WritingSpirit Resources

Beliefnet's Blog Heaven

Beliefnet.com has created Blog Heaven to highlight some of the best religious and spiritual blogs on the net. Their categories include: Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Spiritual, and Political. Blog Heaven will be continuously updated. Don't forget when you visit these blogs to check out all the other blogs they link to. If you haven't already created a blog of your own, these will definitely inspire you.

Blog Heaven

New Imprint at Shambhala

Shambhala Publications will launch its new Trumpeter Books imprint this September with poet Patrick Lane's memoir, What the Stones Remember: A Life Rediscovered. The 36-year-old Buddhist-oriented press sees the new imprint as an opportunity to do something fresh. Areas to be covered by Trumpeter are literary nonfiction, memoir, psychology, and fiction. The new imprint will publish four titles this fall and then 10 to 12 books a year.

From Publishers Weekly

Harper San Francisco Expanding Its Fiction Line

Harper San Francisco, whose primary focus has always been on non-ficiton titles, is going to begin building its fiction line under editor Renee Sedliar. Initially, the line will publish six titles a year in the literary, visionary, and American heartland areas. Upcoming fiction titles include Lizzie's War, by Tim Farrington, and The Christmas Scrapbook, by Philip Gulley.

The Center for Conscious Creativity

The Center for Conscious Creativity is an organization dedicated to bridging the worlds of the arts and media-making with the exploration and pursuit of the numinous…towards deeper, richer meaning and expression in creation.

The Center is dedicated to creating community and providing a space for sharing information. A non-denominational, philosophical, spiritual, scientific, psychological and transformational-based organization dedicated to deepening expression and experience in the creation of art and media towards social, political, educational, cultural, and or spiritual transformation.

Their mission is to create a community and support for those artists and creators with common goals, to educate, inspire, research, and to produce and perform works which reflect deeper thematic, and philosophically-based content -- the results of which serve to inspire, uplift, heal, reflect and or reveal, celebrate, and enlighten both the makers and the audience and partakers of the creative endeavor.

The Center for Conscious Creativity

Institute for Spiritual Entertainment-Los Angeles

The intention of the Institute for Spiritual Entertainment-Los Angeles (ISELA) is to promote transformation, personal growth, healing, and increased awareness by creating film and other media that promote these values. The idea is to ask such questions as "who are we?" and "why are we here?" provoking change toward higher consciousness and awareness. The ISELA emphasizes spirituality rather than any one particular religion: being all inclusive, rather than exclusive; learning from and honoring all religious, philosophical, and psychological viewpoints; considering oneness to be our underlying foundation, rather than separation.

In order to help heal the planet at this important time, and empower one another to evolve, the ISELA is choosing to positively influence society through film and media, by showing inspiring stories that emphasize personal growth, human triumph, insight, courage, love, belief in that which has not yet been manifested or seen, and other positive values.

The Institute for Spiritual Entertainment-Los Angeles meets once a month to network and also holds special events such as screenings, workshops, speakers, and other social activities on a regular basis.

The Institute for Spiritual Entertainment-Los Angeles

Spiritual Cinema Circle

The Spiritual Cinema Circle offers a service that is unique and deeply needed. The Circle gives you a way to bring hours of inspiring entertainment into your life each month, while making an important contribution to the world.

Each month you receive 4 features and shorts on DVD. The movies are personally by Stephen Simon (Producer of Somewhere in Time, What Dreams May Come, Producer/Director of Indigo) and the rest of his team, and represent the best of spiritual cinema and art. The movies are new films you're unlikely to see anywhere else.

For Filmmakers:

The Spiritual Cinema Circle wants to support and encourage the new wave of filmmakers who are writing and directing movies that really matter. If you believe your work speaks to the shared spiritual essence of us all, we invite you to submit your completed shorts, features and documentaries for consideration to The Spiritual Cinema Circle.

There is no submission fee.

Spiritual Cinema Circle

Spiritual Doodles and Mental Leapfrogs

Katerine Q. Revoir's book, Spiritual Doodles and Mental Leapfrogs, is a playground of experiences which uses both the right and left sides of the brain as well as the heart to reawaken your sense of awe, creativity, and self-discovery. Mystics, prophets, and other spiritual leaders from various cultures and wisdom traditions say in different ways that we are ALWAYS connected with Spirit, and that awareness is the only thing that stands between us and that connection. The purpose of this playbook is to provide a guideline for consciously re-connecting with the Spirit within, through self-reflection, self-expression and humor. Over fifty playful exercises (plexercises?) help celebrate your individual creative self-expression while planting seeds and tending the garden of your life purpose.

This interactive book will help you to nurture your wildest creativity, awaken your heart's passion, and doodle your way to enLIGHTENment.

You can get more information about this book at Katherine's site:

www.SpiritualDoodles.com