1. The Spiritual/Psychological Dimensions
of Creativity and Flow
Richard Barrett

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What this presentation is about
Understanding the difference between:
Creating from ego, and Creating from soul.

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Let’s start with an exercise

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Who are you?
EXERCISE
I am going to make a series of statements.
If the statement is true for you, please stand up.
Otherwise remain seated.

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Who are you?
EXERCISE
(Practice run)
I have a car.

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Who are you?
EXERCISE
(Practice run)
I am a car.

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Who are you?
EXERCISE
(Now the real thing)
I have a body.

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Who are you?
EXERCISE
(Now the real thing)
I am a body.

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Who are you?
EXERCISE
I have an ego.

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Who are you?
EXERCISE
I am an ego.

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Who are you?
EXERCISE
I have a soul.

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Who are you?
EXERCISE
I am a soul.

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Who are you?
EXERCISE
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Discuss with your neighbour.
1. Are you primarily an ego or are
you primarily a soul?
2. Do you have a soul or are you a soul?

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Progression in Enlightenment
1. I have a soul
2. I am a soul
3. Your soul has you
A fundamental shift in IDENTITY

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What is an Ego?
• Your ego is a field of conscious awareness
that identifies with your physical body.
Consequently, the ego believes it can die.
• The ego is not who you are. It is the mask you
wear to get your needs met in the cultural
framework of your physical three-
dimensional framework of existence. We can
call this your False self.

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The reality of the Ego
 Because the ego believes it inhabits a body
and can die it believes it has needs.
 Because it believes it has needs, the ego
develops conscious and subconscious fears
about not being able to meet its needs. The
primary needs of the ego are survival,
belonging (relationships) and self-esteem.

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What is a Soul?
 Your soul is a field of conscious awareness
that identifies with your four-dimensional
energy field. It is who you really are. You
don’t have a soul; your soul has you.
 Your soul is an individuated aspect of the
universal energy field from which everything
in our physical world derives its being.

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The reality of the Soul
 Because the soul identifies with your four-
dimensional energy field and not with the
body, the soul knows it cannot die.
 The soul has no needs because at the level of
reality at which it exists it instantaneously
creates through its thoughts. Because the soul
has no needs, it has no fears.

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Einstein Quote
The non mathematician is seized by a
mysterious shuddering when he
hears of four-dimensional things, by
a feeling that is not unlike the occult.
But there is no more commonplace
statement than the world in which
we live is a four-dimensional
continuum.

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Understanding the difference between
the Ego and Soul Realities
FIVE FINGER EXERCISE
If we can understand the difference between two-
dimensional reality and three-dimensional reality then
we can get a sense of what the difference is between
three-dimensional reality and four-dimensional reality.

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The Comb Analogy
Three-dimensional reality
SEPARATION

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The Comb Analogy
Four-dimensional reality
CONNECTION

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The primary motivation of your soul is:
SELF EXPRESSION
What is the motivation of my soul?

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What is my soul doing in my body?
The self-expression of the soul
takes two forms:
CONNECTION
and
CONTRIBUTION

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The motivations of the soul
SELF-EXPRESSION
CONNECTION CONTRIBUTION
LOVE CREATIVITY
LEADING A VALUES-
DRIVEN LIFE
LEADING A PURPOSE-
DRIVEN LIFE
TRUE SELF UNIQUE SELF

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The Soul’s Desire
The desire of the soul is to lead a values-driven
and purpose-driven life in our three-
dimensional physical reality.
You can only do this if you are able to align your
ego motivations with your soul motivations.
Give up your False self, Find your True Self and
unleash your Unique Self.

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Ego and Soul Motivations
Stages Motivations
Serving
Integrating
Self-actualising
Differentiating
Conforming
Surviving
EvolutionofPersonalConsciousness
Satisfying your physiological and
nutritional needs.
Satisfying your need for love,
and belonging.
Satisfying your need for respect
and recognition.
Satisfying your need to find
meaning and purpose in life.
Satisfying your need to make a
difference in the world.
Satisfying your need to lead a life
of service to others.Soul
Motivations
Ego
Motivations
Satisfying your need for freedom
and autonomy.
INDIVIDUATING

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Stages of Psychological Development
Ego
Development
Ego-Soul Alignment
Soul
Emergence
SURVIVING
CONFORMING
DIFFERENTIATING
INDIVIDUATING
SELF-ACTUALIZING
INTEGRATING
SERVING
PSYCHOLOGICALDEVELOPMENT

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Stages of Psychological Development
Surviving

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Stages of Psychological Development
INFANCY
0-2 Years Old
Staying alive!
Satisfying physiological
and nutritional needs
Surviving
Stage Motivation

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Stages of Psychological Development
Conforming

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Stages of Psychological Development
Conforming
Stage Motivation
CHILDHOOD
3-7 Years Old
Keeping safe and secure!
Satisfying need for love, and
belonging.

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Stages of Psychological Development
Differentiating

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Stages of Psychological Development
Differentiating
Stage Motivation
TEENAGER +
8-19 Years Old
Distinguishing yourself
Satisfying need for respect
and recognition.

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Stages of Psychological Development
Individuating

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Stages of Psychological Development
Individuating
Stage Motivation
YOUNG ADULT
20-39 Years Old
Releasing your fears!
Satisfying need for freedom
and autonomy.

