![]() ![]() “The true magic in this book comes from the pure, honest joy vibrating beneath the words. Befriending it as such, and interacting with it as if it really is a separate, collaborating presence in your psyche, puts you in a position to receive its gifts, and it in the position to give them to you. Your unconscious mind truly is your genius in the ancient sense of the word, the sense that was universal before it was fatefully altered several centuries ago by historical-cultural forces. But muse, daimon, and genius are so much more effective at conveying its subversive and electrifying emotional charge, and also its experiential reality. We can call it the id or the secret self. We can call this inner force the unconscious mind or the silent partner. The book’s starting point is the proposition that we all possess a higher or deeper intelligence than the everyday mind, and that learning to live and work harmoniously and energetically with this intelligence is the irreducible core of a successful artistic life. These are all questions addressed by A Course in Demonic Creativity: A Writer’s Guide to the Inner Genius. ![]() Where does creativity come from? Why do ideas and inspiration feel as if they come from “outside,” from an external source that is separate from us but able to whisper directly into the mind? Why have so many writers throughout history-and also composers, painters, philosophers, mystics, and scientists-spoken of being guided, accompanied, and even haunted by a force or presence that not only serves as the deep source of their creative work, but that exerts a kind of profound and inexorable gravitational pull on the shape of their lives? Free download: A Course in Demonic CreativityĪdd to your shelf on Goodreads About the book
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