Holy curiosity
Subtitle: cultivating the creative spirit in everyday life
By: Amy Hollingsworth
Publisher: Cascade Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Eugene
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9781610973311
Subjects: Originality; Creative ability; Imagination; Creative thinking; Religious aspects; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-146).
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Unraveling the dream. Introduction; title: Lesson one : someone there; title: Lesson two : secret rooms; title: Lesson three : spark of the spirit; title: pt. 2. Fusing the creative letters of the alphabet. An alphabet of three; title: Letter one : many reflections; title: Letter two : merging the creative personality; title: Letter three : more than inspiration; title: pt. 3. Following the pattern. Levels one and two : blue prints and indigestion; title: Levels three and four : beyond "aha!"; title: Levels five and more : bringing what's inside you to life outside of you; title: pt. 4. Finding the place. Locale for now : carving out holy spaces; title: Locale for later : cultivating the thin places; title: Resource section.