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The outer dance
The
enculturated mind survival dance
The heart
survival dance
The dance between the creative spirit and the world in which we find
ourselves
Becoming
proficient in the outer dance
From the Our Creative Spirit Home Page: The outer dance is
between the free unfoldment of your creative spirit in the external
world and the demands and expectations the external world place on
its free unfoldment. (More on .... the outer dance)
The outer dance can be seen and
experienced in three ways. They are not separate dances for each is
about finding one’s way in the world as it currently exists. The
outer dance can best be described as one dance done at three
different levels, stages or complexities. They are the dance the
enculturated mind
does to survive, the dance of what is
symbolized in the heart does to survive and the dance of our
creative spirit and the world which we find ourselves.
As a human being, we need
to survive in the world in which we inhabit. Our body needs food air
and water. So the basic outer dance is about survival. It is not only
survival of our physical body. Rather, it is about our inner world
learning to express itself true to itself and for that expression to
survive in the outer world So each level or stage is about creating
another way to survive in the world.
Creation is an experience that is not done alone. We each need
another or other to experience Creation. That other may be animate
or inanimate, but we see need the other. Each of us are born into
the world within some social structure within a given geographical
location. As an infant, we cannot and will not survive by ourselves.
As our body grows up into maturity, it is very difficult to survive
alone. For example, as a minimum as a mature adult, there will be
the need of a mate if one is going to procreate.
The
enculturated mind survival dance
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The social structure will help and teach us to survive in the world.
It may even provide us a community in which to live. However to live
in that community, we must adapt ourselves to its ways of doing and
being in the world. The dance is between what we need to do to
express ourselves and what we think and believe as to what is
acceptable to society and our enculturation and life experiences.
In addressing this, the first level of the outer dance is to fit
into the community so as to survive in the world. We do this by what
we have been taught and enculturated to do. We learn this dance and
do this dance with our
mind. Our mind is essentially programmed by our society to “fit
in.” If we don’t fit in, we are either ostracized or somehow forced
to fit in.
The
heart survival dance (Top)
However, the first inner dance we
need to learn to do is between the
mind and what is
symbolized in the heart. When we learn the view form the heart
we can do the second inner dance. We need to learn that first inner
dance of mind and heart and to figure out how to live our heart
in the outer world. More often than not, our mind has no idea how to
create the space or room to live our heart in the world. The mind
has been programmed to fit in the way society wants us to fit in. It
has not be programmed, nor taught, to find a way for our heart to
live in the world. Now we are trying to fit in with the world but in
a way that is different than how we have been programmed. So, we
need to reeducate ourselves and figure out how to live our heart but
also meet the needs of our social world and survive. Hence the
second level of the outer dance - living true to one’s heart but in
a way that allows us to fit in and survive in the world.
The dance between the
creative spirit and the
world in which we find ourselves (Top)
The dance between the mind and
heart is learned to awaken the
creative spirit and perform
the dance between the
inner masculine and inner feminine. But, when the creative
spirit is awakened, one suddenly has a different view about their
life. This requires the third level of the outer dance - how to live
with an awakened creative spirit and survive in the world.
At each and every level, the outer dance is becoming harder and
harder to do. However, as we live our truth, we find it easier
and easier to handle the dance and begin to find a greater and
greater internal satisfaction with our life.
Becoming proficient in The outer dance (Top)
The our dance is to realize that
whatever we desire to experience while in a human body, we will have
our experience of what we desire in physical creation. Even if you
withdrawal from the world, sit and meditate, no matter what we
experience in the isolation of our own
mind, we will do so in a human body and what we create is an
experience of our own mind.
What needs to be understood is the body is the creation of a
mind that transcends our ego and our mind as we know it. Our
awareness can detach from our body, ego and the mind as we know it
and become a
detached witness. Our awareness has awakened in a body and will
be limited by the view from the body in some way. If we study this
issue we will come to find the person who stands before us or the
situation we experience is simply there to provide us the experience
we choose to have at some level of our being. What we see in front
of us is only the occasion and the stage for what we desire to
experience. We literally call to us the experiences we desire to
have, including the organizations in which we become involved. This
fact is the basis of the mystical statement “I am God” or its
equivalent, “I am the creator of what I experience in all ways.”
Now the question is two fold. Do we move into
mind and what it thinks and believes to arrive as some type or
kind of judgement about what comes before us. Or, are we willing to
surrender to the experience and get
out of mind
and realize that we have asked for what we now experience at some
level of our being and learn why we have created the experiences we
have. What we desire is either the direct manifestation of what we
desire to experience or it is the by produce of the experience we
requested. Although the cause may lie deep within our subconscious,
we can either surrender to the experience or access the cause and
choose to change the experience at it root.
