ABSTRACT
This chapter is about calling back the body to the membranes of creativity, to the actual soil of what needs to be a foundation for creativity to bloom and bust out from within us and into the lives of others. Creation and creatures echo the ultimate creativity, and the gift of the senses brings beauty that is both bearable and unbearable. Beauty has the capacity to be dissonant and consonant, and creativity is found in our bones and cells, which bear witness to this reality. In connection with reclaiming the body as a place of knowledge and wisdom, the chapter proposes four principles in connection to embodied ways of being and knowing and releasing creativity. These are play, passion, physicality, and practice. Play is the work of creativity or of the spiritual practice of creativity. Creativity becomes the place of inquiry, as do embodied ways of knowing, to access the place where joy is found.
