This article, a work in progress, replaces the previous overlong and over-complicated one.
It will be completed during the next few days.
Jack Martin Leith
Newcreate originator
4 December 2024
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 is associated with the horizontal plane.
Leftside 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 form of imagination and not its creative (spontaneous) counterpart.
Rightside brings forth primal world, in which 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 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.
Read about the seven creative powers and three superpowers
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, world-enriching service.
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