Journal of Creativity and Inspiration ART Clothing emotions with words Gil Dekel [Author’s info] 10 Dec 2024 – Vol 2, Issue 4. EARLY RELEASE This article was pre-published on 13 July 2024. Words do not come to me when writing poetry. Likewise, images do...
Journal of Creativity and Inspiration INTERVIEW Artist across centuries: an imagined interview with Virginia Wolf’s Orlando By ChatGPT (overseen and edited by humans: Gil Dekel and Lyra Goga) [Authors’ info] 10 December 2024 – Vol 2, Issue 4. This text,...
Journal of Creativity and Inspiration PERSPECTIVE Visualizing inspiration: the creative process of an illustrator Matt Manley [Author info] 14 February 2024 – Vol 2, Issue 2. Creating art is a method to explore human experiences. For me, art mainly operates...
Journal of Creativity and Inspiration ESSAY Artificial Intelligence and creativity in poetry: effect of AI-written poems on human emotions Ekaterina Pretsch [Author info] 6 September 2023 – Vol 1, Issue 1. Abstract In today’s modern age, we find ourselves...
Journal of Creativity and Inspiration INTERVIEW Awakening perception: Colin Wilson interviewed by Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino Colin Wilson and Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino. [Authors info]. Interview held in 2006. 6 September 2023 – Vol 1, Issue 1. GVST: If we...
A critical and practical exploration of the process of extraverted poetrymaking. By Dr. Gil Dekel. Key-words Words Observation Beauty Love Atoms Attention Consciousness Inspiration Creation. Introduction Poets are often seen as sentimentalists who...
by Gil Dekel, PhD (visionary poet and Reiki teacher.) The task of the poet is to see into the experiences we undergo every moment, and attach words to emotions. Like patchwork, these wordly emotions come together to form images through which we can see the...
by Gil Dekel, PhD. This book offers an important insight into the power of imagination by clearing a prevailing mistake about the English Romantics poets. The author shows that the poets were not indulged in imaginary states ‘removed’ from this world, rather they saw...
I have heard the breathing of the birds in the silence of my heartbeat. And the branches of my tree, weaving words for my mouth. So my soul could, once again, praise this glorious moment we call ‘Life’. Sometimes I have memories in seconds, when the sun sets in my...
We have seen deep into your eyes, where the flowers of joy are whispering your name. Speak up your heart, for the love within you is vaster than your mind. Do not swim in seas of despair, come now, let us help you sail the boat of hope… You already hold the oars of...
By Gil Dekel, University of Portsmouth. First published in Consciousness, Literature and the Arts. ISSN 1470-5648. Volume 9 Number 1, April 2008. Plato’s suggestion ‘know yourself’ raises the question: How can one know oneself? What are the tools available for...
By Gil Dekel. It is a prevailing assumption that poetry is closely linked to the times in which it is created, and that the poet is influenced by his/her surroundings. For example, the English Romantic poetry is seen as a direct result of the French and American...
By Gil Dekel. Freud acknowledged that poets have explored the unconscious much before he himself developed it into his psychological theories (Jay, 1984: 23). Visionary poets such as Blake and William Wordsworth suggested the psychoanalytic process much before Freud...
By Gil Dekel. This paper approaches visionary poetry from the point of view of an experiential observer. The paper explores the “poetic silence” that occurs in the moments before the poem is written, attempting to capture the moments in which a thought of...
Do you believe that a message can come to you through a poem? I do not ‘write’ poems but ‘channel’ them – the Spirit Guides ‘speak’ to me and I document their words. The words are uplifting, embracing one another and becoming...
Dr. Amikam Marbach interviewed by Gil Dekel (discussing how to structure a PhD thesis). Gil Dekel: You have developed a method that employs words to help people become aware of their prior knowledge, or inner insights. With your method people can articulate these...
Painter, poet and philosopher Paul Hartal is interviewed by Gil Dekel. Gil Dekel: What is your view on the sources of creativity in art? [1] Paul Hartal: Creativity is a cognitive process that results in new outcomes. It generates original ideas and novel products....
The authorial-Self, a ‘Muse’ of poetry, is interviewed by Gil Dekel. Gil Dekel: I am very happy to be able to interview my own ‘Muse’, my own creative self, and ask him about processes of inspiration in writing poetry. [1] I would like to thank you, the...
Poet Alan Corkish interviewed by Gil Dekel. Gil Dekel: I get the feeling that your poetry is based mainly on telling a story, an event, rather than depicting a picture. Is this correct? [1] Alan Corkish: I’m not sure about what you mean Gil. Language is complex, I...
Poet Myra Schneider interviewed by Gil Dekel. Myra Schneider: Hi, Gil, welcome… would you like some tea? [1] Gil Dekel: That would be nice. [2] [getting tea] [3] Gil Dekel: Did you always live in London? [4] Myra Schneider: I have been living here a long time now,...
Poet Maggie Sawkins interviewed by Gil Dekel. Gil Dekel: You have been writing since the age of nine. How does the process of writing poetry work for you? [1] Maggie Sawkins: I think that there are different processes for different poems. Sometimes it is two things...
Poet Sylvia Paskin interviewed by Gil Dekel. Gil Dekel: How do words come to you? [1] Sylvia Paskin: Often they come as a burst of emotion. Sometimes I hear or read something, or something happens to me. And around this set of feelings you find yourself writing about...
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