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The Spiritual/Psychological Dimensions of Creativity and Flow

Richard Barrett

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What this presentation is about

Understanding the difference between:

Creating from ego, and Creating from soul.

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Let’s start with an exercise

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Who are you?

EXERCISE

I am going to make a series of statements.

If the statement is true for you, please stand up.

Otherwise remain seated.

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Who are you?

EXERCISE(Practice run)

I have a car.

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Who are you?

EXERCISE(Practice run)

I am a car.

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Who are you?

EXERCISE(Now the real thing)

I have a body.

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Who are you?

EXERCISE(Now the real thing)

I am a body.

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Who are you?

EXERCISE

I have an ego.

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Who are you?

EXERCISE

I am an ego.

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Who are you?

EXERCISE

I have a soul.

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Who are you?

EXERCISE

I am a soul.

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Who are you?

EXERCISE3 minutes

Discuss with your neighbour.

1. Are you primarily an ego or are you primarily a soul?

2. Do you have a soul or are you a soul?

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Progression in Enlightenment

1. I have a soul

2. I am a soul

3. Your soul has you

A fundamental shift in IDENTITY

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What is an Ego?

• Your ego is a field of conscious awareness that identifies with your physical body. Consequently, the ego believes it can die.

• The ego is not who you are. It is the mask you wear to get your needs met in the cultural framework of your physical three-dimensional framework of existence. We can call this your False self.

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The reality of the Ego

Because the ego believes it inhabits a body and can die it believes it has needs.

Because it believes it has needs, the ego develops conscious and subconscious fears about not being able to meet its needs. The primary needs of the ego are survival, belonging (relationships) and self-esteem.

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What is a Soul?

Your soul is a field of conscious awareness that identifies with your four-dimensional energy field. It is who you really are. You don’t have a soul; your soul has you.

Your soul is an individuated aspect of the universal energy field from which everything in our physical world derives its being.

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The reality of the Soul

Because the soul identifies with your four-dimensional energy field and not with the body, the soul knows it cannot die.

The soul has no needs because at the level of reality at which it exists it instantaneously creates through its thoughts. Because the soul has no needs, it has no fears.

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Einstein Quote

The non mathematician is seized by a mysterious shuddering when he hears of four-dimensional things, by a feeling that is not unlike the occult. But there is no more commonplace statement than the world in which we live is a four-dimensional continuum.

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Understanding the difference between the Ego and Soul Realities

FIVE FINGER EXERCISE

If we can understand the difference between two-dimensional reality and three-dimensional reality then we can get a sense of what the difference is between

three-dimensional reality and four-dimensional reality.

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The Comb Analogy

Three-dimensional reality

SEPARATION

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The Comb Analogy

Four-dimensional reality

CONNECTION

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The primary motivation of your soul is:

SELF EXPRESSION

What is the motivation of my soul?

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What is my soul doing in my body?

The self-expression of the soul takes two forms:

CONNECTION and

CONTRIBUTION

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The motivations of the soul

SELF-EXPRESSION

CONNECTION CONTRIBUTION

LOVE CREATIVITY

LEADING A VALUES-DRIVEN LIFE

LEADING A PURPOSE-DRIVEN LIFE

TRUE SELF UNIQUE SELF

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The Soul’s Desire

The desire of the soul is to lead a values-driven and purpose-driven life in our three-

dimensional physical reality.

You can only do this if you are able to align your ego motivations with your soul motivations.

Give up your False self, Find your True Self and unleash your Unique Self.

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Ego and Soul Motivations

Stages Motivations

Serving

Integrating

Self-actualising

Differentiating

Conforming

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Satisfying your physiological and nutritional needs.

Satisfying your need for love, and belonging.

Satisfying your need for respect and recognition.

Satisfying your need to find meaning and purpose in life.

Satisfying your need to make a difference in the world.

Satisfying your need to lead a life of service to others.Soul

Motivations

Ego Motivations

Satisfying your need for freedom and autonomy.

INDIVIDUATING

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Stages of Psychological Development

Ego Development

Ego-Soul Alignment

Soul Emergence

SURVIVING

CONFORMING

DIFFERENTIATING

INDIVIDUATING

SELF-ACTUALIZING

INTEGRATING

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Stages of Psychological Development

Surviving

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Stages of Psychological Development

INFANCY 0-2 Years Old

Staying alive!

Satisfying physiological and nutritional needs

Surviving

Stage Motivation

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Stages of Psychological Development

Conforming

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Stages of Psychological Development

Conforming

Stage Motivation

CHILDHOOD 3-7 Years Old

Keeping safe and secure!

Satisfying need for love, and belonging.

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Stages of Psychological Development

Differentiating

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Stages of Psychological Development

Differentiating

Stage Motivation

TEENAGER +8-19 Years Old

Distinguishing yourself

Satisfying need for respect and recognition.

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Stages of Psychological Development

Individuating

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Stages of Psychological Development

Individuating

Stage Motivation

YOUNG ADULT20-39 Years Old

Releasing your fears!

Satisfying need for freedom and autonomy.

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Stages of Psychological Development

Self-actualising

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Stages of Psychological Development

Self-actualising

Stage Motivation

ADULTHOOD40-49 Years Old

Becoming who you are!

