The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart

The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart

by Julia Cameron
The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart

The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart

by Julia Cameron

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Overview

Cameron draws from her remarkable teaching experience to help readers reach out into ever-broadening creative horizons. The Vein of Gold features inspiring essays on the creative process and more than 100 imaginative, engaging, and energizing tasks that involve the reader in the "inner play, " leading to authentic growth, renewal, and healing.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781101666821
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 09/22/1997
Series: Artist's Way
Sold by: Penguin Group
Format: eBook
Pages: 400
Sales rank: 862,137
File size: 5 MB

About the Author

Julia Cameron has been an active artist for more than three decades. She is the author of more than thirty books, including such bestselling works on the creative process as The Artist’s WayWalking in This World, and Finding Water. Also a novelist, playwright, songwriter, and poet, she has multiple credits in theater, film, and television, including an episode of Miami Vice, which featured Miles Davis, and Elvis and the Beauty Queen, which starred Don Johnson. She was a writer on such movies as Taxi DriverNew York, New York, and The Last Waltz. She wrote, produced, and directed the award-winning independent feature film God's Will, which premiered at the Chicago International Film Festival, and was selected by the London Film Festival, the Munich International Film Festival, and the Women in Film Festival, among others. In addition to making films, Cameron has taught film at such diverse places as Chicago Filmmakers, Northwestern University, and Columbia College. She is also an award-winning playwright, whose work has appeared on such well-known stages as the McCarter Theater at Princeton University and the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.

Table of Contents

The Vein of GoldAcknowledgments

Setting Out
In Your Backpack: The Basic Tools
Morning Pages
Why by Hand?
Task: Morning Pages
Artist Dates
Task: Do a Weekly Artist Date
Clusters: Your Traveling Companions
Task: Cluster List
Your Mode of Transportation: Walking
Task: Walk Daily
Task: Walk an Hour-Long Walk Weekly
Task: Walk Prayerfully

The Gateway: Entering the Imagic-Nation
Task: Manifesting—Enter Your Imagic-Nation
Creativity Commitment

The Kingdom of Story
The Narrative Time Line
Task: Filling in Notes
Task: Post a Sign on Your Mirror
Task: Contact Someone and Commit
Task: Do Your Narrative Time Line
Task: Filling in Blanks

"Cups": The Key to Self-Disclosure
Task: List Five Secrets
Task: Make a Narrative Time Line Photo Album for Yourself

Words Do It
Task: Alchemy—Converting Dross to Gold
Task: Post Your Golden Words Where You Can See Them
Task: Kill a Creative Monster
Task: Celebrate a Creative Champion

The Wizard of Words
Secret Selves
Task: Name Five Secret Selves
Task: What's in Those Closets?
Task: What Would Your Life be Like?

Cinema Self
Task: Cinema Self
The Vein of Gold
Technique One: Favorite Films
Task: The Vein of Gold Quiz
Task: Binge Reading
Task: Grab-Bag Collage
Task: Matching
Task: Write Up Your Findings

Robert's Field Report
Breaking Camp

The Kingdom of Sight
Sight
Task: Time Capsule Collage
Task: Create a Treasure Map

Color
Task: "Fabricate" a More Colorful Life
Task: Speculate on a Different Spectrum: Try On Colors You "Never" Wear

Doll
Task: Make a Creativity Doll
Task: Make a Creativity Monster

Basic Black: The Mystique—and Mistake—of the Suffering Artist
Task: Dress as a Serious Artist
Task: Dress Like You Might Be Having Fun

Cracking
Task: Look at It This Way—On the One Hand . . . On the Other . . .
Task: Mirror, Mirror: Apply a Facial Mask
Task: Face It: Make a Power Mask

Breaking Camp

The Kingdom of Sound
Sound
Task: Sing a Spirit Song
Task: Lullaby
Task: Washing with Sound
Task: Forming a Sound Round
Task: Songlines

Silence
Task: Silence
Safety
Task: Building a Sound Shield
Task: A Sense of Safety
Task: Playing It Safe
Task: Expanding Your Light Through Sound

Breaking Camp

The Kingdom of Attitude
The Paydirt in Pay-tience
Task: Patience
Task: Use "Just a Little" Patience

Courage
Task: Dance a Power Dance
Baby Steps
Task: Playing House
Task: List Every Place You Have Ever Lived

Boredom
Task: Do Something That Has Been Done Before
Task: Oh, All Right! Make Something Unique

Time
Task: I Never Have Time to . . .
Task: I Never Take Time to . . .
Task: Stay Up Late and Read a Book
Task: A Stitch in Time

Containment
Task: Creative Snipers
Task: Believing Mirrors

Getting Current
Task: Getting Current
Task: Get Current in Your Household
Task: Get Current in Your Spiritual House

Breaking Camp

The Kingdom of Relationship
Equality
Task: Write a Positive Prayer
Task: Illuminate Your Prayer
Task: The Blame Game, Round One—Events

The Voluntary Victim
Task: The Blame Game, Round Two—People
Task: Play a Little

Where Does It Hurt?
Task: Taking Back Your Power
Task: Relationship Collage
Task: Abundance Collage
Task: Counting Coup
Task: Who's Got the Gold?

Batteries
Task: Assault on Being a Battery
Task: Write Your "Shadow Résumé"

Obsession
Task: Obsessions (Past Tense)
Task: Obsessions (Present Tense)
Task: Snap Out of It
Task: Get On with It

Breaking Camp

The Kingdom of Spirituality
Name That God
Task: Recall Your Childhood God
Task: Invent a Creativity God
Task: Invent a Creativity Totem

Guidance
Task: Clearing a Clearing
Task: Spend One Evening in Silence—of All Kinds
Task: Write a Spirituality Cup
Task: Create a Deck of Spirituality Cards

Spiritual Experience
Task: Open the Door
Task: It's a Wide World After All

Saying "Thank You"
Task: Accepting Gifts
Task: Synchronicity Notepad
Task: The God jar
Task: Accepting Help
Task: Watch Your Tongue
Task: Walk Prayerfully Daily

Breaking Camp

The Kingdom of Possibility
Passion
Task: Valentine to Your Past
Task: Valentine to Your Present
Task: List 100 Things That You, Personally, LOVE

Risk
Task: Taking Your Life into Your Own Hands
Ceilings
Task: Remembering the Possible Dreams
Task: Playing at Dreams
Task: I Trust Myself Dance

Breaking Camp
Tribal Rules
Artist's Tribal Rules
A Guide for Starting Creative Clusters
Artist's Way and Vein of Gold Glossary of Tools
Discography
"Pop"ography
Filmography
Bibliography
"Avalon"
Index

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