Dear Living Dark readers,
Here’s a thank you to Carla Berenice, Joel Gunz, Cadu Lemos, Dylan Orosz, Muna H Bilgrami, and many others—about 180 in all—for tuning into my live video today with Matthew Green.
Writing at the Wellspring served as our focus and jumping-off point. This meant our overall topic was creativity, spiritual depth, and the importance of listening for what wants to come through us, especially in an era of acute and accelerating cultural collapse. Matthew describes Writing at the Wellspring like this:
Part Stephen King, part Eckhart Tolle, the book also speaks very directly to why it’s more important than ever for us to unblock our creative channels in this age of metacrisis—and reveals how the Daemon Muse can help, if we learn the right way to ask.”
In our one-hour interaction, we delved into things such as:
how to meet your muse
creativity and nonduality
the uncanniness of the unconscious mind
giving yourself permission to stop and fall silent
finding the master theme of your creative work and your whole life
the meaning of “daemon muse” and the experience of creativity as a relationship with it
the “monastic option” as a valid creative and spiritual response to cultural decline and the engulfing metacrisis
It was a deep and fulfilling conversation, thanks largely to Matthew’s skillful direction. I hope you enjoy it. And I’d love to hear your own thoughtful contributions in the comments.
Warm regards,
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