Where Does Creativity Come From?

A thought struck me. That’s just what I mean. It struck me. As if it came out of nowhere to rest in my brain. That thought was, “Where do thoughts come from?” Or ideas? Or visions? Or dreams? I can look at a mass of sugar and fat and chocolate chips and tell you where chocolate chip cookies come from. I can plant some seeds and tell you where a zucchini comes from. But mental creations? They materialize from some immaterial world, sometimes in such vivid and marvelous detail. Are they planted there as a cosmic gift from a source not yet understood? I think so. My best writing and my best painting always seems to come from an idea not planted by myself.