The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

The epilogue defines the Artist’s Way as a spiritual journey and recognizes the creative process as a spiral, a fog, and a pilgrimage. She references Thomas Merton’s Seven Storey Mountain, which has a central image of a mountain that helps her envision the creative process. She finds the image of climbing mountains for oneself a useful way to look at the creative journey, though she also makes other analogies to recursive and meandering things like stumbling through the fog and embarking on a journey. She mentions an image that lives in her head of a mountain in the Chinese film entitled The Horse Thief and described to her by Mark Bryan, her friend and writing partner. In the film, a man must journey up a mountain by lying prostrate after each step as penance for bringing shame to his village. Cameron then leaves readers with the notion of the spiritual creative journey as climbing a mountain in reverence and closes with a poem titled “Words for It.”

This section covers frequently asked questions and Cameron’s answer to them, covering everything from who can be creative to the reasons artists procrastinate. This is intended to be a supplement to the work and only focuses on the most common questions.