The Newcreator’s creative instrument consists of mind, spirit, and a third part that John Steinbeck didn’t mention: body.Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man.
John Steinbeck, East of Eden
However, it’s important to recognise that mind-body-spirit is nothing more than a convenient fiction. Each one of us is an undivided whole, and the abstracted parts work together in ways we will never fully understand.
MIND
Mind is associated with the horizontal plane.
Governed by the brain’s left hemisphere, rightside brings forth mundane world, our default reality.
Here, we experience a representation of reality – a video, not the live performance.
Situated in mundane world, we can only access the synthetic (contrived, mechanical) form of imagination and not its creative (spontaneous, organic) counterpart.
Governed by the brain’s right hemisphere, leftside brings forth primal world, where we experience life in the raw: visceral, untamed, unfiltered, uncodified and unconceptualised.
Located in primal world, we have access to creative imagination, the source of world-enriching possibilities.
Read about the two forms of imagination: creative and synthetic
Read the article Transcend the mundane: what, why and how
BODY
Body is associated with the vertical plane.
Topside, the upper body, is responsible for initiating the new.
Bottomside, the lower body, is responsible for giving form to the new creation, bringing it to fullness and realising its value generation potential.
Newcreators have at their disposal seven creative powers, each corresponding with a certain part of the body. The creative powers combine to form three superpowers.
The seven creative powers represent an embodied process for conceiving new creations, bringing them into being and realising their value generation potential.
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Read more about the seven creative powers and the three superpowersSPIRIT
Spirit is experienced in the heart, where the two planes intersect.
Spirit is synonymous with intent, the generative impulse that streams into the manifest realm from the unmanifest — the unknown and unknowable.
Newcreators open themselves to intent, experience it in their hearts, incorporate it into their beings and put it into action through unconditional service.
Read more quotes about faithFaith 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.
Jay B. Gaskill, The Dialogic Imperative
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