How I Weave Psychedelics Into My Creative Process as a Content Creator, Entrepreneur & Thought Leader: 7 Pillars of Creative Transformation with Laura Dawn - 66
Aug 17, 2023
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Laura Dawn, a creative content creator, entrepreneur, and thought leader, discusses how she incorporates psychedelics into her creative process. She explores the intersection of psychedelics and creativity for inner transformation, the value of altered states of consciousness, and the framework for the creative process. She also emphasizes the importance of cultivating clarity, clearing creative blocks, and visualizing a vision.
Clearing is a foundational aspect of the creative process and working with psychedelics helps to remove energetic debris and static, enabling a more clear and effective creative channel.
Clarity is a mindset and daily habit that allows us to channel our energy more intentionally and effectively, making it central in every area of our lives.
Inspiration and ideation are crucial elements of the creative process, and psychedelics offer an extraordinary playground for imaginative thinking, exploring new perspectives, and nurturing creative breakthroughs.
Visualization and implementation are the final stages of the creative process, involving vividly imagining our creative vision and actively manifesting it into reality through action, creative thinking, and alignment with our purpose and values.
Deep dives
Clearing: Creating a Clear and Effective Creative Channel
Clearing is a foundational aspect of the creative process and involves keeping our creative channels clear. Working with psychedelics helps to remove energetic debris and static, allowing for a more clear and effective creative channel. Clearing can take on several forms, such as shedding tears, laughter, purging, or making micro-adjustments in the body and the brain. It also requires us to be mindful of resistance and to open ourselves to what is arising in the present moment. Cultivating clarity through clearing is a daily practice that enables us to drop into our authentic expression, align with our truths, and live a life of meaning and purpose.
Clarity: The Foundation of High Performance
Clarity is a mindset and a daily habit of high performers. It involves knowing who we are, what we want, how to get it, and what brings us fulfillment. Cultivating clarity allows us to channel our energy more intentionally and effectively, making it a central spoke in every area of our lives. By practicing self-inquiry and asking meaningful questions, we can tune into our inner compass and discern what truly matters to us. Combining self-inquiry with medicine work can be powerful, as psychedelics help illuminate our awareness and offer fresh perspectives. Integration is key in anchoring the clarity we receive into our daily lives.
Inspiration and Ideation: Cultivating Novel Ideas
Inspiration and ideation are crucial elements of the creative process. Inspiration is the spark that ignites innovative thinking, while ideation involves generating and refining novel ideas. Whether it's experiencing visions during medicine journeys or exploring altered states of consciousness, psychedelics offer an extraordinary playground for creativity. By leveraging our expanded cognition and thinking skills, we can tap into imaginative thinking, explore new perspectives, and nurture creative breakthroughs. Embracing the joy of developing and exploring novel ideas can lead to a more meaningful life and inspire positive change.
Visualization and Implementation: Manifesting Creative Vision
Visualization and implementation are the final stages of the creative process. Visualization, or inno-vision as it's called here, involves vividly imagining our creative vision and translating it into reality. Through medicine journeys or altered states of consciousness, we can develop detailed visualizations that become blueprints for our lives. These visualizations are brought into the waking consciousness for implementation. This involves taking action, leveraging creative thinking skills, and staying aligned with our purpose and values. By actively manifesting our creative vision and overseeing its implementation, we become architects of our lives and shape our own destinies.
Cultivating Clarity
Cultivating clarity is essential for transformation and optimizing one's life. It involves seeing clearly and making choices that align with our growth and vision, even if it means leaving certain aspects behind. This process can be uncomfortable and requires support.
The Power of Inspiration
Inspiration is a vital component of creativity and often overlooked. Medicines can help clear the channel within ourselves, allowing energy to flow and leading to inspiration. By consciously cultivating a relationship with inspiration and following it, we can align our lives with what truly matters to us.
The Importance of Idea Space
Idea space is the fluid space where thinking happens, both in the physical and cognitive realm. It transcends traditional boundaries and can be enhanced through tools like visual thinking and mental imagery. Exploring idea space in medicine space can amplify our creative cognition, allowing for the emergence of novel ideas.
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In today's episode, I share the 7 core pillars of how I weave psychedelics into my creative process as a content creator, entrepreneur, and thought-leader.
This episode is the follow up to episode #62 from Ideation to Implementation Psychedelics and the 5 Phases of the Creative Process.
In this episode I cover:
The 7 core pillars of my creative process.
Why creativity is inherent in the process of inner transformation, and why creativity and transformation are two sides to the same coin.
The essence of what 25 years of journeying with psychedelics and sacred plant medicines has taught me.
A definition of creativity
Exploring psychedelics as both "inspirogens" and "ideagens" (and why the names we give psychedelics matter.)
Monophonic vs. Polyphasic cultures.
Why my philosophy of life and creativity are one and the same.
Why thinking in frameworks is helpful.
Understanding that navigating medicine space is a skillset that you can learn to cultivate.
Two hidden assumptions that prevent optimized cognition.
My perspective on Intention Setting.
The science of imagination.
What is an Idea Space?
What defines our best ideas?
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