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Dissociative Experiences and Creativity – Survey Questions
Tony Pedri, a student at University of Washington School of Medicine has submitted a report to PP+A outlining the experiments and surveys performed to compare the level of creativity/imagination of fine arts students based on their “dissociative experiences”.For the entire report, please see the “Forum/Article” section of PP+A:http://ppplusa.ning.com/forum/topics/dissociation-and-creativityHypothesis:Fine arts students who are characterized by high …
Thinking Out of the Box: How Physical Experience Enhances Creativity
By Wray Herbert – from Huffington Post Original Article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wray-herbert/physical-creative-proces… When Hollywood producer Steven Spielberg was working on his 1977 hit movie “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” he spent long hours puzzling over the artistic texture of the film, trying to get just the right feel. Late one night, he decided to …
The Ritual –
Poem By Carol Daly A word or a few in praise of Rituals, of which we know can heal Walking and running, meditation and yoga all help us cope and deal In wake of Irene the streets today were filled people rambling For flashlights -water -cans of tuna in stores they all were scrambling The …
Treasures of the Heart
By Carol Daly What is it that you do that makes you stand apart from others? What do you contribute that makes you feel good about yourself? Whether one is a great teacher, administrative assistant, nurse, skydiver, a loyal friend, mother or brother to someone, or if you cook sumptuous lasagna, each of …
STATES OF AFFINITY
By Lida Prypchan The attraction, union or closeness between individuals is ruled by circumstance but also by identification and antagonism. Affinity, either for a similar concept of life, for a shared ideology, for interests in common. Antagonism, such as that observed between the man and woman who achieve perfect unity by complementing one …
Schizophrenia and Creativity
By Colette Inaba Schizophrenia and Creativity “The truly creative person is one who can think crazy” -Frank Goble “There was never a genius without a tincture of madness” -Aristotle “The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success” -Bruce Feirstein Outline …
A Daily Dose of Tolerance
By Carol Daly If you’ve never lived in or visited New York City and experienced the subway you have missed an entire culture made up of many cultures existing for the most part underground and underneath New York City and its boroughs. It’s one of the largest and complex systems in the world. The …
The Secret Weapon of Hope
By Carol Daly HOPE is the belief in a positive outcome related to events and circumstances in one’s life. It is the “feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn …
THE SILENT GUEST
By Lida Prypchan A scythe on its shoulder, grim and skeletal, with long stride, that’s how, as a child, I imagined death. (Antonio Machado) In his sixties, Mr. W. was a well-preserved man. He was perhaps a little more tired than before and had lost weight over the last few months, …
THE OTHER REALITY
By Lida Prypchan Something quite wondrous accompanies us through life: this is the other reality, an amorphous mass of chance occurrences which have no basis in Aristotelian law, but which emanate from or are manifest in our thoughts. We are walking down the street when suddenly, for some strange reason, the thought …