Orīgo Innovation: creative visualization method to unleash your inner genius
Orīgo Innovation: creative visualization method to unleash your inner genius
Orīgo, -ĭnis (Latin) means origin. It refers to the beginning, birth, spring, root, and cause of something.
Orīgo Innovation is an exercise of creative visualization and bioinspiration based on meditation techniques and the works of Stephen Hawking, Charles Darwin, and other famous men of science.
Orīgo Innovation takes listeners on a journey through time and space, to the precise moment of the Big Bang, where we will witness the creation of the Universe from the front row and travel the paths of evolution to nourish ourselves with the 3.8 billion years of experience of nature, the best research and development laboratory ever created. Then we will travel to the year 2100, where we will visualize the advances of societies, technologies, and their concrete application in people’s daily lives.
Orīgo Innovation nos invita a nutrirnos de la energía creadora más poderosa del universo, el Big Bang, generando una explosión de nuestra capacidad creativa; una fusión de neurotransmisores que permitirán a nuestras empresas y emprendimientos expandirse y conformar un universo de infinitas posibilidades.
Orīgo Innovation invites us to feed on the most powerful creative energy in the universe, the Big Bang, generating an explosion of our creative capacity; a fusion of neurotransmitters that will allow our companies and ventures to expand and form a universe of infinite possibilities.
Orīgo Innovation was designed to prepare the ground and plant the seed of innovation, nourishing itself with creative techniques to stimulate neurological hemispheres, improve neuroplasticity, awaken imagination, provoke the acceleration and deliberate explosion of disruptive ideas.
Orīgo Innovation is a method that I have developed and improved over the years. It is available for free, is part of the book The Challenge of Innovating with Purpose, the creativity workshops I usually give in companies and innovation diplomas, and is one of the techniques I regularly use to solve open innovation challenges launched by the world’s most prominent organizations.
The audio accompanying the meditation was produced by Yotam Agam, a famous producer, sound designer, yoga and meditation facilitator, constantly involved in creative projects around the world.
Starting flight mode: avoid any source of distraction during the 35 minutes the experience lasts. Make yourself comfortable; if you want, you can lie down. If you wear glasses, you can take them off. For a better experience, I recommend using headphones and placing a scarf or eye mask over your eyes; this will help concentrate 100% of your attention on the auditory stimuli of the exercise. Close your eyes and enjoy the journey that is about to begin.
An opportunity to regenerate body, mind, and spirit.
The body: regeneration begins with ourselves
We are an inseparable part of nature. If we want to move from EGO to ECO, the path of regeneration must begin with ourselves.
Did you know that in the body we have 10 times more bacterial cells than human cells?
The human microbiota is composed of about one hundred trillion microorganisms, among which there are at least a thousand types of bacteria. In weight, microbes represent between two and three kilos, which doubles the weight of the brain. Bacteria are single-celled organisms found in almost all parts of the human body, and each person’s composition is unique, like a fingerprint. Most of them do not cause harm but are beneficial to the organism. For example, they help digest food, protect against infections and diseases, and renew parts of some organs. However, some alterations in the community of bacteria living in the body can be dangerous.
As a complement to Orīgo Innovation, I want to share a meditation focused on regenerating our body, the microbiota, and the immune system, which I call “Daily Regeneration Meditation.” It is based on the “Daily Placebo Meditation” created by Jan Van de Venis, a colleague from the advisory board of the Regenerative Futures program at Unearthodox, whom I had the pleasure of meeting personally at the November 2024 retreat in Italy. Like Orīgo Innovation, the audio accompanying the meditation was produced by Yotam Agam. Available for free in Spanish, English, Italian, and French on Spotify through the following links:
Meditación Diaria de Regeneración - in spanish
Daily Regeneration Meditation - in english
Meditazione di Rigenerazione Quotidiana - in italian
Méditation de Régénération Quotidienne - in french
The mind: innovation to create regeneration solutions
Orīgo Innovation begins with an exercise to relax the body and thus be able to free the mind. Then it takes us on a journey from the origin of the universe, describing the creation of quarks, atoms and elements, the formation of suns, galaxies, up to the emergence of life. The narrative is inspired by the successful book “A Brief History of Time” by Stephen Hawking.
The scientist Stephen Hawking faced throughout his life two questions that usually go together.
