The Old and the New
Anxiety arises when we are no longer satisfied with the old, the known, the mediocre, the taken for granted, the stable, the conforming, the typical, the normal. The old is our self-concept, our stereotypes, our belief system, our prejudices, our habits, our ho hum. The old wants to change and yet it resists change.
Anxiety is a sign of eminent change. There is a third factor between the old and the new which we call anxiety, or the potential for change. Can you allow this anxiety, this call for change, without sabotaging yourself? Can you “wait upon the Lord?” Can you be patient and allow the Creative to occur? Anxiety is the preparation for change, for creativity, to emerge and bring about the new. The old must die for the new to be born. “Behold, I am making all things new” can be your watchword for today. If you can befriend anxiety today, you can enter into co-creativity with the Infinite Good.
The created must give way to the creative, the old to the new, the ego to the Self, Adam to Christ, the known to the unknown. T.S. Elliot said “In order to arrive at what you do not know, you must go by a way which is the way of ignorance.” Do you have an open mind? The ego rarely does. The ego clings to the old for its identity and security, and then complains.
If you are going to be happy and successful, you must be ready for change, open to the meaning of your anxiety, open for the creative. God is creative imagination and so are you. You imagined the old as a creative act at some point in time. Even if you duplicated something you saw others do. Being a copy-cat is duplicative creativity. Doing the opposite of others is also a creative act. But now it is old. You want change, but you do not want to be a copycat or a rebel in your own eyes. So you settle for what seems safe. You are stuck. You have just mummified your creativity. Life is change and you have just deadened yourself.
You created non-creativity. You created a closed mind. You created false safety; The only safety is creative change. Static or old creativity is not safe. Death of the old is the path to the life of the new. Anxiety is the door to that path. Can you tolerate and befriend anxiety? No? Then you will not encounter God, you will not face the Mystery. You have settled. We all do it. But in the next moment of Now, you will have that choice again. Maybe this time you will wake up to Reality, the reality of the yet unknown. Maybe next time you will not settle for the devil you know in preference to the god you do not know. Maybe next time you will not be so angry and sad and bored. Maybe next time you will come alive and take the path less traveled.
Goswami argues in Quantum Creativity that the old must de-structure in order for the new to manifest. During this de-structuring experience, we enter the “cloud of unknowing” to quote a 12th century Christian mystic. Have you ever been stalked by a question, asks Goswami? If you are going to move out of “stuck:” into “flow” you will have to be willing to listen to and be stalked by your questions. Everything you have learned must be questioned if you would enter into the New. Now you know why Neitzsche said God is dead. The old god must die for the new God to be born. All old gods become idols. The new is alive. Anxiety marks the passageway between the old known ego and the new quantum self. For Christ to be born, Adam must die. If you want to experience the joy of creativity, you must risk.
Anxiety is a sign of eminent change. There is a third factor between the old and the new which we call anxiety, or the potential for change. Can you allow this anxiety, this call for change, without sabotaging yourself? Can you “wait upon the Lord?” Can you be patient and allow the Creative to occur? Anxiety is the preparation for change, for creativity, to emerge and bring about the new. The old must die for the new to be born. “Behold, I am making all things new” can be your watchword for today. If you can befriend anxiety today, you can enter into co-creativity with the Infinite Good.
The created must give way to the creative, the old to the new, the ego to the Self, Adam to Christ, the known to the unknown. T.S. Elliot said “In order to arrive at what you do not know, you must go by a way which is the way of ignorance.” Do you have an open mind? The ego rarely does. The ego clings to the old for its identity and security, and then complains.
If you are going to be happy and successful, you must be ready for change, open to the meaning of your anxiety, open for the creative. God is creative imagination and so are you. You imagined the old as a creative act at some point in time. Even if you duplicated something you saw others do. Being a copy-cat is duplicative creativity. Doing the opposite of others is also a creative act. But now it is old. You want change, but you do not want to be a copycat or a rebel in your own eyes. So you settle for what seems safe. You are stuck. You have just mummified your creativity. Life is change and you have just deadened yourself.
You created non-creativity. You created a closed mind. You created false safety; The only safety is creative change. Static or old creativity is not safe. Death of the old is the path to the life of the new. Anxiety is the door to that path. Can you tolerate and befriend anxiety? No? Then you will not encounter God, you will not face the Mystery. You have settled. We all do it. But in the next moment of Now, you will have that choice again. Maybe this time you will wake up to Reality, the reality of the yet unknown. Maybe next time you will not settle for the devil you know in preference to the god you do not know. Maybe next time you will not be so angry and sad and bored. Maybe next time you will come alive and take the path less traveled.
Goswami argues in Quantum Creativity that the old must de-structure in order for the new to manifest. During this de-structuring experience, we enter the “cloud of unknowing” to quote a 12th century Christian mystic. Have you ever been stalked by a question, asks Goswami? If you are going to move out of “stuck:” into “flow” you will have to be willing to listen to and be stalked by your questions. Everything you have learned must be questioned if you would enter into the New. Now you know why Neitzsche said God is dead. The old god must die for the new God to be born. All old gods become idols. The new is alive. Anxiety marks the passageway between the old known ego and the new quantum self. For Christ to be born, Adam must die. If you want to experience the joy of creativity, you must risk.
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