Holy curiosity : cultivating the creative spirit in everyday life /

Holy curiosity : cultivating the creative spirit in everyday life /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Hollingsworth, Amy. (Dancer)
Imprint:	Eugene : Cascade Books, c2011.
Description:	146 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Creative thinking. Creative ability. Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) Imagination -- Religious aspects. Originality. Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) Creative ability. Creative thinking. Imagination -- Religious aspects. Originality.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8509025

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ISBN:	9781610973311 (pbk.) 1610973313 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-146).
Summary:	As a writer and an adjunct professor of psychology, Amy Hollingsworth is on her way to becoming an "expert" on creativity. But just days before delivering her first professional seminar on the topic, she has an unsettling dream. The dream awakens her to the fact that she has missed a crucial element in understanding what true creativity is. Trying to unravel the dream, she soon discovers its contents reflected in a single passage of ancient literature. In this passage she sees for the first time creativity's core, its spiritual roots, and as its meaning unfolds through months of spiritual reflection and study, it confirms the very scientific theories she's been teaching all along. In fact, she discovers the underpinnings of the whole body of creativity research tucked into four small words penned centuries ago, kernels of truth that explode with a new depth of meaning. As she digs deeper, she uncovers for the reader God's blueprint for cultivating the creative spirit in everyday life, through a practical outworking of her spiritual findings. In the end, both writer and reader come away with a new understanding of their own creative abilities--and a profound sense of what's truly holy about holy curiosity.

Table of Contents:

Part 1. Unraveling the Dream
1. Introduction
2. Lesson one: Someone There
3. Lesson Two: Secret Rooms
4. Lesson Three: Spark of the Spirit
Part 2. Fusing the Creative Letters of the Alphabet
5. An Alphabet of Three
6. Letter One: Many Reflections
7. Letter Two: Merging the Creative Personality
8. Letter Three: More Than Inspiration
Part 3. Following the Pattern
9. Levels One and Two: Blue Prints and Green Indigestion
10. Levels Three and Four: Beyond ôAha!ö
11. Levels Five and More: Bringing What's Inside You to Life Outside of You
Part 4. Finding the Place
12. Locale for Now: Carving Out Holy Space
13. Locale for Later: Cultivating the Thin Places
14. Resource Section
Acknowledgments
Bibliography