The Creative Process Blog

‘The living presence of God’ is a radical reversal of consciousness: being known by God immediately rather than knowing about a ‘dead idea of god’ mediated by religion.

Closely related to living with God ‘immediately’ is a personal metanoia, turning from external and adaptive existence to inward and self-transcending existence. This going beyond oneself to be oneself is to be ‘beyond human’, united with the Almighty Will for fresh action, leading Nature to perfection.

Theandric (a.) Relating to, or existing by, the union of divine and human operation within the Word, or the joint agency of the divine and human nature.

As Nicolas Berdyaev said, “Who believes in the force of the spirit? Do Christians? . . . Truth must out: the overwhelming majority of men, and among them the Christians, are materialists. Not, mark you, materialists in their doctrine, but in their life.”

AUROBINDO QUOTE
“For no greater seeing mind, no intuitive soul of knowledge has yet come to his surface of consciousness which could make this basic fullness of life a condition for the free growth of something that exceeded it. This new fullness of the means of life might be, by its power for a release from the incessant unsatisfied stress of his economic and physical needs, an opportunity for the full pursuit of other and greater aims surpassing the material existence, for the discovery of a greater and diviner spirit which would intervene and use life for a higher perfection of the being: but it is being used instead for the multiplication of new wants and an aggressive expansion of the collective ego.”

Freedom is radical, primary within the depths of the Origin, demanding imaginative and innovative responsibility. There is no idea, or sytem of ideas, by which the creative process operates. Obedience to the Creator Spirit is to be creative —unique, historic, and unrepeatable—bringing form and value through art.

‘The living presence of God’ is a radical reversal of consciousness: being known by God immediately rather than knowing about a ‘dead idea of god’ mediated by religion.

Closely related to living with God ‘immediately’ is a personal metanoia, turning from external and adaptive existence to inward and self-transcending existence. This going beyond oneself to be oneself is to be ‘beyond human’, united with the Almighty Will for fresh action, leading Nature to perfection.

Theandric (a.) Relating to, or existing by, the union of divine and human operation within the Word, or the joint agency of the divine and human nature.

As Nicolas Berdyaev said, “Who believes in the force of the spirit? Do Christians? . . . Truth must out: the overwhelming majority of men, and among them the Christians, are materialists. Not, mark you, materialists in their doctrine, but in their life.”

AUROBINDO QUOTE
“For no greater seeing mind, no intuitive soul of knowledge has yet come to his surface of consciousness which could make this basic fullness of life a condition for the free growth of something that exceeded it. This new fullness of the means of life might be, by its power for a release from the incessant unsatisfied stress of his economic and physical needs, an opportunity for the full pursuit of other and greater aims surpassing the material existence, for the discovery of a greater and diviner spirit which would intervene and use life for a higher perfection of the being: but it is being used instead for the multiplication of new wants and an aggressive expansion of the collective ego.”

Freedom is radical, primary within the depths of the Origin, demanding imaginative and innovative responsibility. There is no idea, or sytem of ideas, by which the creative process operates. Obedience to the Creator Spirit is to be creative —unique, historic, and unrepeatable—bringing form and value through art.