For some creative examples of how other people use Twitter, you might want to read what I just posted on my blog on design and marketing, FreshAsylum:
http://freshasylum.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/how-do-creative-people-use-twitter/
These examples tend to be slanted towards marketing and self-promotion, but I have used Twitter to publish poetry and to Tweet excerpts from my book, Parallel Mind, The Art of Creativity.
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"Perfect Reflection," reversible diptych paintings, © 2004 Aliyah Marr
We all have an internal guidance system: our intuition and our emotions. We have the choice at all times whether to listen to the voice of our intuition and pay attention to our emotions, but they will be there whether we do or not.
If you are like me, it is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the combined force of these internal tools. If you choose to make a decision that goes against the gentle advice of your intuition, you have a strange price to pay, in the emotions that result from your actions.
At one time, I couldn’t hear the voice of my intuition. It was a tiny voice that was often drowned out by the combined voices of my mind and my fear.
Slowly, I found ways to access my intuition and subconscious. I had a great resource and tool in the multiple art-forms in which I could engage. My art taught me how to know the landscape of my emotions, and gave me feedback on how I was feeling, and on what I was really thinking.
I learned that my emotions were a guidance system par excellence; if I held a potential path in my mind and felt bad, or felt good, I knew which was the better one to take. One day, my developing intuition delivered an amazing insight: that emotions are what we use to help us create whatever we want. They are the catalyst in the creative process that helps bring something into existence faster. This insight was such a gift for me that a year later, it formed one of the basic premises — Chapter 5, Emotional Wisdom — of my book, Parallel Mind, The Art of Creativity.
If you were an explorer in unfamiliar territory, you would use a compass to help you find your way. In the same way, why ignore two of the most powerful tools that you own?
With the guidance of the compass of your intuition, you can navigate through the ocean of your emotions, and arrive at that wondrous destination that you envisioned long ago. You can do whatever you want: a field of pure potential waits for you on the horizon of your imagination, brought to you through the willing collaboration of your mind and heart.
Copyright 2009 Aliyah Marr
Aliyah Marr discusses Parallel Mind (Aug 31-Sept 11) on Library Thing. Come by to join in!
http://www.librarything.com/topic/72128
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Welcome to my author’s chat. Some of you have my book, via Library Thing’s book review giveaway. I invite you to discuss the book and creativity in general.
In my “other” life I am a Life Path coach and Creative Projects Advisor, which means that I help people with their creative goals in their life or business. Parallel Mind, The Art of Creativity explores some of the basic concepts of how creative development can help in all aspects of one’s life.
I also invite you to follow my postings on Twitter — daily quotes from the book: http://twitter.com/ParallelMind
And my blog/newsletter: http://parallelmind.wordpress.com
I had a wonderful childhood. My mother was an early environmentalist who had a talent for making everything interesting. She had a way of viewing the world that was totally unique. I remember laying stomach-down on an ocean pier with her and examining all the stuff growing on the trash under the wooden deck and on the pilings under the water. She said, “Look how Nature beautifies everything.” And it was true.
She was a great and wonderful teacher. She allowed us to capture animals and keep them on our back porch. We would try to feed them. If they didn’t eat, we would let them go. At any point, we had a real menagerie out there: toads, frogs, snakes, etc. We were taught to be afraid of nothing. We were taught to see the beauty in everything and to see how each creature fit in to the larger natural landscape.
One time she brought in a chrysalis of a Monarch butterfly for us to study. They say that a caterpillar’s body goes through a radical transformation inside the chrysalis: its body actually liquidates in order to reform into a completely different insect. I’ll never forget the moment our Monarch hatched from its shell. It seemed to take forever, because it had to expand and dry its new wings.
In nature there is a time for everything and a process. This process cannot be hurried; if the chrysalis is forced open from the outside, the butterfly will not evolve and it will die half-formed.
I know now that a real personal transformation happens only when we have dissolved our former selves, or rather, we have dissolved what we think of as ourselves. We have to first start with our beliefs, then examine and discard the thoughts that engendered those beliefs, and finally, we can detach our emotions from those thoughts. Once we do this, we are ready to emerge as a different person, expand our new wings and fly away.
Copyright 2009 Aliyah Marr
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Aliyah Marr is a Life Path Consultant and Creative Projects Advisor available for private consultations and transformational readings.
“What do you want to create today?”
LIFE PATH CONSULTANT
I coach artists, designers, authors, and entrepreneurs. With a solid background in marketing, design, coaching and writing, I help individuals throughout the entire creative process all the way from developing their personal vision to establishing their personal brand and marketing their product/service.
CREATIVE PROJECTS ADVISOR
If you have a creative project that you want to develop, market, or promote, contact me through my website: http://www.aliyahmarr.com References are available upon request.
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Do you have writer’s/artist’s block? Don’t forget to check the supermarket tabloid ads for inspiration.
Listening to one of my favorite internet radio stations, Radio Paradise, I found this little gem of inspiration:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByomIJf5n9w
Here are some choice excerpts from the lyrics:
Step Right Up — Tom Waits
Step right up
Step right up
Step right up
Everyone’s a winner, bargains galore
That’s right, you too can be the proud owner
Of the quality goes in before the name goes on
That’s right, it fillets, it chops
It dices, slices, never stops
Lasts a lifetime, mows your lawn
And it mows your lawn
And it picks up the kids from school
It gets rid of unwanted facial hair
It gets rid of embarrassing age spots
It delivers a pizza
Please allow thirty days for delivery
Don’t be fooled by cheap imitations
You can live in it, live in it
Laugh in it, love in it
Swim in it, sleep in it
Live in it, swim in it
Laugh in it, love in it
Removes embarrassing stains from contour sheets
That’s right
And it entertains visiting relatives
It turns a sandwich into a banquet
Tired of being the life of the party?
Change your shorts
Change your life, change your life
Change into a nine-year-old Hindu boy
Get rid of your wife
Step right up, step right up, step right up
C’mon, c’mon, c’mon, c’mon, c’mon
Step right up
You can step right up
C’mon and step right up
C’mon and step right up
INTERNATIONAL
JURIED SHOW
Judged by art critic David Cohen
January 14th – January 30th, 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 14th 6-9pm
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I have always admired the work of Rene Magritte. One of my favorite things about his work was how he titled his paintings. They always seemed a bit random, as if he pulled them from a hat.
