ICEMABE 2023 Theme

Business Management Education, and Entrepreneurship: 21^st Century:

Creativity and Innovation in the New Normal

Dr. Violeta Jerusalem, AB, MAED, MBA, EDD

Jose Rizal University, Philippines

Dr. Emiliano T. Hudtohan, AB, BSE, MA, EDD

De La Salle Araneta University, Philippines

IAMHRD Webinar

June 17, 2023

Introduction

Dr. Andi Bahrun, Tenggara University, Indonesia; Dr. Sanihu Munir, President, IAMHRD, Indonesia; Director Encik Muhammad Zubir Bin Mohd Hanifah,  Politeknik Sultan Azlan Shah, Malaysia; and Dr. Eugenio, S. Gujao,  University of Mindanao, Philippines;

Honorable Speakers: Dr. Muahammad Mustafa, Uganda; Dr. Saket Jeswani, India; Dr. Asliza Yusoff, Malaysia; and Dr. Kamola Bayram, Turkey; ladies and gentlemen,

My great privilege to provide insights on Creativity and Innovation on the Fourth International Conference on Education, Management, Agribusiness, and Business Entrepreneurship (ICEMABE) June 17, 2023

It is with great joy that we have survived COVID 19.  Today, we are moving close to a New Normal.  The masks are no longer mandatory; the vaccines are at a minimal use.  Schools have reopened for regular class; business establishments have customers.  Our borders are now open air, land and sea ports accept foreign travelers.

The challenge is how do we move forward, after the gains we have achieved with our COVID 19 experience of adversity.  Nietzsche says, “What does not kill you will make you stronger.” And indeed we have emerged much stronger.  Nassim Taleb says, “What does not kill you will kill others.” And indeed, we survived the pandemic but we have relatives, friends, and neighbors who succumbed to death.

Objective

The purpose of this narrative is to serve as an overall background on the Fourth International Conference on Education, Management, Agribusiness, Business Entrepreneurship (ICEMABE) webinar whose theme is: Business Management Education and Entrepreneurship in the 21^st Century Creativity and Innovation in the New Normal. It aims to discuss the cosmology of Mother Galactica, Greek mythology of Gaia, Chaos and Eros, and quantum physics as three inspirations for human creativity and innovation.

Methodology

This discourse is a qualitative narrative (Marshall & Rossman, 2011) on creative and innovation; the narrative is based on key documents that provide an understanding of cosmology, Greek mythology and quantum physics vis-à-vis creativity and innovation. It makes sense of quantum physicists (Smith, 2015; Sela-Smith, 2002) to understand the three inspirations of 21^st century creativity and innovation(Hudtohan, 2005; Gonzalez, Luz, & Tirol, 1984).  The methodology of this study is multi-valuate (Richardson, 2015) because it deals with various disciplines related to the three levels of reality: physical/natural, meta-physical and super-natural. This is an exploratory discourse (Stebbins, 2011) to study, examine, analyze and investigate the creativity and innovation.

Discussion

There are three sources of inspiration for creativity and innovation:

1. Cosmology: The Galactic Center and  the Great Mother, 2. Mythology: Greek Gaia, Chaos, & Eros, and 3. Metaphysics: Quantum Energy Field.

1. Cosmology

By studying the cosmos beyond our own planet, we can understand where we came from, where we are going, and how physics works under conditions which are impossible to recreate on Earth. In astronomy, the Universe is our laboratory. Cosmos, in astronomy, the entire physical universe considered as a unified whole (from the Greek kosmos, meaning “order,” “harmony,” and “the world”).

The Galactic Center

Figure 1. Our galaxy: Milky Way (Hudtohan, 2023)

Seen from the Earth, our galaxy appears like a band of light with droplets of milk scattered all across the night sky –  The Milky Way. Formed about 13.51 billion years ago, this large barred-spiral Milky Way galaxy contains billions of stars and innumerable planets. What does its centre looks like?

In 2012, for the first time in 26,000 years, our Sun  was aligned to the Galactic Center. Thus, the Harmonic Convergence began in 1987 and ends this year in 2023. We are at the tail end of a 36-year opportunity to participate in the creation of a New Era of Expanded Consciousness. Let us exercise our Creativity and Innovation now (page 2008).

Cosmologist Christine Page (2008) notes that the source of all creation – our Galaxy, the Milky Way – is the Great Mother and its center is her heart. With the Earth in alignment with the Heart of the Great Mother, this Galactic Alignment heralds a rebirth of the divine feminine qualities of the Triple Goddess- – intuition, emotional creativity, and renewal

2. Mythology

Greek Gaia, Chaos, & Eros

Figure 2. Gaia, Eros and Chaos: Problem-Solution Paradigm (Hudtohan, 2023)

In Greek mythology, since the beginning of recorded history there existed: The Mother Goddess of Earth (Gaia predates the male image of God), has a favorite son (Eros) who is slain by a jealous brother and descends into the underworld (Chaos).

