The Creative Process Blog

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.

MASLOW QUOTE
“The new education-through-art movement with its stress on non-objectivity is one subject in which right and wrong are much less involved, in which correctness and incorrectness can be pushed aside, and in which therefore the child can be confronted with himself, with his own courage or anxiety, with his stereotypes or his freshness, etc. A good way to say this is that where reality has been withdrawn, we have a good projective test situation, and we therefore have a good psychotherapeutic or growth situation. This is exactly what is done both in projective testing and insight therapy; i.e., reality, correctness, adaptability to the world, physical and chemical and biological determiners are all removed, so that the psyche can reveal itself more freely. I might even go so far as to say that in this respect, education through art is a kind of therapy and growth technique, because it permits the deeper layers of the psyche to emerge, and therefore to be encouraged, fostered, trained, and educated.” A. H. Maslow

Unthinking bureaucracies would surely disappear if people were educated to be ‘artists of life’. Compliance would be replaced by commitment, allowing all communities to become learning communities. We do not need one world government, one world corporation, or even one world religion . . . what we need is an ethic that is based on transcultural commitment to the Mystery of the One, within which diversity is desired rather than sameness.

The god contained in mental structures is overcome by the Living God. Chaos of integral thought replaces rigidity of fear! The economy must flow, education must flow, all resources must flow. . . so all people can live to capacity and creativity.

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.

MASLOW QUOTE
“The new education-through-art movement with its stress on non-objectivity is one subject in which right and wrong are much less involved, in which correctness and incorrectness can be pushed aside, and in which therefore the child can be confronted with himself, with his own courage or anxiety, with his stereotypes or his freshness, etc. A good way to say this is that where reality has been withdrawn, we have a good projective test situation, and we therefore have a good psychotherapeutic or growth situation. This is exactly what is done both in projective testing and insight therapy; i.e., reality, correctness, adaptability to the world, physical and chemical and biological determiners are all removed, so that the psyche can reveal itself more freely. I might even go so far as to say that in this respect, education through art is a kind of therapy and growth technique, because it permits the deeper layers of the psyche to emerge, and therefore to be encouraged, fostered, trained, and educated.” A. H. Maslow

Unthinking bureaucracies would surely disappear if people were educated to be ‘artists of life’. Compliance would be replaced by commitment, allowing all communities to become learning communities. We do not need one world government, one world corporation, or even one world religion . . . what we need is an ethic that is based on transcultural commitment to the Mystery of the One, within which diversity is desired rather than sameness.

The god contained in mental structures is overcome by the Living God. Chaos of integral thought replaces rigidity of fear! The economy must flow, education must flow, all resources must flow. . . so all people can live to capacity and creativity.