I was interested in how the impact of my paintings could change by applying different titles. Since I worked as an interactive designer, I thought that I could program a game to randomly choose text to match the image. What traditional game is based upon images and randomness? A deck of cards! Specifically Tarot cards, which have some really arcane imagery.
Since my imagery is a bit surreal, and could be described as arcane, I thought it might be a good idea to apply traditional Tarot card meanings to my paintings and see what happened. So my Transformational Tarot was born. You are invited to check it out:
http://www.radi8.org/exhibits/exhibit_8/
All the cards and their meanings are here:
http://www.radi8.org/exhibits/exhibit_8/tarot/readings/index.html
People tell me that they get good readings from it, and I have started comparing it to other tools that help foster creativity and intuition. I find it speaks about things that my subconscious wants me to know, but may have been suppressing. It allows me to access my intuition as well, because the purpose of the deck is to help the player get to a more self-aware state. Play the game and see what you think. Is it a tool for personal transformation?
Copyright 2009 Aliyah Marr
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If you are interested in having a signed copy of this game on CD, a signed copy of my book or both, just email:
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Help turn around Paterson, one of the largest and poorest cities in New Jersey, 180 degrees in 365 days.
See the post on my other blog, FreshAsylum:
Does life seem unfair to you? How many times have you seen someone receive unjust rewards while another person goes hungry for love, money or simple appreciation?
I’ll never forget the day that I discovered the three principles of emotions: that all emotions are valid, that they are supposed to flow freely, and that it is better to not to judge yourself for having them. Soon after, I found a very effective way to step out of them. When I felt myself get tearful, I would simply state quietly, “Ah, I am emoting,” and it would stop me long enough to step outside of my habit, so that I could observe the emotion and its trigger.
This little in-the-moment detachment technique proved very effective; it allowed me to break the habit of emotional reactivity. Now I understand that I have the power in any circumstance and in every moment to choose my thoughts and my emotions.
The nicest thing about my solution was that I created it out of my own need to both express my emotions and detach myself from them. You can choose a different way to step outside of your habits, and give yourself a chance to change. The act of creating a solution tailored to your own personality and needs is just as important as the technique’s ultimate effectiveness.
If you find this too difficult at this time it means that you do not have enough energy yet to make such a big change. So just focus on a negative thought the next time one arises. The emotional charge connected to the thought has made it noticeable; one may say that it shines, like a light in the dark.
Just sit with it, and feel it as energy in your body. Don’t think about it, just put your full consciousness on the energy; follow it as it leaves your body. Be aware of it as energy, meditate without thinking, and you will gain immediate relief from the negative emotion.
Copyright 2009 Aliyah Marr
“The purpose of life is to be happy.” — the Dalai Lama
The Breath Meditation
Focus on your breath as it goes in and out of your lungs. This simple exercise is one used by many people as a meditation technique and it is very useful for people who experience stress as panic attacks. Breathe out first, concentrate on emptying your lungs fully, visualize it like a balloon that has been emptied of all the air.
When fully deflated, your lungs create a vacuum that will fill with air naturally when you allow yourself to inhale. The intake of air that follows should feel very good; make both the inhalation and exhalation very full and slow.
Now focus on your abdomen: it should grow in size when you inhale because as you do so your diaphragm is filling this cavity in your body. When you exhale, the diaphragm moves up: imagine it compressing the lungs to help you exhale. A baby is a good model for the right way to breathe: when she inhales her belly enlarges as her diaphragm lowers, it flattens as she exhales; her diaphragm pushing up into the chest cavity to empty the lungs of air.
Don’t do too many deep breaths, no more than ten at first. As you feel the air enter your lungs you can practice any kind of visualization you want; my favorite is to think that all of nature is nourishing me through my breath, and I, in turn, provide carbon dioxide for the plants around me when I exhale.
This makes a good exercise to do upon awakening before you even get out of bed. It sets a good tone for the day. You can then graduate to trying your breath meditation at intervals during the day. If you are feeling ungrounded or nervous, trying this little exercise can help you regain your composure. Eventually, simply remembering to do it becomes a mindfulness exercise in itself.
Copyright 2009 Aliyah Marr
For those of us who are dreamers, there is an abundance of wisdom in the art that surrounds us. If you are like me you find inspiration in the lyrics of certain songs.
What songs would you want played at your funeral? What message of wisdom would you leave for those who follow you? I have had them picked out for a long time.
Somewhere Wonderful
by Israel Kamakawiwo ‘ole
Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
And the dreams that you dream of once in a lullaby
Somewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly
And the dreams that you dream of
Dreams really do come true
Someday I wish upon a star
Wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where trouble melts like lemondrops
High above the chimney top
That’s where you’ll find me
Somewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly
And the dreams that you dare to
Oh why oh why can’t I
Well I see trees of green and red roses too
I’ll watch them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world
Well I see skies of blue and
I see clouds of white
And the brightness of day
I like the dark
And I think to myself what a wonderful world
The colors of the rainbow
So pretty in the sky
are also on the faces of people passing by
I see friends shaking hands saying
How do you do
They’re really saying I, I love you
I hear babies cry and I watch them grow
They’ll learn much more then we’ll know
And I think to myself what a wonderful world
world…
Someday I wish upon a star
Wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where trouble melts like lemondrops
High above the chimney top
That’s where you’ll find me
Oh somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
And the dreams that you dare to
Why oh why can’t I…
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The Abundance Card, Transformational Tarot © Aliyah Marr
Imagine
by John Lennon
Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today…
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one
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I Hope You Dance
by Leanne Warwick
I hope you never lose your sense of wonder
You get your fill to eat
But always keep that hunger
May you never take one breath for granted
God forbid love ever leave you empty handed
I hope you still feel small
When you stand by the ocean
Whenever one door closes, I hope one more opens
Promise me you’ll give fate a fighting chance
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance
I hope you dance
I hope you dance
I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance
Never settle for the path of least resistance
Living might mean taking chances
But they’re worth taking
Lovin’ might be a mistake
But it’s worth making
Don’t let some hell bent heart
Leave you bitter
When you come close to selling out
Reconsider
Give the heavens above
More than just a passing glance
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance
I hope you dance
I hope you dance
(Rolling us along)
I hope you dance
(Tell me who)
I hope you dance
(Wants to look back on their years and wonder)
(Where those years have gone)
I hope you still feel small
When you stand by the ocean
Whenever one door closes, I hope one more opens
Promise me you’ll give faith a fighting chance
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance
Dance
I hope you dance
I hope you dance
I hope you dance
(Rolling us along)
I hope you dance
(Tell me who)
(Wants to look back on their years and wonder)
I hope you dance
(Where those years have gone)
(Tell me who)
I hope you dance
(Wants to look back on their years and wonder)
(Where those years have gone)
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I hope you follow your dreams even if they lead you over the rainbow Maybe you’ll join me in my dream; a place where everyone has creative freedom. Whatever you do, I hope that when you have a chance, you dance.
