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• Scivias — Hildegard of Bingen

• A Feather on the Breath of God — Gothic Voices (recording of Hildegard's music)

• Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen — directed by Margarethe von Trotta

Want to go beyond listening about creators and actually live like one? Consider joining the next Creators Collective class. This month, we're exploring shameless creativity—the courage to care deeply, create boldly, and build a life large enough to contain the things that matter most. A gathering for creators who are finished performing indifference and ready to make something worthy of their attention.

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This episode would not exist without the extraordinary archival work of Detroit historian and record collector Mike Dutkewych, whose years of dedication to recovering, preserving and championing Ted Lucas's music helped bring this overlooked artist back into the public consciousness. His care and commitment to Ted's legacy are deeply felt throughout this story.

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Third Man Records--Ted Lucas' Images of Life

Detroit Free Press

Creative Mentorship

Currently Rainier is enrolling for several 1x1 mentorship spots. This is for people who are looking to recover their sense of creative passion and purpose. A 3-4 month container, combining individual time, community, and independent study, all working towards bringing you to the next stage in your artistic identity.

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Encyclopedia Britannica

The Works of Genet

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Frederic Chopin & George Sand

George Sand Books

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Indian born Jesuit priest and trained psychologist. He was the founder of Sadhana Institute in Pune. DeMello spent his life trying to wake people up. His method was short, funny, disorienting stories and his core teaching was awareness. He taught that human suffering comes from unconscious conditioning, from clinging to identity, beliefs, and outcomes. He was an inter religious pioneer and training in Buddhism. He considered the teachings of Christ as valid as those of Buddha or Laozi, a position that eventually drew a Vatican censure. He died in the middle of teaching a course in New York in 1987 at 55 years old.

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Awakening to Reality As It Is

Awareness by Anthony De Mello

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An American poet born in Pittsburgh, he published his first collection, Views of Jeopardy, in 1962; it won the Yale Younger Poets Prize, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and brought him immediate recognition. Gilbert left the United States on Guggenheim Fellowships and spent nearly twenty years living mostly in Greece, as well as in Italy and Japan, often in deliberate poverty, writing slowly and refusing the machinery of literary fame. His marriage to Japanese sculptor Michiko Nogami and her death from cancer in 1982 became the emotional center of much of his later work, especially in The Great Fires (1994), followed by Refusing Heaven (2005), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. His final major publication, Collected Poems (2012), arrived near the end of his life as a summation of a career built on radical attention, grief, eros, and delight. 

For More:

Collected Poems

Poetry Foundation

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The Tale of Genji:

The Novel: A Biography:

The Diary of Lady Marusaki:

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Consider joining the next Creators Collective masterclass. This month we’re stepping into the life and work of Johnny Cash in a class called Sacred Rebellion, an exploration of the man in black not as myth, but as a creator who refused certainty, and respectability in favor of real whole hearted living. A session for anyone drawn to the edge… and ready to make something honest from the parts of themselves that don’t quite fit.

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Swiss-born writer, poet, boxer, and provocateur who turned his life into a deliberate act of artistic disruption. Born Fabian Avenarius Lloyd, he adopted a new name and drifted across Europe and the Americas, publishing the short-lived magazine Maintenant! in which he attacked the art world and became the original troll. He staged chaotic lectures, anticipating performance art decades before it had a name. Cravan boxed professionally, most famously fighting heavyweight champion Jack Johnson in 1916. He married modernist poet Mina Loy before sailing from Mexico in 1918 and disappearing at sea. Cravan stands as a radical figure of self-invention, who treated identity as the ultimate art project.

FOR MORE:

The Original Troll-Paris Review

Mina Loy bio

THE CREATORS COLLECTIVE

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Alice Coltrane was a pianist, harpist, and spiritual composer who expanded jazz beyond form and into devotion. She grew up in a rich musical environment shaped by gospel, classical training, and the city’s thriving Black artistic culture. In 1965 when she joined the band of saxophonist John Coltrane. Their partnership, both musical and personal, pushed her toward increasingly exploratory forms of sound. After John Coltrane’s death in 1967, she entered a period of profound grief and transformation that led her toward spiritual practice, Eastern philosophy, and a radically expanded musical language. She fused jazz, drone, harp, and devotional music into something entirely her own. In the 1970s she founded an ashram in California and became a spiritual teacher, creating music as offering. For creators, she is someone who represents artistic and spiritual rebirth out of grief.F

For More:

Turiyasangitananda

The Legacy of a Female Jazz Musician

The Creators Collective

Want to go beyond listening about creators and actually live like one? Consider joining the next Creators Collective session. This month we’re stepping into the life and work of Johnny Cash in a class called Sacred Rebellion, an exploration of the man in black not as myth, but as a creator who refused certainty, and respectability in favor of real whole hearted living. We’ll look at the tension he carried: faith and failure, love and addiction, darkness and redemption, and what his life reveals about creating from contradiction instead of resolving it.

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The Art of Grief: Creating Through Despair begins April 6. Through weekly teaching, tangible assignments, live gatherings, and an in-person closing ceremony, we’ll explore how loss becomes language, and how sorrow can become structure for a new life. If you’re standing in the aftermath of something, and ready to make art from what remains, this is your invitation.

