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So what is “Creative Synergy”?

There is a synergistic reaction between the many and the One, the net and the gem, the field and the organism. Something is trying to happen, trying to make its way down from the realm of the causal to the solid matter of the manifest world. We can hear it as a humming along the resonant wires of the vibrating strings. We can feel it as a Form that is trying to take shape, trying to impress itself upon us, trying to clarify from fuzzy to sharp. As we open to receive it, as we work to make it clearer, we are shaping it with our own creative consciousness as well. As it resonates, it strikes harmonious chords with similar nodes of consciousness, until the whole net of strings vibrates with an idea whose time has come, an idea rippling across the net like the pattern cast by a stone in a pond. In the words of Fellini, “A creator always has something of Almighty God.”¹³⁷ In a more secular vein Ken Wilber says, “Creativity is part of the basic ground of the universe.”¹³⁸

Michael Talbot explains, “Whether we call the collective consciousness of all things ‘God,’ or simply ‘the consciousness of all things,’ it doesn’t change the situation. The universe is sustained by . . . an act of stupendous and ineffable creativity.”¹³⁹ When we cooperate with what is becoming and trying to merge into being, we are participating in Creative Synergy.

So the core meaning of Creative Synergy is cooperation with what Star Wars calls “The Force.” But there are others. To explain them all, we will look at sources Eastern and Western, mystical and scientific. As a framework we will use the Integral Operating System of Ken Wilber, the brilliant philosopher who has devised a schema to measure and codify all things, from the objective world of object and systems to the subjective world of self and culture. We will also discover how to clarify our vision and cooperate more with the synergistic process. For an elucidation of this process, I am deeply indebted to the work of Swami Kriyananda (Donald Walters).

The point, made lyrically by Andrew Cohen, is,

When spirit took the leap from formlessness to form, from nothing to something, from being to becoming, it emerged from emptiness as the creative impulse—the urge to become, the desire to exist. This creative impulse expresses itself at all levels of the human experience . . . at the gross physical level—as the sexual impulse . . . But at higher levels of being, humans are the only life forms we know of that are compelled to innovate and to create. We can see this especially in individuals who are pioneers in their fields, whether they are great philosophers, musicians, artists, politicians, or poets. Most individuals who are deeply talented are driven by a sense of urgency, an ecstatically urgent sense that “I must bring into life this potential that I see and experience in the depths of my own being. This must come through me . . . “It’s the will to create and the will to evolve.¹⁴⁰