Creativity and the techniques by which the artist

Can refine his or her vision

Expand the vision

Communicate the vision

And before I get into that issue

I thought I would talk a little bit about my notion

Of creativity per say, what is it in and of itself

And when I think Like that of course I cast my mind back to nature

Nature is the great visible engine of creativity

Against which all other creative efforts are measured

And creativity in nature has a curious distribution

It’s something which accumulates through time…

It was a plenum, it was without character or characteristics

It is in what hindu mythology is called a toriah, which is described

As attribute-less. And naturally if something is without attribution

You can’t say much about it. It takes a while for it to undergo a declension

Into more creative realms. And these creative realms are distinguished as

Domains of difference…

And through the light of the universe

As temperatures have fallen, more and more complex compound structures

Have arisen. And though there’s been many a slipping back

In this process, over very large spans of time we can say

That creativity is conserved. That the universe becomes more creative

And out of that state of creative fecundity, more creativity…

Terence McKenna - Opening the doors of Creativity