What needs to be understood is that we need to
surrender to the experience rather than acting to change it
because we do not like it. We each have a free will are can choose
how we will respond to any situation. Unless we go within and learn
to understand why we have created the experience we are having and
change it at its root, we will be doing two things. One is we will
be suppressing a flow of energy that is resulting from an intention
we hold at some level of our being causing that flow of energy to
manifest as some later time in our life. The other is that we will
be scattering and fragmenting our creative powers. That is, because
we hold an intention that directs our energy in a given direction
and we don’t change that intention, any further intention we hold,
like choosing to respond to the experience we have as opposed to
surrendering to it, is further dividing our creative life energy
between two intentions as opposed to one.
For example, we set the intention to go to the beach. As we are
driving to the beach we are stopped on an the interstate highway in
ninety five degree heat. The traffic is reported to be stopped for
several hours while a accident is being cleared out of the way.
There is no way to turn around. We are simply stuck. Now we chose to
go to the beach. We chose the particular beach we wanted to go to
and we choose the route we took. We could blame a lot of people for
the traffic we face and the situation in which we find ourselves. It
may not be the experience we expected but it is the experience that
is currently available based on the choices we made. We may say, “If
I had known there would be a the traffic jam I would have chosen
otherwise.” But it doesn’t matter. We didn’t and now we are stuck.
The question now is, “What are we going to do and how are we going
to respond to the situation at hand?”
This is the kind of situation we find ourselves in for every choice
that we make. We think we know what we are choosing and we think we
know the conditions that exist. However, often we find ourselves
with things we didn’t expect for we manifest our intentions based on
the environment in which we find ourselves and some intentions grow
better in some environments than others. Some of the things that
arise we could have addressed if we were a little bit more careful.
Others seem to be simply unexpected. But we can go into our
subconscious if we so choose and ask ourselves, “What is it about my
thinking and what I believe that I should created this experience as
opposed to something I find more enjoyable?” If we pay attention, we
will get an answer. Then we will have a choice. Do we change what we
think and believe so we don’t create that type and kind of
experience again or do we avoid what we have to do and set ourselves
up for a repeat experience. It may look different in its external
form but it will be an experience of the same thinking and believing
that we are now experiencing.
All of us already hold multiple intentions for our life and the
multiple intentions fragment and scatter our creative powers. The
more intentions we add without manifesting the intentions we hold,
the great we scatter and fragment our creative power. From a
creativity perspective, the goal would be to make our life a
single point meditation or a
single point focus. The more we can move into that single point
focus, the greater we can concentration our creative powers. The
issue we face for whatever stands before us it whether or not we
surrender to the experience and allows the intention to be
fulfilled to regain our creative powers. Or, do we go to the root of
the source and change the intention which will also help us regain
our creative powers. Or, do we choose to respond in a way other than
what is being presented and further scatter and fragment our energy.
Whether or not the experience we are having
serves us cannot be determined by whether or not we judge the
experience good or bad, pleasurable or painful. Rather we need to
look to the emotional aspect of our being and to what we are
feeling. Is what we are experiencing allowing us, or causing us, to
expand and grow beyond ourselves. Are we moving towards accessing
the depth and breath of our full being to embraces the truth of our
being and experience life more fully. Or, does it cause the us to
simply swim and stay float neither moving forward or backward, up or
down. Or, do we find ourselves shrinking and collapsing somehow
being forced to become less that what we are and/or our life is
being taken away from us such that the life within our being seems
to be drowning or suffocating? If we are becoming less than we are,
we need to choose to move in a way that allows to expand and feel
alive with life. If what we are experience is neither moving us
forward or backward, up or down, we should choose to experience
something that better severs us. If we are expanding an whether or
not we just the experience painful or pleasurable, we should
surrender to the experience and allow it to carry us where it
may.
While we are a human body, there are things we cannot provide
ourselves from within ourselves or we lack insufficient energy. In
these cases the feminine is over taxed in one way or another. One of
the things we can do is to get the energy we need for a creation
from somewhere else rather than from inside ourselves. So we will
need to go externally to our being to get them. The masculine aspect
of our being will thrust out to get what we need. The masculine
aspect of our being will cause us to act to get what we need to
nurture the feminine aspect of our being to get what we desire to
create.
In doing so, the masculine acts in its role to create a space for
its creation to unfold and protect the creation. However, depending
on its environment, it will either take what it needs in one way or
another or surrender to another in an attempt to get what it needs.
Whenever we act to take something from another, whether they are
male or female, we will be taking from the feminine aspect of their
being. If they fight us in any way, we are dealing with their
masculine. In this case, we are then in a fight to see who is the
dominate masculine. Once dominance is established, the weaker
masculine acts more in a feminine role to honor the request of the
dominate masculine.
