The Creative Impulse

I create to companion the Creator in the never-ending dance of Creation.

The experience of our manifested universe, generally speaking, adheres to certain laws. One of them, the first law of thermodynamics states, that energy can be neither created nor destroyed, it can only be converted from one form to another. This law is an intrinsic component of my experience as a “creator.”

Creativity is not, as contemporary profit-driven, techno-industrial thought would have, a personal luxury nor a means to add “value” to a business’ product or service. It may be used as such, but it is not its nature. Creativity is a universal imperative. It is the originating impulse of the primordial flaring forth of all Creation 13.7 billion years ago. It is an ancient impulse, as embedded in the human experience as anything could be.

As a creator — one who courts creativity as a force and one who consciously engages in the creative process — I take comfort in the implications of thermodynamics’ first law. If energy can’t be created, my work as a “creator” is really the work of allowing and shaping. I’m really not creating anything new at all. I am channeling energy that has been in existence since existence began.

The channel-that-I-am has been shaped by a complex of social and biological forces that are not and cannot be exactly duplicated anywhere. Thus, energy will be shaped through me in certain intrinsically unique ways. I don’t need to “try” for a unique creative voice. It is impossible not to have one.