I'm going to start this thing today with a little polarizing nerd juice.

I want to read an excerpt from Creativity as God, a religious interpretation of emergence by Gordon

Kaufman.

I suggest that instead of taking it for granted that God is the name of a creator person who has brought everything into being,

we will find it illuminating to think of God as the religious name for the profound mystery of creativity.

The mystery of the emergence in and through evolutionary and other originative

processes of novelty in the world. Creativity in this view is not a quasi-scientific explanation

of why and how new realities come into being. It is rather the word we use to

identify and call attention to one of the profound mysteries of life. The mystery of new realities

continuously being created. The mystery of complex things emerging from things less complex.

The mystery of coming into being of the universe and ourselves in that universe.

The mystery of an open and unknown future into which we are all moving.

For many this creativity, God manifests manifest throughout our universe, is very

awe-inspiring. It calls forth emotions of gratitude, love, peace, hope, and fear, and a sense

of profound meaningfulness of our distinctive human existence in the world. Iss issues with which faith in God usually has been associated in the past.

It is entirely appropriate, therefore, to think of God as precisely this magnificent panorama of creativity,

with which our universe, as well as our lives in this universe, confronts us.

All things came into being through the mystery of creativity.

Apart from creativity, nothing would have come into being.

Hello, welcome.

Welcome to episode two. Well, number two of the Joe DeVoe show. I'm your host, Joanna DeVoe, but you can call me Joe, and I am here to uplift and support my fellow creatives, lovable weirdos, and makers of magic.

And today I'm going to attempt to do that by talking about a creative cosmology that I have come to think of as Big C, Little C. As in Big C is the mysterious creative energy that created and is always creating all things, as just

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