Creativity as Sacrament

Jan Phillips’ own quest has led her into and out of a religious community, across the U.S. on a Honda motorcycle, and around the world on a one-woman peace pilgrimage. Blending east and west, art and activism, reflection and ritual. Jan’s transformational presentations inspire consciousness and commitment. A visionary with her eye on the future and her heart in the present, she is an invigorating speaker and story-teller who weaves music and imagery into all her presentations.

“No matter what our attempts to inform, it is our ability to inspire that will turn the tides.”

Inspiring a New Age
of Compassion and Communion

Whether we consider ourselves artists or not, we are all in the business of creating our lives and co-creating our culture. Each of us is here to express our potential, to engage in the work of turning thought into matter, Spirit into form. We are the sound of God’s breath and the voice of the earth, and our utterances, if conscious, can illumine and heal.

To create is to make something whole from the pieces of our lives, and in the process, to become more whole ourselves. It is a healing act, a leave-taking from the chaos as we move from the choppy surface toward the stillness of the center. In the act of creation, we move beyond dualities to discover and express our oneness with the Divine, with the human family, with the earth and all her creatures. As we find ourselves in the music, plays, prose and poetry of others, so do others find themselves in the creations we conjure. As we are inspired, so, too, do we inspire, breathe life into others and this is the sacrament of creativity.

Perhaps it is time for an epochal shift from the Age of Information to an Age of Inspiration, an age of conscious creativity that fosters compassion and communion. There is not one of us here who is not a creator. What then are we bringing into the world? What exists now that would not be here were it not for us? What are we inspiring by our words and actions? How are we celebrating the sacrament of our own creativity?
She will be holding a workshop at The Prophets Conference Florida Keys along with a highly significant faculty of truly remarkable people showing us beautiful understandings and healings through their inspired brilliance. This blending of shamanic and new scientific insights opens us to innovative landscapes so needed for the creation of a new world. Jean Houston, who aptly stated at our 2000 Palm Springs gathering, "Now we are living in the most interesting time in human history. Other times thought they were it, but they were wrong. This is it!" This is it, and now we must come together physically and spiritually to create anew for our living Earth and ourselves. This can be the time when we really get it. This can be the time of our Awakening! • http://www.greatmystery.org/floridakeysconference.htm
Hawks Cay Resort • February 27 - March 2

JAN PHILLIPS, an award-winning writer, multi-media artist and spiritual mentor, is musician, photographer and author, whose work has been published in the New York Times, Newsday, New Age Journal, and Utne Reader.
As an artist/activist, Jan's commitment to spiritual healing and social justice resonates in her work and her workshops are vibrant with that passion and sensibility. http://www.janphillips.com/