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Creativity

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by Roy Posner and MSS

Definitions of Creativity
-Characterized by originality and expressiveness; imaginative.

-One who displays productive originality

On Creativity in Thought
When a great many thoughts are co-related by an effort of mind, original thought can arise. And this is creativity in thought. (MSS)

On Insight and Creativity
Insight and creativity begin when you break out of the thinking rut you are in and restructure the problem in a new way. (Prof. Bhavin Sheth)

Creativity and Consciousness
The higher our center of consciousness (in the range of physical, vital, mental, and spiritual), the greater the capacity for creativity.

On Original, Creative Thinking
Behind original, creative thinking is an invisible, intuitive element of spiritual mind that expresses as intelligible comprehension. (Paraphrase of Sri Aurobindo and MSS)

One Becomes Creative When One is Unique
Writers, artists, musicians and poets are unique expressions of human Personality. If they are proud of anything, it is their creativity. One becomes creative when he is unique. (MSS)

Our Own Creativity is Ultimately the Creativity of the Divine
Creative personalities create unique products, but their theme is social, what all society happily receives and endorses. A writer feels that what he writes is his OWN thought. Yoga says thoughts are not ours, they are universal and they pass through our minds. (MSS)

Creativity and Intuition
Creativity enables intuition, which means a fuller perception of the object of any knowledge. This enables even greater knowledge through education, which means greater, faster achievement and prosperity.]

The Process of Revelation of Knowledge
We can witness a process by which an individual moves from thought-based knowledge to revelation of knowledge. After assiduous study and understanding of the many sides of an issue or knowledge, we gain various insights into the object of inquiry. We start to think about the issues, and through logical thinking we understand a bit more. In that session we then stop the logical thinking that produces such insights, and observe what happens next, as revelations and intuitions of knowledge suddenly pour into our minds, without thought. Most powerfully we see that these descents of knowledge are actually dynamically new and synthetic understandings that creatively combine previous insights into a downpour of new revelations of insight into our minds. As a result of that rain of non-thought based insight, we now have a veritable mass of new understanding; one that could have taken years to acquire, but which has now come into the spiritual domain of mind in a few moment of time. This is the future way of knowing, of which a few fortunate individuals are beginning to have experience. 

Supramental Power of Infinite Creativity
Beyond spiritual mind is the ultimate truth consciousness of supermind. When we rise to the plane of supermind, the object of knowledge that we seek is simply in us; whereas through intuitions it descends from outside us. In supermind, when we want to know anything, including anything that we did not know before, it simply appears in our minds in total, in full. We embody a knowledge we never had before, perhaps never existed before on earth, as it just appears in our minds, it is just there within us. In that sense we seem to create it from out of nothing! In one sense it never existed before, therefore it has the character of something dynamically new and creative, and therefore enabling ultimate Delight of being.

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Creative insight that comes as intuition is a distilling of an original Real Idea of Supermind.

On Becoming a Creative Thinker; a Genius
To become a creative thinker go into the depths of one's being, into the inner psychic, personal soul being. That will open you to the spiritual domain of mind from which intuitions of creative thinking will descend. You can take that same route to become a genius, when you open to the universal, cosmic Mind through the psychic.

Creativity and Man's Evolution
Man's productivity and creativity are on the rise as he rises from the physical to the spiritual. (MSS)

Mind's Creativity
Mind's creativity lies in organisation. (MSS)

Infinite Consciousness Enables Infinite Creativity
Since creativity is an inherent characteristic of conscious will and an infinite conscious should be capable of infinite creativity. (MSS)

Nurture Creativity as a Value
Creativity is a value we can nurture -- for ourselves and in society.

Creative Regions Attract Creative People Enabling Prosperity
In regions where creativity is nurtured, it attracts the best people, and thus the most prosperity.

Power of Creativity in Society
Even more significant than our being an 'information' or 'knowledge' economy is the fact that we are a creative economy. We are becoming conscious of the power of creativity to enable success, and we are systematizing this fact in work and in our lives. It is the decisive source of competitive advantage.

The economy by definition becomes creative when it self-generates jobs, service, and Prosperity. The Internet enables this.

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Socially creative persons accomplish. (MSS)

Creativity, Technology, and Skill
The greatest increase in creativity has been witnessed in two related phenomena-- 1) technology, and 2) skill.  The first cannot be put to use without the second while skill by itself is capable of increasing creativity. (MSS)

On Creativity and Higher Education
Higher education enables more creativity. Creative education enables accelerated creativity. Creative self-knowledge enables vast creativity. Supramental [ultimate spiritual] lifestyle is ongoing infinite creativity.

Creativity and Education
Creativity is the highest aspect of education; it is the spearhead of our society. (MSS)

Scientific Creativity
Scientific creativity arises when man detaches from the limited linear, unidimensional thought processes and discovers hidden relationships undisclosed to logical thought. We may call this an effort not to think. Silence thus leads to Insight. This is a spiritual truth. (MSS)

Logic of the Infinite
We perceive the logic of common sense, of cause and effect in the gross/material plane, but they are pale in scope, in truth, in power, in creativity, in dynamism, in variety, in possibility and actuality to the "logic of the Infinite."

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