> If my memory serves me right it was either Aldous Huxley or Albert
> Einstein, who sought the junction point for Art, Science and Religion.
> Anyone who truly creates new concepts or innovates merging concepts has
> moved into artistry through their intuition. Intuition, bringing all
> facets of the human consciousness into finding solutions or creating new
> directions.
Dear organlearners,
Kevin, My memory cannot help you on this one. But I will not be surprised
if it is Einstein. Soon after I discovered the seven essentialities of
creativity, I began reading the great thinkers again to see how they were
sensitive to these essentialities. What a wonderful reading that was. I
discovered that Einstein was the most sensitive of all scientists, when
judged in terms of the seven essentialities. I also remember that he had
much more to say, and he said some preety wise things, about art and
religion.
I consider the role of intuition to be very important for many years now.
However, in the beginning, owing to the lack in my formal-objective
understanding of creativity, I attributed many things to intuition which I
cannot do anymore. By this I mean that that my intuition had to serve my
creativity wheras now my cognition serves my creativity. I do not mean to
say that other people should not use their intuition - they should do so.
However, they will also discover that when they understand creativity
formally and objectively, their intuition plays a much smaller role.
> Are you familiar with Edward Debono's work on thinking? Perhaps he was
> moving into bringing thinking-artistry-creativity to the human dilemma
> and the corporate structure?
Yes, I am familiar with DeBono's work on creative thinking. I have read
most of his books. He has definitely made many valuable contributions on
the practical side of creative thinking. Also, his concept of lateral
thinking is now quite famous.
However, a practice without a theory can become pretty dangerous, exactly
as a theory without a practice. A practice without a theory is like an ape
with a razor in its hands. A theory without a practice is like a dog
barking at shadows.
We should rather strive for a balanced commutation between theory and
practice. We need the theory to explain yesterday, to manage today and to
predict tomorrow. Yesterday's practice prepared us for today and today's
practice has to provide for tomorrow. Only with both theory and practice
can we explore the creative course of time.
Best wishes
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At de Lange
Gold Fields Computer Centre for Education
University of Pretoria
Pretoria, South Africa
email: amdelange@gold.up.ac.za
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