Product Description

Believing that creativity is central to our being, May outlines the limits to what we know and do not know about creativity. He links the element of courage to creativity to reveal the process of discovery in which a person generates new forms and patterns that build new social systems.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #244303 in Books
• Published on: 1994-04-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

Customer Reviews

a decent collection
First of all, who the hell writes a book review without ever reading it? Moving on, I would give limited praise for this book. In terms of May's other work, it does not surpass something like "the cry for myth." I should like to bring to your attention that the book is a collection of lectures and vary in their quality when transformed into essays. A few are thought provoking and a few are irrelevant and the rest are in between. It's worth reading if you enjoy existential psychology and are curious about creativity. If you just want to know about existential psychology, choose a better book.

this is a great book.
I read it last... maby 15 years ago. And at the time, I "bought the book by it's cover". And I "lucked" out: creativity is a frontier... and truth is tougher than the bad pulp-fiction that we can readily hash out and regurgitate to ourselves...and just as likely validate like the one too few lotto tickets that we bought with our "home-boy" friends -- but never checked the numbers: heck were too smart for those odds -- but then tell that to the longshoreman 50-60 something Vanghogh... ticket holder:::

we're not talkin Dutch realism here:. We're talkin punk-rock-give-me-a-fifth-and-an-instrument-and-i-can-do-the-same-thing-"last temtation of christ"-mirror-lotto ...f__k i can relate to the aRTIs/ (i am a lesser god = but a god none the less)/

ALSO: we got some Bradshaw honesty here.

those gals who's MoMs said nothing. ...felt bad. but they were less schewed. that those who were told one thing, but experienced something else.

I have not read this book, yet, but I like the title
I believe if we are to create we must have courage. We must not be afraid to confront ourselves and our fears. Its easy to be apathetic, its easy to live off other peoples opinions, its hard to find our own, are opinions are our creations. It is hard to let ourselves feel comfortable with just our inside voice, why must we depend on outside voices, what we create is a reflection of what we have lived. Our lives are our creations, do we have enough courage to control it, why am I so vague?