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Adventures in Creativity Productions and Publications. For more information about John G. Young, M.D. go to www.adventuresincreativity.net. Adventures in Creativity develops the creative/innovative potential and the psychological wellness of individuals and organizations. We have many projects and programs going on at various stages of development. John G. Young, M.D. is a writer, poet, musician, artist, and video creator-producer--a true Integrative Multimedia Artist
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Live Green
Poem and graphic with recommendations for living green and saving mother earth
Download: $12.44
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Christmas 2007
This DVD contains over 24 hours of piano and keyboard music freely improvised over the past 2 years. These mp3 pieces evolve from the first notes I play on the piano, and like a conversation, I listen and something new is suggested. Like speaking with a friend, nothing is pre-planned, but evolves through careful listening.
Disc: $19.99
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"A" Autostereogram
Three dimensional image on two dimensional surface.
Download: $25.00
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Word Salad
Word Salads come in many forms: In psychiatry it refers to a thought disorder found in various forms of psychosis; in the creative field it can be a means to break from purely logical thinking to arrive at new approaches; in poetry it can be just playing with language such as the famous Jabberwocky poem of Lewis Carroll. Some word salads are complete non-sense, and others you have to dig for the meaning. In this video, it is a mix of all these senses.
Disc: $19.99
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Forest Glistens
Piano Improvisations to the graphic painting and poem, Forest Glistens: Over trees dew glimmers/
Becomes crystalline/
Water plunges like diamonds/
Glint over rocks and you are changed/
Bright sparkles/
Leap from darks/
Morning dances to song/
Disc: $14.99
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cool wave
Piano Improvisations to the poem, Cool Wave:/
Too cold to swim/
in your heart/
your regal cresting/
under overcast sky/
breaks, late/
after the storm/
when you gave me that/
cool wave
Disc: $14.99
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Night Drift
Piano improvisation on the painting and poem, Night Drift: “Good news and bad news./
Which do you want first?/
Good news I’m buying/
Floating Leaves./
Bad news I’m closing the gallery /
and shutting down your show.”/
As gold turned brown,/
he said, “I’m leaving--/
going with the leaves,/
wonder if we’ll/
make it to the sea.”/
Disc: $14.99
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Blue Eclipse
Piano improvisation by John G. Young, M.D. to the images and poem,Blue Eclipse:
In transit/
from a distant universe/
curved beyond/my trajectory,/
altitude and azimuth,/
beyond time,/
you entered my space/
deep penumbral/strange/
celestial coordinates/
crossed my path,/
then left,/
umbral blue,/
with the faint circle/
of you
Disc: $14.99
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Apple
Music set to poem, Apple: Eve’s gift,/
belief to knowledge/
and naming things,/
exit the garden/
of infancy/
From that same tree/
fell, woke Newton/
to the gravity of the matter--/
made relative by Einstein/
Chapman’s simple life/
generous seedlings/
nurseries along streams/
orchards of the Northwest/
Territory/
Pink blossom fragrance/
juicy drippings, sweet, sour/
tangy cider, stem to core/
bobbing, crunch/
green, red, gold
Disc: $14.99
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Constant Challenge, Constant Creation
This poetry book with illustrations by Dr. Young is a collection of
two notebooks, POEMS AT AN EXHIBITION and ACCIDENT
AT RT 436 AND REDBUG ROAD. The first evolved out of a
collection of my paintings that led to a one-man art-show. Many
paintings were based on photographs I had taken over the years
focusing on the challenges we have faced as a family with multiple
sclerosis, deafness and blindness.
The second was written earlier at a time of great struggle when
my wife had a broken neck and ended up with quadriplegia. It
contains poetry of a more traditional kind found in poetry therapy
when self-expression is the important consideration, and it may
become creative expression. Sometimes emotions are so strong
they disrupt everything and poetry acts to contain the feelings.
The issue is not getting in touch with the feelings, but trying to
create meaning out of meaninglessness.
Print: $15.96
Download: $9.06
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The White House
Piano improvisation by John G. Young, M.D. to the images and poem,The White House.
when the roof leaks/
sunshine/
negative space/
becomes positive/
and all is bright/
Van Gogh’s primitive/
colors and thick lines/
now elongated/
turn shadows/
into light
Disc: $14.95
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LOVE
This book of poems, from a collection of a Psychiatrist’s Notebooks written parallel to my 30 years of practice in psychiatry, is a diverse collection of works ranging from serious poetry, light verse and doggerel, to epigrams, graphics, photographs, drawings, and paintings.
This notebook, LOVE, shows the range of experiences from attraction, affection, passion, tenderness, longing, leaving, seriousness and humor, to raw sexuality, perversion, merger, and raunchiness.
