Book Club + Reading Group

Reading group, discussion, study guides on these two critical texts + community discussion to nourish and encourage your best creative output. 

Archive 004 - Artist as Warrior - ancient teachings of warriorship and sacred devotion and their applications to creative living. Shaolin, Bushido, Jedi Things. On our Bruce Lee and David Goggins, but for art, and sexy and fun!. 

1-2x monthly, we'll explore various texts on Creative Warriorship, focused primarily on Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior and Torkom Saraydarian's, The Creative Fire. 

Together these two texts comprise the most important teachers about Creative Warriorship I’ve ever come across. Everything I’ve ever needed from the old world, the ancient ways of warriorship, in order to grow into the kind of artist I aspire to be, someone who bows and accepts this art stuff as a sacred responsibility. I want to share what I've learned and add a modern touch, if I may be so bold. 

Shambhala is tender, lyric, and heart-centered, and Torkom Saraydarian's, is comprehensive and definitive. If you like Rick Rubin’s Creative Act (the format, the structure, the directness, the simplicity, and completeness), you’ll love Torkom’s masterwork. No offense to Uncle Rick, but Torkom’s text totally eclipses his, and I just need you to have both in your library. I consider it a textbook on creative living, not art as hobby, or art as vocation, or as a goal, and it stays open on my coffee table. It contains a type of wisdom that grows with me, and offers me something for every stage in my journey.

I can’t wait to share it with you.