Contrasting a Cassian-Merton model of mystical prayer with moments of Big-C creativity in contemporary music
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Summary
This summary is machine-generated.This study explores "Big-C" creativity, contrasting it with "little-c" creativity. It finds "Big-C" moments emerge spontaneously, bypassing extensive practice, similar to mystical prayer.
Area Of Science
- Psychology
- Creativity Studies
- Religious Studies
Background
- Understanding
- Big-C
- (heightened creativity) is limited.
- It often appears spontaneously, even in early life with minimal experience.
Purpose Of The Study
- To explore the emergence of
- Big-C
- creativity.
- To contrast
- Big-C
- with
- little-c
- creativity.
- To identify parallels between creativity and prayer development.
Main Methods
- Comparative analysis of psychological literature and theological works (St. John Cassian, Thomas Merton).
- Examination of subjective accounts of creativity in Anglophone artist-musicians.
- Metaphorical framework comparing prayer development (
- little-p
- ,
- Big-P
- ) with creativity (
- little-c
- ,
- Big-C
- ).
Main Results
- A symmetry is identified between the development of prayer and creativity.
- Little-c
- creativity develops sequentially: authenticity, task motivation, practice, experience.
- Big-C
- creativity can bypass extensive practice and experience, emerging from authenticity and task motivation.
Conclusions
- Big-C
- creativity may emerge spontaneously, characterized by a surrender of agency.
- This emergence bypasses the typical developmental stages of
- little-c
- creativity.
- The study offers a historically grounded perspective on spontaneous
- Big-C
- creativity.
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