This collection of over three dozen essays ponders the essence of creativity. Includes selections from Henry Miller, Federico Fellini, Rainer Maria Rilke, Isadora Duncan, Frank Zappa, and Mary Shelley. A New Consciousness Reader.Introduction / Frank Barron1. Why Don't You Try to Write? / Henry Miller2. Miscellany / Federico Fellini3. The Interviewer / Pamela Travers4. The Process Is the Purpose / Anna Halprin5. The Name and Nature of Poetry / A. E. Housman6. Letters to Merline / Rainer Maria Rilke7. Lost in the Woods / Cathy Johnson8. The Dignified Professor / Richard Feynman9. The Screwdriver / Kary Mullis10. Living in the Medium / J. G. Bennett11. The Symbolism of Poetry / William Butler Yeats12. Heaven and Earth in Jest / Annie Dillard13. The Genesis of Frankenstein / Mary Shelley14. First Years / Carl G. Jung15. Visibility / Italo Calvino16. The Order of Things / Michel Foucault17. The Plunge into Colour / Marion Milner18. Evening over Sussex: Reflections in a Motor Car / Virginia Woolf19. Edge of Taos Desert / Mabel Dodge Luhan20. The Shape of Music / Maurice Sendak.21. A Life in the Day of Maya Angelou / Maya Angelou22. The Magic Lantern / Ingmar Bergman23. The Second Line / Sidney Bechet24. Is It a Fiction That Playwrights Create Alone? / Tony Kushner25. Odyssey / Irving Oyle26. The Magic of Words / N. Scott Momaday27. Why World Music? / Brian Eno28. How to Manage an Advertising Agency / David Ogilvy29. Anatomy / Leonardo da Vinci30. Composing a Symphony / Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky31. The Genesis of Orpheus / Muriel Rukeyser32. Poetics of Music / Igor Stravinsky33. All About Music / Frank Zappa34. Zen in the Art of Archery / Eugen Herrigel35. The Mother Cry of Creation / Isadora Duncan36. License for Madness / Karen Finley37. Lessons from the Past / Laurence Olivier38. Creation Myth / Mat Callahan39. The Fisherwoman's Daughter / Ursula K. Le Guin.