Thoughts Beneath The Trees
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On the right is a summary of online essays on things transpersonal. Many subjects are included -- the creative process, consciousness, spirituality, healing, Creation and Creator, nutrition, and Parapsychology, Transpersonal Psychology. Several models, cosmologies, and experiences, are described. Creativity at its best promotes creative acts in others, inspirations breed inspiration, and beginnings beget beginnings. Authors, poets, and artists with complementary work are thus encouraged to submit material for inclusion here. These articles reflect ways in which the healing - creative process - touches us, ways in which it moves through our consciousness. It is our hope in passing these articles along, that they will inspire, provoke, and touch you who read them. They are for your enjoyment, your thought, and to stimulate a new view of your own personal growth and creative Self. We invite you to share your thoughts about these readings. Join the dialogue and stir new views.
Carlisle Bergquist, MA, LCMFT
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Vantage Quest's developer, Carlisle Bergquist, MA, LCMFT
"As natural as a tree growing in sunlight, creativity permeates our lives and the world in which we live. We cut ourselves off from its constant ebb and flow as we entrain to the rhythm of day to day affairs.
Occasionally, everything falls effortlessly into place; our thoughts, our emotions, our bodies move in sync, as if guided by some force beyond ourselves. We move to a different rhythm, the rhythm of the cosmos.
In those moments of holism, we transcend skill and create things greater than ourselves. We create as if to meet global needs, as if in collective awareness.
Often, creating is left to the "talented few", who, we believe, are gifted. In this time of change, we must reach within, find courage, and go beyond ourselves to the still point of a turning world. In that point of tension is born inspiration and every new idea.
In that still point, we entrain with the universe and break free of the bonds that pattern our lives. In the still point, we heal and recreate ourselves.
Vantage Quest is an exploration of consciousness and new states of creating."
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Article Summaries
An Exploration Using General Living Systems Theory
Creativity is the merger of matter/energy with new information. The process of bringing something new into existence, is an inherent characteristic of life. To live is to create whether we do so unconsciously, or with full awareness. This essay is an academic approach to the creative process using James Miller's General Living Systems Theory to model the course from non-being to created work.
Psychoanalytic, Behaviorist, & Humanistic
Three streams of thought in contemporary psychology view our humanness is distinctly different ways. This is nowhere more evident than in their efforts to explain creativity. This essay explores and compares these divergent views and provides a foundation from which to develop a new transpersonal theory of creativity.
A Theory of Creative Entrainment
The holistic theory models entrainment as a communicative occurrence. Examples are given from several disciplines and four stages of entrainment are delimited. The essay compares theoretical quantum physicist David Bohm's notions of order with the realms of spirit, mind, and body. It proposes stages of entrainment operant throughout these realms and suggests that they perform cumulatively in the creative or unfolding process. The systems perspective develops the thesis that humankind is an iteration of a larger system and that entrainment is a central factor in the transduction of information between individuals and across system levels.
An Exploration of Resonant Being
Many cultures around the globe embrace sound in their exoteric and esoteric traditions. This essay reviews the role sound plays in the religions, creation myths, and sacred technologies of various peoples. This review connects creativity with healing which is considered an act of regeneration thus creating health in the body. Several varieties of healing through sound are discussed including music, drumming, toning, chant, instruments, Kabballah, and prayer. The essay proposes that techniques of sound healing and therapy currently rely on the intuitive ability of individual practitioners. Acknowledging the need for effective healing modalities, it calls for research that can qualify the elemental effects of existing sounds, tones and prayers. Such categorization may help construct an applied holistic healing technology.
Nutrition for Colossal Creativity & Peak Performance
Colossal creativity is a state of balance amongst the mind, the body, and the spirit that actuates human potential. This article concentrates on the vitamin and nutritional components of our system so that they resonate more clearly. The focus is on the brain which rests at the focal point of our physical, mental, and spiritual worlds. It traps and interprets inspiration that comes from deep within, transforming it from one world to another. Colossal creativity unfolds when we nourish every part of our being. Digest new thoughts and ideas to nourish your mind. Develop a daily practice -- whatever your faith -- that invites active participation from your Spiritual-Self.
An essay for general audiences that explores the creative process comparing it with the duality described in many philosophical and spiritual traditions. Techniques are given to apply these strategies to ones individual work.
An academic, yet deeply personal essay about exceptional encounters in Brazil with alternative healing and spiritual tradition. It details a dynamical systems (chaos theory) model of creativity: at "The Valley of The Dawn" a spiritual healing community; in Amyr, a physical medium; and in my experience using Ayahuasca with "The Santo Daime Doctrine" in Rio de Janeiro.
by Paul Krumm
Toward an Economy Based on Curiosity and Caring Instead of Greed
by Paul Krumm
Abstract:
- While the network of money transactions around the world is very complex, the way money works is really rather simple, and is understandable by the ordinary person.
- The study of the operation of money is pivotal to any discussion of cultural values and social justice, as money is the basic language of economic relationships, and the values built into this language impact all social relationships.
In this paper we will describe how the present money game is structured. We will show that the idea that money is value neutral is not correct, and go on to describe how money functions to promote greed.
Some preliminary suggestions will be given, based on theory and what has worked in the past, to change the values built into our money to ones that are more congruent with a curiosity and caring driven economy.
We will also show how the present money game is not sustainable, note that the same changes that lead to a curiosity and caring based system are the same changes that make money and our economy sustainable.
Transforming Reality Through The Arts
by Coni Ciongoli-Koepfinger
Could this be the key to CREATIVE EVOLUTION? Is the creation of a society that questions the reality of its fiction and the fiction of its reality be but a page turn away. Conceivably it is no longer a question of controlling what is real; instead, is it a question of controlling the market analysis that controls what the individual assumes to be real? Perhaps then, we will able to give birth to the new science that is no longer bipolar in its relations of the art and the social – a new science that is born out of a culture that was modified to be the perfect blend of both fact and fiction.
Staying
Centered in Peace
by Lisa Hepner
An essay written in the wake of events on September 11, 2001. This piece addresses the struggles we experience to see beyond the pain. The author draws together the thoughts of many personal growth writers into an inspiring tonic for our wounded souls.