Aliyah Marr
Dream Vortex © 2005 Aliyah Marr
Here is a creative exercise to achieve freedom from limiting or highly-charged beliefs:
1. Isolate your negative belief.
2. Express your negative reality in art: write a poem, paint a painting, compose a musical piece, write a play or short story. Allow it full expression, paint the darkest picture you can.
3. Write the essence of the belief (and history) you want to dump on small pieces of paper.
4. Keep these papers with you. Look at them every day.
5. Embrace your beliefs — and emotions about your beliefs — for a full week. Really embrace them, as if they were a person you loved that you knew was going away soon forever.
This step is the most important one, because, at an unconscious level these beliefs represent a fragment of yourself that has an emotional reality. This self has a message to give you. By bringing it up to the surface first through art, you have allowed it to deliver its message. But if you don’t honor the self that brought you this gift of insight, it won’t allow you to discard it. The ego that holds this fragment self in form thinks that the change you want represents its death and it does not want to die.
6. Just before the end of the 7th day hold a private ceremony in a quiet place. Assemble your pieces of paper, a candle, small bowl and a few matches or lighter. To go forward, you must dump your history, but you are not going to dump it like yesterday’s trash. That would amount to mistreating yourself, because your history is you, and at heart you cannot allow that. Instead you are going to honor it first and then ask its permission if it is OK for you to no longer hold this belief. Once you no longer hold an emotion about it, it will be easy to change, but you cannot if you are emotionally attached to your limiting belief.
7. State the belief written on each paper, hold it in your mind for the final time, ask if it is OK for you to let this belief go forever, and then once you no longer feel emotion when you read the words on the paper burn it. The burning symbolizes that you are now done with your history of negative beliefs and limitations, and represents a commitment to a new life of freedom.
Copyright 2009 Aliyah Marr
All rights reserved.
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Aliyah Marr is a Life Path Consultant and Creative Projects Advisor available for private consultations and Transformational Tarot readings.
“What do you want to create today?”
LIFE PATH CONSULTANT
I coach artists, designers, authors, and entrepreneurs. With a solid background in marketing, design, coaching and writing, I help individuals throughout the entire creative process all the way from developing their personal vision to establishing their personal brand and marketing their product/service.
CREATIVE PROJECTS ADVISOR
If you have a creative project that you want to develop, market, or promote, contact me via email. References are available upon request.
Email me at:
myfullname [at] gmail.com
Detail of "Jump" - Creativity Card, Transformational Tarot © Aliyah Marr
The function of play in our own internal development cannot be overemphasized. But I am convinced that play does not have to stop when one becomes an adult. In fact, it becomes even more important to our own on-going personal evolution. Those of us who discover this secret, seem to live charmed, interesting lives.
But whether they are successful business men or happy gardeners, they have one thing in common — they have learned how to continue to play as an adult, they have learned to relax and enjoy the journey of their lives, moment to moment. They have learned to do what I call “follow the energy”– the thread of creativity in their lives that leads to happy pursuits. Joseph Campbell calls this “following your bliss”.
life lived with creativity is like one long recreation period. In this aspect of ourselves as creative beings we mirror the sublime and are most like our essential being. As Cat Stevens wrote in the lyrics his song “Morning is Broken”, the day is “God’s re-creation, light of a new day”.
An eminent anthropologist wrote in Scientific American that what distinguishes us from other mammals is not our hands or language or toolmaking ability, but our unique drive to create art. I find it very apropos that art in its purest form has no “function”. It does not clothe us or feed us; often it doesn’t make money, in fact it consumes it.
Copyright 2009 Aliyah Marr
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Detail of “Jump” – Creativity Card, Transformational Tarot © Aliyah Marr
People a lot talk these days about “creative problem-solving.” But to many artists, creativity isn’t really much about problem-solving at all. Pure creativity (non-commercial art forms) is not about fixing something, but about creating something that wasn’t there before.
In the sphere of pure creativity there are no problems at all — problems are in the realm of those misguided left-brained individuals who are merely trying to think creatively. As Einstein says “you can’t solve a problem with the mind that created it”.
The operative word here is “problem”. In order to truly think creatively, one must return to the mindset of a child. Children play. There are no problems in the world of play, only fun and imagination.
Creativity is play without purpose. Creativity is essentially free play, play free of judgments, free of mental constraints or goals.
This idea is frightening to that part of us — the “adult” self — which is guarding us from the evil of the world, the rigid protector or guard that doesn’t understand that it is no longer functioning as a benign guardian and is actually slowing killing that which it is trying to protect. How many of us feel trapped by our own minds? Isn’t this ennui the real reason for desiring the temporary release that drugs or sex can give us?
Going back to the example of the child playing — is failure even an option? Is success even a goal? Of course that is ridiculous — there is no purpose or goal to play. And the reward is simply the pleasure in the doing.
Fortunately, we can remember what it is like to play, and make it a big part of our lives. Adults, once they are set again on the path of creative play can suddenly feel that the world just suddenly “goes their way” and serendipitous things just start to happen. Somehow, just by allowing oneself to do what one loves, one automatically becomes more skillful at the endeavor.
I have noticed this time and time again when coaching others. The blockage is there only when one regards what one is doing as odious work. Once it is regarded as play, it becomes interesting: once a certain skill in the subject is learned, it even becomes fun.
In the life of a creative child, she wakes up in great anticipation of a day spent playing. She doesn’t anticipate problems or worry about how she will play or arrive at any solutions. She doesn’t plan her play, time it, or even organise it. She just starts. Any decision that she has to make is instantaneous, sometimes unconsciously innovative, always imaginative.
If her decision doesn’t work, she just makes another one. If she had a more specific idea and it doesn’t work out in the way she had foreseen, then she is just as happy to play in a new way suggested by the turn of events. (see “happy accident”). In a world of creativity, the point isn’t any goal or solution, the biggest decision amounts to what one wants to play with next.