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Stages of Psychological Development
Self-actualising

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Stages of Psychological Development
Self-actualising
Stage Motivation
ADULTHOOD
40-49 Years Old
Becoming who you are!
Satisfying need to find
meaning and purpose.

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Stages of Psychological Development
Integrating

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Stages of Psychological Development
Integrating
Stage Motivation
MATURE ADULT
50-59 Years Old
Aligning with others!
Satisfying need to make a
difference in the world.

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Stages of Psychological Development
Serving

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Stages of Psychological Development
Serving
Stage Motivation
SENIOR
60+ Years Old
Finding fulfilment!
Satisfying your need to serve
the greater good.

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Percentage of people with genius level
creativity by age
98%
32%
10%
2%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
5 10 15 25
Source: Land and Jarman,
Break-point and Beyond
Age
Ego Development
Social Conditioning
Above the age of
25 only 2% of
people have
genius level
creativity

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What happens to our creativity?
Small children have no conception of these values and
interact without these limitations.
The ego development
(socialization) process restricts
the natural creativity of our
thinking potential by
automatically assigning value
judgements of good, bad,
right, wrong, proper,
improper, ugly, beautiful. We
accept these judgements so
we can fit in.

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Creativity with arrested
psychological development
5040302010 60 70
Surviving
Conforming
Differentiating
Individuating
Self-actualizing
Integrating
Serving
Age
Creativity
CREATIVITY
WITHOUT
SOUL
ACTIVATION

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Creativity at different stages of normal
psychological development
5040302010 60 70
Surviving
Conforming
Differentiating
Individuating
Self-actualizing
Integrating
Serving
Age
Creativity
CREATIVITY
INCREASES
WITH SOUL
ACTIVATION

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Ego Creativity
Creativity at the Ego level is basically problem
solving. It takes place in the conscious mind.
1. Identify the problem
2. Explore creative ideas—think tank
3. Select the best ideas
4. Test the ideas
5. Evaluate the results.

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Soul Creativity
Creativity at the soul level involves guidance from
the unconscious quantum mind and investigation
and verification by the conscious mind.
1. Preparation: Gather facts, read and think, think, think,….think.
2. Incubation: Relax, sleep, rest, leave the question behind.
3. Insight or synchronicity: Inspiration, Illumination, thought.
4. Investigation and verification: Bring in the conscious mind.

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Here is the Proof
Longitudinal Perspective Studies
The Harvard Grant Study of Social Adjustments began in
1938 and continues to this day—75 years later. The
participants who are left over 90 years of age.
The purpose of the Grant Study, as it is popularly known,
was to learn something about the conditions that
promote optimum health by following 268 men—all
Harvard graduates—throughout their lives.
The Stanford Terman Study of Gifted Children (men and
women) began in 1920 and finished in 2011.

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Longitudinal Perspective Studies
George Vaillant was Study Director of the Grant study from
1972 to 2005 and continues to be involved today.
He states:
“The seventy-five years and twenty million dollars
expended on the Grant Study points, at least to me,
leads to a straightforward conclusion:
“Happiness is love. Full stop.” … Love conquers all.”
George Vaillant, Adaptation to Life

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Other Studies
Barbara L. Fredrickson Director of the Positive Emotions and
Psychophysiology Laboratory at the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill calls love the “supreme emotion.”
She states:
… [love] is perhaps the most essential emotional
experience for thriving and health. Your body was
designed to harness this power—to live off it. … love is
far more ubiquitous than you ever thought possible for
the simple fact that love is connection.
Barbara Fredrikson, Love 2.0.

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Longitudinal Perspective Studies
George Vaillant speaking of the Terman Study states:
In midlife creative women were more likely to have had activities
outside the home; at 60 they were more likely to express joy in living.
… creative women were twice as likely as less creative women to
manifest “successful aging.”
Among the 20 most creative women were 9 who achieved
their greatest public success after the age of 60.
George Vaillant, The Wisdom of the Ego

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Longitudinal Perspective Studies
George Vaillant speaking of the Terman Study states:
Like creativity in the Terman women, creativity in the
College men (Grant Study) was associated with
successful aging.
To summarize … creativity was positively correlated
with generativity, sublimation, and altruism.
George Vaillant, The Wisdom of the Ego

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My Experience
I am 70 years old and I have never been more
creative or happy in my life.
When I am in soul consciousness, especially
when I am working on a new book, my whole
life moves into a state of flow where
“downloads” and synchronicities are
anticipated daily events.
Richard Barrett

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Creativity consists of making discontinuous
quantum leaps into a nonlocal domain of
pure potentiality, that is not accessible
to the thinking ego.
Amit Goswami, Quantum Creativity
A Physicist’s Perception

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It has been my experience that hundreds of
synchronicities go into the writing of one book.
Each one a creative act of discontinuity given by
grace and received with joy.
The joy of creativity lies in the
appreciation of the discontinuity, which confirms
my connection to my soul.
Richard Barrett
My Experience

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Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one
elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas
and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits
oneself, then providence moves too. A whole stream of events
issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of
unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which
no man could have dreamt would have come his way.
William H. Murray, The Scottish Himalayan Expedition, (London: Dent), 1951.
Synchronicity in Action

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When we align ourselves with
evolutionary movements of
consciousness, the universe itself
puts wind in our sails.
Amit Goswami, Quantum Creativity
Synchronicity in Action

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The artist is not a person endowed with
free will who seeks his own ends, but
one who allows art to realize its purposes
through him.
Carl Jung
Servant of the Soul

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