The path of Creativity
The path of Creativity
“One may resist the invasion of armies, but not an idea whose time has come.”
Victor Hugo
The life of the great geniuses is full of folk stories telling their irreverent answers, their licentious ways of living and their complete disregard for social conventions. These creative personalities need space so they can spread their wings and reach their ideals. They cultivate the freedom of being as the only possible path towards inner peace. And they know that this is the key that opens the door of creativity: to listen to their inner voice and to be open to changes in order to allow new possibilities to be created for the environment.
Among the many well-known stories, that of Archimedes stands out. He crossed the Siracusa plaza, in III B.C., completely naked, screaming “Eureka! Eureka!”, when he discovered, while bathing, the answer to a problem proposed by the king. At that moment, he felt with full intensity the pleasure which geniuses feel about their creation, when they manage to express a feeling that has tormented them for a long time.
Feeling… Artists, scientists, poets, all agree that the process of creativity begins with a feeling, which infiltrates, spreads, reaches every space and takes over the being. A process constructed based on intense experiences, which walks between pain and pleasure and has its climax with a jump to another dimension.
A fervent path that has no previous references nor procedure manual, that demands complete commitment of all mental and emotional energies, and in which the most difficult task is to break existent paradigms, always maintaining the initial enthusiasm. “Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist after growing up,” explained Picasso.
Einstein concluded that it is harder to disintegrate a preconception than an atom. Creative personalities need to think and evaluate for themselves, so they don’t depend on society’s approval and also not limit their innovation potential. And they have to be prepared to bear the weight of great ideas, which can come accompanied by success… or failure, if their time hasn’t come yet.
That scientist told his friends that he would think 99 times and discover nothing. Quit thinking, plunged into a deep silence and the truth was revealed to him. “The mind advances up to the point where it can analyze, but then passes to a higher dimension, without knowing how it arrived there. All great revelations make this jump.”
Creative personalities seek inspiration in their own worlds… and in others. They know the signs are everywhere. The key to activate the perception of these signs may be the need to resolve a problem, either scientific or, simply, aesthetic. To see what everyone sees, but to see something different. A process linked to intuition, to the capacity of reuniting all information perceived through every sense and to give them a new meaning.
“Once I found in a pile of scrap metal, a bicycle saddle and a rusty handlebar… both pieces connected momentarily in my mind… The idea for the bull’s head was born without my having reflecting on it… I just had to weld.”
And that way Picasso’s Bull’s Head sculpture was born, which entered the history of art.
Divine inspiration, intuitive genius or madness? What matters is that the result that these beings bring to our dimension guarantees humanity’s progress.
These geniuses have a common characteristic. All of them promote, support and encourage the exchange of information and discoveries through debates, study meetings and discussion groups. They naturally share their knowledge with the environment, as a way of repaying the Universe for the great states experienced.
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is mystery. It is the fundamental source of all true art and all science. They who do not know it and no longer marvel, paralyzed in ecstasy, is as if they were dead: their eyes are closed. I want to know how God thinks. The rest… are details.”
Albert Einstein