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The Tower

Wardenclyffe by Ernst Willem van Bergh

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Nikola Tesla was a Serbian American inventor and electrical engineer whose ideas helped electrify the modern world. Born in the Austrian Empire (modern-day Croatia), he arrived in the United States in 1884 and became a central figure in the development of alternating current power systems, which made large-scale electrical grids possible. But Tesla’s imagination extended far beyond practical infrastructure. He envisioned wireless communication, wireless power, and a planet connected through invisible fields of energy. Through inventions like the Tesla coil and experiments in Colorado Springs and Wardenclyffe, he pursued ideas that often ran ahead of the technology, and the institutions, of his time. For creators, Tesla stands as a reminder that imagination often sees the future long before the world is ready for it.

For More:

My Inventions — Nikola Tesla

Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla — Marc J. Seifer

This spring, I’m leading a twelve-week immersive journey: The Art of Grief: Creating Through Despair. Grief strips away what is excess. It clarifies. It refines. Through weekly transmissions, real assignments, live gatherings, and an in-person closing ceremony, we’ll explore how loss becomes language, and how sorrow can become structure for a new life. If you’re standing in the aftermath of something—and ready to make art from what remains, this is your invitation.

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The Creators Collective

THE SALON

THE INNER CIRCLE

Lenny Bruce was the comedian who transformed stand-up from light entertainment into cultural confrontation. After serving briefly in the U.S. Navy during World War II, he drifted into the nightclub circuit of the late 1940s and 1950s, where comedians were expected to deliver safe jokes and predictable punchlines. Bruce broke those rules. His routines became rapid-fire explorations of religion, race, hypocrisy, censorship, and the strange contradictions of American life. By the early 1960s he was being arrested repeatedly for obscenity, with police officers sitting in clubs transcribing his jokes as legal evidence. In 1964 he was convicted in New York after a controversial trial. Bruce died of a morphine overdose in Los Angeles in 1966 at the age of forty. He is widely recognized as one of the architects of modern stand-up comedy, paving the way for comedians who bravely dared to question the system. 

For More:

How to Talk Dirty and Influence People — Lenny Bruce

Lenny Bruce: Let the Buyer Beware — Lenny Bruce

Want to go beyond listening about creators and actually live like one? Consider joining the next Creators Collective class. This month, March 22nd, we’re exploring the life and work of Robin Williams in a session called The Cost of Joy, an honest look at the strange emotional territory where comedy, sensitivity, grief, and creative brilliance meet. Together we’ll explore what Williams’ life reveals about creativity, emotional depth, and the courage it takes to stay fully alive as an artist.

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Jeanne-Marie Bouvier Guyon was a French mystic who taught that dissolving into divine love was the highest spiritual path. Born into minor nobility during the reign of Louis XIV, she wrote in an age defined by monarchy and church authority. She taught that the soul could encounter God directly, without striving, fear, or reward. In A Short and Easy Method of Prayer, she described prayer as a simple act of surrender. Her teachings, later labeled Quietism, were seen as destabilizing to the institutions of her time. She was imprisoned for years in the Bastille. Yet her insistence on interior freedom quietly influenced European spirituality, philosophy and psychology for generations. 

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A Short and Easy Method of Prayer & Spiritual Torrents— Madame Guyon

The Seeking Heart--Fenelon

The Art of Grief: A Course for Creating Through Despair. April 6. Through weekly transmissions, real assignments, live gatherings, and an in-person closing ceremony, we’ll explore how loss becomes language, and how sorrow can become structure for a new life. If you’re standing in the aftermath of something, and ready to make art from what remains, this is your invitation.

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The Creators Collective

THE SALON

Mary Austin was a chronicler of the American Southwest who refused the myth that the desert was empty. Born in Illinois, she moved west where scarcity, wind, and water refined both her perception and her prose. In an era intoxicated by expansion, railroads, aqueducts, and industrial ambition, she wrote about attention, insisting that the land was not backdrop but teacher. Through works like The Land of Little Rain, she articulated a radical cosmology of conservation and care for a living land. For creators, she stands as a reminder that attention itself is an ethical act, and that restraint can be a deeper form of abundance.

For More:

The Land of Little Rain — Mary Austin

The Life of Lozen, Apache Warrior

This spring, beginning April 6, I’m leading a twelve-week immersive journey: The Art of Grief: Creating Through Despair. Grief strips away what is excess. It clarifies. It refines. Through weekly transmissions, real assignments, live gatherings, and an in-person closing ceremony, we’ll explore how loss becomes language, and how sorrow can become structure for a new life. If you’re standing in the aftermath of something—and ready to make art from what remains, this is your invitation.

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Max Perkins was an American book editor whose greatest work was not authorship, but fidelity. He spent thirty-six years at Charles Scribner’s Sons, where he reshaped American literature by standing beside writers at moments when their work, and their lives, were most unstable. Perkins edited and championed figures like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe. He believed editors should remain invisible, that the book belonged to the author, and that the highest creative labor was helping something become fully itself without claiming it. 

For More:

Editor of Genius — A. Scott Berg

Genius (The Movie)

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Arundhati Roy is an Indian novelist, essayist, and political thinker whose work insists that beauty and moral clarity belong to the same sentence. Born in Shillong and raised in Kerala, she emerged onto the global literary stage with her debut novel The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997. Rather than following literary success with market-friendly sequels, Roy turned her attention toward essays confronting nationalism, empire, caste violence, environmental destruction, and the quiet brutalities of modern power. Her nonfiction has made her one of the most influential and controversial public intellectuals of her generation. Roy is a creator who refused separation between art and conscience, choosing witness over comfort, and clarity over safety, even as that choice narrowed her life. She stands as a reminder that creativity is not merely expression, but orientation: a lifelong practice of attention, courage, and refusal to look away.

