CREATIVITY, PASSION AND JACK
I am often asked 'What do you mean by
human beings creating beyond themselves?'
(This refers particularly to my last blog where I
postulated such a notion).
The easy answer is that I read it
somewhere years back and liked it and adopted it into my personal
useful philosophy phrase box, along with similar phrases like 'You
teach best what you most want to know' That sort of useful buzzybrain
stuff.
But I feel it does need explaining, (if only to myself).
So let's start with animals.
Jack, for instance, our neighbours' dog.
Jack, for instance, our neighbours' dog.
Jack is an escape artist, a canine
Houdini. He is also a wanderer and Casanova, dog version.
In Italy, where I live, dogs have to be
either chained, kept within a fenced garden or on a lead if out with
their owner. None of these options appeal to Jack who burrows under
deeply dug fences (or climbs over them) bites through chains and
leads and consequently is the nicest and brightest dog I have ever
met. We are best buddies.
Birds build nests, squirrels, bears, badgers, make winter homes in which to hibernate and cuckoos commit
genocide, bird version, by laying there eggs in nest of small birds.
But you know all this stuff
You get what I'm going on this though,
don't you?
Animals, and yes human animals, are
born with certain instinctive behaviour patterns. but we have that
something extra, beyond the basics of territorial imperatives,
survival and hunting etc.
And it is this added instinct, or
desire if you will.... to create things which have never existed
before, this is what I mean by creating beyond ourselves, be it what
we call art, a garden, a poem, a tune, and entering what I choose to
call the creative garden of now; that realm of total absorption and
abandonment where we are alive to our passion. A passion which has no
end in view except the act of creation itself
So you've guessed it, this is what our
workshops are about, finding out how to enter this state of receptive
mind. Not a conditioned mind or a repetitive mind but one which is
open to that enriching flow of creative beyondness which is waiting
for us all if we had the good sense to step back and recognise it.
Michael and Michelle Rumney are running
a workshop May 26 weekend in Assisi 'Time and Space to be Creative' a
beautiful place, a sumptuous Italian weekend.
For info you can call Michael or leave
a message on WHATSAPP +39 3283535358, SKYPE spiker39
Or email him on michael@starstone.org
