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It is stated that the author took
a
conscious journey into creativity to explore organization
creativity as a result of issues he was finding in the workplace.
However there was also an subconscious journey that was in progress
for most of the author’s life although it was not realized as such.
The author was not really aware such a journey existed and was
directing his life. As stated there was a conscious
professional path and a subconscious
mystical path. But there was also a subconscious journey of
exploration.
The unconscious journey began many years ago with a love for play
and a love for understanding about how the universe works. The play
was reflected in the author looking for things to do in life that he
considered “fun.” That is, he found an inner joy and satisfaction
with what he was experiencing. When something in life no longer
provided an inner satisfaction, the author work look to do something
else that did. In essence although he was unaware of the concept of
the
internal compass at the time he was consciously using it to
guide his life. The subconscious journey into creativity was
initially focused on how the universe worked and evolved into
exploring creativity. It actually started as a child with his
incessant questioning. It was his incessant “why? - why this and not
something else?” Those question in turn lead to the exploration of
how we create our experience subconsciously until it was married
with the conscious journey to create the conditions for the
Ultimate Accident.
The subconscious journey is about inner questions and the approaches
taken by the author to answer these questions. There are a variety
of questions asked at different ages. It is hoped that the reader
sees two things in this subconscious journey. One is that their own
inner questions are an asset and guide them on a similar journey.
They are in fact guiding them to where they need to be in life to
manifest the
intention for their life if they move in response to those inner
questions. Second, although everyone’s journey is unique, they are
not really that different. We all struggle in our own way with
internal fears and daemons. Although the inner fears and daemons may
differ from person to person, we all struggle with them in some
form. They keep us from doing what we need to in life.
The essential question that needs to be asked to understand the
subconscious journey is, what inner thoughts, ideas, questions or
concepts we hold onto over the years in spite of our inner turmoil,
fears and daemons that arise around our questioning. It is these
inner question that are the ones that really direct our life.
Although life may have intervened over the years, it can be seen in
the types and kinds of question there was an inner focus that was
maintained and continues to maintain an overall consistent course
and direction for the author’s life. This inner focus on an idea,
question, or concept is like a seed that is planted and slowly grows
and unfolds as life’s circumstances allow it to unfold. It is much
the way a seed unfolds into a plant whose growth is in response to,
and determined, by the environmental conditions in which it finds
itself.
Each of us have a subconscious creative journey. We each in our own
way will need to to tell our inner story. That is to look at those
questions, ideas and concepts we have kept secret yet have
influences our life. In looking at them we can being to identify the
common threads that are weaving our life.
For the author, the thread that wove through his life were his
questions. He continually kept asking questions in some form or
another since early in his life. In many ways if you look at the
answers he eventually received and how they were received, this
questioning could be considered his spiritual, or rather more
appropriately said, his mystical practice. Throughout his life there
were the forever annoying questions characteristic of a young child
that has always remained. What is most intriguing about reviewing
the circumstances that put the author on this journey and made this
information available is, that it was the result of holding a series
of very
clear intentions constant over time. That is, desiring the
answers to the questions he asked.
The questions that were asked were more than questions. They were
actually intentions. They were intentions in the sense that what the
author desires was not an answer to the questions as such. Rather,
he desired to understand why the question existed in the first
place. The answer he received needed to address why should there
even be the need to ask the question. The intention which lied
behind the questions was to uncover the understanding.
In looking at their inner thoughts, ideas, questions one can begin
to find what has been the true focus of their lives. They can then
choose to actively and consciously engage that focus if they have
not done so. If one looks carefully, those inner questions, thoughts
and ideas most probably all center around why they were meant to
live and the intention for their life. It is the premise of the
Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity material that each of us does
have purpose or
intention for our life and we can consciously align with, and
set the intention to live, that purpose - we only need to choose to
do so.
So where did the questioning really start? In looking back over his
life he came to understand that it all seems to have really started
at a very early age with a young child setting an initial, clear
intentionality. It started as a child wondering why he had to go to
school and could not
just stay home and play for play,
creative play, is what he
incarnated to do.
