Schaffenskraft: the joy of making real

There is a word for what is missing today: Schaffenskraft.

Not productivity.
Not domination.
But the joyful force of bringing something into being.

Schaffenskraft is spirit willing to take risk,
willing to become imperfect,
willing to pass through money, matter, institutions, and scale.

It is the opposite of moral spectatorship.

And it carries Freude — not excitement as thrill, but joy as creative confirmation:
Yes — something wants to exist, and I will help it exist.


Why “calm” feels boring — and why it isn’t

Calm today is often mistaken for passivity.

But real calm is inner amplitude
the capacity to hold complexity without collapsing into panic or cynicism.

From that calm, something stronger can arise than outrage:
orientation.

Orientation does not block forces.
It meets them, accompanies them, and bends them toward form.

Capital without spirit becomes predatory.
Spirit without incarnation becomes irrelevant.

What wants to happen now is their re-union.


Incarnating ourselves more fully

To incarnate new possibilities is also to incarnate ourselves more completely.

That means:

  • not hiding behind critique
  • not waiting for purity
  • not demanding perfect conditions

But entering the messy field where:

  • capital moves
  • AI navigates
  • large visions form
  • societies reorganize

with awake consciousness.

Not to dominate.
Not to moralize.
But to shape.


The adventure ahead

The real adventure of our time is not exposure of hidden enemies.
It is the courage to say:

Spirit does not flee the world.
Spirit dares to become world.

That requires:

  • widened cognition
  • inner steadiness
  • Schaffenskraft
  • and yes — joy

Not the joy of winning.
But the joy of participating in becoming.

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Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux)
Seeing Beyond, a research initiative focused on spiritual science, living cognition, and the threshold experiences of modern life. An initiative grounded in a spiritual-scientific approach to self- and world-observation.

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