The ray of creation Radislav Jovović Kotor – Czestochowa – Žilina – Celje – Osijek ELIT – Ekonomska laboratorija za istraživanje tranzicije Podgorica 2017 Radislav Jovović THE RAY OF CREATION /Electronic edition/ URL: http://sphub.org/ (pdf) First electronic edition Reviewers: dr Veselin Drašković dr Sanja Bauk dr Mimo Drašković Lector: Magdalena Reljić Design by: Milojko Pusica Printed by: “3M Makarije” Podgorica Copies: 200 First edition, 2017 Published by: SPH – Scientific Publishing Hub: Kotor, Montenegro; Czestochowa, Poland; Žilina, Slovakia; Celje, Slovenia; Osijek, Croatia ELIT – Ekonomska laboratorija za istraživanje tranzicije: Podgorica, Crna Gora CIP - Kataložni zapis o publikaciji Narodna in univerzitetna knjižnica, Ljubljana 330.3 JOVOVIĆ, Radislav The ray of creation / Radislav Jovović. - 1st ed. - Kotor [etc.] : SPH - Scientific Publishing Hub ; Podgorica : ELIT - Ekonomska laboratorija za istraživanje tranzicije, 2017 ISBN 978-961-6948-18-0 (SPH - Scientific Publishing Hub) 288545536 CIP - Kataložni zapis o publikaciji Narodna in univerzitetna knjižnica, Ljubljana 330.3(0.034.2) JOVOVIĆ, Radislav The ray of creation [Elektronski vir] / Radislav Jovović. - 1st electronic ed. - El. knjiga. - Kotor [etc.] : SPH - Scientific Publishing Hub ; Podgorica : ELIT - Ekonomska laboratorija za istraživanje tranzicije, 2017 Način dostopa (URL): http://sphub.org/ ISBN 978-961-6948-19-7 (SPH - Scientific Publishing Hub, pdf) 288545792 CONTENTS 1. THE RAY OF CREATION 6 2. IDEAS AND CREATION 16 The Choice 18 3. WISE MEN ABOUT THEIR OWN CHOICE? 26 4. ENERGY OF CREATION (DIALECTIC OF IDEAS) 40 The ray of creation and starry sky 44 Celestial Kingdom 48 The Birth of Modern Science 50 5. THE CREATION OF MATERIAL GOODS AND 54 ITS IMPACT ON THE MINDSET 54 Ideas of money, Exchange, and Banking 63 Wealth and Influence 68 6. INNOVATION - THE SECRET OF SUCCESS 71 Daily Contribution 76 7. TECHNOLOGY AND THE POWER OF KNOWLEDGE 79 The Growth of Creative Powers 84 Taming the Energy of Nature 87 Understanding the Strong Influence of Scientific Revolution 89 9. WHAT COMES FIRST – AN INDIVIDUAL OR A 93 SOCIETY? 93 Pessimistic Version – State of Modern Capitalism 100 Where Is the Source of Optimism? 104 10. DISCOVERING INTERDEPENDENCE OF THE 107 WORLD 107 A Sence of Interdependence 109 The Culture of Curiosity 114 Why Europe? 119 11. THE NEW PARADIGM OF THE WORLD 122 Forces of the Sun and the Moon 123 12. SKY IS THE LIMIT 130 Nicolaus Copernicus 132 Ideas of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) 134 Isaac Newton’s Contribution to the Ray of Creation 138 4 13. GLOBAL SCENE 143 Awareness of the Global Scene 145 Faith in the Future 148 Society of Spiritual Capital and Ideas 151 Connecting the Planet with a Perspective 157 14. HOLISTIC PARADIGM – CHAOS AND 162 COMPLEXITY 162 The Chaos Theory 165 Why is the Chaos Theory Important? 168 Chaotic Randomness and Uncertainty 170 Albert Einstein’s Ideas of Relativity (1879-1955) 172 15. ENERGY OF THE CREATION OUT OF 177 DISCOVERING THE STRUCTURE OF NATURE 177 Atoms and Elements 180 Energy of Atoms and Creating the World of Atoms 184 Nanotechnology 188 16. BUSINESS AND CREATION AND THE SEQUEL TO 191 THE STORY OF THOSE WHO HAVE CHOSEN 191 THIS PATH 191 The Link Between Theoretical Knowledge and Practice 191 The Visible and the Invisible in Business 193 Inspirational Examples of Entrepreneurial Ventures 195 17. CHOOSING THEIR OWN PATH – ARTISTS 206 18. FOSTERING INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY – 216 STAY HUNGRY, STAY FOOLISH 216 19. PRACTICING LEADS TO NEW IDEAS AND ART OF CREATION 230 There Is No Overnight Success 231 Practicing the Creation of Ideas and Inhaling the Energy of Ideas: 233 INSTEAD OF CONCLUSION 241 5 1. THE RAY OF CREATION Today, the world is littered with books, even bestsellers, advising you how to become yourself, "seducing" with their titles, such as the following: Change your thoughts; Change yourself; Now, discover your strengths and outline a new direction, etc. Each of these books (manuals) offers a new strategy of redefining the entire human life. But all these tips do not necessarily lead to the objective pursued; instead, they actually increase one's anxiety and uncertainty. The aim of this book is not to advise how to "become yourself", but to assist in developing the power of observing the forms that affect our lives, to understand the hidden imperatives and codes of existence (i.e. how to reveal the veil of intuition and givens). Life, I know, can not be reduced to the book, but neither the book can be reduced to the life. However, a good book is important in our development. Especially the one featuring real life experience. That kind of book promotes imagination, elevates and exalts it as reflections of soul’s fires, that we create and flare up during our jornay called life. Those fires need to be constantly stirred up. Here are pooled the childhood illusions and other fascinations in