Holy Curiosity: Cultivating the Creative Spirit in Everyday Life

Description: One passage two verses four words. As a writer and an adjunct professor of psychology Amy Hollingsworth is on her way to becoming an expert on creativity. But just days before delivering her first professional seminar on the topic she has an unsettling dream. The dream awakens her to the fact that she has missed a crucial element in understanding what true creativity is. Trying to unravel the dream she soon discovers its contents reflected in a single passage of ancient literature. In this passage she sees for the first time creativitys core its spiritual roots and as its meaning unfolds through months of spiritual reflection and study it confirms the very scientific theories shes been teaching all along. In fact she discovers the underpinnings of the whole body of creativity research tucked into four small words penned centuries ago kernels of truth that explode with a new depth of meaning. As she digs deeper she uncovers for the reader Gods blueprint for cultivating the creative spirit in everyday life through a practical outworking of her spiritual findings. In the end both writer and reader come away with a new understanding of their own creative abilities--and a profound sense of whats truly holy about holy curiosity. Endorsements: So sensitive intelligent and gutsy. -Thomas Moore New York Times best-selling author of Care of the Soul