For More:

• The God of Small Things — Arundhati Roy
• The End of Imagination — Arundhati Roy
• Arundhati Roy — Encyclopædia Britannica

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Kay Parker became an unexpected icon during the so-called Golden Age of Porn in the 1970s and ’80s. She was widely recognized, intensely projected upon, and narrowly defined by roles she would later outgrow. In the early 2000s, Parker quietly re-emerged as a metaphysical teacher and writer, turning her attention to the nature of identity itself. Through her book Taboo: Sacred, Don’t Touch and years of intimate teaching, she explored how the self is constructed in response to fear, desire, and expectation. She passed away from cancer in 2022. 

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Taboo: Sacred, Don’t Touch — Kay Parker

Archival interviews & reflections

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Consider joining the next Creators Collective class. This month, we’re diving into Friedrich Nietzsche—not as meme or misquote, but as a companion for creators dismantling borrowed identities and learning how to author their own lives. A potent evening for anyone standing at the edge of change, ready to stop playing the role and start telling the truth.

THE SALON

THE INNER CIRCLE

Thomas Morton was America’s first banned poet and one of its earliest heretics of joy. A classically trained English lawyer with a humanist soul, Morton immigrated to New England in the late 1620s and became best known as the leader of the short-lived settlement of Merry Mount near present-day Quincy, Massachusetts. There he promoted poetry, music, seasonal celebrations, and social mixing that openly defied Puritan norms joy. Authorities raided the settlement and arrested Morton, eventually exiling him to England, where he wrote New English Canaan (1637), a satirical and critical account of Puritan society and colonial practices; the book was banned from entering the colonies. 

FOR MORE:

The New English Canaan of Thomas Morton

The Lord of Misrule

Want to go beyond listening about creators and actually live like one? Consider joining the next Creators Collectiveclass. This month, we’re diving into Friedrich Nietzsche—not as meme or misquote, but as a guide for creators dismantling borrowed values and learning how to author their own lives. A potent evening for anyone standing in the aftermath of certainty, ready to create from what’s real.

THE SALON

THE INNER CIRCLE

Are you interested in claiming one of the THREE spots for the Re-Wilding Imagination Retreat, February 12-15? If so, you can learn more here.

Rainer Maria Rilke was the poet of inwardness, solitude, and becoming; a writer who refused answers in favor of deeper questions. Born in Prague at the crossroads of cultures, Rilke grew up exquisitely sensitive and perpetually displaced, a condition that would shape both his life and his work. He moved restlessly across Europe, apprenticing himself to lovers, artists, and places, most notably Lou Andreas-Salomé and the sculptor Auguste Rodin. His poetry and letters confront uncertainty as a vital condition of growth, urging readers to “live the questions” rather than rush toward certainty. Through works like The Book of Hours, Letters to a Young Poet, the Duino Elegies, and the Sonnets to Orpheus, Rilke articulated a radical ethic for creators: a willingness to let beauty and terror belong to the same life. 

For More:

Letters to a Young Poet — Rainer Maria Rilke

The Book of Hours — Rainer Maria Rilke

Rilke: In Paris — Documentary / biographical essays

Want to go beyond listening about creators and actually live like one? Consider joining the next Creators Collectiveclass. This month, Jan 18, we’re diving into Friedrich Nietzsche as a guide for creators dismantling borrowed values and learning how to author their own lives. Don't miss this class!

THE SALON

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Lou Andreas-Salomé was born in St. Petersburg and later living across the great nerve-centers of German-speaking culture, she published novels, essays, and criticism on religion, eros, selfhood, and the inner life, writing about desire and identity decades before those subjects were culturally safe. She engaged with some of the most brilliant minds of her time: Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer-Maria Rilke, and Sigmund Freud. Lou negotiated a form of autonomy, structure, and freedom in an age that demanded women follow rigid expectations. She was a creator of creators, a thinker who inspired other thinkers, and was a living argument that intimacy does not require ownership.

For More:

Lou Andreas-Salomé — Encyclopædia Britannica

Sigmund Freud and Lou Andreas-Salomé, Letters (Norton)

Johns Hopkins Library Exhibit: “Lou Andreas-Salomé: A Brief Biography”

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Dorothy Day was a journalist-turned-organizer whose greatest creation was community itself. Born in Brooklyn and raised amid the changes of early-20th-century America. After a conversion to Catholicism in her thirties she co-founded The Catholic Worker in 1933, a penny newspaper that became a rallying cry for mercy, justice, and nonviolent resistance. Alongside it, she helped establish Houses of Hospitality across the country, where the hungry were fed, the homeless sheltered, and dignity treated as non-negotiable. A committed pacifist, Day opposed war, capitalism’s cruelties, and the quiet violence of indifference, enduring arrests, surveillance, and criticism from both Church and State. By the time of her death, she had reshaped the moral imagination of American faith.

For More:

The Long Loneliness — Dorothy Day

Dorothy Day: A Radical Devotion — PBS Documentary

The Catholic Worker Movement (catholicworker.org)

Want to go beyond listening about creators, and become one? Consider signing up for the next Creators Collective class. This one's on the OG Rebel poet, prophet, creative type--Jesus Christ. Don't miss inspiring and powerful class for anyone looking to resurrect their creative life.

