Creators on Creating: Awakening and Cultivating the Imaginative Mind (New Consciousness Reader)

This collection of over three dozen essays ponders the essence of creativity. Includes selections from Henry Miller, Federico Fellini, Rainer Maria Rilke, Isadora Duncan, Frank Zappa, and Mary Shelley. A New Consciousness Reader.

• Introduction / Frank Barron
• 1. Why Don't You Try to Write? / Henry Miller
• 2. Miscellany / Federico Fellini
• 3. The Interviewer / Pamela Travers
• 4. The Process Is the Purpose / Anna Halprin
• 5. The Name and Nature of Poetry / A. E. Housman
• 6. Letters to Merline / Rainer Maria Rilke
• 7. Lost in the Woods / Cathy Johnson
• 8. The Dignified Professor / Richard Feynman
• 9. The Screwdriver / Kary Mullis
• 10. Living in the Medium / J. G. Bennett
• 11. The Symbolism of Poetry / William Butler Yeats
• 12. Heaven and Earth in Jest / Annie Dillard
• 13. The Genesis of Frankenstein / Mary Shelley
• 14. First Years / Carl G. Jung
• 15. Visibility / Italo Calvino
• 16. The Order of Things / Michel Foucault
• 17. The Plunge into Colour / Marion Milner
• 18. Evening over Sussex: Reflections in a Motor Car / Virginia Woolf
• 19. Edge of Taos Desert / Mabel Dodge Luhan
• 20. The Shape of Music / Maurice Sendak.
• 21. A Life in the Day of Maya Angelou / Maya Angelou
• 22. The Magic Lantern / Ingmar Bergman
• 23. The Second Line / Sidney Bechet
• 24. Is It a Fiction That Playwrights Create Alone? / Tony Kushner
• 25. Odyssey / Irving Oyle
• 26. The Magic of Words / N. Scott Momaday
• 27. Why World Music? / Brian Eno
• 28. How to Manage an Advertising Agency / David Ogilvy
• 29. Anatomy / Leonardo da Vinci
• 30. Composing a Symphony / Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
• 31. The Genesis of Orpheus / Muriel Rukeyser
• 32. Poetics of Music / Igor Stravinsky
• 33. All About Music / Frank Zappa
• 34. Zen in the Art of Archery / Eugen Herrigel
• 35. The Mother Cry of Creation / Isadora Duncan
• 36. License for Madness / Karen Finley
• 37. Lessons from the Past / Laurence Olivier
• 38. Creation Myth / Mat Callahan
• 39. The Fisherwoman's Daughter / Ursula K. Le Guin.