Sometimes in the
evening 'I' give up writing and surrender attention to outputs from
the laptop. Late last night and early this morning I was gob smacked
by three posts that are in tune with my present pattern of thinking.
Susan Cain gave a TED
talk on the power of introverts. She was plugging her latest book
which I read last week. 'Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World
That Can't Stop Talking'. We are both introverts. We enjoy reading
and writing and playing with ideas, especially in a state of 'grace'
ie while non-egoic and out of space and time.
Elizabeth Gilbert gave
a TED talk about genius. She is a writer and is often in flow and
guided by her 'muse'. In her practice the initial creative
outpourings are scruffy and need editing. She is aware, however, that
there are similarities with the easy non-egoic action of musicians in
the groove and athletes in the zone.
Bob Duggan posted an
article to BigThink.com reviewing Wendy Ann Greenhalgh’s book
'Mindfulness & the Art of Drawing: A Creative Path to Awareness'.
She reckons that it is possible to enter the non egoic state of flow
while drawing and doodling. She sees it as an alternative way of
entering advanced states of consciousness.
George Clark has
recently been blogging short stories based on the idea of grace and
grudge. His mind is in a state of grace when it is non-egoic and
outwith space and time. There are three states of mind which make
this possible – meditation, flow, numinosity.
Doodles appear several
times a day and their source and meaning remains a mystery, except
that there will be overlaps in their neurological correlates of
consciousness (NCC) – probably in the default mode network (DMN).
Doodling is an easy way for me to quieten the monkey mind and to be
gracefully suffused with peace.
Duggan -
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