Of course, those in what I like to call the “belief business” want to validate their beliefs by pointing to various desirable outcomes of holding their particular belief.
Think of the long and great history of the arts, music, and science, and you will see that the creative process is basic to these realms, while whatever you happen to believe is irrelevant.
But belief systems haven’t produced a fraction of what the creative process has. Most people underestimate the power of the creative process and over-estimate the power of metaphysics and other belief systems of all kinds. But I wasn’t working with metaphysics, I was working with something much more powerful – the creative process. I needed to express this experience graphically, because when I tried to explain it to others, they translated what I was trying to say into something vastly different, usually something metaphysical. Often when writing music, I’d be both in the moment and, simultaneously, in the future outcome of what I was writing. It was the irony of being in two places at the same time. I was working in front of a flip chart, something I like to do, and I was trying to work out something I had been aware of for a long time as an aspect of the creative process. I remember as if it were yesterday, the day I worked this out.
