by Ray Holland | Dec 30, 2024 | General
IV Inspired Relations I Knew a Lover Named Raven Raven was a jester, much too energetic in the morning, Like the sun was bright. Let me stay blind, or in the dark, Eyes tight, cracked just enough not to fall on my intellect. For my head was important. I would need it...
by Ray Holland | Dec 30, 2024 | General
Beyond Negative Capability: Fulfillment Fulfillment Recovery, Awakening, Purposeful Tell me what you yearn for, and I shall tell you who you are. We are what we reach for, the idealized image that drives our wandering. James Hillman, The Soul’s Code A Bear eating...
by Ray Holland | Dec 30, 2024 | General
The Artist’s Flow & Loving-Work Creates the Capacity for Negative Capability Letting go, Readiness, Spontaneity Art is not a thing. It’s a way. Elbert Hubbard In her Loving-Playfulness, mindful flowering, the Awakened Child has come to know some of her own...
by Ray Holland | Dec 30, 2024 | General
Artist It (creativity) is both deliberate and uncontrollable, mindful and mindless, work and play. Scott Barry Kaufman and Carolyn Gregoire, Wired to Create The Artist has a relationship with Inspiration (often personified as the Muse, who holds her softly...
by Ray Holland | Dec 30, 2024 | General
A Tale of Two Places With you, I can leave that other place, Those winter trees that branch in my brain. At least I’m not waiting now for some old leaves To fall-as if waiting for the other shoe to drop— I don’t feel it in my gut, or see only those blind spots...
by Ray Holland | Dec 30, 2024 | General
Capacity of the Awakened Child: Dual Awareness When we develop normally (with a “good enough” childhood environment), ego states are coconscious and relatively integrated in their functioning. Forgash & Copeley When, thus, warmly invited into the garden, born into...