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As Heraclitus already acknowledged: everything flows. That was around 2500 years ago. Why then . . is a reality in constant flux so hard to accept?  

Flow provokes in many people fear. And one consequence of fear is that humans try to control what they cannot control: nature and the cosmos, creativity and consciousness. All fears suggest that one is helpless towards something one cannot control. But humanity doesn’t give up to pursue a game it cannot win. This often feels like desperate attempts to avoid acknowledgement of a wonderful complexity in nature, cosmos, ourselves.

Although complexity is something utterly different than complication, we want ‘simplicity’ which seems to be guaranteed in technology: after all we learned to control so many instruments and tools. Or did we? It is a little bit like with medicine as we know it, you don’t want to know about the side effects of the cure but have some kind of relief and regain the ability to function and produce. And off we go for the next round of technological advancement without the wisdom it would require to consider, design and use it.

Are we as humans not equipped to participate naturally in the flow of everything? Are we just helpless victims if we surrender? In the contrary we are very well equipped: we have access  to the deepest wisdom through our intuition. We are creative like no other animal is. Thus we can manifest anything.

You can’t enter the same river two times, says Heraclitus. There is no repetition. What appeared to be true yesterday might be slightly off today. Yet through using our ‘sixth’ sense we might tune in to the frequency that let’s us put out creative intentions congruent with the fleeting moment and the whole. Conscious creativity is the key. And for being truely creative one has to surrender. In this context control kills us.

Find some results from Teresa M. Amabile’s longterm research on creativity:

www.is.wayne.edu/drbowen/crtvyw99/amabile.htm

Some links to Mihaly Csikszentmihaly who wrote the bestseller ‘Flow’:

 www.brainchannels.com/thinker/mihaly.html

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