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Category Archives: Creativity

The State of the Self

Cultures create, nourish, and defend modes of identity. An individual’s…

Posted byAntonio Dias01/29/201905/09/2021Posted inCommunity, Creativity, EssayTags:Bad Faith, Integration, self-delusion, the alienated self3 Comments on The State of the Self

The question of Bad Faith

…there is no form of communication available that has not been buried…

Posted byAntonio Dias01/27/201905/09/2021Posted inCommunity, Creativity, Essay, WritingTags:Bad Faith, Cultural Bankruptcy, Relation, The Failure of Thought6 Comments on The question of Bad Faith

If there’s just one thing…

If there’s just one thing I might suggest to you it is to cultivate your…

Posted byAntonio Dias06/30/201805/09/2021Posted inCreativity, DialogueTags:Creativity, Double-binds, Reaction, Suspension2 Comments on If there’s just one thing…

Shoal Hope

Surveying a surface…, a reflection on Shoal Hope.

Posted byAntonio Dias02/05/201805/26/2021Posted inCreativity, Fiction, WritingTags:Coherence, Creativity, Provincetown, Shoal Hope, Writing on WritingLeave a comment on Shoal Hope

Links

Some of the people whose work means something to me.

Posted byAntonio Dias01/23/201809/18/2021Posted inCommunityTags:LinksLeave a comment on Links

Looking back at looking back, What Drives Me,

Growing up in a predicament we get past incredulity or we take refuge in…

Posted byAntonio Dias08/04/201705/09/2021Posted inCommunity, Creativity, Dialogue, Essay, WritingTags:Creativity, Double-binds, fear, insight, Power, Predicament, Strength, the Shadow8 Comments on Looking back at looking back, What Drives Me,

Conversations with Jeppe Graugaard, Part 3, Dialogue on Wholeness

the third and final conversations from my time in Denmark last Fall.

Posted byAntonio Dias01/15/201705/10/2021Posted inCommunity, Creativity, DialogueTags:David Bohm, Jeffrey Shampnois, Jeppe Graugaard, Peter Kajtar, Proprioception, Wholeness1 Comment on Conversations with Jeppe Graugaard, Part 3, Dialogue on Wholeness

Conversations with Jeppe Graugaard: Part 2, Dialogue on Craft

the second of our conversations from my time in Denmark…

Posted byAntonio Dias12/07/201605/10/2021Posted inCreativity, DialogueTags:Craft, David Bohm, Holomovement, Jeppe Graugaard, Participation, Proprioception, Relationship2 Comments on Conversations with Jeppe Graugaard: Part 2, Dialogue on Craft

Conversations with Jeppe Graugaard, Part I, Practice

the first of a three-part series…resulting from our time together.

Posted byAntonio Dias11/07/201605/10/2021Posted inArt, Creativity, DialogueTags:Coherence, Creativity, David Bohm, Dialogue, Jeffrey Shampnois, Jeppe Graugaard, Krishnamurti, Peter Kajtar, Practice, Proprioception, Rupert Sheldrake1 Comment on Conversations with Jeppe Graugaard, Part I, Practice

Drawing Desire

…we face a myriad of traps, evasions, and projections.

Posted byAntonio Dias10/10/201605/10/2021Posted inArt, Creativity, DrawingTags:Art, Creativity, Dialogue, Drawing, Everything is in everything, Practice, Proprioception, Relationship1 Comment on Drawing Desire

Carved above Jung’s door

Vocatus atque non vocatus, deus aderit.

Posted byAntonio Dias09/03/201605/10/2021Posted inCommunity, Creativity, Dialogue, Non-fiction, WritingTags:Carl Jung, Creativity, The SacredLeave a comment on Carved above Jung’s door

Finding North, a review

Navigation is at the heart of everything we do on the water.

Posted byAntonio Dias09/02/201605/10/2021Posted inCreativity, Non-fiction, WritingTags:Creativity, Finding North, George Michelsen Foy, Navigation1 Comment on Finding North, a review

Communion with the Sacred

Art and craft,… do a fine job of naming two of the three realms of living.

Posted byAntonio Dias08/25/201605/10/2021Posted inCommunity, CreativityTags:Art, Civilization, Corruption, Craft, Creativity, Institutions, Joy, Practice, Quality, Ritual, The Sacred3 Comments on Communion with the Sacred

More and more… it’s fragments…

More and more it’s fragments that feel true.

Posted byAntonio Dias07/23/201605/10/2021Posted inCreativityTags:anger, Creativity, fear, fragments, violence, Writing7 Comments on More and more… it’s fragments…

A Question of Purpose

My thoughts have been circling around …questions of purpose.

Posted byAntonio Dias10/27/201505/10/2021Posted inArt, Community, Creativity, Design, WritingTags:a next step, Boat, Creativity, fear, instrumentality, Negative capability, Purpose, sufficiency10 Comments on A Question of Purpose

Queequeg’s Coffin

I was fifteen when I first read Moby Dick in a 48 hour long marathon…

Posted byAntonio Dias09/15/201505/26/2021Posted inCreativity, Essay, WritingTags:community, Creativity, Fine Lines, Ishmael, Melville, Moby Dick, Queequeg's Coffin, Writing4 Comments on Queequeg’s Coffin

Confusion is part of the message

Let’s be clear. Confusion is part of the message.

Posted byAntonio Dias08/06/201505/10/2021Posted inCreativity, Essay, News, WritingTags:Civilization, Collapse, Complexity, Complication, Confusion, Imagination, John Michael Greer, Linear Thinking, Misery & Suffering, Power, Quality, Subtlety, The Machine Model7 Comments on Confusion is part of the message

Desperado Philosophy: An Order So Unwieldy

More than enough time for another cocktail!

Posted byAntonio Dias04/16/201505/10/2021Posted inCreativity, Essay, News, WritingTags:Antonio Dias, Desperado Philosophy, Gregory Whitehead, Horizons of Significance, Queequeg's Coffin, TitanicLeave a comment on Desperado Philosophy: An Order So Unwieldy

Pointing out futility

“T…what I like about you… you are always able to show me the futility…

Posted byAntonio Dias03/05/201505/10/2021Posted inCommunity, Creativity, Dialogue, Essay, NewsTags:anxiety, Creativity, depression, Effective Action, Efficiency, fear, Futility, Joy, Negotiation, Power, Strength3 Comments on Pointing out futility

Abandoning persuasion

It’s becoming more clear …that our predilection to interact by…identifying

Posted byAntonio Dias10/26/201405/10/2021Posted inCommunity, Creativity, Dialogue, NewsTags:advertising, Belief, Coercion, Creativity, means to an end, Persuasion, Trust3 Comments on Abandoning persuasion

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