Da Vinci Decoded

Chapter One

Chapter 1


Leonardo and the Rebirth of
the Sacred Feminine


Actually, Da Vinci was in tune with the balance between male and female. He believed that a human soul could not be enlightened unless it had both male and female elements.
-dan brown, the da vinci code


Since the publication of How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci in 1998, I've traveled around the world sharing the creative inspiration of history's greatest genius with a wide range of audiences. I've addressed schoolteachers in Spokane and St. Louis, U.S. Postal Service workers in Washington, D.C., advertising executives in Slovenia, pharmacists and physicians in Philadelphia, Cancoen, and Costa Rica, professors and MBA students in Charlottesville, human resource managers in Istanbul, designers and marketers in London, Paris, and Portland, nurses in San Diego, company presidents in Little Rock, Las Vegas, Venice, Rome, and Madrid, gifted children in Virginia, and the listeners of countless call-in radio shows, to name just some of my audiences. The most common questions I hear from the people who call in, raise their hand, or come up to me afterward are "Did Leonardo believ ... read full excerpt from: Da Vinci Decoded ebook