"Chapter 1 The Multifaceted Creative Trance Great creativity is responsible for humanity's great achievements - Silvano Arieti The brain is wider than the sky - Emily Dickinson In those moments, or seconds, or hours, when focus on our creative work overrides input from the outside world, we are in the altered state of a creative trance. Like a multifaceted diamond, with each facet shining, each illuminating the others leading back to its core, the creative trance has multiple aspects driven by the core of our unconscious ...
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"Chapter 1 The Multifaceted Creative Trance Great creativity is responsible for humanity's great achievements - Silvano Arieti The brain is wider than the sky - Emily Dickinson In those moments, or seconds, or hours, when focus on our creative work overrides input from the outside world, we are in the altered state of a creative trance. Like a multifaceted diamond, with each facet shining, each illuminating the others leading back to its core, the creative trance has multiple aspects driven by the core of our unconscious mind. There are as many instances of the creative trance as there are creative people and occurrences of their creativity. Shaped by individual experiences, environmental circumstances, differing physical capacities, and diverse cultural traditions, the creative trance takes numerous forms. Appearing differently in everyone, the creative trance is ubiquitous, identifiable, yet always unique. A metaphor for its multiple manifestations and individual aspects would be William Blake's description of sunshine, "the suns light when he unfolds it, depends on the organ that beholds it" (1793/1820, Frontispiece). The phenomenology of the creative trance is vast, appearing in the sciences, the arts, clinical modalities, sports, self-transformation, and the pursuit of wellbeing"--
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