The Creative Process Blog

The universe is the creative process! Divine consciousness is originating ‘what-is’ eternally from the Origin ( i.e. Spirit creating creativity).

I AM participates in all beings as the Ground-of-Being, which is prior to and more than the Creation. I AM THAT I AM; or also, I WILL BE THAT I WILL BE is experienced as ‘beings’ participate within the power of Being, immediately originating who-they-are in a moment of Origin.

The revelatory process fails when separation and isolation occur, having the result that the sacred becomes secular and/or the secular becomes sacred. The redemptive process is a dynamic encounter between sacred/secular whereby wisdom is liberated (i.e. evil is perpetually overcome by good).

Nicolai Berdyaev quote:
“Man’s essential nature is distorted because he fell away from God; beings separated from God and from one another have no immediate experience of spiritual life; they suffer from the disease of isolation. Instead of the immediate experience which reveals the life of the subject, of the existential self, distorted reason develops a way of cognizing the world in an OBJECTIVE form. Man exteriorizes his subjective sensations, projects them and builds out of them objects which stand over against him, form a system of external reality, forcibly act upon him and enslave him. The world system created by such objectificaton is nature as opposed to spirit; it is the world of appearances, of phenomena, while the true, fundamental reality is spirit, the world of NOUMENA, i.e., a world cognized in and through immediate spiritual experience and not through objectivization.”

(quote continued)
“Man is a “dual entity, living both in the phenomenal and the noumenal world” (ibid., 79). Hence, “the noumena can break through into the phenomina, the invisible world into the visible, the world of freedom into the world of necessity” (ibid.,67). That victory of spirit over nature is achieved through sympathy and love overcoming isolation by communication of the “I” and “thou” in immediate spiritual experience which is of the nature of intuition and not of objectivization. “This knowledge is ‘the conjugal’ union of personalities based upon true love”
AN ESSAY ON ESCHATOLOGY AND METAPHYSICS, by Nicolai Berdyaev

Dialogue enables Form to suspend itself in ‘occasions of soul’, so Form become Soul, which perpetually becomes Form, only to become Soul again. Mystics refer to this as a ‘wheel of fire rolling out of itself’. Novelty occurs with infinite qualitative and quantitative possibilities.

The ethic of freedom is finally expressed as creativity within community, requiring dialogue and synergy among solitary people.

The universe is the creative process! Divine consciousness is originating ‘what-is’ eternally from the Origin ( i.e. Spirit creating creativity).

I AM participates in all beings as the Ground-of-Being, which is prior to and more than the Creation. I AM THAT I AM; or also, I WILL BE THAT I WILL BE is experienced as ‘beings’ participate within the power of Being, immediately originating who-they-are in a moment of Origin.

The revelatory process fails when separation and isolation occur, having the result that the sacred becomes secular and/or the secular becomes sacred. The redemptive process is a dynamic encounter between sacred/secular whereby wisdom is liberated (i.e. evil is perpetually overcome by good).

Nicolai Berdyaev quote:
“Man’s essential nature is distorted because he fell away from God; beings separated from God and from one another have no immediate experience of spiritual life; they suffer from the disease of isolation. Instead of the immediate experience which reveals the life of the subject, of the existential self, distorted reason develops a way of cognizing the world in an OBJECTIVE form. Man exteriorizes his subjective sensations, projects them and builds out of them objects which stand over against him, form a system of external reality, forcibly act upon him and enslave him. The world system created by such objectificaton is nature as opposed to spirit; it is the world of appearances, of phenomena, while the true, fundamental reality is spirit, the world of NOUMENA, i.e., a world cognized in and through immediate spiritual experience and not through objectivization.”

(quote continued)
“Man is a “dual entity, living both in the phenomenal and the noumenal world” (ibid., 79). Hence, “the noumena can break through into the phenomina, the invisible world into the visible, the world of freedom into the world of necessity” (ibid.,67). That victory of spirit over nature is achieved through sympathy and love overcoming isolation by communication of the “I” and “thou” in immediate spiritual experience which is of the nature of intuition and not of objectivization. “This knowledge is ‘the conjugal’ union of personalities based upon true love”
AN ESSAY ON ESCHATOLOGY AND METAPHYSICS, by Nicolai Berdyaev

Dialogue enables Form to suspend itself in ‘occasions of soul’, so Form become Soul, which perpetually becomes Form, only to become Soul again. Mystics refer to this as a ‘wheel of fire rolling out of itself’. Novelty occurs with infinite qualitative and quantitative possibilities.

The ethic of freedom is finally expressed as creativity within community, requiring dialogue and synergy among solitary people.