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Inviting Miracles and Transformations into Our Life through Creative Encounters We owe it to ourselves to create the sacred time and space, in our busy lives, required to experience Creative Encounters with Source. These Encounters are not about making art. They are about discovery and transforming our relationship with the world around us. Miracles and transformations occur during Creative Encounters. If we truly:
Then we enter the realm of natural miracles and transformations. By using our senses without labeling the input; by allowing ourselves to fully gesture, move, draw, paint, sculpt, arrange, sing, dance, and employ all our nonlinear modes of creativity we invite new possibilities of engagement in and with the world. We seek and experience an authenticity in synchronicity with nature. |
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| One such example: Di, a participating guide in the Summer 2002 Dancing in DeLight weekend, followed her intuition. While still at home Di picked up a fabric representation of a dragon fly. She brought it to the weekend without knowing why; she simply trusted the natural insight process. She proceeded to lovingly and instinctively create a beautiful mask. On that mask she allowed her subconscious to guide her in placing her fabric dragon fly on the nose of the mask. | |||||||||
| Later, during a break, and long after placing that symbolic dragon fly on her lovely mask, she lay down on her back, in the grass outside the Center for Creative Learning. In the shade of the trees near the Milwaukee River a living dragon fly, the same general hues as Di's symbolic dragon fly, landed on her own nose. Now this may not qualify as a miracle. However when that same lovely creature landed on Dis nose 68 times over a period of some 20-30 minutes. That, for me, qualifies as a miracle, and a remarkable example of synchronicity. Only Di and the dragon fly can know the meaning and ultimate results of such an encounter. I had the honor of witnessing this joy filled miracle. When Di called me over to photograph this process, I had no idea how extraordinary this event really was only later when she brought her mask out did I feel the power of it all. | ![]() |
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| Another example: Long ago, as a young child, AJ received a report card which included a less than satisfactory grade for an art class along with the added note, "AJ does not take his art seriously." This note, from an uninspired teacher, who failed to understand that each of us enter this world with unique abilities to connect to our Creative Source through nonverbal gestures, sent AJ and probably his parents a false message. And AJ came away from this wrong-headed labeling experience thinking, "I am not creative."
As a participant in the Summer 2002 Dancing in DeLight weekend, AJ experienced the falseness of an early childhood judgement, by a foolish teacher; and put an end to an erroneous assumption he carried into his adult life regarding his innate ability to create beauty through connection to his Creative Source. I had the honor of witnessing this transformation. |
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These two examples represent only the least subtle that I have recently experienced.
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past Over decades of working in the realm of Creative Encounters in my own life and in the work that I have done facilitating the Spiritual Warrior Weekends, I have witnessed countless miracles and transformations. While some appear very subtle, others inspire awe in those witness them with me. |
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