Satisfying need to find meaning and purpose.

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Stages of Psychological Development

Integrating

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Stages of Psychological Development

Integrating

Stage Motivation

MATURE ADULT50-59 Years Old

Aligning with others!

Satisfying need to make a difference in the world.

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Stages of Psychological Development

Serving

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Stages of Psychological Development

Serving

Stage Motivation

SENIOR60+ Years Old

Finding fulfilment!

Satisfying your need to serve the greater good.

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Percentage of people with genius level creativity by age

98%

32%

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Source: Land and Jarman, Break-point and Beyond

Age

Ego DevelopmentSocial Conditioning

Above the age of 25 only 2% of people have genius level creativity

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What happens to our creativity?

Small children have no conception of these values and interact without these limitations.

The ego development (socialization) process restricts

the natural creativity of our thinking potential by

automatically assigning value judgements of good, bad,

right, wrong, proper, improper, ugly, beautiful. We accept these judgements so

we can fit in.

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Creativity with arrested psychological development

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Creativity at different stages of normal psychological development

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CREATIVITY INCREASES WITH SOUL ACTIVATION

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Ego Creativity

Creativity at the Ego level is basically problem solving. It takes place in the conscious mind.

1. Identify the problem

2. Explore creative ideas—think tank

3. Select the best ideas

4. Test the ideas

5. Evaluate the results.

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Soul Creativity

Creativity at the soul level involves guidance from the unconscious quantum mind and investigation

and verification by the conscious mind.

1. Preparation: Gather facts, read and think, think, think,….think.

2. Incubation: Relax, sleep, rest, leave the question behind.

3. Insight or synchronicity: Inspiration, Illumination, thought.

4. Investigation and verification: Bring in the conscious mind.

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Here is the Proof

Longitudinal Perspective Studies

The Harvard Grant Study of Social Adjustments began in 1938 and continues to this day—75 years later. The participants who are left over 90 years of age.

The purpose of the Grant Study, as it is popularly known, was to learn something about the conditions that promote optimum health by following 268 men—all Harvard graduates—throughout their lives.

The Stanford Terman Study of Gifted Children (men and women) began in 1920 and finished in 2011.

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Longitudinal Perspective Studies

George Vaillant was Study Director of the Grant study from 1972 to 2005 and continues to be involved today.

He states:

“The seventy-five years and twenty million dollars expended on the Grant Study points, at least to me,

leads to a straightforward conclusion:

“Happiness is love. Full stop.” … Love conquers all.”George Vaillant, Adaptation to Life

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Other Studies

Barbara L. Fredrickson Director of the Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology Laboratory at the University of North Carolina

at Chapel Hill calls love the “supreme emotion.” She states:

… [love] is perhaps the most essential emotional experience for thriving and health. Your body was

designed to harness this power—to live off it. … love is far more ubiquitous than you ever thought possible for

the simple fact that love is connection.

Barbara Fredrikson, Love 2.0.

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Longitudinal Perspective Studies

George Vaillant speaking of the Terman Study states:

In midlife creative women were more likely to have had activities outside the home; at 60 they were more likely to express joy in living.

… creative women were twice as likely as less creative women to manifest “successful aging.”

Among the 20 most creative women were 9 who achieved their greatest public success after the age of 60.

George Vaillant, The Wisdom of the Ego

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Longitudinal Perspective Studies

George Vaillant speaking of the Terman Study states:

Like creativity in the Terman women, creativity in the College men (Grant Study) was associated with

successful aging.

To summarize … creativity was positively correlated with generativity, sublimation, and altruism.

George Vaillant, The Wisdom of the Ego

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My Experience

I am 70 years old and I have never been more creative or happy in my life.

When I am in soul consciousness, especially when I am working on a new book, my whole

life moves into a state of flow where “downloads” and synchronicities are

anticipated daily events.

Richard Barrett

Books by Richard Barrett

1998 2006 2010 20111995

2012 2013 2014 2015 2015 Forthcoming

To be released in the Fall of

2015.

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Creativity consists of making discontinuous quantum leaps into a nonlocal domain of

pure potentiality, that is not accessible to the thinking ego.

Amit Goswami, Quantum Creativity

A Physicist’s Perception

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It has been my experience that hundreds of synchronicities go into the writing of one book. Each one a creative act of discontinuity given by

grace and received with joy.

The joy of creativity lies in the appreciation of the discontinuity, which confirms

my connection to my soul.

Richard Barrett

My Experience

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Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits

oneself, then providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of

unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.

William H. Murray, The Scottish Himalayan Expedition, (London: Dent), 1951.

Synchronicity in Action

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When we align ourselves with evolutionary movements of

consciousness, the universe itself puts wind in our sails.

Amit Goswami, Quantum Creativity

Synchronicity in Action

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The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but

one who allows art to realize its purposes through him.

Carl Jung

Servant of the Soul

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More Information

A Practical Guide to Soul Activation

Measuring Consciousness by Mapping Values

Stages of Psychological Development

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More Information

To get a copy of this presentation go to:

www.slideshare.net/BarrettValues

www.richardbarrett.net