
The Generative Self work suggests that you can do this by integrating the three minds – somatic, cognitive, and the field – to forge a higher state of consciousness.*
Stephen Gilligan
Being creative is not only about thinking: it is about feeling. … Feeling, hunches, subconscious perceptions and intuitions can all play a central part in creative work, and not only in the arts.**
Ken Robinson.
A generative life is a
deeper
life;
It does not lie around on the surface of the
ordinary and everyday.
It is openness and connection that brings us to our generative self:
Openness of mind, of heart, of actions towards all:
Perhaps that was the real quest of this adventure,
the infinite quest for connection with
everything, everyone, everywhere, always –
the quest to let down my barriers,
let go of my agendas and expectations,
and simply open to who and what may come.^
This deeper life equates to
the hero’s journey,
Our protagonist leaving their ordinary existence
for a special world,
Discovering their life not only has an everyday plane,
But also a mythical level through which they see
themselves and everything in a transcending way:
I find … that when we’re in mythic
or spiritual levels of consciousness,
we become citizens of a larger universe
with regard to perception, time, space,
dimensionality, and possibility.^^
What are you going to make?
*Stephen Gilligan and Robert Dilts’ The Hero’s Journey;
**Ken Robinson’s Out of Our Minds;
^Brian McLaren’s God Unbound;
^^Jean Houston’s A Mythic Life.