The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning

The superconscious is that part of our psyche that knows where we put our keys when our conscious mind is certain we've lost them.

We find our voice that same way. Project by project. Subject by subject. Observing in happy amazement as a new "us" pops out each time.

The Amazons have no word for "I." The notion of the autonomous individual has no place in their conception of the universe. Their thinking, if one could call it that, is entirely instinctual and collective. They think like a herd of horses or a flock of swallows, which seem to apprehend and respond with one mind, acting intuitively and in

The process is to me one of those everyday miracles, simultaneously mind-bending in its implications and common as dirt. Like the act of giving birth, it is at the same time miraculous and everyday.

We can work from our ego-minds, in which case we will burst blood vessels and suffer cerebral hernias, only to produce tedious, mediocre, derivative crap. 2. We can shift our platform of effort from our conscious mind to our unconscious.

From that moment I changed the way I approached songwriting, I changed how I sang, I changed my work ethic, and I changed my life.

That house is my psyche. The new rooms are parts of me I have never, till I dreamt them, been aware of.

Panic is Resistance pulling out the stops to keep us from ascending to the next level.

Like an alchemist laboring to turn lead into gold, the artist operates simultaneously on the planes of the ethereal and the elemental.