Creativity vs Consumerism by Matthew Fox
The A.W.E. Project: Reinventing Education, Reinventing the Human by Matthew Fox
to explore that demanding and urgent question about our common humanity.
Need a kick in your creativity after 3 years of traumatic lockdowns? Here is a doorway
to revitalize humanity, focusing on your own creativity.
"Consumerism" represents the finite man-made realm of material resources.
Once the stores are consumed, we become destitute
Destitution :
exhausted · impoverished · indigent · insolvent · needy · penniless · poor...
“A.W.E.” stands for Ancestral Wisdom Education reminds us of
the unfathomable wonder that is creation
Matthew Fox - AWE Project via
"Creativity" Nature Spirituality abundance and opportunity is the mother of invention
“Where the Divine and the Human Meet" shows how important it is to meet the world with the
creativity of an artist, particularly in these uncertain times: "What do we do with chaos?"
Matthew Fox, Creativity: Where the Divine and the Human Meet. via
10 C’s” of Creation Spirituality : .[Spoiler (click to open)].Proceeds and Precedes
1. Critical Thinking
2. Cosmology/Ecology (pay attention to that which precedes us)
3. Courage (or desperation masked as courage)
4. Chaos (order out of chaos)
5. Character/Moral Development
6. Contemplation
7. Creativity (necessity is the mother of invention)
8. Compassion/Justice
9. Community (we are more together than we are separate)
10. Ritual/Ceremony
Fox discusses two myths about creativity and its consequences, the Prometheus-Hercules myth and the Adam-Jesus myth, and
goes on to assess the hurdles we face in bringing our God-given creativity to the fore in human affairs filled with
quotations from his favorite authors: Meister Eckhart, Mechtild of Magdeburg, Hildegard of Bingen, Thomas Aquinas,
Carl Jung, Rollo May, and Otto Rank.
What is Consumerism?
Consumerism articles define this concept as a social and economic trend that encourages people to purchase as many
goods and services as possible. With the expansion of mass production, society has reached the stage of overproduction,
where we produce more than we need. This has led companies to use marketing and advertising to convince people to buy
more and more, by seducing them with false needs.
Because of overproduction, the general opinion in society is that we have more than enough things and that we don’t need
to create anything new or original anymore. Why build or create something beautiful or original when you can find a
cheap version in your local store or on the Internet? Thus, looking at the consumerism definition us history provides,
we understand that this trend discourages creativity and originality unless it’s something that can be mass-produced cheaply. via
Creation Spirituality, Sense & Sensibility
Not capitalist art-art as object or objets d’art or art as investment. Not art as commodity or a consumer object.
Art as soul work, that is what is needed. Art as process, art as the making of connections and the drawing forth of
the wisdom inside oneself, the wisdom inside all of us.
If our species efforts to move from mere knowledge to wisdom, creativity lies at the heart of the wisdom teachings of the
Hebrew Scriptures, Wisdom is not only artisan but the maker of the world. In alignment with creation under God.
Just another bit of history repeating...
. Culture
“There is no community without ritual” -(Melidoma Some)
dr. π (pi)
.
to explore that demanding and urgent question about our common humanity.
Need a kick in your creativity after 3 years of traumatic lockdowns? Here is a doorway
to revitalize humanity, focusing on your own creativity.
"Consumerism" represents the finite man-made realm of material resources.
Once the stores are consumed, we become destitute
Destitution :
exhausted · impoverished · indigent · insolvent · needy · penniless · poor...
“A.W.E.” stands for Ancestral Wisdom Education reminds us of
the unfathomable wonder that is creation
Matthew Fox - AWE Project via
"Creativity" Nature Spirituality abundance and opportunity is the mother of invention
“Where the Divine and the Human Meet" shows how important it is to meet the world with the
creativity of an artist, particularly in these uncertain times: "What do we do with chaos?"
Matthew Fox, Creativity: Where the Divine and the Human Meet. via
10 C’s” of Creation Spirituality : .[Spoiler (click to open)].Proceeds and Precedes
1. Critical Thinking
2. Cosmology/Ecology (pay attention to that which precedes us)
3. Courage (or desperation masked as courage)
4. Chaos (order out of chaos)
5. Character/Moral Development
6. Contemplation
7. Creativity (necessity is the mother of invention)
8. Compassion/Justice
9. Community (we are more together than we are separate)
10. Ritual/Ceremony
Fox discusses two myths about creativity and its consequences, the Prometheus-Hercules myth and the Adam-Jesus myth, and
goes on to assess the hurdles we face in bringing our God-given creativity to the fore in human affairs filled with
quotations from his favorite authors: Meister Eckhart, Mechtild of Magdeburg, Hildegard of Bingen, Thomas Aquinas,
Carl Jung, Rollo May, and Otto Rank.
What is Consumerism?
Consumerism articles define this concept as a social and economic trend that encourages people to purchase as many
goods and services as possible. With the expansion of mass production, society has reached the stage of overproduction,
where we produce more than we need. This has led companies to use marketing and advertising to convince people to buy
more and more, by seducing them with false needs.
Because of overproduction, the general opinion in society is that we have more than enough things and that we don’t need
to create anything new or original anymore. Why build or create something beautiful or original when you can find a
cheap version in your local store or on the Internet? Thus, looking at the consumerism definition us history provides,
we understand that this trend discourages creativity and originality unless it’s something that can be mass-produced cheaply. via
Creation Spirituality, Sense & Sensibility
Not capitalist art-art as object or objets d’art or art as investment. Not art as commodity or a consumer object.
Art as soul work, that is what is needed. Art as process, art as the making of connections and the drawing forth of
the wisdom inside oneself, the wisdom inside all of us.
If our species efforts to move from mere knowledge to wisdom, creativity lies at the heart of the wisdom teachings of the
Hebrew Scriptures, Wisdom is not only artisan but the maker of the world. In alignment with creation under God.
Just another bit of history repeating...
. Culture
“There is no community without ritual” -(Melidoma Some)
dr. π (pi)
.