Jun 14, 2013

Creativity and Prayer

"When you're in your creativity, you're in prayer." Matthew Fox

Whether or not you believe in prayer, when one is in creativity, one is also in healing mode.  Being absorbed in creativity is like being in deep meditation, and the body responds with healing mode.  Last night I watched a NOVA special on how humans are different from different types of apes.  The end answer is that humans can triangulate with another:  one human can call another human's attention to a third thing, and that is what is involved in learning.  Apes do not appear to do that, although they can do many things humans do.  So, the essential difference between humans and apes appears to be that we learn from each other.  Apes certainly do copy each other, but the researchers contend that humans pointing to and enjoying something with another is different behavior than seen in apes.  The researchers also said, "Learning from someone else is the fastest way to get a new idea.  Faster than copying and faster than inventing it oneself."  So, to be human is to learn from and teach one another.  In what way are you teaching someone today?  Who have been your greatest teachers?  Teaching and learning are both creative, and we can become absorbed in either. 

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