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Creative Consciousness
How does One "pull down" our Creative Images from the Astral Plane into a form here on Terra Firma?
Date: 4/16/2005 10:36:58 PM ( 19 y ) ... viewed 1496 times Creativity. Gowan described 3 modes of expression: Trance = Prototaxic or ego absent; ART = Parataxic is art, myth, and dream, while Creativity is syntaxic or ego fully present, rather than dissociated or preconscious.
Since there was obviously creativity in the Parataxic Mode of Art, what distinguishes this stage from that? Art is the level of intuitive apprehension of pictorial images. This level means verbal creativity, which is an intuitive form of the next level of Psychedelia (Daath). Creativity is verbal because the information coming from the preconscious is understood by the mind.
At this stage, we not only understand our own psychology pretty well, we can also verbalize about our condition. Having named our demons (mother complex, puer complex, negative senex, etc.) we win to a certain stage of conscious realization in the process of individuation.
When such a degree of mental health is achieved through one method or another, creativity will inevitably emerge. Freed from the stress of an overemotional reactivism, a person flowers through various modes of self-expression. This indicates a fluid relationship between the individual's ego and preconscious.
Verbal creativity is marked by proficiency at analogy and metaphor. To be able to create these implies the ability to see through to underlying similarities in the dissimilar.
The beginnings of the creative process lie in introspection on information previously assimilated. This may take many forms, such as focusing on a problem and studying all angles of it, with various repercussions. After preparation and incubation, an illumination, or answer to the problem may suddenly occur. Its application will show if it is a true answer, or can be verified as useful.
Creativity is part of the basis of philosophy in that it raises problems or questions, which it seeks to resolve through verbal creativity.
Gowan lists several theories concerning creativity, and the powers and virtues of verbal and mathematical creativity. He asserts that creativity has cognitive, rational and semantic aspects. Other aspects of creativity are personal or environmental, or stem from a certain psychological openness.
The inspiration for creativity comes from the ability of the ego to access the contents of the collective preconscious.
Activity directed in this manner leads to high well-being and self-actualization. Understanding increases along with creative organization. One gains in ability to combine the familiar in new and innovative ways. To be truly creative requires at least four traits according to Fromm: "capacity to be puzzled, ability to concentrate, capacity to accept conflict, and willingness to be reborn everyday."
Maslow extended creative traits to include "spontaneous, expressive, effortless, innocent, unfrightened by the unknown or ambiguous, able to accept tentativeness and uncertainty, able to tolerate bipolarity, able to integrate opposites." Whelan (1965) added, "energy, autonomy, confidence, openness, preference for complexity," etc.
Creativity also brings a sense of destiny and personal worth. This brings a sense of joy, contentment and acceptance of self, which show its transformative ability. Creative people, who accept themselves, also have the further ability for compassion or brotherly love, (agape).
Gowan concludes that "creativity has a holistic quality, which restores the balance between right and left hemisphere function, between analog and digital computer aspects of thinking...Man's mind is a device for bringing infinite mind into manifestation in time; creativity is the commencement of this actualization."
According to Gowan (1975), the Creative level of the Syntaxic Mode includes five procedures:
1. Tantric Sex: level of intimacy
2. Creativity: level of generation and Individuation
3. Biofeedback: level of generating
Alpha Waves at will
4. Orthocognition: level of consciously willing potential to manifest, creative visualization,
ego integrity
5. Meditation: level of disciplined consistency and time transcendence.
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