Quantum
Creativity
“All
creativity is based on quantum leaps and uncertainty. At particular
moments in time, truly novel ideas emanate from the collective bed of
information. These ideas did not originate in the fortunate
individual, but in the collective consciousness.”
Deepak
Chopra (The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire, p. 84)
I have heard many writers
and artists, when asked how their story or their work of art was
conceived, answer that they really don't know. Often, one begins with
an idea, and then it seems as though “something else” takes over.
A story, for instance, begins with a notion of what one wants to
write about, but at some point, the characters in that story take
life and form in the mind of the writer, and chart their own course.
Sometimes, the writer is just as stunned as the reader as to where a
particular character goes. They begin to speak of them in the third
person, as though they were an actual human being, and not a figment
of the writer's imagination.
Frequently, scientific
discoveries are made by two or more people at the same time,
unbeknownst to one another. The idea was floating around in the ether
and they were the ones receptive and open enough to seize upon it.
Often, people receive answers to questions not by way of their thinking, but
in their dreams. Einstein was one of those with regard to his theory
of relativity. I was once dating a man whose behavior seemed odd to
me. I liked him very much; he was funny and quite intelligent, but
everything he did seemed a little bit excessive to me—kind of “over
the top.” Finally, in a dream, a voice told me, “He is bi-polar.”
When I awoke, my first thought was, where did that come from, and my
second thought was, of course, he is. Why didn't I see that before?
When we go through life
with a closed mind, when things and people have to look and act a
certain way or they are unacceptable, we cut ourselves off from that
ether, that creative energy that is always available. The required
elements are receptivity and comfort with uncertainty. If you think
you already know the right answer, or you believe your way is the
only way, then it will be very difficult for you to be creative. Life, no doubt, will take its own direction with or without our
cooperation. But when we are open to it, open to all the
possibilities it presents, when we allow spirit/soul to lead, a whole
new, creative world opens before us, and that makes everyday an
adventure.
In the Spirit,
Jane
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