Here is a video highlighting the theme for this year’s Science & Nonduality Conference, “The Nature of Self.” I love the creativity expressed in this video, the parallels being drawn across so many disciplines, all the while celebrating the mystery of the self as it plays itself out in the human experience. I love the way the founders of this conference, Maurizio and Zaya Benazzo, are bringing the nondual experience back into the scientific discussion. Even more, I resonate with how he signs his emails, “love, Maurizio” even though we’ve yet to meet in person. That’s the sort of heart that makes creativity flourish!
And, just in case you missed it, I submitted an abstract to speak at this conference on the nature of creativity. It can be found at yesterday’s blog post, “Creativity and Nonduality: How The Tension Between Egoic Identity and the Absolute Self Shapes the Creative Process.”
Just watched the treailr and I have to disagree that 30, 40, 50 years ago people weren’t creating. Are you kidding? Crafters have been creating for centuries, tinkerers have been making things in their garages for as long as there have been garages, and musicians have been plucking away at their instruments since before recorded history.I see it as highly arrogant for someone to declare that NOW everyone is finally being creative. Perhaps it’s easier to see/access everyone’s creativity now, but it has always been there.It makes me wonder if those people come from really boring families or communities.
Thank you so much for your comment. I agree, since the dawn of humankind, people have been creating. Furthermore, creativity is not a aptitude of certain individuals and not others but a defining trait of what it means to be human. Still, thanks to innovations in travel, communications, and the availability of cell phones, smart phones, and computers throughout the world, we are more connected than ever, at least in terms of the conceptual information we all have access to. Given this, we are not necessarily more creative than they were at the beginning, but we are exposed to more cross pollination than ever before, cross pollination between science, and religion, the old and the new, the near at hand and the very far away, the subatomic and the super galactic, and all the spaces in between.