Novelties of Nous now available in 5 unique collectible decks!

Novelties of Nous are designed to bring your conflicting thought processes into accord in moments when you most need the timeless wisdom of Artistic Mind. Artistic Mind, or nous from the Greek νοῦς, is our innate human capacity for direct knowing of existential truths beyond what is knowable throug rote teaching, analysis and intellect.

Nous is an expansive form of intelligence available to us all. Thousands of individuals throughout time have accessed nous in search of spiritual guidance, collective insight, personal healing, social innovation, and creative inspiration. These individuals have included mystics, writers, painters, poets, philosophers, dancers, actors, activists, teachers, biologists, designers, architects, historians, shamans, sculptors, scientists, psychologists and sages.

Now you can benefit from the wisdom of Artistic Mind to enrich the meaningfulness of your daily life. Novelties of Nous are designed for life-long daily practice in personal sense-making. Each illuminating prompt is a synaesthetic pairing of visual muse and verbal mantra to activate whole-brain learning. As you contemplate a prompt, your multiple sense-making intelligences are allowed to arrive at an integrated, intuitive and deeply personal meaning.

You can draw a Novelty of Nous from your collection at any time of the day ~ as a prompt for journaling or a catalyst for personal sense-making, as a tool for self-reflection, or when you need an affirmation of the intelligence residing within you.

There's always time to enter the infinite playing fields of Artistic Mind!

Choose one of the 5 Novelty of Nous decks - or collect them all!

Deck of Attentive Imagineers - view here
Deck of Foolish Sages
Deck of Sovereign Collaborators - view here
Deck of Lucid Dreamers - view here
Deck of Collective Individualists - view here

To see the full range of prompts and themes of each collectible deck, please visit the Novelties of Nous Gallery on our website.

Each Novelties of Nous Box Set reflects nine principles for Living Life Artistically: - Imagination - Curiosity - Attention - Intention - Improvisation - Perception - Experience - Transformation - Sovereignty

2 or 3 principles are foregrounded in each collection. For example: Deck 1 | Attentive Imagineers foregrounds Attention and Imagination, while Deck 2 | Foolish Sages foregrounds Perception and Improvisation.

These prompts are simple to use, but far-reaching in effect. They can be used on a daily basis to: 1) affirm your sovereign sense-making potential, and 2) bring curiosity, wonder and appreciation to the forefront of your awareness.

Here are two quick and easy ways to work with the prompts:

1) Hold a statement or question in mind related to your current life experience. For example: "I feel stuck." Shuffle the deck before randomly drawing a single prompt. Notice any associations, feelings or memories that arise as you contemplate both the visual muse as well as the verbal mantra. How do these two impulses complement each other?

2) Hold a feeling sense of your issue or life experience. You may not be able to translate this feeling into words, but it could appear as a sensation of hollowness, heaviness or anticipation. Once again, shuffle the deck before randomly drawing a single prompt. Notice any associations, feelings or memories that arise as you contemplate both the visual muse as well as the verbal mantra. Do any words or phrases stand out in relation to your felt sense?

Embrace the playfulness of paradox as you immerse yourself in the wisdom of Artistic Mind.

To see more Novelties of Nous prompts in action, view our complete playlist of moving collage promotional videos on YouTube @NoveltiesofNous.

Who are the creators of Novelties of Nous?

Novelties of Nous collectible decks are the collaborative result of over 20 years of artistic research by Samantha Prigge (content curator, graphic designer and founder of iNous) and Lanon Prigge (muse and artist). Read more about us here.

If you have any questions or would like to find out about commissioning a personalised deck of prompts, email samantha@inous.org.