It is here in surrender to a dominate masculine rather than in love
of our creation our problems develop. In surrendering to the other
we move into the feminine aspect of our being. Because the feminine
gives so much in any creation we become afraid we will not get what
we desire and/or need and be used and abused rather than being free
to give in a way that serves us. The other, whether it be a person,
organization or nature has the same problem we do. If it doesn’t
become the dominate masculine, it must move into its feminine. But
it too has no desire to give of itself and not get what it desires.
So, either there is a struggle and competition or a dancer.
When you step out into the world to have any need meet, our
masculine aspect is acting. However, depending on how the world
responds, we will either stay in our masculine aspect or be forced
to assume a feminine role that allows us to get what we need. Or, of
course, we can give up the need. But what needs to be understood,
whether we get what we desire in a masculine or feminine way, in a
struggle or competition, each side holds to its position until one
dominates and takes from the other what it needs. In a dance, there
is a given movement around a piece of music.
The music is what determines the movement. The movement in any
situation is determined by the flow of energy - that
deep undercurrent giving rise to the creation. Although one may
lead the movement, the one who leads still need to
surrender to the music of the dance. Yet rather than learn to
dance in our creative powers from within the flow between the
masculine and feminine of the creation process, there is a struggle
and one dominates the other rather than each surrendering to the
music of the dance.
The key to the dance is to try and figure out how to create that
safe and secure space for other to find the truth of their
being. Each needs to do that for the other. When the decision is
made to do this, each will move in a way that becomes mutually
supportive. In doing so, each can dance a dance where they are
served. The question each must ask is, “Can I give to the other in a
way that does not compromise my truth and/or I cause the other to
compromise their truth?” It is perfectly acceptable to compromise
one’s truth for a short period of time but if we do it long term we
will cause harm to our creative ability and create experiences the
do not serve our best interests in the long run.
One thing that needs to be understood is that we all desire to
create because the energy that sustains us in a creative life energy
and we will create consciously or subconsciously. However, we cannot
assume how we want to play in our creative abilities is the same way
as the other wants to play in their creative abilities. Ultimately,
we all want to play at creating our experiences and we already do so
subconsciously. It is just that what we want to create is different
and
we need others to experience our creation. We cannot create
alone. There will always be another. It is inescapable. Even the
deep meditator who needs to be off by themselves needs another. They
need another if for no other reason that to have an excuse to try
and get away from where they initially found themselves because they
felt distracted.
Although we need each other, most of us do not what to dance in the
creation with another for we are afraid our needs will not be met
and we will be taken advantage of. Most of us will resist the dance
Creation offers at some level of our being. Rather we just want it
our way. If we look carefully and deep enough, we will find we are
afraid that if we dance with another we will lose ourselves and
never be able to live true to who we are because that is what
happened in the past. In the past, most often as a very young child,
when we were free to engage in our creativity and creative play as a
child in spontaneous and innocent childlike play of discovery and
exploration, our actions were somehow thwarted. When this happened
we experienced
pain at not being allowed to live true to who and what we are
and to freely express that truth in whatever form it takes.
We will not discover our true creative power until we learn to dance
where each alternatively leads the other and we each serve another
at the deepest level of being in that state of spontaneous and
innocent childlike play. Both an inner dance into and out of our own
heart and mind and into an outer dance and outside of the world of
what the “I” wants and into the world the other wants.
The outer dance is about the
inner masculine
learning to be true to itself such that when it acts, it acts on
what it believes and on what it has freely choose to believe and not
what another has programmed it to believe. In doing so, it calls to
itself the experiences it desires and as such is the true expression
of its true nature. So too the
inner feminine.
It is about its
creative life energy flowing freely into the creation it desires
to nurture and sustain and not what it has been forced to nurture
and sustain by another in one way or other.
Because we have so identified ourselves with our body and our
understanding of the
masculine
and
feminine
with what it meas to be male and female, balance of the masculine
and feminine is challenging for what we need to do for balance is
biased by the experience of being male and female. For the
masculine aspect of being whether found in a male or female, to
achieve masculine and feminine balance from a
creativity perspective, the masculine will need to perform the
equivalent of bearing and nursing a child where the child is the
joint creation with another much they way a mother world carry and
nurse a child. The child they need to birth and nurse is the
offspring of the marriage of the intention of their life and the
intention for the life of another. For the feminine aspect of being,
whether a male or female to achieve masculine and feminine balance
from a creative perspective, the female must step into a masculine
role to thrust its life intention, the role in which it incarnated
to play, into Creation in its own identity. For some females,
that life role is to bear or raise a child. However, it is quite
erroneous to say that is the role of the majority of the females. In
fact, it may be quite the opposite. Bearing and raising a child may
be one of the experiences a female incarnated to have, but to think
in any way that is the primary reason for incarnating is to discard
all that a female and life has to offer. The key to this
understanding is the
intention for our life and the intention of the life of the
other who stands before you as an individual or that lies within a
group.
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