Creative people have often felt that they for their productivity are dependent on an autonomous creative active factor present within their nature. A innate creative Spirit, and a faculty not of their own. Others who create more by their rational talents, simply state that their intuition brings along solutions needed. Some of the great inventors saw the solution-the wider picture or a missing element of the work they were sweating on, in a dream.
It is well known that many artists who were driven by their creative inner drive fell in poverty because their creative daemon was so demanding that they could not function normally in society.
Mozart-Bach -Beethoven perceived themselves as instruments of something that creates music within them. Mozart: Not I dictate the music, it dictates me. Bach – I don’t have to seek for melodies, I step on them when I get out of bed. Beethoven: I shake a piece of music out of my sleeve, and then I am going to work on it to improve it.
—- These great artists have one thing in common, their dependence on the creative aspect unconscious part of their psyche. Despite personal hard work and input and given talents, ego-consciousness depends heavenly on cooperation with the Unconscious part of the psyche. It is there where the creative aspect of human nature resides.
In the realm of religious talent, a tzaddik/tzadika lives by and expresses religious content and novelties that emerges within him or her in autonomous manner; a rabbi depends for his/her religious expressions, on a combination of personal creativity, cognitive ability and talent in general related to content that belongs to the worldly collective mind of humanity and the ego-centered world of individuals. A born tzaddik or tzadika just have to follow-bend or break– the expressions of their soul-where Spirit also reside.
Talent must be worked on – True geniality pushes and imposes itself often with brutal force on an individual.
How did early man know–by means of instinctual knowledge–how to do biological life. And after that stage how he could grasp. by feeling-intuition the symbolic meanings he discovered in his projections onto the world.
A step further, later ‘his’ (more likely women did this) mind produced and formed myths -containing the material out of which religions are made. After this== prophets== worked on similar spiritually based content that came out of their dreams- or their visions–which are dreams breaking through their daily consciousness.
(Gyro Gear loose–a figure from the Walt Disney cartoons–He created an image of the maker of his own inspiration in the form little lamp bulb-(little helper)- with metal arms and legs—-are we the creators of our own inspiration? Think again! Can we turn the cogs of our faculty of cognition? Our superior instincts? And do we create our sometimes very superior dreams, their symbols included. Are we masters of the creative intuitions that ‘fall into us?’-Did we make our natural -innate/inborn conscience? –And can we attain spiritual enlightenment {ordered perception and understanding of our outer and inner world} solely by ego-effort.
Shouldn’t we admit that we for our perception of, reasoning about, and understanding of our inner and outer world are very much dependent on capacities and abilities -given by nature-and that are not of our own-ego-make.