Drawing the Light from Within: Keys to Awaken Your Creative Power [Paperback]

Ph.D. Judith Cornell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1997

All the great geniuses of the world have at least one thing in common---the ability to visualize powerful images. Einstein came up with great theories through images of physical light. Brahms visualized the inner light before he composed. Great business leaders always report they began their enterprises with a vision. Judith Cornell's proven techniques can awaken anyone's inner vision and help them develop inspired creativity and more self-esteem and optimism in a rapidly changing world.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Creativity is a learnable skill. Everyone is an artist -- if only because each and every day, people actively create their lives. All great geniuses of the world have one thing in common, the ability to visualize powerful images. In Drawing The Light From Within: Keys To Awaken Your Creative Power, Judith Cornell teaches readers how to visualize their own creative potential so they can develop inspired creativity, self-esteem, and optimism. Drawing The Light From Within is for teachers, philosophers, scientists, psychologists, designers, visual artists, and non-specialist general readers wanting to overcome personal barriers that stifle their creative power and thus enable themselves to give voice to their full range of creative expression. Enhanced with one hundred b/w illustrations, Drawing The Light From Within will embark the reader of a personal odyssey of creative self-fulfillment. -- Midwest Book Review

About the Author

Judith Cornell. Ph.D., is a renowned art instructor and visionary artist. A pioneer in her field, she leads workshops all over the world on integrating art with psychology, philosophy, science, and spirituality. Her best selling book Mandala: Luminous symbols for Healing (0-8356-0710-0) won the prestigious Benjamin Franklin Award in 1995 for publishing excellence and was named one of the best books of the year by Body, Mind, Spirit Magazine. Adjunct professor in the department of East/ West Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, she lives in Sausalito, California.

Product Details

• Paperback: 211 pages
• Publisher: Quest Books; 1 edition (January 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0835607569
• ISBN-13: 978-0835607568
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #381,207 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Judith Cornell Ph.D. is the award-winning author of MANDALA:Luminous Symbols for Healing. Since a radical awakening in 1979, she began pioneering a method to help others to awaken and heal at the deepest levels. Her method blends the sacred art and the spiritual science of the mandala with theories in quantum physics, raja and kundalini yoga, and transpersonal psychology.

Dr. Cornell is a classically trained yogini of the Hindu non-dual Saivite tradition. She is founder and director of Mandala Facilitation Trainings. Her life is dedicated to giving webinars, retreats and workshops that support awakening of one's true Self.

She is also the author of The Mandala Healing Kit, Amma: Healing the Heart of the World and Drawing the Light from Within.

For more information visit her website www.mandala-universe.com

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

52 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the basics of creating visual art and much more, July 31, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Drawing the Light from Within: Keys to Awaken Your Creative Power (Paperback)

Cornell's well-structured course offers a satisfying combination of basics and exercises that serve to stimulate and encourage individual creativity. The instruction is suitable for beginners, but also has something to contribute for those whose study of art may be more advanced. Exercises guide the student through the basics of composition, painting, drawing, and creating with color pencils. Cornell's aim, however, goes beyond teaching the basics of art. The structure of the exercises includes meditation techniques designed to enhance creativity. Emphasis is placed on learning to use values from light to dark to create compositions that vibrate with light.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!, October 13, 2008

By 

eaglemama (BC, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Drawing the Light from Within: Keys to Awaken Your Creative Power (Paperback)

When I purchased this book, I was looking for a book that would explain a bit about how to awaken my inner sight and creative energy, a bit about creating mandalas and a bit about beginning art since I have minimal experience with art or mandalas. This book is perfect! The exercises are simple, elegant and well explained. Judith Cornell is an inspiring author and teacher. I think this book would suit artists of any level who want to imbue their work with light, gain confidence and connect with their inner source of creativity.

1 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars It was not what I had expected., April 27, 2009

By 

Maya Tito-shoua (ISRAEL) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Drawing the Light from Within: Keys to Awaken Your Creative Power (Paperback)

This book appears in the mandalas section, and it does not include ANY information about mandalas. I was very very disapponinted.