A Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity discussion topic

Copyright 2008 by K. Ferlic,   All Rights Reserved

From a creativity perspective, a ritual is simply a set of very powerful actions or statements that one employs to utilize the creative principles of the universe. The question then become, "Exactly what are the creative principles that one employs in rituals for creativity purposes?" Alternatively said, "Exactly how does a ritual employ the creative principles and powers of the universe?"

Although there are a variety of creative principles that come together in a ritual, the most significant purpose of the ritual if we allow it is that it creates the conditions to cause us to act in full accordance and alignment with the beliefs, attitudes and emotions we have that relate to the powers and principles of creation. From the creativity perspective, ritual and ceremony is where we ground our intention in the physical world or make our intention physical.

Said in a different way, the most powerfully creative way of being is to hold a set of beliefs, attitudes and emotions that are fully integrated and coherent across all aspects of our being, That is, they are equally valid internally and externally for the individual and equally valid spiritually, mental, emotionally and physically and our actions, literally or symbolically, are in alignment with these beliefs. Similarly, the ritual allows us to construct a set of action to help see if this alignment exists to bring whatever we desire into physical manifestation. Hence, from the creativity perspective, the ritual and ceremony is where we being to ground our intention in the physical world or make our intention physical.

It needs to be understood unless the energy from the highest realms is able to freely flow to the ground point in creation what is desired will not manifest. The ritual allows us to create a set of actions that allow us to totally act true to who and what we are and/or how and what we believe. Of course it needs to be realized, that who and what we are may not correspond to how and what we think and believe. We will have to do our own experiments to see if these two align.

A ritual, designed by ourselves or another, is only a way to process the energy within our being and channel it in a predetermined direction as determined by the ritual. The ritual is a real experience. Whether the ritual is literal or symbolic in its actions, that experience of the ritual resides in the memory. As a memory, it can continually channel our creative life energy in the direction set by the ritual. Rituals can be used in two ways. One way is to honor the intuitive guidance we receive. The other is to create a memory to catalyze something we desire to create. Here we create a memory that can be used to continually catalyze our actions.

Since our discussions are on the topic of accessing and releasing our unlimited creativity, rituals are about aligning with the source/Source of our creative power. Here we are talking about words and actions governed by our relationship with, and understanding of, the source of our creative power and the creative powers/Creative Powers of creation/Creation. More importantly, we are talking about performing a set of actions in alignment with the thought, feeling and/or images that arise from alignment with our creative life energy/creative spirit that flows from or arises from the Source of our being that is sustaining us as we are. That is, we access and use our body wisdom, our intuitive guidance and our creative passion along with the understanding of our mind to create what we desire.

Anything that we do, literally or symbolically in alignment with these is a ritual. Of course we are free to view or not view one’s actions as such. Nevertheless, that is why our actions can be so magical and powerful when we follow our intuitive guidance for they arise from the Source of Being and what gives us life.

The question is, as it always is, how much does our mind interfere and change and/or edit what our body wisdom, our intuitive guidance and passion forward to the conscious mind. To use ritual and ceremony in our creative efforts, we need to consult our body wisdom, intuitive guidance and our creative passion and allow them to guide us as to what our ritual and/or ceremony looks like. This means to use rituals effectively we will have to be able to feel the subtle sensations. On this point, since feeling gives rise to our creative power, the more we can feel the more power our ritual can have. In creating rituals with great feelings, we create a memory with the best information and energy that our mind can supply for the manifestation of our intention. It is our actions which bring our intention into a physical experience and we can use the memory of the ritual to catalyze our passion as the intention become physical reality over time.

Other than forming a habit of action, any ritual does nothing for us if we do not act differently in some way in our life as a result of the ritual. We needs to freely do something that causes us to change who and what we are. The ritual itself may be what we do but it is a fine line between the ritual being the action itself and the ritual being a hollow action. The idea is that the action within the ritual changes the cause of the cause effect relation that is currently in our life resulting in a new cause. That is, we change our consciousness through what we think and believe through the ritual. If everything remains the same and we do not change the cause effect relationship the ritual is a hollow set of actions. In many ways a ritual is about draw a line and step across it. When we step across the line, we step into a new world.

