Tao of Creativity
PART ONE:
Qi Cultivation as a Work of Art
Interview with Michael Winn
by Christos Vayenas
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Part One
Table of Contents
- How did you come upon the Taoist tradition?
- I was creative copycat, not creating from Source
- Tao path of embodiment & alchemy combustion
- Qi as medium unifying all Creation
- Wandering Taoists vs. temple taoism
- How can Creatives begin working with Tao practices?
- Three methods to nourish creativity:
- Do grounding qigong
- Talk to your organ spirits
- Grow self-love with Inner Smile
- Did qigong & Tao meditation boost your creativity?
- Transmuting sex drive into creativity
- Discovery of my “Oversoul muse”
- 12 Sovereign Hexagrams: I Ching Fates as Oversouls
- War in Ethiopia: qi boosted my creativity
- Qigong linked my many careers
- Conscious conception: highest creative act
- Poem: The beauty of yin & yang
- Are ancient Tao practices relevant to modern creative process?
- Qi is testable now, not an old belief system
- Yuan qi is timeless root of All creativity
- At core, is all art the shaping of energy patterns?
- Cosmic mandate: individuate Spirit into Matter
- Divine gift of imagination is in every being
- Humans must create their own reality, 24/7
- Our Energy Body is a continuous work of art
- Can you crystallize your essence into a pearl?
- Is there a Taoist cure for creative block?
- Inner Smile dissolves resistance from inside
- Use Inner Child to reboot creativity
- Must artists suffer in order to create?
- Do Taoist ideas on creativity differ from Western?
- Taoists lack notion of “an Un-conscious”
- Is copying a master artist anti-creative?
- Carl Jung on Taoism and creativity
- What’s the relationship between art and inner alchemy?
- All art is a form of inner alchemy
- Nature cycles are inherently alchemical
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