The Artist’s Way A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

Caddy, Eileen
Calcagno, Lawrence
Campbell, Joseph
Camus, Albert
Cantor, Eddie
Capra, Fritjof
Careers, shadow
Cassavetes, John
Censor, internal

blurts and
detaching from
as part of logic brain
speed and
spontaneity and
visualizing
Chandler, Raymond
Change(s)
and clarity
with growth
through taking small steps
Chaos, and crazymakers
Check-in
week 1,
week 2,
week 3,
week 4,
week 5,

week 6,
week 7,
week 8,
week 9,
week 10,
week 11,
week 12,
Chekhov, Anton
Child within. See Artist child within
Childlike spirit, of artists
Chirico, Giorgio de
Choquette, Sonia
Clarity
Clarke, Shirley
Clearing. See Discarding
Codependents. See Crazymakers
Collage
Color Schemes (task)
Commercial artists
Commitment
in advance of availability
to further creative plans
to health
inner
to quiet time
synchronicity and
of time(see also Artist date)

Communication
Compassion

recovering sense of
Competition

snap judgments and
Conditioning, early
Connection, recovering sense of
Contract

for artist date
creativity
Control, relinquishing
Cooking
Copland, Aaron
Counting (exercise)
Crazymakers
defined
techniques of
Creative blockage. See Blockage, creative
Creative clusters
Creative living
Creative recovery. See Recovery, creative
Creative U-turn
Creative-writing programs
Creativity
as gift of God
as God-energy
perfectionism and

recovery of (see Recovery, creative)
as spiritual issue
as tribal experience
Creativity contract
Creator. See God
Credit, desire for
Criticism
controlling
damaging
dealing with
perfectionism and
rules of the road for dealing with
shaming by
timing of
useful

Daly, Mary
Davis, Miles
De Palma, Brian
Deadlies, The (task)
Degas, Edgar
Delacroix, Eugene
Delight(s). See also joy

capacity for
of past, excavating
De Mille, Agnes

Denial
of crazymakers
of real feelings

Dependence upon others
freedom from
for recognition

Dependency, spiritual
freedom from fears of abandonment and
versus money as source of security
shift to

Depression
Desires, clarifying vision of
Destructiveness, self-
Detail, in art
Detective work (exercise)
Disappointments. See also Loss(es) unmourned
Disassociation
Discarding old things
Disclosure, self-
Discouragement. See also U-turns, creative
Doing the footwork
Dostoyevski, Fyodor
Doubts. See Self-doubt; Skepticism about creative recovery
Dramaticism

crazymakers and
Dreams

remembering

Dropping down the well
Drought, period of

purpose to
Drought, periods of

morning pages during
Drucker, Peter
Drugs
Duncan, Isadora
Duvall, Shelley

Early patternings (exercise)
Eckhart, Meister
Edwards, Blake
Ego strength
Egotism, of perfectionists
Einstein, Albert
Ellington, Duke
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Encouragement, lack of
Endorphins
Energy

change in patterns of
crazymakers and
Enthusiasm
Environment
Escape velocity, achieving

Excuses
Exercise

and creativity
endorphins produced by
goal of
Expectations, unrealistic
Exploration

Faith
leaps of
recovering sense of

Fame
as addictive

Fantasy
Fear

admission of
jealousy as mask for
negative beliefs and
Feelings, real versus official
Ferguson, Amos
Ferrucci, Piero
Filling the form
defined
Filling the well
defined
through eliminating distractions

Flexibility
Flow of life, sense of
Food

blocking creativity with
Forbidden joys (exercise)
Frankhauser, Jerry
Friends

blocked
skeptical
supportive
Fromm, Erich

Gains, disguised as loss
Gardner, Paul
Gass, Robbie
Gauguin, Paul
Gawain, Shakti
Gide, Andre
Goal Search
Goals, creative, visualizing
God

affirming help of
anthropomorphizing
beliefs about
faith in
forging alliance with

inner connection to
learning to accept generosity of
looking at beliefs about
power of
as source, dependence on
and sychronicity
toxic versus nontoxic
willingness to hear
Goethe, Johann von
Goldman, Emma
Goldsmith, Joel S.
Graham, Martha
Grappelli, Stephane
Grief. See also Mourning
droughts and
over lost years
Growth
peaks and valleys of
as spiral process
Growth process
lack of awareness of
Guilt

Habits
of work

Harris, Norma Jean

Hart, Mickey
Hartigan, Grace
Hawken, Paul
Hayes, Jody
Healing

creative recovery as
paying attention and
Help, admitting need for
Hobbies
benefits of
necessity for
Holistic thinking
Holt, John
Hope
Hopper, Edward
Houston Jean
“How am I doing?” syndrome
Hughston, J.P.