From a creativity perspective, the error most individuals make relative to performing any initiation they may undergo or any ritual they create for manifesting a particular intention is that we believe the initiation or ritual will achieve what we desire. In actually, the initiation and ritual only prepare the way for mind to step aside and allow Creation to determine what needs to be done as the creation process unfold. In this regard, the ritual should contain some element of surrender. The initiation and ritual should open the door of mind. We must then follow what our intuitive guidance and body wisdom lead us to do if we hope to meet our intention. In essence, our choice to engage in the initiation or ritual is mind playing the role of consciousness in the creative process to become the cause to create a flow of energy which then unfolds into the desired experience. Subsequently following our intuitive guidance and body wisdom allows us to access this new flow of energy generated by our mind through the ritual. However, we must surrender to the flow if we desire to manifest what we desire.

As said above, to use ritual and ceremony in our creative efforts, we need to consult our body wisdom, intuitive guidance and our creative passion and allow them to guide us as to what our ritual and/or ceremony looks like. In doing so, we create a memory with the best information and energy that our being can supply for the manifestation of our intention. Our actions bring our intention into a physical experience that we can use to catalyze our passion as the intention become a physical reality over time. In this regard, the ritual is about creating a seed condition, which if planted in fertile soil, will grow and manifest.

What needs to be understood is that we create our reality and we create our experiences by our intention and the desire we hold and how much energy in the form of passion and emotional energy we can put into that intention and desire. The intention we hold causes a flow of energy that flows along the path of least resistance. This flow of energy will eventually manifest in an experience of what we desire within the environment we find ourselves if we hold our intention with unwavering faith and as a single point focus in our life.

In many ways, the process is automatic. If we are going to manifest what we desire, we need to surrender to the flow of energy that will give rise to what we desire and trust the Creative Power of the Universe will carry us to manifest our desired creation. We must follow the lead of the flow of energy and not what we think. If the ego is not harnessed, it is here the ego will be instrumental in destroying our own creative endeavors. This is the main reason why we do so much of our creativity nonconsciously. Our nonconscious intentions are not disturbed by the continual distraction suffered by the conscious mind and the loss of focus the mundane often creates . This is one reason why ritual and ceremony can a be so powerful in our creative endeavors by imprinting an intention into the nonconscious mind.

Since we need to surrender to the flow of energy which gives rise to what we desire, it is important to become aware of what we desire to feel to lock onto that flow. When we intend something, it is important to ask what feeling do we desire to experience that accompanies what we intend. Often, we end up intending what mind thinks will give us what we desire when in reality we desire a particular feeling different than what our thinking will produce. In this understanding we can create a ritual, meta-theatrical performance, or a guided meditation that represents what we desire to create to get a feeling of what we desire. Then we can use our internal compass to lock onto that feeling to guide us in our creative efforts. The feeling for what we desire to create will need to become a single point focus or meditation for our life.

Any memory that inspires us or provides a place where we can go and remember what is import to rejuvenate and re-energize ourselves into actions is an asset of invaluable proportions. From a memory perspective, it does not really matter if the memory is of a real experience, a memory of virtual experience like we obtain in acting out a theatrical production , in a simulation of some type, or the memory of a movie or a book, the power of any of these memories to catalyze us into action is the same. Whether we use the power of memory in a constructive way is another question.

In using the memory of a ritual, the ritual can be used to create a surrogate experience that can substitute for an experience which would otherwise be difficult or impossible to do. In this regard, the ritual can be a symbol. In the same way we can choose something to stand for, or represent, something else. We can similarly do so with a ritual. We can use a ritual we create to symbolize as choice or commitment we make. Usually we choose an object to typify a quantity, abstract idea, and the like. For example we can choose the oak tree or steel a symbol of strength. Or we choose a character, mark or other sign indicating something as we would use a symbol to represent a quantity in mathematics. In a similar way our ritual can be totally symbolic for changes we are making within our being. Here again, a properly designed ritual and/or ceremony around what we wish to create is a way to create a simulation through literal or symbolic actions of creating such a memory.

We need to understand that any action we make or take, either in what we would call real action or symbolic action as in a ritual or ceremony, is an action that reinforces to the psyche the desire on our part to manifest the thought behind that action or ritual. For example, the simple action of completing an application form for some endeavor is an action on our part and the statement of an intentionality for our life and can be seen as ritual that we are performing. The question is, "what is the intention behind completing the application?" Are we completing it because we truly want what the application is preparing us to do or are we completing it to satisfy somebody else’s desires and we have no real intention on following up on what the application will require. On the surface the actions will be the same. But where we are directing our energy depends on the intention and beliefs that underlay our actions.

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