Copyright 2009 Aliyah Marr
Library Thing will host an author’s chat with author Aliyah Marr starting August 31st and ending on September 11th, 2009. She will discuss the premise of her book, “Parallel Mind, The Art of Creativity,” and will offer creative coaching online during the chat. The chat will be here on August 31st.
http://www.librarything.com/groups/authorchat
Preceding this event, the author is giving away 99 copies in exchange for book reviews. Please join to get your copy of the book and participate in the chat.
Gertrude Stein was on her deathbed, friends gathered around to hear her last words. She whispers, “What is the answer?” Her friends, concerned, anxiously ask her what she is talking about. It’s a few minutes (I imagine) and she says, “Then, what is the question?”
We all have certain ideas about what success means and how it appears. At one time, I thought that one measure of success was how you deal with stress. Since stress seems unavoidable, happier people seem to have figured out a way to alleviate or even eradicate stress.
So, you could say that I equate success with personal happiness. As for greatness, I know that we can all be great. We all are. Greatness is not a matter of superiority over others, but an internal matter. It is a knowledge that we either have or don’t have. I guarantee that no great genius ever got very far if he thought he was useless and stupid. No, they got there because they knew they were great.
Greatness is not a wish or a desire, it is a deep knowing. A way of succeeding where others might fail. Why do great people do great things? Because it is natural to them. They don’t have a doubt about their abilities. However, their knowledge is not based upon past performance or upon accolades or even upon encouragement from outsiders, although these things can certainly help. When they begin, they have none of those things. None of us do. We all start the journey of evidencing our greatness from the same place.
We don’t have to prove we are great because greatness is natural to our creative selves. Anything that is natural doesn’t have to be proved, it only evidences itself over time. Deep inside all of us is the potential for greatness; you just have to decide to allow yourself to be that which you naturally are. As for success, that is easy once you have that inner knowledge. That knowledge doesn’t come from your brain, but from your heart.
You are great when you listen to your heart.
So I want you to listen to your heart about what makes you great. Never mind that your mind does not believe it, remember it tells you lies all the time about how bad or unsuccessful you are all the time. It has said these things for so long that you have come to believe it.
I am not requiring you to believe me — belief is not important, because belief stays only on the surface of your mind. And because the heart is so much more powerful than the mind, I am talking directly to your heart. Repeat with me:
“Greatness is not my destination, it is my reality.”
Don’t ever be afraid to be good enough to be great.
Copyright 2009 Aliyah Marr
The following phrase just popped into my head as I was driving today, “If you are afraid of hitting bottom, you aren’t there yet.”
They say that sometimes you have to hit the bottom before you can start going up again. Maybe you will never hit bottom, but if you ever do, you will have to know that you are there in order to be able to go in another direction. The only way you will know that you have hit the bottom is if you are no longer afraid of hitting it.
Zeno’s paradox says that you can never get to your destination since you can never be halfway there, since “halfway there” is not a constant. Getting halfway there involves an infinite number of operations. One Flash developer used this paradox in mathematical form to make an element move slower and slower on the screen; the graphic never quite got to its destination since it is programmed to only go halfway every time the program goes through its (infinite) loop.
There is a classic underground cartoon character, named Zippy, who was an escapee from a circus. He was the classic “Fool of God,” easily amused by such things as watching the clothes go round and round in the commercial dryer at the laundry mat. While we find it incomprehensible that this might be amusing, is it any less insane to be impatient for your destination.
So I’ll pose the question to you, because it is one that I think occurs to all of us, at least on the unconscious level:
“Are we there yet?”
Maybe it would be better to ask, like Zippy, “Are we having fun yet?”
Copyright Aliyah Marr
The Way of Love
Simple, gracious, Lovely in itself;
Love comes in unexpected moments
Slips inside like the hand of a small child
Love is trust in the moment
Tiny and large at the same time
Love is without expectations
Love is without desire
Love is requited and never wanting
Love is a garden of never-ending delight
Love is all sensation
Love is consumed by the eyes
Love is held in the heart
Love is the only thing that can be multiplied and divided endlessly.
Copyright Aliyah Marr, September 11, 2006
The Garden of Earthly Delights, Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450–1516)
A couple years ago, I was interviewed by Renderosity’s online magazine by email. Dee Marie, an editor from the magazine, sent me a list of questions. I answered them, attached some pictures, and sent the email back to her.
Recently, I looked at the interview again, and remembered that the last line in the interview became the last line in my book. Strange to think that I might have written the last line of my book first.
Here is the excerpt from the interview that contains the final line from my book:
Dee Marie: Thank you so much for taking time out of your busy schedule to allow our readers to get to know you. As a last questions…what advice can you pass along to artists wishing to make a living at their craft?
AM: Well, don’t be shy of doing whatever you can to survive in this crazy world. Then turn around and use it in your art. For example, I had an acquaintance who had a master’s degree in English Literature, who was bemoaning her fate when she had to take a job as a secretary at the World (wide) Wrestling Foundation. I thought: What an amazing opportunity for a writer: the stories you could collect! Everything that happens to you is an opportunity; just be aware of it, and use it to make art. Your experiences are the paint, the skills you gain are your brushes, and your life is your canvas. The art you create is you.
It’s still true for me today. The daily challenge is to see everything as being right and whole, right now. Live in the moment, notice everything, because the moment is your creation and everything is a tool for your art.
Copyright 2009 Aliyah Marr
The Greeks and Romans believed that goddesses inspired the artist. Those goddesses were called Muses. Here is the Wikipedia definition:
The Muses (Ancient Greek: perhaps from the Proto-Indo-European root *men- “think”) in Greek mythology, poetry, and literature are the goddesses or spirits who inspire the creation of literature and the arts. They were considered the source of the knowledge, related orally for centuries in the ancient culture, that was contained in poetic lyrics and myths.
Trying to force inspiration is like trying to fit the moon in a jar. Inspiration is more like a state of grace, not a state of mind. You cannot arrive at it through willpower, desire or by force.
Inspiration has to be invited, enticed in, like a shy animal or child. It will not come to those who wish to use it for any purpose, although the ideas that inspiration leaves behind are often useful.
Like the moon, the face of inspiration is a mirror. As the moon reflects the Sun’s light, so inspiration mirrors the mind. What mind does it reflect? This depends on the artist’s focus. If focused narrowly, inspiration reflects a single mind, but if focused on a larger, cultural basis, it reflects a collective consciousness.
