Beauty, Order & Creativity

"Now let's connect this dot back to the light realms in NDEs. We just read: 'They are also frequently described as foreign in architecture, and so sublimely beautiful that, like all the other features of the implicate dimensions, words fail to convey their grandeur. In describing one such city, Swedenborg said that it was a place 'of staggering architectural design, so beautiful that you would claim this is the home and source of art itself.'"

"It's the same pattern!" Zac said.

"Exactly," I replied. "If light realms exist closer to love and Truth, you'd expect to see beauty and order in their architecture. In fact, it appears that beauty and order are the default state of everything, but fear obscures that reality and makes things 'sick'. I mean, look at the mind-sickness currently permeating our society, causing disorder and chaos. It's a holographic pattern. We can even plot this pattern on our sliding scale."

"Furthermore, have you tried being creative when you're living in fear? It doesn't work very well. There's a reason creative pursuits exist at the top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs."

"We can also plot this hierarchy of needs on our sliding scale. As you move up the pyramid, you move from fear into love. You trust that your needs are being met by the world, in the same way that you trust there'll be enough air available when you take your next breath."

"Actually," I continued, "we can also find this same pattern in a TED talk by Rutger Bregman entitled 'Poverty isn't a lack of character; it's a lack of cash.'"

"The most relevant section of the talk is this," I said.

It was only a few years ago that I discovered that everything I thought I knew about poverty was wrong. It all started when I accidentally stumbled upon a paper by a few American psychologists. They had travelled 8,000 miles all the way to India for a fascinating study. It was an experiment with sugarcane farmers. You should know that these farmers collect about 60% of their annual income all at once, right after the harvest. This means that they're relatively poor one part of the year, and rich the other.

The researchers asked them to do an IQ test before and after the harvest. What they subsequently discovered completely blew my mind. The farmers scored much worse on the test before the harvest. The effects of living in poverty, it turns out, correspond to losing 14 points of IQ. Now, to give you an idea, that's comparable to losing a night's sleep or the effects of alcoholism.

"It's the same pattern again," I continued. "Fear inhibits creative intelligence, and creative intelligence allows systems to self-organize into highly ordered creations. There's a reason we look at SpaceX's reusable rockets and marvel at their magnificence. A reusable rocket is a highly ordered creation in a low-entropy state — just like a symmetrical ice-crystal, a healthy plant, the magnificent architecture in the light realms, a literary masterpiece, or a Beethoven symphony. It takes higher creative intelligence to arrange resources into highly ordered states; to pull order out of chaos.

Because remember — at our core, we are all infinite intelligence. We've just forgotten our own creative power, and that forgetfulness is called 'fear.' By definition, if we lived in a world of no fear, we would live in a world of infinite creative intelligence. Our technology would be astounding. Our buildings and art would be magnificent — just like the light realms. As God says, 'I have put an end to [suffering]. You simply refuse to use the tools I have given you with which to realize that.' A more beautiful world already exists for us. We're the ones obscuring that reality with our fear."