Comments on: Genius, Madness, Creativity

By: Andria Juliee

Andria Juliee — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:49:54 +0000

Cool Kelly,
I agree with you. Are you interested in collaborating or contributing to a small zine based out of Seattle Wa. Please tell me more about how you channel this awareness.
I write mostly on the subject of what this thread only covers artificially however articulatly so. REAL DEAL. Right now for instance there is a mean old man growling at the computer next to me but I feel like he’s growling at me.
Awareness can be stifiling 2.

By: Evan Hadkins

Evan Hadkins — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:53:37 +0000

Hi Milo, at the moment I am inventing my career – creativity can be hard work: for me anyway. It is great to hear that your life is flowing for you. It sounds like your enjoying it. Good to hear that you have your mental balance too – getting obsessive, not sleeping and so on can create problems for us I think. Many thanks for your comment.

By: Milo

Milo — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:51:13 +0000

I am a creative person to the point I invented my career. As I mature I let the restraints loose on my creativity. Now, I just flow with intensity. In almost every are of my life and my talents are flooding with almost no control. Musician, painter, metal artist, photographer, Daddy and human being. My mental balance has always been sane :) ….to me.

By: Evan Hadkins

Evan Hadkins — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:59:33 +0000

Hi Kelly, I’m wondering if you have ways of adjusting the settings on the filters, so to speak, or whether you feel they are fixed – that you just are sensitive and that’s that.

And thanks, I do to write well.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:59:25 +0000

The Filters of downloading the information we are constantly receiving.

You write very vividly as well.

By: Evan Hadkins

Evan Hadkins — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:56:38 +0000

Hi Kelly, If I hear you right, you are saying that creative people live with a high degree of intensity and sensitivity.

I do wonder about the filters you mention. Many thanks for your comment, you write very vividly.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:49:07 +0000

Ahhh…the age old question I have been pondering for such a long time. I think it is definitely multi-dimensional. I am a creative person, borderline genius, and have known many, many people in my life that are highly creative and definitely at the genius level, IQ wise and talent wise. And they are crazy…hahaha. I mean, they really do have a twinge of madness to them as do I and I think it is due to having such sensitive filters of consciousness; we pick up everything, the subtle tones that surround us, the energies of people and the world. We, the creative, are always existing at such peak levels that all of the energy we are taking in is bound to screw with us at some point. Sometimes this does lead to a lot of anxiety, depression, and other forms of mental illness, perhaps due to the overwheming-ness of it or the attempt to shut down from it. It is those who absorb everything so deeply and inherently that change the world and suffer the most.

By: Evan Hadkins

Evan Hadkins — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:03:55 +0000

Hi Chris, I know what you mean about ideas just popping into your head. This happens for me when I’m in the middle of something as well as (less commonly for me) getting the original idea.

It certainly has a lighter feeling than ‘having to be creative’. Thanks for your comment.

By: Chris Edgar

Chris Edgar — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 06:40:46 +0000

Hi Evan — thanks for this piece. It’s funny, at this point I don’t really see “myself” as creative, since I didn’t generate what I consider my really good ideas through the usual cumbersome thinking process — instead, they just “popped into my head.” It feels liberating to let go of the sense of responsibility for my ideas and all the ego investment that comes along with that.