Ideal Day (task)
Ideal Ideal Day (task)
Identity, sense of

discovery of
emergence of
recovering
Illusion(s)

loss of
of safety
Image File
Images
filling well with
as language of art
linking of
Imaginary Lives tasks
Inner child. See Artist child within
Inner Compass
Inner guide, trusting
Insight(s)
Inspiration
Integrity, recovering sense of
Intellectuals, versus artists

Jealousy
antidotes for
as mask for fear

Jealousy map (exercise)
Jeffers, Susan
Jong, Erica
Journal of a Solitude, A (Sarton)
Joy. See also Delight(s)

capacity for
mystery of

Judgment of work. See also Censor, internal
too quick or too early

Jung, Carl G.

Kahn, Hazrat Inayat
Kandinsky, Wassily
Kazan, Elia
Koestenbaum, Peter
Kottlisky, Marge
Krishnamurti, J.
Kriyas

defined
Kiibler-Ross, Elisabeth

La Motta, Jake
Lao-Tzu
Lessing, Doris
Letting go

as part of creativity
Life Pie
Limits, unconscious setting of
Listening skills
Living, creative
Logicbrain

Censor as part of
Loss(es), artistic

acknowledging and sharing
admitting and mourning
droughts and
gain disguised as
moving ahead after
self-discovery and
sense of
Love Addicts Anonymous
Love obsession
Lucky breaks. See Synchronicity
Luxury. See also Self-nurturance
creativity in relation to
permitting oneself
of space
of time

McCarthy, Julianna
McIntyre, Leslie M.
Magic
Magical Work of the Soul, The
Magritte, René-François-Ghislain
Mahoney, John
Mamet, David
Mann, Stella Terrill

Mantra
Mariechild, Diane
Marketplace

demands of, and creativity
focusing creative concerns on
Martyrdom
Masochism
Meditation
brain hemispheres and
and dysfunction
and inner power source
and insight
morning pages as
ways of thinking about
withdrawal and
Meigs, Walter
Miller, Henry
Moment, living in
Money
beliefs about
blockage unrelated to
crazymakers and
use of
Money madness (exercise)
Morning pages
attitude toward doing
avoiding

change and
commitment to
defined
during droughts
and inner wisdom
internal Censor and
as meditation
as nonnegotiabile
as primary tool of creative recovery
reading
realignment of values through
reality and
as spiritual practice
written affirmations of progress in
Morrison, Toni
Mourning. See also Grief
of artistic losses
as rite of passage
of wounding
Mulling
Murphy, Joseph
Murray, W H.
Music
Mystery
opening door to

Nachmanovitch, Stephen
Nair, Keshavan
Natural Abundance (task)
Needlework
Negativity
Nevelson, Louise
New Childhood (task)
Nin, Anaïs
Norwood, Robin
Novelty
Nurturance

need for
self-

Obsessions
O’Keeffe, Georgia
Oldenburg, Claes
Olsen, Tillie
Open-mindedness
Options, widening
Order, crazymakers’ hate of
Originality

ego’s demand for
as remaining true to oneself
Overview
Ovid

Pain
admission of
of aloneness
and gain

Pampering. See Self-nurturance
Parent figures
Parents

attempts to gain approval of
negative beliefs and
perfectionistic
Parker, Charlie
Pasteur, Louis
Pauling, Linus
Pearce, Joseph Chilton
Perceptions
changes in
clarifying
Perfectionism
Permission, to be bad artist
Phillips, Mike
Picasso, Pablo
Plans
for action
synchronicity and
Plato
Play
creativity born from

enthusiasm and
reading deprivation and
work and
workaholics and
working at learning
Play spaces
Pollock, Jackson
Possibility, recovering sense of
Postcards, to self
Power, and crazymakers
Power, inner
and insight
as pathway to self
recovering sense of
Powerlessness, sense of, and blockage
Praise, self-
Prayer(s)
answered
Process, art as
denial of
focus on
fun of
Process addiction, workaholism as
Procrastination
Product, artistic, focus on
Psychosomatic illnesses
Puccini, Giacomo

