A fresh new approach to tapping into our own creativity, using the images and artifacts of our dreams.
Getting inspired is one of the toughest parts of being an artist, whether we're a beginner or a seasoned professional. But as Tom Crockett shows us in this new book, finding ideas for our artwork is easier than we think. By simply exploring the images of our sleeping and waking dream states, we can discover a wealth of ideas and inspiration that are more authentic and powerful because they reveal our underlying spiritual self.
Recognizing the importance of allowing our spiritual side...

Stone Age Wisdom: The Healing Principles of Shamanism is a guide to an urban contemporary shamanism that draws on the what religious historian, Houston Smith, describes as "the ground from which all religions spring." While the word shamanism has come to mean many things to many people, a shaman is an individual who uses an enhanced capacity to attend to the unseen world primarily in service to others. The first step to being able to artfully serve others is to return to balance. What does it mean to live in balance? Most people know what it feels like to live out of balance. The fast pace of...

"We create such suffering in our illusion of separation, commit such crimes from behind the walls of our well-defended identities, make such poor choices by always seeking what is beyond the here and the now, and wound so deeply from our longing to return to a unity that we "deny and refuse. The only way home is through the ultimate truth of our oneness-waking up." One Drop Awareness explores the territory of nonduality, pure awareness, awakening, liberation, self realization, and what the sages have called enlightenment. While the term enlightenment conjures up images of Eastern gurus,...

The PillowBook is based on the fundamental assumption that there is a masculine and a feminine sexual essence. The masculine essence is the penetrative force, directedness, and conscious presence. The feminine force is the receptive radiant embodiment of love, light, surrender, and the flow of energy. The masculine in anyone is that which identifies with seeing (awareness). The feminine is that which identifies with being seen (light). While any man or woman can access masculine or feminine energy at any moment, we all tend to rest as love and consciousness at some point along a...