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Title: The Experience of Being Creative As a Spiritual Practice: A Hermeneutic-Phenomenological Study (REVISIONING PHILOSOPHY) by Peggy Thayer, David Appelbaum ISBN: 0-8204-3454-X Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Pub. Date: July, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 27 List Price(USD): $56.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: The Spiritual Nature of Creativity
Comment: What makes this book so special is not only the extensive and excellent review of the understanding of creativity and the spiritual experience from the psychological, religious and theoretical viewpoint, but the vivid, illuminating insights of practicing artists as they offer their personal experiences.

Peggy Thayer asked artists to describe their own experience of being creative as a spiritual practice. "Basically, it feels like allowing...allowing myself to do what occurs...judgements slip away and trust increases..." or "when one is aware of the hunting of oneself through the creative act then life becomes a spiritual practice...the creative act is a transformation of the soul, spirit, and ego. The mind and the ego have to, in a sense, move over."

This author takes these thoughtful personal insights of the artists and through a process of unitive intuition she reaches thematic commonalities. There is a sense of intention and reception in the creative experience, the very clear sense for the artist as being in relationship with self, with other, and with universal creation, the shifting sense of self, one's world and one's journey-- these are a few of the themes in store for the reader.

Ms Thayer completes her book with a beautiful personal reflection of an exhilarating yet humbling experience as she worked with the themes and found "the intuitive pull became a link to the spiritual."

Rating: 5
Summary: THE EXPERIENCE OF BEING CREATIVE AS A SPIRITUAL PRACTICE
Comment: Peggy Thayer combines two essential aspects of any attempt to understand creativity as a spiritual experience. First, in understanding the artist's own introspective experience in creating a work of art Peggy presents a description of her own process of creating and includes intensive interviews with ten practicing artists. Second, understanding the spiritual essence of creativity by a brilliant synthesis/ review of the thoughts of scholars from the spiritual/ religious traditions, theoreticians, art historians, and writers.
Each page holds provocative gems of thought. For example..."When one begins the creative process, one leaves the ordinary world behind....to the universal creative source." "Creativity is an instinct all people possess..." Painting is a language of intuition." "Many of the artists speak of their experience of being creative as an ongoing relationship or participation in Universal Creation." "It is this experience of spontaneous allowing, of letting be, that is felt as spiritual."
It is a must read for those interested in creativity and it's relation to the world of the spiritual.