The Creative Process Blog

“Make a profit at any cost!” We are ‘competing ourselves to death’, (which is not a very ‘competent’ thing to do). This criticism requires, of course, understanding that economy is the way to build community, not simply a way to make money. Almost everyone is aware that the global economy is so severely ‘out of balance’, that in some instances, it is creating a psychotic world. (see note below)

Meaning or money, which facilitates a viable community? Humanity has a choice: celebrate diversity within the whole, or force separate and competing interests into a ‘total system’. Are the parts self-aware creating the whole together? (responsibility), or does the whole tell the parts how-to-be? (accountability). This choice determines whether the Earth will be coerced and exploited, resulting in fragmentation and alienation, or brought to mutuality and community.

ACCOUNTABILITY (SRI AUROBINDO QUOTE)
“An external unity with others must always be an outward joining and association of external lives with a minor inner result; the mind and heart attach their movements to this common life and the beings whom we meet there; but the common external life remains the foundation, - the inward constructed unity, or so much of it as can persist in spite of mutual ignorance and discordant egoisms, conflict of minds, conflict of hearts, conflict of vital temperaments, conflict of interests, is a partial and insecure superstructure.”

RESPONSIBILITY (SRI AUROBINDO QUOTE contined)
“The spiritual consciousness, the spiritual life reverses this principle of building; it bases its action in the collective life upon an inner experience and inclusion of others in our own being, an inner sense and reality of oneness. The spiritual individual acts out of that sense of oneness which gives him immediate and direct perception of the demand of self on other self, the need of the life, the good, the work of love and sympathy that can truly be done. A realization of spiritual unity, a dynamization of the intimate consciousness of one-being, of one self in all beings, can alone found and govern by its truth the action of the divine life.”

The ethic by which community forms depends on “that sense of oneness which gives him immediate and direct perception of the demand of self on other self, the need of the life, the good, the work of love and sympathy that can truly be done.” Just as Søren Kierkegaard said that each individual would be asked only one question, “Did you live in despair, and did you win or did you lose?”, so the community will be asked: “Did you realize that you were not a community, that everyone was ‘out for themselves’, or did you win by celebrating “the joy of an intimate self-revealing diversity of the One, the multitudinous union and happy interaction within the One, will give a fully perfected sense to the gnostic life.”?

(NOTE: PSYCHOSIS) from Wikipedia
Psychosis is a generic psychiatric term for a mental state in which thought and perception are severely impaired. Persons experiencing a psychotic episode may experience hallucinations, hold delusional beliefs (e.g., grandiose or paranoid delusions), demonstrate personality changes and exhibit disorganized thinking (see thought disorder). This is often accompanied by lack of insight into the unusual or bizarre nature of such behaviour, difficulties with social interaction and impairments in carrying out the activities of daily living. A psychotic episode is often described as involving a “loss of contact with reality”.

“Make a profit at any cost!” We are ‘competing ourselves to death’, (which is not a very ‘competent’ thing to do). This criticism requires, of course, understanding that economy is the way to build community, not simply a way to make money. Almost everyone is aware that the global economy is so severely ‘out of balance’, that in some instances, it is creating a psychotic world. (see note below)

Meaning or money, which facilitates a viable community? Humanity has a choice: celebrate diversity within the whole, or force separate and competing interests into a ‘total system’. Are the parts self-aware creating the whole together? (responsibility), or does the whole tell the parts how-to-be? (accountability). This choice determines whether the Earth will be coerced and exploited, resulting in fragmentation and alienation, or brought to mutuality and community.

ACCOUNTABILITY (SRI AUROBINDO QUOTE)
“An external unity with others must always be an outward joining and association of external lives with a minor inner result; the mind and heart attach their movements to this common life and the beings whom we meet there; but the common external life remains the foundation, - the inward constructed unity, or so much of it as can persist in spite of mutual ignorance and discordant egoisms, conflict of minds, conflict of hearts, conflict of vital temperaments, conflict of interests, is a partial and insecure superstructure.”

RESPONSIBILITY (SRI AUROBINDO QUOTE contined)
“The spiritual consciousness, the spiritual life reverses this principle of building; it bases its action in the collective life upon an inner experience and inclusion of others in our own being, an inner sense and reality of oneness. The spiritual individual acts out of that sense of oneness which gives him immediate and direct perception of the demand of self on other self, the need of the life, the good, the work of love and sympathy that can truly be done. A realization of spiritual unity, a dynamization of the intimate consciousness of one-being, of one self in all beings, can alone found and govern by its truth the action of the divine life.”

The ethic by which community forms depends on “that sense of oneness which gives him immediate and direct perception of the demand of self on other self, the need of the life, the good, the work of love and sympathy that can truly be done.” Just as Søren Kierkegaard said that each individual would be asked only one question, “Did you live in despair, and did you win or did you lose?”, so the community will be asked: “Did you realize that you were not a community, that everyone was ‘out for themselves’, or did you win by celebrating “the joy of an intimate self-revealing diversity of the One, the multitudinous union and happy interaction within the One, will give a fully perfected sense to the gnostic life.”?

(NOTE: PSYCHOSIS) from Wikipedia
Psychosis is a generic psychiatric term for a mental state in which thought and perception are severely impaired. Persons experiencing a psychotic episode may experience hallucinations, hold delusional beliefs (e.g., grandiose or paranoid delusions), demonstrate personality changes and exhibit disorganized thinking (see thought disorder). This is often accompanied by lack of insight into the unusual or bizarre nature of such behaviour, difficulties with social interaction and impairments in carrying out the activities of daily living. A psychotic episode is often described as involving a “loss of contact with reality”.