“The Creative Life” by Eric Butterworth
Introduction
Eric Butterworth’s The Creative Life: 7 Keys to Your Inner Genius is a remarkably well-researched and well-written work encompassing numerous aspects of spirituality that allow the readers to gain a divine insight concerning the process of creation. According to Butterworth’s perspective, all individuals possess have a unique, concealed intellect within themselves that makes it possible for them to understand and comprehend the significance of spiritualism accordingly. His discussion revolves around the notion that all human beings – who believe in god – may find him and their true spiritual self with the demonstration of passion accompanied by obligation, obedience, and eagerness. Without a doubt, Butterworth has been triumphant in presenting a comprehensive work that would certainly be regarded as an extremely powerful and innovative book with regards to spiritualism in the coming years.
Contents of The Book
As far as the contents of the book are concerned, The Creative Life explores the seven keys that may help the readers to let go of their inner creative genius. The most outstanding characteristic of the book is that all the chapters include practical and efficient exercises for enabling the readers to implement the offered ideas in their routines. Regardless of the small size of the book (150+ pages only), it offers extremely resonant and vast ideas that are sure to broaden the thinking capacity of the reader. There are a lot of underlying meanings that can be found throughout the book. Almost every page makes the reader acknowledge the fact that one can find god within him/her irrespective of his/her origin and physical characteristics (Butterworth). He says, “God is in us, not like a raisin in a bun but like the ocean in a wave” (as qt in Belmessieri 34).
Discovery of Eric Butterworth
Eric Butterworth insists his readers to seek ways to discover their unique creativeness and adopt new approaches to find and nourish their spiritual selves. He advises his readers to remain in touch with their innovative selves and inspired from surroundings (Butterworth). Referring to Genesis, he talks about the 7 days repeatedly and every chapter discusses one day individually to let the readers understand the lessons. The notion that the world was created in 7 days is brilliantly explored and investigated by Butterworth whereby he discusses the significance of all the seven days and how they carried different motivating implications and bestowing creativity to mankind.
Drawbacks of The Creative Life
As mentioned above, the exercises in the book are useful for readers in helping them to unleash the creativity granted to every individual. Considering that some propositions within the book are controversial (such as the differentiation between Jesus and the Christ), The Creative Life is suitable for readers who are interested in knowing the relationship that connects creativity and spirituality. It is recommended that all exercises are done sincerely to acquire the offered benefits and to comprehend the point of view of the author. As far as the drawbacks of The Creative Life are concerned, the author fails to appreciate the fact that every person reading the book is uninventive and uncreative. For the same reason, it becomes rather difficult at many times to follow Butterworth’s actual guidelines. It would have been better if Butterworth had included real-life, common examples to value individual creativity of his readers.
Conclusion
To conclude, Butterworth has been successful in writing a valuable book to inspire people to recognize, acknowledge, and furnish their creative sides.
References
Belmessieri, Debbie. Tapping into God: experiencing the spiritual spectrum. Bloomington, IN: Balboa Press, 2011. Print.
Butterworth, Eric. The creative life: seven keys to your inner genius. New York: J.P. Tarcher/Putnam, 2001. Print.
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