Lucid Creative Cadence
On our creationary potential, moment to moment
[Un]conceptual causal chains
There’s much to be said about the way that our consciousness functions to catalyze the world around us; ironically, language fails to express the enormity of the situation.
Our senses work incessantly to digest reality — to afford us the capacity to navigate our environments successfully, along causal networks and cycles through space and time.
More critically, our consciousness also has the curious ability to create, and to be creative [in the verb-tense as opposed to adjective] throughout this navigation.
Such an ability becomes exponentiated when we become especially aware of the fact that, in every moment we move through, and in every movement we make, we encounter some kind of creationary potential.
And while such a concept may prove an over-beaten drum throughout history, the drumbeat seems to have softened a bit amidst our pivoting towards a more materialistic interpretation of reality — at least outside of certain circles, like those of Eastern-spirituality or particle physics.
Materialism isn’t too kind to the invisible substrates that synchronize actions of a mental and physical nature, forming karmic ripples of cause and effect that fluidly interweave an existence for us to carve meaning out of.
Thus, the mental assemblage of our sensory impressions, cultivated as we coast the fringes of our enigmatic world, moment to moment, is a monumental part of life — the dynamo of meaning.
For the purposes of this essay, I think that there’s something more to be found within this catalytic process — I think that we can sink our teeth deeper into whatever it is that grows out of our creative potential from one point in space and time to the next.
And whatever that may be, it seems to start and end with the rigorous expansion of our perceptions and perspectives.
Suns and Space forms
Our sun is 109x larger than Earth. Antares, a red giant in the Scorpius constellation, is 680x as large as the sun and, if it could, it would barely be able to fit within the stretched parameters of our solar system. The suspensefully red Betelgeuse is even more massive, at 1000x the size of our host star. Then there’s VY Canis Majoris, which is 1000x larger than Betelgeuse, and finally Stephenson 2–18, which seems to be the largest star found to date, at 2150x the size of our sun.
Eventually, such stats can’t really be comprehended. We can try to follow along intuitively but there’s no real way we can grasp at the actuality of what a star 2150x the size of our sun really means. We can try to picture a tiny speck next to a large diameter and then consider that our earth is but an inconceivable (and basically invisible) fleck orbiting that initial speck, but no diagram or even idealization can deliver on the actual meaning of these differentials.
Our perceptive scales can only be stretched so far; but they can be stretched, if not rewired.
That we can begin to try and idealize such a scale is something powerful in itself and, if we committed to it, we could probably make some good leaps in comprehending those massive differences.
Maybe even feeling them.
And it’s via our observations of the natural world that this rewiring can be done. From petrie dishes to nebulas, and also through our continuous catalyzation of the universe, we can begin to turn the camera around onto ourselves to begin stretching our understanding, recalibrating our intellectualistic and sensory navigation through not only space and time, but also the intangible dimensions of thought.
It’s from seeing the hierarchies, cycles, flows of ordinances and dictums of our surrounding reality that we can apply the orbits of potential to ourselves.
We’ve etched myths and religions from the movements of stars; ideologies from the collisions of particles — all of which are simply thermodynamic fluctuations of chaotically beautiful happenstance; we’ve lived in accordance with that which we observe all around us.
The point is that we create from the ephemeral interactions throughout nature — through telescopes or microscopes — and that we derive something special from doing so; order, meaning, purpose, even irony.
The fact that we’re able to do this in the first place, while being even remotely cognizant of what’s going on, is a pretty big deal.
Causal Flux & Creative Redux
Every event in space and time is as interdependent as much as it is independent. From this perception, we can see the inherent creationary potential at every instance.
While it may be awkward to buy into from an inherited point of reference that has been steeped in a few generations of Western materialistic thought, it’s something that has been packaged pretty well in Eastern wisdom.
From gut biomes to heliospheres, there’s a continually creative causality at play.
This doesn’t necessarily surprise us; where interest begins to scintillate is within the parameters of the [exponentiating] awareness that we employ towards our presence amidst this process.
That we can, for lack of a better term, begin to feel our way through it all.
Professor of evolutionary cosmology, Brian Swimme, once described it to me in a curious way that highlighted the inherent intention within all processes of the universe to evolve via a kind of cosmic creativity, and that we ourselves are engaged in a form of time-developmental consciousness as we have the ability to really feel our way through time, something that philosopher/mathematician Alfred Whitehead also called ‘propositional feelings’;
“I think that some people are right now in the process of developing a skill of seeing things in their depth of time…
...There was a time where vertebrates developed depth perception; sensitivity to light began over 3 million years ago. The first eye — what we would now call an eye — with the trilobites, had no depth perception. But we eventually developed that, so that we switched from a two-dimensional to a three-dimensional perception.
Now (by now I mean the last three to four centuries), we’ve had this task of developing what I call time developmental consciousness — to feel into the 100 million years that led to the oyster shell…
..Many people see this moment as a speciation event — we mean homosapiens but we enter into a new mode of being human. I love Thomas Berry’s notion, that one definition of human species, is that we reinvent ourselves at a species level without changing our anatomy of physiology. We’ve identified nine of these moments…
…My whole point, with Cosmogenesis, is to just be part of the activation of the moment of creativity. “— Swimme
However much we want to buy into it, there’s no denying that we’re exceptionally cognizant of our own position relative to everything around us; such a cognizance has been, and will always be, a pivotal variable in our evolution.
From observing the seemingly ageless precessions above to the timeless and instantaneous interactions below, we assume an equidistant superposition from where and whence we can triangulate the relative meaning of our own movements.
The kicker is that this meaning, we’re increasingly coming to learn, comes packaged much more densely than we could have ever imagined.
Fluid Lucidity
As we somehow balance along this thin meridian that divides what both Eastern and Western ideologies assertively term ‘heaven and earth’, our ability to play with the amount of [self]awareness that we have is a kind of cosmic bonus.
To be aware, even slightly, of our creative potential is stunning, not just from our liminal vantage point, but in our continuous flow from one moment to the next.
And an awareness of this awareness is where I egotistically plant my own flag of discovery, going as far as to even term this folding conscious process ‘lucid creationary cadence’. I’m not the first one here, but I’ve arrived rather independently.
That there’s this causal fluidity to our reality, baklavaniously layered, through differing dimensions of existence (space, time, meaning) and not just navigable and understandable through our conscious movement, but also fertile and actionable — that requires acknowledgement.
In moving through space and time with a deeper lucid awareness, we can tap into (and thus create) equally deep meanings; not unlike getting behind the sterile interfaces of an operating system into the iridescent networks of nodes and codes.
The causally, temporally and spatially occurring happenstance that we think we have much less control over than we actually do; the minute to minute potential that we swim through without fully appreciating unless we lather it with enough retrospection.
To saunter through the meshwork of cause-and-effect existence while engineering some kind of temporal creativity, whether we use it for grandiose purposes of moving mountains and creating legacies or simply finding ways to get ourselves out of bed faster in the morning; it’s a subjective enterprise — but the interesting thing is that somehow penetrates into the objective side of reality too.
In every moment we enter and exit, through every opportunity we grow and every possibility we collapse via our discerning conscious navigation through space and time, there is a creationary element that ripples from past to present, into the future.
To flow through through such moments and possibilities with as much lucidity as we’re afforded — it’s quite remarkable; to apply that conscious potential, as we do in all that we do, that’s something entirely indescribable.
