The Creative Process Blog

Albert Einstein defined an ethic as “an enabling, unified understanding.” Without an ethic there is no community, so ethics become what you need to have a community.

But wait, are there inadequate, or dysfunctional communities? Or again, communities that enable diversity and spontaneity of expression? Some have ‘low synergy’, others have ‘high synergy’. Where does synergy and the intimacy of community come from? (Do we even have a global ethic?)

An ethic happens among people, created by them, as they engage each other in dialogue. Instead of an ethic being imposed, an ethic is composed out of each person’s destiny with others. Our shared destiny is to liberate wisdom and beauty (as a way to a higher humanity). Amor sui, amor dei, amor fati is the cry for community — love yourself, love God, love destiny! MORE

In order to be, there must be ‘the-power-to-be’; and how we understand this power determines who-we-are and how-we-live.

Power can be ‘originating power’ coming from within, or ‘manipulative power’ coming from without. The power that comes from within is spiritual, free and responsible, enabling us to transcend; the power that comes from without is mental power, controlling and coercive, conforming us to the commonplace and dull. Understanding power involves understanding the way in which we are situated in existence, how we are related to Being, or more forcefully said, how we are related to the Beyond. MORE

What has become obvious, I have had only one idea, and I still do not know what it is. Just when I think I have come upon a new awareness, or experience, I find that it is the same idea with new words, only increased urgency. I have read theology with an urgency similar to the way a mother reads a First-Aid Manual when her child is spurting blood.

A few years ago, having realized this, I said to myself, “I do not know,” and I still liked myself. The neurotic compulsion let go; I did not ‘have to know’. There was still an intensity; I still wanted to know, but I was freed up. The word ‘Mystery’ took on new importance; no idea would ever content me; my soul was able to soar and plunge more playfully, while still experiencing awe and wonder. MORE

“What alone can regenerate us? Envisionment of what is perfect.” Friedrich Nietzsche

The world is in trouble. When saying this, no one is able to adequately say what the trouble is. Duane Elgin in his book, Promise Ahead, offers extremely disturbing symptoms, he calls ‘adversity trends’. Will we ‘crash’ or will we ‘bounce’? MORE

‘Transcend’ is often thought of as ‘getting out of here’; while transcend can also mean ‘getting in here’ through creativity (i.e. transcend any situation with vitality: over, under, around, through, and beyond). Spirituality creates creativity with transformational processes; we aspire to transcend matter with life, life with mind, and finally, mind with Spirit. MORE

The ‘collective ego’ replaces the ego, which results in a mechanistic mentality . . . ‘conformity rules!’ . . . creativity dies, soul is dominated, and the environment gasps!

Expected to be what ‘they’ tell us to be (Mental health words are conformist) most people adapt, are well adjusted, fit-in, function, produce, consume, and ‘buy tickets for excitement’). However, there are a few who ’step out’ of collective consciousness (i.e. herd mentality); thereby, risking confrontation with a dominating economy that contains, coerces, and controls. The question they are asking, “How is it possible to be free in an unfree world?”

‘Realizing Transcendence’ is not usual; committed to security and comfort people are not prepared to be autonomous, courageous, creative, improvising, process oriented, self-trusting, etc. MORE