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There are a multitude of different
ways we can come to an awareness of the
intention for our life. The multitude of different ways is about
finding that vehicle or those vehicles that allow you, as an unique
individual, to reconnect with the source of your creative power in
your unique way. There often will be insights, preferences, events
which occur in life that point to the intention for our life. But,
first, we must become aware of them.
If we are mindful, we are aware and awake as to the thoughts we
have. In being mindful we can begin to see we do get glimmers of
where our life is going. When we become aware of those insights, we
can the get clarity as to what we think is the intention for our
life. However, we must understand, that no matter how much clarity
we think we have, we will not really understand where our life is
leading until we get the
minimum set of experience to properly characterize what we see.
It is necessary to understand that mind will characterize what it
sees based on its past experiences. Only when mind’s past
experiences contains the minimum set of requisite experience to
characterize what it experiences will it properly character it. More
often than not, mind will think it understand long before it truly
understand what it experiences. Without the minimum set of requisite
experience, the best mind can give is an approximation. Yet, even
those approximations can be quite useful in our journey to align
with the intention for our life.
There are three examples from the author’s life that clear insights
as to where his life was leading. In one case mind’s interpretation
if literally followed would have lead the author into series of
potentially frustrating experiences. In the other two cases, because
of how the awareness arose in each case, they gave the author
profound comfort as his journey into aligning with the intention for
his life took as long as it did.
A bridge builder
To find our path and/or to move
into alignment with the intention for our life, we can look
internally or externally for guidance. Internally, other then than
the
internal compass and knowing what we feel, we can become aware
of our dreams and fantasies. Obviously are dreams and fantasies are
colored and influenced by the world in which we grow up and the
social conditioning and enculturation we experience. However, we
look to the essence of our dreams and fantasies. We can to see what
type and kind of dreams and fantasies persist. In looking at what
persists, we can being to see what deep desires we may have that are
more reflective of what we are here to do than a result of the
programming we receive.
In the author’s life, it was the dream and fantasy to build bridges.
As a student in grade school, the author was simply bored. To
relieve his boredom, he doodled. Actually, doodling when bored
continued all his life but the doodles did change over time - up to
a point. Then they took on a rather precise and persistent form.
In grades school doodles started to center more and more on bridge
building. Initially they were trestles much like the railroad
bridges and trestles he saw in his home town. But then they started
to evolved. He was aware that what he was drawing did not feel
correct. It was as thought he wanted to build a bridge somewhere and
he knew the bridges he was sketching would not work. They were too
small. The chasm he had to span was much greater than what we saw
the local bridges span. He started sketching very large wooden and
steel trestles. Still, they did not feel correct. He knew he would
not have the footings of solid ground the trestles needed. He then
jumped to suspension bridges. They felt correct. But the chasm was
large. He needed a large suspension bridge. Deep within him was a
desire to build a large suspension bridge.
As he grew older, he began to think more and more seriously about
becoming a civil engineer. But then he realized that large
suspension bridges as large as the Golden Gate Bridge in San
Francisco or the Verrazano Bridge in New York were just not built
that often. He didn’t want to build roads nor did he want to build
small bridges. They just would not meet the deep desire he felt
which is being to build a large suspension bridge. He just knew he
would not be happy building roads or small bridges. So he dismissed
the idea of being a civil engineer well before entering High School.
What is interesting about this desire to build a suspension bridge
over a great chasm began to appear in his dreams. But it reappeared
about forty years later as he was undergoing a
rebirthing process. A stated in the discussion entitled, “The
Rebirth,” the process stated with exhuming a cadaver from a
grave for an autopsy. However in a short time he was having dreams
of building a bridge. A huge suspension bridge across a great chasm.
A part of him knew it was a bridge across the chasm that separated
the seen from the unseen. The dreams were vivid and powerful.
Several times high above the water he came close to falling. Yet the
bridge building never stopped. As the rebirthing process came close
to ending so did the dreams of bridge building for the bridge was
completed in the rebirthing. The author knew what he would do in
life, however he would do it, would be to bridge the seen and unseen
worlds.
