The Creator’s dilemma
Here’s an excerpt from an upcoming bookito of mine I think you’re going to enjoy:
The Artist, The Mystic, and The Scientist
Overcome The Creator’s Dilemma —
Create at Your Playful, Soulful, Experimental Best
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The place we find ourselves in
We creators want to add our note to the cacophony — we want to create something meaningful. We want to disturb the matrix, we want to insert our song into the songbook, we want to play in the pool . . . but not by ourselves.
This bookito is for creators. It’s not for those who are ‘just doing it for themselves.’ That’s a hobby, a pastime, a piffle. This is for creators who want to engage and weave their part in the great human tapestry — you. At the core of this text is the understanding that we want to create because we want to participate.
If you don’t want to participate there are monasteries and the Sunday New York Times for you. Or for some unlucky few, vast inheritances. Monk life can disappear you for a lifetime; the Sunday newspaper for a day; your digital devices, indefinitely.
All creators have an artform.
Or several. It may be actual art — sculpture, video, books, hip hop.
It may be fast-charging thrill-to-thrill adventures.
It may be a chill lifestyle — my dream life — with ample time for unhurried thought and connection.
It may be a home so nurturing even deadened souls want to hang out there — discreetly — in between lifetimes.
It may be genuine service to others at every opportunity (wish I could claim this is me, but really it’s my brother).
It may be an indie biz, a craft, a calling, a mission, a quest.
To live the artful life — however it appears to you in your waking dreams — it helps to do it soulfully.
Soulful doesn’t take away pain when someone cheats on you or the terrible reckoning when you lose the savings you’ve accumulated over many years, but it does make you fluid.
Like water.
When you think soulful, think water. You know you want to splash in the water — you do!
You want to be the water in all its flowy glory. Whether it is pooled or coursing or dripping or evaporating, water takes the easiest path.
Soulful is fluid, flexible and patient.
Soulful is Easeful.
Playful.
Joyful.
Loveful.
Laughful.
Smileful.
Meaningful.
Purposeful.
Real.
The moment we seek to create something fulfilling chaos envelops us. Before even. Chaos is the condition of a universe without fate, without predetermination. Chaos is a trillion trillion objects energies lifeforms moving on their own trajectories, not yours.
There’s a way to dispel the snarl of chaos . . . the sense of futility inside, the urgency outside.
Bring your soul into it.
If you want to go soulful it helps to have the Artist, the Mystic and the Scientist in your pocket.
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The Artist is the creator.
The Mystic is the soul source.
The Scientist is the brainpower.
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