Creativity

A characteristic feature of human beings (and of being human) is our capacity for creativity. We create things. We engineer and make things. We love bringing new things into being. The domain in which we work, perhaps, does not matter—we just do them. But think about this. Some of us are given the opportunity to bring things into being on more than one level, in more than one domain. We might possibly think of ourselves as “spiritual engineers,” or “artists of the Spirit.”

There is the domain of chemistry, engineering, physics, etc., which we call the “hard sciences.” There is biology, medicine, psychology, ecology, which are the so-called “soft sciences.” Then there is language, history, politics, religion, art and culture, which we call the humanities—not understood as sciences at all, though perhaps they are. All these are part and parcel of the human world we inhabit and work creatively within—except for one thing—the deep inner experience of what it means to be human infused with the mysteries of love, compassion, wisdom, insight, joy, and intimacy between persons both human and divine. It is this latter domain of creativity that we might call “divine science” or even “creative alchemy.” We are alchemists in the domain of Spirit—this is a true domain of creativity with its own substances, materials, colors, fragrances, tastes and possibilities. Here we are learning creativity in a new way.