Denial of Your Creativity Fuels Planetary Degeneration
In the futures, I see awakening into perceiving creativity and agency as one of the highest virtues and values, in the context of work and community.
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • Denial of Your Creativity Fuels Planetary Degeneration
Most of the famous painters of that era, including Agnes Pelton, Hilma af Klint, and Georgia O’Keeffe have read the book “ Thought Forms ” (1905), by Charles Webster Leadbeater and Annie Besant. This book made a big influence on the art world at that time, allowing artists to explore mysticism and the occult in their own work.
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • Denial of Your Creativity Fuels Planetary Degeneration
A person can grow up being taught that a mountain is just a pile of rock, ready to be mined. Another person can grow up, taught that the mountain is an apu deity, able to direct their destiny. And the question isn’t about whether a mountain is a pile of rock or a life-altering spirit, but how these beliefs manifest themselves in culture— with... See more
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • Denial of Your Creativity Fuels Planetary Degeneration
And I am not concerned with money, I am concerned with the invisible nature of extractivism that separates creators from their creations. I am concerned with the way we exchange energy and the way energy moves from primary sources of abundance to places of captivity .
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • Denial of Your Creativity Fuels Planetary Degeneration
We exile ourselves from our life’s work because we question our enoughness.
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • Denial of Your Creativity Fuels Planetary Degeneration
Every river has a headwater, a watering hole somewhere high up.
Headwater is a portal. Between the underground and overground—a melting space of transfiguration. This is where creativity condenses, swells, and emerges as a gift.
Headwater is a portal. Between the underground and overground—a melting space of transfiguration. This is where creativity condenses, swells, and emerges as a gift.
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • Denial of Your Creativity Fuels Planetary Degeneration
“ Always do this work first, others only when these do not call you. ”—what is this work for you ?
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • Denial of Your Creativity Fuels Planetary Degeneration
Where is your Headwater ?
Your own river collects itself like an underground cloud and starts dripping upwards, bursting, breaking through the lithosphere—ready to create gravity of aliveness around itself, the way a star does.
Your own river collects itself like an underground cloud and starts dripping upwards, bursting, breaking through the lithosphere—ready to create gravity of aliveness around itself, the way a star does.
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • Denial of Your Creativity Fuels Planetary Degeneration
This void feeds itself through doubt and devaluation. Rests low in the pits of unblossomed self-esteem, and impaired personal and collective agency. A dream, embedded in reality, that feels just as real. A dream as big as a society.