Some Newcreate questions answered

Newcreate is an ‘enrich the world’ way of thinking, doing and being.

Newcreators are dedicated to transcending the mundane, creating the new and enriching the world with value, meaning and joy.

Newcreate is not a prescriptive method, process or practice.

It is not a consulting firm, training provider or commercial venture of any kind.

The word Newcreate can be deployed as a modifier. For example, a Newcreate project is create-the-new project having the purpose of enriching the world with value, meaning and joy.

Newcreate is for people who want to transcend the mundane, create the new and enrich the world with value, meaning and joy.

Newcreate is the product of my long-running inquiry into how the new comes into being, beyond prevailing theories and practices.

I translated theoretical knowledge into practical action during the 30 years I spent as a co-creation practitioner specialising in the areas of complex problem solving, breakthrough innovation and systemic change.

Inspiration and insight came from many sources, in particular:

• Iain McGilchrist, best known for his work on how the brain’s hemispheres differ in the way they attend to the world, and how each hemisphere contributes in its own way to perception, thought and behaviour.
• Napoleon Hill, author of Think &  Grow Rich!
• Carlos Castaneda, who wrote about his apprenticeship with don Juan Matus.
• Edward Matchett, author of Creative Action and several other books.

The book Talking with Angels also played an important role.

The inquiry continues, involving extensive study, discussion, experimentation and real-world application.

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How Newcreators use mind, body and spirit to create the new and enrich the world

About Jack Martin Leith

The origins of Newcreate

Newcreate is based on the premise that we are here to create the new and enrich the world, or a particular piece of it, with value, meaning and joy. And not only is this what we are here for — it is also what we are equipped to do.

Newcreators use mind, body and spirit to transcend the mundane, imagine what could be, create the new and realise the value generation potential of that which has been created.

On this website, I present ideas that could easily be dismissed as spiritual fiction, pseudoscientific fallacy or utopian fantasy.

Valuable insights might be rejected just because they were voiced by Carlos Castaneda (“He made it all up!”), Napoleon Hill (“A conman!”), angels (“They don’t exist!”) or some other controversial source.

When cynicism intrudes, remember these wise words from Matt Taylor, co-originator of DesignShop:
The only valid test of an idea, concept, or theory is what it enables you to do.

Faith is essential to the Newcreator — the kind of faith described below by Jay B. Gaskill and Peter A. Georgescu.

Faith is a much-abused term, often derided in modern secular circles as the blind obedience to some arbitrary authority. But it has a wiser and more useful meaning: faith as a critical but curious mind’s readiness to adopt a reality model (even if provisionally) for which there is less than absolute, empirical proof. I propose that this kind of faith is the necessary adaptation by any rational mind to the challenges of life in the real world in which reality presents us with far too much, far too quickly. Events, personalities and relationships that carry embedded meaning and value are not the sorts of existents that can pass any rigid absolute-empirical-proof test.

All trust relationships contain a measure of faith.  So when the term faith is used in this essay, it refers to reasonable faith, as in the faith that is necessary for a reasonable mind to operate in the real world.  Faith in this sense requires courage.  Reasonable faith is heuristic in the sense that it is only by means of growing trust that we can open ourselves to the full range of knowledge that the universe presents to us.

There is a faith path from Isaac Newton through Baruch Spinoza to Albert Einstein that has propelled the scientific enterprise: Each of these great minds was moved by the faith-based conviction that the universe has been endowed with an elegant underlying deign, so miraculously intelligible to human intelligence that scientists are justified in doggedly pursuing its secrets.

Jay B. Gaskill, The Dialogic Imperative

Faith represents an existential commitment of the heart, a way of life, a set of behaviors and emotional responses woven into every hour of everyday life — expressed through constant choices both when alone and in social situations.

Peter A. Georgescu, Faith isn’t irrational, but beliefs may be, on Huffington Post | Peter A. Georgescu is Chairman Emeritus of advertising agency network Young & Rubicam, Inc.

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No.

I attended a Church of England primary school but abandoned Christianity in my teens.

Later in life, I practised Nichiren Buddhism for several years and went on to explore Taoism and Tantra.

I have been a consultant in residence at Findhorn Foundation, the long-established ecovillage and spiritual community located in Scotland, where I trained as a facilitator of The Transformation Game, subsequently hosting many Transformation Game workshops.

I also spent some time at Gondwana Sanctuary, an intentional community situated near Byron Bay in Australia, where many community members are devotees of Osho (aka Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh).

Although I embrace many Christian principles, I am not a Christian. I would find Christianity much more appealing if it were stripped of its dogmas, rituals and anthropomorphism of God.

Today, I might describe myself as an agnostic — “a person who believes that nothing is known or can be known of the existence or nature of God” (view source) — although I tend to avoid such labels.

The only way to become a Newcreator is by initiating a create-the-new project and following the guidance appearing in the 60+ pages of this website, particularly that contained within the article How to harness Newcreate at work and in your everyday life.

I am happy to answer any questions you may have. Please use the contact form located here.

No, but you can connect with me on LinkedIn if you wish.

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