Improvisation and the Creative Process

A woman asks how improvisation figures into the creative process. Rupert suggests that an artist’s work has to come from inspiration. The faculties of mind have to be informed by something beyond the mind, with an influx of spirit. Without inspiration, we merely reformulate the past. Practice is required in time, but the real content of the work comes from inspiration or, in the least, from the collective unconscious. Ideally, it would come from pure being. Inspiration comes from behind the mind on the vertical line, improvisation comes from the skills that we've acquired along the horizontal line.

From event 09 - 16 October, 2022 Seven Day Retreat at Garrison Institute – 9th to 16th October

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