Wow, thank you so much for this wonderful response to my life and work. Yes, it is "soul language" and that's the key to open people up to their "soul image/code" as James Hillman has it. Thank you again. You have uplifted me. John.

Thank you so much! Yes, I once wrote a chapter for a book I titled "Creativity as the immune system of the mind and the source of the Mythic" in which I argued that creative fluidity is both healing and revealing. I also believe, as James Hillman argues that creativity reveals the "souls code" the daimon (guiding spirit) if allowed to "flow". Of course language has to be developed and yet allowing unfettered creative development will facilite the development of language. I once had Psychiatrists in a High Secure hospital challenge my belief in allowing free development of patients visual language development saying that it "fed delusion" . I believed the opposite that creativity through its natural reconnection with the disconnected aspects of the psyche in fact re-connected and began to heal the damaged mind. Cheers, John.

Thank you so much. The Westen art world did look down on non-western art as primitive and inferior for a long time. Now the wonderful art of the East, Africa and indigenous peoples is given a platform in the West which enriches us all. Thanks, John.

Naill, thanks you so much for your response to my blog and video. I was artist in residence for a year at Creswell Crags Museum where in the caves at Creswell are Ice Age and Apotropaic carvings. I have incorporated neolithic and Celtic symbolism in my work for many years. I think Jungs notion of "archetypes of the collective unconscious" always made sense as the same symbolic language exists throughout the world and is timeless. Cheers, John.

I sued my insights into the values of the creative process in Schools, Colleges, Universities, and secure Psychiatric hospitals. I would say that my tools to help people in hospitals was creativity (non-judgemental) and silence (meditation). Thanks, John.