Crackling bits of energy to spur your imagination and creativity. Stimulants draw from esoteric topics and iconoclastic thinkers to inspire you to explore the world around and within you.
A dialogue would ideally mimic individual thought process in a group setting – the ideas of others can interact with each participant’s previously held ideas, eventually building upon these exchanges to create new, shared ideas among the participants.
Is it really that unbelievable that one can create from a connection to some deep, spiritual element?
“You must be shapeless, formless, like water.” Bruce Lee’s oft-quoted and dissected line sums up his philosophy on both martial arts and life writ large – a focus on fluidity, freedom of thought, and self-acceptance.
DE is a way of doing. It is a way of doing everything you do. DE simply means doing whatever you do in the easiest most relaxed way you can manage which is also the quickest and most efficient way, as you will find as you advance in DE.
Painter, writer, sound poet, and performance artist Brion Gysin ignored the impositions of the status quo. His permutation poems – like ‘Junk Is No Good Baby’ – questioned the bases of communication and reality.
Wabi-sabi (侘寂) represents Japanese aesthetics and a Japanese world view centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is “imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete”.
Our body and mind are hard-wired with millions of capacities whose brilliance we underestimate. Discovering that even those that are blind are able to smile sparks a vast range of possibilities — what things that we assumed to be impossible are actually built into our DNA?
If you acknowledge your free will and recognize unstructured time, how would you spend your minutes, your hours, your days?
It feels oversimplistic to ignore our subconscious instinct towards forming patterns and observations. Why not utilize it to make ourselves better? Surrounding ourselves with meaningful potential can, in turn, create meaningful ‘coincidences’ in our everyday life.
“The pictures were painted directly through me, without any preliminary drawings and with great force. I had no idea what the paintings were supposed to depict.”