What is creativity? What is spirituality? What is the Perennial Philosophy shared by all our world mysticisms, and what creative inspiration can it provide? What is science? What is the difference between classical and contemporary science, and how does the latter relate to the process of art?
What is space? Why does religious mysticism characterize ultimate reality as ‘nothingness?’ What is the quantum vacuum and how does it relate with creativity? What is the source and start of artistic inspiration?
What is duality? Of what significance are dualities such as yin and yang in spirituality/mysticism? Of what consequence is wave/particle duality in quantum physics? What dualities are inherent in the creative process?
What is energy? What do mystics mean when they say “God is a verb?” What did Einstein discover about the nature of light and matter? What fuels creativity, keeping it active and fruitful?
What is emergence? What is a system? What does spiritual philosophy reveal about the interconnected nature of reality? How does complexity theory define growth, and how does this definition relate with the creation of art?
What is the difference between chaos and order? What role does chaos play in spirituality? What is the second law of thermodynamics, and why is it important? What are dissipative structures, and how does chaos theory parallel the creative process?
What is evolution? What are adaptation and natural selection? What does “survival of the fittest” really mean? What is agency? How do Darwin’s teachings parallel spiritual philosophy? What can evolutionary biology teach us about the process of art?
What is infinity? What are pattern and scale invariance, and what are their relationship with art and creativity? What are fractals, and how do they relate with spirituality? How do fractals model the creative process?
Special presentation by visual artists Victor Rafael and Clayton Spada, exhibiting and discussing their collaborative series of prints on spiritual/scientific themes: From Zero to Infinity.
What is actualization? How does Perennial Philosophy characterize the purpose of our lives? What does contemporary science reveal about the fundamental nature and action of our universe? Does creativity ever end?
