Children tackle creative projects fearlessly, with great imagination and verve. But as adults, inhibitions take hold and we get locked into a way of thinking that stops us from using our full potential at work an in our relationships. This book is designed to unleash that inner potential through a programme of art projects that the author has used with hundreds of beginners.
This was my catalyst book of magic. It was January 5th, 2000. I'd been opening and closing this book for a month or so. Finally got a piece of paper and pencil and sat down at Metsokodu, our neighbor's camp in the wilds, and opened this book once more.
Then I read about dark and light and how it takes both to create art. I'd known that, of course, but... let's just say I was finally illuminated with that idea. The only thing holding me back from stepping into circle with Goddess was the dogma drilled into me in a Christian-favored society that cast aspersions and great shadows on anything "other".
I read the sentence about dark and light and was unblinded by the light on the Damascas road. I saw the world in all its balanced shades of sun and shadow. I closed the book and stepped out into the unseasonably mild air, barefoot, in January, and constructed my first formal circle.
It took a book about art to open the pathway to the craft.
(Also, it's an excellent book on the subject for which it was actually written, drawing.)