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Mind set and tunnel vision is something we all fall into in one
way or another. It is inevitable because of how
mind works. Challenging our existing mind set is what allows for
the breakthroughs and subsequent advances. The question which arises
is, “How do we challenge our mind set and is there one way that is
better than another?”
One many not be able to say that one way of challenging mind set is
better than another. However, the experiences of Twentieth Century
physicists Neils Bohr and Albert Einstein provide a way to challenge
mind set that provided to be revolutionary in their impacts.
Although both these physicist were working in related areas of
physics and what they did applied to different phenomenon, their
approach was essentially the same.
Relative to our inherent creativity and what is available to us, in
many ways the mind set we have about our creative power and ability
is not unlike the mind set the physic community faced at the
beginning of the Twentieth Century. Physicist had their ideas and
models about how Nature worked. Many of those ideas continued to be
pushed even when they were obviously failing to predict the way
Nature worked. Both Bohr and Einstein found ways to step out and
break that mind set.
We are faced today with a mind set about the nature of the internal
and external reality we experience and the inner and outer
creative power/Creative Power accessible to us. This mind set
that exists today about our creativity is, in someways, much like
the mind set that physicists faced relative to uncovering the
physics of Nature. The mind set physicist had at this time prevented
them from moving forward in unraveling the mysteries of the
universe.
The problem the early Twentieth Century physicists faced was that
the particular view or explanation of Nature held at that time
worked well to explain many phenomena. But some phenomena just could
not effectively be explained with the view the physicists held. Many
physicist were very attached to the successes of their past
scientific studies and were unwilling to give up the models and
perceptions of reality that seemed to work so well - in some cases.
These physicists seemed to be more intent on fixing and patching
that which wasn’t working rather than finding a more coherent model
and explanation for how the universe worked.
This is understandable because so many individuals had made a
reputation on the past and had spent enormous amounts of their time
and effort working with the models of the past. It is hard to give
up to what we have become attached. This fact may be one reason why
so many great discoveries and bold breakthroughs seem to be made in
the early years of a career, before one become “set” in their ways
and thinking. Two particular individuals who caused a profound shift
in the mind set of physicists in the early twentieth century were
Neils Bohr (1885-1962) and Albert Einstein (1879-1955).
What is particularly intriguing about their stories for studying
creativity is how much their approach is valid and applicable to the
mind set we have developed about looking into our internal
subjective reality, and how our internal world relates to our
external world. Their approach help to address what interferes with
what we need to understand to release our unlimited creativity. The
work and impact of Bohr and Einstein is important for creativity is
was not only what, but how, they came to their ideas that
transformed the world of physics. It was through their efforts that
physicists broke free of their mind set, their old way of thinking,
and launched a new era of understanding that revolutionized the
world. The same impact is possible for our creativity. The ideas
presented here allow us to break free of our current mind set about
the nature of reality and what it means to be human based so much in
the past. It allows us to embrace a new understanding of what it
means to access our unlimited creativity to create the reality of
our choice.
The approach taken by Neils Bohr and Albert Einstein are discussed
for two reasons. The first is that they challenged the existing mind
set of physics by stepping outside the then current thinking and way
the world was being viewed. That is they “stepped
out of mind.” The stepped out of the mind that physicists were
using to explain the physics of nature. In this regard, both used
similar approaches in that each challenged the existing mind set of
physics at the time and from that perspective an example of either
one or the other would suffice. However, each made a particular
contribution to physics that is key to the understanding creativity
and our creative powers. It is their individual contributions that
give us the second reason for look at each of their approaches.
In the Bohr’s approach, the important point is that he looked to
nature itself to lead that way and provide the understanding. The
approach presented in the Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity
material is an approach analogous to that which Bohr employed.
Because energy and consciousness are seen as equivalent, nature, and
the world of energy, can provide many of the analogies necessary to
understand how to access and release our unlimited creativity. The
reason for this is that all of nature and all that we experience as
energy or energy based, is just an expression of consciousness.
In Einstein’s case, he did not look to nature for the answers.
Rather, he made postulates about nature that could explain the
phenomena that he experiences. He then look for experiment to verify
that his assumptions were indeed correct. For our purpose, it is the
assumptions he makes about the nature of light and energy that is
important to our discussion on creativity. Again, because energy and
consciousness are one and the same, we can apply the same
assumptions he made about energy in a new way expanding them to
consciousness.
As for escaping mind set and tunnel vision, the key is to be will be
willing to step out of mind and what we think and believe to both
look to nature as to how creation/Creation works and be willing to
make assumptions and then test the truth of those assumptions. If
the assumptions are valid, use them and
allow effectiveness to be their measure of truth.
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