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The Unique Connection Between Creativity and Divinity

In the beginning there was…the blank page? light? darkness? a formless void? an idea? Yeah, that sounds right. In the beginning there was an idea, and then someone or something, some being, some entity–choose your own terminology here–made it so. There is an innate connection between creativity and divinity. I could be talking about the numerous creation stories that are found in humanity’s myths and legends, each a little different and yet many of them sound so very much like what we may have known. I could also talk about the latest book you just read. Fiction or nonfiction, it doesn’t matter, and this is the reason why I believe that we are all divine, as are all the flora and fauna on this planet. We have inner divinity and the way to it is our creativity.

There’s power in believing that you have a spark of divinity, a bit of the universe made matter in an attempt to understand itself, a bit of starstuff as part of your essence. Yogic philosophy talks about purusha and prakriti. The first is pure consciousness, a soul or cosmic spirit if you prefer. The other is the material world and primordial elements. They are both combined in us. It is not a mind-body dualism, a Cartesian bargain which the west has used to try and separate us from ourselves and each other. How can you separate the mind from the body? They’re attached, and one without the other is like a Futurama brain in a jar, only without the senses it could not perceive, and thus, could not situate itself in its world. We need our sensory inputs to create just as much as we need our connection to purusha or the cosmic spirit.

We could, I’m sure, debate the word creation. What it should look like? What it is? What it might be? Can you create a feeling, and thus, if so, are the cats who are currently sitting in my lap or next to me co-creators in this blog? There are philosophers who through the years have focused on perception, questions about the really real, who dive into such things. As for myself, yes, I believe that all living things create, which if we broaden our definition of living would include the wind and the water, the rocks and the rain, and that yes, each of these things are imbued with a spark of divinity.

This changes everything. Many of the people I work with and whom I know online, would argue with me that they’re “not special” even though they create things that are filled with beauty or make us think. “I’m just doing what I’ve always done.” Yes, I say in response, you’re allowing your inner divinity to shine and are sharing with us. That is special; you are special.

There is no specialness pie, where if you give a slice to someone leaves less “special” for the rest of us. Special, like divinity, is infinite and has many facets. Sports fans like to rank teams and players. But I don’t think you could argue that one player is more special than the other, because each played the game in their own way. We’re focusing on creativity here, so let me say that there have probably been a lot of words written comparing Da Vinci to Van Gogh, and while you might have a preference between say the Mona Lisa and Starry Night, it would be very difficult to argue that neither one is creative and yes, special.

Creativity taps into parts of us that we don’t know exist, and often brings out things we didn’t know were there. There’s divine action in that creation, a work which started with an idea, one that if we explore further, brings us closer to our spirituality and our own personal divinity. And that, my friends, changes everything, because if we’re divine, then how could we not choose which of our inner stories are true and right for us. And when we begin to do that, we start to take back our power.

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