This web site is unique. It concentrates
on new, original aspects of the creative thinking process.
We explore the many windows into the creative
mind and soul. Decades of research on the philosophy of creativity have
curiously resulted in many shallow writings on creativity.
This writer warmly encourages your opinions
on creative genius.
The creatively intelligent soul has simple
and complex sides. One’s imaginative flights of mind may be simple experiences,
or much more.
Creative people usually lack a deep understanding
for why they are creative. They may or may not have mastered the complex
sides which usually occurs in their subconscious. The more hidden complex
aspects make things possible. The background that allows flights of fancy
like the mechanics of aeronautics are complex.
Except for this site and those linked with
us, you’ll be hard pressed to find anything else like it. The other writings
fail to mention, let alone, integrate more than a few of the ingredients
needed to maximize creative thinking.
Ingredients For Creative Thinking
This site explores how the following inter-relate
in creative thinking:
Cultural Anthropology: The role different
cultures play in our creative thought process.
Sociology: For example eccentricity
and conformity. Sociological consequences of appearing too creative or
uncreative. Difficulties fitting in within main stream society and or artistic
sub-cultural norms.
Trust: The interesting correlations
between creativity with love, caring and complete honesty.
Psychology: Like spontaneity and restraint.
Personal growth. Having one’s life in reasonable order, without excessive
problems sapping creativity.
Mother nature: Perceptions of reality.
Learning from mistakes. Integrating imagination with the “real world”.
Money and business.
Spirituality: Higher powers. Religions.
The subtle powers of ritual.
By clarifying common boundaries of most writings
on creativity from the above fields I hope you’ll contribute unique ideas
to this site.
Focusing on what is imaginative versus what
lacks imagination can be more satisfying. Following is background information
about the pervasive commonality about the creative thought process. However
why not focus on new optimistic possibilities explored on the other pages,
rather than looking at how the cup is half empty below?
The Lack Of Imagination In
Writings On The Creative Thought Process
A Field Of Inquiry Often Limited To Clichés
Written For The Mass Audience
Creative Risk Strategy Ignored:
-Risk taking is often suggested
in diverse writings including those on creativity. However writings on
creativity are more apt, than other material suggesting the necessity of
taking risks, to avoid the subject of risk strategy.
-The sociology and psychology of creativity
have valuable studies proving fear greatly reduces creativity. What’s new?
-My studies show discussing risk strategy
to the general populous, dreaming about increasing their creativity, sends
mixed signals. Their creative juices usually freeze by the simple mention
of realizing actual risks, and the value of developing creative risk reduction
strategies.
-Risk strategy also reduces the inspiration
for workshop attendees, and buyers of books on creativity to spend money.
-The few complex minded near geniuses however
are often fascinated by these creative risk strategies. Integrating imagination
with creative risk strategies as covered in my other writings has a limited
audience due to the profoundness of the subject matter.
Positive Thinking:
-How valuable visualization and
optimistic thinking and faith are when integrated with creative risk strategy
and other components of successful creativity.
-Success from positive thinking is generally
portrayed as only requiring enough faith and whatever one desires will
become reality.
-Why not explore how optimism fosters inspiration
that better ignites interest from others in helping make a project successful?
Simplification is easier to convey a wide audience than “creative strategy”.
-The simpler minded whether they are preached
the virtues of optimism in church or other social gatherings are swayed
by the hope “positive thinking” offers. Complication of the subject makes
people think, can bring difficult questions from the audience, and hence
doubt, which puts water to the fire.
-Thinkers are needed to write about creative
optimism as one key facet of creative strategy.
Step Outside the Box:
-Wonderful concept. However where
are the writers integrating stepping outside the box with the sociology
and psychology of creativity?
-Writings on how to step outside the box
focus primarily only on practical applications with scant attention to
the creative soul. The greatest number of practical writings and transcending
the box are perhaps in business. Limited material integrates how to step
outside the box with most of the other already commonly discussed methods
on creativity enhancement.
Creative Meditation:
-This is an interesting area with
extensive potential.
-However there’s little substance to the
existing writings other than covering positive thinking and the other clichés
on increasing creativity.
-How can a creative genius easily keep their
pupil’s contained within a limiting workshop focusing on the calm centeredness
of medication, if the cat is let out of the bag?
-What really is tinkering in the minds of
unknown and famous artists, music composers, and romantic poets when they
meditate?
-What types of creativity are generally most
likely to benefit from creative meditation? What about French artists like
Monet, or new age composers, science fiction and fantasy fiction writers?
