Season 2, Episode 3: The Consciousness of Creativity. Are ideas alive and do they choose us?
From The Telepathy Tapes
The mystery of inspiration begs the questions: is the universe conscious and using us to create a vision of it’s own? we turn to the mystery of inspiration. Bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love; Big Magic) offers a provocative idea: that creativity doesn’t come from us, but to us. Ideas, she argues, are conscious entities—knocking at the doors of our imagination, looking for human partners to bring them into the world. Legendary music producer and author of The Creative Act: ...
Mentioned in This Episode
- Charles Darwin (person)
- Kai Dickens (person)
- Elizabeth Gilbert (person)
- Eat, Pray, Love (book)
- Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear (book)
- Def Jam Recordings (company)
- LL Cool J (person)
- Beastie Boys (company)
- Run DMC (company)
- AC/DC (company)
- Johnny Cash (person)
- Tom Petty (person)
- Mick Jagger (person)
- Cheryl Crow (person)
- State of Wonder (book)
- Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage (book)
- Mary Shelley (person)
- Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (book)
- The Terminator (concept)
- Thomas Edison (person)