
Indigenous American and African Americans on Art & Creativity
Creativity is at the heart of our being human beings. Among the songs of the Mesoamerican peoples are the following hymns about the Toltecatl artists.
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Creativity is at the heart of our being human beings. Among the songs of the Mesoamerican peoples are the following hymns about the Toltecatl artists.

We are considering the role of creativity and art in calling forth what it means to be human. Among the Hopi peoples of the southwestern

Creativity and wisdom go hand in hand. As Hildegard puts it, “there is wisdom in all creative works.” In medieval Europe, when the university was

Eckhart describes the difference between via negativa meditation and via creativa meditation this way. In an amazing sermon, on “How letting go and letting be

Creativity is utterly natural to our species—indeed it is the very working definition of who we are that anthropologists take with them into the field

We have been posing the question, “What does it mean to be a human being?” We have considered over several weeks the “10 C’s” of

Meditation often leads one to a place of tasting nothingness. When I was seventeen years old and in my first year of college, I had

The Tao te Ching advises letting be and promises a return to our origins when it counsels: Accept the world as it is.If you accept

Contemplation and meditation are a universal phenomenon. We see them taught and encouraged in spiritual traditions the world over. Clearly slowing down and being fully

The Buddha taught this about meditation: Any feeling whatsoever–past, future or present, internal or external; blatant or subtle, common or sublime, far or near; every
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