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe was the gospel virtuoso who rewrote the DNA of modern music. Born in Cotton Plant, Arkansas, and raised in the Pentecostal revivals of the American South, she became a national sensation in her teens as an electric-guitar prodigy whose fusion of sacred lyrics and blistering rhythm prefigured rock and roll by decades. In the 1930s and ’40s she recorded groundbreaking gospel hits, played the Cotton Club, toured with jazz greats, and astonished audiences with her fearless blend of church fervor and nightclub swagger. British blues musicians later traced their entire sound back to her records, crediting her as a foundational influence on artists like Elvis, Little Richard, and Johnny Cash. Though her career waned late in life and she died with little fanfare, Rosetta is now recognized as the godmother of rock and roll, an artist whose innovation, authority, and audacity shaped the world.

For More:

Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe — Gayle F. Wald

American Masters: Sister Rosetta Tharpe — The Godmother of Rock & Roll (PBS Documentary)

Archival 1964 Manchester Performance

Want to go beyond listening about creators, and become one? Consider signing up for the next Creators Collective class. This one's on the OG Rebel poet, prophet, creative type--Jesus Christ. Don't miss inspiring and powerful class for anyone looking to resurrect their creative life.

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Brian Doyle was the joyful warrior of wonder. Born into a roaring Irish-Catholic family, he learned early that holiness hid inside the ordinary. After years in journalism, he landed in Oregon and became editor of Portland Magazine. Here his voice was transformed into one of America’s most astonishing essayists, writing in long, breathless sentences that felt like prayer and play at the same time. He died early of tragic brain cancer and left behind a body of work including novels, essays, letters, and love stories about grit and grace. Doyle believed that attention was a form of love and that praise was the only accurate response to this world. Today, he is considered one of the greatest evangelists of awe in an age of cynicism.

For More

One Long River of Song--Brian Doyle

Collected Archives--Portland Magazine

Review--New York Times

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Born into English aristocracy she rejected domestication and fled to Paris, falling into The Surrealist movement. Her paintings were characterized by dreamscapes of witches, wild animals, and rebirth. In 1940 she suffered a nervous breakdown, was declared insane and institutionalized in Spain. She was able to escape and remade herself in Mexico City among exiles, mystics and poets. Carrington’s art is a record of a woman who turned exile into alchemy. Today, she is considered one of the most celebrated and enduring Surrealist artists.

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Down Below — Leonora Carrington

Leonora Carrington: Museum of Modern Art

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Georgia O’Keeffe was the woman who chose to be both the maker and the muse. She came of age in a world that wanted women to be owned, creatively, emotionally, and relationally. She refused to be anyone's possession. Her paintings were less about what they showed and more about what they stripped away. Each one was a reclamation of selfhood. She became both legend and lover in the orbit of photographer Alfred Stieglitz, whose vision of her nearly consumed her. When that life grew too small, she left it all to find herself in the desert. There in New Mexico, O’Keeffe built a world from her own silence. This episode asks what she teaches us about love and identity, when creativity and intimacy collide, who owns the story?

FOR MORE:

Georgia O’Keeffe, Georgia O’Keeffe: Art and Letters (ed. Jack Cowart & Juan Hamilton)

Roxana Robinson, Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life

The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum – Santa Fe, New Mexico

If you're ready to create, I built The Creators Collective as a home for artists, writers, and tender rebels who believe in living wholeheartedly. Through poetry, story, and creative work of every kind, we dare to live out loud. For just $44 a month, you can join The Salon, our first tier, and get monthly live classes, full access to the creative archive, weekly sparks to keep your fire alive, and a community of fellow makers at the table with you. Or, you can take a deeper dive into The Inner Circle, giving you access to more engagement, behind-the-scenes insights, private interactive calls, and opportunities for direct mentorship. It’s the space where we move past inspiration and into true creative transformation. 

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Sōetsu Yanagi was the quiet heretic who declared war on speed. In the 1920s, alongside potters Shōji Hamada and Kanjirō Kawai, he founded the Mingei (“folk craft”) movement: an act of philosophical resistance that insisted usefulness, humility, and imperfection were the true teachers of beauty. He preached a gospel of anonymity. This episode asks how we create honest art in an age when visibility has replaced value, and speed itself has become a religion. What does it mean to make something that doesn’t scream for attention?

FOR MORE:

The Unknown Craftsman

Mingeikan – Japan Folk Crafts Museum (Tokyo)

If you're ready to create, I built The Creators Collective as a home for artists, writers, and tender rebels who believe in living wholeheartedly. Through poetry, story, and creative work of every kind, we dare to live out loud. For just $44 a month, you can join The Salon, our first tier, and get monthly live classes, full access to the creative archive, weekly sparks to keep your fire alive, and a community of fellow makers at the table with you. Or, you can take a deeper dive into The Inner Circle, giving you access to more engagement, behind-the-scenes insights, private interactive calls, and opportunities for direct mentorship. It’s the space where we move past inspiration and into true creative transformation. 

THE SALON

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Arthur Rimbaud was the teenage prodigy who detonated modern poetry and then walked away before his twentieth birthday. Born in a small French town to a devout mother and absent father, he fled to Paris during the chaos of the Franco-Prussian War, where his hallucinatory verses and scandalous affair with poet Paul Verlaine made him both legend and pariah. In just a few feverish years he wrote The Drunken Boat, A Season in Hell, and Illuminations; works that reshaped language itself and foreshadowed everything from surrealism to punk. This episode asks what his vanishing act reveals about our own obsession with permanence: why we believe art, life, and love must last to matter, and what it might mean to burn brightly and let the fire go out.

