(Re)boot
It was yesterday when I began (re)reading again the materials I have been putting on hold last year to make way for more important work. I picked up and dusted off the last lesson journal from school that I had been studying for so long. I even took the time to do the exam. This morning I began (re)reading The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron. I have the tenth anniversary edition, which goes to show that this gem of a book has been circulating in bookstores for a century.
The Artist's Way a self-help book that focuses on creativity (despite having religious undertones), specifically on how one can develop it and how an artist-any artist for that matter-could find in themselves to be creative once more if they have experienced a sort of creative injury. I personally think this is a profound book, one that goes beyond talking about just our God-given gifts and stressing more on creativity-whether we think we don't have it or we hardly or never developed it-as a concern wholly of the spirit.
I haven't gotten pass the actual introduction yet, but as I have (re)read the introduction by the author for this edition only, I can't help but feel that reading this book would be like taking on an intimate journey with myself. Now that is something to look forward to, at least for me. Anyway, I can only say so much without anything to back up the things I want to claim about the book since I'm just starting, so I think it would be better to refer you to someone who had finished the book and read it again after seven years. Ginny Wiehardt of About.Com shares her personal experiences in her personal review here. If there is one clear message she wants readers to know about The Artist's Way, it is this: Cameron's techniques work.
The Artist's Way a self-help book that focuses on creativity (despite having religious undertones), specifically on how one can develop it and how an artist-any artist for that matter-could find in themselves to be creative once more if they have experienced a sort of creative injury. I personally think this is a profound book, one that goes beyond talking about just our God-given gifts and stressing more on creativity-whether we think we don't have it or we hardly or never developed it-as a concern wholly of the spirit.
I haven't gotten pass the actual introduction yet, but as I have (re)read the introduction by the author for this edition only, I can't help but feel that reading this book would be like taking on an intimate journey with myself. Now that is something to look forward to, at least for me. Anyway, I can only say so much without anything to back up the things I want to claim about the book since I'm just starting, so I think it would be better to refer you to someone who had finished the book and read it again after seven years. Ginny Wiehardt of About.Com shares her personal experiences in her personal review here. If there is one clear message she wants readers to know about The Artist's Way, it is this: Cameron's techniques work.