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Creativity and imagination are essential skills for us humans to progress Imagnation flourish. I see a suppression and neglect of creative skills in education and corporations. My research is about to understand what creativity is and, where it comes from. Also, I investigate how consciousness links to creativity and, why it matters. Since childhood, I found weird experiences and phenomena very interesting.

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That is to say, weird for others but not for me. For example a precognitive experience was part of life. The problem was how other people reacted to this. As a result, my early youth and teen-age years felt very repressive as I could not express myself the way I wanted.

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When I Look back upon this period I see a germination of opportunities and Creativity And Imagination And Creativity. The weird experiences became charged as I suppressed them. In other words, I was hiding them for others.

This repression added an extra dimension to the experience: more power. But I also lacked the tools to check if my precognitive experiences were for real, fantasies, or a mix of those. There were a few exceptions though and more about those in a future post. My first conscious memory is from when I was two years old. I remember sitting in the baby pram in the front garden of our home on Oudeschild, Texel in the Netherlands. In front of our house stood a food lorry SRV wagen with the door open and, I assume my mother was inside the lorry.

There was music playing but over time I might have mixed up two songs. In other words, I do not know for sure what was the music that I heard. The experiences in my youth contributed to my creativity and imagination. I could visualize in my mind how a drawing should look like. Over time my hand-eye coordination improved and my drawing skills improved. I was not a Rembrandt van Rijn and do not misunderstand me. The surrounding people enjoyed my enthusiasm to draw and create.

This enthusiasm resulted in going to various art schools. At these school I learned to criticize my work and understand why I do the things I do.

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During this period critical thinking began to mix with intuition. My fellow students were to a large degree creative and imaginative too. But no one spoke about where creativity and imagination comes from. Nor did the professors and everything was about reasoning.

To learn to reason is a good skill for sure. But the education lacked a certain balance. It was as if imagination is a process of simple steps with a guaranteed outcome. When I began to teach at the university in HelsinkiI realized something lacks. My students looked for processes, rules to abide and emotional safety. I saw the same repressed beings suppressing their creativity. I had no tools at the time to help them.]