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Deep Sources of Creativity By Gianluigi Gugliermetto 3/19/2026 |
The shameful and tragic display of domination that we are witnessing today in the world is changing our spiritual landscape, simply because nobody who engages in a spiritual path lives in isolation. |
The scope of the havoc, the destruction, and the confusion caused today by evil might be unprecedented, or at least it feels huge, as we somehow believed that the world was achieving a level of civilization that never existed before. The international order embodied by the United Nations — with all its imperfections — since 1945, the progress in the civil rights of |
“Symphony of Science – ‘We Are All Connected,'” featuring Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, Neil deGrasse Tyson & Bill Nye). melodysheep |
women and sexual minorities in the last 50 years, educational systems that banned racism, bullying, and sexism… none of these seem to hold firm. I believe that we are called to thoughts and actions equal in depth to the catastrophe that we are living through. For me, such turmoils began at the
same time that I moved to a new place in the countryside (see my DMs of last week), so this turn toward the depths is marked very strongly as a kind of spiritual
coincidence. But even those who cannot profit from such a coincidence and whose external circumstances remain the same may do well in choosing to work spiritually at increasing levels of depth. |
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil Documentary (trailer) After the fall of the USSR in 1989, Cuba was left without critical energy supplies. Social scientists are still studying the revolution in organic and sustainable agriculture that followed. See the full film HERE. | In the first chapter of his book Creativity: Where the Divine and the Human Meet, Matthew Fox elucidates who we are as a species. The list he offers may help each of us individually to identify those areas that deserve attention and deep spiritual work. We Are Not Consumers: How many of the wars of domination that are being fought are about earthly resources? Are we |
fighting against our reduction to consumers, which justifies predatory wars? Matthew suggests looking at the fact that our species invented agriculture, but this was an ambiguous conquest, as it led to the increasing exploitation of the soil. We Are Not Addicts: Addictions
of all kinds are fostered by companies, because they are very profitable for them; unfortunately, as Matthew explains, addiction comes from surrendering our real powers, that is, the powers of creativity… It is as if we want to turn our power over to others. This is a kind of “design flaw” of our species, which can also be our spur and blessing: it’s hard to be disciplined, i.e., harnessing our own power, to be creative and make our own life a work of art, but when we succeed, the results
are splendid. |
We Are Not Passive: Our passive screen time has doubled or tripled in the course of a few years, to the point of becoming a new certified addiction from which we must get free; those like me who have previously underestimated the attractive power of “scrolling” need to pay attention. |
“Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong…the opposite of addiction is not sobriety but connection.” | Johann Hari | TED |
We Are Not Boring, and We Need Not Be Bored: Boredom in the active and passive senses is a signal that something is going wrong in the way we spend our precious time; and yet we accept to be bored at school, at church, etc., thus becoming boring in the process. We Are Not Cogs in a Machine: We can, of course, feel that we are just that, but when it happens, it is exactly the moment to ask ourselves how we can recover our sense of sacred purpose within the cosmos, leaving behind our mechanistic upbringing — it’s a long work to free oneself from the worst of the modern mentality. |
Octavia Butler, labeled “lazy” as a student due to dyslexia, went on to write Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novels and receive the MacArthur Genius Grant. Wikimedia Commons. | We Are Not Lazy: When it looks as if we are lazy, we need to look deeper again; when teachers accuse students of being lazy, very often either the teacher is boring, or the scholastic system engenders boredom despite the best efforts of the teachers. In any case, laziness is a symptom. |
We Are Not Destroyers: It really does not look like that today, does it? But the point that Matthew makes is that creativity is the most peculiar human power, that which can be employed either for destruction or for art, beauty and relationships. We still have a choice. Each of us individually, and all of us communally. |
Banner Image: “Sitting in the Grass.” Photo by Nicholas Githiri on Pexels. |
Queries for Contemplation How can we not be consumers, addicts, passive, boring/bored, cogs-in-a-machine, lazy,
destroyers? (The point being the “how” for each of us). Can we go with our imagination to a sacred time when we were not all these things, and recover our native freedom of being something else? |
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