A case for contemplation of
movies
When we look externally what may
reveal the intention for our life we only need to look to see what
draws our interested. One way to come to the awareness of what we
are here to do is through movies. That is, what movies cause an
awareness about your life to arise awaken and arise within. Movies
are really a relatively recent phenomenon in human history. At the
time of this writing, the first movies are a little over a hundred
years old. But movies are stories acted out much like theater rather
then being narrated. Out of all the stories and myths that can be
told, there are those that seem to reflect our life or tell us
something about life. In many ways they “feel” to be our life. In
this regard, they can also function as a vehicle for meditation and
realization as discussed in web site “
Meditation Concepts and Principles for Creativity.”
Movies and their power to reveal the intention for our life arose in
discussion with a psychologist friend as the author was exploring
organizational creativity. Given his organizational abilities, there
was a physician friend who asked the author to help him set up a
mind body healing foundation. This physician had an interesting view
of healing and was dabbling in alternative medicine, spirituality
and metaphysics as they relate to health and healing long before it
become fashionable. After we worked together for awhile the
physician made the comments, “There is something wrong with you, you
need to be fixed. You are wired differently.” Respecting the
physician’s professional opinion and judgement and because of how
closely they had worked together, the author assumed the physician
saw some valid condition that warranted closer examination.
So, based on the physician’s recommendation and the author’s
curiosity about creativity, the author went to a psychologist to see
what could be gleaned about creativity, and of course, about
himself. When asked why he was there, the author said, “I don’t
know. ______ (the physician) said that something was wrong with me
and I needed to be fixed. So you call him and see what he says.” Of
course the author’s response probably appeared very flippant to the
psychologist. But it was nevertheless true. The author had no idea
as to what the physician saw that prompted the physician to make
such a comment. The physician himself did not, or could not,
elaborate. All the author could figure out is was that his
perspective was peculiarly different than the physician’s
perspective so the physician saw the author’s perspective as
something that needed to be fixed.
Over time the psychologist said, “You have a very interesting and
different way of viewing things. Why don’t you write up some of your
ideas.” So the author began to write up his ideas and gave them to
the psychologist. In time the psychologist told the author that he
may want to consider writing a book.
What is interesting about the suggest to write a book was that the
author wrote out the
vision of a critical mass of enlightenment just about the time
he starting to visit the psychologist. It was shortly after the
author being told he should write a book based on his understanding
that
his car burnt up on Interstate 270 and he knew his life would be
come totally different. It was as though once the awareness was
raised within his mind to write, the world as he knew it would be
destroyed and was in the process of being destroyed. It was as
thought for him to write his entire life as he knew it and
understood it would have to be consumed, destroyed and reborn into a
new form.
One of thing things that surfaced in writing and sharing his ideas
was that there were two movies that seemed to some how reflect his
life - but he didn’t exactly how and why. One reflected the path he
knew he needed to follow or rather, not follow. The other was how an
aspect of his life would unfold. At the time, both movies seemed to
point somewhere to the future.
The first movie was entitled “The Enemy Below” become relevant to
the author after he heard the calling. It seemed to take on a
greater and greater role the deeper he moved into exploring
creativity. But its fulfillment seemed to lie in the future.
The story is about World War II a German U-Boat (submarine) that is
carrying a secret code book which it is suppose to deliver to a
particular location. To deliver the code the U-Boat must stay on a
predetermined course. However, a US Navy destroyer, out submarine
hunting, stumbles cross the submarine and begins to give chase.
Because the U-Boat must deliver the code, it must always come back
to the same course no matter how often it eludes the destroyer. The
destroy captain has a suspicion that this is the case. The destroyer
captain figures out the course of the U-Boat and keeps coming back
look for the submarine on that course.
Eventually the U-Boat and destroyer confront each other. The U-Boat
is successful at damaging the destroyer. Yet, rather than leaving
the destroyer damaged and moving to get back on course, the U-Boat
commander, at the urging the loyal Nazi party member, decided to
“finish off the destroyer” and the story continues.
What was clear to the author from this movie was that in many ways,
he was on a predetermined mission. He like the submarine was
operating below the surface trying to achieve a particular mission.
In many ways the author carries a code or information of some type
which must be delivered. As the U-Boat commander, the author needed
to stay on course and not get pulled of no matter who or what ties
to take him off course.
What is interesting about this movie is that if the author had a
choice, he would not pick to be the U-Boat commander. He would have
rather played the role of the destroyer captain going after the
submarine. Yet, the author intuitively knew his role for what he had
to do was to stay on course and deliver the information below the
surface unseen out of the public eye.. His role was not to confront
and fight anyone who opposed him even if he knew he could win. He
could not risk being taken off course.
