Creativity country : a journey through embodied space

Like light along a cable, sound down a wire or wind through the grass, new understandings ripple through us, flooding our entire body with a shiver of knowing that will change us forever. I can recognise this when it happens in another person. I can see it in their body, this passage of one way of being into another- this magical creative shift. When it happens to another they seem to be somewhere else. When it happens to me I seem to be somewhere else, other than where we usually are. Where do we go for this creative moment to occur? If we go somewhere, if creativity has both a moment and a territory, exists in time and space, in a country of a kind, where is this country between knowing and unknowing? The emerging place of all new thought, all new human construction - all new knowledge that is central to our existence as human beings. In many cultures, being in country describes having entered a place of belonging, of being purposefully within an environment to which one is spiritually connected and to which one has serious obligations, a collective space. It would seem to me that creativity is a space very like that- collective, serious, purposeful, of fundamental importance to us all.