FOR MORE:

• Rimbaud Complete Works | Translated by Wallace Fowlie
• Enid Starkie, Arthur Rimbaud: A Biography
• “The Drunken Boat” and “A Season in Hell,” public domain translations at Poetry Foundation

If you're ready to create, I built The Creators Collective as a home for artists, writers, and tender rebels who believe in living wholeheartedly. Through poetry, story, and creative work of every kind, we dare to live out loud. For just $44 a month, you can join The Salon, our first tier, and get monthly live classes, full access to the creative archive, weekly sparks to keep your fire alive, and a community of fellow makers at the table with you. Or, you can take a deeper dive into The Inner Circle, giving you access to more engagement, behind-the-scenes insights, private interactive calls, and opportunities for direct mentorship. It’s the space where we move past inspiration and into true creative transformation. 

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Renato Casaro is the Italian painter who gave cinema its mythic face.He began painting movie posters as a teenager outside his local theater and rose through Rome’s Cinecittà Studios to become the go-to artist for filmmakers like Sergio Leone and Dino De Laurentiis. His brush created the worlds of Conan the Barbarian, The NeverEnding Story, Dune, and The Last Emperor—images that turned films into modern icons. Eventually his work was replaced by computer design and cheaper software. This episode asks what his story reveals about our own age of automation: why make anything by hand when a machine can do it faster, and what do we lose when beauty no longer needs a human heartbeat to exist?

FOR MORE:

• The Michelangelo of Movie Posters, NY Times
• The Last Movie Painter (Documentary, 2021)
• Renato Casaro’s official site: www.renatocasaro.com

If you're ready to create, I built The Creators Collective as a home for artists, writers, and tender rebels who believe in living wholeheartedly. Through poetry, story, and creative work of every kind, we dare to live out loud. For just $44 a month, you can join The Salon, our first tier, and get monthly live classes, full access to the creative archive, weekly sparks to keep your fire alive, and a community of fellow makers at the table with you. Or, you can take a deeper dive into The Inner Circle, giving you access to more engagement, behind-the-scenes insights, private interactive calls, and opportunities for direct mentorship. It’s the space where we move past inspiration and into true creative transformation. 

THE SALON

THE INNER CIRCLE

Madame Blavatsky was the mother of modern mysticism who turned Victorian reason on its head. She claimed to speak for hidden Masters in Tibet, mixed Eastern philosophy with Western occultism, and wrote books that helped shape everyone from Gandhi to Yeats to Kandinsky. Her critics called her a fraud. Her followers called her a prophet. The truth is she was both, and neither. This episode is about what happens when imagination itself becomes rebellion. When invention becomes revelation. When a person outsmarts an empire with nothing but audacity, mystery, and smoke and mirrors.

FOR MORE

Madame Blavatsky the Mother of Modern Spirituality by Gary Lachman

Theosophy on Wikipedia

Theosophy Collections at Harvard

If you're ready to create, I built The Creators Collective as a home for artists, writers, and tender rebels who believe in living wholeheartedly. Through poetry, story, and creative work of every kind, we dare to live out loud. For just $44 a month, you can join The Salon, our first tier, and get monthly live classes, full access to the creative archive, weekly sparks to keep your fire alive, and a community of fellow makers at the table with you. Or, you can take a deeper dive into The Inner Circle, giving you access to more engagement, behind-the-scenes insights, private interactive calls, and opportunities for direct mentorship. It’s the space where we move past inspiration and into true creative transformation. 

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THE INNER CIRCLE

Louis Armstrong was the sound of jazz itself. His horn was once considered too dangerous to be on the airwaves, too alive to be contained. But America has a way of sanding down what it fears. Armstrong became the smiling face of jazz, a Hollywood star, almost a Disney character. This episode isn’t about the legend we remember. It’s about the danger we forget. About how art born in defiance gets bleached into nostalgia. And what we may lose when we trade the unruly for the respectable.

FOR MORE

Pioneer Or Popular Entertainer? BBC

A Heart Full of Rhythm (Interview with Biographer)

Louis Armstrong LIVE

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Rosie was the face of wartime feminism; the rolled sleeve and red bandana, the icon of “We Can Do It.” But Rosie the Riveter was a symbol, a myth, made by men, to serve the purpose of war. This episode isn’t about who Rosie was. It’s about who she wasn’t. It’s about the women who built battleships but couldn’t open bank accounts. About art used to recruit, not liberate. About creativity conscripted when it is conscripted by empire. And what happens when a symbol becomes more powerful than the truth it erased.

FOR MORE

The True Story of Rosie the Riveter--History Channel

The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line

If you're ready to create, I built The Creators Collective as a home for artists, writers, and tender rebels who believe in living wholeheartedly. Through poetry, story, and creative work of every kind, we dare to live out loud. For just $44 a month, you can join The Salon, our first tier, and get monthly live classes, full access to the creative archive, weekly sparks to keep your fire alive, and a community of fellow makers at the table with you. Or, you can take a deeper dive into The Inner Circle, giving you access to more engagement, behind-the-scenes insights, private interactive calls, and opportunities for direct mentorship. It’s the space where we move past inspiration and into true creative transformation. 

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Mariya Yudina was a radical classical pianist born into a Jewish family in Tsarist Russia who later converted to Orthodox Christianity under Stalin’s atheist regime. She was banned multiple times, living in poverty, and never silenced, she refused to separate her art from her convictions. Her story, and how she used art to as a form of reverence, and resistance, is powerful. Somehow, in the heart of tyranny, she made eternity, audible.

