDC 150.19/54dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018033642

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