Awakening Creative Intelligence
What is it? Where does it come from? Why is it a “thing”?
Creative Intelligence is just an interesting name for whatever it is that gives us the ability to think, and feel and do stuff. It is, I believe, what animates us and allows us to be aware of how we experience the world and our place in it. You can think of it as the “thing” that differentiates us from the rest of the animal kingdom—the quality that makes us uniquely human. It is an abstract and illusive concept to visualize precisely because it is Not a “thing”. We may argue about what to call it or if it’s “real” or how to define it, but anyone who considers themselves an artist or creative in any way certainly knows that creative intelligence by any name is a THING.
Where it comes from is an even stickier subject to think about. The musician will tell you that the inspiration and direction for a song sometimes seems to come un-asked-for in a dream, or will drift into awareness in some quiet moment and in nearly complete and finished detail. The initial concept for a speech, or film, or invention sometimes will show up by surprise, seemingly from nowhere. It is an internal, subconscious welling up of the fragment of a thought or image that slowly builds into a complete and actionable impulse.
Out of the Nowhere and into the Here, so to speak. . . It is a mystery, but it happens in the minds and hearts or all of us multiple times each day in ways large and small. We have our own explanations about what creativity is and where it comes from. But in the end we must admit that it just simply IS, and that it makes us better humans.
That is Why it is a “Thing”!