When I do not conform, meet targets, pass your exam, sell enough – then conventionally I have failed, period. An open and respectful spirituality and appreciation of being at our most creative, being for one another, particularly in a place of work is priceless and indeed rare.

Get off the fence if you believe conventual controlling work places and practices don’t demean people. Get off the fence if you are not afraid to discover, uncover and rediscover the spiritual mystery so many negate. Oooops, nearly got extremely angry there!! Damn right I did. Wake up, smell the defence, get off the fence. Defence! Get angry or very scared.

James Rock
http://www.cultivar.co.uk

Thanks for you thoughts on Creative Intelligence–a complex idea that may possibly be distilled down to the difference between thinking and knowing. In my view, take it for what it’s worth, there is the mind and then there is the spirit. The mind thinks, draws conclusions from random impressions. The spirit–you, has the ability to reach out into the world and become engaged with reality, touch it. The spirit knows, the mind is a process of thinking. If you, the spirit were to stop thinking, reach out and touch, feel a tree with all your senses, with yourself in essence, you would know with certainty the tree. On the other hand, if you sit there looking at the tree, all kinds of thoughts from every conceivable source would present themselves. So, in my world, Creative Intelligence would be the spirit using the mental process to communicate what it knows. There is only what one knows with abolutely certainty and what one thinks one knows from the impressions recorded in the mind. You, the spirit, either uses your mind or it uses you. If the mind is using you, it is not creative, it is simply a rehash of things already said and done.