Season 2, Episode 3: The Consciousness of Creativity. Are ideas alive and do they choose us?
From The Telepathy Tapes
The mystery of inspiration begs the questions: is the universe conscious and using us to create a vision of it’s own? we turn to the mystery of inspiration. Bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love; Big Magic) offers a provocative idea: that creativity doesn’t come from us, but to us. Ideas, she argues, are conscious entities—knocking at the doors of our imagination, looking for human partners to bring them into the world. Legendary music producer and author of The Creative Act: ...
Who is mentioned in this episode?
21 people come up, including Charles Darwin, Kai Dickens, Elizabeth Gilbert.
- Charles Darwin (Person)
- Kai Dickens (Person)
- Elizabeth Gilbert (Person)
- LL Cool J (Person)
- Johnny Cash (Person)
- Mick Jagger (Person)
- Cheryl Crow (Person)
- Mary Shelley (Person)
- Thomas Edison (Person)
- Ernest Hemingway (Person)
- Shini Vasa Ramanujan (Person)
- Dr. Rupert Sheldrake (Person)
- Alexander Graham Bell (Person)
- Alfred Russel Wallace (Person)
- Joseph Swan (Person)
- George R. R. Martin (Person)
- Rachel Kantu (Person)
- Selena Kennedy (Person)
- Katherine Ellis (Person)
- Tom Waits (Person)
Mentioned in this episode
- Eat, Pray, Love (Book)
- Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear (Book)
- Def Jam Recordings (Company)
- Beastie Boys (Company)
- Run DMC (Company)
- AC/DC (Company)
- State of Wonder (Book)
- Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage (Book)
- The Terminator (Concept)
- Hemingway trick (Concept)
- No Good Deed (Company)
- Collective unconscious (Concept)
- Minnesota (Location)
- North Cornwall (Location)
- Guidian (Location)
- Yesterday (Product)
- Bhagavad Gita (Book)
- Appalachia (Location)
- Atlantic (Location)