CAROLYN ELLIOT, PhD, is an intuitive counselor, a teacher, and a leader and organizer in the Evolver Network. Her doctoral research, which gained national recognition from the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society, focused on the relationship between creativity and the soul. In addition to maintaining her popular blog Awesome Your Life, Elliott is the author of The Arcana and The Poetical Remains of the Late Mrs. Shivshakti Khattananda. Her poetry, which has appeared in The Oakland Review and Whiskey and Fox, has won the Rose Kurhan Shapiro Prize as well as the All the World for Love Poetry Contest, judged by U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky.
“The epoch of the suffering genius is finally at an end—and a new
culture of enlightened pleasure and personal abundance awaits those
with the courage to shed old patterns and embrace a new myth.
Carolyn Elliott's book reverses old stereotypes to propose a path
for artists and inspired misfits to find joy through their
gifts.”
—Daniel Pinchbeck, author of 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl
“Reading Awaken Your Genius is like taking communion with
a bohemian brain set on fire. It’s a great treasure and will no
doubt become a trendsetter for future spiritual treatises on
creativity and the arts.”
—Adam Elenbaas, founder of Nightlight Astrology and author
of Fisher of Men
"What massive, leaden lid keeps your creative genius blocked and
locked in your habitual mind? This book describes a
seven-step journey to unleash the outrageous birds and coiled
dragons of creativity. It is practical—filled with contemplative
care for the sensitivity of our hearts, and comes from the author’s
real experience. Awaken Your Genius is fearless in asking us
to look at our own complicity in hiding from the shocking power of
our innate brilliance. Our world needs more poetry at the edges of
things, and this book invites imagination to see that the sleeping
giant of creativity is already awake."
—Acharya Adam Lobel M.Div, Harvard Divinity School, Shambhala
"Carolyn Elliott uses humor, wisdom, and poetry to guide each of us
to our own bright genius. This is a smart, spirited book."
—Terrance Hayes, author of Lighthead and winner of the 2010
National Book Award for Poetry
“Carolyn Elliott shows us that each one of us has the opportunity
to heal, transform, and evolve consciousness. Awaken Your Genius
overflows with soulful, substantive methods for doing just
that.”
—Brian Browne Walker, author and translator of the I Ching, Tao te
Ching, Hua hu Ching, and Art of War
“In a voice that might remind you of a spritely Jane Austen,
Elliott guides her reader on a nimble journey where she illuminates
with insight, logic, and love the path toward awakening your
genius. It’s a spiritual quest aided in the romantic ideals of
truth and beauty, where wisdom and whimsy merge as Elliot guides us
on the path toward hearing our own heart’s call, revealing in the
process, the reality of a wisdom-deficient world, while
simultaneously leading us on the hero’s journey of creativity,
innocence and love.”
—Robin Gunkel, writer, regional coordinator for Evolver Baltimore,
and graduate of the Jack Kerouc School of Disembodied Poetics
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