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Supplementing the Muse: An Integral Lifestyle for the Creatively Obsessed

Every person has within them various "inner voices" that speak to us throughout the day, often incessantly and at-times warring with each other. To give you a sense of how you can begin to see your own inner voices and how they run your thoughts and emotions, we thought we'd record voice dialogue in action in a live, unscripted setting. Here we go....

Supplementing the Muse: Towards an Integral Lifestyle for the Creatively Obsessed

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Duration: 39 minutes

Diane Musho Hamilton

Diane is Genpo Roshi's first successor in the Big Mind Process lineage, as well as a dharma holder in traditional Zen. She is also a trained mediator. Diane has taught at Integral Institute's Integral Life Practice Level 1 and Level 2 seminars, and has conducted her own Integral Zen Seminar.

For the past year, Paul has inhabited a lifestyle that is slowly but surely destroying his life. You see, Paul is an artist. In fact, Paul is a rather extraordinary artist whose creative impulses often manifest with an explicitly integral emphasis. But, as he admits, his passionate embrace of the Romantic Artist archetype—in all its glory and tragic brilliance—has made his life decidedly less than integral.

Using voice dialogue, Diane and Paul engage a host of exciting and unusual voices all vying for Paul's attention: the Muse, Artistic Discipline, the Creative Problem Solver, and the Artistic Realist. Incredibly, a synthesis emerges, and the unique flexibility and scalability of an Integral Life Practice suggests just how to put that synthesis into action—in other words, practical advice for how to make sure Paul lives to his 30th birthday.* We are extremely excited.

*UPDATE: He did.