Artist's Way Week 10: Recovering a Sense of Self-Protection Guide

Guide to Julia Cameron's Artist's Way Week 10: Recovering a Sense of Self-Protection
Topics Covered and Books Listed:

Dangers of the trail
"Witness to the Fire: Creativity and the Veil of Addiction"
How food, sex, and drugs alleviate the fear but keep you stuck.
We give our neck to addictions (Dracula)
Addicts refuse to live in harmonious opposition and rather pick to live on one side.
The objectification ourselves for judgment

The child is innocent and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, self-propelled wheel, a first movement, a sacred “yes” - For the game of creation… a sacred “yes’ is needed”

“Friedrich Nietzsche Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Workaholism
Fun leads to creativity and rebellion
Easy to become a workaholic in a world of distractions
How to beat a creative drought
Creative competition is a spiritual drug
Comparing yourself with others -
If you’re going to compare yourself do it to the dead or unaccessible greats.

You don’t need to be first or the best because that’s subjective. Does your favorite author think they’re the best?

Bad art has a purpose. Even for the beginners