The proposed book is devoted to the most mysterious problems of modern science - creativity and consciousness. Zinchenko V.P. does not offer easy solutions, but progresses slowly and leads readers from ideas about the stream of consciousness to hypotheses about its polyphonic structure, which covers the reflective, everyday and spiritual layers of consciousness. The origins of creative activity, which lie in the baby's pre-experienced readiness for phenomenally rapid mastery of culture and language, are also reasoned. Zinchenko V.P. sees the mystery of creativity in interaction, play, reversibility and interpenetration of internal and external forms of word, action and image.