notes on creative coherence

As is often the case, I am attempting to speak of something which cannot be spoken about. The Old Dude said the best runner is one who leaves no tracks. Well, consider me a jogger with elephantine feet. Here are some notes I made last night on creative coherence.

1. Strictly speaking, the myth of creative coherence is not a myth, since the general requirements of a myth are that it be populated with characters, that there is a problem to be solved, that one of the characters solves the problem at a sacrifice to him/herself, and that the other characters either help, observe, or get in the way. In a certain sense, the myth of creative coherence solves a problem, but has neither characters nor a population.

2. A myth is generally thought to not be "real," to not be "true," but every single navel-scarred one of us lives within a myth, like a fish within water.

3. A myth is generally a story of events outside of us, an explanatory objectivity in which we as subjects believe and perform. The myth of creative coherence is a story of who we are, thus it is a story in which we are simultaneously subject and object.

4. When I say myth of creative coherence, I am standing "out here" looking at it. Later I will speak of the experience of creative coherence.

5. The myth of creative coherence has no dogma. No scientific dogma. No religious dogma. No philosophical dogma. No street-smart dogma. One iota of dogma collapses the coherence.

6. Creative coherence has simultaneously an observer effect and no observer effect. Creative coherence has an observer effect when it temporarily collapses into one of the dualistic sub-myths. Creative coherence has no observer effect when only creative coherence exists (i.e., no observer exists).

7. With creative coherence, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle does not operationalize. The particle and the wave, position and momentum, co-exist simultaneously, undisturbed.

8. With creative coherence, all dynamic pairs, polar opposites, come into play at once and thus negate their mutual negation.

9. Creative coherence is an ongoing process of sublation. It carries its own contradictions within itself while continuously transforming the contradictions.

10. In the realm of creative coherence, thinking and awareness are identical, as are awareness and being. Hegel says "...it is far harder to bring fixed thoughts into a fluid state than to do so with sensuous existence." I agree in regard to fixed thoughts, but un-fixed thoughts, thoughts au naturel, are already in a fluid state and do not have to be brought anywhere. I make no distinction between sensuous existence and thought. Thought is sensuous existence, alive, and fluid. Thought is real.

11. If you know what creative means and what coherence means, then you know what creative coherence is. And if you know it and not just know of it, you are it. When you know creative coherence, you are creative coherence. You are not "creatively coherent" (now there is a you in the picture -- and as Hakuin pointed out, why put a rat turd in a perfectly good stew?). You are creative coherence.

12. Creative coherence requires no metaphorical or metaphysical props or underpinnings, though it makes use of both metaphor and metaphysics as cannon for its fodder.