Matt Cardin on the Daimon and the Genius
http://talentdevelop.com/articlelive/articles/1242/1/Matt-Cardin-on-the-Daimon-and-the-Genius/Page1.html
Matt Cardin
Matt Cardin is a horror writer, teacher, and musician-composer. One of his sites is Demon Muse - "a blog about the creative daimon muse: what it is, how to meet yours, and how to become a conduit for its creative energy."
By Matt Cardin
Published on 10/2/2011
The understanding of creativity as a mysterious external force with
which you carry on "a peculiar, wondrous, bizarre collaboration and
conversation" (to quote Elizabeth Gilbert’s vivid characterization of the inner
relationship) redefines the customary view of things in our contemporary
culture and endows the artist with new gifts and responsibilities.This
insight is fundamental to the whole outlook I’m presenting here. It’s
also paired with a corollary proposition: that a conscious, working
knowledge of the intertwined histories of the daimon and the genius in
religion, psychology, and philosophy is indispensible.
The understanding of creativity as a mysterious external force with
which you carry on "a peculiar, wondrous, bizarre collaboration and
conversation" (to quote Elizabeth Gilbert’s vivid characterization of the inner
relationship) redefines the customary view of things in our contemporary
culture and endows the artist with new gifts and responsibilities.This
insight is fundamental to the whole outlook I’m presenting here. It’s
also paired with a corollary proposition: that a conscious, working
knowledge of the intertwined histories of the daimon and the genius in
religion, psychology, and philosophy is indispensible.