Our societies are going through crisis. The signs are everywhere—economic meltdowns, environmental pollution and global climate change, worldview polarization of politics and frozen democracies, terrorism, loss of meaning and value in education in favor of information processing, healthcare systems whose cost cannot be contained, etc. Not coincidentally, there is an acute need for a paradigm shift in our science that is ridden with paradoxes and anomalous data. Such a paradigm shift has begun under the aegis of quantum physics and with it a change is taking place in our worldview from religious dualism and scientific materialism (the primacy of matter) to an integrative worldview based on the primacy of consciousness.
For crisis resolution and paradigm shifts, we need creativity. What is interesting is that in the time of crisis and paradigm shifts, opportunities arise galore for the fulfillment of our creative potential. The quantum approach is telling us that everyone today can be creative. The purpose of this lecture is to tell you how and to properly motivate you from information processing to creativity.
What is the vehicle that a creative rides? The answer is, the quantum, the quantum, the quantum. Creativity requires quantum thinking—the capacity to engage with a problem both in the conscious and in the unconscious. We will explain quantum unconscious processing; we will delve into quantum leaps that creativity researchers identify as the aha! insight. We will learn the secrets of creative living–do-be-do-be-do and the flow experience.
We will explore creativity in the outer arena—the arts the sciences, and businesses. We will also investigate inner creativity–how to creatively transform our emotions from negative to positive and acquire emotional intelligence. Finally, I will explicate the creative journey of spiritual enlightenment. The lecture will be both conceptual and experiential.
