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For the longest time the author
believed what he was told about Creation. He believe those who were
priests, teachers and/or masters. He believe what he read in the sacred books of
many spiritual and religious transitions. He believe what he was
told about there being a spiritual realm and a physical realm and
the two were separate. He also believe there was a void or a place
of “nothingness” or better said, “no-thing-ness” out of which
Creation manifested - that is Creation was created by God and arose
out of a “No-thing-ness” or void. He did not question those who
“knew” or what the sacred books reported. Yet he was a little
puzzled. There was suppose to be a oneness to all of Creation and no
separation. So from where did the separation come from?
The author’s experience of the
Ultimate Accident changed all of that. In that experience, the
author experienced the oneness and wholeness of Creation. He came to
see what this place of “no-thing-ness” really was and he understood
from where the perceived separation arose. Separation arose from the
same place as the concept of “No-thing-ness” and the concept of the
void. Quite simply the answer laid in the fact that there are
multiple perspectives that can be used to observe Creation and
the
creative/creation process. It all depended on what perspective
we were choosing to use. The discussion "The
problem of mind and the experience of the Source of Creation - the
trip of mind" provides a way to understand these
multiple perspective and their impact.
What needs to be understood is the concept of a void and nothingness
are relative terms. What we see depends on the perspective we hold.
As stated in the discussion “The
Creative/Creation Process,” there are
multiple perspectives from which to view the creative/creation
process. Perceiving the process from within the process and/or from
the world of the creation, one can experience a place of
“no-thing-ness” We perceive a place of nothingness only because we
are not looking at the whole process but only a part of the process.
When perceived from either of these two views, we cannot see past
the point out of which the creation forms. Experienced from within
the process our consciousness as we normally experience
consciousness as reflected in our
mind cannot not see past the point out of which
mind arises.
That is, it cannot see into the
unseen realms for consciousness as
we normally experience it arises from what we can see and
experience. That is we see consciousness as our mind rather than the
awareness which gives rise to mind. Similarly when viewing a creation from the world in
which that creation exists, we cannot see past the points of the
birth and death of the creation. Hence between death and birth there
exist “no-thing-ness.” That is, the creation does not exist. There
is no form. There is no-thing.
The first thing that needs to be realized is nothing or nothingness
just means no-thing or no-thing-ness. That is, there is no thing
presents as opposed to something. Nothing does not mean the absence
of something that cannot be seen and/or experienced. For example, we
do not see air, yet it exists. We do not see water vapor in the pure
blue sky yet it is usually there. The unseen water vapors in the air
are where clouds ultimately come from. Without the water vapor in
the air no clouds form. Similarly, we cannot put a thought, concept
or idea in front of us and experience it as a thing we can touch.
Yet they exist and some of them have transformed the world as we
experience it.
No-thing-ness and form-less does not mean there is not some “stuff”
out of which Creation forms. All it means is that the “stuff” or
material of
Creation has not taken the form of any thing or any experience. To
be in a state of “no-thing-ness” the “stuff” or material of Creation simply
remains pure potentiality and has not yet been defined. It needs to
be realized is that all that exist is nothingness because
simultaneously anything is both everything and nothing. Whatever is,
or whatever exists, can be dissolved or melted and recast into a new
form. That is, it can be returned to a state of “no-form” or
“no-thing” and recast.
As described in the topic “Making
music analogy for the creative/creation process,” when music is
made there is a process that occurs between the notes that is not
heard that give rise to the next note. From the perspective of
hearing a note, nothing exist between notes but silence. But in the
unseen realm beyond hearing, action is being taking to create the
next note. In the silence between two notes made by a piano is the
hammer rising only to all on a string to create that second note.
There is no “place” of “no-thing-ness.” Never was, and never will
be. The perceived silence between the manifestations, a place of
“no-thing-ness” is simply the experience of the stuff of creation
when it has no form as perceived by a consciousness that becomes
aware of itself because of the experiences it has in form.. There
seems to be a calmness or silence between the dissolution and
emergence of the new creation because of how we are choosing to view
the process. It is only a result of our focus that we do not see
what is occurring to give rise to the next creation.
When our
mind is allowed to focus on what is felt in the
creative/creation process the conscious experience of that
movement is
chaos. Yet, if we become aware of the creative process, the
chaos evaporates. In awareness, rather than feeling chaos as our
existing world dissolves, we see the organization in a new creation
forming. Creation in all its forms manifests from the unformed
essence of creation, which would be called the unmanifested, a place
of “no-thing-ness,” or undefined energy. Yet, it is only the
cauldron of creation where the old form is allowed to dissolve
into its essential components to be recast into anew creation. All
creation is a emanating outward only to collapse back upon itself
moving through a point of “no-thing-ness” to form into a new
creation. We actually enter and leave this place of “no-thing-ness”
all that time. We just don’t see it for what it is.
Many mystics talk about meditating or focusing on the space between
thoughts. That is, the place of “no-thing-ness.” The reason for this
is that the moment is
the
point of our creative power. The moment between thoughts is
where we are creating the next thought whether or not we are aware
of how we are doing it. It is here in this moment that we direct the
flow of our creative life energy into a new creation. However, to do
this we must open and mindful of what we feel and the flows of
energy giving rise to the creations we are experiencing. To sit in
silence or sit is this place of "no-thing-ness" and deny or
otherwise suppress what we feel is to miss the point of power in
that we lose to ability to flow with the energy. As discussed in the
topic, “The
Point of Creative Power” we must be aware of two flows of energy
and align those flows. One is the existing flow of energy giving
rise to what we experience and the other flow of energy is the flow
into our
desired creation. Then, in alignment,
surrender
to the flow
wherever it carries us. Surrendering to the flow will most probably
call us to action in some way. We can’t move into action to do what
needs to be done we hold sitting in our meditation practice as
somehow more important and sacred that surrendering to the flow of
energy to create what we desire.
