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This article originally appeared on my personal blog, Clinsights, here. Editor’s Note: In two days, this post will be locked and is available only to paid members because we don’t want this duplicate content on the open web in a way that might draw traffic away from the original post. You can always read the entire post here. Free Humans Create GrowthWhen humans are free, creation is what we do. We create meaning, purpose, knowledge, art, technology, science, civilization, more humans, families, society, and order. We are universal creators and creation is our purpose. Inside each of us burns the energetic promethean soul-fire driven by the interplay of logos – the divine universal life force of creation and eros – the raw primal creative power in each of us. The ancient Greeks called it logos and eros. We call it drive, obsession, or devotion. Mystics call it vitality, prana, chi, qi or kundalini. Buddhists call it impermanence. Impermanence is another word for change. And, in this case, change is another word for growth and transformation. It is all part of the divine dance of duality which manifests in the male and female energies. Our creative consciousness arises at the boundaries between the two where non-form becomes form and where form becomes non-form. In humans, art and sex are different ways of channeling the same creative energy. And, our ultimate creation is the growth and transformation of our own souls. The reason great societies and thinkers value freedom so highly is that they understand that maximum growth requires maximum freedom. If freedom regresses, so too does the growth of our souls toward wholesomeness (collectively). To see such regression, simply turn on the news. This creative urge is the energy that drives us from our deepest core. In the light of freedom, it grows. In the darkness of repression (inflicted or externally enforced) it transforms into unwholesome pursuits. Looked at this way, sex is not an isolated act but, rather, procreation is a subset of this underlying universal human imperative to create. It is, as I said, what humans do. We procreate and create because creating feels good. We have been designed in this way through evolution and we seek our true path by seeking, through a feeling called curiosity, what feels wholesomely good (or, if we are uncentered or repressed, we attempt to fulfill this need with unwholesome substitutes — distracting curiosity, poor substitutes for creativity, numbing agents/activities, simply suffering our way through life with existential angst). We create more humans, that is true, and that is a hugely important factor in our co-creating a better universe with the divine. It is how we expand the organism of humanity which, along with all life, is a growing counter-force to entropy. However, procreation is but a subset of our larger purpose to channel this energy into various forms of creation. In short, art and sex are different ways of channeling the same creative energy, as is utilizing our vitality to create the transformation and growth of our own souls. This is the energy that drives us from our deepest core. “Just as trees grow flowers and fruits, humanity creates works of art.” — Rick Rubin, The Creative Act FASO Loves Matthew James Collins’ bronze sculptures! See More of Matthew James Collins’ art by clicking here. Wouldn’t You Love to work with a website hosting company that actually promotes their artists?As you can see, at FASO, we actually do, and, Click the button below to start working Get Started with FASO for Free You're currently a free subscriber to BoldBrush. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription.
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