How do you entice the muse of inspiration to speak to you? First, open your mind up to original thought. How do you open your mind? Clear the clutter of non-original thought. Most of our thoughts are not original. They are thoughts that we have had many times before. They may be inherited from others around you, from your parents, siblings, friends, culture, or media. This clearing of old, limiting thoughts is the only real discipline that an artist needs to follow.
When the clutter is clear, all of a sudden, like a tide original thoughts rush in. The muse sits over your shoulder, like a friend or a lover, whispering sweet nothings in your ear. When will you listen to the voice of your muse?
Copyright 2009 Aliyah Marr
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Aliyah Marr is a Life Path Consultant and Creative Projects Advisor available for private consultations and transformational readings.
“What do you want to create today?”
LIFE PATH CONSULTANT
I coach artists, designers, authors, and entrepreneurs. With a solid background in marketing, design, coaching and writing, I help individuals throughout the entire creative process all the way from developing their personal vision to establishing their personal brand and marketing their product/service.
CREATIVE PROJECTS ADVISOR
If you have a creative project that you want to develop, market, or promote, contact me through my website: http://www.aliyahmarr.com References are available upon request.
Book reviewers seem to abound online. I was searching for * serious * reviewers for Parallel Mind, and found these two diamonds shining in the rough. See what you think.
The first is a blog called Biblioklept. “Klept” for kleptomaniac, no doubt.
“And so well with the help of Jenny Sterlin’s narration and my handy-dandy portable mp3-playing device, I finally made it through Zadie Smith’s 2000 novel White Teeth, and, having digested all of it, am now fit to declare it hilarious in places, larded with moments of intensely brilliant prose, wildly ambitious…”
This reviewer has a razor wit sharp enough to cut a blade or a new author’s teeth on (yes, I know that this is bad English, but I couldn’t resist).
I really like his About You page of survey questions that quickly gets rather too personal. Here are some of my favorites:
1. Have you ever stolen a book? If you’ve never stolen a book, go ahead and skip down to question 3.
3. Do you intend to lie or misrepresent yourself on this survey?
4. Did you find question 3 to be a little belligerent in its tone?
9. Do the remnants of your shambolic youth taste like batteries in your mouth?
10. Are you neurotypical or do you somewhat suffer?
17. Isn’t this a lucky number?
15. Is it ever okay to eat large amounts of cold sour cream directly from the plastic container, perhaps with a large metal spoon, and if it is ever okay to do such a thing, when is that time?
13. When you were a child were you plagued by recurring nightmares that miniature werewolves in torn blue jeans were slowly nibbling all the flesh from your toes as if they were Maine lobsters (your toes, here likened to said lobsters, not the werewolves), nightmares that were attended by actual somatic tingling of the extremities, and possible bedwetting?
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On a more serious note is the blog Great New Books at Blogspot. Peter N. Jones has an interesting background himself: he is a social scientist and publisher out of Boulder, Colorado who specializes in Native American culture. Check out his most recent review on a novel called Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen.
That’s my short review reviewing the reviewers. How did I do? Make sure you fill out above survey.
I have always loved some phrases, in fact, I often use them as titles to my paintings. I have yet to use “Leap of Faith” as a title, but I think it is a concept I have seen as an image more times than I can count.
How often have you felt that you were jumping off that proverbial cliff? Do you feel you are doing that now? Perhaps you are starting a business or you suddenly find yourself without a job. This is the time of transition when you see the end of one thing very clearly — a solid past to which we often desperately cling — and the beginning of the future that seems shrouded in mystery. The cliff at your back is a solid rock while the castle of your dreams hovers in the air before your eyes. Between the two is a frightening chasm.
These times of uncertainty are the most poignant moments in my life. The last time it happened I had just come to California. In the midst of my feelings of insecurity and adventure, I had an image that I kept on seeing with my mind’s eye. An image of eagle wings, flying. Just wings outlined against a brilliantly blue and cloudless sky.
Then I had another image that became a feeling in my body.
I saw / felt myself standing at the edge of a bottomless cliff, with my back to the empty air and with my heels on the edge. I saw / felt myself topple over the edge, and with my arms outspread fall towards the ground far, far below.
There was that heart-stopping moment when my heart felt as if it had left my chest, and then I realized that my cliff had no bottom. I was resting on a cushion of air, on a pillow of faith.
My dream was not the illusion. The fear that went before my fall was the illusion. Fear creates the cliff and the idea that if we jump off the cliff of reason we will die, but instead what happens is that when we jump off the cliff of fear we end up in our dream, and that dream is bottomless.
Copyright 2009 Aliyah Marr
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Aliyah Marr is a Life Path Consultant and Creative Projects Advisor available for private consultations and transformational readings.
“What do you want to create today?”
LIFE PATH CONSULTANT
I coach artists, designers, authors, and entrepreneurs. With a solid background in marketing, design, coaching and writing, I help individuals throughout the entire creative process all the way from developing their personal vision to establishing their personal brand and marketing their product/service.
CREATIVE PROJECTS ADVISOR
If you have a creative project that you want to develop, market, or promote, contact me through my website: http://www.aliyahmarr.com References are available upon request.
One of the better books on the Law of Attraction is Penney Peirce’s “Frequency;” practical guide to the idea of living an intuitively-guided life.
Frequency
The sincerity of real passion is something terribly magnetic. People are drawn to someone with passion. When I came to Southern California with nothing but the burning desire to learn to surf, it seemed the way just opened up for me. People came out of nowhere to help me achieve my simple dream. Boards were given to me, someone gave me a place to live on the beach, I found surfers who were willing to teach me. A year later, I was talking to a surfer from the East Coast; he told me that he didn’t like it here. I asked him why, and he said that he didn’t find the people too friendly. I was stunned; it was so different from my experience.
A similar thing happened to me when I went to New York to pursue a career in design, and earlier to Paris to study art; the way just opened up before me. I now believe that it is my passion that has always sustained me through every adventure. Moreover, it is the sincerity of my passion that other people respond to; they can’t help it because it speaks to their soul. Everyone craves passion in their life; most are afraid to live their passion, but they appreciate it when they see it in another. More, they want to be near it; passion is a fire that provides warmth to all it touches.
