What is Creativity?

[Keryo Koffa]

The notion I am attached to is the idea that I can make things up and create new unique art from nothing, being individually responsible.

But that doesn't really make sense, ideas occur within me but the only ones I can follow and expand are the ones I already have witnessed.

Ideas pop into existence, I set a focus, but the insight simply appears, the process feels impersonal and no different from outside inspiration.

We collect and shuffle patterns rearranging them or gaining insights based on intuition, synergy of concepts and what's in-between the lines.

One might say god is creative, but same thing there, everything is a part of god, god explores itself and can see, observe, organize patterns.

But going for Non-Duality everything just exists and flows through awareness, morphing in form and spawning insights.

I can take a bunch of colors and rearrange some lines and pick up neat patterns and forms I remember and create a new context.

None of the elements are original, they are observations or meta-models and I can relate those too, creating new configurations.

I can use the Buddhi (Intellect) to cut and separate reality into parts and then arrange them, there is a lot of leeway.

But essentially, I'm taking advantage of a huge database of forms and reshuffling them into new scenarios.

But maybe that ability itself is creativity, though it might be dictated by desires which clashes with determinism, but that depends on the self.

If there is no self, just an experience occurring, there's still a sense of self and if that is deconstructed, there is no self but also no problem.

Maybe creativity is the foundation of reality, concepts merging with other concepts creating gestalts that create other gestalts and grow.

Arising self-organizing lifeforms, complex self-witnessing structures, created and driven by creativity to create new creativity through being.

Which would make us the expression, observer and agent of creativity, a wave in the ocean, all concepts, all imagination, all creativity.

[lostingenosmaze]

Leo needs to work on this for an episode, getting tired of all his examples revolving around rape and Trump