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Playing With Fire--Biography

Maria Yudian playing Mozart Piano Concerto No 20

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Born in Budapest to a banking family, von Neumann was a child prodigy who could divide eight-digit numbers in his head by age six. By his twenties, he was helping formalize quantum mechanics. He immigrated to America in the 1930s, helped design the atomic bomb in the 1940s, and in the 1950s, quietly built the blueprint for every computer in the world. He laid the foundations of game theory, AI, and self-replicating machines. He called what was coming “a singularity," a point when machines would evolve past us. In his final days, ravaged by cancer, he began to fear what he had built. Was he a genius ahead of his times, or was he something more, something leading us in an ominous direction that he felt was inevitable?

FOR MORE

The Life of John von Neumann -- Britannica

The Maniac by Benjamin Labatut

John von Neumann and the art of being there

If you're ready to create, I built The Creators Collective as a home for artists, writers, and tender rebels who believe in living wholeheartedly. Through poetry, story, and creative work of every kind, we dare to live out loud. For just $44 a month, you can join The Salon, our first tier, and get monthly live classes, full access to the creative archive, weekly sparks to keep your fire alive, and a community of fellow makers at the table with you. Or, you can take a deeper dive into The Inner Circle, giving you access to more engagement, behind-the-scenes insights, private interactive calls, and opportunities for direct mentorship. It’s the space where we move past inspiration and into true creative transformation.

THE SALON

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Next LIVE CLASS is Radiohead: Paranoid Android talking about creating human art in an inhuman world.

FOR MORE

Nikos Kazantzakis Collection on Goodreads

Documentary Nikos Kazantzakis

The Temptations of Writing (A Review)

If you're ready to create, I built The Creators Collective as a home for artists, writers, and tender rebels who believe in living whole heartedly. Through poetry, fiction, story, and creative works of all kind, we dare to live out loud.

Next LIVE CLASS: Leonard Cohen/The Fires of Devotion

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Songs (2020) – spare, intimate, recorded in a one-room cabin

Bright Future (2024) – her newest solo album, a luminous study in light and grief

Big Thief – a body of work that’s wild, elemental, and impossible to fake

If you're ready to create like every note matters—and live like the truth has teeth—The Creators Collective is a home for artists, writers, and tender rebels who believe in the sacred act of making. Through song, story, and shared silence, we remember what the soul sounds like.

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By the time of her state funeral (the first ever for a French woman of letters), she had already carved her name into French literature. Her work—ranging from the scandalous Claudine series to the tender, brutal Gigi—charted the terrains of female pleasure, aging, solitude, and survival.

For More:

The Vagabond – a novel of reinvention and romantic resistance

Break of Day – her lush meditation on aging, memory, and the body

Earthly Paradise – selected writings and reflections

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The fire is open. Are you coming?

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Frank Stanford didn’t write for the academy. He wrote for the haunted. For the kids with dirt on their knees and fire in their belly. For anyone who’s ever loved something wild and known it couldn’t stay.

For More:

What About This: Collected Poems

Where There's a Will: An Essay and Review of Stanford's Work

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Born into Ottoman nobility, Nazım Hikmet traded comfort for his convictions. He was a fiery poet and spokesperson for the people. Nazim wrote verses that made governments nervous because they dared to dream of freedom, love, and the dignity of the working class. Imprisoned for his politics, exiled for his words, he spent much of his life behind bars or far from home, smuggling his poems out of prison.

For More:

Poems of Nazım Hikmet

Human Landscapes from My Country

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Pizarnik didn’t want to be understood. She wanted to remain real. Her poems, many of them no longer than a breath, feel like x-rays of the soul—raw, radiant, and radioactive. She died by suicide at 36, but her words remain: glowing, untamed, and unforgettable. A poet. A witch. A ghost.

For Further Reading:

Extracting the Stone of Madness (New Directions)

The Poetry Foundation

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This whole month we will be looking at poets in honor of National poetry month. Rainier will be teaching a masterclass: Dead Society Poets, on living poetically in a world gone mad.

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A reclusive janitor in Chicago who lived and died alone, Henry Darger spent his nights building a world no one ever saw—an epic 15,000-page novel and hundreds of vivid, violent, and childlike illustrations hidden in his one-room apartment. Orphaned young, institutionalized, and forgotten, he conjured a private cosmos where innocence fought back: the Vivian Girls, child-saints with swords, battled monstrous adult regimes in a sprawling war of good and evil.

He never shared it. Never exhibited. Never even spoke of it.

It was his response to grief. 

For More:

In the Realms of the Unreal

Henry Darger: Museum of Modern Art

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For Further Reading:

Other Powers by Barbara Goldsmith

Victoria Woodhull: Women's History

The Woman Who Ran for President by Lois Beachy Underhill

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From riding with the Hell’s Angels to turning a road trip into a nightmarish dissection of the American Dream, Thompson’s work was both a warning and a war cry. He saw America’s contradictions—its greed, its violence, its doomed idealism—and met them with his own sharp prose, endless vice, and an unwavering refusal to look away.

FOR MORE:

• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – The book that made him a legend.
• Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson – An oral biography of the man, myth, and madness.
• Hunter S Thompson: How the Writer Became a Legend – Rolling Stone

Want to go beyond learning about creators and become one yourself? Consider joining The Creators Collective—the membership that helps you unlock your potential, unblock your purpose, and ignite your passion. Last year, Rainier taught a class on Hunter S. Thompson. It's included in your membership! Don't miss out on this special offer. In this collective, Rainier and others share resources, offer monthly teachings, facilitate workshops, and inspire creativity in every area of life.

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For Further Reading:

Simon Weil

The Subversive Simone Weil

The Enigma of Simone Weil

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History has always had its heroes, but what about the outlaws, the rebels, and the misfits? Where are the creators who tore down walls and built something new in their place? Enter The Creators, the podcast that uncovers the lives of groundbreaking individuals who didn’t just change the rules—they rewrote them entirely.

