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Larry Page, co-founder of Google, has just bought himself a 193-foot yacht, the Senses, for a cool $45 million. It’s a modest craft compared with, say, Paul Allen’s Octopus, which is valued at $200 million and carries its own submarine. Still, Page’s yacht is an unmistakable token of success. Larry Page’s life journey to the Senses involved…

“(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” may be the Rolling Stones’ best-known hit; it has certainly set millions writhing. Ironically, it was the product of dream satisfaction, a creative nocturnal episode described by Keith Richards in colorful detail in a recent interview with Terry Gross on NPR’s “Fresh Air:: “I go to bed as usual with…

I recently came upon a statement by Raphael Soyer that wonderfully conveys the nature and the power of the drive to create. Born into bitter poverty in a Jewish family in Russia in the time of the pogroms, Soyer (1899-1987) became one of America’s great realist painters, best-known for his haunting depictions of the faces…

Robert Louis Stevenson received some of his best-beloved stories in dreams and a twilight state of “reverie” in which benign visitors he called “Brownies” helped him to compose, and we have lots to learn from his practice.  RLS described the central role of dreaming and dreamy states in his creative process in “A Chapter on…
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