Creative Thoughts

The Blind Men and The Elephant

the original version from the Buddhist canon A number of disciples went to the Buddha and said, “Sir, there are living here in Savatthi many wandering hermits and scholars who indulge in constant dispute, some saying that the world is infinite and eternal and others...

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The Fine Art of Pointless Play

The Fine Art of Pointless Play By Aya Husni Bey Creative Counsellor, Art, and Play Advocate Holistic Counsellor, & Therapeutic Play Practitioner. Contact Aya Husni Bey before using any content found in this piece. The Quiet Disappearance of the Point of Life… ‘We...

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Love and its Meaning in The World?

Watching the classic controversial movie, Natural Born Killers, I was struck by the guilty feeling one gets from liking the cold-hearted murderers, Mickey and Mallory. Woody Harrelson plays Mickey for laughs – the film was intended as a satire, on media fixation with...

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Star Turn…

My work as creative counsellor recently drew the attention of a couple of national newspapers, magazines and BBC radio, which was nice and flattering. In my mid-thirties I am just old enough to feel a smidgeon of awe around the dying dinosaurs of pre-digital media....

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Diamonds on the Soul of Her Shoes

Walking round the recent V&A exhibition Shoes: Pleasure and Pain, I was struck by the way women can be hypnotised by footwear. For some it is obsessional, a life-long fetish… I know, I’m one of them… Kenneth Cole had my number when he remarked, “The average woman...

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Welcome to Creativity Unmasked

Creativity Unmasked is the understanding that; artistic expression acts as a creative pathway to the unconscious, and exploration of relationships between symbolic objects can be achieved with the use of art materials. And light is cast on inner processes with further...

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