The New York herald., 1922-03-04
WINSTON CHURCHILL
DISSECTS THE MIND
Novelist, After 3 Years Of Re-
search, Gives Conclusions at
Authors Benefit.
creation rs SALVATION
Higher Energy Must Domi-
nate Primitive Emotions, He
Says; Art the RESULT.

Winston Churchill novelist. has spent
the last three years in psychological
investigations, the result OF which he
outlined before an audience in the BALL
room OF the Hotel Plaza yesterday for
the benefit Of the Authors League
Fund. Mr.. Churchill believes, he said,
that inward creative energy is the whole
secret OF living and that, given that,
ones conduct will take care of itself
There is a conflict between primitive
emotions and creative emotions in which
the latter. must dominate, so Mr.
Churchill thinks, if worth while results
are to be attained.
Artists writer's and composers of
music who attempt to force themselves
to do work are exercising their prim-
tive will, according to Mr.. Churchill.
II they will only relax and allow their
creative emotions to come into play
they will get a value out of creating
which they will prefer TO any other
value on earth. he believes. And it is
in this way that great works of art
are produced.
The Neurosfs of To-day.
AS a result of his three years of
exploration into the mind Mr.. Churchill
has reached the conclusion that the
teachings of Jesus Christ are supported
by science. He compared immortality
with the conviction one has that a pic
ture is beautiful or that a friend is true.
The scientific chain establishing the
connection between the belief and dem
onstrated fact has not yet been forged,
however, said Mr.. Churchill. He added:
1.-THE primitive mind is an essential
part Of our emotions but 1t must be
under the control of our creative mind.
which is our will. The primitive mind
calls for word and the creative mind
responds. All emotions are of the ma
ture OF will and creative emotions can
not successfully be content with the
primitive, although the reason for this
is not sentimental 1t is the urge to
become creative which is causing neu-
rosis to-day"
Mr.. Churchill characterized 1aziness
as an automatic emotion of the prirn-
tive mind. He explained that the more
one dwelt on primitive instincts the
stronger they became. The same thing
held true as regards the creative mind,
he declared.
The Creative Rhythm.
"Creativeness, which is salvation, is
not likely to be achieved he said. but,
as time goes on, we shall get more in
tervals of creative rhythm as our spas
modic primitive emotions cease. When
creative emotion comes 1t expresses it.
self In writing or in music, and this is
our true self. We hear words breaking
on our consciousness like the sea upon
the shore and the effect of the rhythm
is like music. 1t was with this rhythm
that the soldiers of Cromwell and Huss
smote their enemies. There is such
thing as the rhythmic satisfaction Of
the emotions not otherwise able to be
expressed"
AS evidence of this he instanced the
tomtoms of savage tribes and the jazz
music of Broadway cabarets- 1--WE find
great masters writing syncopated music
for contrast" he went on. "and some
folk songs are syncopated.
THE spider spins his web in creative
rhythm. The difference in man lies
in intelligence in his creative emotion.
for animals are lacking in spiritual love.
They live in one rhythm or another. but
they never oppose rhythns. When her
emotions become strong. a cat sits by
the fire and purrs, but she has no opin-
ions or beliefs and hence no mental con-