Many times throughout the journey, the author wanted to stop and go
do something else or confront someone about what he was trying to
create. Yet the movie kept reminding him to stay on course and not
get pulled of by anyone or anything. Similarly, every time he try
and deviate from that goal or was pulled off course, he was some how
pulled back onto it. But to continually stay focused and not be
pulled of course is the essence of any creative endeavor. It is
something any individual will have to understand to begin to see how
they create both their experiences and the reality of those
experiences. It is the essence of a
single point focus.
But what was he staying on course to do? At the time he had no
awareness as to what information he was carrying that needed to be
protected. Interesting, that was addressed by the other movie. There
was a recognition in the author as to the applicability of the this
second moving in his life long before
the
calling. However, before the calling, only the first part of the
moving registered with him as part of the intention for his life.
That was, until he stumbled into the
Ultimate Accident. But then, the second part of the movie did
not initially become clear to him but quickly began to reveal
itself. In the end the whole movie took on metaphoric significance
for his journey into creativity.
The second movie was Chitty, Chitty Bang Bang. The essence of the
story is the Hero, Dick Van Dyke, restores an old wrecked racing car
to which his children became attached. The racing car was destroyed
to avoid hitting a child. The hero goes off and isolates himself for
as long as it takes to rebuild, or rather, recreate the car. Then
when the car come outs, not only is it beautifully restored, it has
magical powers for the hero and his children. The hero, a feminine
counter partner and the children get pulled to a land where all the
children are held captive and imprisoned deep within a cave below
the kings castle. The Hero and the Heroine with the help of a toy
maker then set out to free all the captive children.
What is most interesting about this movies is it felt totally
applicable to the author’s life long before anything happen to take
the author off the
professional path he was pursuing in life. When he first saw the
movie, he recognized a period of isolation to build something would
be necessary. When he heard
the
calling, the voice asked, “Who will protect my children.” At the
time, there was no connection with the film. The author’s mind
perceived the voice to be asking to protect people from the hazards
of radiation.
When the author stumbled into the
Ultimate Accident, and then experiences the release of a captive
creative spirit similar to
what he experience twenty years earlier, then the connection
become clear. He realized the voice in
the
calling ultimate referred to the creative spirit which lies
within each individual. That was the child/children which needed to
be protected.
The second half of his journey into creativity after the Ultimate
Accident was no more than eventually becoming isolated to create a
seemingly magical vehicle constructed out of existing parts that its
implications to many is
too much to be believed. That vehicle in effect is the Releasing
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the vehicle, somehow free the captive creative spirit within each
heart which is very childlike, innocent and playful spirit. This
creative spirit is much like a child. In light of
the
calling and “who will protect my children” it only made sense
that the playful childlike
creative spirit within each individual was to what the voice was
referring. Yet it took years for that realization to be made and
acted upon.
One of the more significant things about these movies was they
provided what can best be described as an understanding for the
isolation the author experienced. He knew he could not confront
others with what he knew but had to stay on course. He knew that he
would have to be isolated if he was to build that vehicle to help
protect the children and free the creative spirit bound in a cage of
one’s own making. He knew he needed to create an alternative to what
mind had to offer.
Although the guidance we get from myths, stories, movies and the
like my not always be literally correct, nevertheless, the
information on which guidance is based can be very useful and
helpful in one’s journey. The key is to look at the symbolism and
remember,
creativity is the language of consciousness. Whatever is created
is a communication and is the best that can be provided at the time.
We only need to look at the information which gives rise to the
communication to know what we need to do.
As the author looked at other movies and stories which created a
inner feeling of coming alive and with which he could identify, many
of them had themes similar to the above two movies. Many of there
were also about individuals working outside the system to achieve
some particular endeavor. The movies were not necessarily about
heroes recognized by their society. Rather in was more about
individual who stayed the course tracking true to their
internal compass to create some type or kind of
creative freedom.
In actually, looking at what movies and stories with which we can
identify and provide access to our inner passion are tools we can
use to begin to understand our journey through life. For some of us,
the movies may be all we need to know to come to the awareness about
the intention for our life. For others, they may just tell us the
direction in which we need to look to find the
intention for our life.
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