life, as well as its lyrics, encouraged by arts (poems, novels, paintings, sculptures ...) or imagining the future, which is enabled by science and imagination. There is no difference nor distinctive border between them, because they permeate a large extent, (i.e. it is hardly possible to draw the line between life, poetry and science). The illusion fosters imagination, and imagination fosters the force of creativity. The basis of these capabilities is imagination. How to develop imagination and raise it to a higher level? – this question had been preoccupying me for a long time, firstly because of the my own growth, but also because of the growth of my students. Searching for answers, I have accumulated an extensive and varied material, which occupied all the chambers in my head. This book is the format, that I chose to convey the collected material to others, in order to 6 The ray of creation help raise creativity of the individual. Due to the aspirations of the book to be helpful in this regard, I do not want to limit it only as the scientific reading, since it would loose verve, rhythm and enthusiasm, which represent the fundamentals of creativity (creation). I am seeking a proper form! But, it does not mean that I used delusions, on the contrary – everything is based on facts, experienced or processed, literary or scientifically. Therefore, the sources for this book are: world (society), nature, and books. The world is an open book from which a man has taught the stream of time. Everyone is seeing the book from very own point of view, everyone is wearing own glasses, everyone has own telescope to scope the future. The most creative men have changed the world, and many have saved their visions and experiences in writing, leaving literary works. Numerous written resources have been the foundation, and have been used in the process of creating this book. I will mention those that I think are the top of the list: The Mountain Wreath and The Ray of Microcosm (Petar Petrovic Njegos), My theory (Albert Einstein), On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres (Nicolaus Copernicus), Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (Galileo Galilei), Harmony of the World (Johannes Kepler), On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies (Albert Einstein), On the Shoulders of Giants (Stephen Hawking), A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking), Through the Realm of Science (Milutin Milankovic), Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (Isaac Newton), the Bible, Qur'an; The Bridge on the Drina (Ivo Andric), Politics (Aristotle), The Origin of Species (Darwin), The Wealth of Nations (Adam Smith), The Attic (Danilo Kis), Ulysses (James Joyce), The Trial (Franz Kafka), Anti-Liberalism in 22 pictures (Madžar) Become yourself (Jacques Attali), Anthropology of Creation (Veselin Vukotic), The Ascent of Man (Jacob Bronovski), Religion (Djuro Susnjić) Methodology (Djuro Susnjic), Institutions, Order, Transition (Veselin Draskovic, Mimo Draskovic), Markets, Morals and Policy-Making (Enrico Colombatto) ... My thoughts originate from this spiritual heritage. They grow like plants, that can not develop without their roots. Writing, for me, is giving my own self – to what I have read, studied and adopted, what I have learned from the teacher, adding my own contemplations and judgments. In the "quiet storm" creation, my every thought has passed through the shadow of doubt, through a sieve of shaping my own interlaced thoughts. It is logical that the legacy and experience worth thousands of years, prevails over my present moment 7 The ray of creation and contemplation, of my belief and ability to create, so "if this is really the time when I raise my torch," I will admit – a little of my flame will be in it. Heraclitus wisely state: "Everything flows. All entities move and nothing remains still. No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man." Perhaps Heraclitus was right when talking about the matter. If we talk about the idea, we must not avoid stepping into the ideological heritage, because it is the light that reflects humanity and spirituality. German poet Goethe once said: "He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth." Thus, the ray of creation has deep roots in the origin and existence of man. Unfortunately, I think that we live in a spiritual desert, characterized by superficiality, lack of commitment, and lack of deeper meaning. This book, therefore, supports the basic idea that if enough people manage to change ourselves, then we can change the world. My goal is to express, according to my power, everything which, to my recognition, may help in developing a mote or song of creation, and from what my sences been receiving, through sieving of settled practice, from the lake of sweat, impressions and emotions, and to raise the foundation of this book, hoping that it will convey the energy of creation and creativity.