When others see that it is possible to live a life with passion, sometimes they suddenly change direction, wake up, take action. Often they find themselves doing something that they otherwise may never have dared. It occurs to them that they have always wanted to travel, do art, take up music, build a new career, or design their own house. Life for them is no longer a collection of habits, a nest of outdated ideas, but instead an exciting horizon of possibilities.
When you take that proverbial leap of faith off the cliff of security and familiarity, your courageous act generates an enormous surge of energy; this energy comes back to you tenfold. Extreme sports addicts are a good example of this: just the adrenaline rush alone is enough to addict one to taking risks. But one doesn’t have to run a rapids or jump out of an airplane to get the surge of energy that empowers you to change your life forever. Find out what feeds your soul, what makes you feel free, what you desire in life. Then just go for it. It is as simple as that. Go for it with full passion, unafraid of what others may think or say.
The best safe deposit box for your passion is not another person, not an organization, or a cause, but something that you alone can create: a passion that can hold and sustain your interest, teach you and elicit your excitement your entire life long. It doesn’t matter what you choose; if you master the art of sustained desire and non-objectified interest, you may find yourself on the most extraordinary journey. You may continue in the same medium or you may find yourself exploring avenues beyond your wildest dreams.
Make love to your passion, everything that you create in the proper mood of passion is good because of the absolving and purifying power of your love. If others respond to your work and think it good, that is just icing on the cake. You already have your reward in the work, in your sustained passion, in the organismic moment of creation. As you invest time in your interest, you will naturally gain the skills and the control of your medium that others mistake for art, but you are already an artist. Within the tiny seed exists the whole tree.
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“Action is the path in the dark forest of life, and passion is the light that illuminates our way.”
— Copyright 2009 Aliyah Marr
Aliyah Marr, author of Parallel Mind, The Art of Creativity offers a new seminar on “applied” or practical creativity. She will show participants how to apply the creative principles to specific problems and situations at work.
Following is a copy of the abstract:
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PARALLEL MIND, CREATIVITY @ WORK
Do you have a need for creative thought or innovation at work? How do you generate truly out-of-the-box ideas?
This seminar leads you down the rabbit-hole of creative thought. Author and creative director Aliyah Marr brings in her experience as designer, artist and author to bear on the practical aspects of the creative experience.
“Creativity at Work” is a seminar on how to think creatively, even while under the pressure of a deadline or intense competition. True creativity and innovation cannot be achieved by staying within a rigid problem-based structure. This seminar enables you to escape the structure so you can do your thinking outside the box.
Aliyah Marr has engineered a unique “envisioning process” that is a key component of her free-style form of brainstorming. In addition, she has a more analytical approach that enables participants to take the techniques that she demonstrates and implement them immediately for fast results.
Marr teaches creativity from an experiential standpoint: members have the opportunity to participate in an “envisioning session” and brainstorm a solution to one or more of the members’ actual problems. She uses a unique and fun visual and metaphoric approach to define and describe the creative process, which help to cement the process in the minds of the participants.
Topics:
Benefits to Members: Members of the conference will be able to think outside the box at will, discern which kind of creative thinking is needed at what time, and how to apply a brainstorm process to a problem at hand.
This seminar is for business people and entrepreneurs who wish to understand the nature, value and process of creativity; for those who, while they may not need to be creative themselves, need to understand how to evaluate, hire, and nurture creativity at work.
Biography: Aliyah Marr is the author of “Parallel Mind, The Art of Creativity.” She has taught design and marketing for over 15 years at top design schools in New York City: Parsons, The New School, Pratt Institute, and The School of Visual Arts. Marr has led seminars and corporate training events for over 10 years. She has produced tutorials for Nautilus CD Magazine, and Graphics.com/learning, and authored articles for trade magazines on self-development, design and marketing. Currently the creative director for an action-sports TV show, she has worked in print, video, film and interactive media for a Fortune 100 client list.
Aliyah Marr
author / speaker / imaginator
creative consultant and coach
Author of “Parallel Mind, The Art of Creativity
www.parallelmindbook.com
www.freshasylum.com (design firm)
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PARALLEL MIND, THE ART OF CREATIVITY
Are you ready to live the life you were meant to live? Do you dream of a life filled with magic and adventure? Whatever you can dream is available to you, but first you must know how to use your creative potential.
This lecture is for a broad audience: from the professional creative to thecount person who would like to be more creative in their daily or professional lives.
Artist, designer, poet Aliyah Marr has produced the world’s first book on the process of creativity told from the standpoint of the visual artist. Parallel Mind, The Art of Creativity reveals how you, as a creative individual, can mold your life with the power of your thoughts and how those thoughts can be used to create whatever you want in life.
Art is so much more than mere self-expression or an exploration of mental/emotional issues. Author Aliyah Marr introduces the revolutionary concept (to anyone else but an artist!) that art can serve not only as a tool for personal self-development, but it is humanity’s preeminent tool for the evolution of consciousness.
This lecture introduces key concepts in the book, Parallel Mind:
– innate vs. conscious creativity
– pure creativity (non-commercial art) vs. applied creativity (everything else)
– the four bodies of the human energy field and how they work to create health or disease
– the science of creativity
Aliyah Marr’s lectures are like her art: spontaneous, joyful explorations of the moment. Her teaching method is at once gently playful and fun. Expect to be invited to explore some of her concepts through deceptively simple in-class exercises that will bring you to a new point of view, inspire the flow of creative thinking, unblock your blocks and transport you to the next level in your own development. We will explore the power of creative thought and see how it can impel you to excel in any medium, in any field, or any subject.
This lecture gives you the tools to achieve your dreams, whether you are a creative professional, a student of art, or someone interested in personal development; it answers some essential questions, the most important being: what is creativity, and how can it bring me freedom and happiness?
So I ask you: when will you allow yourself the life you deserve? A voice is whispering in your ear: today is the day.
Parallel Mind, The Art of Creativity can be found on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and at: www.parallelmindbook.com. Copies of the book, and the author’s Transformational Tarot interactive game will be available to attendees.
Educated at the famous École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France, Aliyah Marr is a multimedia artist, graphic designer, and educator. She has explored painting, design, artistic gymnastics, sculpture, music, dance, poetry, prose, theater, and improvisational humor. As a visual artist, she works in a variety of mediums from painting and sculpture through to interactive art and video art.