The first conscious question came around the age of about the age of
eight as described in “An
Inherent Mystic” and took on the order of thirty five years to
answer and understand. Looking West at a brilliant sunset, the child
asked, “Why don’t people live every day the way they say they want
to live at church on Sunday?” To the child, it was a mystery. It
puzzled the author as a young child as to why people did not do what
they said they wanted to do. Why were people not walking their talk?
The author had personally never seen or experienced his life as
compartmented. It was only one life, only one way of living. He did
not understand the "separateness" he was seeing in people’s lives.
Even as a child he felt a very strong dichotomy between what people
said they want to do and what they did. Why did they say one thing
and then live another? Something was amiss and it intrigued the
author for years.
As the author grew he began to question what he was being taught.
Over the years he struggled to stay involved and interested in a
school system that just did not excite him, except in very rare
instances. He saw there were things that lasted and things that did
not last. He saw that knowledge was the same in this regard. Some
knowledge is only for a time and place. Other knowledge transcends
time and place. He desired to learn that knowledge which lasted.
At age sixteen he stated the intention he only wanted to learn that
which lasts. His intention was that he wanted to learn and
remember only those things that he can carry from place to place. He
did not want to have to learn things that were so unique to a
particular situation or so esoteric that the information couldn’t be
used elsewhere. That desire influenced every job he took and
everything he did in life. He always look to find a way to do things
once and have them last. He disliked repeating the past in a new
way.
Although he was not aware of it at the time, but that intention was
an embarkation on a quest. It was a quest to understand how the
universe works. Ever since that time, the author concentrated on
principles and concepts - and disregarded the details of any
particular way of doing something. His focus was on the process. He
had to know what were the underlying principles at work governing
the situation at hand. Naturally, he avoided as best he could,
learning specific details of things and about things that I could
not carry with me into new situations.
In looking at the way things operated, he always looked for the root
cause. That desire, of course, gave his a very useful talent and
ability when it came to safety and health inspection, accident
investigation and emergency preparedness. However that same ability
was a liability when we came to working with individuals where he
sought to get at the root cause of the desire they had. Some took
his questioning as attaching them personally. Yet he only desired to
find out what was truly motivating them - early programming or
something that would truly make them happy in, and with, life.
In setting this intention the author began a strong interest in
reading. Not a passion, but he always carried one or more books with
him wherever he went. He wanted to be ready to read if the
opportunity presented itself. Initially he began to read everything
he could get his hands on and that would not get him into trouble
for reading. Being raised in a specific religious tradition, there
were certain books he was not supposed to read. Initially he read
only those books approved by the “authorities.” But he was not
getting the answers. He then turned to anything that could be
supported by science. But that didn’t answer his questions either so
he began to read almost anything. Obviously, over the years he
changed his attitude drastically. As he began reading anything he
wanted to read that action was actually a significant shift. In
doing so, he was striking out on my own. However, it took many years
before that occurred. Ultimately, he read from a variety of
disciplines, sources and traditions. Anything that might provide
understanding as to how the universe operated.
His questioning never ended. He never thought much about his
questions until he discovered that they seemed to simultaneously
intrigue but sometimes trouble his college professors. One day he
and his chemistry professor were talking. The chemistry professor
said, “Do you want to know what your questions remind me of?” The
author, some what intrigued, of course asked for the professor to
continue. The professor said, “It is like you are in a rowboat
surrounded by six battleships. You pull out a cannon and sink all
six battleships.” Puzzled, the author asked the professor, “But
where did I get the cannon if I am in a row boat?” ‘That,” exclaimed
the professor, “Is what you question are like - they seem to come
out of no where” To the author, his questions always seemed
straightforward and logical. He never realized he was look at things
so differently. But he just never understood how differently he view
things. It was this different way of seeing and viewing Creation
that
prompted a visit to a psychologist who recommended the author
consider writing a book because of what he was perceiving.