In short episodes, released multiple times a week, we explore the transformative contributions of creators who shaped history, often in fire and blood. Each episode takes you into the story of one unforgettable individual—some you may already know, and many you definitely don’t, but you soon will. These creators come from every corner of history, united by one thing: their refusal to accept the world as it was, and their willingness to create themselves alive.

Through vivid storytelling and immersive soundscapes, The Creators Podcast brings you stories that are real, inspiring, and unapologetically bold. Hosted by Rainier Wylde, the podcast transforms history into a visceral journey you won’t want to miss. Join us as we delve into the lives of the rule-breakers, rebels, and revolutionaries who left the world reeling—and radically changed the course of history.

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• Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
• The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
• The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
• At the Existentialist Café by Sarah Bakewell

This whole month The Creators Collective—the membership that helps you unlock your potential, unblock your purpose, and ignite your passion, will be looking at these fascinating creators (Sartre, Camus, and Beauvoir)--their life affirming philosophy, and their lives--giving us a fresh take on our own self-creation. Don't forget to sign up!

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• Federico García Lorca: A Life by Ian Gibson
• Deep Song and Other Prose by Federico García Lorca
• “Lorca's Bones” (The New Yorker)
• "Theory and Play of Duende" by Federico Garcia Lorca

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History has its heroes, but what about the outlaws, the rebels, and the misfits? Where are the creators who tore down walls and built something new in their place? Enter The Creators, the podcast that uncovers the lives of groundbreaking individuals who didn’t just change the rules—they rewrote them entirely.

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The Oblivion Seekers by Isabelle Eberhardt and Pawl Bowles

Feminize Your Canon

Travel's Rebel With a Cause

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History has its heroes, but what about the outlaws, the rebels, and the misfits? Where are the creators who tore down walls and built something new in their place? Enter The Creators, the podcast that uncovers the lives of groundbreaking individuals who didn’t just change the rules—they rewrote them entirely.

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Excerpts of The Letters

Heloise and Abalard

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History has its heroes, but what about the outlaws, the rebels, and the misfits? Where are the creators who tore down walls and built something new in their place? Enter The Creators, the podcast that uncovers the lives of groundbreaking individuals who didn’t just change the rules—they rewrote them entirely.

In short episodes, released multiple times a week, we explore the trials, triumphs, and transformative contributions of creators who shaped history, often at great personal cost. Each episode takes you into the story of one unforgettable individual—some you may know, and some you definitely don’t, but all of them deserve to be remembered. These creators come from every corner of history, united by one thing: their refusal to accept the world as it was.

Through vivid storytelling and immersive soundscapes, The Creators brings you stories that are raw, inspiring, and unapologetically bold. Hosted by Rainier Wylde, the podcast transforms history into a visceral journey you won’t want to miss. Join us as we delve into the lives of the rule-breakers, rebels, and revolutionaries who left the world reeling—and radically changed the course of history.

Want to go beyond learning about creators, and become one yourself--consider joining The Creators--the membership that helps you unlock your potential, unblock your purpose, and ignite your passion. In this collective, Rainier and others share resources, offer monthly teachings, facilitate workshops, and inspire creativity in every area of life!

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Best known for innovating the Enneagram into a tool for spiritual awakening, Ichazo saw it not as a personality test but as a path to freedom. As his teachings spread, he grew disillusioned by their commercialization, stating, “They took the map but left the territory.” His legacy remains both influential and controversial—a challenge to those who seek not just self-knowledge, but true transformation.

FOR MORE:

Between Metaphysics & Protoanalysis: A Theory for Analyzing the Human Psyche

WRSP: History of Arica Institute

NYT: Mysteries of the East Off Central Park, 1971

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History has its heroes, but what about the outlaws, the rebels, and the misfits? Where are the creators who tore down walls and built something new in their place? Enter The Creators, the podcast that uncovers the lives of groundbreaking individuals who didn’t just change the rules—they rewrote them entirely.

In short episodes, released multiple times a week, we explore the trials, triumphs, and transformative contributions of creators who shaped history, often at great personal cost. Each episode takes you into the story of one unforgettable individual—some you may know, and some you definitely don’t, but all of them deserve to be remembered. These creators come from every corner of history, united by one thing: their refusal to accept the world as it was.

Through vivid storytelling and immersive soundscapes, The Creators brings you stories that are raw, inspiring, and unapologetically bold. Hosted by Rainier Wylde, the podcast transforms history into a visceral journey you won’t want to miss. Join us as we delve into the lives of the rule-breakers, rebels, and revolutionaries who left the world reeling—and radically changed the course of history.

Want to go beyond learning about creators, and become one yourself--consider joining The Creators--the membership that helps you unlock your potential, unblock your purpose, and ignite your passion. In this collective, Rainier and others share resources, offer monthly teachings, facilitate workshops, and inspire creativity in every area of life!

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Carmen rejected the constraints of her aristocratic upbringing, immersing herself in Mexico’s vibrant post-revolutionary avant-garde. She became a muse to artists and intellectuals, but saw herself as a creator in her own right—summoning artistry from those who sought to capture her beauty. Her poetry and paintings pulse with a vibrant and mystical energy. Renamed as Nahui Olin, a reference to the Aztec concept of cosmic movement and transformation, she saw herself as apart of an eternal cycle of destruction and rebirth. Due to many factors, she eventually faded from the limelight and died mostly anonymously. Today, she is being reclaimed as a feminist icon, an emblem of artistic defiance, and apart of the history of Mexican modernism. 

