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In the Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart, Julia Cameron, author of The Artist's Way, draws from her remarkable teaching experience to help readers reach out into ever-broadening creative horizons. As in The Artist's Way, she combines eloquent essays with playful and imaginative experiential exercises to make The Vein of Gold an extraordinary book of learning-through-doing. Inspiring essays on the creative process and more than one hundred engaging and energizing tasks involve the reader in "inner play," leading to authentic growth, renewal, and healing.

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In the Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart, Julia Cameron, author of The Artist's Way, draws from her remarkable teaching experience to help readers reach out into ever-broadening creative horizons. As in The Artist's Way, she combines eloquent essays with playful and imaginative experiential exercises to make The Vein of Gold an extraordinary book of learning-through-doing. Inspiring essays on the creative process and more than one hundred engaging and energizing tasks involve the reader in "inner play," leading to authentic growth, renewal, and healing.

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In her bestselling The Artist's Way (1992), Cameron offered a 12-week program aimed at recovering one's creativity. Each chapter ended with exercises designed to help a reader glimpse his or her inner artist, which, Cameron said, had been buried alive under a mountain of negative conditioning. Now Cameron urges readers to go deeper still. As before, she urges them to write three daily "morning pages" of stream-of-consciousness prose and to take themselves on a weekly "artist's date," a solo outing designed to help them get better acquainted with their inner selves. But here, Cameron gives new emphasis to her advice about the value of a daily 20-minute walk: "The job of your adult self, for the course of this book, will be to walk your creative child back to health." All the exercises herefrom the considerable task of writing one's narrative history to doll-making; from creating collages representing difficult relationships and mulling over the common themes of favorite moviesare intended to make readers feel deeply. "A pilgrimage is a physical process," writes Cameron. "What this means is that the tools of The Vein of Gold will be more deeply felt, and therefore more deeply resisted, than the tools of The Artist's Way." The book is divided into "kingdoms"of sight, story, sound, attitude, relationship and spirituality. Each leads readers closer to their own "vein of gold"to that territory of experience and possibility that, Cameron says, is indelibly theirs. For those seeking the wellsprings of creativity, this book, like its predecessor, is a solid gold divining rod. 125,000 first printing; major ad/promo; BOMC and QPB featured alternates, One Spirit main selection; simultaneous Putnam Berkley audio; author tour. (Oct.)
Library Journal
Coauthor of the best-selling The Artist's Way (Tarcher, 1992), Cameron here assists her readers in broadening their creativity by guiding them on a journey through seven kingdoms. Her analogy of mining for gold-mining for the heart of creativity-works very well. To stimulate creative energies while walking a path to emotional growth, Cameron suggests beginning with writing a morning meditation. Chapters on patience, courage, and spiritual gifts are all interesting, each chapter ending with a list of tasks to practice. Each page is festooned with a quote from a writer, artist, or spiritualist. A solid bibliography and discography round out this rich self-help guide to developing spiritual, creative lives.-Lisa S. Wise, EBSCO, Springfield, Va.
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Examining the creative process through more than 100 imaginative, involving, and energizing tasks, this book engages readers in "inner play," leading to authentic growth, renewal, and healing.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780874778793
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 9/28/1997
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 384
  • Sales rank: 160,270
  • Series: Inner Workbook Ser.
  • Product dimensions: 7.39 (w) x 9.01 (h) x 0.99 (d)

Table of Contents

The Vein of Gold Acknowledgments

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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