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Image: Ferdinand van Kassel, Four Parts of the World series: Lisbon, circa 1689 The interplay between creative and logical mind seems to be a topic on which I spend a lot of time thinking and researching as I am realising I am writing about the same problem for the third time in my short blogging history (here are the links to the other two essays The Mind Between Reason and Insight: Logic, Intuition and Universal Patterns & Sacred Geometry of the Mind: Bridging Rational and Creative Worlds)....

Image: La Notte by Achille Casanova, circa 1894-1897 In depth psychology such as the work of Carl Jung there is an attempt to move beyond material explanations of mind by proposing that psyche may be rooted in the ‘objective psyche’ - a domain of transpersonal structures not reducible to individual neurology. His concept of archetypes as preexisting organising patterns of experience alongside the concept of synchronicity suggests a reality in which mind and matter may arise from a deeper...

Image: Newton depicted by William Blake around 1795 This is the topic I keep finding myself getting back to over and over again (please also check The Mind Between Reason and Insight: Logic, Intuition and Universal Patterns post talking about the logic and creative split with some insights on the origins of creativity). So whilst my previous post attempts to answer questions such as where art is coming from and how some art resonates with millions of people across different cultures and...