A graphic designer with a stellar client list of Fortune 100 companies, the author is a creative consultant for companies and entrepreneurs. As an educator, she has taught graphic design, art, interactive programming, and new media at three top design schools in New York City.
Aliyah Marr
author / speaker / imaginator
creative consultant and coach
Author of “Parallel Mind, The Art of Creativity
www.parallelmindbook.com
www.radi8.org (artwork)
http://www.linkedin.com/in/aliyahmarr
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http://freshasylum.wordpress.com
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Aliyah Marr’s book on creativity, Parallel Mind, The Art of Creativity is now on sale through the website: http://www.parallelmindbook.com
The site offers ebook version for immediate download, and advance copies (allow 4 weeks for delivery).
I
wish
to express
thanks and
appreciation
to all my
innumerable
teachers, but
first and fore-
most to my
parents — to
my father who
taught me
how to think
and to my
mother who
taught me how
to feel. I wish
to say to those of
you, who like me,
always felt “different,”
but didn’t know why:
you’re probably an artist —
you have a license to be free.
Start the incredible journey.
Below is an excerpt from the book Parallel Mind:
“Are You Up To Your Destiny?” — Hamlet
Preface
Are you ready to live the life you were meant to live? Life should be lived passionately, joyously, fearlessly, and creatively.
This book is about how to live a creative life: not how to paint or draw, but how to think like an artist, and how to find a joyous, complete life as a result. The power of creative thought can impel you to excel in any medium, in any field, or any subject.
Many people are creative in their daily lives, others would like to be more creative, still others would like to experience the magic that they have seen only from the outside until now.
This book answers some essential questions, the most important being: what is creativity, and how can it bring me more freedom and happiness?
However, the real value of this book is not in the questions that it attempts to answer, but in the questions that it poses. These questions are traditionally asked under the cover of art, but I ask these questions here so that you may ask them of yourself.
I started out as a fine artist, and entered the fields of illustration, graphic design, video art, and interactive design. As I developed my commercial skills and artistic craft, I learned that there is a difference between pure creativity and applied creativity. Pure creativity is an activity that has no predefined destination or purpose, while applied creativity is an activity that always has a goal or application in mind. Pure creativity can be seen as a kind of play, while applied creativity is usually seen as work.
Examples of pure creativity include (but are not limited to): a painter who paints from his heart, a musician who creates a symphony while toying at the piano, a writer who bases a screenplay on the people he knows at work, a scientist who discovers a new law of the universe by playing with raw materials and outlandish ideas.
Examples of applied creativity include (but are not limited to): design, architecture, scientific inquiry, technological innovations, copywriting, and business development.
One form of creativity is not superior to the other. It is just easier (and more fun!) to learn pure creativity before attempting to apply that creativity to a purpose. Applied creativity can be fun and playful too. However this book focuses on the importance of play to our development as a complete, creative individual, and so it is about pure creativity.
Parallel Mind reveals how a creative individual can mold their lives with the power of their thoughts; how your thoughts can be used to create whatever you want in life.
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Chapter One, Creativity, defines and outlines creativity: what is it, how can we use it, where does it reside?
Chapter Two, Double Vision, is about the source of creativity — our inner child — and how we, as adults, encase this pure self in a cage of fear and limitation.
Chapter Three, Body & Soul discusses the relationship of the body to the mind; how to use your mind creatively to create the body you want.
Chapter Four, Shaking the Tree explores more deeply into the mind, how to change limiting beliefs, how to overcome fear, and encourage original thought.
Chapter Five, Navigating a Sea of Emotions is about emotions: why do we have them, how to choose your emotions, and how to use them effectively.
Chapter Six, The Secret of Sex reveals how to marshal the twin forces of passion and desire to supercharge and sustain your creative vision.
Chapter Seven, The Conscious Creative shows how the practice of art brings the artist increased awareness and personal power.
Chapter Eight, The Infinite Self brings together the concepts introduced in the former chapters, and shows how they can lead the artist to creative freedom.
Included in every chapter are quick in-text exercises intended to help you activate the principles you have just read. The exercises provide a break in reading, and allow you to move from passive to active participation.
1 Record Your Internal Dialog — What did you say?
2 Internal Wisdom — Access your subconscious
3 Bottoms Up — Change your point of view
4 Recall Your Child Genius — Your thoughts as a child
5 Remember Your Dreams — Keep a dream diary
6 Rise and Shine — Visualize health
7 Change the Subject — Make a lens
8 The Medium is the Message — Change mediums
9 Chain Reaction— Tracking thoughts and emotions
10 Touchbase — Allowing yourself to feel
11 Objective Observation — Pure observation
12 Play With Syntax— Syntax and context
13 Happy Accident — Plan an accident for inspiration
14 Gather and Float — The art of doing nothing
15 Practice Naivete — Dare to ask a naive question
16 Simpify & Reduce — Simplify, simplify, simplify
17 Shift Focus — Change focus
18 Notice Negative Space — Understand negative space
19 Form Groups & Families — Group for understanding
20 Direct Attention — Use accents and structure
21 Arrange a Marriage — Force a new relationship
22 Go Gestalt — The psychology of perception
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Whatever you can dream is available to you, but first you must know how to use your creative potential. An artist is not defined by his work, but by the power of his creative thought. This book gives you the tools to achieve those dreams, whether you are a creative professional, a student of art, or someone interested in personal development.
Becoming an artist does not require a mastery of technique, great skills or advanced degrees, it only requires that you take the time to be an artist. Art is about change, exploration, and about the courage to know yourself.
Often we don’t accept a challenge because we fear change. Often we don’t accept a challenge because we fear change and commitment. Perhaps we are afraid, because we know deep down that a life like this takes unconditional passion, courage, and dedication. To live a consciously creative life, you have to show the forces that be that you deserve the life you want by consistently displaying these qualities. This is what Joseph Campbell calls the Hero’s Path. Make no mistake, if you follow a path of conscious change you are walking in the very footsteps of giants.
So I ask you: when will you allow yourself the life you deserve? A voice is whispering in your ear: today is the day.
This week I have been up very late making changes to Parallel Mind. The changes are in the realm of some great additions to the book: illustrative diagrams and additional in-text exercises. The tenor and tone of the book have not changed, but these additions make the book more accessible. Below is an excerpt from the preface, which explains the book to the new reader.
