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What is most important as to what
needs to be communicated in the origins of any creative endeavor are
not the facts, details and anecdotes about the origins of the
material and about the author. Although some may find them
interesting, they really only provide a context for what occurred
and what is being communicated. They are just a vehicle for
expression.
Creativity is the language of consciousness and our life and our
creations in that life is how our consciousness communicates what it
has to say both about itself, what it thinks and believes, and what
it desires to communicate. In this regard, the author’s life is a
communication just a your life and your creations are a
communication.
What is important in the story about any author or creator is the
information carried in the creative process that lies within the
origin and unfoldment of the creation. The real information which
lies in the creative process is described and relayed through the
facts about the author or creator’s life. The facts that can be
communicated are like the pieces of a puzzle that must be assembled
into a mosaic to see the picture. Yet, what lies in that creative
process cannot be easily and readily communicated for it is beyond
what words can fully describe. It is something that must be lived
and experienced both as the creator and the creations that we are.
We are simultaneously both. It is when we embrace and live our life
true to who we
incarnated to be the we can see and consciously experience the
creative process for ourselves. Until we align with the intention
for our life, our mind is masking the creative process governing
what we are experiencing. It is in consciously experiencing the
creative process of which we are a part that we can use to see what
gives rise to our creations and truly being to understand the
origins of any creation.
The essence of the problem in communicating the creative process is
that any truly creative endeavor takes one into the unknown. It is
an the
issue inherent in creativity. However, the nature of mind is
that it only know the past and what it has experienced. In any
creative endeavor, you may be faced with needing certain types and
kinds of experiences to gain the understanding you need. In some
cases an approximate experience will give you what you need. In
other cases an approximation will not give you the insights into the
understanding you seek.
In any case, because creativity is about bringing into reality
something that does not exist, your mind, and where you think you
will find the experience you need, will probably be wrong. In a
creative endeavor you will often not find what you need where you
expect to find it. The same is true in understanding the origins of
a creative endeavor. You will not necessarily find the origin where
you expect it. To see the origins of any creative endeavor, you need
to learn to see the synchronicity between the events in the
creator’s life and their understanding and the creation.
As such, until mind has the necessary
minimum set of requisite experience to explain what it
experiences, it will provide, at best, a partial description of the
experience. Our problem is that we take the partial description
given by our mind as the truth of what was experienced when it is
not. We think it is and usually have little reason to dispute it
being true, but it isn’t. As such, we will often create new
experiences and think we understand what we experience. As we gain
more experience about what we experienced, we find things are not
quite the way we thought they were. This can be found extremely true
about one’s life and the events which unfolded in life. Hence, we
should not focus on the events and the facts about the
author/creator’s experiences. Rather we need to look into the depth
of the unfolding process that is being revealed in those facts and
events.
What many do not realize is that our creations and our life
experiences are entwined much the way two stands of DNA are entwined
and bonded. The two cannot be easily separated without losing
essential information. To look at any creation and not experience
the creator is to look at an apple and have no awareness of the
tree. It is to look at a carton of milk and be unaware of the cow.
It is to look at the excrement and waste of any life or project and
not see the life that is unfolding. This fact, in itself, is an
important understanding about our creative power and how we create
what we do. A part of us will always have to become different to
create something different.
For each of us, our life experiences, and what we come to think and
believe about those experiences, influences what we can create more
than what most imagine. Our life experiences are entwined with what
we can create. What lies in Creation and what we see in our lives as
creations are only products of something much larger. In fact we are
a
creative living process were what we call our creations are only
the fruits and/or byproducts of a life that is lived. A story that
reflects this point quite nicely is the story of the wheelwright
found in the discussion “A
reflection on our creation - the creator, the creation and the
creative process”
The bottom line to all of this is that to really understand the
origins of a creation, we need to look at the life and experiences
of the creator. To understand the origins of a creative endeavor, we
will have to stand back and look to see what is occurring behind the
experience or giving rise to the experience. This point is
highlighted here because it is a problem you will face in any
creative endeavor you undertake. You have to be able to stand back
to see what you know and what life itself is trying to communicate
to you in the experience you have.
This is the important of the life map and telling your story to see
what your life is communicating. They are ways to remember how and
why you have created what you now experience. It needs to be
remembered,
that on which we focus we will create
in one way or another for the environment in which we find
ourselves. If we focus on our past to remember, we will create the
remembrance. You must look to the past to see what we have created
and why we created it. Unless we get that information, we will
create the future in the image of the past for we will not
understand how we are creating. We will be frustrated because we
cannot seem to change our lives and our world no matter how much we
try. We have to get to the root of what is giving rise to the
experiences we have if we want to change them.
Relative to the origins of the Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity
material, as the author of this material found, he needed to have a
certain
minimum set of experiences before he could understand the nature
of creativity andthe nauture of
the deep inner longing that we all have
to create something of intrinsic value to us. In particular he
had to understand the deep inner longing that was propelling him to
study creativity before he could clear see how quick mind was to
think it understood what was propelling him when in reality, mind
did not have the experience it needed to understand. At a variety of
points along the way he thought he understood. But only in time, as
additional experience was gained, he found what he thought about
creativity and this deep inner longing was not correct.
To see the true origins of this material, we would need to look at
the life experiences as they are applicable to obtaining the minimum
set of experiences and how those experiences allowed this
understanding to unfold. This, of course, would require a one to
read or hear the story of the author’s life story told in a certain
way. Yet, hearing that story may or may not provide you with what
you need for your particular creative endeavor. So, rather than tell
a complete story the salient pieces are provided. You can synthesize
them as you wish and maybe begin to see the similar pieces in your
own life.
What needs to be understood here is that there are four points of
which we should be aware and are applicable to any creative endeavor
we undertake as to the origins of the understanding we need to
create what we desire.
One is that certain realizations only come in living life and
creatively pursing what we desire to create. We cannot get
everything out of books or second hand through the experience of
others. We can learn a lot from others, but not everything. Some
things we need to experience for ourselves. We each have to do our
own experiments.
More important, we will be very limited in our creativity and will
not access the truth of our being if we follow the path of another.
We have to do our own work. We are a unique creation and we need to
express that uniqueness in a way that serves our own unfoldment. At
some point we will need to step into our own creativity whatever it
looks like. If we do not know what our creativity looks like, we
will have to find it.
To find what our creativity looks like, we will need to do our own
experimentation. No one can do that for us. On this point it needs
to be noted, our creative is not necessarily something that we are
good at doing. Rather, it is something that makes us feel alive and
full of life. Some of have to develop the talent. Others seem to
have it fully developed with little work require to perfect it.
Still others have fully developed talents that keep them from doing
the work that give them the talent that would make them feel alive
and full of life.
The second thing we need to understand is that certain types and
kinds of experiences are more enlightening than others. Having one
year of experience repeated thirty times is not the same as thirty
years of experience. If we are going to consciously create, we will
have to get accustom to doing things differently. Otherwise, we will
only be repeating the past.
The third thing is that unless we examine the life we have lived and
the experiences we have had, we will not become aware of what we
experienced and we will miss the value of the experience. We need to
look and evaluate the
lessons learned in our life and use what we have learned from
the experience if we are not going to repeat the past.
The fourth thing is that creativity is an unfoldment. It is
something that evolves and grows as opposed to simply building what
we desire from a blueprint or a program plan. If we can build from a
blueprint or a program plan, we are not creating. In doing so, we
are copying the past in new way. It is when the blueprint and/or
program plan cannot address what we encounter and we have no idea as
to how to go forward that we become creative and being to create.
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