As he moved on in life, he continues to ask his questions. Many of
the question were to himself. Yet they represented the focus of his
attention and awareness on what he was looking to create. During the
1973 Arab Israeli War he was stuck by a very odd occurrence. There
were Jews praying for the defeat of Arabs and there were Arabs
praying for the defeat of the Jews. Yet there were Christians
praying that Christ would come back and throw both the Arabs and Jew
out of Jerusalem and set up Christ’s Kingdom on Earth. All three
groups were praying to the same God of Abraham. The author wondered,
“How did the God of Abraham look at such prayers and to whom would
He show His favor and how?”
In contemplating this issue further, the author wondered about the
fact that so many individuals were willing go to war for what they
believe. Many could even provided experiences which demonstrated
their beliefs were true. Yet often these beliefs contradicted each
other. So the author wondered, “Is there a way to view Creation such
that whatever one believes is true, they can create an experience of
that belief to support its truth?” At that time, the author asked
this question more as a rhetorical question not expecting to get an
answer. Yet it lied in is psyche as a clear intention to look for
and find such a view.
In looking at how passionately individual’s held their beliefs,
there was one rule the author seemed to follow. The one rule that
the author used throughout his journey was the assumption that all
information is true if properly understood in context. In this
regard, he disregarded nothing. He considered everything a piece of
the puzzle. He doesn’t know exactly where he got that attitude, but
it seemed to be a necessary assumption if he was going to find a way
to view the Universe where whatever someone believes is true they
can create an experience of it. His logic was that since something
existed, a thought, opinion, event, or a perceived event, and it
could be written about or talked about it could not be denied. So it
must somehow all fit together with all other information. The quest
was, “How does it all fit together?”
As a professional, the author was trained to trust the experience of
colleagues in what they believed they saw and reported as true in
journal articles and professional reports. The fact he had
personally not experienced certain things does not mean they were
untrue. In fact, from a professional standpoint, relying on the
experience of others to broaden one’s personal understanding is an
unquestioned accepted methodology - that is what journal publication
is all about. In looking at the experience of others, the author
felt, “Why can’t we trust the reports of others as true, especially
if they are personal experiences? Do people really lie about what
happens to them or what they perceive happens to them?” Is it
possible they have experiences such that the only way they can be
explained is what others would say appears to be a wild imagination
or science fiction? It is rather difficult to subject personal
experiences to peer review. Yet in may ways, personal experience is
more valid than quoting a theory or repackaging unproved theories or
assumptions about what one experienced. The question became, “How
does one get the personal experience of reality such that one knows
it as true because they experience it, as opposed to only believing
it is true because someone said it was true?” That question
ultimately lead the author to the
Ultimate Accident.
In hindsight, what ultimately lead the author to the
Ultimate Accident and the author’s subconscious journey into
creativity was the answers to his questions guided throughout his
life by his desire to play. It was a particular type and kind of
play that produced a feeling of deep inner satisfaction. Or,
alternatively said, to do those things that provided a fulness of
being and a desire to live life and engage life. It was a
creative play.
Other than when he was forced to compromise his play for the sake of
the job or some other imposed requirement - like the military draft
- he chose jobs and activities that he thought were fun and where he
could expand in knowledge about the universe. Even in the military,
he found ways to find those activities that would keep expanding his
knowledge of the universe. Consequently, much of his career had been
in and out of training and human development. What better place than
human development to understand how the universe operates.
In doing so, he came to a reasonable understanding of what motivates
the individual, how they learn and how one can reveal and rekindle
that inner spark that allows for the self-motivation, creativity and
enthusiasm for the task at hand. But is was not until the
Ultimate Accident that he really saw what motivates people. To
release the self motivation and creativity he came to understand
that much of the work revolves around changing belief systems and
understanding what kind of limits the belief system imposes on the
individual that keeps their
creative spirit bound. Additionally these belief systems can
bind the individual in pain and suffering, and, at times, motivate
the individual into self defeating attitudes about life.