Print: $15.96
Download: $9.68
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George
Music improvised this president's month with the following poem:
George/
red, white and blue/revolutionary hues/
or is it red, yellow and blue/primary colors with white/
the mother of them all/
this presidential birthday month/
life, liberty and the pursuit/
of happiness/
tritones await resolution/in loving hearts
Disc: $14.99
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Parenting the Creatively Gifted
Parenting the Creatively Gifted identifies those who are gifted in creative ways. Dr. Young distinguishes creative abilities from high intelligence. He examines the challenges of being different, being the “Ugly Duckling,” and hoping to become a swan. This book shows how parents can facilitate those with high sensitivities to grow, treating these children as ends. Finally it looks at creative approaches, creative teaching and parenting, and how to nurture these gifted individuals.
Print: $15.96
Download: $8.76
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January 2006
It has been a strange difficult winter, but out of this comes some beautiful contemplative keyboard music, recorded in 2006 in my home studio on a Kawai grand piano. The music evolves from the first notes I play on the piano. Like a conversation with the piano, I listen and something new is suggested. Sometimes the piece is built on specific chord changes like a jazz musician improvising. But most of time I spontaneously compose the piece based on motifs I invent and chord sequences I create. Each time I attempt to do something a little different from the last time. Like speaking with a friend, nothing is pre-planned but evolves through careful listening.
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The Animal Census
The Animal Census is a playfully illustrated "children's book for adults," full of double entendres. Written at Christmas time, it takes off on Luke’s story—“when it came to pass a decree from Caesar Augustus that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world.” But it also asks the taxing question, “How do we count in the world?” “And when are we going to come to our senses?” It implies we act like animals, but that might not be fair to the animals. Finally it asks the psychological question, "What kind of animal are you?"
Print: $15.96
Download: $10.44
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Stress Reduction, Sleep, and Insight
In the first section you learn how to use deep muscle relaxation, enhanced breathing techniques, guided imagery, and self-hypnosis to reach new levels of calmness, comfort and relaxation. Listen to this section two times a day to reduce stress and develop the habit of relaxation. The second part takes you on an imaginary journey to meet someone who can answer your questions and take you further on your creative adventure. You become more aware of your inner resources. The last section shows you how to overcome insomnia and fall off to a deep sleep. Eventually you can let go of the CD and quietly repeat the words “Let go and sleep” and fall off to sleep on your own. John G. Young, M.D.’s soothing voice and the keyboard playing takes you on this peaceful and enlightening experience..
Disc: $15.99
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A More Effective, Creative You
In these rapidly changing times, creative and innovative approaches are mandatory. Psychological wellness in individuals and organizations occurs when you stop applying yesterday's solutions to today's problems. You obsolete your organization before others do it for you. You change before you have to.
This talk, A More Effective, Creative You, presented by John G. Young, M.D. shows you how to live your life as a creative adventure and how to develop maximum effectiveness using creative and innovative approaches.
It is followed by Creative Meditation that allows you to ponder some of these points and bring them into your life.
Disc: $15.99
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2005 MP3 Music Diary
This DVD contains over 20 hours of MP3 music [69 free-improv pieces] that I recorded in 2005 in my home studio on a Kawai grand piano and on my Kurzweil keyboard. The music evolves from the first notes I play on the piano. Like a conversation with the piano, I listen and something new is suggested. Sometimes the piece is built on specific chord changes like a jazz musician improvising. But most of time I spontaneously compose the piece based on motifs I invent and chord sequences I create. Each time I attempt to do something a little different from the last time. Like speaking with a friend, nothing is pre-planned but evolves through careful listening. Over time I have developed a specific music vocabulary and grammar that has become my piano signature. The dates [year-month-day] show when the music was created so the disc becomes a music diary of the past year.
Disc: $19.99
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Will and Won't: Autonomy and Creativity Blocks
To become original creators, artists present themselves and their unique points of view. They go beyond the skill level, developing themselves as much, if not more than, their techniques. They go beyond refining approaches learned from others for they originate something new. To create at this level they need more than techniques and talent, they must have courage and imagination. When artists have the courage to express themselves, their understanding of the world, rather than repeat the formulas of the past, they become the originators.
Will and Won’t looks at the issues of being authentic and autonomous as a creator. John G. Young, M.D. shows you how to over-come perceptual, conceptual, cultural, emotional and mental block to creating. He examines the psychological issues of fears of success, tensions in a paradoxical process, the double-edged sword of creativity, and psychological integration and style.
Print: $15.97
Download: $9.23
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