Pulling focus

Quiet, need for

Radio
Raging Bull (La Motta)
Reading

addiction to
deprivation of
Reality
discounting of, by crazymakers
morning pages and
Reassurance, freedom from need for
Recovery, creative
barriers to
basic principles of
basic tools of
and commitment to health
as healing process
rules of the road
slow movement of
of sense of abundance
of sense of autonomy
of sense of compassion

of sense of connection
of sense of faith
of sense of identity
of sense of integrity
of sense of possibility
of sense of power
of sense of safety
of sense of strength
as threatening
time commitment to
U-turn from
weekly schedule
what to expect
Relationships, human
Repetitive action
Resiliency
Resistance
to artist date
to creativity
Responsibility, fear of
Rhythm, and brain activity
Rich, Adrienne
Richards, M. C.
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Risk-taking
and self-definition
Rite of passage, mourning as

Ritt, Martin
Rituals
Roethke, Theodore
Roman, Sanaya
Rothenberg, Susan
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Rules of the road

for creative recovery
for dealing with criticism
Rumi, Jalai ud-Din

Sabotage
by crazymakers
from friends
through shame
self-

Sacred Circle
rules

Safety
atmosphere of
as expensive illusion
recovering sense of

Saraha
Sarton, May
Scent
Schaef, Anne-Wilson

Schedules
crazymakers and
weekly

Schubert, Franz
Scorsese, Martin
Scottish Himalayan Expedition, The
Secret-telling
Self, true

boundaries of, discovering
gaining/regaining
loss of
new sense of
uncovering buried parts of
Self-acceptance
Self-definition, and risk-taking
Self-destruction
Self-disclosure
Self-discovery, detective work (exercise)
Self-doubt
stopping
Self-honesty
Self-intimacy, fear of
Self-love
Self-nurturance
Self-praise
Self-protection, sense of
recovering

Self-respect
exercise and

Self-sabotage
Self-talk, positive. See also Affirmations
Selfishness, suggestions from friends about
Seneca
Serendipity. See also Synchronicity
Sex, as block to creativity
Shadow artists

recovery of
Shahn, Ben
Shame

antidotes for
childhood
Shea, Michele
Showering, as artist-brain activity
Silliness
Skepticism
about own creativity
of Wet Blanket friends
Small steps, taking
Snap judgments
Social support
Society, and art
Solitude
freedom of
need for

Sophocles
Space

for artist’s altar
invasion of
need for
play spaces
sacred
Speedwriting
Spielberg, Steven
Spinoza, Baruch
Spiral path of recovery
Spiritual chiropractic
Spiritual electricity
Spiritual practice,
morning pages as
Spiritual principles
Spontaneity
exercise in
spiritual dependency and
Sports. See Exercise
Sprint mentality
Starhawk
Stendhal
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stream-of-consciousness writing. See Morning pages
Strength
through cherishing ourselves

recovering sense of
Students. See Academia
Style, shift in
Style Search (task)
Success

demand for
versus fame
Support, social
Survival, artistic
Symbols, in art
Synchronicity
commitment and
examples of
God and
triggering
Szent-Gyorgyi, Albert

Talmu
Tasks

week 1,
week 2,
week 3,
week 4,
week 5,
week 6,
week 7,

week 8,
week 9,
week 10,
week 11,
week 12,
Teachers, artistic
as parent figures
untrustworthy
Television bingeing
Ten Tiny Changes
Thomas, Dylan
Thoreau, Henry David
Time
autonomy with
to do nothing
expenditure of, achieving clarity about
importance of luxury of
structuring
using, as block to creativity
Timelog
Time Travel (task)
Tolstoy, Leo
Tooker, George
Touchstones (task)
Triangulation, by crazymakers
Tribal experience, creativity as
Truffaut, Francois

Trust
atmosphere of
between student and teacher

Ueland, Brenda
U-turns, creative

admitting existence of
dealing with
exercise

Values, realignment of, through morning pages
Virtue, difficulty equated with
Virtue Trap

avoiding
and destruction of true self
quiz
Visualization, of goal

Weekly schedule
Welty Eudora
West, Mae
Wet Blanket friends
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill

White, Minor
Wickes, Frances
Wilde, Oscar
Wisdom, inner, morning pages as connection to
Wish list (exercise)
Withdrawal, and creative recovery
Work

point of
treating as play
Work of the Chariot, The
Workaholism
as addiction
as block to creativity
quiz
treadmill quality of
Worrying

Young, Margaret

Zen paradigm

About the Author

Julia Cameron has been an active artist for more than thirty
years. She is the author of seventeen books, fiction and
nonfiction, including The Artist’s Way, The Vein of Gold and
The Right to Write, her bestselling works on the creative
process. A novelist, playwright, songwriter, and poet, she
has multiple credits in theater, film, and television. She
divides her time between Manhattan and the high desert of
New Mexico.