As our culture has evolved, the basic survival needs of more and more people have been met. We begin to be able to identify more and more with the evolutionary or creative impulse that has itself been the engine that's given rise to culture.
As human beings are liberated from being fundamentally survival-oriented in relationship to life and to the human experience, the capacity for conscious creativity awakens.
It begins to dawn on us that we're not merely here to mate and to procreate. We are here to co-create. We awaken to the certain knowing that this evolutionary creative drive, the drive towards innovation, exists in us and as us. This is the drive to emergence. Emergence is one of my favorite words, because emergence points to the miracle that greater complexity emerges from lesser complexity. A completely new whole emerges, which is vastly greater and deeper than the sum of its parts.
Nobody seems to be able to explain how such a miracle can happen. How can that which is more complex arise out of that which is less complex? How does emergence emerge? Everywhere, from the gross level of matter to the most subtle movement of highly evolved consciousness, there is a movement -- an Eros-- which is a movement or an energetic drive towards emergence.
When we liberate ourselves, at least to some limited degree, from unconscious drives and life motives that are fundamentally materialistic (motives for acquisition) or motives that about the glorification of the self (narcissistic motives), we find that there is a mysterious tug or pull of a Higher Motive that drives us to participate in the human experience. That tug helps to create the conditions within us, and hopefully around us, that will allow us to become creative engines in which and through which the energy and intelligence that created the universe can give rise to potentials that never existed before.
This is the evolutionary or creative motivation to give rise to that which never existed before. This happens when we awaken beyond the compulsion of fundamental survival materialistic or narcissistic motivations. To that precise degree, we become free and therefore alive and are delighted by our capacity to give rise to potentials that never existed before. To the precise degree that we wake up and get free, this will be the degree that the energy and intelligence that created the universe leaves its mark through our existence, through our presence here in this world, in the course of our individual lives.
To the degree to which we have liberated ourselves so that the creative process can flower and flow freely and profoundly in and through us (in such a way that will actually have results, will have a real effect on the world process, on culture, and ultimately in the Kosmos as a whole) -- to that precise degree do our lives take on supercharged meaning and Eros. It is the radical commitment to that degree of liberation which is the hallmark of the Outrageous Lover.
The Outrageous Lover realizes, "I am the energy and intelligence that created the universe. I am here to create the universe, not merely to preserve it, but to create it." Creativity in this case means giving rise to that which is new, to that which never existed before. This is a critically new source of spiritual self-confidence, a source of confidence, in really being alive, which is so needed at a time in the world process that is existentially confusing and it can be frightening and overwhelming. Many people aren't really sure exactly how to come to terms with the ever-greater complexity that the world process seems to be manifesting.
How do we deal with the speed of information, the growth of our population, and the global thrusts that confront us? It can be very overwhelming and also quite intimidating.
We awaken to this motivation, which is inherently creative. We awaken to this evolutionary impulse, or creative impulse, becoming conscious of the energy and intelligence that created the universe. We realize that its nature, which is our own true nature, is a creative drive -- Eros as overwhelming, ecstatic positivity.