the queen OF change
On any given day, someone somewhere is most likely leading an Artist’s Way group, gamely knocking back the exercises in The Artist’s Way book, the quasi-spiritual manual for ‘creative recovery’, as its author Julia Cameron puts it, that has been a lodestar for blocked writers and other artistic hopefuls for more than a quarter of a century.
There have been Artist’s Way clusters in the Australian outback and the Panamanian jungle; in Brazil, Russia, the United Kingdom and Japan; and also, as a cursory scan of Artist’s Way Meetups reveals, in Des Moines, Iowa and Toronto. It has been taught in prisons and sober communities, at spiritual retreats and New Age centres, from Esalen to Sedona, from the Omega Institute to the Open Center, where Julia will appear in late March, as she does most years. Adherents of The Artist’s Way include authors Patricia Cornwell and Sarah Ban Breathnach. Pete Townshend, Alicia Keys and Helmut Newton have all noted its influence on their work.
So has Tim Ferriss, the hyperactive productivity guru behind , though to save time he
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