For Further Reading:

The Shaping of Mexican Muse Nahui Olin

A Mexican Artist & Muse Reclaims Her Legacy

Optica cerebral: Poetry

History has its heroes, but what about the outlaws, the rebels, and the misfits? Where are the creators who tore down walls and built something new in their place? Enter The Creators, the podcast that uncovers the lives of groundbreaking individuals who didn’t just change the rules—they rewrote them entirely.

In short episodes, released multiple times a week, we explore the trials, triumphs, and transformative contributions of creators who shaped history, often at great personal cost. Each episode takes you into the story of one unforgettable individual—some you may know, and some you definitely don’t, but all of them deserve to be remembered. These creators come from every corner of history, united by one thing: their refusal to accept the world as it was.

Through vivid storytelling and immersive soundscapes, The Creators brings you stories that are raw, inspiring, and unapologetically bold. Hosted by Rainier Wylde, the podcast transforms history into a visceral journey you won’t want to miss. Join us as we delve into the lives of the rule-breakers, rebels, and revolutionaries who left the world reeling—and radically changed the course of history.

Want to go beyond learning about creators, and become one yourself--consider joining The Creators--the membership that helps you unlock your potential, unblock your purpose, and ignite your passion. In this collective, Rainier and others share resources, offer monthly teachings, facilitate workshops, and inspire creativity in every area of life!

Create your self alive!

Though she became an international symbol of the psychedelic movement, the exposure overwhelmed her community and left her relationship with her people, deeply disrupted. María resisted commodifying her traditions, remaining steadfast in her belief that the mushrooms were tools of healing, not merely recreational pastimes. Today, María Sabina is celebrated as a bridge between Indigenous spirituality and modern medicinal practices.

María Sabina, Mujer Espíritu (1979 Documentary)

Selections, Volume 2--Poems

TIME LIFE 1957 "Seeking the Magic Mushroom" by Gordon Wasson

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History has its heroes, but what about the outlaws, the rebels, and the misfits? Where are the creators who tore down walls and built something new in their place? Enter The Creators, the podcast that uncovers the lives of groundbreaking individuals who didn’t just change the rules—they rewrote them entirely.

In short episodes, released multiple times a week, we explore the trials, triumphs, and transformative contributions of creators who shaped history, often at great personal cost. Each episode takes you into the story of one unforgettable individual—some you may know, and some you definitely don’t, but all of them deserve to be remembered. These creators come from every corner of history, united by one thing: their refusal to accept the world as it was.

Through vivid storytelling and immersive soundscapes, The Creators brings you stories that are raw, inspiring, and unapologetically bold. Hosted by Rainier Wylde, the podcast transforms history into a visceral journey you won’t want to miss. Join us as we delve into the lives of the rule-breakers, rebels, and revolutionaries who left the world reeling—and radically changed the course of history.

Want to go beyond learning about creators, and become one yourself--consider joining The Creators--the membership that helps you unlock your potential, unblock your purpose, and ignite your passion. In this collective, Rainier and others share resources, offer monthly teachings, facilitate workshops, and inspire creativity in every area of life!

Create your self alive!

For Further Reading:

The Outlaw: The extraordinary life of William S Burroughs

William Burrough's and The Cult of Rock N Roll

Word Virus: A William Burroughs Reader

History has its heroes, but what about the outlaws, the rebels, and the misfits? Where are the creators who tore down walls and built something new in their place? Enter The Creators, the podcast that uncovers the lives of groundbreaking individuals who didn’t just change the rules—they rewrote them entirely.

In short episodes, released multiple times a week, we explore the trials, triumphs, and transformative contributions of creators who shaped history, often at great personal cost. Each episode takes you into the story of one unforgettable individual—some you may know, and some you definitely don’t, but all of them deserve to be remembered. These creators come from every corner of history, united by one thing: their refusal to accept the world as it was.

Through vivid storytelling and immersive soundscapes, The Creators brings you stories that are raw, inspiring, and unapologetically bold. Hosted by Rainier Wylde, the podcast transforms history into a visceral journey you won’t want to miss. Join us as we delve into the lives of the rule-breakers, rebels, and revolutionaries who left the world reeling—and radically changed the course of history.

Want to go beyond learning about creators, and become one yourself--consider joining The Creators--the membership that helps you unlock your potential, unblock your purpose, and ignite your passion. In this collective, Rainier and others share resources, offer monthly teachings, facilitate workshops, and inspire creativity in every area of life!

Create your self alive!

In short episodes, released multiple times a week, we explore the trials, triumphs, and transformative contributions of creators who shaped history, often at great personal cost. Each episode takes you into the story of one unforgettable individual—some you may know, and some you definitely don’t, but all of them deserve to be remembered. These creators come from every corner of history, united by one thing: their refusal to accept the world as it was.

Through vivid storytelling and immersive soundscapes, The Creators brings you stories that are raw, inspiring, and unapologetically bold. Hosted by Rainier Wylde, the podcast transforms history into a visceral journey you won’t want to miss. Join us as we delve into the lives of the rule-breakers, rebels, and revolutionaries who left the world reeling—and radically changed the course of history.

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Want to go beyond learning about creators, and become one yourself--consider joining The Creators--the membership that helps you unlock your potential, unblock your purpose, and ignite your passion. In this collective, Rainier and others share resources, offer monthly teachings, facilitate workshops, and inspire creativity in every area of life!

Create your self alive!