Post by Admin on Sept 25, 2015 13:49:04 GMT
9.25.15
Through the spaces during the day of actual moment-oriented thought and awareness - moments marked by a "being" mode of being - one may be afforded the opportunity to open the channels of creativity within oneself. The factory of expression (be it called the mind, soul, spirit, ego, etc.) seems to be of a will to strive and to emerge that can be specifically, but not exclusively, domesticated. But is that what one wants? To domesticate the spirit? It certainly must be contained slightly if for no other reason than merely to be perceived or defined. Such is the difficulty with the profession of faith or the maintenance of dogma; that one must be able to demarcate boundaries around one's own performance of life. This leads also to the difficulty of creative expression . Discussion of creative expression leads to the consideration of the possible distinction between facets of a creative event or experience. One such distinction is between an Authentic and an Original expression of creativity. [Taken from a Partially Examined Life episode on Schopenhauer.] It is a strangely difficult task to bracket aside the urge to attain originality for the sake of being authentic. Experiencing or performing a wholly unoriginal creative moment because it is there in one's mind to do so seems uneventful, but is it if done in an authentic way? Looking toward the future, does such a moment lead to a synergistic combination of what one is (historical influence) and what one is becoming (ontological emergence)? Self-doubt seems to play a key role in this difficulty to shed one's drive to impress (possibly the "fault" of the brain's de"fault"-mode processing: seeking out connection with others and scanning for the states of the minds of others literally at all times). In any case, striving toward authenticity with the expectation of future encounters with one's own originality (and possibly the adoption of self-confidence or even amiable, temporary arrogance) seems to be a method of expressive living that may prove fruitful - despite the admitted fact that the "fruit" in this case may in fact be originality for the sake of impressing upon others the feeling of self-importance which would be, in effect, un-fruitful. Oh well.
Through the spaces during the day of actual moment-oriented thought and awareness - moments marked by a "being" mode of being - one may be afforded the opportunity to open the channels of creativity within oneself. The factory of expression (be it called the mind, soul, spirit, ego, etc.) seems to be of a will to strive and to emerge that can be specifically, but not exclusively, domesticated. But is that what one wants? To domesticate the spirit? It certainly must be contained slightly if for no other reason than merely to be perceived or defined. Such is the difficulty with the profession of faith or the maintenance of dogma; that one must be able to demarcate boundaries around one's own performance of life. This leads also to the difficulty of creative expression . Discussion of creative expression leads to the consideration of the possible distinction between facets of a creative event or experience. One such distinction is between an Authentic and an Original expression of creativity. [Taken from a Partially Examined Life episode on Schopenhauer.] It is a strangely difficult task to bracket aside the urge to attain originality for the sake of being authentic. Experiencing or performing a wholly unoriginal creative moment because it is there in one's mind to do so seems uneventful, but is it if done in an authentic way? Looking toward the future, does such a moment lead to a synergistic combination of what one is (historical influence) and what one is becoming (ontological emergence)? Self-doubt seems to play a key role in this difficulty to shed one's drive to impress (possibly the "fault" of the brain's de"fault"-mode processing: seeking out connection with others and scanning for the states of the minds of others literally at all times). In any case, striving toward authenticity with the expectation of future encounters with one's own originality (and possibly the adoption of self-confidence or even amiable, temporary arrogance) seems to be a method of expressive living that may prove fruitful - despite the admitted fact that the "fruit" in this case may in fact be originality for the sake of impressing upon others the feeling of self-importance which would be, in effect, un-fruitful. Oh well.