Creativity: Unleashing the Forces Within
About This Book
Real estate agent Eve Elliot of Maryland investigates the murder of an environmentalist film director. The director, a woman, was shooting a documentary on the destruction of the environment by developers on Chesapeake Bay.
What You'll Learn
• Understand creativity as a spiritual quality: Osho's core argument that creativity is not the special gift of a talented minority but the natural expression of a consciousness that is genuinely alive, present, and in contact with the freshness of each moment — and why the apparent 'talent' of creative individuals is better understood as the natural creativity of human consciousness that has not been suppressed by conditioning
• Grasp the conditioning critique: how Creativity diagnoses the specific mechanisms through which conventional education, social expectation, and the pressure to conform suppress natural creative aliveness — the specific moments in development where children learn to value security and approval over genuine expression, and how this suppression becomes the unconscious default of adult life
• Recognise the meditation connection: how Osho connects creativity to meditation — the specific understanding that the full presence to each moment that meditation develops is identical to the inner condition from which genuine creative expression arises, and that the scattered, past-and-future-oriented consciousness of the ordinary mind is the primary obstacle to both meditation and creativity
• Learn the love and relationship dimension: how Creativity addresses the specific suppression of creative aliveness in intimate relationships — the tendency for the initial freshness of love (which is intrinsically creative, intrinsically new) to calcify into routine, expectation, and the management of a predictable arrangement — and what it would mean to bring a genuinely creative orientation to all of one's relationships
• Appreciate the divine creativity teaching: how Creativity situates the human quality of creativity within the context of the universe's fundamental creativity — the understanding that a cosmos that is always creating new forms, new expressions, new configurations is itself the ground from which human creativity flows, and that the human being who is genuinely creative is participating in the most fundamental dimension of the universe's nature
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