The first: How was the universe created?
To try to answer it, he devoted himself to the study of the Big Bang theory and the theory of everything, two of his greatest contributions to science, with which he tried to explain the origin of the universe.
Both, although quite complex, led him to a simple and forceful conclusion: “It is not necessary to invoke God to light the fuse and start the Universe.” And so he wrote in his book “The Grand Design” in 2010.
“The laws of physics can explain the universe without the need for God,” he said that same year in an interview with the British newspaper The Guardian.
“For me, the simplest solution is that there is no God, no one created the universe and no one directs our destiny,” he stated.
Did he deny the existence of God?
Rather than denying the existence of God, Hawking simply considered it futile to ask the question.
“One cannot prove that God does not exist,” he told the American network ABC in 2010. “But science makes God unnecessary.”
In 1988, in his successful book “A Brief History of Time”, Hawking left a door open for a creator being. In the work he wrote that if we were to articulate the theory of everything, we could know “the mind of God.”
Then, in 2007, he returned to the idea of the possibility of a God.
“I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science,” he said in an interview with Reuters. “The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.”
Years later, however, Hawking himself explained what he meant when he spoke of God.
“What I meant when I said we would know ‘the mind of God’ was that we would understand everything that God would be able to understand if he existed,” he told the Spanish newspaper El Mundo in 2014. “But there is no God. I am an atheist.”
That pragmatism, however, was what kept him amazed and drove him to seek the answers to those two questions that accompanied him throughout his life.
“Probably there is no heaven and no afterlife,” he said on Discovery Channel.
“We have this life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that, I am extremely grateful.”
The spirit: the flame that drives creation and regeneration
Thirty years ago, I read the book “A Brief History of Time” for the first time. I was absolutely amazed by this magnificent work, which reinforced my admiration for science and awakened my curiosity about astronomy. I also remember being deeply moved as I progressed through Stephen Hawking’s description of the creation of the universe. At the same time, I was surprised that a person with the author’s mental capacities could not see “the hand” of a higher intelligence behind the scenes, guiding this entire process that, otherwise, would have an almost zero probability of occurring.
I am fortunate to know hundreds of people from different cultures and backgrounds who work daily to build a better world. Several of them are individuals who believe in some religion or drive their actions from spirituality. In some cases, they do not feel comfortable with the concept of the Big Bang and the pragmatic approach of science, which excludes God from every equation. It is for them that I decided to write a complementary account of the Big Bang, in which I highlight the participation of a divine intelligence. Before listening to Orīgo Innovation to solve your creative challenges related to regeneration, I invite you to read Orīgo Invocation, so that, once your spirit is satisfied, you can open your mind to a universe of infinite possibilities.
Orīgo Invocation: from ONE to UNIVERSE.
What is narrated here has already happened before and will happen again. The ONE rests, and within it lie everything we know, what we forget, and that of which we still know nothing. Space and time have ceased to exist, but they will rise from their ashes like the phoenix. The countless universes and the beings that will inhabit them have not yet awakened from the deepest and most revitalizing of dreams. Only the ONE exists and the reverberation of the last note, which once was sound.
The moment has come. It is time for time to begin. The gong resounds once more under the hand of the great master. The concert of creation has begun. The strings of the lyre are plucked by a thousand hands and their vibration is heard by a thousand ears; however, the performer has no hands or ears. The ONE generates zero and, from that magnificent instant, expands and becomes part of the continuous scale of music and life that will propagate over the next billions of years, shaping space and time.
At the origin, the ONE generates its hosts, and the hosts their armies of spiritual beings: thrones, archangels, and cherubim. They shape and control the particles that, in an instant, will expand in all directions and at increasing speeds, with the swiftness of the son who carries the most precious message of his father. From the father comes the son, and the son generates the grandson. The father is energy in its purest state, the sons are particles, their grandsons are hydrogen and helium atoms, and the great-grandsons are stars. Through space and time, new suns, carbon, and planets are born; on some of them, we are blessed by elements arising from the same elementals: fire, water, air, and earth. Creation carries the gift of creation and thus, through music, fusion, and movement, performing the brightest of scores, the ONE* creates and integrates the UNIVERSE.
*God, HaShem, Elohim, Allah, Atón, Assur, Ometéotl, Wiracocha, Odin, Zeus, Anu, Dhātar...