This is a quick announcement to indicate that I've just created a new blog (here on blogspot.com) entitled: "Music in the Now" (further distinguishing it by using my full birth name, Robert Stanley Weathers).
Please go to:
http://robertstanleyweathers.blogspot.com/
Here I will be focusing on my lifelong love for music, particularly all manner of drums and jazz (with a bit of classical music and, no doubt, rock'n'roll thrown in for good measure!).
This current blog (site below), on creativity, will continue to feature reflections on creative process, spirituality, and other art-forms than music alone.
http://drbobweathers.blogspot.com/
So, may I suggest: "Double your pleasure" by visiting both blogs!
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Sunday, June 9, 2013
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Goethe, Jung, and Babe Ruth: On Safety as Dangerous
“The dangers of life are many, and safety is one of those dangers.”
--- Goethe
It is ironic, wouldn't you agree, that one of the greatest obstacles to a truly creative life is too overpowering a yearning for safety?
Carl Jung spoke of the creative life, one in tune with art, spirituality, and the present moment, as requiring the opus contra naturam. Literally, it is indeed "a work against nature," going upstream, to resist the entropy toward the familiar, and to choose for bringing two or more previously unlinked ideas into a single space. (This is what Harvard psychiatrist, Albert Rothenberg, calls "homospatial process," or more simply, creativity.)
Years ago, out of a dream, the following words came to me: "Sometimes a brilliant mistake is preferable to a more mediocre correctness." Here then is to risking safety, even risking to make a mistake, in order to invite in the creative act...
Babe Ruth may have said it most clearly: "Never let fear of striking out get in your way."
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Regarding the New Subtitle to This Blog
Why "The Present Moment in Art, Spirituality, and Everyday Life"?
My goal is to draw together reflections on the creative process (art), spiritual practice, and their applications to everyday life. "The present moment" refers to my appreciating the contributions of contemporary spiritual author, Eckhart Tolle; his intellectual forefather (and namesake), German theologian Meister Eckhart; and the innovative work (on vitality and the present moment) by leading developmental psychologist, Dr. Daniel Stern.
Enjoy, and please feel free to participate!
My goal is to draw together reflections on the creative process (art), spiritual practice, and their applications to everyday life. "The present moment" refers to my appreciating the contributions of contemporary spiritual author, Eckhart Tolle; his intellectual forefather (and namesake), German theologian Meister Eckhart; and the innovative work (on vitality and the present moment) by leading developmental psychologist, Dr. Daniel Stern.
Enjoy, and please feel free to participate!
The Present Moment in Art, Spirituality, and Everyday Life
I have just added a new subtitle to this blog:
Dr. Robert Weathers: Creativity In The Now
The Present Moment in Art, Spirituality, and Everyday Life
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Dr. Robert Weathers Quotes Integral Recovery Pioneer, John DuPuy
I like how this quote points toward the inextricable link between our bodies, our minds, the creative soul, and spiritual fulfillment:
"As an old Quaker man once wrote, the key to lifelong happiness is to be a lifelong athlete."
from Dupuy, John (2013). Integral Recovery (Suny Series in Integral Theory). Excelsior Editions/State University of New York. Kindle Edition.
"As an old Quaker man once wrote, the key to lifelong happiness is to be a lifelong athlete."
from Dupuy, John (2013). Integral Recovery (Suny Series in Integral Theory). Excelsior Editions/State University of New York. Kindle Edition.
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