Worksheet 2: Naming Your Higher Power

Naming Your Higher Power

In The Artist's Way and Vein of Gold, Julia Cameron frequently refers to God or god. If you've got any issues with religion, such language make rouse some strong feelings. Aware that some of her readers may be put off by the overtly spiritual language, Cameron offers the following alternate names for that-which-is-beyond or that-which-is-within. Write a few words  or draw a small picture next to each name to describe how it feels to you.

Good Orderly Direction

Higher Power

The Ground of Our Being

Flow

Goddess

Mind

Universe

Source

Now, in the space below, create some of your own names for the divine and write a few words or draw something about how those names feel.

Share your findings with group members only as you are comfortable to do so.