-Creatively stirring the minds of meditation
students with the subject of my other papers may not keep pupils fully
tranquil. Isn’t the instillation of tranquility one of the main expectations
paying students expect of their gurus? Isn’t it much harder for a creative
teacher to live off teachings to just the brightest 2% of the population?
Non Criticism:
-Studies by others and myself show
cynicism reduces imagination.
-But the role of critical thinking is something
the more psychological and sociological writings on creativity somewhat
ignore.
-Aren’t discussions on creative critical
thinking going to conflict with and confuse the larger audience, also being
told to be open to anything and everything in the initial idea brainstorming
stages?
-There are passionate ways of integrating
the water of cynicism, with inspiration, without putting out the fire.
This coupled with the other aspects on nurturing the imaginative mind still
has little written about.
Following Are More Creative Subjects
Desiring The
Creative-Philosophers-Club’ Reflective Writings
Music Theory:
-Music inspires creativity. How
does the passionate composer inspire imagination in their target audiences?
-What types of imaginative sounds are most
apt to trigger inspiration in the listener?
-Upbringing: What role does the audience’s
culturally bound thought and behavior patterns, have in determining what
they feel is music worthy of appreciating? For example won’t Handel’s Organ
recitals statistically inspire more Europeans than those from highly cultural
regions of the Middle East or Polynesia?
-The speech of angels comes in different
golden tongues.
-The faint exquisite music of a dream, is
nightmarish to others.
-Music arises with its voluptuous swell,
or may appear just as uninspiring innovative sounds to another.
Fear of the New:
Walls people use to self protect from what’s
experienced as new. Though “fear of the new” is a common topic, few of
the successful ways of creatively reducing other’s inhibitions are described.
Nurturing:
The importance of nurturing in inspiring
imagination in a creative group of friends. The desire for love and creativity
are strongly related driving forces that inspire each other.
Blocks creative people have working with
each other:
A high percentage of people are more creative
when alone. This is generally because others take rather than give energy.
Brainstorming with other like-minded creative souls is probably the most
inspiring magic an imaginative soul can dream for; failure to achieve this
however are not grounds for disbelieving its possibilities!
Destructive Behavior:
Why a high percentage of creative people
can vacillate from being compassionate one day, and destructive to others
the next. Imaginative people statistically are more likely than the general
population to lack a grounding in practical issues resulting in more chaos.
Though mood swings can be more likely in creative people, along with frustration
and other emotions, behavior from imaginative people that is destructive
towards their friends and co-workers should not be tolerated.
Society’s Distrust of Creative People:
Why people are intuitively more distrustful
of creative people. Imaginative people need to change these stereotypes.
The general population’s past experiences sometimes leads them to believe
many creative people are more: Egoistic; Unstable; Unpredictable; Manipulative;
Untrustworthy; and or Tricky.
Dual Realities:
The “two realities” with a creative circle.
The “outer reality” would be the roles creative people have when dealing
with strangers, acquaintances and others outside the circle with whom they
are not emotionally intimate. The “inner reality” has a high degree of
passionate imagination, and unbounded exploration into new dimensions.
The “inner reality” is often kept within the creative group because the
general public may not be ready for anything more than what’s considered
publicly acceptable behavior as exemplified in how one conducts themselves
when operating from the “outer reality” behavioral pattern.
Cultural Adaption:
The creative art of integrating one’s “stepping
out of the box” with “adapting to culturally bound expectations society
places on a person’s creativity”. “Intercultural engineering” integrates
the creative culture in the imaginative person’s mind, with the culture
of the marketplace into which the creative results are introduced. The
greatest emotional and financial success occurs when both cultures are
satisfied.
Being Yourself:
Egoism is a way to ignore restrictions of
one’s imagination. But frequent negative social reactions influence how
we in future allow our imagination to surface from the subconscious, and
then into a societally identifiable form. To do just what one feels like
without carefully weighing the effects is simply stupid, yet this philosophy
is what is proposed by the majority of publications on increasing creativity.
Or are the publications preaching to the less than greatly gifted, whose
creativity might be limited to tattoos, paintings and other forms of art?
Like it or not mankind is genetically a social animal. Society can be cruel
to those who trample upon it. We are happier and live longer when in socially
rewarding relationships. Integrating imagination in the context of socially
healthy situations is the magical key to success and happiness. How will
you creatively attempt this?
More gateways to new areas on imagination,
the passionate innovative mind, and the charming magical soul are touched
upon in the papers within this web site. Read his papers which provocatively
begin to uncover hidden gateways. Steven hopes you might be one of the few
who have something to say. Your contributing ideas are eagerly invited!
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