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From a
creativity perspective,
Creation is infinitely vast. There are an infinite number of aspects
to Creation there are an infinite number of ways to view any one
aspect of Creation. Given the infinite number of choices
consciousness has in any one moment. Whatever consciousness presents
is a communication from consciousness as to what conscious desires
to express. In this regard, creativity is the language which
consciousness uses to express itself and who and what it is.
Mind however is finite. Mind only knows what it has experience.
In this regard, mind contains only a finite subset of all the
experiences of Creation which is possible. Mind characterizes the
energy it experiences into thoughts or images based on the
experiences we have had. By changing our experiences will change the
thoughts we have. In many ways what mind presents is more a
metaphoric that literal. We need to understand that there is more to
what mind presents than just the thought or image we perceive. The
thought or image we perceive is only the best mind can give. In this
regard, whatever we perceive about nature is metaphoric for
something much larger. Unless we take the perspective of the
detached witness to stand back and look at the metaphoric nature
of what we experience, we will not see Creation for what it really
is. We will take the metaphor as the literal interpretation of
reality. The story of “Moses
and the dancing light” is a good example of how what is created
and/or what our mind understanding is only a metaphor and symbol for
something larger and of greater depth and breadth of what we
experience.
The process described here goes well beyond the origin of thoughts.
That is, our life is also only a metaphor for something larger our
awareness is trying to communicate. In the same way there are an
infinite number of ways that
mind can characterize an energy it experiences there are an
infinite number of ways to express our
creative life energy. Our life is what it is, because it is the
optimum way for our awareness to communicate who it understands
itself to be based on the environment in which we find ourselves.
The
environment and the unfoldment of any creation are integrally linked.
In another time and another place, we would be different and our
life would be different. Our life is only one of many that can be
lived. If we change our environment, we will cause ourselves to live
a different life. How big a difference depends on whether we freely
respond to the environment in which we find ourselves and/or we
default to the programming of our mind as it perceives and
interprets the environment.
We can use this understanding of the metaphoric aspects of nature
and of our life to “read” nature or our life. When events happen to
us in life, we only need to realize that whatever is occurring is a
metaphor for what our awareness is trying to communicate or what the
consciousness within Creation is communicating. For example, in a
creative endeavor, the fact
mind interprets the energy we experience as sexual feelings and
as the need to have sex may or may not be correct. Having sex may
only be the best way mind has of describing the intimacy and mixing
of energies which occur. Additionally the individual with whom we
think we need to engage may only be the best image our mind has as
to who that individual may be. Often the person that mind presents
in a creative endeavor is not who we think it is and/or the image of
the person we have is only calling forth that aspect of our own
being for us to embrace. It is not uncommon that image of the ideal
mate mind presents, whether this person is real or not, is only the
suppressed aspect of our own being that we need to embrace. If we
study the creative process, we will come to see our ideal mate as is
presented in the “A
Creation Story for the Creativity Perspective” lies within our
being and if there is one in front of us, it is all of it - the
entire world you see.
If the events in the author’s life and/or events observed by the
author were taken a face value the creative process, the power of
intention, the roles of the masculine and feminine, and the dance
between the inner world and outer world would never have been seen
for what they are. The author continually had to look at what lied
behind the events as they were experienced and at the process which
was unfolding. When an event happens in our life, we can ask why
this event is happening the way it is happening to see what is being
communicated in the event. We can ask, “Why is my
creative life energy flowing into this event as opposed to any
other event.” Whether we believe it or not, there is an answer to
this question. We can get it and understand it if we choose to do
so. In fact, to understand the addictive nature of mind will require
us to explore why we are being pulled to any one experience we have
and explore its metaphoric nature whether it be an experience of our
dark side, an accident or illness, a resurrected unexplainable
sexual passion, or anything else which may arise.
If we take the perspective of the
detached witness and contemplate the idea that something deeper
is being expressed in the events we experience several things. One
is that we can being to see the conditions that give rise to what we
experience. We can being to see the deep undercurrents of Creation.
We can see how our own thinking, beliefs, and previous life
experiences are channeling us into a particular type and kind of
life. In this awareness, we can begin to look for the beliefs that
we may want to change to create a different type and kind of
experience that better
serves us rather than repeating the past in a different way than
what we are currently experiencing.
A rule of thumb we can use is as follows. We are an
infinite creative being. Any event, pleasant or non pleasant,
that moves us into expanding our awareness and regaining our
creative powers
ultimately
serves us. Any event, even a pleasant one, that cause us to
become less than we are and/or cause us to somehow deny ourselves
and our power does not serve us.
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