The Vein of GoldAcknowledgments
Setting Out
In Your Backpack: The Basic Tools
Morning Pages
Why by Hand?
Task: Morning Pages
Artist Dates
Task: Do a Weekly Artist Date
Clusters: Your Traveling Companions
Task: Cluster List
Your Mode of Transportation: Walking
Task: Walk Daily
Task: Walk an Hour-Long Walk Weekly
Task: Walk Prayerfully
The Gateway: Entering the Imagic-Nation
Task: Manifesting—Enter Your Imagic-Nation
Creativity Commitment
The Kingdom of Story
The Narrative Time Line
Task: Filling in Notes
Task: Post a Sign on Your Mirror
Task: Contact Someone and Commit
Task: Do Your Narrative Time Line
Task: Filling in Blanks
"Cups": The Key to Self-Disclosure
Task: List Five Secrets
Task: Make a Narrative Time Line Photo Album for Yourself
Words Do It
Task: Alchemy—Converting Dross to Gold
Task: Post Your Golden Words Where You Can See Them
Task: Kill a Creative Monster
Task: Celebrate a Creative Champion
The Wizard of Words
Secret Selves
Task: Name Five Secret Selves
Task: What's in Those Closets?
Task: What Would Your Life be Like?
Cinema Self
Task: Cinema Self
The Vein of Gold
Technique One: Favorite Films
Task: The Vein of Gold Quiz
Task: Binge Reading
Task: Grab-Bag Collage
Task: Matching
Task: Write Up Your Findings
Robert's Field Report
Breaking Camp
The Kingdom of Sight
Sight
Task: Time Capsule Collage
Task: Create a Treasure Map
Color
Task: "Fabricate" a More Colorful Life
Task: Speculate on a Different Spectrum: Try On Colors You "Never" Wear
Doll
Task: Make a Creativity Doll
Task: Make a Creativity Monster
Basic Black: The Mystique—and Mistake—of the Suffering Artist
Task: Dress as a Serious Artist
Task: Dress Like You Might Be Having Fun
Cracking
Task: Look at It This Way—On the One Hand . . . On the Other . . .
Task: Mirror, Mirror: Apply a Facial Mask
Task: Face It: Make a Power Mask
Breaking Camp
The Kingdom of Sound
Sound
Task: Sing a Spirit Song
Task: Lullaby
Task: Washing with Sound
Task: Forming a Sound Round
Task: Songlines
Silence
Task: Silence
Safety
Task: Building a Sound Shield
Task: A Sense of Safety
Task: Playing It Safe
Task: Expanding Your Light Through Sound
Breaking Camp
The Kingdom of Attitude
The Paydirt in Pay-tience
Task: Patience
Task: Use "Just a Little" Patience
Courage
Task: Dance a Power Dance
Baby Steps
Task: Playing House
Task: List Every Place You Have Ever Lived
Boredom
Task: Do Something That Has Been Done Before
Task: Oh, All Right! Make Something Unique
Time
Task: I Never Have Time to . . .
Task: I Never Take Time to . . .
Task: Stay Up Late and Read a Book
Task: A Stitch in Time
Containment
Task: Creative Snipers
Task: Believing Mirrors
Getting Current
Task: Getting Current
Task: Get Current in Your Household
Task: Get Current in Your Spiritual House
Breaking Camp
The Kingdom of Relationship
Equality
Task: Write a Positive Prayer
Task: Illuminate Your Prayer
Task: The Blame Game, Round One—Events
The Voluntary Victim
Task: The Blame Game, Round Two—People
Task: Play a Little
Where Does It Hurt?
Task: Taking Back Your Power
Task: Relationship Collage
Task: Abundance Collage
Task: Counting Coup
Task: Who's Got the Gold?
Batteries
Task: Assault on Being a Battery
Task: Write Your "Shadow Résumé"
Obsession
Task: Obsessions (Past Tense)
Task: Obsessions (Present Tense)
Task: Snap Out of It
Task: Get On with It
Breaking Camp
The Kingdom of Spirituality
Name That God
Task: Recall Your Childhood God
Task: Invent a Creativity God
Task: Invent a Creativity Totem
Guidance
Task: Clearing a Clearing
Task: Spend One Evening in Silence—of All Kinds
Task: Write a Spirituality Cup
Task: Create a Deck of Spirituality Cards
Spiritual Experience
Task: Open the Door
Task: It's a Wide World After All
Saying "Thank You"
Task: Accepting Gifts
Task: Synchronicity Notepad
Task: The God jar
Task: Accepting Help
Task: Watch Your Tongue
Task: Walk Prayerfully Daily
Breaking Camp
The Kingdom of Possibility
Passion
Task: Valentine to Your Past
Task: Valentine to Your Present
Task: List 100 Things That You, Personally, LOVE
Risk
Task: Taking Your Life into Your Own Hands
Ceilings
Task: Remembering the Possible Dreams
Task: Playing at Dreams
Task: I Trust Myself Dance
Breaking Camp
Tribal Rules
Artist's Tribal Rules
A Guide for Starting Creative Clusters
Artist's Way and Vein of Gold Glossary of Tools
Discography
"Pop"ography
Filmography
Bibliography
"Avalon"
Index
