Existential Creativity — Tricycle: The Buddhist Review

The role of the artist in a time of crisis.

How to Cultivate Your Creativity — Scientific American

Openness to experience—the drive to explore one's inner and outer worlds—is the personality trait that most strongly and consistently predicts creative achievement.

Mortality is the Mother of Art — Substack

Living creatively in an impermanent world.

The Vibe Shift is Nihilism — Substack

The existential question of our times: What's the point?

Buddhist Thank-You Cards — Tricycle: The Buddhist Review

Finding gratitude for life’s “10,000 sorrows”—and turning suffering into our greatest source of compassion and creativity.

Reading Books is an Act of Resistance — Substack

In the age of the attention economy, we’re not just losing time—we’re losing ourselves.

Why So Many Artists Are Highly Sensitive People — The Huffington Post

Psychologists have found that the creative personality contains layers of depth, complexity and contradictions

Creative People’s Brains Really Do Work Differently — Quartz

Creativity is messy and multifaceted, even on a neurological level.

What Happens When the Person You’re Grieving is You — Substack

When we don’t take the time and space to grieve old versions of ourselves, we can get stuck in the past—and struggle to fully move forward in our lives.

How Death Anxiety Shapes Our Lives — Substack

Revisiting Ernest Becker's seminal work The Denial of Death, and getting to know the hidden force driving our thoughts, behavior and life pursuits.

What Death Teaches Us About Life — Substack

Life is better when it’s lived with an awareness of death.

Inside the Movement to Decolonize Psychedelic Pharma — Neo.Life

As psychedelic medicine goes public, researchers, advocates, and members of the psychedelic community are calling for innovative and “decolonized” business models to support the creation of a new kind of healthcare industry—one that avoids recreating the mistakes of the past.

The Mind-Bending History of Buddhism and Psychedelics — The Huffington Post

Do substances like LSD and psilocybin have a place in a dharma practice?

In the Amazon, Scientists Seek a Cure for Autoimmune Disease — The Huffington Post

A large-scale new research project is creating the opportunity for a meeting of the minds between indigenous and Western medicine.

How Daydreaming Can Actually Make You Smarter — The Huffington Post

Daydreaming gets a bad rap. But a radical new theory of human intelligence suggests that it might actually play an important role in helping people to achieve their most personally meaningful goals and dreams.

We All Have A Creative Type — Adobe Create

A look at the thinking and methodology behind the CREATIVE TYPES personality test.

Understanding the 4 Stages of the Creative Process — Ideas by We

There’s a lot that science can teach us about what goes into the creative process—and how each one of us can optimize our own.

The New Science of the Creative Brain on Nature — Outside Magazine

Beautiful vistas and outdoor fun impact your brain in real ways, and the latest research is finally cracking exactly how