Rogers states: "The individual creates primarily because it is satisfying to him, because this behavior is felt to be self-actualizing, and we get nowhere by trying to differentiate 'good' and 'bad' purposes in the creative process... It has been found that when the individual is 'open' to all of his experience... then his behavior will be creative, and his creativity may be trusted to be essentially constructive... To the extent that the individual is denying to awareness (or repressing, if you prefer that term) large areas of his experience, then his creative formings may be pathological or socially evil, or both." (Italics added.)
In examining the creative drive, Rogers lists some factors that are hospitable to it:2
From The Problem Solving Psychedelic
Are Psychedelics Useful in the Practice of Buddhism? Myron Stolaroff, 1999
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