Creativity and the noble task

How we assimilate older familiar material with new unfamiliar material is where creativity is, new patterns somehow form from the mingling of old and new material. We don't see something in the outer world and declare that as the new thing, it has to somehow harmonize and adapt with the inner world. Conservatism seems to come from this ethos. But before we leave the ground too far in this, it seems that essentially all knowledge originally was necessary for our preservation and for the difficulties in surviving and reproducing successfully. We and our minds are what we needed to be in this, which means that our minds tend to be “biased” toward survival needs. Can our minds therefore find “truth?” It seems to be mostly a creative thing, both intuitive and rational, this mingling of old and new patterns to find the truth, while instinctively activated to survive in the world.

I think theological materialism, the Twofold Path, and the EC were fundamentally---both consciously and unconsciously---developed because of this need of our preservation. My work in this was a means not only for helping in the preservation of man, but more essentially a means of aiding the evolution of man in the material/supermaterial world toward Godhood. If this is accurate than it seems like a noble task, both personally and for the sake of others.