TERRY MARKS-TARLOW, PhD
I am a clinical psychologist in private practice in Santa Monica, CA, an author of more than 15 books, all of which I’ve illustrated myself. I’m also an adjunct professor at Pacifica Graduate Institute and California Institute of Integral Studies, where I teach interpersonal neurobiology. I write about clinical intuition, creativity, and nonlinear dynamics. Clinically, I specialize in creative expression and blocks. I am proud to have co-founded Mirrors of the Mind with Pamela McCrory, as this is such an incredibly vibrant and growing art community. I love to walk my talk by doing ballet and yoga six days a week, while studying the process as an embodied form of progress.
Circle of Life
(Colored Pencils on Paper, 8.5" x 11")
In the beginning ….
He was longing for envelopment and asked the wind what to do. Wind said go to the ocean and you will find Her. He went but She wasn’t there. He asked the trees, and they said look to the stars at night, you will find Her. But She wasn’t in the stars. Finally, He asked the flowers and they said look inside yourself first, that is the beginning. Only then She appeared, and He and She saw truly, deeply into one another.
- Leanne Domash
Many indigenous cultures represent the circle of life as full interpenetration between the elements, while we in the West all too easily reduce the complexity of nature to clockwork mechanism. The Circle of Life represents my desire to embrace Nature’s interlocking cycles as they life both inside and outside of us.