JASON SILVA: You know, I love chasing epiphanies.

I tell people that to make art is a desire

to clothe inspiration, right, to capture

the transient, fleeting movements in which

the dots connect in a new way.

It's this idea that when we are at our most creative,

we aren't even really creating.

We're channeling.

We're transcribing.

We are-- we are--

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--conduits for something larger than ourselves, to erupt,

to express itself through us.

We become a medium.

We become an instrument being played by some other sentience.

You know, this sounds like the musing--

the muses, of the madness, of the Greek creative people, who

talked about being touched by a hint of madness and something

erupting through them, but not from them,

and no one is with them, and it belongs not to them.

Creativity as a holy act, creativity as divine grace,

it allows us to humble.

It allows us to succumb, to surrender, to dive in,

to lose ourselves.

There's something kind of beautiful about that.

There's something kind of beautiful about getting out

of our own way, right, which people talk

about when they talk about flow states and creativity.

Oh, my god!

When that happens, that is transcendence.

That is to be in ecstasy, to be beside ourselves as something

comes through.

And that's, oh, that's what we're chasing.

That's what we're always, always chasing.

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