This is a blog about creative thinking. Creativity is looking at what everyone else looks at and seeing something different. As such it is not always like winning a popularity contest. Sometimes it is downright revolutionary. Everything that is now a tradition was at one time a revolutionary idea. Revolutionary ideas often rock the boat and piss people off because they represent change, and not everyone welcomes change.
I think we were put on this planet to be creative with our own lives, to search for and design what works for us, and to learn about the power of love. I am much more enthusiastic about the emotional and spiritual quality of life than materialism and conformity. I love thinking with childlike spontaneity. As Robin Williams said so long ago, “Reality! What a concept!”
It is often said by mystics that if we can dream of something, it exists somewhere in some dimension within the infinite universe. I am counting on that and that’s why you’ll often find me writing utopian fantasies. I like to envision what a non-religious heaven is like.
This blog is more like a journal. It is not the last word on anything. By next week I may have a new epiphany that will change everything. I don’t write to change your life. I write to express my inner world and often to work through creative challenges. If I write something you don’t like, keep in mind that I’m not asking you to change one bit.
By the same token, if you resonate with what I write, I would love to get to know you. Let’s share ideas and friendship.
Joshua Bagby
Joshua Bagby by the McKenzie
Speaking practically, blog author Joshua Bagby lives in a sweet modest house by a creek in Salem, Oregon, but most of the time he lives inside his imagination where mystical muses caress his neurons around the clock.
Joshua has had an uncanny lifelong ability to be passionate about subjects that fall just outside the cultural mainstream in popularity. Such topics include natural ecstasy (peak experiences), near-death experiences and their implications about a larger reality, sexual philosophy (why certain sexual customs and practices exist in a field of limitless behavioral possibilities), the nature and potential of intimacy, beauty in overlooked people and places, and, of course, creativity, epiphanies, and woo-woo, too.
He considers himself a far-sighted thinker. In the early 90s he tried with the help of a literary agent to sell a book on creating relationships online. New York publishers snubbed the idea including one Manhattan editor who rejected the book claiming that “email is just a fad.”
Joshua is not seeking fame or following. He does not want to appear on Oprah. (It was enough being on Geraldo in 1989!) He loves being creative and sharing ideas but turns pale at the idea of celebrity and the horror stories told by other authors doing publicity tours. Rather than fame, he would much rather have close friends and a mind full of inspiration.
