The Metaphysical Application of the Creative Process

Deviation is good. Even within the confines of modern, creatively oppressive culture; it's necessary to some extent for many purposes spanning from the illusory aspects of different facets of culture and was of course a prerequisite to it in the first place. Following a straight, rigid line in a real way does not work, even if the goal of the end is the same. A certain amount of deviation is even "allowed" within culture because it is recognized as necessary.

Music is, to me, the best and vastest example of deviation in context of creativity. Once a certain mechanical skill is reached and subconscious takes over, deviation occurs naturally and manifests itself in distinct (or not) musical style. Distinct style is not emulated genuinely because of the foreign nature of the mechanics required therein. One does not proceed without the other. Since everyone learns mechanics differently, everyone deviates differently. This is grossly simplified, but being in layman's terms might make sense.

Creativity, ideals, morals, culture, etc work in a similar way in some cases. With an infinite amount of variables that could take the place of the example of mechanics and subconscious deviation/creativity together, everything influences everything else; shackled together in a sense. Without freeing one facet of the mind, another is impeded. In that way, proposing a complex and isolated idea is not always accessible for a person who is not sharing a similar order of acquiring traits and ideas etc. In order to reach an end, a simple and seemingly distant means is often required to set off a series of subsequent progressions in multiple facets at once. Something incredibly simple can manifest incredibly complex ideas and expressions further along this metaphorical progression.

"Before Enlightenment chop wood carry water, after Enlightenment, chop wood carry water."

 Slight deviations from the mechanical familiarity interrupt creative augmentations. In context, perhaps thinking of modern technology and culture with this rather tenuous paradigm as an overlay explains some of shortfalls of people today. Instead of allowing sufficient clearance for mechanical familiarity to deviate and produce more creative expressions, you are cramped, confined and hurried. Only enough deviation is permitted as minimally possible. The illusion of efficiency lurks in the shadows of the mind beckoning to take the easy, narrowed way instead of the arduous creative process. A lot of people know the difference in a fragmented way. If you don't; look at the busiest, ideologically narrow, career and academically oriented person you know, and perhaps ask yourself the question "have they come up with a radically different understanding of anything?"

The extremely high rate of drug abuse in jazz musicians took on a new shade of woe. The outside looking in is a sad place.