How Generative Are You? Understanding Your Generative Nature
March 6, 2025
Article highlights:
- Moving beyond sustainability
- Are you a generator?
In 1999, Wisdom began “talking” to me about the Principle of Generativity vs sustainability. I had a water non-profit at the time and found this an intriguing and very important idea. I was so excited about it that I tried to share it in the environmental area.
People weren’t interested. Some were even oddly hostile. It seemed they feared that the idea of being generative would divert people from understanding the urgent necessity of becoming sustainable.
I was surprised at the time, but in retrospect I think they were perhaps right. It was an idea a little ahead of it its time, as many things are that Spirit dialogues with me about. However, I feel it is now an idea whose time has come. At least for persons such as ourselves who are familiar with energy and how it works in us and in our lives.
We have at least some understanding of ourselves as being part of what sources our own lives. We’ve often talked about that as “manifesting”. Especially manifesting stuff. I think most of us have explored and discovered the limitations of that idea and are ready to move beyond it.
There is a much more expansive understanding. Which is to think of ourselves as having a generative nature and to ask, “How Generative Am I?” That’s a question that opens a wonderful realm for self-growth and exploration.
Importantly now, our Generative Nature is coming on line like never before. Because of that, I’d love to begin exploring it here together from time to time.
To start, here are a few thoughts about Generativity. It’ll be fun to see where you take it. So, as always, feel free to reply to this emailed article or directly mail me with thoughts, questions and your experience as we go along.
Generate — Generative — Generativity
* Reciprocity is one of the keys to the Generative Nature. So is receiving. The earth gives and all creatures and all life forms both receive and give back.
* Sustainability is generally relative to growth and decline. So, for instance, a business that is generative plans for cycles of pause and even decline rather than cannibalistic continuous growth.
- A generative system is also self-sustaining. It’s built into the system. Being sustainable is the stewardship portion of the Generative Nature, respecting and caring for our many resources.
- Generativity moves us from surviving to thriving.
- We don’t currently have a truly generative form of energy. Oil, gas, electric… they all require tremendous energy and resources to create the energy they produce. Even wind and water energies currently require enormous tracks of land and other costly resources. And our generators need energy to create energy.
- Could it be that our energy sources are at best barely sustainable because we don’t yet understand ourselves as part of the Generative Nature of life?
- For instance, am I the lightbulb or am I also the source of the light that lights the bulb? If I am both, what does that mean to my ability to generate a better life and world? Not to manifest it, rather to generate it.
- What will happen when humans discover themselves to also be a source of energy? Truly generative energy will be discovered. That is beginning to happen in me, in you, and in our world.
- Generativity is quantum. What is happening in me – regarding my generative nature – will move the world forward. And what is happening in the world, moves me forward. It’s quantum in that way.
Generative. A powerful principle to move into our individual and group consciousness now.
How Generative are you? How can you tap more into your Generative Nature? What does that mean? What does it feel like, look like? How does that work?
How is our generative nature intended to express? What does it look like in your business? In your relationship? In your thoughts and actions?
How do you tap into your Generative Nature?
These are delicious questions. With wonderful answers. Time to dig in to this amazing banquet… something wonderful to muse on and to noodle into our lives in whatever ways occur to us.
There are far more generative times ahead, dear generator, and we are a big part of that!
Hugs,
Mayet
Each morning I spend a little time reading, a little time contemplating, a bit of time writing whatever comes, and a few minutes in meditation. Just a few minutes of each – it doesn’t take much time but it sets my day, centering me in my expanded self, provided the balanced sense of life needed for a day. 