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This chapter elaborates on the sixth and the seventh chakras, the Agnya and the Sahasrara, respectively. The Agnya is connected to qualities such as humility and forgiveness. The qualities associated with the sixth center of energy are used to explain how extremes such as vanity and self-deprecation both abate creativity. Humility and forgiveness are suggested, instead, as qualities that can support the creative process. The last and highest of the seven centers of energy, the Sahasrara, is also explained in this chapter. This is connected to a sense of harmony and integration by which it is possible to actualize the attributes of all the centers. The quality of harmony is analyzed in relation to Maslow’s notion of self-actualization, vitally linked to the creative self. As in Chaps. 3 and 4, the analysis in this chapter is also conducted in four steps: the analysis of qualities, the aspects that have contributed to blocking those attributes, their relation to creativity and a link to future research.
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Hernández-Romero, L. (2017). Re-evaluating Creativity: A Higher State of Consciousness. In: Re-evaluating Creativity. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53911-3_5
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