Studies reveal that creation myths show how our societies of law and order misunderstood chaos as disorder, as evil, rather than the interpretation of chaos as necessary nothingness that begets abundance, and through that have resulted domination paradigms, with warped senses and conceptualizations of power.

Chaos is identified as “problem” and Eros identified as “Solution”.  In the 20^th century, Hugh Hefner created the Playboy magazine, a publication with revealing photographs and articles that provoked charges of obscenity. This promoted eroticism that relates to Eros. Gaia, as Mother Earth looks after the welfare of humanity and welcomes Eros, god of creativity and innovation to provide solutions.

3. Metaphysics

There are three levels of reality: physical/natural, meta-physical, and super-natural.  The physical and natural world has been explored through Newtonian physics.  The super (above) natural world has been theologically explored in theology and theosophy.  The meta-physical world is being explored through quantum physics in the 21^st century.

Figure 3. Three levels of reality (Hudtohan, 2023).

Quantum physics is the study of the smallest composition of matter.  It used to be that the atom is the smallest particle of matter; today it is the quarks.  Figure show that the quark is enormously smaller than matter, crystal, and atom.

Figure 4 . Nuclear Scale of Matter, Crystal and Quark

Figure 5 visually shows the quark, atom, molecule, coffee bubbles, the solar system, the galaxy and the universe.  The formation of a big center is surrounded by small elements. The atom surround by the electrons, the molecules has big chunks surrounded by small chunks, the big coffee bubbles surrounded by small bubbles, the sun surround by the plants, the galaxy surrounded by small planetary systems and the universe has a big center (Black Hole) and galaxies surround it. The pattern is the same from the smallest entity to the biggest entity.  

Figure 5. Big center surrounded by small elements (Hudtohan , 2023)

James Ray: Most people define themselves by as finite body, but you’re not. Under a microscope you’re an energy field.  You’re a spiritual being.  You’re an energy field operating in a larger energy field.

Deepak Chopra: The unified energy field of pure  consciousness says we are connected to our Source and to one another. Neale Donald Walsch: Your interior energy can generate events and conditions in your exterior reality.

Figure 6. Old and New Perspective on the Atom

According to Ray (2007), Lynch (2007), & Walsch (2019) : God is  energy. Dispenza asserts that we are 99.9999% energy; 0001% body and he has a physical/natural; metaphysical; super-natural synthesis in his book, Becoming Supernatural.  James Ray (2007)says that most people define themselves by as finite body, but you’re not. Under a microscope you’re an energy field.  You’re a spiritual being.  You’re an energy field operating in a larger energy field. Deepak Chopra (2006) avers that the unified energy field of pure  consciousness says we are connected to our Source and to one another. Neale Donald Walsch (2019) reminds us: Your interior energy can generate events and conditions in your exterior reality. When we interact with artificial intelligence (AI), Yuval Noah Harari (2016) tells us we are becoming Homo Deus (man God).

               Figure 7. Homo Deus, Harari (2015)

Keeping this in mind, we can make the following self-affirmation.

I AM 99.999% ENERGY AND .001% BODY.

I AM AN ENERGY FIELD.

I M A SPIRITUAL BEING WITH HUMAN ACTIVITIES.

I BELIEVE IN ORDER TO SEE.

I THINK, FEEL, INNOVATE AND CREATE; THEREFORE, I AM.

Dispenza (2017) in Figure 7 shows us how we can enter the realm of unlimited possibilities and thereby become supernatural. We have Mother Galactica in the Milky Way. We have Mother Earth here and now. The Quark, our quantum essence, is  connected to Mother Earth and Mother Galactica, sustaining our Creative and Innovative Energy Field. We are all capable of being everything we choose to be.

We are all capable of being Unconditionally Loving, Totally Conscious, Endlessly Patient, Wonderfully Compassionate, Completely Accepting, Invariably Kind, in a word, Divine (Walsch, 2018).

       Figure 8. Unlimited Possibilities, Dispenza (2017)

Once we become the consciousness of every one, every body, every thing, every where, in every time….

Metaphysically, we can create any body, become any body, have any thing, live any where and be in any time. We are becoming supernatural (Dispenza, 2017, p. 248).

Conclusion

1. The Great Mother at the Galactic Center is a Great Field of Energy; she inspires us to be creative and innovative,
2. We are 99.999% Energy and our Filed of Energy is connected to the Great Mother at the  Galactic Center of the Milky Way.
3. We face Chaos; Eros inspires us to face Problems with creative Solutions for the sake of Gaia: Mother Earth.
4. With Artificial Intelligence we innovate and create as Homo Deus.
5. We have Mother Galactica in the Milky Way.
6. We have Mother Earth here and now.
7. The Quark, our quantum essence, is  connected to Mother Earth and Mother Galactica, sustaining our Creative and Innovative Energy Field.
8. We are becoming supernatural.

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