The Telepathy Tapes The Telepathy Tapes S2, Episode 3: The Consciousness of Creativity. Are ideas alive and do they choose us?
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Oct 29, 2025 
Join bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert, known for her insights on inspiration, and Liz Feldman, the Emmy-winning creator of Dead to Me, as they dive into the nature of creativity. They explore the idea that thoughts are conscious entities seeking collaboration with humans. Liz shares her uncanny experience of channeling a fully-formed story, while Elizabeth discusses how inspiration requires both hard work and surrender. The conversation takes intriguing turns, contemplating how ideas come and go, and the universal process of creation.
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Ideas Come To Us, Not From Us
- Elizabeth Gilbert and Rick Rubin describe ideas as entities that come to us rather than originate inside us.
- Artists act as antennas receiving downloads that craftsmen then shape into finished work.
Set An Art Trap Every Day
- Elizabeth Gilbert recommends showing up and creating an "art trap": sit at your desk and work even before inspiration arrives.
- Use a timer and leave a sentence half finished to make returning to flow easier the next day.
Dead To Me Fell Into Her Head
- Liz Feldman recalls Dead To Me arriving suddenly in a meeting when she had nothing prepared; the idea felt like a flash from the ether.
- That spontaneous idea later became a hit Netflix series and redefined her career.