The place of “no-thing-ness”: In discussing the creation
process what cannot be over emphasized is that
energy can neither
created or destroyed, only transformed. As
energy consciousness, the
same is true for consciousness. Consciousness can neither be created
or destroyed, only transformed. To create anything new whether from
a consciousness perspective or an energy perspective, one must enter
the place of “no-thing-ness,” the place of “no-form” where no
structure exists or that place of emptiness. You can call this place
of “no-thing-ness” as a place of silence but it must be remember as
in the “Making
music analogy for the creative/creation process,” silence does
not mean nothing it happening. What it means is that from the view
point of experiencing the creation, the creation is
unseen and no
form, no thing exists.
From a consciousness perspective, this place of “no-thing-ness” it
is a place of emptiness within our consciousness. It is the place of
“no
mind’ or being “out
of mind.” We need to empty ourselves from who and what we think
we are and how we think reality works to make a space available, to
empty our vessel, for a new creation and a new understanding to take
root and grow. It is being out of mind as one knows it and how one
has defined it.
It needs to be realized we can never really be
out of mind for
mind is a property of consciousness. What you have to be out of
is what mind has created. We have to be out of that existing form
mind uses to perceive reality. Most
fear that to be out of mind is
to be come crazy. That will happen only if we believes that silence
follows death. If however we understand the
unseen realm of Creation as a place of re-form-ation following
death, then we can never become crazy going out of mind. We only
enter a new realm in which we can only feel our way though. That is
why feelings and body sensations are so important. It needs to be
realized that the body is our
creative spirit manifested in physical form or
localized in
Physical Creation. Our energy spans the infinity of
reality. We already exist in the
unseen realms. It is just that our
awareness is focused into or onto the physical. We are always
connected with the unseen realm and our body will keep us stable and
anchored when we step out of mind. That is of course if we are
willing to listen to our feelings and body sensations and we have
either not numbed them or raised their threshold so high all that we
feel is physical
pain.
As said in “Making
music analogy for the creative/creation process,” some have
described this place of emptiness, this place of “no
mind” of “no-thing-ness” as a place of silence like the silence
between two notes. When viewed from the viewpoint of experiencing
the creations of the mind, this is a perfectly adequate description.
But it needs to be noted and emphasized this view is only from the
perspective of the experience of the creation of mind. It is only in
the silence between the notes that a new note, a new sound can be
formed. So too with creation. There needs to be a silence between
the created forms, a place of nothingness or no-form for the new
creation to be made manifest.
To see this midpoint between created forms as silence or
“no-thing-ness,” like the silence between two notes, can be very
deceptive and deluding. To think this is the
origin of Creation is
in one way one hundred percent correct. But in another way it is one
hundred percent wrong. Although we can create a place of silence as
the silence between the notes and reside their, it is only a
creation of our
mind like any other. In actually, it is a place of mind and
we have
never left the mind when they consciously experience a
“no-thing-ness” for they are only experience another of its
creations. From a creativity view point the silence in the
experience of “no-thing-ness” is actually the last place we
should desire to create. From a consciousness viewpoint, especially
from the viewpoint of accessing and releasing our
unlimited creativity,
chaos is the preferred place for chaos is the
place of our creative power at the moment our current
world is dissolving and the new has not yet manifested.
In addition to what has been discussed, there are two additional
ways to describe how to experience something from nothing. One is
the
cutout and a hole as discussed in the topic, "Implication
of the pair production in our creative endeavors." The other is
to create a discontinuity or separation of some type to create a
reference point.
A reference point is something which stands apart from everything
else which we readily describe to know where we are in relation to
the description we provide. What we do or do not understand is this
is exactly what we do when we claim any identity. It is that which
is reflected in the ‘I" and "not I" duality. In many ways it is like
an iceberg. The ice is the same as the water in which it floats.
However, the temperature difference of the ice provided a
discontinuity for the ice to be experienced as separate from, and
different from, the water. It is the existence of such
discontinuities which allows for a creation to be experienced.
Without the discontinuity analogous to the discontinuity between
the ice and the water, we could never experience Creation. It is
here we really find the beauty and magic in the
Creation Story for the Creativity Perspective. It is said the
consciousness within, or behind, Creation,
shatter itself through the
illusion of mind
into an infinite number of
points of consciousness
each an unique aspect of itself. It is the fact that each of these
points of consciousness are unique that provides the discontinuity
for creation/Creation to unfold. Our beliefs and the naming of
things, as opposed to just being with that which is as it is, is
what creates the separation and discontinuity we experience.
What this means is that any point of consciousness will see each
and every other point of consciousness or energy within creation as
separate from itself. The reason for this is every point of
consciousness outside of itself is uniquely different in some way no
matter how small it is. That difference is all that is needed for
the experience of "I am this" and "I am not that." As soon as the
awareness see itself separate from what it experiences, it creates a
discontinuity we experience.
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