It's harmless to lose our creativity, right? All that happens is we're left in "neutral mode", correct?
Besides, we can't all be creative types, yes?
Aside from a few artistic geniuses like Alice Walker
or Claude Monet, there's no need for us to worry about investing in our own creativity. Or...?
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It's easy to think that learning truth requires only that we attend class and commit the truth that's taught us into our memory. We might think that perceptual
creativity - whereby we're in touch with our own perspective, insights and impressions - is simply a luxury we can go without.
Be careful, Leonardo da Vinci would have warned us, here. “Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority,” he pointed out, “uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.”
In other words, to understand for real, reciting established assumptions and conclusions might be inadequate.
No, we need to engage our own mind - and our own, personal sense of truth.
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The alternative is to let writers of fiction - like fear
and anger
- to cost us all sense of perspective, and overwhelm our ability to understand and make sense of the facts, more than merely parrot them back to our teachers.
Take someone with a road rage problem. For that person, it's anger's trick of "making the red mist descend" that costs him his better judgement about his fellow road users.
At stake is others' and his own road safety.
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Take away our creativity, and we're left with a vacuum in the core of our mind and being. And guess what occupies this vacuum with no further invitation needed?
Stress - and "stress forces" like fear and anger.
To lack the creativity that keeps our mind - and perception - alive with its own, creative sense of reality is to offer tyrants (whether political or those of the "stress force" variety) an invitation to seize control of us.
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Our domination by "stress forces" goes with the warping of our whole sense of reality - so that we no longer own our own perception.
We lose such perceptual qualities as appreciation, the sense of beauty and true judgement - which can't be generated just out of a body or knowledge or set of facts, and which we can only perceive to the extent that our mind is kept calm from "stress forces".
What's worse, when we abandon our sense of reality to the likes of fear, immediately we risk becoming mere puppets to a will not truly our own. In other words, we cease to become the captain of our own self.
Click here to find out more about "stress forces" as "script writers"
Click here to learn of a few spectacular warnings from history as to how this very phenomenon can serve to censure truth