Overtime, the author read many different types and kinds of books
looking for a way to view Creation that seemed to correspond to what
he intuitively knew and felt. In time, to his surprise, the author
found such away to view Creation. What he learned from the author
Max Freedom Long about the Hawaiian Huna tradition gave him a
starting point from which to
merge his understanding with a practical approach. He began to
work with setting clear intention for the intended purpose of moving
toward creating a life that corresponded more to what he intuitively
knew.
During the subconscious journey it frequently gave indications of
going conscious. It is said the conscious journey into creativity
stated with looking at organization creativity for the workplace.
However, over the years, while watching people in the work place
lose enthusiasm for their work, two questions were asked.
The first question was, “Why do so many people loose their
creativity and enthusiasm for life by the time they reach middle
age?” It was observed that very young children, in general, have
great creativity and are very free to try new things. They engage
life with an enthusiasm that becomes lost. Frequently it becomes
lost as early as the teenage years, let alone by middle age. Where
did the willingness to approach life in that childlike enthusiasm
go? Was it sustainable and recoverable? Can we tap into it to use it
to solve the myriad of problems facing people today? These and
similar questions were all prompted by this question.
The second question was a little more complicated. It was, “Why were
people choosing actions in life that were not in their long term
best interest, when other more favorable options were available?”
Spending a fair amount of professional time looking at accidents, it
was clear accidents have precursors. Accidents do not just happen.
There are cause and event relationships in any scenario that leads
to the evens as they occur. The author was seeing many of the
frustrations in life were caused by individual not choosing what was
best for their own life. The author pondered, “Why didn’t people
have the courage to live their
heart’s desire?” Why do people routinely choose against what
they preferred to do for the sake of someone else? Were people
really that uncertain about what they wanted in life that they left
so many decisions to others? Why were so many people unhappy? Where
did their enthusiasm go?
In addition to these questions, there were many other questions that
seemingly did not have good answers. For example, as he expanded the
depth and breadth of his reading and looking at all the different
religions that exist in the world there was seemingly a puzzle. Many
of these religions state that if you are not a member of their
religion, you will go to hell, its equivalent and/or in separation
from the Source. Since there are many religions with this doctrine,
and normally people do not belong to more than one religion, it
would indicate that almost all the souls on earth would be going to
hell or were in hell. Not an interesting prospect to say the least.
Then there was the question as to how so many people could write so
many books that seem to contradict each other’s experiences about
life and how the universe works. The question was “Who had, or who
was, experiencing truth and what exactly is it?”
The author never found anyone who seemed to be intentionally lying
about their personal life experience. He met people who lied about
life. But he did not find anyone how lied about what they believe
about life or their experiences of life. They may have denied it or
did not reveal what they really experienced. But they could not lie
about the experience they had. The could not deny what they felt.
They could suppress it or numb it, but not deny it. Although people
filter their life experiences through what they believe and the
attitudes that they carry about life, innocent as it may sound, the
author had not found them knowingly realizing or understanding the
disconnect they demonstrate between their attitudes and their
actions.
The author continually pondered the question, “Is there a model for
the universe that is broad enough to encompass everything that
people say happens to them and that allows for each individual
perception to be seen as true?” On this note, is seem to the author
that everyone who is looking for understanding is looking as hard
and as honestly as the next person. So how could one judge their
actions and efforts as not being true and sincere if they arrived at
different conclusions? It seemed most people were just using the
standard that, if something was different from what they believed,
then it was wrong. But the essential question was, “Was there a view
of the universe that could encompass everyone’s view as true?”
What the author learned from the subconscious journey into exploring
creativity began to merge with what he was learning from the
conscious journey into creativity through organizational creativity.
The two came together to help create the conditions for the
Ultimate Accident . With an experience of the Ultimate Accident,
a new phase of exploring creativity occurred for the author now saw
the depth and breadth of our creativity. The author now looked at
exploring how to create the space for the individual access and
release their unlimited creativity.
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