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Spirituality and sexuality are the
two topics that influence our creativity which the author had tried
to avoid discussing. The author avoided talking about these
two topics because both come loaded with a tremendous amount of excess
baggage. Each topic comes with a tremendous number of preprogrammed
social and enculturated beliefs. Each comes with a tremendous number
of personal opinions and, in most cases, personal experiences. Many
of the beliefs are unique to the individual and cannot necessarily
be generically addressed. It is this collection of beliefs about
God/spirituality and sexuality that prevent frank and honest
discussion about the role of God/spirituality and sexuality in
accessing our
creative power and creative ability and how they should or
shouldn’t be used. In fact, many of the beliefs about God and
sexuality lie in the subconscious and do not present themselves
until certain conditions are correct for their revelation. In this regard,
meta-theatrics is an exceptionally useful tool in surfacing
these beliefs.
For the longest time the author had no interest in getting into any
discussion on the topic of
God and what God was or wasn’t. Similarly
he had no interest in discussing sexuality for individuals always
overlaid their past experience with sexuality on what he was trying
to communicate. Yet, he always knew he had to have clients face
their concept of God and sex if they wanted to access and release
their
unlimited creativity and/or
as these concepts arose in relation to what they
wanted to create. But he had always hoped that the creativity the
individual needed for what they
desired to create was far enough
removed from the issues of God and sex that he could simply avoid
them. Sometimes this was true.
However, more often than not, both
God and sexuality arose as issues
relative to their
creative endeavors
because of past decisions the
individual had made based on their beliefs about God and sex. The
issues of God and sex that arose were more often about extricating
and releasing their
creative spirit from a
cage the individual
created for their creative spirit. In many cases it was not about
the individual facing sex or God based on what they
desired to
create. Rather, more often than not it was necessary to revisit the
individuals past and past decisions to see how they entwined their
creative power and creative ability with sex and God when it was not really
appropriate to do so.
Eventually the author had to directly face the relationship between
God and the external
creative power/Creative Power accessible to us
and sex and the internal creative powers/Creative Powers. Each was
more important than the author could have ever imagined as was the link
between the two. What the author found was that if these issues were
not addressed, and although the author could create the space for an
individual’s
creative spirit to become
free, the individual’s
concept of God and/or sex would simply recapture the released
creative spirit. This was a result of the fact individuals were
holding their concept of God and concepts of sex more sacred than
their own creative spirit. Hence the recommendations for each to
hold our creativity sacred. Otherwise we give our creative power
away and lock our creative spirit into
a cage of our own making.
To address these issues, the author began to look for a way to allow
people to explore the external
creative powers/Creative Powers
in
their own way and allow them to draw their own conclusion about
God.
The approach used was to not say anything for or against God or any
particular concept of God but allow the individual to explore what
they needed to explore. Similarly, he had to find a way for people
to explore their inner creative powers/Creative Powers including
sexuality. To protect the
creative spirit, it becomes essential the
individual be
given the permission and a way to explore both God and sexuality
in the way they needed to explore them.
The recommended way that seems to work is three fold. One was for
the individual to
hold their creativity sacred and allow everything else
to be malleable. Although not directly stated, this means that an
individual’s concept of
God was not held sacred nor was their
concepts of sex. The second was to look to one’s
intuitive guidance to lead the exploration into both God and
sex. Those who did not rely on their intuitive guidance and stepped
back into mind because they did not like what they were
experiencing, could not trust the process or simply wanted something
different became trapped in their past and thwarted their own
creativity. The third recommendation was to
calibrate and utilize the internal compass and look to
what served or did not serve one’s being by the
freedom
experienced by their
creative spirit.
Yet, what the author found was that sexuality and our concept of
God
are integrally linked. He could not escape having the individual
face one or the other if not usually both. It was inevitable that
there would have to be some discussion on Creative Spirituality and
Creative Sexuality. It was only a matter of time that the
lessons learned would be captured and made available. What is
provided on both the
Creative Spirituality and
Creative Sexuality web sites are the generic aspects of each to
help you in your exploration. But it is a journey only you can make
in each area and you will have to make the decision if you will or
will not take that journey.
In hindsight, the puzzling link
between
God
and sex makes perfect sense when we realize that
our inner world is reflected in the outer. That which is inside
us which brings life into the world is our sexuality. The external
creative force which brings life into the world is seen by most as
God. The connection between God and sex is simply each is about that
creative power/Creative Power
which brings life into existence. One is seen inside, and one is
seen outside. Exactly what this interconnection means for any one
individual depends entirely on what they believe about each.
Remembering that a wise individual learns from the mistakes of
others, the recommendation here is
hold our creativity sacred, do
our own experiments and observations, look to
see what is effective in our life,
and then see what the concepts around each looks like. In doing so,
the greatest fear we will face is the possibility we are doing it
wrong or we will get it wrong. We will be haunted by all the
teachers through history who claim we need to look at
God
and/or sex one way or another and act one way or another.
However, each of these individual
arose out of
the same material of Creation as you have. The energy and
consciousness of each has come from the same
Source of Creation
as each of us. So why do we think any other individual knows any
better than us what the
creator/Creator
placed in our own heart and being and what It wants us to express?
We must learn to follow what is
symbolized in
our own heart as an
internal compass and
hold our creativity sacred. Why do we doubt the wisdom of the
creator/Creator? Why do we doubt what is inside each of us as
beautiful, or not even more beautiful, than what comes out of anyone
else? We just need to
allow our mind to step aside and allow what arises from the
essence of our being, the Source of Creation Itself, to come out in
whatever way it needs to come out.
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