Have you ever heard of Consciouness-Enhancing Media or inner-tainment? It involves using music and media as a kind of medicine. Award-winning media composer/producer Gary Malkin’s inspiring short films at Wisdom Films are an example. They feature spoken wisdom from around the world combined with time-lapse cinematography and musical soundtracks – meditations to help slow us down after a […]
For Writers
Musica Universalis or Music of the Spheres
“Musica Universalis,” or Music of the Spheres. What a wonderful ancient philosophical concept. Pythagoras theorized that the Sun, Moon, and planets produce their own unique hums as they move through the universe, and, although physically imperceptible to our ears, this planetary harmony affects the quality of our lives on earth. Modern science probably scoffs at this idea, but […]
Manuscript Makeover Mode
I’m in the final manuscript makeover mode, which means my blog has been relegated to second status for awhile. Makeovers and blogs are hungry beasts and quite jealous and suspicious of each other. When they don’t get enough attention (and regular feeding), they go on strike. Immediately. No use in reasoning with them or begging for […]
Space of Stillness / Point of Dynamic Rest
Eckhart Tolle says, “Being is finding within yourself that space of stillness that is always there, where you can be conscious without thinking.” I love it when I find myself in this “space of stillness,” this “point of dynamic rest,” but it doesn’t happen nearly enough. When I look at the small hill of daffodils that bloom […]
Images and Symbols / Making the Invisible Visible
“By taking the lid off the unconscious, we can be guided by its knowledge,” says Bernie Siegel, in an article titled Making the Invisible Visible–How dreams and drawings reveal the unknown and invisible. Siegel, a self-described Jungian surgeon, encourages his patients to share, through drawings, their experiences of life and illness. He, in turn, uses these drawings […]
Writers Need Vibrant, Creative Partnerships
I’m sure you’ve heard before that an author platform is mandatory to your publishing career. You’ve also heard that in building a platform you need to blog, social network, and use video sites. In other words, you have to do your own marketing and promotion. “Publishers want to know how many people you know,” says Jennifer Hill Robenalt, a 20-year communications […]