I have sent press releases, sample chapters and the ebook version to various names in the fields of personal development, psychology, creative development, and science. My list of recipients of my manuscript now numbers over 100 people. Yesterday, noted theoretical nuclear and quantum physicist, Amit Goswami requested a copy of the Parallel Mind manuscript.
Amit Goswami is best known for his interview in the movie “What the Bleep Do We Know?” and for his book, “The Self-Aware Universe.” He is one of the scientists whose work I admire, and who’s philosophy most matches my own.
There are others on my list who have networks that extend to other interviewees on “What the Bleep” and to the movie “The Secret.” Another contact knows someone who works with Jack Canfield, and another knows someone who worked with Tony Robbins.
Michael Port, marketing guru and author of “Book Yourself Solid™” has added his blurb to my book.
Ah, viral marketing at work. My book is a virus, or rather, the premise of the book is a virus; everyone is creative, we just have to learn to develop and use our power of creativity for positive change. Let’s all catch the creative influenza!
“Aliyah Marr has clearly and eloquently tackled the subject of creativity. I am particularly impressed with her understanding of attention and its fundamental role in the creative process. Her book will serve as a fundamental text in the field of creativity.”
— Les Fehmi, Ph.D., author of The Open-Focus Brain. www.openfocus.com
“As a marketer and creator of the Book Yourself Solid™ system, I know the value of creative thinking; it can make or break a business. “Parallel Mind” contains invaluable information on how to release the mental and emotional blocks that most of us encounter in creating a new business and in marketing ourselves. Highly recommended.”
— Michael Port, author of Book Yourself Solid™ & Beyond Booked Solid
“An enlightened, engaging and provocative look at how to blend creativity and personal pursuits for a truly fulfilling life. Must reading.”
— David Heenan, author of Flight Capital and Double Lives: Crafting Your Life of Work and Passion for Untold Success Stories of Extraordinary Achievement
“This book is about the life-changing power of the creative spirit, but it will also be relevant to those who primarily work with their left brain. As Marr shows, we all have deep reserves of creativity that we can draw upon to transform not only the way we interact with the world around us, but also the very thoughts and emotions that determine our reality. Aliyah Marr’s ideas are provocative, even challenging, but she presents them in vivid, accessible arguments supported by an eclectic assortment of quotations from philosophers, theologians, and other famous figures. Parallel Mind contains the rare gift of a new, necessary angle on contemporary life.”
— Benjamin Kessler, playwright and managing editor of Graphics.com
“As a person with autism, my visual thinking mind finds unexpected associations that help me invent new ideas. Parallel Mind will give you lots of new ways to look at old problems.”
— Temple Grandin, author, Thinking in Pictures
“Like a master weaver, Aliyah has gracefully woven together all aspects of ourselves — the child, the adult, our emotions, our unacknowledged feelings, and internal vision. With a masterful blend of science, metaphors, wisdom, quotes, and storytelling skill she brings the magic carpet of creativity to life. When all is integrated we become the creative masters of our lives.”
— Sharon Lund, Author and International Speaker, The Integrated Being: Techniques to Heal the Mind-Body-Spirit
I wish to thank the readers of this blog for their interest and support.
It has been exciting to publish my book online as I wrote it; I know that many people were following my blog, reading my book as I wrote it. I thank those readers for their patience as I took entire chapters down, edited and rearranged the content. During this year of writing Parallel Mind, it was my intention that the reader have a peek into my life as an artist. After all, it is a book on creativity, why not let the reader see the creative process in action? I thank you for your interest and hope you enjoyed reading the book as much as I enjoyed writing it.
I hope you will come back to see the progress of Parallel Mind as it goes to print. I will keep you posted. Meanwhile why don’t you play my online Tarot?
Transformational Tarot by Aliyah Marr
If you decide to buy Transformational Tarot on CD, and you mention that you heard of the Tarot through the Parallel Mind blog, I will ship a signed copy of Transformational Tarot to you.
Readers have less than a week to read the first six chapters of the online book Parallel Mind before the book is taken off-line for editing and publishing.
Personally, I like to read books in print, and I assume that most of you feel the same. After all, who takes a computer to the beach or curls up in bed with it? I have always preferred to read books myself. However, it has been exciting to publish my book online as I wrote it. It is my wish that everyone enjoy the creative process of writing this book as much as I do.
Now in the final chapter of the book that began nearly nine months ago. Magic numbers, 7 and 9. Seven for magic, nine for birth. With the completion of Chapter Seven, and with the end of the year 2007, I am already planning a new book, this time about creativity in the business environment: how to set up the proper structure that allows creativity to flourish in the work place.
— copyright Aliyah Marr 2007
publishers or businesses interested in my concepts or writing, please email me at:
myfullname@gmail.com
Parallel Mind, Aliyah Marr’s book about creative manifestation is going through final rewriting in all chapters posted up until now. Read it soon: as soon as Chapter 7 is posted, the other chapters of the book on the blog (which are available to read for free) will be reduced to excerpts. The book will then be available for sale first as an e-book, then in written and audio form.
– Aliyah Marr, author of the online book on creativity Parallel Mind. Read it in the pages to the right —>
Having covered the physical side of the whole person in Chapter Three — Body and Soul, and the mental side in Chapter Four — Shaking the Tree, Parallel Mind explores the emotional landscape in Chapter Five.
All chapters of Parallel Mind are being edited weekly with new content. Please read the book in the pages section to the right.
Seven to five; five to seven. This book has an elastic quality: I started out with an outline of seven chapters in May; I condensed it down to five chapters in July; now I am back to seven in September. As a result, some of what you have already read is now in future chapters, and new information is in chapters you may have already read. True to my spontaneous nature, I am revising the outline as I write the book. Sometimes the book leads, sometimes the outline does. It is difficult for me to be linear, so I have written pieces of every chapter before finishing the first one. Stay tuned, and please don’t get confused by my changes.
Parallel Mind is a book about the relationship of creativity to wholeness and health. The purpose of this book is to serve as an essential guide to enable people to reawaken their inner creative child; learn to free themselves from limiting beliefs, overcome fear, rediscover limitless play, and find within themselves the adventure of living full, passionate, prosperous lives.
I fully believe that people can learn to create their own tools for self-realization, and discover their own inner guides. Addressing the needs of the full person: the physical, mental, emotional states; and clarifying each one allows the natural individual to freely explore his or her creative potential. I teach people how to be the creative architects of their own lives, so that they can build, and then live inside their own vision of joy, abundance, and well-being.
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