[p2p-research] Creativity = madness?

[D Young]

No, people just say they're creative and mad because they don't want to be
as banal and clumsy as they are. Even being good at 1 or 2 things doesn't
make them different enough to make their boorishness go away.

On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Sofia Bustamante <
sofia at londoncreativelabs.com> wrote:

> I tend to agree here -- i think in your definition of genius, there is
> likely to be a healthy disregard and humour about the genius itself. Humor
> is often about perspectives and quite a good test for the lack thereof.
>
> On 30 May 2010 13:52, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> you'd need a shamanic guide to do that <g>
>>
>> but taken in appropriate doses, it does prepare the soul to wrestle with
>> these issues ...
>> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Maria Droujkova <droujkova at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> This, unexpectedly, articulated to me why I don't recommend most of
>>> Russian literature to my kid. It tends to take people to other realms,
>>> darker ones at that, and just dump them there without developing any filters
>>> - as the authors themselves either never learned to cope constructively
>>> (Dostoyevsky) or just followed the tradition of not providing filters to
>>> readers.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Maria Droujkova
>>> http://www.naturalmath.com
>>>
>>> Make math your own, to make your own math.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> hi Andy,
>>>>
>>>> I have been convinced of this a long time ago, not sure if you know this
>>>> but I lived for 18 months in a neoreichian community and did 6 more years of
>>>> intensive body-mind work in my late twenties.
>>>>
>>>> However, there is a very crucial difference which may not be overlooked
>>>> and makes genius and madness different, although one can turn into the other
>>>> and vice versa,
>>>>
>>>> i.e. geniuses go through these different realms, but can make the
>>>> difference between them, they come out of the dark night of the soul with
>>>> shamanic mastery, on the other hand, mad people cannot distinguish between
>>>> the different truth claims of the different realms, and for this reason
>>>> become socially dysfunctional, while shamans and geniuses can 'travel back
>>>> and fro', knowing where they are and where there are speaking from ..
>>>>
>>>> Michel
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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