(A collage from GQ magazine about the source of creativity as a philosophy of the world around). We all have a common beginning. The source from which we all came. Trying to portray it, to describe it, to remember it, we come up with bright colors, fabrics, look for it in flashes and highlights, in the beauty of rhymes and music. Harmony and disharmony. This search will be eternal until the source is us or we are the source. Everything can be the source. ******** Let's dive into the anatomy of the human brain. Next to the hypothalamus we have the thalamus. Briefly, the thalamus takes signals from all the senses, filters them, and passes them on to the brain. It is the thalamus that is responsible for what we miss out on. Up to 6 months of age (only after that does the thalamus begin to work little by little, maturing by the age of 3-4), the child begins to filter out incoming information. Once he begins to see, he sees everything, every detail. And he hears every sound. The flow of information enters his brain simultaneously and uninterruptedly, with no filter in the way. Aldous Huxley called that filter a valve. You can learn to open it.